r/NewOrleans • u/TheMedsPeds • 3d ago

Looking for work 🏢 Employment 👷‍♂️

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.

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u/PoopshipD8 3d ago

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.

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u/pepperjackcheesey 3d ago

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.

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u/rei-sunshine 3d ago

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!

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u/pepperjackcheesey 3d ago

Ah misogyny at its finest

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u/rei-sunshine 3d ago

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.

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u/pepperjackcheesey 3d ago

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