Yes they do, and their strikes are highly effective for obvious reasons, and no mayor trying to win an election wants that egg on their face.

Java's is out of a job forever because of Oracle

They lift heavy stuff and run around all day, they gotta be strong af

Depends on location. Some places really screw those guys. It's a shitty job and should be something people can live comfortably on.

Do people like jobs? Today I was thinking that being a blacksmith could be cool. But I guess I was born to deploy k8s clusters.

You do need to start work at like 4am though. That's a deal killer for me.

I am an engineer who deals a lot with the waste sector. Garbage, recycling, and feces.

I strongly encourage everyone who is looking for a change or doesn't know what they want to do to at least consider this stuff. Recession-proof, job security, decent pay, very few and small busy seasons, long vacation time, some really cool people to work with.

There are obvious cons. I don't enjoy site visits. I deal with a lot of unqualified clients. Fuck Parsons and Jacobs so very hard.

You get most of the day off after having worked a full day + still need a full and thorough shower + have low energy because it's a physically demanding job

Src: did it for 3 years as student job

I recently discussed this with my doctor. The amount of disgusting shit you have to see and work on is insane.

It's amusing, the foolishness of people who crap on "lesser jobs." These are the same fools who then throw a fit when everyone listens to them, and nobody sees the point in taking their trash, or serving them their daily ultragrandelatte / whoppermac burger / whatever else.

It's all propaganda to drive down and excuse low wages.

About overrated cool/sexy jobs:

That's how I feel about infosec. I still often think "That'd be so awesome, knowing computer sorcery and being a cyber ninja, and knowing my stuff was solid because I could verify it myself. Maybe stopping bad guys from turning vulnerable machines into terrorist-funding cryptominers, exposing spyware..."

But the main earning opportunities seem to be based around checking boxes to secure evil corpos and being on call 24/7 because the ShiJinPing bot swarm got riled up again.

Nah I'm good. I'd rather just learn it as a hobby.

Once computers got all suit-and-tie everything got a lot less interesting.

It's a shame the "eyes" countries are so gulag-happy. Meaningful hacktivism would sound so rewarding. Bet those folks are all in suits and ties now too. :(

Boomers didn’t describe work to us properly because they wanted to brag to their friends about how we “went to college” and like “are a doctor” or “gonna be the next Bill Gates” or something

Depending on the software, you still get to think about garbage collection!

Same thing really

Same but firefighter

Just snort a bunch of drugs every weekend and you won't smell a thing too

Wut

Did it as a student job for 3 years. I was paid roughly 50% more than with all other student jobs.

Honestly collecting garbage is not even that bad. I got paid to do fitness all day, spending time outside while chatting with my coworker. The people sorting the trash, that was who we felt bad for. They had all the downsides of the job with none of the benefits.

Working hard rarely gets you anything except more work

Dismantle the system that pays you based on someone else's interpretation of worth, kids. Remember, all those cashiers were essential during a massive pandemic.

Well for starters if both went on full strike as of tomorrow. Society would collapse from the massive amount of garbage first.

But mostly because Teaching is both a "women's job" and secondly, it is a "passion" job. Everything that is someone's passion always pays less because people will accept lower wages for their "passion".

Also Garbage Collectors aren't public sector in many places.