Antiwork

I work remotely for a tech company – the team I mainly work with is a mix of international and US based. We frequently have what are for me 630AM meetings (my other US members are an hour ahead so 730 – which is still too early). This was not something told to me in the interviews and if I had known I probably would not have accepted. I’m a night owl, my job is a lot of independent work so in my previous roles I would work around 9/930-12 then work again around 2/3-6/7. Waking up at 6 for this meetings has been destroying my internal schedule and day to day energy. I frequently can’t sleep for hours the night before these meetings because I’m dreading waking up. This morning I was present for the meeting but had my camera off because it was a particularly rough wake up.…

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I posted here a few weeks ago about the current situation I face regarding my employer. A short re-cap, 25 M, African descent, Fortunate enough to have had a good education, and currently Interior Architect Graduate. A short introduction to the current economic threshold here for you all, I am the youngest in the office. The rest of the team 2 Architects and 2 Engineers are well over at least 6 years older than I am. The Average salary between them is 1 Million Tanzanian Shillings ( 428.52 US dollars) per month at this point. With the highest paid being 1.2 Million Tanzanian Shillings. Laughably yes maybe, but this is the most common salary bracket for “educated” individuals. I earn 293$, pushing Tsh 650,000. (No insurance, no bonuses, Sick days a must to bring in doctor notes, working till 9pm most times) . Note: 5 employees have left the company…