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[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

All labor is unskilled labor, but compressed in some manner. Labor is just actions, if those specific actions must be trained, then that training is compressed labor.

[–] Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One of these days I won't mix up the comment on comment vs comment on post buttons -_-

.....for a different comment:

I wasn't acting surprised. I thought we were having a discussion about moving to a new place for higher wages and how it wasn't sustainable using teaching as an example.

I'm not sure the direction you've gone.

Telling me "I knew what I was getting into" is a null excuse. Yea, I knew the pay. I want to teach. I deal with the shit pay because it's all I can get. Because "I knew the pay was insufficient", I'm unwise to have become a teacher.

That is a very misdirected excuse that districts completely from the fact the jobs dont pay enough in the first place.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

even if working those jobs is easy upfront, that doesn't mean it's easy to do it 40 hrs a week. and they certainly require skills some people don't have. construction is hard on the body / bad hours (but i feel like it'd be meditative and build strength), restaurants are stressful as hell (but build your ability to work under real tangible pressure), delivery puts you at risk of dying on the road (and makes you a more experienced driver), etc.

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