So, I lost my job on August 1st, the same month I had put in for a vacation week, go fucking figure. The place was trash and had basically hired me to two jobs for the price of one, but it was paying $26/hour so it was mostly worth my time.
At any rate, I had been called about possible job for $22/hour the day before I lost it, and called up the recruiter immediately, knowing it was a job I had done before with a company I had worked for before, which basically made me a shoe-in. Now, this company is far worse than the previous one, they literally lowered my pay back in 2021 as a “reward” for getting hired on full time and I fully believe they will do the same thing if I get to the point of being hired on full time this time around. Still, I jumped on it because my wife's father had passed away last year, and she (myself as well) desperately wanted to get away for the anniversary of his passing and having a job to come back to made this financially possible.
During the trip however, I got a call about a position I had applied for which pays $27/hour, and I nailed a phone interview which I took the day after I got back from the trip, and literally the same day I was set up for interview #2 and was told all other phone interviewees were rejected, so I have really high hopes that I will be able to tell the $22/hour job to shove it very, very shortly. All that said, I am also writing this to remind myself (and others) that the idea of promotions and decent raises are a pipe dream and the work that historically pays off for me personally is that of looking for other jobs and disloyalty, that's the only thing that really gets rewarded. Don't forget that Serraph, and everyone else reading this who has similar life experiences. Don't forget that. Stay in the job market, always, and fuck those in your career who are friendly, but not friends.