Month: September 2023

Guy is just standing around talking to the boss about how he has such a huge passion for travel. Scuba diving, horse back riding, safari hunting, etc. Im just sitting here working my ass off around him thinking about how I have used 2 of my 3 vacation days from the last 5 years for family emergencies. Working to survive, I certainly can't afford to globetrot. Idk why he is here.

Yesterday I had an incident at work and it unraveled all the frustration and dissatisfaction I’ve been suppressing. For context I work at a cultural center funded by a pretty powerful comercial art gallery. As with most cultural related jobs in this part of the world, we’re underpaid and overworked. It sucks but that’s not why I’m on the verge of quitting. Our office was recently repurposed as an exhibition room, so as of right now the whole team is working from a restaurant table (the cultural center has a restaurant). Yesterday one of my coworkers opened a can of sparkling water and it splashed on my laptop’s keyboard. The same laptop I bought myself to keep up with my responsibilities once they took away the one I was assigned and replaced it with a clunky unusable desktop. When I say unusable I really mean it. The thing took 20…

He is a senior (I'm a junior) and keeps annoying myself by thinking he's the manager, in fact he's the one who assigns the tasks, but he's not the boss. He always comes with destructive feedback, doubting my abilities and putting me to down, and he himself is very disorganized and collects enemies, despite thinking he knows all possible topics and is the most intelligent of all. The worst part is that he is very passive aggressive pretending to be a friend. I can only imagine what kind of shit boss he's going to be in a while. I've already considered resigning but I would lose all the “benefits” and I earn above average, so it doesn't happen, I'm trying to go somewhere else to earn less.

I had like 7 interviews and 40 applications and no one seems to be hiring me? am i just stupid or unemployable or both?

I mean the title says it all. Oh and they weren’t going to pay me for my first week on the job until I pointed out it’s a law in our state. I’ve also missed another paycheck on their end. I need my check. I can’t make it another day without. My boss won’t respond. I don’t know what to do.

I remember an old podcast that I had previously listened titled, 'The Buddha in the World”. An Eastern Indian/American author named Pankaj Mishra had a very profound message that had implications for everyone in our modern world. He opined that on almost every level, capitalism as a social experiment, has been shown to be a complete disaster. He argues that although the free market has made many of our lives easier and given us untold conveniences and technological advances, at what cost as it come? Environmental degradation, crime, violence, addiction, failed relationships, mental illness, socioeconomic disparity, substandard education and overall rates of general dissatisfaction…have never been higher. This model is completely unsustainable and really, only works for the wealthy. He continues that, as India becomes a super power, along with China, their bourgeoisie will eventually demand lives that reflect Americans' and that planet earth cannot long sustain.

Why does every company have a company specific site for job openings which require you to remake your entire CV in their forms if LinkedIn exists and I have to send my CV anyway? I recently had to connect my LinkedIn with the company's site, and I was relieved like they were going to pull all my info, but no, I sill had to input it all in again…. I am tired of doing this, every single job opening I want to apply to takes about 30-60 min due to me having to input information that's already on my LinkedIn. Not to mention the ones that require you to pass a skill test that also takes 1-2 hours, when I have a portfolio filled with examples of my work, as well as working experience with other companies. And then, if I even ever get an interview they request me to…