Jason Voorhees
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Well I see this kind of sentiment in a lot of guys here and honestly I'm with you man. I'm on your side. You are 100% correct even I'm appalled by how predatory and shit the entry level job market has become. Unpaid internships after 3 years of work experience, ghosting apps after multiple rounds of interview and pocket change for back breaking work. It's completely justified to feel angry but the way niggas here approach this is wrong imo. The defence is always the old Soviet saying
by doing the bare minimum, clocking out early, and slacking off, they are somehow striking a blow against the corporate machine and exploiting the company back but this would be mistake.
Your first job, your first salary doesn't define you. Take my case. I was paid just minimum wage when I first began. I had no idea what I wanted to do, no clue what I was doing. All I knew had a strong conviction that this is what I wanted to do and determined to change myself.
I somehow after weeks of slogging landed an internship in college it was paid but minimum wage but I had 0 ego and 0 entitlement because you need to realize. I was coming from a place of utter despair and hopelessness. I was an alcoholic, a degenerate. I was honestly happy to just be there in an office environment. Happy that I was not going back to my old ways and disgracing myself so coming from that place gave me the humility and the desire to be proud of the man staring back at me in the mirror
The way you win this corporate battle is build leverage when you are at the bottom of the ladder, you have zero leverage.
By coasting and doing the bare minimum, you arenโt showing the company its place you are actively doing yourself a disservice. So treat it as a paid career launchpad. Learn the skills, show up everyday, do your best. Make mistakes and learn from them. Let them pay for your mistakes. You aren't staying there forever. You are building a bulletproof resume. Stop punishing your future self just to spite a company that won't remember your name in five years. This is how you win corporate game. It's not out of spite, not out of revenge but by building competence. Do I like the things are no. But this is the only way out.
by doing the bare minimum, clocking out early, and slacking off, they are somehow striking a blow against the corporate machine and exploiting the company back but this would be mistake.
Your first job, your first salary doesn't define you. Take my case. I was paid just minimum wage when I first began. I had no idea what I wanted to do, no clue what I was doing. All I knew had a strong conviction that this is what I wanted to do and determined to change myself.
I somehow after weeks of slogging landed an internship in college it was paid but minimum wage but I had 0 ego and 0 entitlement because you need to realize. I was coming from a place of utter despair and hopelessness. I was an alcoholic, a degenerate. I was honestly happy to just be there in an office environment. Happy that I was not going back to my old ways and disgracing myself so coming from that place gave me the humility and the desire to be proud of the man staring back at me in the mirror
The way you win this corporate battle is build leverage when you are at the bottom of the ladder, you have zero leverage.
By coasting and doing the bare minimum, you arenโt showing the company its place you are actively doing yourself a disservice. So treat it as a paid career launchpad. Learn the skills, show up everyday, do your best. Make mistakes and learn from them. Let them pay for your mistakes. You aren't staying there forever. You are building a bulletproof resume. Stop punishing your future self just to spite a company that won't remember your name in five years. This is how you win corporate game. It's not out of spite, not out of revenge but by building competence. Do I like the things are no. But this is the only way out.
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