Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
I used to scan shipping documents in for a trucking company. It was boring as can be, but there was absolutely no stress and you could just listen to music all day and/or shoot the sh*t with your co-workers. People that love it must have no desire for any real responsiblity or career advancement.
What is the job title for this sort of thing? I've done menial labor quite a few times - from cashiering at Kmart, stocking shelves at Walmart, to working in a Home Depot warehouse. All of them are pretty physically demanding. Some of the stuff I had to work with at the HD warehouse weighed more than me. Something like scanning documents, that sounds more like my kind of weight range.
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Sounds like a good way to get carpal tunnel to me.
Try to be a little ambidextrous. Find different ways of moving. Stretch.
I've tried applying for data entry jobs already. Despite a typing speed of 40WPM+, easily, I never get hired. But they'll take me in a heartbeat for warehouse or forklift work, probably because I speak good English.
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Originally posted by: 3NF
Invent a mechanism to eliminate data entry people all together. Once we understand how to genetically engineer and create life, we'll make people (organisms) to do just that, so nobody will ever have to work and they can screw all day.
Psh, don't need "life," all we need to do is create a robot with a sophisticated text-recognition computer built into it, and a PS/2 port. Plug it into the computer, give it a stack of documents, and don't bother it.
The postal service already has some very advanced text and handwriting recognition software, so some of the work's been done already.
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I find that there are a lot of jobs I see which I figure within 50 years will be replaced by semi-intelligent robots. The market is definitely there. It's the usual benefits you hear with robots - they don't need medical benefits, they don't complain about working conditions, they don't sleep, they don't take smoke/coffee breaks, they don't want vacations, they don't call in sick, and they don't mind being worked to death. At least, not yet.
Hopefully with being able to screw all day will come a good birth control method. STDs will run rampant, some people will die, but the strong will develop resistance, and perhaps even coexistence. Soon, the genital flora would match the prolific ecosystem within our digestive tracts.
