• Butterphinger@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I’m a mechanic.

    a trade won’t help

    This is why I’m a mechanic. Forklifts have to work, or nobody works. Whether industry is rising or falling, something has to put it up and take it down.

    I’ll get paid in rice and beans to fix someone’s truck after the collapse. New boss? Same rules. Machines have to work, or nobody works.

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      23 hours ago

      Same, I specialise in cranes and I work on the Liebherr harbour cranes that load ships.

      The goods won’t stop,

      If the goods stop everything stops and even then I can fix your car or lawn mower.

      The down side is every year I get closer and closer to being unable to perform my job due to my body slowly deteriorating.

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      Bingo. This is really dark but we used to do this as kids in the 90s when there was a similar fear of WW3 with Iraq. Shit hits the fan what can you do? Is your job worthwhile in a society where shit hits the fan? All the techbros are fucked. If you can fix a tractor? Or garden? Or sew? Build stable structures?

      Computers were a mistake 🤣

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      2 days ago

      HVAC specialists and cooling systems experts will probably be in high demand to keep the future AI overlord datafarms frpm overheating. They’ll become the new priest class lol

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        I’m genuinely waiting for the calls to start back up. Every 3-4 years i get several calls from some of the big contacts i used to service asking if I’m available. I might just say yes this next time and quote done insane price and see where it gets me.