Polls: Education & Career

Which job in your experience has the worst culture of gossip?

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Have you tried any new DIY projects or skills within the last year or so? Would you rather fix something in your house or car by yourself or hire someone to do it instead?

I replaced brake pads on my car for the first time by myself this weekend.

Or was a 'C' as good as an 'F' to you?

My local fair is looking for people. The last couple years I wanted to apply, but always ended up going somewhere. It's only for 5 days, and it's like a 30 minute drive one way from my house. I'll only make like $675, which is practically nothing. The most it'll do is give me some more work experience to add to my resume. I also already re-applied to my old job, so if I get THAT one back, then I'll have to pass on this one. If I made at least $1000, I wouldn't think twice, but only $675 for 5 days of work and such a long back-and-forth commute doesn't seem worth it, to be honest.

I think long term, both can be viable forms of employment (well latter would be if unionized, pursuing similar gigs to compliment acting like modelling and commercial work), but for short term they may be easy to enter although come with the same issues: inconsistent schedules, paradoxically bad reliability, terrible pay, dealing with shady people, etc. However for security guard I'd need to pay hundreds of dollars for the training, background check, exams, and licensing whereas for background actor, I have to pay commission fees to the agencies or even annual membership fees (some do) and the pay is painfully slow/bureaucratic. Still worth doing either because they both are always in demand, pretty much anybody can qualify for it, and how the job operates is quite transparent/obvious (especially in this economy where pink collar jobs are as unlikely as winning the lottery to get, whereas gig apps are very unreliable due to strict rules and weird algorithms along with low pay).

So you now have the option of not paying into Social Security and can invest that money on your own , like Bitcoin, stocks, or bonds. But you lose what you already paid in , would you? Also list your age.