Antiwork

After lurking around this sub for a while I wanted to pop by an tell a story. While things are getting worse here in Europe do to increasing cost of living do to climate change and war in Ukraine, I think we still have it easy compared to you Americans. Perhaps I will be the the of touch boomer in the 2060's. I am complitelly regular guy living in the northern Europe. I was born in late 90's to a regular family. Not rich, not poor. Maybe lower middle class. Parents with office jobs, House in a suburbs, dog and a wagon. I went to a pubic school (as pretty much all schools here are). For the first 9 years were complitelly free. Books, education, food everything. After that I went to local equalevent to college. Teaching and lunch was free. At that level one had to buy own books,…

I’ll preface this by saying I work a high finance job and make a decent amount of money which has kept me in this job far longer than I anticipated. The field is also very competitive, but I can’t. I just can’t. I don’t have the passion I once did in college for doing this. In college, it felt like this career was a stepping stone to a better life more opportunities etc. I don’t want any of that now. I’m chained to a desk and I get yelled at when I’m not chained to a desk. My shortcomings largely overwhelm my successes and it constantly seems like my team is adversarial. You know, you should be able to help team members, go out to lunch with them, and idk have a healthy work environment? Not trying to find who fucked up all the time. The constant anxiety of always…

Stop going to these large corporations for wage jobs, like McDonald’s, Walmart, Wendy’s, Burger King, Kroger, etc. Find locally/family owned companies looking for employees in urban areas. I used to work at a Donato’s Pizza and a Kroger that paid $8 and $10 per hour respectively. I keep looking around at other big brand name chains like McDonald’s and Subway, claiming the same BS “Up $13-16 an hour” but in reality they’ll start you at $9-10 an hour. They don’t care about their employees, they just don’t. You are merely a cog in the machine, and basically just a statistical asset to these huge corporations. Then my friend recommended this local wedding venue that he found on LinkedIn that was hiring urgently, paying $17 an hour. No BS, and even had a solid structure of a 50¢ raise every 25 shifts. They care about your community and their workers, and…

UPDATE: Hi everyone, thank you all for your comments. I decided to decline this offer and step back from childcare for the moment. I'm going to do some more research and really think about what I want to do. Thanks again! ORIGINAL POST: So I (F24) have not had a job for 5 years and I graduated in 2020 with a degree in Eng Lit. I just recently got accepted into a childcare apprenticeship but have been told that an apprentice who works there says it's awful – long hours, no time to study, bad management. Looking online it seems lots of people also have issues with childcare careers and the general advice is to avoid getting into it. The problem is, childcare is one of the only things I'm passionate about (the other being jobs relating to animals). I am almost set on declining the job offer but I…

I apologize if this isn't directly on topic for this sub, but it's in response to most of the discussion I see in posts. I find my spirit breaking. It just feels like the world has become a never ending string of evil shit. Every attempt to make things better for anyone either backfires or fails. I don't see a way out of this, short of a violent revolution, and that would probably suck even more than what we're dealing with now. How do you all keep going in this? What makes you get out of bed? Cause I find myself staring at the ceiling asking whats the point.