I mean, yeah, get out. But in the meantime I would suggest trying your best to find some way to relate. In 2 years maybe one of those guys will hear about a good job opportunity and pass it along to you “because he’s a nice guy who gets his work done - even if he’s a bit screwy to not watch sports”

I very annoyingly have yet to see this suggestion - go talk to your fucking coworkers!! If everyone is showing up every day, then you have a whole office full of work friends to make! Make a habit of hanging out at the coffee maker or water cooler or whatever and shoot the shit. Ask people how their weekend was. Introduce yourself to people you haven’t met before. Just chat with people for 15 min or so at a time, and then go back to your desk and do something fun/for personal development/for professional development. Then you have things to talk about - and then just always have some job related task on the backburner that you can keep working on, so when people ask about what you are doing at work, you can say “oh yeah, I’m working on X, which will have Y benefit.”

THIS IS HOW YOU PROGRESS IN YOUR CAREER. Yeah, working on your skills is super valuable. But the people who go far, the people who are never short on job offers or pay raises, are the people who have lots of friends.

I like them, and they aren’t controversial. Content warnings have been around since tv stations invented the PG rating

How do you automate removing rule-breaking posts?

50% of lemmy is mostly normal high functioning autists who have crippling social anxiety about the idea that anyone might find them creepy.

The other 50% are creeps

Oh… that’s how I do math in my head anyway?

I’m confused… go outside?

Also you might need to be a fish

That’s like saying Atticus Finch isn’t a hero in To Kill A Mockingbird because you, personally, are racist and don’t think fighting for the rights of black people is a noble persuit. A character is a hero in a story if they are good according to the morals implicit in the story’s world.

Also, I don’t usually see these questions asked in an overly critical sense, but rather with a sense of humor or with an eye towards world building. It’s about having fun

Yeah. You could also search for staging companies in your city. Two big ones you could look for are Rhino and Upstage. Also, lots of people get the job because they like going to concerts - so if you are part of the music scene in your city, you can start by just striking up convos with event staff at concerts/festivals/raves/clubs etc that you attend. Even better, probably, is to just volunteer for a festival and talk to the organizers - then you can show you will actually do your job, and you get to go to a festival for free. Big bonus points if you have previous experience in theatre or AV, even if you were just in a high school club or something.

I will note that winter is the worst time of year to get hired in most markets, since there is a lot less work and the companies have lots of mouths to feed. Not that you shouldn’t try, but know that your odds are worse, and even if you get hired on, the gigs might be pretty sparse. But around springtime they’ll go on a hiring spree as the ramp up for summer, when they need to build whole stages in arenas for touring bands.

Show up on time, take the occasional abuse from an asshole boss, and get your shit done. If you do that and ask for advancement opportunities, you can pretty quickly get trained in various specialties - lighting, sound, fork lift, boom lift, safety, rigging (that’s what I do), etc. Then get good at a specialty and work on expanding your social network and you can get to the real money - going on tour. If you get hired to tour with a band, you will make bank while having basically no living expenses. Talked to a girl who did lighting for Coldplay - apparently they’d been touring continuously for 3 years. She’d been to Europe, Saudi Arabia, S America, Mexico with the band. Def a lifestyle choice - but can be a good one if it jives with your personality.

Its not even trolling. It’s just british level deadpan

DADADUH

Imagine being so difficult to deal with that someone would rather swim across an entire sea than interact with you…

Mr Bushby, who wants access to a service tunnel separate to that used by the trains, said: “If I have to swim across, I obviously will. But it will be colder than the Caspian.”

I mean, obviously

You don’t.

I mean, maybe you are different. But I’m someone who loves spending time in nature, and who does pretty well alone. I’ve thru hiked ling trails alone, including the OHT, during which I saw maybe 3 other people the whole time. I’ve solo’d big wall climbs completely alone. I’ve taken solo bouldering trips where I wandered the forest alone for days at a time.

The thing I’ve found - being alone, in general, fucking sucks. Simply from a practical perspective, you have no one to turn to to say “hey hold this for a second, I need another pair of hands”. If an animal or bad person attacks you, you’re fucked. If you take an unexpected fall and sprain your ankle, you’re fucked. If you become ill and are too weak to travel, you’re fucked.

Then add to this the psychological issue of being alone. The world takes on a ringing hollowness. You can go through the motions, sure, but with no one else around to reflect your experiance back to you, all your actions feel empty.

You might think you enjoy being alone because you can go days at a time talking to no one and scrolling the internet. But that isn’t really being alone. Being on the internet, playing video games, watching tv, all scratches the social itch you have. Not perfectly. But it scratches it. But strip that away, and being alone suddenly takes on a new meaning.

Not to say that you shouldn’t do this. Sure, go ahead and go backpacking solo for a weekend. A week. Maybe two. I think it is a good experience - both the good and the bad parts. But just don’t mortgage a little cottage in the middle of fucking nowhere until you’re really sure that’s what you want.

Whats the job?

Ugaynian

I mean, hopefully positively