This week Nate and Jerry discuss just how much of a pain it is to switch jobs and the hurdles that may be blocking your path of escape. They also dive into just what exactly constitutes a breakfast food after a message from a friend detailing a strange zoom call.

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

Hot off a few weeks of watching uber rich people launch themselves into the sky, Nate and Jerry are here to discuss the Billionaire Space Race. They go into what's happening, how much it costs, and how exactly Minimally Useful would approach the situation. They go on a audio voyage that includes space pirates and even features a special guest.

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

Sometimes work isn't just all glitz and glamour followed by the wage fairy raining money on your head. Sometimes it's more than that. Sometimes it's coming to your first day and shelling out money for the privilege to work. That's what Nate and Jerry discuss in this episode. Along with an interesting theory on subway's marketing strategy, what the hell is going on with Olympic shorts, and just how messed up things are at Activision Blizzard right now.

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

Continuing down the yellow brick road of trying to get paid, in this episode Nate and Jerry discuss some of the origins of paying people for work. They break down salary vs hourly, go over the pitfalls of pay bands, and share stories of the tricks companies will play in order to squeeze just a bit more work out of people without paying them more.

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

After covering what exactly constitutes pay in Part 1, Nate and Jerry go on to discuss the trials and tribulations of negotiating away your life in exchange for being able to afford food, lodging, and maybe a ticket or two to a medieval themed water park coming soon to a town near you. They also share their take on what exactly would constitute a better setup and lay the groundwork for their plans at Minimally Useful Industries.

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

In this episode, Nate and Jerry decide to take a step back from the outright bashing of crapitalism to come at it from a more nuanced stance. Well... Maybe. This episode kicks off a multi-part series of what they're calling "The Pay Day" and will be discussing all things pay. Part 1 is all about what constitutes pay and the guys get into a discussion on where you can draw the line on pay. They also create some incredible new incentives for working at Minimally Useful that will hopefully catch on everywhere.

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

To continue on the journey of applying for and accepting a new job, Nate and Jerry dive into the world of scoping out a potential employer, dealing with interviews in all their pain, negotiating that paycheck, and finally, what you should do once you start your new job.

Minimally Useful’s 10 Steps to a shitty resume

Seeking Pain: Looking for a job in the Corporate Hellscape

The Minimally Useful Industries Guide to Acing Your Interview in the Classical Stylings of Neil Strauss’ The Game

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

Interviewing is a part of life and it totally sucks. In this episode Nate and Jerry go through the finer points of sprucing up a resume, including a couple of things you should definitely not do. Then they move on to the fun of going through the job boards and looking for something that piques your interest and wouldn't be a total disaster of a place to spend a bulk of your life. Also, in true Minimally Useful fashion, we recorded quite a bit more than we intended and instead of making you suffer through a super long episode, we've broken this into two parts... Basically we really hate looking for jobs.

Additional Reading:

Minimally Useful’s 10 Steps to a shitty resume

Seeking Pain: Looking for a job in the Corporate Hellscape

The Minimally Useful Industries Guide to Acing Your Interview in the Classical Stylings of Neil Strauss’ The Game

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

Imagine creating a great new widget, going through the fun of getting a patent on it, and a company comes along and steals the idea anyway because there's no way you have enough money to defend yourself in court. This is what Robert Kearns experienced with Ford. In this episode, Nate and Jerry discuss the Robert Kearns story and all the other "features" of the patent landscape.

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra

An internship is a great way to get experience to help land your dream job. But what happens when that internship is unpaid. In this episode, Nate and Jerry go into what kind of jobs have unpaid internships, how prevalent they are, and how useful they think they are versus paid internships.

Music: St. Louis Tickle by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra