THIS!! drives me bonkers when a job is simply tacked onto a character, as if our work doesn't shape us, our time, our priorities, our moods and opinions, etc
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I remember this book people were raving about years ago and the MC’s dad’s job was literally just that he worked in a factory “moving boxes,” the most inane, laziest swipe to get some blue collar clout imaginable. Never despised a book so quickly before.
aug 31, 2025, 12:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Oof... Unless that was supposed to be ironic. 🥲 (Which I doubt. 😅) I.e., graduating college in 2008 meant the only job I could find was in warehouses. When my university's alumni organization called me with surveys, I made them write down "box monkey" as my job. ...they eventually stopped calling.🤣
aug 31, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
good god, yeah, that would have me closing the book again real fast
aug 31, 2025, 12:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Not sure I'd even know how to write an adult who isn't struggling to survive in an extractive economy with a crappy underpaid job.
aug 31, 2025, 12:37 pm • 6 0 • view
Lolsob too real
aug 31, 2025, 12:44 pm • 2 0 • view
I was once accused of only writing "job stories" (which they meant in a very derogative way) and I was so pissed off. Yes, my characters' weird obsessions are often related to how they spend the bulk of their time, what of it?
sep 3, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree 100% with this.
aug 31, 2025, 3:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, in all seriousness, why as a writer *wouldn't* you want to learn about a different kind of work? It's all fascinating!
aug 31, 2025, 12:28 pm • 5 0 • view
FRT! Any excuse to research something new and weird
aug 31, 2025, 12:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Unless the characters are writers and then it’s all they drag on about
aug 31, 2025, 3:51 pm • 2 0 • view
true, so everybody please list exceptions
aug 31, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view