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Thank you and happy chatting!
Starting mid June, SUPER stoked to finally have a job that does good work. Been over 18 months since i lost my last job in the tech field, so this feels SO fucking good!
Nothing quite as exhilarating as getting paid to do meaningful, beneficial work
Good luck
Hell yeah, thats gonna be a new feeling for me but im looking forwards to it!
Congratulations! That's awesome.
Woop Woop! 
What a lovely surprise, you get to do a job that can make the world better, and they get a dedicated communist shitposter as a worker
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nice! doing good, as day to day work, hits different. hope you meet some cool people at work!
I've been in tech jobs since I was 18. This is the start of something new for me, I can deal with the low pay, im just excited to say "I can wake up and give a shit." Stoked to actually WANT to work.
grats dawg I hope you get to do some good work
I'll be interfacing with other homelessness orgs in the city to coordinate care plans and stuff, so its the best use of my tech/project mgmt experience i can think of!
Is it for the Americorp thing or did you get another offer separately?
Its the americorps thing
Ahhh cool, yeah
Hopefully you get a better paying gig at the end of it either continuing there or doing something similar
My partner told me to tell you when you're done with it, something about stretching out the tuition reimbursement/school aid stuff so they don't just apply it all at once, because it's taxed, so you can get hit with a huge lump sum tax penalty that might be better stretched out over a couple years instead. Sorry I'm dumb that's the best I understood what she told me
Nice. So what's the scheme? A real estate investment grift where you help get funding to build housing for the homeless that has no obligation to keep its promises after a criminally short period of time? Or just the old-fashioned skim off the top?
... I kid I kid, I hope you do some good work out there and really help some people who desperately need it.
They're giving me a katana to go hunt landlords and I get one dollar per scalp
thank you for your service
I serve the Hexbear Posters Union o7
Well it looks like you're going to be the wealthiest communist in history
congo free state but for landlords
You may wanna buy a smaller knife for the scalping. Seems hard wirh a katana. I'm sure I'll pay for itself pretty quick wirh how many extra scales you bring in
Corgiwithakatana new username
Excited for you!
Thanks comrade! Hope you're hanging in there as well!
Dope. Baller, even.
Corgi walks into the office, steeling themselves for the exciting prospects of doing meaningful social work (and getting paid!). They walk into the office and are surprised by the door being quickly shut behind them, the windows dimmed, lights low. "So Corgi are you ready to help End Homelessness?"
"Of course!" they say, "I'm ready to get to work."
"Good." As the city manager shifts in her chair the light reveals the faint outline of a poster of Mao Zedong.
"Here's the list of the most powerful landlords in the city. We've already taken legal steps to ensure the tenants will inherit the properties."
The manager unrolls a bunch of tools. Not notepads or tablets. Silencers, garottes, mysterious vials, advanced gas pistols, suicide drones, jammers, you name it.
"Enjoy your first day on the job."
(seriously congrats tho.)
Look im not saying that i would PREFER doing that, but also i would prefer it if the work was like that
Yes I too would enjoy playing a modded mission in Hitman 3.
FUCK yeah
Yessssssssssssss
Are you gonna be pushing em down the chute or manning the captive bolt gun?
Swag!!!
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Congrats comrade!
Thanks!
congrats! i've been unemployed a similar amount of time and want to move from tech to something that isn't so volatile and pointless, it's really cool you did
Thanks! I dont really have any advice other than chsck out some cool nonprofits around you, I just happened to stumble across this a few days ago and it moved FAST. The website Idealist might be good too if you dont know that one yet?
Good luck! Unemployment has been a fuck and I really hope you get something ASAP!
im not looking rn bc im burnt tf out from job hunting klsjdlfsjk but thank you!! i'm probably going to try to volunteer first soon
Congratulations, you just landed on a fuckin career path, provided funding doesn't get cut. Public sector jobs are the last best jobs around
sssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
I'm too America brained because so I assumed this meant you'd be evicting parks. Congrats
If I could I would kill the cops that do that
Good work comrade. I'm glad to know there are people with good values working at these sort of campaigns. As frustrated as I am with my own cities paltry efforts at combatting this issue this gives me hope that some boots on the ground and people in the organizations have their head on straight
It's my first venture outside the tech field, but they know how much I value ACTUALLY helping, so let's fuckin go!