I was an accountant for two years before getting laid off last month and I never want to work in another white collar office again. I would literally rather commit crime for a living or live in the woods than spend another waking second of the only life I got in a 3 hour zoom meeting with incompetent boomers that make 5 times my salary and do jack fucking shit everyday while I try (and fail) to make their accounting system less of a law-violating train wreck. FUCK I never actually want to see another goddamn ERP system again for the rest of my life.
Same senpai, I don't give a fuck about having a BMW instead of a decent car. Although I'm lucky enough to have a trust (I don't actually get to draw from it) that will guarantee me a good retirement. I don't get the point of people working 70 hour weeks in offices to make 140k instead of 60k and have a more relaxed life. Bailed out of finance for regular jobs and don't regret it. Obviously I sound like a privileged prick, but even without my safetynet I compound my meager savings at >30% yoy (time consuming but still) so who gives a fuck about the extra money
Jaxson Peterson
There are a lot more non-essential jobs than were eliminated. Most of the economy is built around leisure. There is nothing wrong with this, it should be this way in the 21st century.
Nathan Brooks
I quit accounting halfway through college and eventually got into the trades. Fuck sitting at a desk doing paperwork. I suggest looking into your local IBEW
Christian Bailey
My job was essential to the company, I got laid off because the boomer that I originally replaced just went to the marketing dept instead of being fired. Since in-person marketing was cut because of the pandemic, she came back and apparently pulled some strings and took over my job. She had literal hours to relearn the system and didn't understand jack shit after my training imao, even funnier she made over twice my salary so it was actually costing the company more. But she was a minority, had worked with the company way longer than me and sucked the (maybe more than metaphorical) dick of the CEO constantly so that was that.
