I lost my remote job in financial reporting in February I got a replacement job in March that was remote as well. I was fired from the first one because I took unplanned PTO and suddenly took 8 hours off to take my SO to the hospital. It really hurt that this happened. I have never known anything but success in my career. I started in public accounting and it was rough but made it through several years.
Everything went really well at the new job I got in March with exception of one report I was in charge of that my reviewer made changes to that affected the alignment of the report which threw off everything. It wasn't that big of a deal and everything worked out with minor fixes. Fast forward 6 months I suddenly can't log it and I'm getting a call that I'm fired for poor performance even after feedback(feedback I never received).
I was shocked I had fixed a plethora of long running issuess the company had in their Revenue recording database. They paid me zero severance and kept my PTO. This really knocked me into a depression. I've applied for over 300 remote positions over the last 5 weeks and I haven't had an interview. I've reached out to all kinds of recruiters and it's the same story no more remote work. I've worked so hard these last several years and I've grown accustomed to wfh that I'm not willing to go back.
This has been so horrible. I hate how disposable we are. I'm never having kids so they're not trapped in this cycle as well. I feel like Ive wasted a good portion of my life now. I'm willing to keep looking for remote work as long as it takes. I'm willing to early cash out my 401k. I hate being in the office wasting my time commuting, talking to others needlessly, generally just wasting my life away to make billionaires richer. The only perk to working in this type of world is being able to work from the comfort of my own space with my dogs. I'm just not willing to go back to the office. I'd rather just be done and not alive than go back and trade even more of my life away. I created this account as a throwaway. I just needed to vent because I'm dying every day. Probably delete this later.