Working multiple bullshit jobs that pay peanuts to survive? You’re polyworking in order to have multiple revenue streams to sustain your lifestyle. Fulfilling your contractual work obligations? You’re quiet quitting.
Oh my fucking God, they’re doing it again. Boomers are speaking for us yet again, aren’t they?
Sure, it’s constant insults day in and day out, but then they praise us for a “noble sacrifice” of doing more work for less reward like we do it voluntarily, so then when we want the reward they can not have it and play dumb. I have seen so many “wait, millennials are ACTUALLY poor, us boomers DIDN’T KNOW!” articles, I’ve lost count.
If I had the funds, I’d start a news site that is unapologetically left-wing, written mostly by young people for young people, and will constantly talk shit about the right the same way the right talks shit about us.
Yeah ok cool i’m Aworking then
The media really likes interpreting positions people end up in as positions people choose to be in
There’s a lot of flagrant misinformation surrounding what is feasible much less economical. When I started my first post-college job, I got it in my head that taking a second night-job would be a good way of padding my low salary. So I spent my days doing IT work and my nights doing tax prep. And I lasted on this for about six months before burning out pretty hard.
Incidentally, my IT job decided to bump my salary by twice what I was earning as a tax preparer, so the second job quickly became more trouble than it was worth. My firmer economic position, combined with my experience in a dead-end second job, clarified what was occluded to me a year prior - that the second job racket wasn’t worth remotely what I was getting paid. But its something only clear in hindsight.
The line between “end up” and “choose” is very gray. What you believe your options are, what opportunities you see before you, and what benefits you’ve accumulated prior to making a given choice all inform where you’ll “end up”. It is very easy to believe that your circumstances would be different entirely due to your own personal decisions. Its easy to miss the forest for the trees and accept the neoliberal narrative that “work a little harder” is a panacea for rising interest rates or exploding retail costs or the collapse of an entire industrial sector.
If I’d forgone the second job early on and I hadn’t landed a decent raise after a year at my IT firm and I didn’t have a family eager to backstop me financially when the winds turned in 2008, its very easy to believe I’d have looked at the tax prep job as a missed opportunity rather than a waste of my time. Absent a market mechanic for assigning me a dollar-value, it was very difficult for me to internalize my own self-worth. It was difficult for me to understand when and where I could best apply my time and energy.
The very idea of choice is a nebulous concept. How does one make a choice with imperfect information?
It’s always kind of disturbing how much of society hinges on people being in the dark or just plain being in a corner. Takes me back to the existence of payday loans as a viable industry, or that recent Qanon Anonymous episode talking about plasma extraction recently. (Granted, useful medicine comes from that. Can’t say that about the payday loans)
it’s called moonlighting, jackasses who wrote this headline/article, moonlighting
