Showerthoughts

29571 readers

1264 users here now

A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

Rules

All posts must be showerthoughts
The entire showerthought must be in the title
Posts must be original/unique
Be good to others - no bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia
Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

114

There is only one type of job: Doing something someone else doesn't want to do. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

82 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Edit: tell me this doesn't sound stupid

There is only two types of jobs:

Doing something someone else doesn't want to do

Doing something a specific other person can't do

The only thing I can think of that someone other than myself can't do is piss my wife off to no end. Not really a job, tho.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes it is doing something nobody else can do

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In my case, I get the impression that it's both.
Once during 2020 I got a phone call out of the blue from the technical manager. "Hey, would you like to be our new ?". Turns out my predecessor was looking for greener pastures.

When I told some coworkers about this, their reaction was "And you said yes??"

It's been four years now. Changed to a new employer last month, but I'm doing the exact same stuff, and I enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Greener pa$ture$, I take it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think he wanted a different type of job. I, on the other hand, recently moved on to 30% greener pa$ture$, as the competition successfully poached me. Same type of job, exactly the same area of responsibility (networks and server clusters running in weird/hostile environments (no, not the Hamas installation under that hospital)), but with even more freedom and higher budget.