garbage collectors have a strong union, do they not?
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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.
Or banana peel.
They lift heavy stuff and run around all day, they gotta be strong af
Running is not as extreme as you think, a lot of it is just carrying on the momentum of the truck after you jump off, other tham that it's mostly just brisk walking.
The heavy stuff depends, regulations typically impose a limit on weight but a lot of people don't follow it. You learn to use proper lifting form quite quickly though or you'll get a hernia
Src: did it for 3years as student job
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Depends on location. Some places really screw those guys. It's a shitty job and should be something people can live comfortably on.
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"You study well and you will end up sitting in the office"
People sitting in the office cubicle: i hate this job.
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.
I feel like being a blacksmith in 2024 is probably the same if not more lucrative than back when people rode horses, wore armor and swung swords around considering you'll mostly be making replica anime and video games pieces for rich nerds.
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I like my work my job however I am on the fence about.
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Aaand typically get most of the day off
Gonna put it out there, I'm starting to suspect big garbage has been waging a propaganda war to push us away from the ultimate job
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
Yeah my mom told me as a kid that if I quit school I would have to dig ditches for a living. Those guys are union with high pay and good job security because we always need proper drainage just like we always need garbage to go away.
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
Garbage collector was a dream job to me as a kid. Ended up as a software developer.
Depending on the software, you still get to think about garbage collection!
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Same thing really
Nah, software developer is more about garbage production than garbage collection.
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The garbage collector around my house doesn't get out of the truck to get the trash it's all hydraulic arm. Sounds pretty chill to me.
Just snort a bunch of drugs every weekend and you won't smell a thing too
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The garbage collector has to get up early, go out in most weather, and deal with things we'd rather not deal with, and lift heavy stuff into dangerous machinery all day.
That being said, when I had a similar amount of hard labor to do I got in the best shape of my life.
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Use languages with manual memory managment
Wut
It's a programming joke. If you declare variables or set a value to a space in the storage, this space is blocked even after the programme is done using that variable. So to write a programme with efficient use of storage, you have to free the storage space after you are using it.
Many programming languages use a routine called "garbage collector" to free unused storage space.
So, if you don't want to be a garbage collector, you have to assign storage space manually.
That is a deliciously deep cut. Thank you for explaining it to me.
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garbage collecting is seen as dirty and undesirable by society, so for them to want to do it, you have to pay more
in my country they are badly paid anyway though so fuck it lol
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.
Sorting trash...goodness... THAT'S a job nobody would mind automating I'm sure.
Especially with how the populace views the trash bin as the "Magic it's-out-of-my-life box" and throws all sorts of dangerous things in there!
Me, a facilities worker for a fast food chain, earning less than them all and still getting mystery trash juices on my hands.
Work hard, kids.
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.
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In the previous generation white collar jobs paid more than blue collar ones. That is why.. But the world is changing.
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Where do garbage collectors make more than teachers?
It's a decent union public sector job and pays decently, but so is teaching and that requires more education.
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.
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Well, don’t let your memes be dreams, go out there and make it happen.
And you get to hang off of the back of the truck like a bamf. That was the dream to 5yo me
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