Author: Olivia

It's just not true, at least in the US, unemployment is extremely low right now. So that's the first MASSIVE sin, this is just a lie, a fib. It's not even fucking true. Why is this used as an insult from out of touch scrooges? “People don't want to work anymore” people would rather work less, and do more things that they like. What the hell is wrong with that? We live in a world with tech that would be seen as godlike by past humans, why should the average person work more hours a week then a medieval farmer had to? Why is it a bad thing that people would rather spend more time enjoying existing, and engaging more with the finer and simpler things in life? Life is one shot. You get to do this once, no take backs. It's a journey that is completely about the travel,…

Selfishness has been turned into the #1 virtue in America. And we fight tooth and nail to protect it. But what many of us don’t realize, is that this is what we are calling freedom.

So I have a job that I do enjoy, I work with horses, but it doesn’t pay close to enough for what I need and there’s no way I’m getting a raise. I had to fight for the small one I got not that long ago, and they’ve been acting like it’s a blessing they’ve given me ever since. There’s no benefits, no overtime pay (still get paid, just regular hourly pay), and not to mention it’s a very dangerous and laboring job. Most days I wake up with major anxiety about even going in…what do you do when even the job that you loved and worked hard to get makes you want to quit…?

I was talking with a family friend and he was saying that he does the bare minimum because he feels he doesn't get compensated fairly for the work he does. I agreed that pay needs to be raised for everyone. He really got onto a rant about how people need to stop trying so hard at work. I asked him about people who like to do their work and enjoy it and he went off on how there is nobody like that and if they are they are just brownnosing and probably suck as a person. I told him that I like my job. It's rewarding. Working on tasks I enjoy makes the time pass quickly. I like learning more in my role and I like taking on more tasks. I understand I won't be compensated with anything but more work, but I am good at setting boundaries and saying…