If being a wagie is demeaning how does a wagie stop being a wagie?

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Its cool to look down wagies but it makes no sense. Why make fun of someone trying to better themselves.

Especially you op. If anyone is likely to suffer the aforementioned existence its you and me. Because if you had any value you wouldn't be here on kiwofarms but be focusing on how to better yourself.

Whats the term? Don't throw stones in glass houses?
 
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Getwhatyou said:
Its cool to look down wagies but it makes no sense. Why make fun of someone trying to better themselves.

Especially you op. If anyone is likely to suffer the aforementioned existence its you and me. Because if you had any value you wouldn't be here on kiwofarms but be focusing on how to better yourself.

Whats the term? Don't throw stones in glass houses?
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If you’re a teenager or early twenty-something and you’re a wagie, no you shouldn’t be made fun of. You’re learning skills and you’re young enough to take those skills and use your job as a stepping stone to something better. Encourage them.

If you’re in your 40s and still flipping burgers or bagging groceries, sorry but you dun fucked up in life and deserve to be mocked.
 
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I actually came here to say "Git Gud"
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Use the skills you acquire as a wagie and learn watching your wagie boss to start your own business.
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When I think wagie I think mcdonalds or amazon warehouse. How can they learn anything there besides do A, B, and C, or I will find Z replacement for you.
Getwhatyou said:
Its cool to look down wagies but it makes no sense. Why make fun of someone trying to better themselves.
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Most aren't though.
Getwhatyou said:
Especially you op. If anyone is likely to suffer the aforementioned existence its you and me. Because if you had any value you wouldn't be here on kiwofarms but be focusing on how to better yourself.
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Projection much. There are fucking nuclear physicists here. I do pretty well on my end as well. We come here to have a laugh after a hard day at work doing something for the world besides flipping a patty or writing someone's name on a cup.
 
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Cup Noodle said:
I actually came here to say "Git Gud"

When I think wagie I think mcdonalds or amazon warehouse. How can they learn anything there besides do A, B, and C, or I will find Z replacement for you.
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First job I ever had was in a grocery store. I worked there for a couple of years. I learned the basic idea of managing an inventory of stock. This is an important concept I've used countless times since then in jobs that have nothing to do with retail.

The idea is to learn what you can from shit jobs, move onto better more specialized jobs with the skills you acquire at previous less good job. While at those jobs, pay attention to shit like the way your boss or managers run their company. Keep all the good and bad things in your head. Take stock of your own skills, start figuring out which of your skills are sellable.

Seriously, even fucking buying your own lawnmower and rakes and shit and offering lawn cleanups is more satisfying than working for someone else.

If you're even slightly better than the average person at using a computer. Like you can use excel, or can slap together a WordPress website. Throw an ad up on Craigslist around your town, look up the average going rate for general computer work, here the low end is $35/h, start getting customers.

Start thinking of your personal self in general as 'a business' start thinking of everything you do as a means of improving that business. Every job, every new skill.

All you have to remember is, if you're working any job where your boss is charging a customer for your labour, they're charging the customer your wage x2 for that labour. If it's something you can do without said boss, start finding your own customers.
 
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Honestly, tech is probably the most inconsistent pay field, unless you're particularly good at it you're going to make close to minimum wage in a lot of cities. I guess you could be a plumber or a 9/11 operator or something.
 
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I don't understand people who are passionate about their shitty low paying jobs. Like someone will brag, "I've been working here for 35 years!" You've been stocking shelves at Walmart for 35 years? You still have to ask for a day off a month in advance? That's honestly something you should keep to yourself. How can you take pride in that?

I worked at a grocery store for a brief period a few years ago and they had a monthly raffle contest: employees who showed up on time everyday for the previous month and didn't have any infractions for the past four months, would be entered into a drawing. The manager would draw only one name. The prize was getting to choose what days off you had for the next two weeks. Those weren't additional days off, or PTO btw. It was just having a choice what day you didn't have to work, and you couldnt pick Saturday.

I've been in plenty of bad work environments and can understand how people stay stuck in that system but it's hard to feel sympathy for people who don't even know where the orange juice is when they've been working in the exact same store for years.
 
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