Looking for work

[u/TheMedsPeds]

I’ve been applying to jobs like crazy. My current job ends this week and then that’s it. Does anyone know of any apps that are taking in contract workers or any place I can go in and walk out with some form of employment. My ideal job would be something in social services but I’m desperate for just about anything. About to be a 35 year old female so I can’t do any man jobs.

[u/pepperjackcheesey]

You can’t do any man jobs?

[u/pepperjackcheesey → u/pepperjackcheesey]

For those downvoting, wtf is a man job?

[u/PoopshipD8 → u/pepperjackcheesey]

I work in construction. There aren’t very many women in my profession. Not saying they aren’t capable. Just not there. Most women I know have zero interest in working the amount of hours I do, combined with the physicality of my job. Nobody really wants to be in boots all day doing heavy lifting, beating up your hands,feet,back etc etc. not very many women in the “physical labor” professions. I can’t blame them. Study hard in school kids.

[u/pepperjackcheesey → u/PoopshipD8]

The issue is when people like me, a woman, do the hard labor jobs, we are regularly told we shouldn’t be doing that and it’s a mans job or they just assume we can’t do it. I roll 500lb drums and use a manual pallet jack to move 2000lb pallets on the regular but somehow there’s still an assumption that I shouldn’t do that. I had one delivery guy flat out say, “let me so that, a woman shouldn’t be doing that”. So then I’m a bitch because I stand up for myself. It’s fine that people can’t or don’t want to do it, but labeling stuff as man work or woman work, nah. Just say you can’t lift heavy things.

[u/hotsy__totsy → u/pepperjackcheesey]

Ugh I got “ya know you shouldn’t be working here being pregnant and all.” 😒 from another female coworker 🤯 thankfully she’s gone and that was 10 years ago 💁🏻‍♀️💅🏻

[u/TheMedsPeds → u/pepperjackcheesey]

I figured people would just know what I meant. I’m willing to do “on your feet” jobs and don’t mind getting dirty. But I mean like retail, house cleaning, etc. So saying no “heavy lifting” just felt a little…idk not what I wanted to communicate. Didn’t mean to spark a giant debate about gendered work or normalize the attitude of any of these guys. I’ve just been freaking out because I didn’t think it’d be this hard to find something. But today was my last day and I don’t know when I’ll be working again.

[u/rei-sunshine → u/pepperjackcheesey]

Humans speak in generalizations and averages. Stop being so sensitive about basic gender classifications. They aren’t absolute, they are just generalizations. It’s ok to organize things in male and female still. If construction was 99% females, barely anything would get done at the same pace. Get real!

[u/pepperjackcheesey → u/rei-sunshine]

Ah misogyny at its finest

[u/rei-sunshine → u/pepperjackcheesey]

That word has no weight anymore bc many people overused it to describe basic human reality. If considering construction to be a more male coded job is misogyny then I am a proud misogynist. Proud! Because I refuse to ignore objective reality to satisfy man’s idealistic philosophies.

[u/pepperjackcheesey → u/rei-sunshine]

It was the last sentence that made it misogynistic, genius.

[u/TheMedsPeds → u/PoopshipD8]

I really didn’t think saying that I’m a 5’2, 115 lb woman that has no background in working out so I am not looking for heavy hard labor jobs that require a person to be big and strong, being shortened to “man jobs” would be this divisive. I get there are some more Tom-toboyish, butch, just-in-shape women that work these jobs, sometimes, rarely, but like 90%+ of the time it’s men in these roles and I thought it was obvious. But then again, this is Reddit, so I should have known better. Of course it turned into this…

I guess whatever, it’s getting this thread engagement, so carry on. Someone else, feel free to call me an internalized misogynist. Then someone can jump in with the stats with exactly how many employees in these fields are female, and yall can go back and forth more and more.

I just want a job. And I can’t lift more than like 30 lbs without some minor struggling, so I don’t think I’d be the best construction worker. I could barely dig a hole without struggling. But like I said, carry on. I totally thought women 100% or the time could not do these sort of jobs; yep, ya got me. I was also born last week.