Safe to say yes then 😄
rawb
Thursday, May 14, 2026
most insane comment I've gotten on my video thus far
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 For me, a degree is teaching you how to learn and having a course on the intricacies of gitlab or docker would be pointless to me because you're missing the fundamentals and just becoming a mindless drone to execute work. And then a master's or phd teaches you autonomy on how to teach yourself how to learn
nearly everything i am doing now is self taught over the last few months
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 I'm either going to be a research scientist back at my school and hang out with Mint, or I'm going back to the navy and I can say hi to Spooky once a month when I go to DC
Or, you let me croot you to work on satellites
And agree with everything Mint said, computing is a weird field because if you're not trying to be an actual chip architect, every other degree/program/certification/internship leads to sorta the same nebulous job
And its a really fun job that is applicable literally everywhere, but also has the challenge of becoming oversaturated with people who cannot do anything
So you get stuck with this sorta "prove it" mindset until you find yourself somewhere you got into via connections/nepotism, and have a longer leash to actually do stuff
And for every good person I've rescued from an entry level help desk or sysadmin role, I'm sure there are many others plugging away trying to get their break
I will say, as someone who has worked jobs where I'm told to "watch paint dry" and get paid for it
It is usually torturous
In a way that I don't think people really understand until they live it
Congrats, welcome the fake economy
Collect your $100k/year for doing nothing
You'll either hang yourself or get replaced by AI
Feel free to bet on which one occurs first
Remote work that's task based is amazing and should be the standard
Issue is there's not enough work for any of these industries if you cut out all the BS
Oh lol, you're really burning it down
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I will say, as someone who has worked jobs where I'm told to "watch paint dry" and get paid for it It is usually torturous
I sorta had this issue where I was not being given any work to do, but then my boss would complain that I never do any work and I was just stunned at what I was meant to say to that.
My boss asked me to participate in a project where we'd collect common customer requests. I said I don't spend enough time in the ticket queue to know what common requests are. He was confused by that, then started saying something about that needing to be corrected, then asked what I do all day then.
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby I sorta had this issue where I was not being given any work to do, but then my boss would complain that I never do any work and I was just stunned at what I was meant to say to that.
make up tasks then be unable to associate them with any billing accounts
Also provided HR a bunch of examples of the guy simply not being present. New on-call system. Don't know how to use it. No one else does either. Wouldn't give info. Got a guy bothering me at bum o'clock in the morning asking me to do his job for him, brought it to my manager three times. Not even a "I'll talk to management." Got a promotion. Waited 100+ days to be excused from my old role and enter my new one. Repeatedly brought it up. HR had to intervene and I transitioned the next week.
Leg and Pika will laugh for me saying this
But the most useful thing anyone can do at companies like that is to fuck around with AI all day
You either accidentally will solve major problems or at the very least you get a marketable skill you can get a raise for at your next job
Replying to Garbage #garbageatgaming Do you guys all live in the WKUK Stapler Factory Sketch or is that just a subsection of the US economy
Yes Garbage
70%-80% of white collar work is this