The age of millenials is over. The time of Gen Z is at hand. Rip me I guess.
Gen z miner like "Deadass ain't going into that dirt pussy, no cap"
i was gonna call it a dussy but was genuinely afraid i'd have to explain it
It kinda depends where you are. People I know can code-switch to AAVE without even really thinking about it and sound like a totally different person.
There is marginal difference in our age, but clearly a generational difference in our slang, no cap.
gen z killed the avocado toast industry and all the millennials starved to death
I hate to be that guy, but mining is still super important. Like look around you. If it doesn't come from a plant it came from a mine. There's many medical devices which rely on material from mines, modern electronics rely on mines, etc.
I know that's not the point, but this still isn't good.
Also, if they want more genz workers they should actually give them decent wages lol.
Are Australian mines still offering six figure salaries for stuff like truck drivers and machinery operators?
If so, it's probably not so much the money that's an issue, rather the absolute shittiness of the working conditions.
This might also be an issue I'd imagine: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-25/fear-prevents-women-reporting-sex-assaults-wa-mine-sites/101180144
i used to think it would be cool to be a miner or preferably a mine geologist. i had a school lined up for geology, letters from some professors, etc but not enough money. maybe it's for the best because my young self would have probalbly been scooped up by the fossil fuel industry for big $ esp after a very expensive phd and resulting debt. if we end up getting evil tankie forced labor i'd definitely choose miner if our working conditions are good. i like being underground, i like digging, and i like rocks and minerals.
Yep geology and geography majors are just a funnel for the fossil fuel industry for like 80% of majors.
yep then i definitely would have been easily bought if i had gone though with it. my dream was USGS volcanology but i saw how little i'd make and abandoned that path before i started
Yeah it really sucks that the cool public good stuff underpays or just doesn't have enough positions (or both).
You should never be paying for grad school, they should be paying you. I don't even mean this in a communist "students are workers" way, I mean factually to our modern world your professors sucked if they were gonna make you pay for your PhD. The main cost becomes field schools or field seasons as well as cost of living, but you get a stipend to do student-teaching that offsets the cost of living a bit.
Edit: I should clarify for folks that don't have field schools or field seasons, there are workshops or internships or summer projects or bootcamp which are the equivalent and will rack up a cost.
I’m okay with Zoomers killing the “Millennials are killing the Industry” Industry.
Could use a break
Maybe we can end capitalism this way? Just kill one industry at a time.
Gen Z doesn't want to mine anymore!! All they want to do is hit the gritty for mao zedong!
i had a friend in a physics degree program and there were a couple of mining companies that would come in and give them pizza every week and extoll the benefits of doing work for them and they all just sort of nodded along
and then when the mining job people left the class all just burst out laughing and were like 'we're never gonna work for them theyre fucking insane'
Gen Z doesn't want to get TB and slave away in the mines
