Actually, what are some stereotypical transfem jobs? I’ll make a poll later.

Can you think of other options than :

• Programming
• Other engineering (not programming)
• Visual arts/drawing
• Music
• Writing
• Public transport
• Body modding
• Barista (suggested by @frawst)
• Sex work (suggested by @LucieLazerEyez)
• Influencer

Okay here it goes! The extremely reductive transfem job poll. ​​ Boost for more sample size

TRANSFEMS ONLY, what do you for a living? Either part-time or full-time, but has to be something that brings a decent amount of your income (not a hobby)

Multiple choices allowed!

Sorry if I forgot something but I reached the max options count

@iro_miya barista (tho this one is also transmasc)

@iro_miya @frawst Sex Worker

@iro_miya barista

@iro_miya i was a second too late

how's body modding at 0

@bl00d federation?

@snacks nope, i'm not stupid enough to not verify the results at the original instance

@bl00d body modding is our loss leader its so fucking expensive

@bl00d I have no clue

@bl00d I’ve met lots of transfems who do body modding but often they were the less techy type, so maybe they’re just not on fedi. This isn’t a representative slice of the transfem population after all

@iro_miya true, fedi is a very specific social circle. I'm just shocked that it is so far at 0

@iro_miya @bl00d well, you also specified “for a living”. i think bodyboding usually doesn’t pay as much

@green @iro_miya it pays enough to live further. The money also heavily depends on the rep and body mods you offer

@bl00d give me a job in body modding and i'll gladly take it

@quinn nah, I'll take it myself

@iro_miya i work at a gas station overnight you kinda missed that 'general laborer' category cause i dont think its particularly special work.

but i guess a lot of fedi users arent general laborers so.

@bl00d we clearly need more transfem ripperdocs smh /j

@nullenvk truth

@iro_miya non-programmers represent

@nullenvk @bl00d I’m actually on my way to becoming one :3

@unmind woah, how does it feel to have, like, sanity and a will to live?,,

@iro_miya honestly not as good as you might expect

@iro_miya wanting to live is hard

@Erato_Heti Woah, got some crazy stories?

@iro_miya i wouldnt say all that yet. i mean honestly I suspect overnight is actually more tame in a lot of ways because you're trading out the occasional problem customer that tries to custom order their food off a gas station menu in the morning with instead the occasional patroling neurotic (you know the type of person that walks in circles around an area). this city im in tends to be a very non-confrontational so we tend to see strange but not particularly interact with strange. for the most part the ppl working that shift with me are also pretty broody and unhappy because they arent getting enough sun and dont get enough social life. so things are usually pretty hum ho.

anything that could get slot into a story feels less 'wow the people here sure are wacky' and more 'thats just sad'. an example is the other day when I was trying to figure out how to process something this girl that was ordering her food with EBT was blackout drunk and took it as an insult that we 'assumed' she was ordering with it. mind you this was hours after the alcohol curfew so she got plastered somewhere else and came in. she then decided to basically get upset and threaten to throw hands and walked out and both of the guys in the back stepped in to protect my manager (i immediately walked to the back because I had accidentally instigated the situation so I figured it would be best if I wasnt seen). I didnt realize until then women had the capacity to be that level of rageaholic.

but even when I regaled this story later to the coworker and 'what went down' the conversation really quickly turned from 'yea that was crazy' to 'i hope she was ok getting home' etc. so stories get downplayed a lot. its just a different culture but its not really one I particularly oppose. when i was working a daylight job in the more white dominated section of the city gossip was 24/7 and that shit drained the hell out of me. meanwhile here everyone wants to keep to themselves do what they need to do and go home.