I’m sitting here dreading my return to work and I’m so pissed. Anytime I try to tell anyone about it, they either tell me I’m causing my own problem or that I should be thankful for a job that has given me 2 months paid paternity.
I have 2 bachelors degrees (Communications and Spanish) and I’m halfway through a masters program (strategic comm and media) and all I want is a job that isn’t frontline retail. There’s nothing wrong with retail but it’s so emotionally draining on me. I can’t stand going day in and day out babysitting Karena and Kens acting like tantrum throwing babies in public and simultaneously dealing with the mistreatment dealt by management and every other department that loves to just shit on retail.
But even in this job market no one will give me a chance. Meanwhile, the longer I stay at this retail job, the more retail experience I get, the easier it is to make the money I need in retail. I have a small portfolio of websites, branding plans, and other stuff that I’ve done for companies but no one really cares to look at it.
Meanwhile, on LinkedIn I’m also seeing tons of people energetically flaunting their corporate zombie-ism in the name of being “competitive”.
All I want to do is work at something I enjoy, to get the money I need, to spend meaningful time doing things I actually want to do, with the people I really care about. I don’t want to define my life by my “career”, but I do want to have a career that I like enough that it doesn’t overshadow my enjoyment of my life. Does anyone out there know what I mean?