Bro he'd totally be a corporate downsizer who walks in smiling before figuring out how to not give half the employees severance packages.

There’s nothing corporate about my job, it’s all small businesses with like 5 employees. Generally happy, pleasant people. And “servitude” lol you’ve clearly never felt what it’s like to walk in somewhere and you are basically treated like the almighty savior that will fix everything and make it all better. Not because I did anything special, but just because I was friendly and confident while helping them. It genuinely is fulfilling as ****. Your pessimism is crazy man, not everything in the world is as bleak and miserable as you think

Get a face tattoo and smelly dreads and see if you're treated like a white guy with a sensible haircut. Also try speaking to them the way you'd speak to people who aren't clients and see if they still like you (ignore if being middle class has erased your ability to be anything but "business casual" at all times). Their good will is dependent on you acting like a proper servant. Not making it as explicit as bowing and saying "Your Majesty" doesn't do anything but hide the servitude in plain sight.

Having a face tattoo and dreads leads to discrimination, which sucks. I get that

Having a “work persona” and making shallow, friendly connections with people is enjoyable to me. I don’t want to be doing it all the time but for ~15 hours a week it’s nice.

I guess by the most basic of definitions you can call it servitude but that has darker implications than I would ascribe to my job

Yeah like I said middle class culture raises people to be like this. You can't just be satisfied with yourself, you have to be satisfied with at least your parents' quality of life and that means being someone who is as inoffensive as possible and who can put on a suit or business casual attire and project as little personality as possible so employers and clients won't have anything but the things they want from you projected onto them. It's basically an attempt to erase you and leave only the desired cog. If you like that then you do you but I do not want that lifestyle and reject it with extreme prejudice.

I'm just looking at the bottomless cigarette with undisguised lust.

So then what does your current job do for you from a satisfaction perspective that this kind of job can’t?

I can keep it without pretending to be a good employee.

You still have to do a bunch of miserable **** all day

I worked those jobs man. I know that life

But I don't gotta be a fake smiling yuppie poseur. You seem to like being that so go ahead and be you. I could never do that even if I tried and wouldn't even want to try.

He'd have me if I pretended to like my job. And you're just going to quit this job to get another garbage job in a week. You're not solving anything or working toward anything, you're just putting off having to admit that you have no future.