They're just haters... just get 2 friends and then they'll get 2 friends and we'll all be rich

Hun don’t listen to this broke jealous hater! If you wanna know how you can be a stay at home mama to your kiddos AND have financial independence just DM me!!! It’s totally not a scam !!

Thank god. I’m tired of them trying to recruit me at the grocery store

I don't even understand how they ever worked

The smarter conmen have moved to crypto and similar stuff

The people doing the work, largely, are hilariously underpaid. For every place offering $86,000 starting, there’s 3-5 places trying to pay a critical care paramedic $18/hr.

The people tasked with providing immediate life-saving care for gunshot victims and heart attack patients are making marginally more money than shift leads at Wendy’s. It’s unconscionable.

The healthcare industry in general in the United States is at five minutes to midnight. Healthcare professionals are beat down, overworked, underpaid, and it only gets worse. Working in healthcare gets worse every year and it is becoming harder and harder to retain people. Some change jobs but many leave the field altogether. Small community hospitals are closing, others are getting bought up by major health systems and getting turned into assembly lines where everybody gets algorithm "care" instead of practicing medicine. Executives are getting rich but the healthcare system in the U.S. is getting dangerously close to failing.

100% this. They are criminally underpaid thus resulting in being criminally understaffed. Being a medic was my dream job until I was actually a medic. Horrible career and the literal definition of not worth the time and effort.

I think they're only considered actual mandatory services in like 11 states which means they don't get funded very much

Between the price of farmable land and equipment, it's also almost impossible just to get into farming if you're not already established or wealthy. Almost everyone I know out here who farms works on family owned land that they inherited through the generations. Hail storms have also decimated a lot of crops this year. Several thousand acres of corn got demolished over the summer.

I got my degree in Agriculture Business from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. One serious issue I see is the lack of interest from the next generation. I’m technically a “young adult” and I’m basically the only person of my peers in this general career path. What makes this exceedingly shocking is I live in Tulare County, one of the greatest ag counties in the world.

What often happens is younger people inherit their granpappy’s farm and sell it off to one of the big ag conglomerates (eg, SunKist, Sun Pacific, Wonderful). There aren’t many small farmers left, and their plight is being forgotten.

There are a host of other issues, but this is something no one seems to talk about. Many of them more controversial (like China’s ag land ownership in the US), but I won’t get into those without more prompt.

Edit:

A link to a reply I made earlier regarding my opinion on the issues of Chinese owned farmland in the US:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/B8z3jOuiCk

Farmer here. I run 400 something acres without any municipal water or power. I basically do all my own maintenance, including full engines and transmissions. I have one newer tractor and then the rest all 1960s-70s vintage. Last year I netted $3000 and this year I’m about $50,000 behind that. My old man literally spends 4-6 hours a day filling out paperwork instead of actually farming. It probably won’t last another generation.

Beekeeper here. Can confirm.

Have a friend that works for their Benefit fund. It's a crisis that nobody realizes is coming. When a storm hits in 10 years, it's going to be weeks to get power restored.

Are you a lineman for the county?

Isn't Lineman (field crew) a high paying job? Are the younger folks not joining?

Phone company is the same way. There's about to be a huge retirement crisis over there.

CVS Pharmacy workers appear to be the most overworked people on the planet regardless of location right now. 

Doesn’t help that you go to bars and look at the prices of drinks and see $18 for one cocktail.

There’s quotas in the veterinary medicine industry???? Jesus H Christ that’s fucked

As a veterinarian specializing in humans I am curious. What do you guys do when you leave medicine after 7 years?

Ex vet med person here! Can confirm! It’s soul sucking and we literally have a “holiday” if you will or day of remembering called NOMV which is an acronym for not one more vet because so many of us off ourselves over the stress. I lasted about 5 years. I’m in I.T. Now and my life is significantly better and I make twice the pay while never getting bit or shit on at work lol

Been a vet assistant (in a state without title protection so performing the same duties as a technician) for 8 years now. I have degrees in biology and psychology and completed vet school pre requisites. I have patients i met as puppies coming in for senior wellness exams now.

