Antiwork

I have an English degree, despite everyone warning me against it. I was a library assistant, but I recently moved and need a new job. I want to work at the library, and I've applied over ten times, but I don't even get a reply. I have applied to every book store in town, every university, every elementary school that has a listing. I am so exhausted of re-entering the same information over and over. I am broken, and I'm mad, because not even a retailer like Barnes & Noble will email me a rejection. The only place that's replied is this laser tag job I applied to out of desperation. I have an interview tomorrow. So I'm already bummed this is what a degree gets you, and my mom calls and says I really shouldn't be doing that at my age (30). My sister messages me like, “Have you…

I don’t even mind my job. It’s part-time at a pub, which yeah sucks, but as far as part-time jobs go, it’s not the worst. The people aren’t horrible, and it’s easy enough. Even still, I find that every day before my shift, I get so intensely depressed. I already have mental health issues, so it just makes me worse and basically unable to do anything else except dread going in, or just wanting to die because I have to go in. I’m in school at the same time and the burnout is real because I use up all my energy just trying to hype myself into going to work or getting through my shift. Sometimes I have to go in drunk just so I’m not miserable the entire time. Idk how I’m ever going to function in ‘real life’, after uni. The thought of working anywhere for more than…

If a job doesn’t need a specific degree, it can probably be performed just as well by someone without one. My thinking is, they want people they know have massive debt, especially if they are young. They probably think these people will be willing to put up with more crap, because they are more desperate.

My wife and I both lost our jobs due to the business giving higher and higher expectations back in july of 2020. We could no longer keep up and our numbers slipped under what was 'acceptable'. We've been applying everywhere we can but havent heard back from anyone. I'm starting to get calls back now but it is to late. Our government assitance has run out. We can't afford our rent this month and are already behind on electric and phone bills. Doordash and uber have kept one meal a day on the table for us both but we're out of options. We've decided to buy a tent, sell anything of value (a few game consoles and a small t.v.) and find a place that we can hunker down. Fingers crossed a job comes in soon and this is only temporary. Her family is unsupportive cause we're two woman and…

I am a health care professional, but I work for a call center (it’s a medical job, but has customer service elements to it). I’m in the process of interviewing for jobs, because my pay is way below the acceptable range for someone with my credentials, and frankly, no one wants to work in a call center. It has been extremely difficult finagling time to interview. When I am at work I am expected to take calls, I am not allowed to have down time for other things. I have been getting away with things by using my lunch for interviews, but many of my interviews are long, like 1.5 hours, so I can only take them by taking time off. I suspect my employer knows I’m trying to get out, because almost every time I try and take a half day/whole day I get denied. I am required to…