I work at a concert venue doing a job akin to stagehand and maintenance work. I’m 21, very little experience because I was lucky enough to have a middle class upbringing, and the job is seasonal. To be blunt, the job is hard, it’s lots of manual labor in the sun, rain, and cold, I average out 55 hour work weeks but it can vary anywhere from 40-70
. I make pretty close to double the minimum wage in my state considering all my overtime.
My worries come in with where I’m going from here. We just got added to a union but our contract has no provision for raises and isn’t up for renegotiation for 2 or 3 years. I know this job isn’t sustainable long term for me, physically or mentally, but my supervisor is constantly having issues with his own managers, his alcoholism, and will talk constantly about how I’ll have his position when (more like if) he leaves, and the consensus from management is close to that. Management has also mentioned me being in consideration for an office position there, but they’d want me to finish college, which won’t be another 2 years or so.
Am I being whiny? I feel like I’m being iffy about good prospects when so many on this subreddit have it worse. I’m overworked but payed well, is that just the trade off I have to expect? I want peoples takes here. I’m young enough that I feel like I shouldn’t worry about the future like that but I can’t help but stress about what’s going to happen with my life going forward.