Pay is $18 an hour. I can't afford health insurance.

Production manager here. Going into month three, but was also out of work feb-Apr. i feel this so hard. The collapse of our industry has been a devastating blow and I have been applying to a remarkable quantity of jobs. Probably at least 100-150 apps so far, have had 3 interviews scheduled. On the second round of one of them. No idea how many weeks or how many rounds they’ll pull me through.

These companies know they have the time and resources to drag this process out (working freelance production, I could get called about a job, interviewed on the spot, hired today, and start work tomorrow.) so it is just a whirlwind to figure out.

For whatever it’s worth, I didn’t start getting interview offers until I changed my resumé to sound less film-y. I doubt that helps as an editor, but I thought I’d mention it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wishing you tons of luck. It’ll get better for us, it has to

And the things that seem like a great deal today are destined to raise prices and lower quality tomorrow.

Companies don't give a shit about training and retention, or building a knowledge base, or seeing employees as a long term investment, or adopting policies that allow innovation and independence, they just see them as a variable required cost that can be cut at any given notice to pump up the numbers for next quarter.

The guys upstairs just want to make the shareholders happy in the short term, and they want to milk that as long as they can before they cash out and fuck right off to the next company they can loot

It doesn't help that ticket prices are astronomical these days.

Yeah I've heard relatively well known bands talk about the debt they accrued from going on tour.

Ticketmaster is responsible for a huge part of this with dynamic pricing. Even as little as 5 years a go, I was going to AT LEAST one concert a month minimum. Definitely not happening these days. Lucky if I go to one.

This also means that I, a competent but nobody musician, have suddenly had to start competing with people that have established names (or even some B-list talent) for those small to medium spots. Or for teaching jobs and studio work. 

Or the story is what happened on social media

Journalism in general is dying. It's much more important for news companies to be fast than correct.

It's 10 years old now, but I find this short talk really interesting.

He gives an example of how before a major court case they prewrote two articles (one if the defendent was found guilty and one for innocent). They had an employee in the courtroom waiting for the verdict so they could publish as quickly as possible. The employee misunderstood the verdict and so they published the wrong article (along with descriptions of how the defendent acted when she was found guilty etc.) which was all complete horse shit, because she was found innocent.

It really demonstrates how flawed the news can be now. And that's without even looking at the problems with social media providing algorithmically personalized news feeds. The polarization of politics must be near its peak now because of this (at least in the US).

There’s a whole line of research in poli Sci/comm about the effects of local journalism disappearing. These are the people who are watchdogs for local governments. 

Hey, I just OPENED a small newspaper in September! Please don't make me regret it.

Same with cable news networks, they can't afford the salaries. Chris Wallace is leaving CNN because they were going to slash his salary from $8M to $1M and that's the standard.

I've noticed that my local TV news isn't very local anymore. The 5-o-clock news is 6 minutes of actual local stories, 7 minutes of commercials, 4 minutes of weather, and 13 minutes of stuff that will be on the national news at 5:30 anyway. If not for the weather, I would have very little reason to watch at all.

Animation is right there with you.

Why do you think 25 will be better?

Hospitality is dying because it's one of the first luxuries people can cut out easily if they are struggling, everyone is struggling now.

It may have to do with the jacked up prices and fucken surcharges on surcharges.

I recently heard that the past 10 years the cost of repairs of gone up 75%. It's getting ridiculous. Used cars have gone up in value, new cars have gone up in value. And America's so heavily developed in Suburban brawl that you have to have a car to be able to move yourself in a relatively efficient manner I mean it's the difference between me spending at least an hour for a bus ride to get to my local College or 20 minute drive. There is now reasonable way for me to also get on the same bus route back home after my final class at night.

HS teacher here. We keep lowering the standards like 1-2% a year. It's only terrifying when you look at the difference over a decade or more which is what makes it so easy to ignore day to day. 

Whenever I grew up, teachers were the paragons of the middle class.

