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How do I stay motivated to actually improve?
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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I gave up on the prospect of a fancy career and accepted the blue-collar stuff. Oddly enough, my career has become surprisingly coherent and intertwined with my politics. Since 2019, the labor markets have been haywire and there definitely isn't the same predictable reserve army of labor that there used to be. Also, temp agencies exist; you can go to them and they'll place you at a job. It's certainly predatory, as they take a cut from the first several paychecks. But it's way better than nothing, and I worked manual labor jobs alongside lots of people whose biggest qualification was having a pulse.
Most people aren't that super-wow-smart, and the economy employs 150 million people.
Take a bunch of chances, try new/unfamiliar stuff, and in all likelihood you will stumble across something that you're very useful at.