/wage/ - Wagecuck General

Sitting here waiting for a meeting to start. True enough on the busy work day of the week. Fuck Tuesdays.

I've heard a lot of arguments against monetizing your passions (i.e. you won't like it if it becomes your job)

I hate industrial maintenance and the company i work for can lick my nuts.

I want to just quit but wife and child says otherwise. How can i make 20$ an hour minimum and not work awful maintenance jobs.

Still in bed. Up a thousand or so already from overnight UK sales. Now the real money making begins. Time to make coffee and strategize breaking into a new market. It takes time to crack new markets, but once the initial work is done, it's 95% autopilot.

Recurring income wagies. This is what you need. Residual. Automated.

That's right. Marketing meme. Living the meme life for over a decade now.

Yerp, been busier than usual today. Gotta sit with the CFO here soon to go over some invoices/reports. Thankfully my office job is comfy, albeit underpaid.

Are you a freelancer or have your own marketing firm? If so how did you break out and gain trust from established organizations?

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Tradie master race just killed the first two hours eating a comfy breakfast now just chilling in my work truck about to light up a bowl

I freelanced for 8 years. Two years ago I teamed up with some big wigs from established marketing companies to form a new company. I was one of the bigger affiliates, fairly well known in the industry. (not a super affiliate blog fag, I stay low key) They bring in the deals and I smash the piss out of them. Doing lots of reinvestment in tech builds. Building staff out to manage more of the day to day, breaking out of the "key man" role. Working on a 5 year exit plan. Hoping for 20-30 mil total exit. I would end up with around 8 mil. Taking a nice salary in the mean time, but still leaving lots of cash in the business so the financials look good for the potential buyers and/or rainy day safety net.

How many fucking Aussies are on Jow Forums conservative estimates??

Almost lunch time for us east coast bois

Hey user, can we sync really quick? Just want to pick your brain about your Q3 goals moving foward. Cheers!

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Normie piece of shit

Im burger

Sure, let's touch base at 2pm. I just gotta hop on a call real quick.

Keeping that balance between looking busy and just shitposting and listening to podcasts all day. Hope this is sustainable.

Same here, user, same here.

Hahahahahahaha I'm at jury duty. Still better than being stressed at work. It's almost lunch time on the east coast, fellow wagies. Almost halfway through the day.

I agree with you though, OP. Fuck Tuesday.

What’s the case?

2nd day of 4 weeks vacation

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That's basically what I've been doing for 95% of the time over the last year
I was on jury duty in the past, but was the 11th juror so I got to leave just before the other ten went into the room to decide the verdict. I never found out how the case ended. Here's the greentext
>woman employee told a man he needed to leave a clothes store
>man took a box cutter and put it in a hat
>he carried the hat over to the woman
>"here woman, take my hat"
>woman sees the box cutter in the hat and freaks out
>the box cutter's blade was retracted the whole time
>lawsuit occurs because of this encounter

Feels great to be an intern.

Get back to work Vincent

I feel like my job could be done in much fewer hours than I'm being paid for. But I don't want to waste time browsing the internet and tarnish my reputation, and the timesheet rules are strict so I can't lose a cheeky hour here or there. It's not really a job where I can pick up little roles to fill the time either.

What are effective methods to make the days pass quicker?

>t. government civil engineer

Slip n fall. Still undergoing jury selection. Probably won't get chosen and have to start all over again on another case.

>What are effective methods to make the days pass quicker?
Personally I will work on my own programming projects or research something new that's interesting to me. If you aren't able to screw around on a computer like this, I'd think you could at least put in some earbuds and listen to music

Dude sounds like a psycho. Who the hell does that?

yugioh fag here
I stayed up late last night building my Cyberse deck and watching the new VRAINS series. It's pretty good!
Unfortunately I stayed up too late and I was late for work. I don't think my boss noticed though

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>Slip n fall
Do you mean that somebody forgot to put up pic related and a random person slipped on a surface, fell, and hurt themselves so they're now suing?

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Another day in paradise, right bois?

Using my off-time to work on a rough draft for a performance troupe I am working to put together here in Florida with a possible lead for a show already in the works at a venue. Mostly for fun but if it takes off then fucking awesome.

Passes the time for sure.

>milf boss just came back from vacation
>overheard big boss telling her I'm doing excellent work, even saved them money on deals
>she resigns in october, will likely take her place as they have trouble finding people in this department
NGO life is good

You posted this at 1am Australian Eastern Standard Time. That's not when work starts here for tradies. But yeah Aussies would be >5% of biz for sure.

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pretty cool user. I want to travel the world and sing and dance on stage

Possibly, don't have the deets yet.

>4 weeks vacation

How?

Probably saved up a bunch of vacation time. Where I work you get 15 days of vacation a year and are allowed to save up to 30 max

this is the state of Jow Forums now. back to wagecucking. the dream is dead.

:(

I’m so glad I don’t work in a call centre anymore. Now that I work in an office, I just fuck around all day and trade crypto.

Me too. Funny story, before I got this job, I was so desperate that I literally was going to take a call center job. I was dreading it the whole time. During the application process, the interview, etc., the whole time I knew I was going to fucking hate it. They hired me on a Thursday, and I was going to start on the following Monday.

Then later that day, I got a call from a place I forgot I even applied to. Local mom and pop store. Don't want to give away too much info, but basically I have it as easy as you, probably easier. Much easier I would guess. To put it into perspective, I think I only did like five minutes of real work last week.

