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I mean, if they opened with a raise I’d consider. prob still say no, don’t get comfortable in a toxic environment lmao

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I love my Job!!!

I just got hired as a trash truck driver and life has never been better, after several years in the glue factory I have finally moved on. Making $12 an hour has never felt better and the hours are phenomenal! I get anywhere from 40-60 each week and feel so relieved to actually be working for a company that cares for me. Just thought I would share an actual good job amidst all the bad jobs out there!

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Gaps in your resume

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Having a JOB just means you’re Just Over Broke how many agree with me

is the idea of JOB 9-5 /40 hr+ work week just really outdated and what should we replace it with?

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Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Yesterday a recruiter found my old resume on some career site and cold called me/ texted and I got to do something fantastic…I got to turn HIM down. I had nearly forgotten what self-respect and dignity feel like and how we take them for granted so this brought things right into focus for me. You see, just a little over a year ago I was unemployed, depressed, injured and down on my luck. Life fucking sucked and some days I just wanted it to end. I put dozens of resumes out and had a bunch of companies waste my time, reject or ignore me until out of the blue the best job i've ever had dropped in my lap thanks to an old work friend (keep those contacts. folks!) My first full year+ at the new job is done and i've never been happier. I'm respected and have a high…

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College Majors That Pay The Least Right After College – 3 Are in Education

​ https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/25/worst-paying-college-majors.html

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And take care of the ones I love…

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Needing advice on whether I should search for a new job-severe hours cut

I’m going to be transparent when I say I’m a senior in high school. My parents told me to not get a job because I don’t need too but I wanted to learn how to support myself and establish worth ethic early on. I also want to save up money before I go off to college. I work at a job that pays $11 (minimum wage in my state). I’m heavily involved in theatre and am currently in a musical at my high school. To preface this my manager usually posts a rough draft schedule and then final draft schedule for each month, but he asks for availability very early on (for example for December availability he’d ask first week of November). When he asked for my February hours, I wasn’t sure of my rehearsal schedule yet so I said I would get back to him. He posted the rough…

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What is a living wage to you?

Seems like a living wage would be different for everyone. Based on where you live, etc. A living wage to some might be a safe comfortable roof over their head, ability to provide food for their family and to be able to pay utilities as well as the cost of everyday life. Or it could mean getting a $6.00 Starbucks coffee everyday and buying the new iPhone every time they come out with a new one. What is a living wage to you? Can people give legitimate honest answers or opinions without getting nasty and mean like so many of the responses we see on here? I see this term on so many posts, but no realistic solutions being discussed.

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An excerpt from Byung-Chul Han’s “The Burnout Society”

“[…] The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination. People who suffer from depression, bipolar disorder, or burnout syndrome develop the symptoms displayed by the Muselmänner in concentration camps. Muselmänner are emaciated prisoners lacking all vigor who, like people with acute depression, have become entirely apathetic and can no longer even recognize physical cold or the orders given by guards. One cannot help…