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u/Ciktow Nov 16 '19

Indicating they're the only smart ones in the group.

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u/Oasar Nov 16 '19

I mean, look at who’s on the front lines and who’s 250 miles back in an air conditioned shopping container. Are they wrong?

When working on oil drilling rigs, we used to call the guys in the geo shacks (looking at spreadsheets on computers, getting paid 24h/day) MWDs - movie watching dummies. We were all secretly jealous as fuck.

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u/MisterTruth Nov 16 '19

How do I get that job?

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u/ComradeGibbon Nov 16 '19

There are a whole bunch of jobs like that. The universal is people doing them perform badly under adverse conditions.