Background: Always been a somewhat overperformer. Graduated high school with an associates. Went and got my undergrad at 21 then decided it was too early to go into the work force so i got a master's at 22 now have been working a corporate job since then for the past year.
First of all, I hate how little free time i have compared to college. I'm an athlete at heart. In college, i juggled 6 classes with a 3.2 GPA, bodybuilding full time 6 days a week, competing in jiu jitsu 7 days a week, and then taking off from time to time on sundays to go ski for 8 hours. My average day was 5 hours of working out and staying active and now don't have time for all the hobbies I want to enjoy nor the money. Unlike college where if you finish work early and you're rewarded; You're stuck for 8 hours a day at a corporate job regardless.
Side note but i make decent money but it all goes away fast. INSIDIOUS rents, crazy groceries, plus a 360 mo car payment when my old truck finally shit the bed at 200 thousand miles. If i want to travel in a particular month, that blows out any money saving i had budgeted for that month and that's doing almost everything i can to travel cheaply.
The job i got is in a downtown metro area that is way too expensive to live in and i commute over an hour to work 3 days a week in office.
Not to add insult to injury but i can EASILY work this job remote but the company refuses to set up a remote check processing system that would be needed to fully go remote; A relatively small task in the grand scheme of things.
I promised myself i would only work this job 6 months and pack up to move to my home state which is significantly cheaper. Well that never happened. So many declined emails, interviews that went nowhere, and straight up bait and switch jobs where it really wasn't what was promised. The title and responsibilities were stated a certain way so they could try to chronically underpay you.
Now a year plus at this company, my coworker quit. Using some ADHD genes (and wicked stimulants), i took up over 50% of the slack they left behind and did the job flawlessly for the next month without working so much as an extra hour more of 40 hours.
In the meantime, i was trying to get a friend hired who was a rockstar in group work during my master's who has been unemployed since he graduated.
Welp, management SANDBAGGED the job and put someone with over 10 years of experience in an entry level role then gave her a mid level job title. They said my guy interviewed great but they “felt better about the other person”.
Seeing as this new worker took basically what is my same job and got a better job title out of it, I went to management seeking a promotion for my quality of work and carrying extra responsibility the past month.
They told me that i didn't have enough seniority and to wait another 6 months…yea bullshit. I don't care if new coworker has 10 years of experience. They have NO seniority with us as a conpany.
So here i am fuming, hating this rather monotonous job i do, wishing i could do other things, struggling to feel financially comfortable, and wondering where the hell it all went wrong. I hate my existence 5 of the 7 days every week passes and I feel my sanity slip away every month.
This whole corporate mess has me wanting to try to get popular in the bodybuilding social media world which can be lucrative and just hoping my employer doesn't catch on to my content before i start getting affiliate brand deals to make some kind of money doing this.