Society is strange

garbage collectors have a strong union, do they not?

"You study well and you will end up sitting in the office"

People sitting in the office cubicle: i hate this job.

Aaand typically get most of the day off

Gonna put it out there, I'm starting to suspect big garbage has been waging a propaganda war to push us away from the ultimate job

Is being a garbage collector, cashier, restaurant worker or other entry level type of jobs something we should constantly be shitting on? Whilst they aren't the most fancy and thrilling jobs out there, they do offer some freedom in that you do your job and you go home. Is being a doctor really that amazing, years of learning, starting out with a heap of debt from college, then having to work long hours and constantly face stressful situations. The life of a doctor doesn't sound all that social.

Yeah my mom told me as a kid that if I quit school I would have to dig ditches for a living. Those guys are union with high pay and good job security because we always need proper drainage just like we always need garbage to go away.

Garbage collector was a dream job to me as a kid. Ended up as a software developer.

The garbage collector around my house doesn't get out of the truck to get the trash it's all hydraulic arm. Sounds pretty chill to me.

The garbage collector has to get up early, go out in most weather, and deal with things we'd rather not deal with, and lift heavy stuff into dangerous machinery all day.

That being said, when I had a similar amount of hard labor to do I got in the best shape of my life.

Use languages with manual memory managment

garbage collecting is seen as dirty and undesirable by society, so for them to want to do it, you have to pay more

in my country they are badly paid anyway though so fuck it lol

Me, a facilities worker for a fast food chain, earning less than them all and still getting mystery trash juices on my hands.

Work hard, kids.

In the previous generation white collar jobs paid more than blue collar ones. That is why.. But the world is changing.

Where do garbage collectors make more than teachers?

It's a decent union public sector job and pays decently, but so is teaching and that requires more education.

Well, don’t let your memes be dreams, go out there and make it happen.

Don't they die earlier than average of painful cancers though?

And you get to hang off of the back of the truck like a bamf. That was the dream to 5yo me

The fact I know this is so real makes it so much stranger lmaooo ;-;

Derp

There is a humongous waiting list in pretty much all major cities for those positions

This guy is a garbage picker xD

If you don't study, you will use "either" where "both" is supposed to be used.

Never been around garbage collectors as an adult have you kid?

Edit: Ours used to kick around dead cats like footballs. Shat in bushes in front of families. Wild lads.