After disliking every job I've had since graduating from college, I really thought this one would be different…I recently moved 15 hours away to work for a non-profit. I'm doing exactly what I studied in college (it's pretty niche), I felt really good about the interview process, and I upended my entire life to move for this job. I left my longest relationship, subleased my apartment, quit my higher paying job. All to find out I was stepping into an awful situation with upper management. I worked at the new job for three weeks before my manager/mentor was fired for “insubordination.” Come to find out, twenty-two people have left or been fired in the last six months (with a total staff of about sixty). We're in the midst of trying to unionize and upper management & the board of directors are actively union busting. Three union organizers were fired within a month, including two people in my department. I was transferred to a different department for a week (informed of this through email) and upper management refused to talk to me during that time. I've really tried to roll with it because I love the actual work I get to do (when I'm actually doing my job and not someone else's), but I find myself coming home and stressing about if I did something that will make me the next target. To make all of this worse, we have a closed board of directors which means that employees contacting board members is a fireable offense. I'm quite honestly only staying because I want to see the union go through. But every day I feel more and more like I'm failing as an adult. I feel like I'll never be happy or even feel at peace when my entire life for the foreseeable future is dictated by making money so I can continue to keep myself alive long enough to make more money. I'm just sick of being exploited and treated like trash (especially by non-profits!!) and it feels like the cycle will never end.