Antiwork

Assuming you'll have enough to live on, but money will be really tight that year. Also assume that your boss is likely to welcome you back. (I think we need suspension of disbelief here.) Asking for a friend.

I've been at this company for 22 years. I'm a college grad, but this isn't what I went to school for or anything. It was a low-level job that I took to have an income, and I've just stayed . . . and stayed. I kept having duties put on me over the years and became a supervisor, then manager, went from hourly to salary in 2020 when a few people were let go due to the pandemic downturn. Currently I'm making more money than I ever have and our company switched to an “unlimited” vacation allotment, although within reason. We work from home (since 2020) except for one day a week. Despite this, I'm miserable. I've wanted to quit basically since I started, but I have no ambition. I'm not anti-work, but I feel that something is wrong with me personally at the moment. My concentration is bad, I'm…

I took a job almost three months ago now that was supposed to be two weeks of freelance then a full-time offer. They've been telling me since September 30th the offer was “coming this week.” It's never going to come. I get paid by check, and I've only been paid three times because the checks take so long to come by mail. No benefits. No PTO. I am going to have to start from scratch again on the job hunt because this isn't sustainable. There was never a full-time offer coming at all, I'm realizing. I'm an idiot. Realizing this made me confront how completely over my life — as I saw it — is at this point. I'm 33. I got laid off in the pandemic, and again earlier this year during that round of big tech layoffs. I'm functionally unemployable when you look at my resume because of…