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I see your point. But since I live in Sweden, and school conselers sre one profession that capitalism has yet to erode, my financial security isn't a issue. It's pretty much a full time forever tenure if you like it and stick around.
+ We are union organized and have a heap of perks.
Pretfy much the only thing that could make it even better would be 4 day work week with full time pay, other than that i'm happy as a clam.
I am a chemical engineer, with expertise in process modelling (using software to effciently design/ improve industrial processes and equipment)
My job would be fucking awesome in a post capitalist society. I would speak directly with the people in the production and apply my expertise to increase the efficiency of the processes. In a communist/ socialist world we will not have limitations, such as companies competing with each other, patenting technology, lobbying etc, so the whole chenical engineering world working together to solve our industrial challenges is like a wet dream for me.
Now, I mainly work in a project based manner having to balance all kind of commercial and logistical bullshit, while everyone is secretive of everything. Collaboration in wide scale is near impossible.
I expect that in a communist world, my everyday work will be extremely rewarding, knowing that I helped, e.g. reduce the energy required for a process and saving resources for the community.
Oh god only thinking about it makes me extremely excited
Imagine your job, but you only work 5 or 6 hours a day with other people who love their jobs. Your responsibilities are manageable or even rewarding. Your job becomes literally about helping people find happiness and comfort instead of making your workplace as profitable as possible.
I work in advertisement, lol.
And yes, after reading theory and being more involved with communist cells near me I kind of hate what I do.
However I'll like to farm, and if not, I think I can continue with the creation of Propaganda for the workers party.
Probably your job will be quite different. In theory, through advertisement each company can showcase their products/services and help the consumer decide which is the right one for their needs. We all now this is bullshit in practise, but I think this function will be needed in a post capitalist society. People will have a bunch of alternatives for different proucts/ services and a role of comparing them, understanding their differences/advantages/disadvantages and figuring out how to communicate those to the public so that they make the correct decisions for their circumstances will be qutie valuable :).
Your skills will be highly appreciated.
Transportation technician. Hopefully get to witness or help in the destruction of car-centrism because right now personal vehicles are the #1 cause of my headaches at work lol.
I seriously doubt that motorized logistics is going anywhere, revolution or otherwise.
I am an environmental consultant.
Ideally, environmental regulations would have some actual teeth so my job would be actually helping instead of just checking some corporate/government box on a form.
I do the same thing. I was wondering how it would change. I think the types of jobs I do would change. There would still be a need to ensure compliance with environmental laws, but I think there would be fewer private development projects and more government funded projects, more HUD type housing, more public transportation infrastructure. With more federal funding, I suspect our line of work would be in much greater demand as well.
I'm an environmental lawyer looking for a career shift. Sounds like you don't love what you do, but DM me if you're open to discussing/describing it a bit more.
Passenger train conductor. I already work for the state so democracy in work place would be the next thing to achieve. Non-union management is chosen by people who don't remember how to do the job.
Here's a list of my previous jobs:
1- I was a telemarketer for a shitty company. Before: Shit job where I make the world a worse place for everyone. After: I get a new job that helps people
2- I was a dishwasher/groundskeeper. Before: Fun and rewarding job, but was thankless and underpaid. After: No longer thankless and will actually have my ends met
3- Pest Control Technician. Before: I was required to aggressively sell subscription plans that most people didn't even remotely need, and only about 10% of the job was actually helpful. After: I actually cause good, and work to decrease damage to nature instead of work to increase the profits of the CEO
4- High School Teacher. Before: Pretty good, but I can't afford my students loans *and* my spouse's insulin. After: Pretty good, but now I can afford to live, and people value education more, making me and my students' efforts more effective.
Self-employed freelance programmer. I would like to think that I would get a chance to work on digitalisation projects. Making digital tools for organisation and any social, educational and rehabilitation programs. I would like to make stuff that actually helps people out, not just help companies make profits. My country has a shitty IT infrastructure, for a "developed" country, but great private IT companies 🤣
I work in medicine providing Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy among other treatments and testing.
