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Generally agree with your points, even though I"m honestly not sure what a union would look like like in practice.

But I just wanted to say that this job is definitely harder than plumbing. I usually do my own plumbing and it’s not really that bad. It’s not my favorite thing to do and can sometimes be a pain in the ass, but it’s way less taxing imo.

Teaching kids is hard as fuck though and good teachers are priceless. Honestly quality caregiving of any sort is massively underrated.

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somethingp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Most programming (simple tasks, scripting data analysis, most common web apps, basic automation) is about as difficult as doing your own plumbing (which likely includes fixing a faucet or doing other minor tasks around the house). But just like in any profession, the “professionals” are able to handle the complex tasks that others can’t/don’t want to do. For plumbers that means building the whole home systems to maintain proper pressure/temperature at every outlet, suitable for whatever climate the home is built in, or in commercial settings where the systems are much larger and more complicated.

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- dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  But just like in any profession, the “professionals” are able to handle the complex tasks that others can’t/don’t want to do
  
  **Borg Voice**
  ___ Image ---- "We Are Pipes. " Image ----- ----- “Our Voice Is The Expression Of The Pipe.” Image ----- “The First Technology was The Pipe.” Image ----- “The Last Technology will be The Pipe.” Image ----- “Some of us study reflections of the True Pipe through Computer Pipes.” Image Image “Some of us study reflections of the True Pipe through Shit Pipes” Image “We Are One” “We Are The Pipe.” Image
  
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  - somethingp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    10/10 write up
    
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gsf@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m an infrastructure engineer working at a government contractor and I’m in a union with OPEIU 1010, the tech workers’ local. Others are unionizing independently, with CWA, etc… It’s still early days for the tech industry but there are examples. We’re really not that different from other industries with a larger union presence.

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- expr@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sure yeah, but like, I work remote and will always work remote (I live in a city with a pretty mediocre tech scene). On top of that, I work in a non-mainstream programming language (Haskell). So it’s hard to envision what I could actually do.
  
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