Author: Olivia

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but im (26 yo) a bartender and have always been in the service industry. I want to get a wfh job during the day to try and build my savings but i want something where i can get away with doing as little as possible…no sales, excessive calling, etc lol. I dont understand anything about the language used for office jobs so im just looking for input on which job titles i should be searching for. Data entry sounds like what im looking for but i really have no idea what that job actually is. If i should post this somewhere else lmk!

I left my nightmare job almost 2 years ago. My husband and I met there 10 years prior, when he got laid off and started work elsewhere he kept telling me how horrible and toxic it was. I mean it's just work right? All jobs are like this. Eventually i had enough of being passed over (I was just to valuable where I was at… they couldn't promote me or lose me to another department) and left… and realized he was right. For the next year I tried to convince my work BFF to leave. Told her all the things I realized were toxic, horrible, and wrong. But it's just work right? All places are the same… besides she was comfortable there… then she got written up for something that was possible illegal, if not immoral on the companies part. 4 months ago she left and joined my new company.…

I tried Google but the best answers I can find are grey and vague, and I think it might be provincial? I got warned at work for discussing wages. I'm in Alberta so my hopes are a little low.

Sales gig. 70/30 base to commission. I was promoted after 3 months into running my own region. The goal I was given to hit for the first quarter which I was 2/3 there for was equal to almost the entire year as it was previously set. The next quarter was the same. I got to about 87% of those targets which meant an decent bonus because growth targets were so large. (Pay out started well under 100%). Magically at end of year, even though i bonuses in Q3 I suddenly finished the year at 44%. Now Q1 hits and I have a growth goal of 400+% on the year. I am tracking a bit behind, but it was how I forecasted it. I finish January within 4k of my forecast on several hundred thousand dollars. February was light but the opps weren’t lost, they just pushed for budgetary reason to…