Antiwork

Hello, I am an unemployed expat in a country where it’s unrealistic for me to have a stable job , however I am looking at online courses or degrees to get a steady and well paying job in the next few years. What would a good option (if there are options?) I was looking into a teaching degree or a nursing but I can’t do the placements where I live. I am mainly interested in community housing advocacy work but I have no idea how to get into that field. I am terrible at maths and techy stuff but I wonder if there are any jobs in tech that are good for a more artistic soul? Thanks in advance. I am feeling really down about everything right now.

I wish it had been a badly done joke. But it wasn't. Some backstory first. I've been working as a “temp” for an agency of a “pop-up COVID-19 clinic” for an absurdly well-off and big name university for about 8 months now. It's been around since July of 2020. It paid well, but everything else has been… crappy. (Crappy set-up, crappy equipment, little-to-no-support, etc.) But I liked it. It was as if I found my niche and I had been excelling to the point where my manager could trust me to take equipment home and finish some work if need be! We always knew it was temporary. Or at least, hoped it would be. The pandemic, the lack of understanding of how COVID has been evolving (or rather, predictability of it), has been making it last longer and longer. A few months turned into a year, then a second year.…

I quit over two weeks ago. I only worked there about a month, because it was an overall bad working environment, they never wanted to schedule me inside my availability and the manager would not stop crossing lines between managing and harassment. I sent an email when I quit asking to be contacted via personal email or phone as to when my check will be available for pick up. I have gotten zero word, but a coworker I had there said my check had been sitting at their second location (a place I never once worked and is almost 2 hours out of the way) and if I didn’t sign a paper they would mail it to an unverified address. Unverified because they never once verified with me what address and my mailing is not the same and my physical. They told all their to a coworker, not me. I…

Hey friends, So I got a soft offer from my dream job recently (YAY). Basically they said they would love to offer me the job and I have a meeting set up on Tuesday to talk details of the job offer. My dilemma is this: one of the job posting requirements was a bachelor's degree. I have over 2 years of experience with this kind of work, and because I've been working full-time with a part-time job as well, I'm only able to do 2-3 classes a semester. I emailed them about this asking if they could be flexible about that requirement, and they said “I can absolutely be flexible, but if you actually started before having the BA, I might not be able to pay at the same salary until you had it.” This didn't deter me from applying, considering my current work environment is incredibly toxic and I…

Minimum wage here is 15 and hour but legally if you’re under 18 all they have to be payed is 13. Do you agree that being a teenager means that you have less value working a simple job such as a cashier (I work customer service)? Im 17, go to school, rent my own place, and pay my own bills. What makes me any different?