Antiwork

Colorado College, a small, and very pretentious liberal arts private college in Colorado Springs, CO, pays administrative assistants barely more than Walmart pays its cashiers. I manage multiple departments and not only is the pay shit, but my job is only for 9 months out of the year. I don’t get paid for summers, that’s right! Recently the new president has started a campaign of “improvement,” forcing mandatory meetings on staff to get their opinion on what the college can “do better.” You must be fucking joking right? How about paying people what they’re actually worth? The turnover rate in these positions is very high because who wants to do this essential, important work for the same wage as a walmart shelf stocker? Needless to say, I am currently job hunting as well. Oh and for context, the cost of tuition here is a bit over $60k PER YEAR. The…

That answer shocked me. My mom was a stereotypical business woman in the 80s and 90s, wearing big shoulder pads and butting heads with the boys in the office. Both she and my dad made great money at the time, and she was the bread winner. She was very serious about her job. Of course having two working parents means I was basically raised by nannies until I was a teenager. My parents would get home from work, exhausted, and I'd really only get to see them on weekends (If they weren't too tired to do anything). So on her 60th birthday recently I asked her to shed some perspective on what she's learned in all her years on Earth. The fact that she regrets being a career woman and would've preferred to raise me herself was an absolute shock. I see a lot of millennial and Gen X women…

I'm a recently graduated software developer and I'm currently hunting for a job. Porn account cause I don't want this post held against me. Shortly after sending in an application to a company, I was sent a link to a website and told to complete the tasks they asked of me to complete my job application. At first, the company asks you to make a simple website in React that uses external REST API (basically, a website that takes its data from somewhere else). This only took me 2-3 days but then they gave me a second task that I've been working on for a week and a few days, putting 30+ hours into it, and they have not indicated what the end point of the project is. All they say is that it should be less than 2 weeks of work. I'm also not allowed to make the project…

Does anyone else work in higher ed (specifically in the US)? I'm on staff in an academic role, and it can be really frustrating. I enjoy what I do, I get to impact students, teach, and support academic labs. However the pay is really crappy and I am not really able to be saving any money. I appreciate that I make enough for living expenses, but I won't be able to go to grad school without massive debt, easily move out of the area, or handle a major surprise expense. Does anyone else deal with this??