Antiwork

looooong story time, TLDR at the bottom I'm a mechanical engineer and loved everything about my job. The first job in a long time where I had the chilliest boss ever and meaningful work I was excited about most of the time. He would have been top 3 out of the 5 reasons why I loved my job.i learned so much from him and I would have stayed there working for him for a long time. It was a small engineering firm that makes big custom machines for making plastic pouches, and my boss had been in that industry a looooong time and was the smartest man in the building by a long shot. He was really important around the office, everyone relied on him for a lot of things and he also handled most of the computer and IT problems. But a tragedy happened, just after returning from the…

– It legitimately feels like every single job I'm applying for is a union job – The average salaries offered are far higher (Also I looked it up and found that the minimum wage is $44,252.00 per year) – About 40% of income is taken out as taxes, but at the end of the day my family and I get free healthcare, my children will GET PAID to go to college, I'm guaranteed 52 weeks of parental leave (32 of which are fully paid), and five weeks of paid vacation every year. ​ The new American Dream is to leave America.