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Anon accepts a prestigious job (thelemmy.club)
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[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Data entry was actually one of the best jobs they gave my intellectually disabled sister at goodwill. She graded donated books and punched their ISBNs into an online database for resale. They have some pretty awful disability employment practices in regards to pay but she was living with us anyway and it was the main thing she looked forward to during the week. Then she'd spend the money on going to the movies with a care aide on Friday. If she'd actually had to support herself on the money it would've been a mess but in her case it was more just something stimulating to keep her out of trouble. Then she started yelling racial slurs at everybody and got fired and was stuck home with nothing better to do than beat the shit out of the rest of us again so all good things come to an end I guess.

[-] underscores@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 day ago

that took a dark turn, she beats your family ?

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 35 points 1 day ago

It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 26 points 23 hours ago

not anymore

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 31 points 21 hours ago

Returned her to goodwill huh

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 31 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I almost failed out of high school as a "gifted kid" so there were a bunch of meetings and one of the social workers tried to analyze the relationship between me and my mother and I was like yeah nah my sister beating us is waaay worse and that's how I found out a different social worker when I was like a kid kid threatened to remove the rest of us if my mother kept complaining about my sister so anyway the social worker at my highschool told us to just start calling the cops and coached my mother on what to say so they didn't shoot anybody but would just come and take notes and give us case numbers and eventually we were able to leverage that into group home placement. My back had already been fucked up by that point though and idk what happened to it other than it hurts all the time now because she hadn't taken take me to the hospital at the time because of the whole CPS threat thing but getting my tits chopped off did help tho. Still go get muscle relaxers every time a patient fucks me up too.

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't know where to to find data entry jobs though, I couldn't find then in 2022, 2023, and now LLMs seem to be doing them all.

To a zoomer, the prestige of a job is also affected by how non-demanding it is, ergo data entry is a prestigious job

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 37 points 1 day ago

I dunno, data entry isn't mentally demanding in the same way as some jobs, but that doesn't mean it isn't demanding. You're expected to enter at or above a particular speed, and it can be boring which is a different kind of mentality demanding.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

It's not mentally demanding. It is however mind numbing and mentally draining.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I used to be a security guard, which is similar levels of undemanding. You try watching a bunch of black and white cameras all night, you get to the point where you go, oh look, a moth in genuine excitement.

[-] groet@feddit.org 8 points 22 hours ago

did data entry for 2 months during a break from uni. It fried my brain. I was bored to shit and came home with a headache each day. I was so glad when I was done digitising all documents and was allowed to do some light programming instead.

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I reckon I'd be fine with it. I'm built different when it comes to boredom and repetitive tasks. I've just remembered I actually volunteered to do data entry for a historical records website, recently, but haven't gotten around to on boarding because I have other commitments.

I do value your insights though, thank you. Will help me judge when to quit if I do find it tough

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Being a typist would be fun for about ten minutes lol

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Data entry is exactly as cool as the data you enter

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago

They'd have to hire 1000 moneys instead of just 1 human to get anything good.

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 10 points 23 hours ago

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

To be fair I hear some monkeys will work for literal peanuts

[-] colderr@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Hire moneys, to make the moneys

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Takes hire to makes hire

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

You do realize monkeys would be qualified to be rocket scientists as long as they could do math right?

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I feel like the people who are down voting this are missing the fact that its litterally the monkeys (apes but w.e) who can do math who are rocket scientists. were the monekys.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Humans are apes not monkeys but aside from that yes

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

We are the pig, professor. We are all the pig.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago

I mean no, first they'd need to learn a century's worth of rocket science and centuries' worth of prerequisites.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Also, even if you’re verifiably a super genius, I think you’d probably get fired for throwing your own shit, biting people, and stealing stuff eventually.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 22 hours ago

So you mean we can train monkeys to work if they work from home?

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I think it’s the other way around, but yes.

[-] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

depends which part of rocketry theyre doing. no one can do everything. someone does combustion stuff, someone does fluid valves, someone does pumps, someone does turbines, someone does tanks, someone does harnessing, someone does electronics, someone does software, someone does aerodynamics, someone does structural analysis, someone does gnc, someone does gases, someone does sensors, someone does payloads, someone does testing, etc. no one has to learn all the math so its not like its really the most complex thing ever, just a delicate dance of cooperation. but yeah monkeys couldnt do it cause they cant talk, even if they understood the math somehow.

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