Today I accepted a job offer with what I think will be fair compensation … but getting there was so stressful. With the fluctuation on gas groceries and housing prices recently, I felt lost on how much my skill and time should be worth. I had to do research in what inflation might look like this year for the basic things, talk to someone in my field to ask for their professional opinion and then kind of barter with my future employer. Fuck by the time we arrived to the agreement I was sweating cortisol. Shouldn’t be this stressful to go to work do good and be able to have a good life. I am not even excited for the new job at the moment just relived to not have think of this for a while