Antiwork

Hello! trying to make it short – was in the music industry, loved about 75% of my work, had almost no money, started to hate it, got miserable and depressed. – did a software development bootcamp to change my career, totally rocked the bootcamp, had three offers from companies and took the best one – been software developing for 2 years now, i'm not a junior employee anymore and i absolutely dont care about my work at all. my bosses are awesome, our benefits are SICK, my pay is good. i just don't care about what i put out anymore. i just do the bare bare bare minimum because i dont fucking care. ( i loved learning to code ) Has anyone ever cared for their job again after not caring for about a year? Dont even know if this is the right place to ask.

I work roughly 45-50 hours a week as a daycare assistant. It is just my boss and I. She runs a well established licensed home daycare in our town. I have been here 3 years and literally run the show while she cleans her house or goes in her room to “answer emails” aka nap. I make 11 an hour, I just feel like I'm being screwed.

We have to work from our tweenties to 65 with an low salary that wont alow us to do what we want and follow our dreams. Then obviously we have friends and get to start a family which is nice but you cant buy a house because the market is crazy and prices went up like crazy. Even 20% just last year. So you cant live on your own. Then other things are expensive aswell, like lumber and gas. Even food prices are going up. And we are just going to be okay with this? We are just going to accept how shitty the situation is. The fact that if you dont have wealthy parents or a good inheritence you cant move on with your life and move out at the ages between 20-25 without difficulties. And meanwhile you hear about how great everything was in the 80s and how…

For the blissfully unaware: the CCAT (or Cognitive Aptitude Assessment) is a bullshit “IQ” test companies try to get potential employees to take to prove they'll be a good fit for the job. It's a 50 question test that you're supposed to complete in 15 min (18 sec per question). It has questions like finish this complex pattern of shapes, solve this math problem from 8th grade, match this obscure word to its equally obscure synonym, find which of these strings of numbers has a perfect match out of 10 other strings of numbers… And worse There are all sorts of flaws in this test, obviously (being discriminatory against people with dyslexia, people whose first language isn't English, and people who didn't have traditional American education are the obvious ones), but it's also insulting. I haven't gotten an offer, I haven't spoken to anyone from the company, I don't even…