Month: October 2022

I’m not sure what to do or what I even can do so I would really love some advice. I am currently 1 of 2 women on my team (in STEM) and we are consistently given less responsibilities or left out of meetings. We also are not allowed to sit into interviews, only the men have been allowed to do that. My current supervisor is making this an extremely toxic workplace. Some examples: Forces all of us to work every weekend but he won’t and is impossible to contact for support on the weekend Consistently says contradictory things to us. For example, he will tell one of my coworkers not to reply to an email explaining we’re working on a request, but tell me I need to do so. Had a long discussion with me about making sure I am sat down at my desk with everything opened and ready…

Building large commercial solar farms. I left about a year ago because my wife needed me to be home every night instead of spending 5 nights a week in another state. I was making $18.00/hr plus $100.00 per diem for days worked. One of the foremen I worked for called me recently and asked if I wanted to come work this winter since apparently many people had quit once the weather changed. The new site is a Union site and is paying $36.00/hr and $100.00 per diem 7 days regardless of days worked. Pretty big difference between non-Union and Union sites…

I don’t understand living in this world why these is alone is such a struggle to obtain. as I’m in my late twenties what success to me is has changed .. I just want a place of my own, being able to take care of myself, pay my own bills & help family and others. Why is it so hard to even take care/provide for oneself? I don’t understand this reality. I don’t understand as a collective as humans this is something that’s a constant struggle on earth. To be brought into this existence is scam of inevitable suffering to try enjoy/endure this life you never asked for reason why I don’t want children there’s no way around this suffering of this reality that has been tainted and exploited I want to feel joy again, I want to be able to say I love living this life … but I…