Antiwork

I don’t know if I should feel guilty about calling out after a two week vacation. I’m slightly jaded by my work, I was hired to be on 4 days a week as a controls project engineer and took a 16k pay cut for the schedule I desired- puts me 19k below my states average salary rate for a controls project engineer. after training for 6 months my boss tells me he has no recollection of my 4 day scheduling agreement, and because I’m salary it didn’t specify scheduling in my offer letter. This is partially my mistake by signing that but I was being young and naive to believe they’d stick to their word. My reason for calling out today is because it snowed last night and snowboarding is my favorite activity.

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I've switched careers from culinary to IT. I have about 4 years of prior IT experience before I went to culinary, but I found a position that was too good to pass up. I get to work from home or in-office whenever I want, it's salary compared to hourly, everything infrastructure wise is set up so neatly, the company pays for my medical and dental insurance, and I jumped about $11k a year by taking this position. I learned yesterday that they actually hired two of us. The other person would be starting on the 16th. I was told they didn't really have the work load currently for two of us, but that he felt it would be better to hire both of us, give us that space to get comfortable and learn everything before it gets busier (the company is currently growing). I couldn't be happier with this career…

I just need to rant a little. I had my yearly review yesterday. My supervisors had only good things to say. I mean serious praise, thanking me for how how well managed my files are and how smoothly and quickly my close outs are done. Meeting ends and I get my letter with my raise figures 2.86% Not even fucking 3% which is still garbage but at least it's the norm. I am worth less then the standard 3%. And the worst part is I already know if I go anywhere else it'll be just as bad. I've already reached out to others in my field and there are no greener grounds. Quitting just isn't an option, I have a mortgage and an injured husband out on disability. I'm 42 years old and the idea of living this way for over 20 more years is debilitating.

I've been working in manufacturing my whole adult life. This year after burning out and losing a job I tried looking for a different career path. My one rule was “no factories/plants” I ended up landing a great paying job in a tech company and for the first time in my adult life Im being treated like a human being with a life outside of work! Just an example, my wife was sick on our second month and I decided to try and work from home to take care of the kids. Not only did my boss approve but showed genuine concern. Get out of the factories. No plant will ever treat you like a human being and anyone aspiring to management roles will have their human empathy stamped out of them ( I started as an assembler and worked my way up to engineer manager. Was not a human…