Antiwork

Since January I've submitted applications to probably 600+ roles for companies that are 'urgently hiring' or 'desperately seeking to fill' or just in general. 600+ resumes and applications. Countless hours spent pulling my hair out trying to revamp and revamp my resume and LinkedIn profile, so that I can fit into the algorithm boxes. Thankfully I was able to network a little and found an amazing career coach who took me under his wing and has been helping immensely with it all. He's completely redone my resume, profile, and professional presence entirely, which has taken a epic amount of stress off me. But… I'm still not getting call backs. I had interviewed and accepted the offer from one company last week, and they were supposed to send out my equipment, but today I got an email saying that they decided to cancel the project, before they even got started. I…

I’m 26. I want to be successful and am a very driven person but all college degrees do not interest me (I thought of accounting but I don’t want to slave away my life) and I don’t want to work at a dead-end, low income job and waste my freedom. Figuring out life is hard. I want financial freedom but not a job where I have to wait for the weekend to enjoy life. I apologize if I sound so privileged or bashing someone who works a minimum wage job, I truly don’t mean it like that.

So in an effort to achieve more work-life balance and reduce my stress after losing a parent I left my old job of almost 10 years to come work at a more chill organization. I had to accept a temp job to get in and the first months were absolute bliss. A permanent role came up and I applied for that and was successful. Kept all the perks and got a modest raise. Unfortunately the job is quite literally 10x the amount of work and now I'm right back where I started – stressed out and unable to detach from thoughts about work during my personal time. I'm terrified of admitting this to my boss but I'm planning on having 'the talk' today about voluntarily taking a demotion. Wish me luck – any tips?

My boss and I are going to an out of state meeting that starts at 8am, at a location about 150 miles away, then we’ll drive back. Once we’re back, they expect me to continue working from the office until 5pm when we get back.

Like the title says my job has been pressuring me and other workers to sign up for their subscription service and I was wondering if this is actually something I have to do? Tbf it's free for workers but I have no reason to use it so I figured it be a waste so I decided to not sign up for it and now I'm getting bothered about it at work and now on my day off (literally 2 minutes ago). And in case anyone asks I don't believe I signed anything saying I would do something like that since the service wasn't a thing till like a year after I was hired.

Had a job interview several years back for a large publicly traded company. During the initial phone screen the hiring manager asked me “Do you know who the CEO of our company is?” No, why the fuck would I care who the CEO is? I found your posting on Indeed and I’m looking for a job. Who your CEO is, is irrelevant to me. Seriously the dumbest question I’ve ever been asked on an interview. They still asked me to go come in for the in person interview. I didn’t get the job. Probably dodged a bullet.

Title sums it up. So many companies frame their high turn over as “only the strong survive, look at how awesome you are for making it here, not many can do that” your getting exploited. You might be a super hard worker, and good for you, but their is no such thing as “an elite few”. People leave places that over work them. Your allowed to work in a place where your not in fight or flight to “perform adequately”. -edited for grammar