HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know

Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by antihero on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:31AM (#25820671)

Holy shit this is the most privileged mindset.

Do you know people who aren't coders?

You know we live and work in some sort of dream land and 99% of people in other jobs don't have anywhere near this level of freedom and bargaining power.

You will sell yourself short by forgetting this. Coding isn't guaranteed to stay like this - as tooling gets better and better and more people get into it we will be seen less and less like wizards.

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Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by koonsolo on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:49AM (#25822274)

You can get the same level of freedom with manual labor. I don't know where you live, but here, contractors make a shitload of money. Especially plumbers are in high demand.

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Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by antihero on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:10PM (#25826018)

Plumbing is skilled labour and requires school/training - proper apprenticeships take four years, though there are fast-track options.

Any "manual labour"? Certainly not true. Unskilled manual labour is a race to the bottom in most places and usually done by immigrants who can afford to work for peanuts.

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