Month: August 2022

I've lurked this sub for a long time. Today I decided to share the story of my daughters first job. She was 16 and had answered an ad for Christmas character actors for a mall Christmas village. A woman reached out and asked her to come in for an interview and she landed the job playing the Christmas angel representing a Christian bookstore in the mall. Starting out, it was all good. She was fitted for a dress and they spent a couple of days going over her lines and stuff. It was a three week commitment to be paid entirely at the end of her three weeks. I figured it was a great way for her to dip her toes into the working world. The fourth day she came home and seemed disenchanted. She didn't say much, just that she wasn't sure she wanted the job. I thought it…

The person I’m venting to. who I thought was intelligent, who was just that stupid: 🥲

So as a bit of context, about a year and a half ago I landed my dream job. I grew up with a tradie for a father and spent so many weekends and days off as a kid going to work with him that I decided I don't want to do it for a career myself as I lost interest when I did it so much before I even turned 16. Once I finished school and had enough money I started travelling and realised how much I loved the outdoors, nature and mountains which led me to a small little mountain town in Victoria. After a while I ended up getting a job at a school outdoor ed camp that a friend worked at doing high rope activities with school kids. It was doing things like rock climbing/abseiling/flying fox and all that fun stuff. I came in to do a…

It won’t be hard AT ALL to find a different employer in my field, but I’m pretty sure the sentiment will be true anywhere. It’s also possible to be very successful if I self-employ, but there’s so much marketing, etc. involved and I hate doing that. It’s the end of a bad week for me and I just want to give up on all of it. Does anybody have any words of encouragement and/or commiseration to offer me?