I mean sure they exist, but they also have at most 2 posts. I understand that Lemmy is still growing, but god damn does is feel empty compared to what Reddit offered.
I 100% agree that there are far too many people working the hours I work out of necessity. I also agree that I shouldn't have to work the hours that I do, but I'm also in a less common situation where I'm working these hours out of (to an extent) my own free will. I'm in my clinical year of vet school right now so I fully knowingly signed up for this ahead of time. I absolutely could get another job somewhere else, that would probably pay just as well with better work life balance, but honestly I love what I do too much.
None of that is to say that the medical field isn't horribly exploitative and in desperate need of an overhaul. But also I'm not going to be the one to push for that change, or at least not until I'm firmly established in my field. Unfortunately I've gotta just go along with it for now if I want to be able to keep doing what I love.
Oh GTFO man. This is a beautiful picture of a mountain, why do you feel the need to turn it into an excuse to shit on other people.
It looks a lot like Whiteside mountain in NC, but idk if there's a river you can kayak on that close to Whiteside.
I haven't worked with an AlphaTrack 3 yet, everywhere I've worked still has AlphaTrack 2s because they still work just fine lol.
Small animal Ortho! PT is super important but I'm not sure how you'd do it as just a hobby?
"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!"
Wow. Those are some truly bad takes.
Just drink less?
I absolutely hated them untill suddenly one day I loved them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TooMuchDog
joined 1 year ago
It's really interesting for me coming into threads like this. The vast majority of people that I see discussing these things seem to have office jobs consising of largely arbitrary objectives and deadlines. And for these people it would almost certainly be true that society could get by with minimal change if they only worked 2 or 3 days a week. It's an interesting perspective to me because I work in a veterinary medicine where (just the same as with human medicine) long weeks and long hours are practically a necessity. Very, very rarely do I find myself doing anything that is an unnecessary task, something that could be done later, or something that could be automated. While it would technically be possible to just hire more people and rotate shifts through the hospital to allow shorter work days for everyone, cutting days decreases the consistency of care (i.e. increases the number times a patient is transferred between doctors) which dramatically increases the chances for medical errors. Plus that doesn't even take into account that there is a dramatic hiring shortage so good luck ever finding enough people to make that work in the first place.
While I agree that a lot of people work jobs that have more hours than things to do during them, I notice all the time in these threads people claiming that "no one ever needs to work more than a handful of days a week" while not acknowledging that a lot of jobs exist where that just isn't possible.