I feel like any passion I had for my chosen career is now gone.
I am making around 50k despite working in my field for about 5 years.. I do feel like I am no longer motivated to take on multiple extra projects and commit many extra hours in order to get advancement in my career.. because future opportunities (1 level above my job with much greater responsibility) are paying like $60-65k that wouldn't let me enter a housing market and have a family anyway, and it seems to be alsmost impossible to get to that level unless you are an always “yes” sort of ass licker… ready to work 7 days a week and stay up until late in front of the work computer just to get that 10-15% pay bump..
My dream now is to have a $70 – 80k job.. JUST A JOB so I could pay my bills and save something in the end… I am a bit sick of the entire career concept now because it requires so much freaking extra work and hustle, and there isn't even much of a silver lining just cuz how much everything goes up in price every year (especially housing) without the pay ever getting adjusted to the inflation…. and I am also sick of the crowds of desperate people with multiple years of entry level job exeprience and fancy 100k MBA degrees desperately trying to get into the field and willing to overwork themselves even for $40-50k jobs, thus bumping up the entry-level benchmark without any additional reward.. that is just overwhelming.. I can't compete with these people.. I just can't afford LOL.
It is also crazy for me to see how some people post here that they got a $60k year job after college then aceept a 90k offer after couple of years and are now at $150k a year after 5 years into the field. It feels like that for me to get from 50k to 60k is going to take forever…
And the point is.. I like working! I truly do.. I just really don't see much purpose in overworking myself given what the economic situation currently looks like…