Antiwork

I’m a bit of a Renaissance man. I’ve tried many different careers, from agricultural labor to baking to marine biology. I’ve worked some jobs for years, and some for a single day, but I’ve learned something new from each one. If it wasn’t a skill, it was something about myself. I’ve lived in different countries, been in school, been out of school. I obviously don’t put everything on the resume when I apply for a job, I tailor it. But I’m so tired of interviews where people more boring than me ask me to justify why I did such and such if it wasn’t related to my current career. The answer is: because I’m human! I try things out! I live life! I don’t exist to prepare myself for the boring job I need to survive. These hiring managers act like you’re supposed to have come out of the womb…

I’ve been working in the audiovisual field for the past year or so and I just had an interview at a large broadcasting company. They flew me in, paid for my hotel, rental car, even bought me lunch. I was surprised they did all that just to interview me, and I interpreted it as interest. When I interviewed with them, they told me this was a heavy travel position and I would be on the road basically 70% of the time. That sounded cool on paper, but what it means is: flight to a different city every week for a production, three days of 15-hour-plus workdays, fly home, then do it all over again the next week. All for pretty average pay compared to a 9-5 job in IT or even commercial A/V. The benefit of course is being on the cutting edge of technology and working in a stimulating…

Today I lost 4000$ because management & the union bargaining team haven’t agreed on a contract.

TLDR: I called the crisis number 988 while in a deep depressive state and the crisis rep said “sounds like you need a second job” I had a very interesting call to the crisis hotline today, after struggling for 15+ years with the stigma of mental health for men being a bad thing, I finally decided to call the crisis hotline to discuss all my overwhelming feelings of dread, self-loathing and hatred for myself as well as disclosing my mentally abusive relationship with my parents that resulted in me disowning them, a debilitating GI issue that results in blood loss through my stool, and the fact that I feel like a complete and utter failure because I just cant seem to become gainfully employed anywhere beside amazon and its a job I absolutely hate with no potential to move ahead, only constant labor and unreasonable quotas to fill, meanwhile literally…

Hi I’m a long time lurker of this subreddit and unfortunately I have a problem with my job, when I was hired at my job I negotiated a salary of 9 an hour instead of 8 an hour using advice from this very subreddit I was pretty proud of that, you guys helped me through my one of my first job interviews. But on to the problem, last year I got a raise from 9 to 10 an hour which I was very happy about since I worked very hard for it, but yesterday I was talking with my sister about how I felt like my checks were low I work Tuesday through Friday until we open back up on Monday’s and I thought that maybe since we weren’t back to the usual schedule my check was just short but nope I have an app from the actual job that…

It feels so great to reach this anniversary! My life has been great since I left a really toxic work place. I had an amazing internship over the summer where I got to travel on the weekends. Every day I think about when I quit and how free I felt and still feel. Never going back to a place like that again.