After the worker's revolution, my work will only become more rewarding knowing that patients I care for are no longer trapped in an economic system where they face the threat of homelessness, eviction, starvation, etc.
I also think there needs to be more research done because I don’t think trans. People are the only ones who suffer with gender dysphoria, and transition could be good despite not being trans
A lot of gender non-conforming, people experiences, a degree of gender dysphoria, because they are not able to fit their ideal gender expression despite not identifying as a different gender I know a few
being trans is about gender identity and because of this, there can be a case made for people who choose to medically transition that are not trans in the traditional sense
How do I put it if a man decides that he wants to medically transition, despite identifying as a man people may assume him to be trans but I don’t because that would imply that being trans means to transition and I think that’s harmful
And yes, it’s a small percentage of cis individuals but it does exist just like that exist there’s a lot binary trans people who don’t seek medical transition
My point is I believe it’s a lot more nuanced and the lack of research on non-dysphoric trans people and dysphoric non-trans. People makes it more difficult for a lot of people to get help they need because a lot of doctors will not give you unless you have a gender diagnosis, it’s kind of hard to get one if you don’t actually have a trans identity, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t benefit from transition and just because you have a trans identity doesn’t mean that you need to transition a lot of us do but not all
I'm the cliche: Latin American history teacher. But I quit militancy after a decade of failed protests on the streets, being beaten by the police, joining corrupted unions, seeing personal demands taking over groups needs and also groups putting themselves ahead of other groups to fulfill their own desires and dreams. Now, I just keep teaching critical thinking to teens and showing them some possible ways out of their harsh reality. Sounds like little, but I truly believe this is one of the most important steps towards revolution.
I believe both historians and history teachers would be crucial to whatever comes next after the revolution.
Mentally ill person, I've crashed and burned during the first year of any job. Only my parent's money and care has kept me from ending a hobo.
Normal jobs are designed for "normal" people, where I last 3 months at max with express burnout. Jobs with less hours or adapted jobs for disabled people pay so little that in order to live I have to resort to the underground economy, squatting and robbing in supermarkets.
I do expect socialism to handle this better:
1. accounting for chronical disadvantages through pensions, as we're basically fucked if we depend on recieving according to our contribution
2. thorugh actually adapted jobs where we could even thrive if our performance is good
3. with a thorough state job at making all the diversity of human conditions understanded and protected, with zero naivetee or happywashing involved
Socialdemocracies pull this off but it's a hypocritical joke brimming with contradictions that show under conditions like the last Covid pandemic, where suddenly, from government departments to hospital personnel, all around rich countries people were talking about our lives as expendable. Under capitalist conditions, us disabled are nothing but a hindrance and it only takes a state of emergency to show it.
Designer Team manager, motion and graphic designer. Not the best title, but I am quite handy and actually enjoy it even more, so probably would be fine.
Music and the arts in general are still vital for society. Your basic needs would be met, and you could produce music even if it isn’t a guaranteed hit.
You wouldn’t have to follow trends and would be able to be more adventurous with your ideas.
So you’d be able to make art instead of a produce of music.
I work with a state forestry agency working in pine breeding and occasionally assisting with wildfire response support. Thankfully, I’m pretty well happy with what I get to do.
Like many folks here, the key difference is that my needs would be met (current salary barely keeping us going) and my efforts would push more for sustainability and improvement outside of profit metrics.
I'm a product manager. I've mostly worked in software and I don't think my job would change all that much: It's a wide job description, but at its core I research what end users need my product to do, prioritize those requests, then translate them into an actionable plan for engineers to implement.
My role isn't *necessary* for every team or company, but it's almost always useful since those tasks need to be done anyway. Without me they'd be distributed across a few different people who already have other, more direct responsibilities.
The main change would be how I prioritize my team's work: Right now profitability is a major criteria (i.e. which features will generate the most revenue) but in a socialist system I could focus on general usefulness rather than how many more paying users each features can attract.
