Author: Olivia

I am currently in school and going to complete my degree in 2 years. I am working a part time job while in my studies. I just got a raise. This is amazing and sad at the same time. The part time job I am at requires little skill when I applied but gave me an overall 6% and 11% respectively over two years. The work that I am going for begins lower and I have heard raises rarely go over 5% annually. I am seriously considering studying something else after three years because it is paying better and less physically and mentally demanding.

I'm 39(M). I'm an industrial engineer, grad of 09', and also a registered nurse from 17'. I've done many, many lines of work in my life, and all of them deranged my mental well-being. Many of these jobs were exploitative in nature, and I applied myself to learn valuable degrees and skills in order to have a meaningful career. I. 2020 I was lucky to find the first job in my life that didn't sturr up crippling anxiety – I was a product manager for a cutting edge medical device in the ICU field. It required both my engineering skills and clinical expertise. They pay was 52k dollars a year and I got a car, life was good. 18 months later, I got laid off because the Covid bonanza was over. I have been searching for a similar job frantically since then. I even excelled in a subsidized cyber security…

We work a provincial government job in healthcare. Our management expects our entire department to celebrate holidays and birthdays at a restaurant they decide on by taking a “group vote”. We are expected to pay for our own meals. This is done on company time, and opting out is not allowed. At time’s management collects for donations towards a gift if it is a retirement for a coworker. I resent feeling obligated to : 1. Spend my own money on eating out this way. 2. I work with these people and would rather not socialize with most of them, particularly the management. (Working a full day around them is enough for me). 3. Being expected to financially contribute to a retirement gift for YOUR employees because your too cheap to get them one on behalf of the company. (And you get the credit for giving)! I want to work, and…

I've been working for 12 years now, some of it in Dubai and the rest here in India. I'm now working for a company in the states (outsourced ofcourse), and have made friends with some of the workers there. One of whom is a very sweet lady, who used to talk to me a lot about how life is here in India and her life in US, I used to share pictures of my hometown or wherever I went on vacation that year. Once I asked her that since she lived in such a vast and beautiful country, which places she had been on vacation , she said she didn't go on any vacation in the past 25 years, that was a shock to me. How many of you guys have not travelled your own country? Generally companies in India have 21 days annual leave, 12 public holidays. How much…