Antiwork

Everyone thinks working for a senator is some prestigious position. It’s not, there’s one person who helps the senator on legislation and everyone else acts as a glorified secretary. The pay was 40k starting and she thought she was lucky to have this job. Until they started timing her bathroom breaks, told her to just wait for a new email when she got her work done early instead of doing something else, won’t let her listen to music, or even study a different subject to boost herself. She dreads going to the office and these managers are millennials (not boomers) who have a mindset that she should be lucky to have the job. Well? She used during Monday and Friday while she works from home and got a permanently remote job as an entry level policy analyst. Fuck working for a job just for the sake of prestige. Money and…

I've had multiple I.T. jobs where I was expected to handle a lot more of a workload than the experts who are paid more and know more. I had to learn everything with little-to-no training and was yelled at by not only the people I was actively helping, but my manager. They paid me 25% less than what I was owed in my city, forced me to use my own fuel to drive places to fix things and micromanaged everything. Finally, I have a job where my manager respects me. She treats me like an equal and assigns me tasks acknowledging that she doesn't know what to do on them or how to do it. She calls me into her office to personally thank me for my hard work and if there's any time I need off to take it. Nobody is micromanaging my work, they trust me to get…

TJ Maxx is destroying me. It's exacerbating my depression. I feel like a stupid child because I still live with my parents and don't even work that many hours. I'm afraid of me being incompetent and too weak to have a stable job. I feel a lot of self hatred. I can't live like this anymore.