Hello all, my name is Jaiden and I have a job that I actually quite like. The point of me making this post is to spread just a little bit of hope if I can, to help all of you know that even though they're rare, good work enviroments still exist in the us. I also want to point out right away that i will not be naming my place of work, so be assured that this isn't any sort of advertising.
The situation of me coming to work here was a bit dark, at the time I was in a very bad place to the point where I was seriously contemplating ending it all. I had just come out of a job at dollar tree, where i was often expected to run the entire store by myself while the manager sat on her ass “doing paperwork” for her entire shift (she was actually just playing on her phone for hours at a time) and all for a whopping $9/hr. I had nowhere else to go, and had only recently become an adult, where the full realization of how much it costs to live was starting to kick in. Even if i was paid enough, the stress is just too much for someone like me to handle, but $9/hour wasnt even enough for me to pay rent, much less buy food or have savings.
Keeping the job obviously wasnt an option, so i quit and moved in with some family of mine in a different state. The family turned out to not be such great housemates, but I only needed to be with them until i got my feet on the ground, right? Well that wouldve been the case, if they hadnt kicked me out just a week later for reasons that I had nothing to do with. It's an entire separate story, and i dont want to make this post into an entire book, so I wont go into detail now. Basically though, I was now young, clueless (which i still kind of am) but also homeless and jobless, stranded in a foreign place where the only people I knew had betrayed my trust to put me into this situation in the first place.
Then came the angel who is my boss. This lady used to be my nextdoor neighbor as a kid, though we never talked, and she didnt just hire me because of knowing my parents either, as she actually dislikes them quite a lot. The reasons for her hiring me are completely a mystery to me, and it was a pure coincidence that she had seen one of my social media posts saying how much i needed a job, concidering we didnt follow eachother. Boy am I gald she did though, because since that happened, she gave me a job, enough pay to actually live off of, and she's become like the mom that I never had growing up. Of course the jobs has some downsides as well, such as a pretty high workload, but she actually give raises is the thing, fully based on productivity unlike some other employers cough cough dollar tree cough
Since then, I've been able to push past most of the trauma that I experienced at other jobs, and have gotten into a headspace where I actually want to work more. Not even for more pay, but to help out the people in my work enviroment that I can confidently call my family. (the pay does help too though) My goal is to do all that I can to help others achieve this level of job satisfaction. And I hope this post serves as the glimmer of hope that I know some of you need <3