Author: Olivia

I'm already working a lot. The extra hours he's talking about is when he wants a Saturday off. I'm so fucking frustrated with him saying this but I never say anything because I'm trying to be professional.

Been working for a tech company for a while (6 months) in a PM function. The second I hit the ground, I realized what a dumpster fire senior management was. Zero steer on priorities, no organization whatsoever. Of course, it’s never the company’s fault, so my probation has been extended because I can’t plan for projects that never happen, get cancelled, or replaced by the next “important” thing. Thankfully, this trash company won’t even touch my CV because I took a self-employed sabbatical and can pretend it never existed when finding a replacement. Jesus, am I tired of corporations though. The team was still delivering. Work was still getting done. Keeping a job shouldn’t be so hard.

I started a coaching and training side hustle 10 years ago. I was so passionate about it then and hustled so hard to build it up and I use to love what I did – it initially didn’t even feel like work. I had just been made redundant and it was the perfect opportunity for me to try something different. It was the best job ever as I was my own boss (well not really, my clients are my boss) but you get what I mean. It was soo much better then my previous job. Also once you start working for yourself, I knew it would be super hard to go back to being an employee so I guess I kind of felt like this option was the better compared to the alternative. I managed to sustain the passion an drive for a while but eventually it started to feel…