30m single and no debt, renting and can end the contract anytime. Currently thinking to have a break from corporate work for 6-12 months or so to travel and do whatever. Enough savings for 12 months expenses. If anyone has done or thinking to do this can you share your experience? What to expect, and any tips before quitting?
LMK if not allowed, but I figured this would be decent to post in this subreddit. I used to manage a department in a hospital, and as you can imagine it was full of drama, whining, bullying, gossip, etc. I was and always have had the employees best interest in mind so I had the mindset of as long as everything is running smoothly and getting done, I don’t care if you hide in a closet or hang out on your down time. I had a lot of employees try to play supervisor and write me 3+ long pages of complaints about other workers. “I saw John Doe sitting in the break room” “Jane Doe was wandering the halls when she was supposed to be working” I HATED that shit. I would get these emails 2-3 times a week from the same two employees, and after begrudgingly telling the perpetrators…
I'm graduating in May with a Master's in German and I have experience doing a bunch of random stuff (video game translation, curating exhibits, teaching, advising) but I truly have no idea what jobs I should be applying for. It's not that I don't know what I want to do, I'm interested in everything I mentioned above, but I just have so little experience in each category. Other than teaching, I've only done those other activities for about a semester or so, so I'm not really qualified to apply to jobs in those fields. And even though I have three years of teaching experience, I don't have a teaching license and the district I live in will not look at your application if you don't have one (no chance for alternative licensure). I've really just been applying for administrative jobs (which is fine but I want to apply to more…
Open office layouts are the bane of my existence. When I come to work I want to put my headphones on and just focus on working through my backlog of tasks. The manager understands the work we do, but for some reason being a Manager has corrupted him into thinking we work better as a team when we're all stuffed into a single room with no partitions. At the slightest inconvenience someone faces, they feel the need to broadcast this to the entire room and there goes another 5-35 minutes of chatter and interruptions. Not to mention there is much less resistance to people bugging others for things that should be a Google search away. Why bother spending 30 seconds thinking, when you can instantly blurt a question to the 5-6 people at arm's length? The workforce stops being a group of individual contributors and becomes something much less. My…
I’m a 24f who is about to complete my BS degree in psychology. I’ve realized that I don’t want to go to grad school now and I don’t really want to work within the field of psychology in general so I’m trying to find a different career path. Now I’m contemplating going into Cybersecurity but on this sub and in other places I’ve seen a lot of people warn about IT jobs being offshored in the future/taken over by AI. I’m just worried that I will put myself in a bad position for my future. So, what jobs/career paths do you believe will have the best chance of not getting completely fucked over by all the issues with our current economy and job market?
When industries face challenges with attrition and knowledge retention, it can push them to rehire retired employees as contractors at a higher salary. While this can help address immediate knowledge gaps, it is not be a sustainable long-term solution. Unfortunately, this practice can create intergenerational tensions in the workforce, as younger employees may feel undervalued, and eventually be left with no way to fill the knowledge void, especially if the contractor is not a good mentor. Industries need better approaches, such as investing in skill development program and knowledge management system to support a more balanced and sustainable workforce. Before anyone retires we need to make sure they are a decent mentor to the runner up, which benefits everyone involved, including the company.