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I want some advice

I was working 9-5 in a job that barely paid, like I just enough to pay my rent. The work wasn't hard, but we had insanely unrealistic expectations. It was hard but as a team we somehow achieved those targets (like we had to work during the night shifts). If they just let me do my job, it would have been fine but the work culture was horrible. The team lead would randomly pick someone to target and the rest would try their hardest to not be that guy. If you're picked, you are screwed. The team lead would pick at everything related to the work, and would meddle with everything like not approving to take your break. If you wanted to eat at 1pm, you would be eating at 4pm thanks to him After a lot of debate, I decided to quit as it was taking a toll on…


I was working 9-5 in a job that barely paid, like I just enough to pay my rent. The work wasn't hard, but we had insanely unrealistic expectations. It was hard but as a team we somehow achieved those targets (like we had to work during the night shifts). If they just let me do my job, it would have been fine but the work culture was horrible. The team lead would randomly pick someone to target and the rest would try their hardest to not be that guy. If you're picked, you are screwed. The team lead would pick at everything related to the work, and would meddle with everything like not approving to take your break. If you wanted to eat at 1pm, you would be eating at 4pm thanks to him

After a lot of debate, I decided to quit as it was taking a toll on my health and mental well-being. As I see my peers, they are doing similar soul sucking jobs and I feel like a loser for not holding on.

It's been a recent change, I don't know if I should take some time off and try again

Sorry for any typos or grammatical errors, English is not my first language.

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