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This works if you have decent employers that let you do these things. I’ve literally been told “stop thinking so much” at a menial job where there could’ve been a lot of improvements made. Because there were people who had really high salaries that were supposed to think of these improvements. Not us cockroaches.

But honestly the best thing these jobs can give you, besides experience of course, is connections to people who may later work in better places.

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foggy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If it’s menial job, it ain’t paying enough to tell you what to do if the shit you need to do is getting done.

Get the shit done. Don’t ignore your duties. And from there, literally ignore them. Let them fire you for improving the place. Be a great story to politely explain in a future interview at a menial job. Jobs that menial aren’t in short supply. They just blow and the pay sucks. So, don’t let it have any power over you beyond those facts.

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- boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  If it’s menial job, it ain’t paying enough to tell you what to do if the shit you need to do is getting done
  
  Ah that’s the thing. I’m incapable of doing the same exact shit for 8 hours a day for prolonged periods of time. The mind immediately wanders to “what could I do better”.
  
  With that mentality, they sealed the deal and I left instead of trying to get into a better job at the same company (it was the kind of company where there are actually good jobs too, but fairly separated from the menial ones)
  
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