Edit: tell me this doesn’t sound stupid

There is only two types of jobs:

Doing something someone else doesn’t want to do

Or

Doing something a specific other person can’t do

The only thing I can think of that someone other than myself can’t do is piss my wife off to no end. Not really a job, tho.

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    Things, not jobs. Job’s are things people have and are capable of doing.

    You’re sitting over here telling me you don’t want to learn to be a plumber, a pipe fitter, a doctor or a lawyer. Then you’re saying you’re not capable. But it’s not just about you. Anyone can do the job, the job exists, just no one wants to do that specific task. UNLESS, they are paid for it.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      4 months ago

      Not everyone is capable of doing every job. The tasks of a recptionist are far different than those of a roofer. Jobs like emergency services can be high stress positions, jobs like assembly work can be rather dull sometimes. Everyone and every job is different.

      • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        You’re telling me a roofer could never learn to be a receptionist or receptionist could never learn to be a roofer.

        I’m telling you no one wants to work 40 hrs a week diving 200ft with an oxygen tank strapped to their back and a welding torch in their hand to make underwater repairs on an oil rig.

        Great, you want to weld. Great, you want scuba. You don’t want that fucking job, no one does.

          • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            edit-2
            4 months ago

            Ok, but why would they want to be a roofer then?

            Either way you’re not hearing me. Jobs are real things. No one wants to spend 40 hours a week climbing on roofs in the hot summer sun. They could want to know that stuff and they could want a baked in tan for all I care but they don’t want to exhaust their time and effort for nothing in return.