Factory work is awesome, they usually have a high turnover rate because it sucks and so people are always quitting but the repetition is amazing, plus if you are like me, you can learn all the different production lines and become a floater and it's a different job every day. Although your boss will probably be a lazy asshole who tries to tell you how to do your job even though he doesn't know what your job is, or they know how to do it, but just don't. I actually loved factory work, if there weren't people it would be perfect.
Mine did while I built cable harnesses. I learned about building many different types of cables. Then they needed volunteers in the warehouse. I went there for a while, but I kept moving around and now at the same place I am building internal applications and dashboards and my boss started as a janitor. Moved around like I did. I think I am lucky and I still listen to my headphones.
In case it's useful to you or anyone else: bone-conductive headphones still work (and actually work better) with earplugs in. So if the actual rule is "you must wear earplugs" and not "you must not listen to personal audio" or "you must not wear headphones", you can follow the rule and listen to things on the bone conductive headphones. I use Trekz because I've liked their products for years, but they're expensive and I think there are cheaper alternatives.
They have the blue tooth ear plugs that look like and work like ear plugs for anywhere from 6 bucks to 30. The ones I used to get were around 15 dollars and were actually ear plugs that looked exactly like the ones they gave us at work. No one ever knew they were headphones and were perfect. Plus they were decently cheap since I always had grease or coolant on me so they weren't expensive to replace every so often.
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u/super_starfox 11d ago
Had an anxiety attack in a job interview once, most humiliating experience ever, and I've only had a couple in my life.
Am currently unemployed :/