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u/sexraX_muiretsyM 7h ago
I had a job like this when I worked as a librarian. Most boring shit of my life
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u/NES7995 6h ago
I'm also a librarian and I love that shit. The duality of man🗿
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u/Klightgrove 5h ago
A librarian that buys NFTs is a new one for me. 🗿
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u/NES7995 5h ago
All Reddit users got one for free back in the day, as if I would pay for that😂
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u/UnhingedBlonde 4h ago
I lost my vault code password whatever and lost mine. I'm lucky I never invested heavily in Bitcoin LOL.
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u/UpperApe 3h ago
As someone who secured his retirement off meme coins, I can proudly say that crypto is for fucking idiots.
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u/saintofhate 3h ago
That game is hella fun. I'm personally excited about: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3687090/Dice_Hoarder/
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u/sexraX_muiretsyM 3h ago
so after coming home working in a job that I hate I will go play a game to relax and the gameplay is literally the previous job that I hated even more?
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u/GrimbyJ 5h ago
Does being a librarian pay well?
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u/PhillipNoMates 5h ago
In 99% of cases no, and if you are in a big city you might need like a masters or PhD to be hired
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u/TM761152 3h ago
Still, thanks for that. Not many people grow up and say "I want to be a librarian".
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u/sexraX_muiretsyM 3h ago
well I love books and libraries but that job almost made me hate them. Imagine doing nothing the entire day but organizing books, only for them to become disorganized the next day. Its like those punishments in hell where the demons make the sinners do meaningless repetitive labor for eternity. Also the pay was pretty shitty, below minimum wage, which was justified because I was a teenager, I worked as my school's librarian, so they could pay me whatever they want. Worked there for almost a year every afternoon and made a little more than 1000 bucks.
Also after finishing the work I couldnt go home, I had to stay there doing nothing until my shift ended, which was cool in the beginning cuz I could spend the rest of the afternoon reading, but after a few weeks I had finished reading all the interesting books since I read one per day and then it became really boring
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u/morostheSophist 5m ago
Imagine doing nothing the entire day but organizing books
SAY MY NAME
I'm not willing to do it for that pay, though =(
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u/dmtslayr 7h ago
Whats the minimum requirement to become a police officer in the States?
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u/CelebrationProof6082 7h ago
Yes
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u/UpperApe 3h ago
Police don't have a minimum requirement but they do have a maximum requirement.
I'm not even making that up. If you're too smart, they won't hire you.
They want brainless goons. They want gangsters. They don't want brains, they want bodies. They want obedience.
Like the military, but less culty.
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u/The_One_Koi 2h ago
Sadly it's the same in most of the modern world
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u/kaas_is_leven 38m ago
It's a bit disingenuous. Police and army and the like need people who follow orders before or without thinking, other people's lives depend on that. But if you are smart you can still get hired as the guy giving the orders. It's not all that different from something like an entry level tech job, where a good hiring manager knows not to hire the overachiever because he'll be unhappy and leave within a few months.
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u/The_One_Koi 35m ago
It's odd how you call what I said disingenuous and then go on to defend what I said
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u/kaas_is_leven 28m ago
There is no need for this my dude, I didn't say you are disingenuous and I'm not defending anything. I was just explaining that the whole "they only hire stupid" is a disingenuous framing of the reasons, as it implies they literally don't hire smarter people, which they do. It also implies this is a police/army unique thing, which it's not. That is all. I have no qualm with you or anything you said. Calm down.
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u/Taldier 18m ago
Police and army and the like need people who follow orders before or without thinking, other people's lives depend on that.
No, they objectively don't. Like, this is the opposite of true.
Intelligent teams with broad backgrounds and good communication skills are vastly more capable of reactive problem solving in actual critical situations.
Thugs who follow orders are completely useless the moment communication breaks down or the speed of action outpaces the command response.
The only thing they can be relied on to do consistently is to violently lash out at anyone around them. Which in the case of policing, is usually the citizenry they are supposedly intended to protect.
Which tells you a lot about what modern police forces are actually designed for. Suppression, not community protection.
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u/kaas_is_leven 11m ago
As far as I understand from people who've been rejected and from a friend who works as a hiring manager for a local police force, that only goes for teams that actually make their own decisions. Which is not true for the vast majority of regular police. For grunts they look for average intelligence. Also you sound very ameribrained, police in other countries are trained to deescalate, they're not "thugs" or whatever, that is a uniquely American problem. Or maybe not unique, but it's not univeral by any stretch.
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u/SleazyKingLothric 1h ago
My fat uncle tried to become a cop at around age 30 a decade+ ago and was denied because he couldn't pass the physical tests of police academy. They have some requirements but those go out the window also once you've made it in.
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u/Professional-Box4153 3h ago
I actually tried to become a police officer many years ago. You have to pass a psychological profile test, as well as rigorous physical examination. From what I'm seeing lately, either those restrictions have been entirely lifted, or they're only for hiring and are immediately forgotten once employed.
