All jobs are shit. Sometimes diarrhea, sometimes constipation that causes hemorrhoids, but shit nonetheless. Of course, I am speaking on my experience of working 3-5 different full-time jobs every year for the last decade, but I am sure many of you will agree with the general statement. In the past, the shit has included working 140 hours a week and being told if I wanted a day off to “work faster,” causing me to develop a bowel disease from prolonged not eating and avoiding bowel movements (the shit, in my case, is not figurative, it is literal). Now the shit consists of being forced to work in an office during a pandemic and knowing I won’t be compensated if I get sick (my co-worker just returned from being hospitalized for COVID and lost two weeks’ pay for it).
Switching jobs doesn’t seem to do much; I have tried that more times than I can count. It helps if I want a bigger salary, but doesn't change the shit, exploitative dynamic. Going to school doesn’t help; I did my unpaid internship at a multi-billion corporation that conveniently forgot to mention their ‘no-reference policy’ beforehand; without experience, my computer science degree is just an expensive piece of paper for which I am still in debt.
What is the solution? How do we go from shit to not shit?