Antiwork

For the past month and a half I’ve been going through the process of applying and interviewing for a position. It started with a recruiter reaching out to me on LinkedIn and I have a boundary for myself that I won’t even make a phone call with a recruiter unless I know that the position is within my desired salary range and has the same amount of WFH days that I have in my current position, if not more. I am open to being fully in office as long as it pays more. So I always ask from the beginning what’s in budget for the salary and if the job is remote/hybrid/in person. In this case I was told the salary, that they are flexible about the amount, and that the role is hybrid with two days in office. Since this role has the same amount of WFH days as…

I (m40s) have worked in the food service industry since I was a teenager. I never went to post-secondary education. I live in a HCOL city and live paycheque to paycheque. I have yet to find new employment. I should be worried… for some reason I'm not. It's thanks to all of you for making me that way… Soldier on, peeps!

I'm currently finishing a contract with a long-term care pharmacy as a temporary employee, to leave and take a job as a regular employee for a job that pays more, offers comparable benefits to those of regular employees, and is closer to where I live. I don't mind the work I do, but I feel unfulfilled. When I told the temp agency about my upcoming move they countered with a pay increase of a bit over a dollar an hour, but still with no benefits or PTO. I'm a certified pharmacy technician with six years of experience and a degree in a healthcare-related field and I'm filing pills for people I'll never see for less than $18 an hour. This new job is better all around IMO.

I worked a job in an insurance company for a client services role. My training consisted of two hours of job shadowing and then being tossed into the fire with a client book of business and getting calls and emails with questions I do not know the answers to. When I asked about more training, I was told “ask questions”. But how do you know the right questions to ask? Clients/customers were getting mad at me. I was losing sleep and having heart palpatations. I stayed a year. I don't know how I did it, but it took a lot of faith. Luckily, after leaving that job I am at a better job with a full training manual/checklist.