Board 8 > Which job would you take?

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Conditions: All of these jobs will pay 100k per year, with regular benefits. You must be totally honest with your friends, family, and strangers about what you do for a living.

Arizona farm laborer: Seasonal fruit picking in the desert. Some seasons more active than others.

Trump coffee-fetcher: Fetch coffee for Trump and charge expensive hotel stays at Trump properties to the taxpayers.

Investment banker: 100 hours of work per week.

Welfare recipient: Stand in long lines and submit to degrading drug tests.
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Let's see...

Arizona farm would be out for me because I really can't stand the heat. I can't imagine surviving a job like that without taking so many breaks that it wouldn't be worth hiring me. Also physical limitations.

Being a coffee fetcher is simple enough. Wouldn't exactly feel good about making the taxpayers pick up the bill for the hotel stay. I think I can pretend to like Trump to his face long enough.

Investment banker seems too intense for me. That's what... 15 hours a day for 7 days? More power to the people who can keep up with that schedule, but that would break me.

Welfare recipient... I mean hey, I have a disability so no shame there(Though the "standing in long lines" part may be used against me in that case). I certianly wouldn't feel good about doing it.

Coffee Fetcher > Welfare > Investment > Farm laborer

I'm capable of doing the first two. The last one would likely kill me.
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ah crap i voted 'welfare recipient' but didn't read the fine print. would not do that one.

i think i'd actually choose investment banker, but i'd only stick with it for a couple years.

one, they don't *actually* work 100 hours a week, that's just a meme. every once in a while there might be crunch time where you work 80, but that is not the norm.

two, you're forging connections with people that have a lot of money. be an investment banker for two or three years, get on the good side of some investors, and then start your own company. get the investors you know to either fund you or get you in touch with people who will. it's a good path
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oh and my grandparents owned a farm, and my other grandfather was a lumberjack- physical labor is just the worst. i would do almost anything to not bake in the sun for money

i would need to know more about the lines and drug testing related to receiving welfare. being degraded like that could be rough

i'm tentatively putting down

banker > coffee > welfare > farming

farming is last because that's the only one that'll actively give me skin cancer
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> Banker from Boston
. Carpenter from Ohio
. Famer from Illinois
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Coffee>Banker>Welfare>Fruit picking
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The main thing stopping me from runnin wit da welfare is embarrassment, but I'm not sure if it's any more embarrassing than working for Trump, and it's far less likely to torpedo my future career prospects like a Trump admin section on my resume might.

I've worked in Big 4 public accounting and was no match for the grinding nature of its stress and hourly commitments, and I hear investment banking is even worse so fuck that.

The farm labor is probably the most personally honorable, but I've already got back problems and am not sure I'd last a month. I've had nothing but office jobs for most of my life.

Welfare Queen it is.
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The only choices I could live with are farm laborer or welfare recipient. I'd probably go with welfare recipient since farm laborer requires living in Arizona.

Farm easy. The job is physical but its not THAT laborious. Get to spend all day outside, feeling productive about my work, while staying physically active and making a great salary? That sounds like an idyllic dream job to be honest.

HotDogButts posted...

Farm easy. The job is physical but its not THAT laborious. Get to spend all day outside, feeling productive about my work, while staying physically active and making a great salary? That sounds like an idyllic dream job to be honest.

good points and if the job was in NY, i might actually enjoy that. but Arizona, hell no.
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