Antiwork

Was asked by management to do a short training course over the weekend. I told them of course I would do it but I'll be charging 25x my regular hourly rate. When I saw them next they had decided 'perhaps it would be best if I did it first thing during work hours the next morning'. 🙂 This was some time ago but after finding this sub it reminded me of sweet victory.

To me those are the things I hate most. My dream job would be essentially something in which I'd solve puzzles all day and have enough money so I wouldn't have to cook or clean. What truly exhausts me is endless maintenance. It feels like that is 90% of life. Maintain your job, maintain your body, maintain your friendships, maintain your health, maintain your family, maintain maintain maintain. That is the thing that drains my free time. Is this normal or indicative of mental illness?

All over the years my work experience was from bad to worst: Finished highschool and parents couldn’t afford college so I went straight to work at 18 yo to rural works like vines and shit(bad paying job and you work on the rain and sun). Obviously I no one wished that for themselves, so after a 2 years and some money gathered (I payed my car and my license in the mean time) had enough money to go find a new job, and I did in a fiber company they paying was kinda high for an entry job (arround 1.200€ a month, consider this is Portugal and the average income is less than 1000€) But I worked Mon-sun from 7:30 to 23:00 So I obviously left that work,and not to talk about my boss who has anger issues: yells blames other and sometimes hit employees. Last year I went working…

I work for a very small landscape installation company, less than 10 people. My boss relies heavily on my skill set and we’ve had a hard time securing a group of reliable, capable people to grow the company with. I’m getting really burnt out and think I need a prolonged leave of absence, at least 6 weeks, to reclaim my life and get a sense that work is not all I live for. Is this a reasonable and normal thing to ask for? I realize that it will create a hardship for everyone else and it would be in their interest to just find someone to replace me. I guess I’m just wondering if I should prepare to try to negotiate for a leave of absence or just submit my resignation.

That's about it. I'm just curious if I can find out how much money the company I just started at makes yearly. I couldn't find anything online.