Author: Olivia

Supervisor mentions the possiblity of getting off early to start the weekend. We work 4-10's, night shift. We get a half hour lunch at 4 hours in, and a 20 minute break 7 hours in. At about 1:30am, he asks if I want to work through break to get out sooner. I say, nah, I'll take my 20 minute paid break. I discussed it with a co-worker who mirrored my thoughts of “GTFOH with that shit!” Why tf would I forego a paid break by choice???? Why would I save money for the international corporation I work for???

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I’m a PhD intern with 5 years of graduate work behind me and this week I found out my patient’s 10-year-old son makes $20 an hour to umpire baseball games. I make $14 an hr after endless years of school. This is why Academia is inherently flawed and incredibly limiting to anyone not born in the ivory tower. I’m not confident I would have taken this route had I known years ago finances would still be such a struggle. I will make significantly more once I graduate but Academia essentially asks that you give it your all for 5+ years and expect you to live on nothing. No advice needed, just venting. And in my role as a therapist my first goal is to help people develop insight into the systemic stressors influencing their mental health. It’s all so messed up.

I work for a school full time at evenings as a custodian. And our school decided that they were going to give us VIP passes to all school games for the season. There is a problem, most of our games are in the evening. Guess what shift most of us work in? Second. We don't have time to watch games.