Antiwork

I have been working at a job for five years. I had worked hard and done everything they asked and worked my ass off. Recently my living situation fell apart and I asked for a salaried position to help with myself and my mom. I also pointed out that the job market was high and I would look for another job if they couldn’t promote me. That was August. December they said HR was delaying my promotion and wanted me to work as a salaried position for three months before they decided. On January 23, I found out my dad was hospitalized with COVID. He was actually dying and had a less than ten percent chance of living. I had my brother wanting to intubate him against his wishes, my mom fighting with him and trying to help deal with the rest of the family who were all fighting and…

I have been a bartender and a bar manager for the majority of my life. I was cutting dinner for the night ( veggies, garlic etc .) And I sliced my finger wide open. It took about 5 hours for it to stop bleeding. My partner was rather concerned but I just kept telling him it's cool it's a bartenders cut. It dawned on me how normalized it was to acknowledge I'm wounded and I just keep working. How many people out there have normalized being wounded on a job and just keep working?

Title explains a lot. After my second interview for a company I was told I didn't get a position due to lack of experience and “not seeing projects through.” All the examples I gave of projects, which were all the projects I worked on, were cut due to funding and the resolution was that the project wasn't implemented. I'm just frustrated because before I went to school I was told I didn't have the experience and now I'm being told the same thing.

I’m an anesthesia tech at a hospital. I make significantly less than the certified techs (i am not) despite doing 99% the same job. I’m talking 10-15$ less. Most places there is a pay difference but not a massive one, sometimes not one at all from what I hear. Whatever. They decided to increase the minimum wage to $x at the hospital. They said “anyone already making above that will be given an ‘equitable’ raise” so I found out today my “equitable” raise was 6 cents. I’m so insulted. I’m now making $1 more than people who clean the hospital and stock the warehouse. Those people were given multi dollar raises but I wasn’t even given 50 cents? I take part in codes and emergency airways. You’d think my skill set is more valuable than a dollar above the new minimum wage. Anyway, i’m livid. Is there anything I can…

As many already know, teachers everywhere are looking to leave the field. I questioned if I wanted to be a teacher while still in college, now 2 years later I’m finding it incredibly difficult to leave the profession. I’m looking into jobs like curriculum development, eLearning, instructional design, instructional facilitators etc… but I’m getting nothing back. I need some motivation to keep trying, are there any teachers out there that have made it out?