LinkedIn is so incredibly depressing today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize LinkedIn was still a thing…

It’s very much still a thing.

[Anonymous]

I find it depressing also, but for different reasons. I am 48 and have the same job I had at age 20. There's nowhere to move up, I can't do any other job, and it's pretty boring.

Everyone else on my timeline does interesting things, they go to Puerto Rico or Hawaii for work trips, they have interesting aspects of their jobs. I have none of that, and will never get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it depressing also, but for different reasons. I am 48 and have the same job I had at age 20. There's nowhere to move up, I can't do any other job, and it's pretty boring.

Everyone else on my timeline does interesting things, they go to Puerto Rico or Hawaii for work trips, they have interesting aspects of their jobs. I have none of that, and will never get it.

You can still change career. It will be tough at your age of 48, but not impossible. If you healthy, energetic and driven, someone will take a chance on you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize LinkedIn was still a thing…

https://imgur.com/kOf3Dzb

LMAO! I laughed. Thanks. So true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize LinkedIn was still a thing…

Do you have a trust fund and live off of that? Or have you had your job for two to three decades?

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Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

That you can't see the irony in what you wrote here is astounding.

NP and I don't see the irony. The beauty of government jobs is that the mission can be helping people. It doesn't have to be profit. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals who have built specialized careers around helping people, and now their entire field is gone. I see no irony in that.

Dp. Your response makes me slide towards agreeing with the orange’s goal (still not the process).

A government’s job should be to support our society so it can become a better functioning society, eventually resulting in a better economic position. Not just ‘helping people.’ Helping people to what end that will benefit society as a whole?

That’s what the mission should be.

Nah- my mission in life is not to make more money and just live for money. Have you ever heard of church/synagoge/temple? I don’t go, but I hear they teach about the importance of helping people over just making money.

[Anonymous]

Agree OP, it is sad.

Society as a whole depends on these hardworking public servants.

Vaccines, safe roads, our financial system, scientific research to support public health, and many other essential functions will be affected. This will have global ripple effects.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize LinkedIn was still a thing…

I've never used it, but my college-age kids swear by it! (I'm serious!)

Im 58 and I got the best job of my career from Linkedin. A recruiter called me out of the blue and thought I would be good fit. He was right.

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Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

That you can't see the irony in what you wrote here is astounding.

NP and I don't see the irony. The beauty of government jobs is that the mission can be helping people. It doesn't have to be profit. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals who have built specialized careers around helping people, and now their entire field is gone. I see no irony in that.

Dp. Your response makes me slide towards agreeing with the orange’s goal (still not the process).

A government’s job should be to support our society so it can become a better functioning society, eventually resulting in a better economic position. Not just ‘helping people.’ Helping people to what end that will benefit society as a whole?

That’s what the mission should be.

Nah- my mission in life is not to make more money and just live for money. Have you ever heard of church/synagoge/temple? I don’t go, but I hear they teach about the importance of helping people over just making money.

You’re proving my point. I’m talking about the mission of government you’re talking about the mission of religion.

[Anonymous]

LinkedIn is very 2014.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

I think they are very useful. It would also be nice to no longer deal with nitwits as realtors, mortgage brokers, financial advisors, general managers etc. What a wonderful world where we get some intelligent people in these relatively well paid private sector jobs.

News flash, PhD does not equal intelligent. I mean, it can. But in most cases they are earned by people of privilege who could afford to stay in school while they figured out what to do with their lives.

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Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

That you can't see the irony in what you wrote here is astounding.

NP and I don't see the irony. The beauty of government jobs is that the mission can be helping people. It doesn't have to be profit. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals who have built specialized careers around helping people, and now their entire field is gone. I see no irony in that.

Dp. Your response makes me slide towards agreeing with the orange’s goal (still not the process).

A government’s job should be to support our society so it can become a better functioning society, eventually resulting in a better economic position. Not just ‘helping people.’ Helping people to what end that will benefit society as a whole?

That’s what the mission should be.

Sure, who cares about food safety, curing cancer, feeding hungry kids, air traffic safety, consumer protection, hurricane detection, stopping the spread of bird flu, and all that kind of useless stuff. If the private sector ain't interested, it must be no good. Food companies can regulate themselves and bird flu - well, if we don't monitor it, it's not really happening, amirite?

[Anonymous]

A mission of public service is a calling for those who care about America, her land, people, and security. Anyone who mocks that mission also mocks our law enforcement and military. Not only are you unworthy of their service and sacrifice, your arrogant disregard for those who choose service over profit is showing all of us that you’re a moron. Now step aside so the adults can work to fix this mess created by oligarchs.
God bless the USA.

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Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

That you can't see the irony in what you wrote here is astounding.

NP and I don't see the irony. The beauty of government jobs is that the mission can be helping people. It doesn't have to be profit. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals who have built specialized careers around helping people, and now their entire field is gone. I see no irony in that.

Dp. Your response makes me slide towards agreeing with the orange’s goal (still not the process).

A government’s job should be to support our society so it can become a better functioning society, eventually resulting in a better economic position. Not just ‘helping people.’ Helping people to what end that will benefit society as a whole?

That’s what the mission should be.

I don't understand the distinction you are trying to make. Helping people accomplishes the bolded text you wrote. The bolded text is the government's mission and can be shorthanded as "helping people." Society as a whole benefits - yes, economically - when people are helped.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

I think they are very useful. It would also be nice to no longer deal with nitwits as realtors, mortgage brokers, financial advisors, general managers etc. What a wonderful world where we get some intelligent people in these relatively well paid private sector jobs.

News flash, PhD does not equal intelligent. I mean, it can. But in most cases they are earned by people of privilege who could afford to stay in school while they figured out what to do with their lives.

News flash, PhD does not equal intelligent but more education usually does. And if you think this is all trust fund kids, you probably have never met a STEM PhD. They lived through grad school making half of minimum wage for most of their twenties.