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As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by kingsuper20 »

rossdavidh wrote: post #88

I have often worked remotely for years, but...I'm a contractor/consultant, and a programmer. I am unemployed several months out of the year, typically, and I am always intentionally short-to-medium term where I work. I fear that many of the people demanding remote work now, will be surprised when (not if) the first layoffs come, and they find out that the person who's in the office every day is more awkward to fire t…

Best point here.

WFH is a hybrid between employee and contractor.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by mkr-hn »

dougmwne wrote: post #102
bamboozled wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice you have the option

I had no special circumstances, I just made a choice to put years of savings to work for myself immediately instead of in the uncertain future. I sold everything and lived simply. Not everyone could do it, but many could who think they can't.

Being able to save, especially for years, is a special circumstance. At least in the US where wages have been flat for quite a while even as cost of living skyrocketed.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by lordnacho »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #90
lordnacho wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the UK too. But also remote means you can get a job "based" anywhere. Check out some US firms for instance, many are hiring and are happy with euro time zones.

Is that your experience with US companies hiring at the moment? I never considered this type of roles before because it was sort of a given in my head that they would want US based candidates for taxation reasons. Have you seen a big change regarding this, from US based companies?

Yeah they'll just pay your private company, and you sort out your own taxes.

I found there's loads and loads of US firms that are happy to take Europe based candidates.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by mkr-hn »

hypertele-Xii wrote: post #77
bamboozled wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice you have the option

Imagine living in a society where basic income is guaranteed no matter what, and even its worst places - its prison cells - compare favorably to the finest hotels of other countries. You have so many options you feel constantly overwhelmed, stressing about making bad choices because everything your primitive heart could ever desire is not merely available, but plentiful and cheap. And it'll recruit you if you're not…

Spend every waking hour out with my camera exploring every corner of every small town around me and writing about it.

Like this: https://viewfinderfox.com/first-post-vaccination-excursion-i...

But all the time.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by lumberingjack »

30 years ago I realized the same thing and stop being a slave too but the federal government is making it increasingly harder and harder to own your own business every time I turn around some entity with an alphabet name once a huge portion of money like the EPA

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by hypertele-Xii »

nickpp wrote: post #104
hypertele-Xii wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine living in a society where basic income is guaranteed no matter what, and even its worst places - its prison cells - compare favorably to the finest hotels of other countries. You have so many options you feel constantly overwhelmed, stressing about making bad choices because everything your primitive heart could ever desire is not merely available, but plentiful and cheap. And it'll recruit you if you're not…

Exactly 3 things: smoke weed, jerk off and play games on my Xbox. In that exact order. Sorry for my honesty, I have no filter.

I'm more of a PC guy, but yeah, pretty much. For a while. But even that gets boring at some point. Human brains are weird, man.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by rightbyte »

psychlops wrote: post #108

Millions say 'I Quit' every month. The variation here is unsurprising. Take a look at Chart 2 in the pdf: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf

Ye. Articles like these are so numbingly boring disappointments when you dig into the numbers and it is just a bit of noise in a longer trend that are presented as a big sudden change. Sure, the pandemic gave a interesting spike in the graph, but is not like 20% quit their jobs now all of a sudden, but more like back to the extrapolation of the pre pandemic trend.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by ykevinator3 »

mkr-hn wrote: post #112
dougmwne wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had no special circumstances, I just made a choice to put years of savings to work for myself immediately instead of in the uncertain future. I sold everything and lived simply. Not everyone could do it, but many could who think they can't.

Being able to save, especially for years, is a special circumstance. At least in the US where wages have been flat for quite a while even as cost of living skyrocketed.

Especially if you have kids and work as labor

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by lumberingjack »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #65

This article opens with a person experiencing burnout and choosing to leave a job where he needed to commute 1.5 hours per day, but the story isn’t really about people quitting work or leaving the workforce. The majority of people resigning their jobs are simply changing jobs, and the article doesn’t provide any evidence that people are changing to remote work in large numbers. The biggest driver of the increase in j…

Remember the housing market boom right before the bubble popped they propped it up with stimulus money everybody was like oh wow this is great houses are such a low price...... You're basically talking about the same thing there
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