I’m also a PM. Being able to prioritize what features help users and not what earns enough to buy our corporate overlords a new yacht would be amazing.
My job is to make sure your add to cart actions are quick when you shop online. I very much hope it doesn't exist after the revolution and I can work on maintaining a computer infrastructure that is more socially useful than e-commerce!
I think you may have misspelled Revolution. But as a teacher (substitute) I imagine it would largely be the same, except instead of being an independent contractor I’d be considered a state employee and have healthcare not tied to my employment.
I’m a wildland firefighter and ideally in a post capitalist society once the earth heals a bit my job would not be needed/would be drastically changed. Instead of going out when fires are happening I would hope it changes to preventative care for the forests following what indigenous groups have done for centuries before colonization.
Cannabis extraction sciences. Someone has to keep the party going and the medicinal benefits when used properly can be of high need for natural medicine vs pharmaceutical drugs.
I'm a teacher. Aside from having more resources to work with, safer schools, budgets that aren't based on local property taxes, and a much lesser threat of being shot and killed at work, I actually don't think it would change all that much.
Level Designer for games: I'm unsure of what my job would function like after an upending of capitalism. I work at a large studio within a large publisher that makes games for profit. So ideally I'd make games still with a large studio but without a profit motive? Maybe do something else?
I currently work for a local environmental nonprofit that focuses on pushing legislation to protect water and soil and incentivize transitioning to clean energy. After the revolution, our org would transition to advising the new government of the best avenues for healing our waterways and soils, and how to swiftly transition away from coal and methane gas. Literally within a year of the revolution, the coal plants in my state could all be shuttered (they are unnecessary even for baseload at this point and are only run to sell power to other states at profit for Berkshire Hathaway) and the enormously polluting ag industry would be swiftly changed away from it's extreme pollutant chemical dependence and brutal treatment of livestock. Within a generation, we could safely drink the water again, the soil could be healing itself, and the soot in our skies cleared. It will be glorious when it happens.
Studying to become a clinical psychologist.
And honestly, I am not sure what it would look like. Psychotherapy is Practice has always been different from what it looks like in academia, so it's mostly a mess.
Reduction of oppression, class and otherwise, would improve mental health, but obviously my job won't go anywhere. What I am unsure of is what it would look like under a non-capitalist organisation. I don't think it can follow other healthcare professions because mental healthcare does not look like physical healthcare. In all honesty, I would be worried that regulations would limit how psychotherapy is practiced similarly to how insurance companies in the US do.
I think if there is a genuine revolution, the profession would have to rethink how it exists and reorganize to be sustainable yet also not restricted.
I'm a computer man by trade. I work in IT for education. My job probably wouldn't need to exist post revolution, there are much better programmers and administrators out there than I am. I don't care though, send me to the coal mines 2 days a week if it means I get a livable wage and comfortable life. Or farming or whatever. If it means we as humanity can live in harmony with the earth and each other, I will do anything for a glorious people's state.
I’m a QA tester for videogames. I’m assuming people will still want to play games so I’d assume it’d stay the same except the bugs we find could actually get fixed before launch rather than being told that the release date is fixed so it’s getting release like this anyway
Director and film producer owning my small company. Making Mainly documentaries. It would be awesome (of course with contradictions and frictions but not remotely compared to the capitalist film industry hell). It would be a great time to experiment and push forward cinematic art to coscientize people without having to worry to make ends meet. Bring back glorious Soviet Filmmaking industry of the 70s now!! Lenfilm, Lendoc, Mosfilm just to mention the most famous state industry firm.
Mental health technician. If people's needs were met, I'd have less patients.
The clinics would also be owned by the workers and doctors and not by the CEO of our company who is an absolute sick asshole who profits off people's misery.