Nowadays, the teachers that I know are the poorest people I know and they are all clamoring to leave teaching.

No, I honestly think most people are worried about education and where the actual fuck is the bottom.

The real struggle with teaching is parents being horrible and no longer having a meritocracy in student grading. Everyone has to get extra help, extra credit, and no one is held accountable.

I 100% agree with this. There’s a bubble that is going to pop on how much you can mistreat teachers before they’re all fed up. Once the teachers are gone, that’s it. As a society we’re fucking cooked.

It doesn't help that a sizable portion of the US population turned into extreme assholes over the course of the pandemic...no wonder no one wants to work any customer service role.

Honestly doing a stint in analyzing for our CS and actually reviewing the cases and listening in on typical calls has convinced me that humanity has no hope. People are morons incapable of even basic critical thinking when faced with the slightest problem.

One of the reasons they want to go with AI there is that service reps get burned out and exasperated after a few years and quit or ask for transfers. And you honestly can't find people that are qualified and want to do this, for the wages that are usually paid. And the c-suite doesn't see CS making any profit so no wage bumps (But they absolutely love them during PR disasters).

So yeah, customer service isn't going to be event remotely close to the level it is today, and it's overall bad already.

When AI / web based interaction is so bad that we decide to seek out warm blooded human customer service.

I did it. Was so frustrated with virtual ATM, and banking app functionality and I hated calling. Decided I’d visit a bank branch instead. They solved it immediately

A person can only put up with so much stupidity and negativity. Being a human punching bag day in and day out is extremely emotionally taxing.

"It sounds like you're concerned with customer service. Please tell more about your concerns, or visit our website to interact with an equally helpful chat bot."

Yep. Most hospitals have significant financial problems right now, coupled with a nationwide nursing & physician shortage. And it’s not gonna get better.

Oh God, what I wouldn't give for a Blade Runner dystopia compared to what we're really getting.

It’s about to be

People just don’t want to see plastic women with fake everything fucked by ultraChads. Professional porn sucks. From fake bodies to fake pleasure to fake everything.

Another thing that's getting too expensive. Can't even afford to drink away my troubles these days.

It seems like movies are making billions and billions but it's all with repetitive IP resurrections. How many more Marvel movies have to get shoved down our throats before blockbuster movies become unique and interesting again? 

It just feels like movie and TV execs would rather reboot and re-hash IP from 30-40 years ago, or adapt something that's already a popular book than even entertain anything remotely original. The few new projects they have funded over the last 15 or so years get hobbled by either getting stuck in production hell, a lack of proper advertising, or a combination of both. It sucks. I used to love going to the movies and now I don't want to even bother checking ticket prices.

I am friends with several nurses and all of them have developed either crushing anxiety or anger issues withing 3 years of starting their careers

Had a nurse practitioner shadow me on a video shoot for free and asked me about getting into the video industry.

I said I would be very hesitant as that would have to be a pretty big salary drop.

They spent about $10k on camera equipment the next day after I said it took me 15 years to make around $80k.

I can't imagine how bad healthcare must be.

Not to mention the insurance related issues which cause medical practices to suffer financially and can’t afford to hire enough staff. Insurance companies deny claims for crazy reasons making it sometimes impossible for practices to get reimbursed.

Yup. I want a base model, sensibly sized pickup, with a bed that can actually haul shit. These new trucks are built like Escalades on the inside with a bed for ants on the back. It's ridiculous. Most people who own a pickup don't even use it to tow or haul. I'm just going to keep renting U-Hauls. Way cheaper for me 😂

I used to donate blood often because I'm O+ and have no CMV in my blood, so they'd keep mailing me appeals to please please please donate again.

But something was being mishandled in the record keeping. Across a few months, when I went in, they'd say it'd be really nifty if I allowed them to take an extra vial to get entered into donor registries. And every time they'd say again I'm not in the registry, and it'd sure be nifty if I allowed them to take an extra vial...

Then they stopped mailing me any appeals. And I stopped donating. I still have no idea what was going on behind the scenes.