Antiwork

I posted a little while back saying how I was becoming disheartened with the job search, I recently had an interview that went great. The team and boss seemed lovely and it was everything I was hoping to find, I was really excited about it. I went in today to sort out my contract, payment details etc. I was there for about an hour when I asked about the uniform, to then be told I would have to remove my lip piercing.. I was told I would be able to wear a retainer as long as it is clear and not visible.. which I suppose is fine. But I am very frustrated about this. I have spoken to them and been seen in person multiple times, and no one said a word. Even went as far as having me sign an agreement and give over bank details. I know places…

So my owner has 4 locations and each location has a store manager who’s responsibility is to well. Run the store. Do orders, deposits, interviews, make choices regarding hours/hiring. Ya know. The whole sha bang. But then he promoted someone to area manager. This girl is insane for lack of better words. She is a helicopter supervisor. She has taken over every detail of every store. She controls all of our hiring, schedules, orders, hourly load, and just does things without telling us and forces us to fit it in. I am over staffed rn. Don’t have any extra hours to go around. What does she do? Hires a new person and promises them 35 hours a week. But I don’t have any room for them at all? She won’t even order what we need to run the store. She deems what she thinks is needed and takes stuff off…

30 year old man. Unemployed 1 month. So nervous I’m puking.

I am sick of hearing this. How on Earth is me not wanting to work a job I hate a bad attitude. Is it really so wrong to prioritise happiness over money? In all fairness, I’m only young and havnt got much work experience so far. But the jobs I have worked I left within a month because I hated them. I’ve worked longer hours volunteering doing things I enjoy and had no issue. But anyone I mention this to says I just have a bad work attitude and ‘that pay check makes it all worth it.’ Maybe to you but not to me. That pay check makes me angry, makes me think about all the time I could have spent doing something I enjoy. I truly hate the work mentality my country has. Work for the sake of working, work to make money, so you can occasionally do something…

For the record: I am in my fifth year of design college (had to go two semesters longer cause of the rona) I am turning 25 and never had a fulltime paid job outside of high school, nor did I work part time in employment. You heard right. I am not coming from priviledged background, infact I am living of off “student support” for students from poverty. I suffer from severe anxiety, ADHD and chronic physical illness. Most of my semester breaks were filled with essays, deadlines and in my case, surgeries. My fiance works part time. We get by quite good. We have a simple life. My first two years of college were so cramped with courses and deadlines it was crazy. Our professors urged us to NOT work during those years cause we will not be able to catch up. And boy, were they right. Now, to the…

“You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.” ― David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework TLDR: David Heinemeier Hansson and Yvon Chouinard are great rolemodels for living simply and balanced work, especially for entrepreneurs. I'm Scandinavian and come from a very different and balanced work culture incomparable to the US. First of all by just working a blue-collar job fulltime(37 hours pr week), you can live a high quality life and even save up enough to buy property in the countryside. So I do have a lot of advantages that most would find hard to recreate. I just wanted to tell you as a young entrepreneur and fulltime MA Student ranking up debt, I'm so happy for the life I'm living and continuously creating. I don't work crazy hours like most other entrepreneurs or people who work insanely much in order to save up for living free in a…

Is it better to quit your job or wait to be fired?