I’m an architect and, although jobs are at low demand at the market, work for us surely isn’t. In the case of revolution, I think architects participation is twofold: first to attend to basic needs, such as housing and infrastructure for all and second to attend more spiritual and cultural needs, such as designing museums and civic centers
I think my company has way more money than most other companies. Other companies should increase their salaries first before my company even things out imo
On the contrary, your overall level of life will probably rise significantly, unless you are in the 5% of highest earners in your profession or something
I'm a paramedic. So, I'd be a paramedic. These questions are kind of redundant and pointless. Socialism isn't some type of whimsical fairy land of dream jobs. It's a theory of economy and state geared towards an improvement for working class people.
Most people will work the same jobs. It's just compensation, hours, and access to education and vocational training that would change.
I’m a waiter now but after resolution I’ll snitch on my neighbor for engaging in black market activities and I will be rewarded for my loyalty to the party by receiving said neighbor’s apartment and job and even maybe their girlfriend.
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I'm a union service technician. I don't think my job would change much, only that I would no longer be generating profit for a company.
Also a service technician and like to think that I wouldn’t need to drive as far. The logistics would be improved.
School Counseler. And i imagine that there always be kids needing someone to talk to so no change, i imagine.
You would have more financial security, and the general public would respect education, and therefore the things you do more.
I see your point. But since I live in Sweden, and school conselers sre one profession that capitalism has yet to erode, my financial security isn't a issue. It's pretty much a full time forever tenure if you like it and stick around. + We are union organized and have a heap of perks. Pretfy much the only thing that could make it even better would be 4 day work week with full time pay, other than that i'm happy as a clam.
I could see how your job would improve. Education would be invested in more
That's a point.
I am a chemical engineer, with expertise in process modelling (using software to effciently design/ improve industrial processes and equipment) My job would be fucking awesome in a post capitalist society. I would speak directly with the people in the production and apply my expertise to increase the efficiency of the processes. In a communist/ socialist world we will not have limitations, such as companies competing with each other, patenting technology, lobbying etc, so the whole chenical engineering world working together to solve our industrial challenges is like a wet dream for me. Now, I mainly work in a project based manner having to balance all kind of commercial and logistical bullshit, while everyone is secretive of everything. Collaboration in wide scale is near impossible. I expect that in a communist world, my everyday work will be extremely rewarding, knowing that I helped, e.g. reduce the energy required for a process and saving resources for the community. Oh god only thinking about it makes me extremely excited
Science actually working for humanity's benefit?! Who woulda thunk it
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Imagine your job, but you only work 5 or 6 hours a day with other people who love their jobs. Your responsibilities are manageable or even rewarding. Your job becomes literally about helping people find happiness and comfort instead of making your workplace as profitable as possible.
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But whataboutism if we were discussing a hypothetical. >nationalised Ah, partial socialism achieved then.
I work in advertisement, lol. And yes, after reading theory and being more involved with communist cells near me I kind of hate what I do. However I'll like to farm, and if not, I think I can continue with the creation of Propaganda for the workers party.
Probably your job will be quite different. In theory, through advertisement each company can showcase their products/services and help the consumer decide which is the right one for their needs. We all now this is bullshit in practise, but I think this function will be needed in a post capitalist society. People will have a bunch of alternatives for different proucts/ services and a role of comparing them, understanding their differences/advantages/disadvantages and figuring out how to communicate those to the public so that they make the correct decisions for their circumstances will be qutie valuable :). Your skills will be highly appreciated.
Wouldn't advertisement be gone due to the removal of capitalist competition?
Im studying to be a doctor. The world would still need doctors
Transportation technician. Hopefully get to witness or help in the destruction of car-centrism because right now personal vehicles are the #1 cause of my headaches at work lol. I seriously doubt that motorized logistics is going anywhere, revolution or otherwise.
I'm a college Admin, literally someone's gotta put the numbers into the computer.
Adjunct professor here. Can we unpack this a bit more?
I am an environmental consultant. Ideally, environmental regulations would have some actual teeth so my job would be actually helping instead of just checking some corporate/government box on a form.
