Antiwork

Ive been struggling with keeping the motivation to work fulltime for years, never truly feeling satisfied or fulfilled in any role. Typical millennial only lasting 2 years max in a role but many only 1 year. I have a couple more months before i start maternity leave and i cant wait. Ive been looking forward to this for years as i feel its my only escape. (I do also want children, im not only having kids to not work) I do work in mental health so the burnout is real but overall, i just want to not work. I want to do things i enjoy and focus on my non work life. I am constantly distracted when at work and want to do anything else, like read, hike, see friends, learn, cook new things, plan weekends away and activities. I dont know if ill ever want to go back to…

There are too many companies out there (mostly fast food/retail) that only hire part time for the majority of their workers and don't give them any benefits to try and save a buck, and then complain that no one wants to work. They are so greedy that they don't realize if they would just take care of their employees then they would retain more, and would probably be spending less in the long run. It's so frustrating trying to look for jobs and everything is part time. That means you'd have to work two or three jobs and work around shitty scheduling in order to get by. So yeah, there's plenty of jobs out there, but none of them are worth being a slave for.

The company I work for pays for our medical premiums so all we pay is co-pays and out of pocket expenses. It’s honestly a huge blessing. I was 6 months pregnant and became severely dehydrated, throwing up so much that I started to continually throw up bile. It went on for a long enough time until I couldn’t feel the baby moving anymore. Went to the ER and was able to get the vomiting under control, increase my fluids and confirmed via ultrasound baby was not negatively impacted. Such a huge relief. A few weeks later the HR executive and CEO have a company wide meeting to tell employees if they want the company to keep paying for medical premiums, then employees had to “help” reduce costs by having a primary doctor instead of using emergency care. Okay, that makes sense I thought. Then they added, “for example going to…