Meanwhile, I’ve been under here for two weeks straight. I go underground at 730am, and exit about 630pm. Aside from an hour in the morning and a couple in the evening, I only see the sun on week ends. I am become mole person.
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Hate a crawl space, hope youregetting chunky overtime working that long
Job security, at least. No AI down there, either. Still though, I get the desire to get out of the muck and into the AC. I got my first “desk job” at 45. I don’t miss doing concrete, carpentry, agricultural or food service!
If you had learned to code you would be unemployed instead
looks like a nightmare to me, nothing makes sense and I hate all of it and that’s before all of the bugs I imagine
My first trip under here was a bit overwhelming, but you get used to it eventually.
Sometimes I turn off the lights, close my eyes and just listen. If the AC isn’t running it’s so quiet you can hear the blood rushing in your ears. Until a roach crawls on me and not the small German roaches these are palmetto bugs or whatever they’re called. Makes my arm hairs stand up.
average java codebase
Not convoluted enough.
gottem!!
This is unironically the best comment I’ve read all year.
What kind of ppe do you wear for jobs like these?
Fitted half face respirator w/ p100 or asbestos labeled. Tyvek suit w boot and hood. Ear pro, eye pro. Nitrile gloves.
Miserable but safe as can be given the location. Fresh air being vented in/out w three 10" ventilators. Multiple radios, multiple exits, no working alone.
basically ever programmer i know (including me!!) can’t find a job. its more like, learn to code and also travel back in time to when it was super easy to get a job doing it and then pray you don’t get laid off
It’s fucking impossible for sure. My current job and best leads come from recommendations from people I know in industry. But I’ve done plenty of interviewing outside of that to little success lol. But keep at it, opportunities do exist it just takes a lot of digging. I recommend automating as much of the application process as possible, I can easily do 50 applications a day after work without too too much time investment.
Can confirm. I graduated summa cum laude in CS and created a core technology that most people use and it’s tough for me. The leet code problems have become insane, the bar is so high now. One job, I gave the interviewer a graph coloring optimization to parallelize a shortest city walk and I got feedback that I ‘barely passed’ the interview.
ass crawlspaceLearn to code,
Get a job at Microsoft,
Still pipes.
if you learn to code in 2026 you still end up there, but as your home, and obvs you don’t get paid to sit at home
They just throw you down here with a laptop and make you use VIM don’t rhey
i use vim by choice 😤
Stockholm syndrome is real
HVAC or plumbing or electric, I see all options.
Plumbing. Ripping out 2,3,4,6 and 8" cast iron and running it all in plastic. Coring holes thru footers to run pipe. Coring holes in floors for new plumbing drops. Tunneling for days and days.
Liminal crawlspace
You’re tunnelmaxxing
Nah dude, while that sucks you’ll still have a job for the foreseeable future.
Did you befriend the crickets or start eating them for a snack?
There are crickets, and cockroaches, and snakes, and mice, and asbestos down here and I don’t wanna be friends w any of it.
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Any weird creatures down there, alien lifeforms, goblins, mice?
There are a ton of bones down there dude. And crickets, and cockroaches. The big ones that fly. Yuk.
