Meanwhile, I’ve been under here for two weeks straight. I go underground at 730am, and exit about 630pm. Aside from an hour in the morning and a couple in the evening, I only see the sun on week ends. I am become mole person.
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Not plumbing, man, but some days I’m sitting at my stupid desk wishing I had gone to welding school or automotive repair. It’s some grass is greener shit maybe.
ass crawlspaceLearn to code,
Get a job at Microsoft,
Still pipes.
If you had learned to code you would be unemployed instead
basically ever programmer i know (including me!!) can’t find a job. its more like, learn to code and also travel back in time to when it was super easy to get a job doing it and then pray you don’t get laid off
Can confirm. I graduated summa cum laude in CS and created a core technology that most people use and it’s tough for me. The leet code problems have become insane, the bar is so high now. One job, I gave the interviewer a graph coloring optimization to parallelize a shortest city walk and I got feedback that I ‘barely passed’ the interview.
yea im not too great at leetcode in interviews, so I’d be cooked
well and the fact i can’t mask autism and appear fem doesn’t help. i gave up on it, mostly hoping my friends can have some luck with it
It’s fucking impossible for sure. My current job and best leads come from recommendations from people I know in industry. But I’ve done plenty of interviewing outside of that to little success lol. But keep at it, opportunities do exist it just takes a lot of digging. I recommend automating as much of the application process as possible, I can easily do 50 applications a day after work without too too much time investment.
But keep at it, opportunities do exist it just takes a lot of digging. I recommend automating as much of the application process as possible
Are you a liberal?
I am a Marxist Leninist, not a doomer. No reason not to be positive and try to encourage people
That highlighted section is a line, and myth, of the sigma male dangling a capitalism carrot. I maintain it was fair question.
I dont see how telling somebody that despite the fucked up job market and its horrible process that some work does exist so try not to lose all hope is a sigma male line. I love this field and I’m sure those who are looking for work do too, so I want to push back on the burnout how I can. And since it seems this is a bad faith convo I’ll clarify: I love the work, understanding complex computer systems, being creative in designing new things and solving technical challenges, not the big tech companies or culture around them.
I don’t blame anybody for not being able to find work in this system, I’m not defending how it works. It’s personal words of encouragement and nothing more. I can try to be helpful towards people navigating the current system as it stands while opposing its existence on all fronts too.
telling somebody that despite the fucked up job market and its horrible process that some work does exist so try not to lose all hope is a sigma male line
C’mon, that’s not what you wrote. It was indistinguishable from telling them it’s their problem and they should hustle more. I’m not going to give the benefit of the doubt to that kind of thing. In good faith I urge you to consider that.
I said keep at it, there are opportunities but they require digging. And I talked about how I try to sort through that mess personally. But I also say it feels impossible and that most of the time the standard route is fruitless in my own experience. I get how you’re reading those ideas into it but it’s not my intention, I’m being critical of the system but personally trying to be encouraging
i had a nervous breakdown that disabled me from how bad the job hunt was so im good on the keep digging front personally lol
That’s valid, I don’t mean to be insensitive. Just wanted to offer encouraging words that would’ve helped me in that position. I hope you find fulfillment and stability elsewhere then.
oh no worries i dont think you were being insensitive ^^ ty!
You’re tunnelmaxxing
Job security, at least. No AI down there, either. Still though, I get the desire to get out of the muck and into the AC. I got my first “desk job” at 45. I don’t miss doing concrete, carpentry, agricultural or food service!
Nah dude, while that sucks you’ll still have a job for the foreseeable future.
Forget the backrooms boys we found us the UNDERROOMS
if you learn to code in 2026 you still end up there, but as your home, and obvs you don’t get paid to sit at home
They just throw you down here with a laptop and make you use VIM don’t rhey
i use vim by choice 😤
I tried transitioning to emacs, but my vim keystrokes are too ingrained.
Stockholm syndrome is real
looks like a nightmare to me, nothing makes sense and I hate all of it and that’s before all of the bugs I imagine
average java codebase
This is unironically the best comment I’ve read all year.
gottem!!
Not convoluted enough.
My first trip under here was a bit overwhelming, but you get used to it eventually.
Sometimes I turn off the lights, close my eyes and just listen. If the AC isn’t running it’s so quiet you can hear the blood rushing in your ears. Until a roach crawls on me and not the small German roaches these are palmetto bugs or whatever they’re called. Makes my arm hairs stand up.
Any weird creatures down there, alien lifeforms, goblins, mice?
There are a ton of bones down there dude. And crickets, and cockroaches. The big ones that fly. Yuk.
What kind of bones…
Cat, rat so far. The humans are buried elsewhere here in this ranch, according to the ranch foreman. Nothing creepy yet, like feeling like I’m being watched or anything…yet.
What kind of ppe do you wear for jobs like these?
Fitted half face respirator w/ p100 or asbestos labeled. Tyvek suit w boot and hood. Ear pro, eye pro. Nitrile gloves.
Miserable but safe as can be given the location. Fresh air being vented in/out w three 10" ventilators. Multiple radios, multiple exits, no working alone.
Did you befriend the crickets or start eating them for a snack?
There are crickets, and cockroaches, and snakes, and mice, and asbestos down here and I don’t wanna be friends w any of it.
Is it still hot down there, or is it less-hot?
still hot. It never stops being hot under here. It’s still. And slightly humid. And hot. It sucks.
I’ll be finished in about a week, I think. Then I get to fill it all up w water and test it for leaks.
HVAC or plumbing or electric, I see all options.
Plumbing. Ripping out 2,3,4,6 and 8" cast iron and running it all in plastic. Coring holes thru footers to run pipe. Coring holes in floors for new plumbing drops. Tunneling for days and days.
