One with a union.
This is the right answer. Any industry is garbage if they can freely exploit the labor of their workers.
Absolutely. Look at the solidarity of WGA, SAG, and the Teamsters today. They’re standing up to the real ‘landed gentry’ – corporations trying to strip away job protections and replace workers with generative AI.
And I’m super curious the steps they’ll take to force people to consume this garbage. Because now the main competition to their new AI stuff, is all the old stuff with real people. I’d rather watch Cannonball Run 2 for eternity than an AI movie once.
Not all the time. I worked for a company that treated me pretty well around the union, but the union would protect the workers who screwed up and would get them back, even when the screw up was a major one that violated booze laws. And since it was seasonal work, they didn’t really have a good method for helping find work out of the season… I really think the company would still act the same without the union.
Law Enforcement. They can literally get away with murder and they will be protected by their coworkers and bosses.
Believe it or not it’s also a terrible job. You see a lot of bad shit. Car wrecks, death, abused kids. And even if you do your job the right way most the people you interact with won’t like you.
most the people you interact with won’t like you.
Yeah… because you’re a corrupt and murderous goon that’s above the law. What’s not to dislike?
I’m not sure if this applies in general, but government sectors probably. My brother works in engineering for infrastructure and stuff, and he always brags about how much time off he gets and work life balance etc. Of course not when some environmental disaster happens, then there are lots of shit (sometimes literally) for him to deal with
That is very, very, very much not the case in general. Your brother works at a unicorn office.
I am a civil engineer in local government. Your brother is lucky. While there are some good things (pension, vacation, benefits, paid overtime), we are underpaid, have little flexibility on schedule, and are not permitted to WFH, except in d course for on our own time
Yeah when I read the question, “construction” is definitely not one of the things that came to my mind. The work is simply too demanding, so many people involved, deadlines, work under the sun, in general I think building is hard work. I can see a structural engineer or consultant having a nice life-balance tho.
Guess it depends on the country.
Right now, UK public sector is absolutely dire. A lot of us are wildly overworked and underpaid. I’ve honestly considered going back to the private sector because I could be earning about £10-15k/pa more, but at least in my specific sector I have guaranteed job security and some (largely false at this point) sense of making a positive contribution to the society I live in.
Job progression isn’t easy, especially now because of cuts and recruitment freezes. There’s no benefits other than always getting public holidays off. Our pensions were wrecked in 2015 and won’t even compensate for it.
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Software engineering and website development.
Not sure I agree there, these are jobs where you can be in a company with “crunch culture”, crazy deadlines, overtime expected, etc.
Very much an industry of two halves. Some companies absolutely do not care about you and will drive you to do more with less and for longer hours until you burn out, and then replace you with the next poor sucker. Offers will bend over backwards to look after their people and maintain a working environment where everyone gets a say and is happy and able to be at their best. Which one you get can be a total coin flip, and even sat talking to them in a job interview it’s sometimes easy to mistake one for the other.
I’m treated well as a software engineer, I’m the envy of my friends of family. But I have friends who are treated like crap in software dev too. So I guess it goes both ways.
I work at a place (state government) that has very flexible hours, lets people step out for a few hours to take care of errands, gives you time off with no questions asked, etc. Having said that, I feel very fortunate, as I have heard some horror stories about other places.
It’ll definitely change if AI puts a bunch of us out of work, but I don’t think it’s something to laugh about. I worked my ass off to get into this career, self-educating for a decade until I finally broke into the cushy jobs. I have no idea what I would do if my career goes away. There’s nothing else that I’m as good at as I am at programming.
