The Friday Five
Mar. 1st, 2025 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaks1. Would you rather have a fun job that doesn't pay well or a boring job that does?
I'm presuming, for the purposes of this question, that we're still operating in the current economic structure, ie I must work to live. If I can have earbuds in, I'll take a boring job any day. I've done manufacturing work wherein my hands and eyes are engaged, but my brain can mostly check out. I got through a ton of audiobooks and podcasts like that, and it was pretty great. It did not, in fact, pay especially well, which is why I moved on to other things. I can make my own excitement in my free time if I have the money and energy available.
2. Would you sacrifice your morals for a job?
No. Well, not if other people are being harmed. I have walked away from jobs that crossed a line for me, albeit on a relatively low level. I was technically a whistleblower, but we weren't talking high crimes here. I was, on the other hand, willing to endure things I consider immoral when directed at me, out of economic desperation.
3. Would you ever take a job that requires you to be in costume?
I'm chortling over the idea of doing electrical work in a fursuit, though that would present some physical limitations. I can't think of any work to which I am suited that would ever require a costume, though. Most are customer-facing, and I wouldn't want to go back to that, with or without a silly/degrading outfit.
4. What is your fantasy job?
Not to be smugly That Guy, but: I don't fantasize about work. If it's still a situation of needing to work to live, I'd actually rather it be work about which I have some emotional distance. Doing anything I love deeply under the pressure of survival is a disaster for me. It's why I wouldn't really want to try writing full time again unless I was also independently wealthy.
5. Would you like fries with that?
*instinctively falling into Customer Service Voice in sympathy* Yes, please, thank you. Have a nice day. *leaves tip* *nearly walks away without food* Sorry! Thank you! *nervous laughter*
I'm presuming, for the purposes of this question, that we're still operating in the current economic structure, ie I must work to live. If I can have earbuds in, I'll take a boring job any day. I've done manufacturing work wherein my hands and eyes are engaged, but my brain can mostly check out. I got through a ton of audiobooks and podcasts like that, and it was pretty great. It did not, in fact, pay especially well, which is why I moved on to other things. I can make my own excitement in my free time if I have the money and energy available.
2. Would you sacrifice your morals for a job?
No. Well, not if other people are being harmed. I have walked away from jobs that crossed a line for me, albeit on a relatively low level. I was technically a whistleblower, but we weren't talking high crimes here. I was, on the other hand, willing to endure things I consider immoral when directed at me, out of economic desperation.
3. Would you ever take a job that requires you to be in costume?
I'm chortling over the idea of doing electrical work in a fursuit, though that would present some physical limitations. I can't think of any work to which I am suited that would ever require a costume, though. Most are customer-facing, and I wouldn't want to go back to that, with or without a silly/degrading outfit.
4. What is your fantasy job?
Not to be smugly That Guy, but: I don't fantasize about work. If it's still a situation of needing to work to live, I'd actually rather it be work about which I have some emotional distance. Doing anything I love deeply under the pressure of survival is a disaster for me. It's why I wouldn't really want to try writing full time again unless I was also independently wealthy.
5. Would you like fries with that?
*instinctively falling into Customer Service Voice in sympathy* Yes, please, thank you. Have a nice day. *leaves tip* *nearly walks away without food* Sorry! Thank you! *nervous laughter*
