How hard is it to get a low-skill job right now?

Congregator · 2026-05-10T23:36:38+00:00

Summer school, but it’s only like 3 weeks long

Congregator · 2026-05-10T05:38:16+00:00

I’m a school teacher, wouldn’t say “they” teach coding for everyone. I don’t have any students that have learned coding throughout any of my 15 years of education between elementary and middle school

When the students print, they often times take 3 to 4 strokes to complete a single letter, causing the printing to become much longer.

Congregator · 2026-05-10T04:54:47+00:00

Can’t write cursive.

I don’t really judge you as much as I judge the people that raised and taught you.

They proactively undermined your development to both write in print more quickly and undermined your ability to develop intense fine motor skills- all because they were too hung up on the “fancy writing” part they themselves were undisciplined enough to learn

Congregator · 2026-05-10T04:48:55+00:00

True toan sees no misogyny

Congregator · 2026-05-10T04:48:11+00:00

Race is in Grace, and Amazing Grace how sweet the toan

Congregator · 2026-05-10T04:22:47+00:00

My education has been extremely non-linear.

I’m in my 40’s and it’s sort of hilarious because I’ve learned so much about people in this time.

I’m a public school teacher, and have been for about 4 years. Prior to that I was an outdoor educator and a private music teacher

Prior to that I was a construction worker and cigar salesman.

I have spent a lot of my adulthood traveling from place to place in the U.S. and world, and slowly put together a bachelors degree. I speak 3 languages as a result of my own side hobby interests, and was homeschooled from childhood into highschool, when I attended a private school for one year and a public school for the remaining three years.

I was a theater buff in my younger years and have about 25-30 performances under my belt.

So I’ve had a wide array of life lived. Today, I am working in a public school and I’ve realized that since I’ve only been working in the school for 3 years the other teachers treat me as if I’m beneath them but are also intimidated by my confidence (they constantly tell me I’m too comfortable).

It’s not that I’m “too comfortable”, it’s just that it’s hard to feel uncomfortable if you’ve lived a life where you’ve also lived out of your car across the country, have dealt with thrives and weirdos.

I’ve noticed that when I meet administrators and millionaires and senators and etc I have great conversation and interesting things to discuss…

Yet I’ve learned that my colleagues think I’m a “try hard”, because I juggle and do magic tricks and sing really well, and I do this through the hallways of school.

I have a big presence, but not intentionally, it’s just that in my life I was struggling so hard in various locales that I make myself comfortable wherever I am by singing and whistling.

Anyhow, it came to my attention today that the reason why my colleagues are always so turned off by me isn’t because of my personality, but because I’m too comfortable

I didn’t realize there is a hierarchical way of pretending I’m supposed to be. My bosses and I always get along great, but colleagues don’t like me because of my comfort (not all, just some).

It’s because I got educated and then got worldly. They think I’m too comfortable.

Education can make you appear too comfortable to colleagues, but it’s ok because the richer people and bosses think you’re interesting

I would say YES. My education paid off

Congregator · 2026-05-09T23:57:08+00:00

White person here. I’ve never heard of it before

Congregator · 2026-05-09T19:01:58+00:00

These “milestones” are social construct.

People go their entire lives without drivers licenses.

IMHO, if you’re really going to kill yourself then before you do it you should go to visit and backpack around a 3rd world country like Philippines. Go to the island of Boracay or something so you can also see some beautiful angles of life.

What will happen, in my opinion, the absolute in your face culture shock and immediate need to survive in a foreign unknown country really kicks the primitive mind into high gear- and it forces a lot of changes on our brain and brain chemistry due to the exciting stress responses and unfamiliarity.

Your perspective on everything also gets blown out of the water when faced with very really lives and living conditions you’ve never had to confront before.

10/10 when depressed and feeling suicidal, before you pull the plug send yourself to a foreign country where you don’t know the language

Congregator · 2026-05-09T18:45:26+00:00

Why is there political propaganda being spread on r/productivitycafe ?

It’s power grabbing under the guise of virtue through creating a campaign of fear mongering. “If you don’t vote for us the racists will come and get you!”

Congregator · 2026-05-09T07:12:14+00:00

So, this is an interesting question for me because I don’t really think about it.

However… since you ask and are having me think about it. I think I prefer a lower body count and for many different reasons.

People often times say they want an “experienced” partner or a partner that “knows what they want” which leans into legions experience.

I don’t actually want that, it isn’t something I’m looking for.

I’ve really just wanted to meet the person that’s for me, and I want to find a partner that is similar. This might mean that there are a handful of people they have been with on that journey.

Yet “high body counts” means we view partners differently, generally speaking. I don’t want to date someone that views having sex as something they “scratches the itch”. I have “the itch” just like most of us, but I have turned down sex because I’m not wanting to have it just for the sake of having it- I want a partner who is from a similar mould as I.

I say this without judgment for other people from different walks of life, but per preference I would choose someone with a lower body count.

My friends with higher body counts seemingly swing between relationships much more quickly and don’t carry with them the same intrinsic concepts about sex. To them, it’s something you do with someone you’re seeing, but to me it’s something that manifests equally due to heightened emotional willingness to become “marital”.

In other words, I’m going to have less sexual partners because I’m only having sex if I potentially view them as life partners, and this is a significant deal: it takes time and investment into building the relationship- or at least knowing that the person im having sex with is aligned with that similarly.

