/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>53854208
Everyone SHOULD be able to figure it out, but it functionally very, very few actually DO figure it out. Its simple, but not easy.

>>53854392
>>53854494
>>53851592
>>53851606
Most people are by definition, useless eaters. The fact that people in this thread assume "career maxing" means working 20 hours a day in the same dead end job instead of making their labor more valuable tells you everything. Look, I get it, a BS in English is no longer a guaranteed meal ticket, but you need to go out and get SOME KIND of training, education, certificates, ANYTHING to distinguish you from the horde of infinitely replaceable min-wage labor around you.

You work at Amazon? Get a forklift certification, and ask about getting HAZWOPER certified on top of that. Definitely get that one if you're also looking at CDLs for midsize truck delivery. And take advantage of that companies willingness to pay for career training.

Do you work in any office adjacent job where you're copying and pasting all day? Unironically learn to code baby stuff in Python and automate that shit. Take some online course that gives a cert for it too. Then when you look for a new job, you put that cert on your resume and talk about how you automated "x hrs a day" of busy work in addition to your actual job.

You work in an oil change shop? You be the asshole that's super picky about keeping things tidy. Tools always left out by the lifts? Well maybe their storage should be there. Hang a pegboard close by and make a shadow board with all the tools on it marked with colored tape to show which set they belong to.

The point is that you aren't "inviting more work" on yourself, its that you're the guy that's moving up the value-added chain in terms of what your labor does. And you make that case whenever you change jobs. Will you be paid more in your current role for doing this stuff? No, but by being able to point to it when you move, you actually have something going for you unlike everyone else.