Job Stacking

Stack your income. Work on your terms.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

Saint Cajetan devoted his life to serving others and supporting those facing hardship. As the Patron Saint of the unemployed, his example carries real meaning today. If you’re in a period of career transition, or as a job seeker may his prayer bring encouragement and renewed trust in the path ahead. Saint Cajetan, pray for us.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

It's often difficult for people to accept structural explanations for their problems and take initiative on an individual level.

The Boomer right is basically all about blaming the individual for systemic failures. Many on the left and the younger right blame the system to the point of refusing to do anything to improve themselves or their situation.

You have to ride the line between these two things. The system is twisted, but you are not totally helpless.

We don't like the system of modern employment, but we don't just bemoan it and stop there, we stack remote jobs. This is both an individual solution and an effort at changing the structure, because the more people do it, the more employers will adapt.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

@arbor_zweig @gwyrain “Hipster” in 2010 was a guy drinking homebrewed beer and listening to old vinyl and wearing his grandpa’s waistcoat. New consumer brands started to capitalize on the interest in old/forgotten/“rustic” stuff.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

@RolfHaltza “The purpose of a system is what it does”

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

Exactly. Giving the majority of your waking hours to a single “employer” despite not being directly physically forced to is historically unusual.

[Zach Laughlin @ZachLaughlin6]

Yes, I see you're concept of job stacking as not just as a creative way to make more money, but a questioning of the employer-employee relationship and the inherited sets of norms and attitudes surrounding that.

People fail to realize that prior to the industrial revolution, people worked but we didn't have jobs in the way we understand them now! They were more like gigs. The whole thing is a made up sham.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

For some reason it’s very easy for people to see how demand contributes to supply, but not as easy to see how supply contributes to demand. “Demand” is seen as just an aggregate of individual preferences that are basically fixed, and then all businesses are doing is catering to those

[Jake Rivera @FidelCacheFlow]

I sat down with @RolfHaltza, author and pioneer of Job Stacking, a framework that inspired the concept of SDR Stacking.

We break down the history of wage based labor, why modern employment is fundamentally broken, and how to safely run simultaneous roles.

We also cover how AI and automation are accelerating this shift, making full time, single employer work obsolete within a decade.

Watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/sfhQC1kqkp

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

@extradeadjcb This is what has happened with job applications. When a job gets 500 applications, they’re not all going to get read by a human being.

More or more you need to get in touch directly with recruiters, or get them to come to you.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

@neerajadeshp It's horrible. And it's not even just "caring too much about money and status," it's like, caring about a few specific and very limited ways that those can manifest.

Having a wide variety of status hierarchies is part of what makes any country a great place to live.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

In the 19th century, Americans used to be known (accurately) as melancholy and restless. Tocqueville talks about this.

[Cultured Chud @cultured_chud]

It’s interesting that, for a country known for its optimism, America’s most famous paintings by Americans are rather gloomy.

[Scoob The Thinker 🕊🫶 @scoobthethinker]

@Dexerto In america elites can order gangstalking of people who talk poorly of their website, and nobody actually goes to jail for it and they give you 5% of one months revenue.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

In a slightly different version of our world, “entry level” could mean an apprenticeship that starts in high school.

Instead, companies plan one quarter at a time and anything on a longer timeline than that is completely on you.

[J. Rolf Haltza @RolfHaltza]

It takes 20 years to get an entry level job.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

There’s something to this. A lot of people lost whatever modicum of hygiene they had during Covid but also some of what we’re seeing in ads is a direct reaction to the minimalism that was in vogue until recently. “Too clean” was a call, “gross” is a response.

[𝒆𝒓𝒖🍷 @eruphim]

a trend I haven't seen people notice is that the 2020s are kinda a "gross" decade (I don't just mean AI). even real food ads have glops of sauce oozing. feet/armpits are now OK to fetishize. public hygiene has fell off. childish humour like farts are now more prominent. gross era

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

The little indignities, moral hazards, and outright wrongs you have to pretend don’t matter to be a good LinkedInoid. They add up.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

This is a hugely underrated part of why so many people are so miserable and also so invested in “identity.”

When you are able to produce (meaningful work according to your own values), you are not as beholden to someone else telling you who you are.

[J. Rolf Haltza @RolfHaltza]

Reminder that you are told you are unfathomably wealthy today compared to your ancestors because of unprecedented consumption levels. Yet when you observe actually wealthy individuals they don't behave like wage earners turbo-consuming in the market. Instead they tend to recreate subsistence and move closer to how medieval peasants used to live.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

It’s Friday. The workweek ends when your last meeting is over.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

Everywhere you look, there are opportunities for young people to learn and act that either go unnoticed or are being actively gatekept.

The key lesson you get from school is to be compliant. The system teaches you, in some cases almost forces you, to be helpless.

[Kitemporal @dialgatime321]

IDK why everybody here tries to gaslight us into pretending that jobs are harder than middle & high school.

As a zoomer guy, I was in all "advanced" classes in middle/high school since I tested as "smart", & lemme tell you: Middle & high school were HARDER than entry level jobs.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

@BorjomiDrinker And the thing is, the public money for that infrastructure does get spent—just on more car stuff. People often have this notion that trains are a top-down imposition and cars somehow aren’t.

[Job Stacking @Job_Stacking]

The system is set up in such a way that wage labor is the safe, default option for making money—except there’s nothing “safe” or “default” about it that you can count on.

This situation isn’t even good for employers, but unlike employees, the big ones at least can eat the costs.

[𒉭𓆏The Great Dane 𓆏𒉭 @thegreatdane269]

This is one of the things older generations cannot grasp about modern job-hunting. You do not just throw on a suit, walk in, give the owner a firm handshake and a solid interview, and expect to land a job.

I was lucky to escape this purgatory early, but I have many (qualified) peers with horror stories in the endless quagmire of the job market.

Know a good friend with a year+ of experience, looking for jobs in his “dream” area he intends to move to, job guaranteed or not. Went through 5 rounds of interviews, including being flown out to meet everyone in person. Waited and waited to hear the final verdict, finally was told that he was a great fit for the job but they are “looking for locals” and that in the future if he’s out there they may reach back out. All of this took place over the course of at least a month, if not longer. Keep in mind, we’re talking about a job that is just a rung above entry-level.

Now repeat this process to a greater or lesser degree for every job you apply for. You’re in endless interview limbo with all these companies, who have you jump through pointless hoops just to make up some vague, “vibey” (for lack of a better term) reason not to hire you.

At that point, why not lie on your resume? Why value any kind of loyalty or fidelity to your potential employers? If you play fair, you will starve, and even if you don’t, you’re barely just giving yourself a fighting chance.

That’s why I’ll never sneer at young people who can’t find a job. Just because I “made it” doesn’t mean I haven’t seen how it is out there. It’s absolute boomer delusion to think it has anything to do with hard work, ambition, or integrity.