Author: Olivia

is it normal to feel anxious every evening about having to go back to work the next day? i can't enjoy my days off because i'm dreading the next day when i have to work again. it has never been different and it's not a matter of what job i work. i'd feel ashamed to quit though, my parents would give me so much shit and i'm worried what my coworkers will think, but i feel like life can't be satisfying if you're chained to your workplace half the time you're awake for the rest of your life

Showed my 9 year old son the movie Newsies (the old Disney one from 1992) tonight. At the beginning, he was all “This is the most boring thing” but at the end, he was cheering with the Newsies, play “punching” the screen when the owner/police were in frame, and shouting “Strike!” along with them all! I explained a bit about child labor and how people suffered and what unions got the American worker–but he really just wanted to watch the movie. It was a great introduction to this topic though, and I expect to be referencing it often in the future. If you have kids around 8-13, then this would be a great intro! https://preview.redd.it/5sqs9rh5xjo81.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c00870a2107ce3e31b71c8518c69c56f4d30189

I'm honestly over it. I'm over this entire American work system and I swear no one else I know seems to notice how we're all rats in a rat race to nowhere. Every time he tells us I just think about 1) how easily replaceable his position is and if he died the company would be like “so who's gonna do his job” 2) how he practically abandoned his family for 15 years because he chose his job over his family (likely why he got divorced and then remarried in his 40s) and 3) how much life he missed living because he claims he never took one vacation in those 15 years. Honestly do people think this is some type of badge of honor? I think it's horrible and I absolutely refuse to live my life that way. I'm 30 years old and I think my parents are starting to…