I don’t wanna feel Blue anymore...
Jobs are so disappointing. You can't get paid for doing the things that bring you joy and feel right and the stuff you can get paid for is often pointless and deceitful. I once read this idea that there is a lot of work to be done but not enough jobs. So many crucial jobs, good things like childcare, elderly care, working with animals are highly underrated. And doing the really good things like helping the poor, restoring historic monuments, or saving the environment is highly dependent on someone's good grace, sponsors and volunteers. And then there are those sought after lucrative jobs like lawyers, bankers and politicians that often profit from people's misery. Most educated people though are involved in producing, selling and promoting shit. But apart form being morally questionable, a lot of jobs are just pointless and very inefficient.
I turned down another gig today because the employers were infants who had no fucking idea what they were doing and I really try not to be a smartass but I found a critical mistake in the task they gave me within 5 minutes. The error I found had a profound impact on the whole task and made it x5 simpler. I didn't even try to look for it, it was just out there, the task did not make sense so I had to check. The sheer level of incompetence is impressive.
Sadly, that's not much of a surprise at this point. Most places I worked at (that weren't even actual places) were full of chaos and incompetence. Looking back, most of them had some real problems. Sometimes it was the poor management, sometimes massive miscalculation caused by someone's overblown ego, and sometimes just stupidity.
Most work in my field comes from foreign companies creating outsourcing chains that are usually messy to begin with and get messier each step down. There's a lack of communication, time and language barriers but probably most of it is just the result of hiring incompetent workers, which is the result of trying to cut costs.
In today's case, the task itself was a little off in itself but I might still do it provided I got reasonable demands. But the amount of work and the time given for it was ridiculous. Objectively, there's simply no way to do that much that fast with a good outcome - you ether need more time or less work or you cut corners. A lot of corners. The only people who take it willingly are those who are not qualified to begin with.
I turned down another gig today because the employers were infants who had no fucking idea what they were doing and I really try not to be a smartass but I found a critical mistake in the task they gave me within 5 minutes. The error I found had a profound impact on the whole task and made it x5 simpler. I didn't even try to look for it, it was just out there, the task did not make sense so I had to check. The sheer level of incompetence is impressive.
Sadly, that's not much of a surprise at this point. Most places I worked at (that weren't even actual places) were full of chaos and incompetence. Looking back, most of them had some real problems. Sometimes it was the poor management, sometimes massive miscalculation caused by someone's overblown ego, and sometimes just stupidity.
Most work in my field comes from foreign companies creating outsourcing chains that are usually messy to begin with and get messier each step down. There's a lack of communication, time and language barriers but probably most of it is just the result of hiring incompetent workers, which is the result of trying to cut costs.
In today's case, the task itself was a little off in itself but I might still do it provided I got reasonable demands. But the amount of work and the time given for it was ridiculous. Objectively, there's simply no way to do that much that fast with a good outcome - you ether need more time or less work or you cut corners. A lot of corners. The only people who take it willingly are those who are not qualified to begin with.