You can imagine I didn't attend my first-day training of the call center job. I didn't even call them to tell them I changed my mind. Didn't even answer their calls lol. Fuck them for preying on desperate people and paying peanuts for a shitty stressful job. The hours were going to be shit anyways, and you weren't allowed to have your cellphone with you. It was really strict, the whole job. Lots of retarded rules. I read the workers manual. And they can get away with it because people were desperate for work. Fuck them lol

Why because I talk to girls? Not my fault you’re an autist user. Maybe if you focused on improving your life you might be able to talk to them also. They’re over rated anyways.

I did a shitty call center/tech support job during a summer in college. Last minute internships fell through and I had nothing else

Shit was the worst fucking thing EVER. Day 1 they throw you on the phones and angry fucking boomers are calling you up asking the status of their insurance claim, never happy to call you.

Management fucking micromanaged workers into the ground - limiting us to 2 minutes on the call while still having to provide the best customer service to these screaming housewives and sailor mouthed laborers. You had to maintain a rate of at least 12 calls an hour, and had to sign out and message the supervisor on chat if you wanted to go take a shit in the bathroom for 5 minutes, god forbid you take 10 minutes off the phone.

Your stats were displayed on a monitor for everyone else to see, you couldn't have any personal website stuff open - once I was yelledat just for having Google Maps open when I was literally just trying to fucking look up where this guy was because he was lost.

Turnover rate was insane. Some didn't even make it through their 1st day, I don't know how I lasted 3 months. I really felt bad for the grown-ass adults there with kids who were trapped their full-time. Like, what are you doing with your life and what decisions landed you in this hell hole.

I'd rather do hard labor, laying bricks or stocking shelves. FUCK CALL CENTERS

Im still waiting for the bull run thats never going to happen

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wow
I would literally go into debt or declare bankruptcy than live an existence like that

How do I escape this? I've had a few business fall though. Mostly websites because I'm CS. I've also thought about farming. I've applied elsewhere but they're all .net garbage jobs. is there any hope?

Yep.

Good thing I was only there part-time 9-3 everyday. The full timers were in there from 8 to 6 with a half hour for lunch, unpaid of course.

That's what REALLY motivated me to focus the next 2 years in college so I would NEVER end up in a shitty dead-end $12/hr job like that again.

Now I'm in a comfy office job that actually respects its employs (flexible hours, occasional remote, unlimited vacation and sick, ability to shitpost like right now, etc)

this is your last hope

Ive had similar experiences in retail jobs where we were micromanaged in pretty much everyway. Pick up something and not immediately put it on the shelf? You just earned yourself a lecture about how those 2 seconds cost the company 30 cents. Leave to go to bathroom? Should of gone before work. Every thing you do is questioned to the point where you become used to their ass splitting rules. By the time i left that job we had a full cycle of new employees. Cant imagine how stressful that would be having pissy customers on the phone aswell.

The reason they limit you to 2 minutes is because that is the point at which they have to pay for the call. They were buying phone calls on 120 second duration. Any call less than that was free. They micromanaged you into the ground because they are likely on a 6 month rolling reserve with whatever shady merchant is willing to accept their sketchy transactions, and they've probably lost multiple merchant accounts in the past - locking up funds for months or even years.

When calls sit in queue, it adds to the call time - pushing the duration over 2 minutes. This is why they micro-manage you.

Then to add to all this, they are probably barely fucking grinding out a profit - and whatever they do make will likely get taken away in 12-36 months when the FTC swoops in and slaps ex-parte restraining orders on all the owners and whoever is providing the leads.

>all we can lift but
>can't lift the feels away

I've gotten jury notices several times, I just reply back that I'm a white business owner and they reject me for selection immediately. Apparently I'm unable to adjudicate whether a poor black man, who dindu nuffin, is guilty or not. Whatever, I'd rather not waste my time with that shit anyway.

I take it all back Captialism sucks.

Recruiter told me there were more accounting openings than candidates.
Didn't help me I hate accounting but didn't stop that firm from sending emails blathering about how the market is RED HOT

Badly. I've got a shitload of time to log in my timesheets (I'm working as a software developer) and I've got to figure out a way to fudge these numbers. To add salt to the wound, I have to log time in specific tickets in JIRA... Which makes it much harder to fudge these numbers, god fucking damn it.

did you meant to reply to me? I work in the accounting space. It blows.

>nobody has made it
>everyone is still a wagie

Work in a mundane it job that pays well. However as of late corporate have been trying to inject a new 'culture' into our robotic lives. This has meant that increasingly I find myself being hit by a nerf dart that some child shot me with. I don't know how much more I can take of this shit. Considering quitting but don't know if I have the energy to find a new job.
Do I stick with it and hope or escape before I blow my brains out?

I hate that numale pseudo silicon valley lingo

>I find myself being hit by a nerf dart that some child shot me with
Do you mean that literally? Because a previous office I worked at had darts/dart guns scattered around and the management encouraged us to shoot each other every once in a while for fun/stress relief

>asshole in the apartment next door blasting shitty bass heavy music again
>earplugs don't do anything
>need to wake up at 6

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I quit my job and will leave on October.
Therefore I'm just chilling, pretending to work, and enjoying having no consequences about it.
On October I will start my new job at a company I own at 5%, so at least it will feel less of a wagecuckery.

I quit to work on my own projects, ideally will never have to return to wagecuckery.