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u/matchumac 3h ago
Guy I know failed twice, then just applied in a smaller town and is now a detective. I think people have figured out that small rural areas can’t be very selective, and now that fact gets abused by people who shouldn’t make the cut anywhere.
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u/Chastain86 2h ago
Boggles the mind to think of the "Detectives" out there in these small one-horse towns, desperately putting together their pegboard evidence posters to find out who left a flaming bag of poo on Old Lady Mabel's front porch that one time
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u/Fabulous-Present-497 6h ago
Being racist
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u/DryCommunication581 4h ago
And then you watch actual bodycams and for every 1 racist there are 1 million toddlers trapped in adult bodies screaming “racism” because the cops wont let them shoplift or assault people
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u/Chastain86 2h ago
I know what you mean, it's the 99.7% of the bad apples that really spoil it for the 0.3% that are trying to do a good job
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u/DryCommunication581 1h ago
Go make an anarchist state then. Im sure police have done nothing for you
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u/Chastain86 55m ago
Thanks for the feedback! Personally, I'd rather fix the country I have than create a new one, but so far most law enforcement agencies seem unusually (and specifically) resistant to the idea of ending qualified immunity, tying licensure and continual employment to insurance premiums, or generally holding themselves accountable for bad actors within their ranks. For example, I didn't see a lot of people being held accountable for assaults that happened at the George Floyd protests, despite dozens of incidents of people getting assaulted and critically wounded by police in vicious acts of needless brutality. You know, the protests that were organized in response to needless police brutality?
I guess when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I only wish that not all the nails had to get shot, and that the shooters were somehow held accountable for it. I see you're the other guy.
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u/Federal_Poet5384 2h ago
I went to high school with a guy who at multiple points got 0.7 GPAs and is now a cop sooooo
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u/Alarmed-Plankton-708 3h ago
Funnily enough, there is a maximum threshold for intelligence. I'm not making this up.
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u/red286 2h ago
That's only sort-of true. There's really only been one recorded case of that happening, in a small rural town in Connecticut, where they felt the job would be mindlessly boring to a man with an IQ of 125 and so he would likely end up quitting within a few years, making it not economically viable to bother training him.
No departments have officially stated maximum IQ scores, and if you're "too smart" they'd push you into detective work, which actually requires you be somewhat smart to be effective.
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u/FlashOfTheBlade77 1h ago
You are not making it up. Someone else did. They took an isolated occurrence out of context and the internet did the rest.
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u/JMEEKER86 5h ago
All government employees' salaries are public in California and there are cops that clear over 500k per year.
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u/codereign 4h ago
In Calgary, Alberta Canada there's one guy who is making a million dollars a year because he committed casual fraud with the police chief
It's okay though, they signed an NDA so the police are not allowed to investigate it as fraud and news reporters have been told not to report on it any further. 🤓
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u/ChampionshipAlarmed 4h ago
I mean Lego? Was working in Legoland while I was in Uni, had a Job sorting the same bricks in a kids building place daily.
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u/AwesomeMacCoolname 2h ago
Police officer sorting by shape: Lesson One.
Small Dog: lethal threat
Baby Donkey: lethal threat
Falling acorn: lethal threat
Man holding gas pump nozzle at gas pump: lethal threat.
Middle aged woman sitting in car: lethal threat.
Pretty much everything that isn't wearing a blue uniform: lethal treat.
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u/misjudgedinall 5h ago
They said high paying that’s definitely not a police officer
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u/DarmanitanIceMonkey 3h ago
120k is respectable enough
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u/defaulticus 3h ago
Policeman pay is highly variable by city. There are some in Florida that I think pay over $200k, but where I live pay starts at $58k and the town down the road starts at $55k.
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u/SleazyKingLothric 1h ago
They'll make another 25k+ in overtime though so depending on where you live 80K+ is solid.
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u/defaulticus 1h ago
$58k here is already almost the median household income, and that's the entry-level salary, so they do alright here even without overtime. But they're not rich either. Some places, they kind of are.
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u/GonzoVeritas 45m ago
Salary + Overtime + Private security gigs + Pension = Winning
I'm friends with a 'retired' detective that made a very decent salary (and benefits), has a great pension, and now has a new high-paying career as a contractor for the same police force that he retired from.
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u/EsotericTribble 2h ago
They said "high paying". Low paying is why you get the people you get. Same with teachers, they are low paid.
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u/aggravated_patty 1h ago
lol that’s just not true. It’s not that they’re hurting for applicants, they actively turn away ‘overqualified’ ones.
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u/lance_baker-3 59m ago
I'm never sure whether these things are real or not but this one is very clever and funny.
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u/tallish_possum 30m ago
Also that job lets you go vroom vroom vroom vroom vroom in a big fast car with lights and sounds.
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u/Asholootleigh 3h ago
I don't think it's very high paying. Unless you take into the account the bribes.
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