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It’s getting harder and I don’t want to give up.

I truly don’t know how much longer I can keep going like this, especially without a vision of a better world. I am clinging onto a sliver of hope for our future, but it’s becoming more and more difficult every day. My partner is working 6-7 days a week (salaried) at a warehouse in NYC. She’s been denied a raise multiple times. No other jobs she’s been applying to have been fruitful, no matter how eager hiring managers seem. I am trying to pick up the slack financially and at home, but I’m overdrawing my account every month to pay bills. I feel depressed. I feel angry. I have no energy or motivation. It’s hard to discern if the lethargy is long COVID or exhaustion from being drained of any little bit of money I make. I want to connect with my immediate community and support/organize with my neighbors and…


I truly don’t know how much longer I can keep going like this, especially without a vision of a better world. I am clinging onto a sliver of hope for our future, but it’s becoming more and more difficult every day. My partner is working 6-7 days a week (salaried) at a warehouse in NYC. She’s been denied a raise multiple times. No other jobs she’s been applying to have been fruitful, no matter how eager hiring managers seem.

I am trying to pick up the slack financially and at home, but I’m overdrawing my account every month to pay bills. I feel depressed. I feel angry. I have no energy or motivation. It’s hard to discern if the lethargy is long COVID or exhaustion from being drained of any little bit of money I make. I want to connect with my immediate community and support/organize with my neighbors and peers, but I am so burnt out.

Not to mention the awful weather anomalies (which are now just the norm I think) constantly remind me of the CEOs, military, and wealth hoarders who are gleefully destroying our earth.

I know that I can’t keep working like this and neither can my partner. I read your posts on this sub and am so angry and upset for everyone who is also being kicked while they’re down.

White supremacy and capitalism must be dismantled. I want justice and liberation for us.

Edit: you can’t dismantle capitalism without dismantling white supremacy (which adversely affects white people too)! Why are people so sensitive over dismantling a power structure that exploits us all to varying degrees?????????

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