Don’t get me.wrong I really love excel and enjoy spending my days playing with it; but sometimes I’ll look at my work in a big picture context and don’t understand how I make so much money doing a totally made up thing that serves no practical purpose.
The two types of jobs
Submitted 1 month ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7e53c0b5-84ff-40b3-a657-c6aae188b85c.jpeg
Comments
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If you tried working at your company for a week with no paperwork or spreadsheets you’d realize their necessity pretty quick. You are a bureaucromancer. Very little gets done, and none of it on budget, without you playing with spreadsheets all day.
Soldiers might fight a war, but logistics wins one. It’s no different for business.
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I felt the same thing watching my partner working this morning. I’ve been with him 10 years and I still can’t explain his job beyond its title because as far as I understand he oversees people as well as works on software that’s developed, deployed and managed by another company, but they don’t manage software or services or develop anything but they deploy it, but that’s not not his team, and it’s this one specific program, but it’s actually 12 integrated programs, and he’s working on one that’s in development but he’s not a developer, but is not part of anything they’re actually doing yet, and that’s not his main role.
Everytime he explains it, I get more lost…
What is this job? It’s obviously stressful, a lot of other companies rely on on whatever this service is, and my partner, as of this year, makes 8x my income, so it must be important… Right!?
Right!? He’s not making 8x my income pushing pencils…right!?
I teach General Education at a community centre for people who missed out on formal schooling.
My job is 3 words “I teach SOSE”, and you know almost exactly what I do you can picture the main tasks and also picture my output (educated graduates)
His job did not exist 15 years ago, the concept of a job like his in software for the masses did not exist 50 years ago, a desk job to this degree of pencil pushing did not exist 100 years ago.
Sometimes I think about how my job is technically one of the oldest in the world, but never a well paid one.
Sometimes I consider a pencil pushing job for a few years, to just get my retirement fund sorted, but if I don’t even understand what the job is how can I expect myself to do it?
shani66@ani.social 1 month ago
Humans have a complexity fetish I’ll never understand. Nothing is ever as complex as it seems (in the way it seems, anyway).
tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel like it’s just the opposite.
Try designing something without instructions or a template. You’ll run into a thousand little issues you didn’t realize needed to be considered.
That’s true of software, sure. But it’s also true if you want to make a wooden dresser without plans or build an rc airplane from scratch.
In my experience, things are rarely as simple as they first seem.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
You’re so right. You should be mindlessly using an ERP!
dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
There’s a third one, too, it’s a funny one: you stare at countless (mostly fake) job vacancies expecting to be hired so to “deserve to survive”, while bills can’t stop arriving. You resign from your 10-yr IT career and try to apply for a simpler, factory vacancy, just to hear from HRs that your CV is “too good to be applied for our simpler jobs”. In the meantime, you catch yourself selling your soul and autonomy (constantly forced to accept the circumstances) to these people that share the same blood lineage as yours (some call them “familiars”) because you can’t see another option, except for going homeless, where you’ll be constantly assaulted by cops and people saying “go get a job” to you because you got nothing. By the way, you also inhale toxic fumes from air pollution from cities. And you stare at a Word document, your own CV, thinking “what did I do wrong?”.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 month ago
apply to lower jobs without most of your resume.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
“could you tell us about this 10 year gap in your resume?”
Damage@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Is your experience IT or do you also have (even rudimentary) programming experience? Industrial automation is a great option. I feel blessed, having started from below the bottom (not all people are fit to be parents!) working as a metal carpenter while still underage, to have managed to get into this field, through hard work and, most importantly, a good amount of luck.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 month ago
It’s unlikely you did anything “wrong” our system just sucks.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Haha I work in a laboratory so I do both regularly.
klemptor@startrek.website 1 month ago
Fucking excel. Lemmy lemme tell you. At a former position my boss wanted me to make an economic model in excel. I begged to do it in R but no dice. Annoyingly VBA was the skill all other employers were interested in (in my brief foray into industry). I had a million sads.
Sinuousity@lemmy.world 1 month ago
VBA is horrid and incredibly outdated. I’ve written c# code that ran identical calculations on data being run through excel at literally over a million times the speed.
sleeped@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They just added native support for Python in excel
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I hate excel so much I almost wanna consider the toxic fumes.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 month ago
Work sucks but Excel is actually super fucking awesome. I love Excel. Once you get good at it, it helps with your personal life. Spreadsheets are great for tracking personal finance and all sorts of things.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It turns out that I love excel, but I hate data.
mineralfellow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Have you seen the FMWC?
nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Even programming jobs are like excel sheets with extra steps.
Thann@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Either way your back is fucked
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you get a standard desk, your knees can be fucked as well.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would do that too if my government didn’t decide I need to breathe toxic fumes to keep me from “turning gay” (that wasn’t the reason I’m bi).
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IDK if you’re familiar with the Anime, but in this scene the 5 year old green hair kid is pointing at his favorite super hero and crying because he just got the news he’ll never have a super power.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m doing both at the same time.
Production level fumes leak in to the office. Employer informed that it’s just a harmless smell.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used to do the inhale thing while I was a student. Gave me the motivation to pull through and be able to do the Excel thing now.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That makes you a well rounded person. Getting the full human experience. It’s not always fun, but it makes life more complete.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Currently doing an SLT apprenticeship. Most toxic fumes I’ll be inhaling in the future will be the stench of poop in nursing homes lol
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Jokes on you, I’m an engineer, I do both
yumpsuit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
inheriting a genetic disease because my lungfish grandsire wouldn’t put on a fucking respirator around airborne hazards
Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
This meme is verstörend.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d rather inhale toxic sheets at work or stare at stare at excel fumes all day
PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 1 month ago
My body releases some toxic sheets sometimes.
Resol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know someone who “excels” at making Excel fumes.
childeofentropy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I have the privilege of doing both 😎😵💫
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
And in the precise moment I saw this, I realized both of my monitors were displaying Excel on full screen. Sigh.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Dang… Went from being around running cars all day to spending my days looking at excels sheets…
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
HELP
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Can be both!
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I was just coming to say that! I get the “best” of both worlds, Excel sheets to track production while I sit in this shitty factory and breathe God only knows what!
Bonus: I can’t even afford a home after it all! Yay America!
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Same goes for Canada! Yay, twinsies!
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
So you are housefree? Land of the free, indeed
Mac@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Hexavalent Chromium VI!
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yep. At some of the Excel jobs, the toxic fumes spew out of your manager 's mouth.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yeah, I live in a area of the country where (only since 2020) we can expect long stretches of days where the sky is orange and the AQI is 300+. Climate change has made sure the toxic fumes are for everyone!
YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wtf seriously like just whenever? That’s fucked to think about. Fuck these greedy capitalists who are destroying our ability to live on this planet.