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I hate/luv my job social network

6 pointsrokhayakebe13 comments

Alright guys, I haven't research this one, but can someone put together a social network for people who hate their jobs and are trying to find ways to get out. Obviously the best way to do what they love would be to connect with people who already doing it. Hook it up and let me know. You got 2 weeks.

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Just a point: Social Networking is not a cure all for everything. I'd imagine, the market for people who hate their current jobs and want to get out is both small (most people don't have the guts) and temporary (once you do it, it's done).

I don't imagine this would be a successful venture, but who knows?

budddy. 80% of all people dislike their jobs. Now Hating is totally more then disliking, but disliking is the start.

I didn't say they didn't dislike them; but they won't leave them either.

80% of people not willing to stop doing something they don't like to do isn't a recipe for anything but a giant bitch fest.

Of course, that might in itself be profitable.

Sure enough. And because most wont change their job, there is your opportunity to do something revolutionary.

So what's stopping you?

I am already working on my own project. Plus I only like to work on mobile tech. But if no1 does within 2 weeks I am gonna use joomla and put this up quick

Isn't this pretty much what YCombinator startup Overhear.us is doing?

Overhear lets you talk about your workplace in general thats it. I want a place where i can say I HATE being President of a Multinational ... My dream job would be to open a coffee shop and have special drinks like MAC latte, GeekMochachino....I dunno. some place where the future "tech billionaires" will come hang out and trade me some stocks for free coffee....

I think overhear.us is a place where you can bitch about your job, but doesn't offer any way to do anything about it. Rokhayakebe is suggesting to fix this problem via social networking.

I think the alternatives are the intact networks that people use to find new jobs (alumni, friends, professionals, head hunters). How will it compete with Facebook?

Right now on Facebook, I can search by employer of interest (e.g. Google, McKinsey, etc) and it will pop up the closest contacts by some sort of FoaF distance algorithm. I can friend them and message them to open up a dialogue.

That is a good start. Who ever wants to do it should add audio and video support. just so I can say this SH?? out loud. That would make me feel good.

Ning... maybe?

Make a facebook group.

Hm ... great idea :)

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