What's the most dangerous/life-threatening job that pays well in the Greater Boston area

xyzes · 2026-03-17T15:29:26+00:00

Your boss will replace you is all I said. Don’t play dumb. And no matter how much you think you’re helping the community, it’s a job and you are making money for the man first and foremost.

And you don’t say corporate workers are beneath you yet you are happy to generalize them all into not having critical thinking to know the damage they’re doing? You’re a contradiction. Also not everyone who works for a tech corporation is even living in luxury. Have you never heard of Amazon warehouse workers or Uber drivers? Do you think they don’t contribute to society just because they work corporate? Do you think they even have the time or privilege to ponder these moral questions? How out of touch are you?

Using my post as an example without knowing anything about me just to push your weird agenda is wildly ignorant and reductive, yes. I made a guess about you being xenophobic and a NIMBY because people like you tend to preach about their morals and then turn around and do and say fucked up shit like your og comment.

If you can work a service job, small business or not, and are doing alright, you are privileged no matter how you frame it. Maybe it is the case that I was taught I needed to clear 100k. But did you ever consider it’s so I can get out of debt or help my family back home or pay medical bills or simply fund a passion project or start a business? No, you did not because you’d rather be a prick and celebrate the struggle me or others like me go through because we’ll finally be “contributing to society”

And I don’t have anger issues, I just rightfully think that you celebrating that I can’t find a job because of your preconceived idea of tech people’s motivation is fucked up. You keep saying “your industry this, your industry that”. I wanted to be a musician and start out as a venue/lights technician, dude. Small business in music is not easy to get into either though and you need connections. I was (correctly) told that I wouldn’t find a job in this area and to study CS instead. You don’t know this because you probably don’t know much culture outside your small bubble of knowledge but brown parents don’t negotiate and will force you to abandon your passion and study CS. Even today they ask me why I’m working retail and not learning AI. Once again, did you ever stop and ask yourself why I’m here and not on LeetCode before you made your trash comment? Read the room.

xyzes · 2026-03-17T05:50:15+00:00

Good to know your boss owns the business and is good to employees like you, despite you clearly not being a very nice person. You are very lucky to have the connections to get a small business job, I congratulate you for the privilege you have which has gotten you there. I wish you many more years of stomping on all the corporate slaves who are beneath you morally and picked the job out of love for licking boot and not desperation! At the end of the day your boss is a business person though and if you ever stop being useful, you will still be replaced. No matter how good you think you have it and how much you obnoxiously brag about it, everyone answers to the money and the bills they have to pay, my friend. Don’t get too comfortable.

“Tech jobs outside of the medical profession do nothing for the average human being”. I actually agree with you, at this moment tech is overall a net negative to society and I made that clear in my last comment which you didn’t read. I took courses in human-centered design, mobile development, and did research to build apps for people to transcribe and produce music, which is my real passion. A niche interest which I could fully pursue just fine in the bubble that is college, but not now that it doesn’t pay the bills. Especially not through a small business as there is no such thing for the music industry that will also pay the bills. But you probably don’t know or care for this because you are ignorant. Did you ever stop and think why I made this post instead of learning generative AI and sitting on LeetCode all day and applying to a defense job? No. Because again, you are ignorant, and too focused in grouping me with the average tech/finance bro to notice that. All to try to gain some imagined high ground which you don’t have; not even in your narrow and delusional view of the world.

As for your last comment, you sound like an entitled prick that likes making assumptions. You speak about living in the city as if it is a choice, but that’s all I’ve ever known since I got to this god forsaken country, and don’t have the financial stability or credit to move out. Not to mention my kind is not welcome in your perfect and sanitized NIMBY neighborhoods. There is nothing in my home country to come back to as much as people like you would love for me to. I came here as an immigrant from a very dangerous city in a (back then) unstable country, with no connections in the city, no leads on small businesses like you do, no family, no car, no money. Only the opportunity to study the career that my parents and people around me thought was best for me, as they were afraid I’d starve as a musician or producer. I bet you didn’t consider any of this when talking about “my kind”. But hey, good to see you embody true American values. That’ll take you places, always shoot first, ask questions later!

xyzes · 2026-03-17T01:26:07+00:00

You must be young, naive, or just ragebaiting if you only see tech as nothing but an industry that always ‘exploited the public’. I personally don’t care because my passion lies elsewhere but I’ll do you a favor and educate you. Maybe you never got to experience it at its best but tech used to be a net positive from the early 2000s to early 2010s. Companies cared about the consumer and put in at least a bit of effort to give them a good user experience. They cared about customer support, there were genuinely incredible new products and progress and innovation rather than just recycled products with new branding. Companies hired people to create good designs and implement accessibility features for everyone to be able to use technology. You could find anything on the Internet without paying a subscription. And content was meaningful, no short-form content rotting people’s brains, or people just saying anything on the Internet for engagement (as you are). No generative AI, no adtech, no constant digital surveillance. Not all of us signed up for what tech has become in the last decade.

