Antiwork

I keep reading arguments about how there are no “unskilled” jobs, and how the person doing tiresome manual labor deserves more pay than the one sitting at a desk because the work is physically harder. That is a nice idea but the reality is that a job's pay is determined by the free market. The more people there are who are able to perform a task (supply), the lower the pay will naturally be, and a specialized job that fewer can perform will pay more due to limited supply. It's why the surgeon earns a lot more than the person unloading trucks at a warehouse. I fully support the worker movement happening currently and I agree that anyone who works full time deserves a living wage that covers the necessities, but a low skilled job that can be learned in a few hours or days should not pay as much…

I worked at Starbucks for a year and a half and my mental health has never been the same. My shift supervisor would yell at me all the time and keep on saying how I should be fired. It was constant until I was having panic attacks. Of course he was going to school to be a cop. I would panic at least every 2nd or 3rd shift. The only part I liked was washing dishes. I was alone and could play music or text on the job. The main manager of the store was never there and when she was, she hardly did her job. She was gone for at least 9 months yet she still got paid a fuck lot more than me for not even working. I was hardly allowed time off when my grandparents died. I had to beg for that. I could go on for…

Alright, here we go. I'm a music student who really wants to become a performing artist. I always knew that it wasn't gonna be easy to make money that way, but the realizations are really starting to hit now. I had a workshop recently about how to get booked for concerts and the final part was so depressing. The guy who gave the workshop was a booker for a venue and he told us they really want to pay their artists fairly and increase their cut, but it's pretty much impossible. The government doesn't give them any money to pay their artists, and they also have a whole bunch of things they need to pay for themselves. Artists at their place get almost all of the ticket sales, after the venue subtracted their own costs. The venue only profits of of the drinks. The bigger artists get around 2000 euros…

I am 29, and I graduated undergrad in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education in Reading and Writing, also a writing center tutor (in said institution), daughter of a journalist of 25 years, and personal experience as a reading specialist in high schools. I'm a Tier 4 fully liscensed teacher in Minnesota, halfway through a masters of education program, and also getting an additional Reading Specialist liscensure. Long term goal is to go back for a bachelor's in Special Education. I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and I know how fucking hard it is to write resumes and (the dreaded) cover letters. AMA so I can help set others up for success!!

Don’t know if any one else experiences this but I have a tendency of getting bored of my job after I’ve learned everything about the position and pretty much have the job mastered. I don’t know if it’s that I get bored of the people and fake “friendships” work forces upon you, if I just get bored of the job itself, or if it all just boils down to a combination of hating the 40 hour work week model and social anxiety. I’m 25 at this point and probably have been trained in about 15 different positions and due to all this accumulated “experience” I rarely get turned down for positions. The biggest issue with this is I’ve hit a breaking point where I can’t get past 22 dollars an hour. I’m very happy to be making this as someone who dropped out of college but have bigger goals for…