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Doesn’t matter how much i get paid, I gotta change shit in my life. Nothing is worth this pain.
Temperature is warming up, maybe my car won’t be so bad to live out of anymore.
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The happy one of course. If possible. I never found one that was really fun, so I quit jobs. Hobbies are simply more fulfilling.
But if I HAD to, then I’d pick a badly paid funny job over a greatly paid shitty one any time. We only live once. If bills couldn’t be paid I’d need to lower bills to match my life to my pay. Not the other way round.
Retirement home User IT.
Easy hours, easy work, OK pay, appreciated everyday.
Has been my sweet spot.
Hope you find something. I worked food service at retirment place during covid and wanted to die. That dread feeling as the first thought when you wake up is no way to live a life. Good luck bb
similar - i worked as a chef for 14 years, wanted to step in front of a bus. got a job working IT at a high school and ended up with easy work, better pay easy hours and appreciation. cannot even begin to tell you how much my life has improved. don’t love it, but i don’t feel like i have to either.
I don’t need a job that brings me joy. I just need one that pays the bills and doesn’t make wanna walk into traffic after every shift.
^this really. it took me a long time and a career change to realise that i don’t need to love my job, i just need to not hate it. i no longer daydream about stepping into traffic to avoid having to go to work. i don’t make a lot of money, but enough to enjoy my life. my work isn’t particularly rewarding, but it’s not hard and i don’t take it home with me.
manager is a cheat code on your resume. a company that changed ownership or went out of business during the pandemic (probably) can’t verify your employment. get one legit job with it in your ideal field and then never acknowledge it again.
living in your car sux.
I hope things work out for you.
Could also be a business you owned for a year after getting a business license. Owned my own for a while from 2012 to 2014, and it’s been my employer on all my resumes since. I never include any shit I did after, just keep that one as if I worked there as a supervisor from 2012 to present day. Works wonders.
i like what i do, in general terms. but getting exploited and being on call 24/7 for dissapointing pay is awful. it pays the bills but is it worth it to give them your entire adult life? i dont have much choice, but still.
seems like you can’t really have both in capitalism anymore.
depends on where you are i guess. i don’t feel like this at all.
i’m on the third world, so im fucked.
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Self-employed electrician
I set my own hours, don’t have a project manager, make good money, it’ll only get better. The dream is real and I’m in it baby.
Took me a loooong time to find one that is both.
Awesome. Congrats! How’d you get there? Any tips besides “get lucky”?
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A “stable” job is a myth. I left a big employer with thousands of employees and a long history for a start-up. The start-up has been more stable than my former employer. And far more stable than the Tier 1 automotive supplier that I was at that shit down my office on no notice.
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Know what you want to do. I thrive with wide responsibilities, many hats, and full creative input (I’m in engineering). My current role has that in spades, my last place was far too silo’d and cookie cutter.
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Know where you’d want to go, keep a running list of companies you believe would be a good fit. You may not find anything there (I’d never heard of my start-up until I saw the job ad), but having an idea of where you’d go would help comparing.
Good luck, keep trying!
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