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lets-fucking-go

Starting mid June, SUPER stoked to finally have a job that does good work. Been over 18 months since i lost my last job in the tech field, so this feels SO fucking good!

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Nothing quite as exhilarating as getting paid to do meaningful, beneficial work

Good luck

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah, thats gonna be a new feeling for me but im looking forwards to it!

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Congratulations! That's awesome.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What a lovely surprise, you get to do a job that can make the world better, and they get a dedicated communist shitposter as a worker

rat-salute

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Chat is this based?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

nice! doing good, as day to day work, hits different. hope you meet some cool people at work!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I've been in tech jobs since I was 18. This is the start of something new for me, I can deal with the low pay, im just excited to say "I can wake up and give a shit." Stoked to actually WANT to work.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

grats dawg I hope you get to do some good work

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I'll be interfacing with other homelessness orgs in the city to coordinate care plans and stuff, so its the best use of my tech/project mgmt experience i can think of!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Is it for the Americorp thing or did you get another offer separately?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ahhh cool, yeah

Hopefully you get a better paying gig at the end of it either continuing there or doing something similar

My partner told me to tell you when you're done with it, something about stretching out the tuition reimbursement/school aid stuff so they don't just apply it all at once, because it's taxed, so you can get hit with a huge lump sum tax penalty that might be better stretched out over a couple years instead. Sorry I'm dumb that's the best I understood what she told me

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

So, if you dont mind asking your partner - im fortunate to not have student loans, and no interest rn in continuing education. What should I do at the end of it instead?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

oh idk that'd probably be a question for your americorp people, I guess it's not relevant since you wouldn't be getting that student loan reimbursement stuff to begin with. Idk if they offer an alternative compensation if you don't need loan assistance

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Nice. So what's the scheme? A real estate investment grift where you help get funding to build housing for the homeless that has no obligation to keep its promises after a criminally short period of time? Or just the old-fashioned skim off the top?

... I kid I kid, I hope you do some good work out there and really help some people who desperately need it.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

They're giving me a katana to go hunt landlords and I get one dollar per scalp

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

thank you for your service

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I serve the Hexbear Posters Union o7

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Well it looks like you're going to be the wealthiest communist in history

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

congo free state but for landlords

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Corgiwithakatana new username

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You may wanna buy a smaller knife for the scalping. Seems hard wirh a katana. I'm sure I'll pay for itself pretty quick wirh how many extra scales you bring in

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Thanks comrade! Hope you're hanging in there as well!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Corgi walks into the office, steeling themselves for the exciting prospects of doing meaningful social work (and getting paid!). They walk into the office and are surprised by the door being quickly shut behind them, the windows dimmed, lights low. "So Corgi are you ready to help End Homelessness?"

"Of course!" they say, "I'm ready to get to work."

"Good." As the city manager shifts in her chair the light reveals the faint outline of a poster of Mao Zedong.

"Here's the list of the most powerful landlords in the city. We've already taken legal steps to ensure the tenants will inherit the properties."

The manager unrolls a bunch of tools. Not notepads or tablets. Silencers, garottes, mysterious vials, advanced gas pistols, suicide drones, jammers, you name it.

"Enjoy your first day on the job."

(seriously congrats tho.)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Look im not saying that i would PREFER doing that, but also i would prefer it if the work was like that

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes I too would enjoy playing a modded mission in Hitman 3.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Dope. Baller, even.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Are you gonna be pushing em down the chute or manning the captive bolt gun?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yessssssssssssss

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Congratulations, you just landed on a fuckin career path, provided funding doesn't get cut. Public sector jobs are the last best jobs around

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks! They even use my chosen name, so im fucking psyched!

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

congrats! i've been unemployed a similar amount of time and want to move from tech to something that isn't so volatile and pointless, it's really cool you did

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks! I dont really have any advice other than chsck out some cool nonprofits around you, I just happened to stumble across this a few days ago and it moved FAST. The website Idealist might be good too if you dont know that one yet?

Good luck! Unemployment has been a fuck and I really hope you get something ASAP!

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

sssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Chat is this based?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm too America brained because so I assumed this meant you'd be evicting parks. Congrats

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

If I could I would kill the cops that do that

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Good work comrade. I'm glad to know there are people with good values working at these sort of campaigns. As frustrated as I am with my own cities paltry efforts at combatting this issue this gives me hope that some boots on the ground and people in the organizations have their head on straight

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's my first venture outside the tech field, but they know how much I value ACTUALLY helping, so let's fuckin go!

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