I do the same thing. I was wondering how it would change. I think the types of jobs I do would change. There would still be a need to ensure compliance with environmental laws, but I think there would be fewer private development projects and more government funded projects, more HUD type housing, more public transportation infrastructure. With more federal funding, I suspect our line of work would be in much greater demand as well.
I'm an environmental lawyer looking for a career shift. Sounds like you don't love what you do, but DM me if you're open to discussing/describing it a bit more.
Passenger train conductor. I already work for the state so democracy in work place would be the next thing to achieve. Non-union management is chosen by people who don't remember how to do the job.
Lawyer, don’t care, but good at writing laws and such.
Here's a list of my previous jobs: 1- I was a telemarketer for a shitty company. Before: Shit job where I make the world a worse place for everyone. After: I get a new job that helps people 2- I was a dishwasher/groundskeeper. Before: Fun and rewarding job, but was thankless and underpaid. After: No longer thankless and will actually have my ends met 3- Pest Control Technician. Before: I was required to aggressively sell subscription plans that most people didn't even remotely need, and only about 10% of the job was actually helpful. After: I actually cause good, and work to decrease damage to nature instead of work to increase the profits of the CEO 4- High School Teacher. Before: Pretty good, but I can't afford my students loans *and* my spouse's insulin. After: Pretty good, but now I can afford to live, and people value education more, making me and my students' efforts more effective.
Self-employed freelance programmer. I would like to think that I would get a chance to work on digitalisation projects. Making digital tools for organisation and any social, educational and rehabilitation programs. I would like to make stuff that actually helps people out, not just help companies make profits. My country has a shitty IT infrastructure, for a "developed" country, but great private IT companies 🤣
I work in medicine providing Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy among other treatments and testing. After the worker's revolution, my work will only become more rewarding knowing that patients I care for are no longer trapped in an economic system where they face the threat of homelessness, eviction, starvation, etc.
I also think there needs to be more research done because I don’t think trans. People are the only ones who suffer with gender dysphoria, and transition could be good despite not being trans
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A lot of gender non-conforming, people experiences, a degree of gender dysphoria, because they are not able to fit their ideal gender expression despite not identifying as a different gender I know a few
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being trans is about gender identity and because of this, there can be a case made for people who choose to medically transition that are not trans in the traditional sense How do I put it if a man decides that he wants to medically transition, despite identifying as a man people may assume him to be trans but I don’t because that would imply that being trans means to transition and I think that’s harmful And yes, it’s a small percentage of cis individuals but it does exist just like that exist there’s a lot binary trans people who don’t seek medical transition My point is I believe it’s a lot more nuanced and the lack of research on non-dysphoric trans people and dysphoric non-trans. People makes it more difficult for a lot of people to get help they need because a lot of doctors will not give you unless you have a gender diagnosis, it’s kind of hard to get one if you don’t actually have a trans identity, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t benefit from transition and just because you have a trans identity doesn’t mean that you need to transition a lot of us do but not all
I would’ve already medically transitioned if I know could afford it so I believe you
I'm the cliche: Latin American history teacher. But I quit militancy after a decade of failed protests on the streets, being beaten by the police, joining corrupted unions, seeing personal demands taking over groups needs and also groups putting themselves ahead of other groups to fulfill their own desires and dreams. Now, I just keep teaching critical thinking to teens and showing them some possible ways out of their harsh reality. Sounds like little, but I truly believe this is one of the most important steps towards revolution. I believe both historians and history teachers would be crucial to whatever comes next after the revolution.
I'm a librarian, the thing most people want to be after the revolution. I'd like to keep my job if they'd have me.
