brown567,

My moral compass is calibrated to “Mad Scientist”

Evil Minion is a pretty good entry-level for that position

CyberDine, (edited )

In 2016 I started an entry level job in cybersecurity for a small Family-owned defense contractor making $55k. 7 years later in 2023 I’m working at one of the Big 4 defense contractors and I’m making $173K.

My degree is in criminal justice from a State School.

As long as you have a 4 year degree, can obtain Secret clearance, and can get CompTIA Security+ any defense contractor on the East or West Coast will take you.

Yes, I am a cog in the military-industrial complex which makes me part of the problem and not the solution, but I live comfortably and my family is happy, so I’ll sacrifice my morals for them.

Kit,

How does one find a defense contractor job?

ZombiFrancis,

Step one: Throw away moral compass.

MonkeMischief,

I at least appreciate the great stuff they make for the Ace Combat series…

Although maybe we could design cool jet fighter assets without designing multi-billion-dollar real ones first…

Yawnder,

They would do that, but to make it realistic, they HAVE to make them for real.

MightyGalhupo,

This implies you had one at some point.

JokeDeity,

After all I’ve been through I probably would too. I’m very tired of being poor as fuck.

Karyoplasma,

I’m just very tired of being.

blackstampede,

I’m just very tired

ComradePorkRoll,

I feel like maybe poverty shouldn’t be escaped by perpetuating the bombing of children, no?

JokeDeity,

Don’t worry, the offer isn’t really on the table for me to begin with.

Turun,

It very very much depends on the country you’re from. In Ukraine a better slogan would probably be “my moral compass led me to Lockheed Martin”

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

Some people would do much worse for even less…. Xd

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I saw a video about some incompetent, alcoholic spy the CIA hired that sold state secrets to the KGB that got 12 of his fellow agents killed all for the incredible sum of $25,000.

Catoblepas,

$25k when? Because that’s like $130k in the 70s. Not enough for me, but chance dictates someone was eventually going to be bribable.

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

You just made me remember to download my Inflation calculator, thanks!

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Late 80’s/early 90’s.

gravitas_deficiency,

I mean, if your ethics are for sale, just skip to the end and work for Meta so you can get dat 200k new grad comp package.

candybrie,

Is meta looking to hire a bunch of MechEs?

gravitas_deficiency,

This would be more in the realm of CS

Rediphile,

Companies with ongoing military contracts may be much more lucrative in the long run.

hansl,

Companies, yes. Employees, no.

naught,

The pay is shit or at most on par compared to tons of web dev jobs in e commerce etc. I make more aligning divs than my friends in aerospace and defense who are leveraging their advanced degrees. Abandoning your morals hardly even pays ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Asclepiaz,

To be fair, aligning divs was historically a labor intensive process. Damn kids with their flexbox don’t even know…

leaky_shower_thought,

They’re not wrong. still a difference.

direction is totally fucked though.

Tranquilizer,

Tbf that goes for any cop, soldier (pronounce: soul-dier), and any other job paid with blood money. Any government job by default, actually.

Windows2000Srv,

Ah yes, those damn teachers (and nurses if you live in a place with public health care) that sold their souls for money… /s

MaggiWuerze,

“money”

Tranquilizer,

Exactly, those teachers who are in the child indoctrination camps where they teach the world’s biggest religion: government - with its symbol: the flag, hymn: anthem, priests: politicians, and pope: the president, in their Vatican-like buildings. Same template, different religion, just 2000+ years later.

Those doctors, nurses who push drugs rather than heal. All paid for by part of your income that you gave to your master, that you love and will defend.

Globulart,

Dude get help.

mriormro,
@mriormro@lemmy.world avatar

world’s biggest religion: government

You know this observation isn’t as Earth shattering as you think it is right? You’ve managed to discern that almost any human system follows similar design and structural philosophies.

That doesn’t make things inherently malicious. Your rhetoric comes off as purely conspiratorial.

Tranquilizer,

You’ve managed to discern that almost any human system follows similar design and structural philosophies.

Yes you’re correct, and it’s the reason that humanity is still in a deplorable condition.

All those ideologies have in common that authority can be seated in man. They’re all rooted in violence; domination of one over another.

It is indeed conspiratorial by definition and by the simple fact that people tend to come together and make plans; organize.

uriel238,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The folks at social security I’ve talked with seem to be super concerned about getting our checks to us on time. To be fair, angry vets go to the DVA and start waving a handgun around all the time, like once or twice a week. (No, security doesn’t jail them because the military turned them into that in the first place) I don’t know if that sort of thing happens very often at SocSec.

MonkeMischief,

Them parks n’ rec, librarians, municipal water engineers, health inspectors… they’re all in on it. /s

(sincerely: an anarchist)

Neato,
Neato avatar

Most fresh grads just want to make enough of a living wage to one day afford a house. Morals can be fucking expensive.

dastechniker,

I applied to LockMart and they rejected me :(

photonic_sorcerer,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Same here. Rejoice! For we have been saved from the MIC.

icepuncher69,

Taking your own fighting jet is a huge help though.

LockMartRep,

For the last time, a picture of yourself riding a missile naked is not a job application. We are also seriously concerned about how you were able to obtain a missile in the first place.

takeda,

We are also seriously concerned about how you were able to obtain a missile in the first place.

Prior work experience

atlasraven31,

Does it come in Google?

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