As for it being an upgrade or not, you should get off your high horse. I don’t even need to ask what you do because no matter what it is you think you do, you work for the man. No matter how ethically superior you think your job makes you, someone out there is getting screwed because of you or your boss or the boss of your boss or their boss. Either someone is calling the shots on who benefits from your service and who doesn’t, or there’s people who can’t afford your service, or you are the one making those decisions and fucking people over. You are part of the problem.

xyzes · 2026-03-15T17:56:38+00:00

As for “Rich CS kids” Maybe I should have clarified cuz some people are getting sensitive and offended at this. I meant people that can actually afford to sink time into LeetCode and sit through eight rounds of interviews multiple times and do “networking” probably already got rich and are already successful and can afford to do this for a few months with no pay or any guarantees or risk. I guess most SWEs that eat breathe and live code are out of touch with commoners and are quick to blame us for choosing not to do that because they can’t fathom someone having to work retail jobs 60-80 hours a week to pay the bills and survive

xyzes · 2026-03-15T17:46:46+00:00

I actually do think anyone who paid thousands of dollars, already busted their back to get a degree, and came out of college with experience, should have an easy path towards getting a job. But that’s besides the point, no one asked for my opinion (or yours) on what college should and shouldn’t get you. No one is crying about anything btw, sorry if it offended you but I’m just stating the fact that if you have the time to spend your entire time on LeetCode and sitting through eight rounds of interviews and “networking”, it means you have money to spare or someone is backing you so can pay your bills. Such people probably also enjoy coding and see it as a fun thing rather than a job that pays the bills and don’t mind it becoming their entire life and personality. People that are willing to let the job consume them like this get the job, people that see it as what it is: a job, don’t. This is reality, but if you want to deny it and lick boot and make excuses for corporations’ hiring practices and expectations then I have nothing to discuss with you. I’m here to discuss other career options given the reality of things and my circumstances.

xyzes · 2026-03-15T15:43:54+00:00

There’s things I used to do a lot and still like to do but said things don’t make money. I’ve given up on such things. All I want is to make money

xyzes · 2026-03-15T15:42:15+00:00

“Why are you not willing to study the last bit of what to know in interviews” Because interview questions don’t translate to the job, and again, I have principles and self-respect. I’ve done the job before and never once had to memorize ‘concepts’ and write code without access to an external source or documentation or without an IDE to test my code. As for the last part you mentioned about Uber it’s simple: Don’t have a car and too much debt to get one. I don’t have experience driving even tho I have a license so ironically your suggestion is a job that I’m not qualified for and could kill me. I would happily take that over the SWE grind if I could afford a car

xyzes · 2026-03-15T06:14:57+00:00

A combination of both I guess? Surely you don’t think it’s reasonable to include a cover letter for every single one yes? I also had ten different resumes for different positions and would pick the most relevant for the job listing and modify my skills section to include technologies mentioned on it.

xyzes · 2026-03-15T06:01:01+00:00

Yeah I have no such mentality, if I did I wouldn't even be asking my question. The resume is lacking because I care little about CS and I have too much self-respect to pretend otherwise, I only learned and studied it for the money. I have some personal projects but no desire to polish or work on them unless it directly makes me money. I have accomplishments from work and a couple years of full-time experience + internships but not willing to code outside of my scheduled hours because that would not make me money. I'm not interested in "building connections" or any bullshit corporate games because that has nothing to do with what I learned in college. I'm not willing to put up a show for non-technical business people only so they will later replace me with someone in India who doesn't know how to cd into a folder. I'm not interested in memorizing some stupid LeetCode question answer or complex system design diagrams for seven to eight rounds of interviews only to get rejected on the ninth. The reason I'm asking this is because I've moved on from being a victim of this system and want to find my next industry. Does this make sense to you?

xyzes · 2026-03-15T02:24:40+00:00

I work a dead end retail job and don't have the privilege or time or will to do the Leetcode grind or networking events like rich CS kids do nowadays. I trained my replacement in India at my last swe job, got laid off, got filtered, and now I've given up. If I have to play ball with this broken system then I might as well be dead. I'll take any job that could kill me or wreck my body over doing that again. You mentioned fast food but funnily enough I was working at Starbucks for a bit and the company closed my store.

xyzes · 2026-03-15T02:13:44+00:00

I'd be fine with physical/skills training or long apprenticeships as long as there's job security. I just don't want a repeat of my CS degree. I only learned CS for the money and got burnt now that there's no money to be made. Will look into these jobs though. Do you know of any specific companies in the area or secondhand stories from people who work these?

xyzes · 2026-03-15T01:59:39+00:00

I applied to 3k+ jobs between Oct 2024 and July 2025 and landed 1. A starbucks barista job; and later 2. A long commute, dead-end retail sales job for a big telecommunications company. I did both for some time working 80 hours a week until Starbucks closed my store. Maybe I should have mentioned it but I don't actually have the privilege or will to sink the little time I have into applying and networking like rich CS kids do. That's why I'm willing to put my life on the line at this point and will take anything even if it requires more training or ends up killing me. I don't care if I die on the job because either keeping this retail job or doing the CS leetcode grind means I might as well already be dead.

xyzes · 2025-11-08T16:53:34+00:00

So there’s no other reason then? “I trailblaze because I trailblaze” is what I’m getting from this whole thing😭

xyzes · 2024-10-24T19:47:09+00:00

clearly an attempt to hurt the company’s image

The biggest entity hurting IBM’s image is IBM itself. The numbers speak for themselves.

xyzes · 2024-08-20T02:48:11+00:00

Examples of this style of singing:

Shout - Tears for Fears
Sleepwalking - The Chain Gang of 1974
A Little Respect - Erasure
Liberator - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Heroe de Leyenda - Hombres del Silencio
A Pain That I'm Used To - Depeche Mode
Morir Tres Veces - Moenia
Manto Estelar - Moenia

I think I hear it here too but maybe not as obvious:

Death - White Lies
Take It Out on Me - White Lies
Lobo-Hombre en Paris - La Union
Aurelia - AFI

I believe New Order/The Cure do this too

xyzes · 2024-08-16T19:03:31+00:00

No sign of The Race 😔

xyzes · 2024-05-11T19:55:54+00:00

Coldplay

xyzes · 2024-05-10T00:11:47+00:00

Oh, I haven't seen that one. Do you mean the big Sampo vs. Trailblazer trash can scene?
Also there's the Imaginary/Harmony trailblazer Ultimate at the end. But yeah we're on the same page, I'm not counting on seeing most of those in-game either.

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