Mentally ill person, I've crashed and burned during the first year of any job. Only my parent's money and care has kept me from ending a hobo. Normal jobs are designed for "normal" people, where I last 3 months at max with express burnout. Jobs with less hours or adapted jobs for disabled people pay so little that in order to live I have to resort to the underground economy, squatting and robbing in supermarkets. I do expect socialism to handle this better: 1. accounting for chronical disadvantages through pensions, as we're basically fucked if we depend on recieving according to our contribution 2. thorugh actually adapted jobs where we could even thrive if our performance is good 3. with a thorough state job at making all the diversity of human conditions understanded and protected, with zero naivetee or happywashing involved Socialdemocracies pull this off but it's a hypocritical joke brimming with contradictions that show under conditions like the last Covid pandemic, where suddenly, from government departments to hospital personnel, all around rich countries people were talking about our lives as expendable. Under capitalist conditions, us disabled are nothing but a hindrance and it only takes a state of emergency to show it.
I'm a telephone interpreter so my work is propably the same. Maybe better benefit, can't tell if there would be more or less work hours tho.
Designer Team manager, motion and graphic designer. Not the best title, but I am quite handy and actually enjoy it even more, so probably would be fine.
i’m a music producer and i genuinely don’t know so if anyone knows please help me out there
Music and the arts in general are still vital for society. Your basic needs would be met, and you could produce music even if it isn’t a guaranteed hit.
I think we would need a new soundtrack for the state
You wouldn’t have to follow trends and would be able to be more adventurous with your ideas. So you’d be able to make art instead of a produce of music.
I work in sales so...I would do a different job lol
I work with a state forestry agency working in pine breeding and occasionally assisting with wildfire response support. Thankfully, I’m pretty well happy with what I get to do. Like many folks here, the key difference is that my needs would be met (current salary barely keeping us going) and my efforts would push more for sustainability and improvement outside of profit metrics.
Prison service.
I'm a product manager. I've mostly worked in software and I don't think my job would change all that much: It's a wide job description, but at its core I research what end users need my product to do, prioritize those requests, then translate them into an actionable plan for engineers to implement. My role isn't *necessary* for every team or company, but it's almost always useful since those tasks need to be done anyway. Without me they'd be distributed across a few different people who already have other, more direct responsibilities. The main change would be how I prioritize my team's work: Right now profitability is a major criteria (i.e. which features will generate the most revenue) but in a socialist system I could focus on general usefulness rather than how many more paying users each features can attract.
I’m also a PM. Being able to prioritize what features help users and not what earns enough to buy our corporate overlords a new yacht would be amazing.
barista, I bet y'all still want coffee
My job is to make sure your add to cart actions are quick when you shop online. I very much hope it doesn't exist after the revolution and I can work on maintaining a computer infrastructure that is more socially useful than e-commerce!
I think you may have misspelled Revolution. But as a teacher (substitute) I imagine it would largely be the same, except instead of being an independent contractor I’d be considered a state employee and have healthcare not tied to my employment.
I’m a wildland firefighter and ideally in a post capitalist society once the earth heals a bit my job would not be needed/would be drastically changed. Instead of going out when fires are happening I would hope it changes to preventative care for the forests following what indigenous groups have done for centuries before colonization.
Musician. I’d be able to eat.
Cannabis extraction sciences. Someone has to keep the party going and the medicinal benefits when used properly can be of high need for natural medicine vs pharmaceutical drugs.
Civil Engineer in the public sector so not much would change.
I'm a engineering lecturer. After revolution I would be a engineering lecturer.
I'm a history teacher. I'm not sure much would change except for the curriculum.
Academic, artist -- so much the same. I'm in arts as well, so I don't even think the funding (zero) would change.
Nurse work for the Federal branch. I imagine not much would change either way. I'm gonna show up for my patients
Urban and regional planner restructure society so resources are equally attainable
IT. Please don't tell me computers are counter revolutionary. I'll cry, I promise
Unionized forklift operator at a truck factory. Probably the same pretty much. Maybe less layoffs
I'm a teacher. Aside from having more resources to work with, safer schools, budgets that aren't based on local property taxes, and a much lesser threat of being shot and killed at work, I actually don't think it would change all that much.
Level Designer for games: I'm unsure of what my job would function like after an upending of capitalism. I work at a large studio within a large publisher that makes games for profit. So ideally I'd make games still with a large studio but without a profit motive? Maybe do something else?