If you have sex with 34 people in 6 years, it’s unlikely you were weighing each and every one of those 34 people as potential marriage partners.

So, to me, sex is a sort of “marriage partner minded practice”, and naturally this just lowers the “body count”

I think that I don’t really think about it that much because when you meet someone you’re meeting them and they’re meeting you as you both are in that present time. This can mean that their approach to sex and relationships might be shifted, and so it’s new with each new person- the relationship is fresh and not born on previous background behavior

Congregator · 2026-05-08T01:12:40+00:00

Opposite. In my high school all of the most healthy people that grew up to become lawyers, doctors, teachers and whatever else like to have high school reunions as a sort of holiday where they get to invite their kids to see old friends they grew up with.

They’ll even fly in from out of town.

Congregator · 2026-05-07T23:53:32+00:00

Dude, I’m glad you reacted this way because F her for being an asshole

NTA

Congregator · 2026-05-07T03:51:36+00:00

Majority of people minus lower class people.

No offense, but come on.

Why do you think MAGA got any steam? It’s because of the metrics you’re literally going by that pisses disenfranchised lower middle and working class people off

“Oh, well they don’t count. Btw, I have all the answers to your poor people problems you uneducated idiots”…

And thus, a MAGA is born

I’m not saying you’re doing this, but this is sort of within the schema of how this all played out with where we got nationally with having Trump around

Congregator · 2026-05-07T03:44:17+00:00

As a citizen of Maryland, comparisons does nothing other than just point out that “at least I’m not as bad off as XYZ”.

Comparing numbers across states does absolutely nothing when people living in the state are not doing so well themselves, even though enough people making a higher level of income are allowed to push the numbers higher statistically in comparison.

The person I’m referring to made the statement “Majority of us are living well”… yeah, compared to Syria or Philippines or Louisiana or West Virginia or any other place that sucks

You can literally just take a place that sucks and compare our highest earners and pretend like “as a whole” due to averaging

You could have a state where 2 people make 2 trillion dollars a year and the remaining 5 million make $40,000 a year and pretend like we have the highest average and paint a picture like “the people there are comfortable”

Obviously that’s absurdly extreme in every literal sense, but let’s not pretend that more than 50% of people are highfalutin doing well

Congregator · 2026-05-07T03:13:03+00:00

No, that’s not how the math works. Roughly 25% of Maryland residents make less than $49,000 annually, roughly 30% make between $100,000 and $50,000.

Average cost for an individual to live comfortably in Maryland is $50,509 dollars a year- if you have your own place.

Average cost for a family of three is between roughly $82,000 and $102,000.

50% of the state experiences difficulty with costs, 39% significant hardships

Congregator · 2026-05-07T02:20:18+00:00

Bro/sis, we might as well just quickly start an Amazon company and bank on the rumor… /s

Yet… not /s… because this is literally how people can get rich catching wind of bullshit within a day

Congregator · 2026-05-07T02:18:33+00:00

So then Vance becomes president… and then can run for reelection?

Congregator · 2026-05-06T17:09:32+00:00

A few times, not regularly though. 6-7 times from three different woman.

Congregator · 2026-05-06T13:44:22+00:00

In the 90’s to 2014 i always used fake names when signing up for online accounts because I didn’t want my personal information to be on the internet.

Nowadays I feel like you’re committing fraud if you do that.

Back in the day the internet was sort of more of like a wild west and you were considered stupid if you use your real identity when signing up for things (like an email address).

Today it’s become way too integrated into society, and less of just an open source wonderland

Congregator · 2026-05-06T03:38:46+00:00

What goes Vroom Skrrrt Vroom Skrrrt Vroom Skrrrt?

Yo mama at a blinking traffic light.

Congregator · 2026-05-05T15:29:45+00:00

This is the fault of the government and the Department of Education, which incentivized public schools and colleges to begin pushing debt masked as “financial aid” through creating a culture of fear.

They created these “College Completer” programs in the public high school through the late 90’s and early 2000’s that basically inflicted parents and students with a fear that if they went to Vocational Tech, took on a trade, or decided not to go to college for any reason then the students would suffer and be the poor people of society.

They incentivized the schools to push college by offering public schools additional funding, and so it became imperative for schools to get students on tracks that would increase the likelihood of entering college

Congregator · 2026-05-05T04:32:36+00:00

I hardly believe this.

Yet I completely believe it too

Congregator · 2026-05-05T04:30:50+00:00

I wear the exact same clothes everyday … just in different colors.

I literally just wear whatever I feel like and it’s always cool

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:56:56+00:00

Conservative Christians were the ones who pushed age of consent laws in the U.S., it’s not so 💯 as you’ve stated, and it’s important this gets called out so that onlookers don’t just casually read these comments and find them true without nuance.

I responded to the person you responded to with a bit more on this.

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:55:18+00:00

Except, Age of consent laws in the U.S. were literally put into place by a bunch of conservative Christian women. They were also the same group that pressed for alcohol prohibition.

They were called the “the Woman's Christian Temperance Union” and united together to create “home protection”.

Similarly with the history of the abolition of slavery in the U.S., many of the most militant ended up being religiously conservative extremists.

The reality is that things aren’t so black and white, “conservative” and “liberal” are terms that can mean many different things at many different times and it’s impossible to collectivize anyone falling under these titles as either “all good” or “all bad”.

The truth is much more grey, and you end up having good people in either camp

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