I recently moved to a small city in a really rural part of the US. The base of the economy is agriculture/logistics, which bleeds into the work culture everywhere. Workplaces consistently want 9+ hour shifts, overtime is common, managers are just awful and intense for no reason and expect you to turn your life over to them. Plus there's a huge labor shortage here so a lot of places just overextend you.
I used to live in a big city where the jobs I had would be like, 35 hours a week max and everything would be pretty chill. Ive been having such a hard time finding something decent here and been job hopping. I work an 8-5 office job right now and it just eats up my whole life doing nothing important. Everything work related here just feels so outdated. My boss recently gave me a 300-page spreadsheet printout and expected me to go through and manually highlight and count items, I nearly lost it right there. Took me pulling teeth just to get the document sent digitally.
Has anyone lived in a place like this and found success in finding something reasonable? Im having a hard time adjusting. I really need some tips and advice. I've been going through job postings and interviewing but it seems like the same story everywhere I go so I'm trying to strategize my next steps. Thankfully its dirt cheap to live here