Going to lose my current, non software development job due to replacement (not by AI, but by other humans), and I have a quite limited number of skills. I especially bad with waking up early, so most “local” (requires 2 hours of travel) factory jobs are out.

I don’t have a portfolio of great companies I worked at, nor with games I worked on, nor with websites. I also live far away from job opportunities that are relevant for me.

I’m personally more afraid of my mother, who believes, Hungary has easy to access “DEI grants”, so she sent me all places for an “official autism diagnosis” (including an asylum, in the middle of a pandemic), so employers will be lining up for me with all kind of job opportunities, because she read that on a nazi news site. Reality is ableism is so rampant I get called slurs at worst, and otherwise I have to deal with conspiracy theories aimed at me straight out of Forrest Gump. She wants me to apply to all unqualified positions I can, because she read that as a suggestion online.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 hours ago

    There are a ton of organizations that run their own IT that aren’t selling or distributing software that can be overlooked for a career building and maintaining software. Banking, sports leagues, utilities, logistics, grocery & restaurant chains, etc. A lot of small businesses also can’t do it themselves or hire a full time staff for it so they hire it out to a part time contractor that covers multiple smaller orgs in an area. My first job that included programming was 1/3 software dev, 1/3 IT support, and 1/3 running a print shop in a warehouse.

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Seeing how you’re considering factory jobs, have you considered trucking?

    It’s fairly easy, quick and cheap to get a license. You’ll be your own boss. You don’t have to deal with annoying colleugues, just the regular calls from your planners telling you to do their imposisble schulde and you tell them you’ll do what you can and the rest can wait till tomorrow. The job is often much easier and less tedious than factory work, because you can just listen to music, podcasts, audiobooks. And if you have to wait, or sleep over, you can bring out your laptop or your switch and do some gaming, coding, netflix, whatever.

    Most trucking jobs require you to get up early,but some don’t. There are overnight trailer switch jobs. There are supermarkets and fresh-food stores that need over night stocking. Those are just some examples from the top of my head.

    I did supply for a bakery chain. 16.00 till 22.00 and 6 days a week. The salary wasn’t getting me rich, but it payed the bills.

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
    14·
    9 hours ago

    In my location, there are a lot of evening and night time jobs that are pretty chill and pay rather well, because most people are “normal” and don’t like to do them.

    Most of them revolve around just sitting in a room and checking whether everything is fine once an hour. I’m speaking from experience, having done those kind of jobs on the side.

    Best part for me was that it felt like 8-10h of free time where I played games and watched youtube, while getting paid.

    I don’t really know what search term to give you to find them, but I just scroll the local job market and find open positions all the time.

    Software jobs in my area on the other hand are very annoying and require you to jump through 3 interviews and 2 tests while applying, be up early, on time, in office, regulated breaks instead of when I need them, pretend to be at 100% productivity all the time etc. for a barely 30% higher pay… not worth the effort at all.

      • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        I don’t want to dox myself by saying too many details or accurate listings, but the one I worked at was basically:

        • opening the doors in a location and letting people in to do their thing.
        • occasionaly helping with location related issues (like toilet paper refills)
        • making sure the location is in order and everybody is out after they are done
        • closing the doors again
        • it started in the evening and ended a couple of hours past midnight, which my colleagues all complained about for some reason

        Other I saw occasionally in multiple locations:

        • forestfire watch. You sit in a tower in a forest and look around with binoculars every quarter hour. If you see smoke, you try to figure out where it is on a map and notify somebody. Three 8h shifts, so you can pick day, evening or night.

        • sleep research facility, where you go help the sleepers, if they have some issue in the middle of the night.

      • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
        8·
        7 hours ago

        Security guard is one. Had a friend in college that basically got paid 8hrs/night to do 2hrs of actual work and 6hrs of building his portfolio. It can definitely work well for some folks.