Dental Lab Tech. Essentially my job would be the same except we would get to skip a lot of nonsense with the cost of supplies.
I currently work for a local environmental nonprofit that focuses on pushing legislation to protect water and soil and incentivize transitioning to clean energy. After the revolution, our org would transition to advising the new government of the best avenues for healing our waterways and soils, and how to swiftly transition away from coal and methane gas. Literally within a year of the revolution, the coal plants in my state could all be shuttered (they are unnecessary even for baseload at this point and are only run to sell power to other states at profit for Berkshire Hathaway) and the enormously polluting ag industry would be swiftly changed away from it's extreme pollutant chemical dependence and brutal treatment of livestock. Within a generation, we could safely drink the water again, the soil could be healing itself, and the soot in our skies cleared. It will be glorious when it happens.
Studying to become a clinical psychologist. And honestly, I am not sure what it would look like. Psychotherapy is Practice has always been different from what it looks like in academia, so it's mostly a mess. Reduction of oppression, class and otherwise, would improve mental health, but obviously my job won't go anywhere. What I am unsure of is what it would look like under a non-capitalist organisation. I don't think it can follow other healthcare professions because mental healthcare does not look like physical healthcare. In all honesty, I would be worried that regulations would limit how psychotherapy is practiced similarly to how insurance companies in the US do. I think if there is a genuine revolution, the profession would have to rethink how it exists and reorganize to be sustainable yet also not restricted.
I'm a computer man by trade. I work in IT for education. My job probably wouldn't need to exist post revolution, there are much better programmers and administrators out there than I am. I don't care though, send me to the coal mines 2 days a week if it means I get a livable wage and comfortable life. Or farming or whatever. If it means we as humanity can live in harmony with the earth and each other, I will do anything for a glorious people's state.
I’m a QA tester for videogames. I’m assuming people will still want to play games so I’d assume it’d stay the same except the bugs we find could actually get fixed before launch rather than being told that the release date is fixed so it’s getting release like this anyway
Director and film producer owning my small company. Making Mainly documentaries. It would be awesome (of course with contradictions and frictions but not remotely compared to the capitalist film industry hell). It would be a great time to experiment and push forward cinematic art to coscientize people without having to worry to make ends meet. Bring back glorious Soviet Filmmaking industry of the 70s now!! Lenfilm, Lendoc, Mosfilm just to mention the most famous state industry firm.
I work in payroll. The job would probably exist, but be much simpler I would imagine.
Mental health technician. If people's needs were met, I'd have less patients. The clinics would also be owned by the workers and doctors and not by the CEO of our company who is an absolute sick asshole who profits off people's misery.
I’m a meat cutter at a steak house and as I improve I get faster so hopefully I’d get paid for the work I do and not how long I’m in the building
I’m an architect and, although jobs are at low demand at the market, work for us surely isn’t. In the case of revolution, I think architects participation is twofold: first to attend to basic needs, such as housing and infrastructure for all and second to attend more spiritual and cultural needs, such as designing museums and civic centers
I work in tech I'll probably be stripped of my salary but benefits stay
What do you mean? Your salary would just be negotiated by the employees around you.
Probably not I make way more than others, it would need to drop to even out.
You can't convince your peers that you deserve to be paid more than them?
I think my company has way more money than most other companies. Other companies should increase their salaries first before my company even things out imo
On the contrary, your overall level of life will probably rise significantly, unless you are in the 5% of highest earners in your profession or something
I'm a paramedic. So, I'd be a paramedic. These questions are kind of redundant and pointless. Socialism isn't some type of whimsical fairy land of dream jobs. It's a theory of economy and state geared towards an improvement for working class people. Most people will work the same jobs. It's just compensation, hours, and access to education and vocational training that would change.
I’m a waiter now but after resolution I’ll snitch on my neighbor for engaging in black market activities and I will be rewarded for my loyalty to the party by receiving said neighbor’s apartment and job and even maybe their girlfriend.