My work history is this: get a job that is underpaid, work hard, burnout, get resentful, quit, then have to scramble to find another also low paying job, repeat cycle
My work history is extensive and varied. I’ve always been sort of a free spirit and I do not dream of labor. I have mental illness which I am working really hard on managing, but I am trying to be more proactive about avoiding burnout so when I interviewed with my current job and they mentioned that there would be no overtime required and everything that I had to do could be managed within work hours I was stoked. I felt like for once I wasn’t just scrambling for a check. But then I started working, and within a month my boss started dropping hints about various coworkers who like to stay late so they can finish up tasks or use the weekend as a time to orient themselves. Lol that’s nice but I do not work for free. On Friday my boss told me point blank she expected me to work this weekend. I told her that I don’t want to burnout and that if weekend work was needed I would need to be compensated. She said she would not normally do this, but would compromise and give me 2 hours towards paid time off. Ironically, she had just sent an email detailing that overtime is time and a half. I accepted her offer because I felt like I had no choice. Now it’s midnight on a Sunday and I didn’t get to prepare a special Valentine’s Day dessert I’ve been planning for my boyfriend because of work/errands. I feel mad resentful. I don’t want to do a bad job or not be successful at something I devote 40 hours of my life to but also I feel like if I knew that this job involved weekends and overtime I wouldnt have taken this position. It’s literally an entry level job with entry level wages…