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When you’re done shitposting, cram a glorious burger down your gob in the most run down shit hole you can find.
If it’s last renovated in the 70’s and you wonder if it’s a front for the mob, you’re in a proper Burger Baron!

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  • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Did you go to college, why or why not?English
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    2 hours ago

    I did but I was aimless, forever depressed, too smart for my own good, disillusioned, and just going through the motions. So basically nothing has changed since I was cursed with mortal life. I do not dream of work.

    I was all over the place. Programming, hearing aid practitioner, automotive mechanic, and welding. I got the furthest in the trades and quit while journeyman for both mechanic and welding. The work itself was fine, I hated the employees, the employers, and work culture. Private health care even in Canada…well I decided with hearing aids I’d basically be scamming old people and I couldn’t do that. Progamming I did not enjoy at all.

    After all that at age 24 I took up a job in a warehouse as a picker, quickly moved up the ladder because not being a burned out drug addict or ex-con was exceptional there, and within a year I was the rentals manager without trying to become one.

    I was spamming resumes my second year there while working and then it just so happened the owner of the warehouse knew the person in charge of hiring at the chemical plant I work at now. When they called for reference he talked me up big time. Thankful for that.

    I worked packaging for a few months, and then changed positions internally when an extruder operator position opened up. Now I make 120k a year in a position the corporate eye of Sauron rarely swivels upon. Entirely by luck. I’m left alone and barely answer to anyone. The downside is cabin fever, there’s so little to do it’s actually a negative quality.

    Nothing I did in college applies lol. That’s how it goes sometimes.

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•what's the dumbest thing you've done online?English
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    7 days ago

    I co-owned a semi popular console ROM and PC piracy site as a teenager with two others. While it was a lot of fun especially in the forum and I made a lot of cool friends, it was very risky in hindsight. I’m amazed we never even got C&D emails before we lost interest in the project once life got busy.

    Basically it was direct download for ROM files while PC games and console ISO were shared on the forum in the Warez-bb styling. This grew the active daily forum users rapidly at the time who then stuck around to yap.

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