discipline posted:

gyrofry posted:

did you learn any skills that would be applicable in organizing revolutionary cells

speaking persuasively is a pretty good skill to have. getting people to do things for you is also a good skill. however, as you build these skills it is necessary for you to get the chain jerked a bit each time because you can't get too big. I can honestly say I've seen a lot and done a lot and made some mistakes in my life but this experience did more to damage my self-esteem, which is already pretty low, than pretty much anything else I've ever done

damn, where can i sign up?

roseweird posted:

Lykourgos posted:

no, no, and "organizing department" as your duties and responsibilities? if you're not going to answer properly then this ask thread should be closed by the mods

surely you know what an admin job is ?? you are familiar with at the very least legal assistants and secretaries? i've had jobs whose duties i'd casually describe as "organizing department", especially if the place is understaffed they are usually a lot of work because you end up doing parts of every one else's jobs along with submitting department budgets, organizing schedules, maintaining supplies, dealing with calls visitors and deliveries, plus carrying out a number of routine tasks whose nature depends on what kind of department one is organizing. the only reason you have a department to work in is because of people whose job duties are "organizing the department". so please behave yourself. a gentleman of quality would not be so aggressive in his questioning about such matters. save it for destroying lives daily in the courtroom, prosecutor

wait, I thought discipline meant "organizing department" as in, someone who works in a department that is responsible for the organizing of workers into a political movement. If discipline meant she's literally a secretary who does the budgets, work schedules, etc, for an office, then I understand generally what the job entails. Which one is it? If it's the latter, what made it special in terms of being "labour".

roseweird posted:

libelous_slander posted:

im awesome at this shit and i should probably be the first against the wall. in another era, i would have been an efficiency expert. kill me



there's no shame in that, you just want to be using your skills somewhere good. an efficient and hardworking admin is a blessing in a cramped, understaffed, and underfunded office, so ... look for a job you'll feel good about, then eat a lot of pancakes for dinner and think about how nice morality is

yeah, talented administrators are incredibly valuable in radical circles, and a lack of them is often why things are a total shitshow. if you are good at that sort of thing there are plenty of places to do The Good Work, you just gotta find em

shriekingviolet posted:

any teacher that is sufficiently political to make a real difference is immediately purged and blackballed,

from the bourgeois state, sure

VoxNihili posted:

shriekingviolet posted:

any teacher that is sufficiently political to make a real difference is immediately purged and blackballed, being a 'good' teacher and actually having a job requires admitting defeat before the ideological requirements of the system (some people who squeeze by this way are still brave and do what they can, but it's a miserable balance to walk.) you could occasionally get away with more if you have something too valuable to get rid of, like language fluency and a sciences education in a language immersion high school, but good luck with that.

unless you teach in university, in which case your students are almost entirely bougie worms and the remainder are already political so who cares.



i had some really great teachers in high school. i dont mean preaching the gospel of marx to five y/o's of course, but the teachers at my schools got away with a lot. note: i live in the bay area

I guess it might depend on where you live/work.

shriekingviolet posted:

VoxNihili posted:

shriekingviolet posted:

any teacher that is sufficiently political to make a real difference is immediately purged and blackballed, being a 'good' teacher and actually having a job requires admitting defeat before the ideological requirements of the system (some people who squeeze by this way are still brave and do what they can, but it's a miserable balance to walk.) you could occasionally get away with more if you have something too valuable to get rid of, like language fluency and a sciences education in a language immersion high school, but good luck with that.

unless you teach in university, in which case your students are almost entirely bougie worms and the remainder are already political so who cares.



i had some really great teachers in high school. i dont mean preaching the gospel of marx to five y/o's of course, but the teachers at my schools got away with a lot. note: i live in the bay area

I guess it might depend on where you live/work.

in high school we had an ex-police officer who taught history using "A People's History of the United States" as his core textbook. he was pretty popular.