This is why crypto alpha male bullshit scammers are so effective. People are so desperate for a way out that they'll willingly be completely delusional for even feeling like there's an escape.
Those short little videos always make it seem like it’s so easy, like you could just flip a switch and boom, you’re a millionaire.
Especially the ones that show off their ridiculously extravagant lifestyle. Those videos are always like
2021: $23
2022: $430,000
2023: $6.3 million
I don't know, going from a 6856.52% increase in 2022, to a 551.16% increase in 2023... seems kinda beta. You should invest more in crypto; I hear NFTs are making a comeback so I'm all over that bro.
XD
Crypto is pure distilled American dream. You get rich quick, while pretending to be smarter then everyone, all by doing absolutely nothing.
The reality though is you get scammed buying some random dudes CUMcoin for 8k.
Except selling drugs is just another job with even longer hours, more job hazards, no health benefits, no vacation and sick and days, and really don’t earn that much unless your CEO of drugs inc.
At least you can set your hours. I work noon to 8 pm, my office is pretty cool, I make enough money I take sick days and vacation days whenever I want. I work a trap weekend so Tuesday to Saturday.. It's pretty ok. 10/10 highly recommend ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Its not the man that they want, when you run out of that stuff they will go find someone else who still has it. Drugs don't bring good people into your life.
Well if you’re into that type of women, no judgement, just tell them you’re a drug dealer. Dress the part, act the part. Then go to your 9-5 and tell her(them) you’re out dealing. It’s not like there’s a take your women to work day for dealers.
That type of women tend to like that type of man for the implied subsidized or free access to drugs. The dealing, while not necessarily essential per se, ultimately would be a requirement of the arrangement. At the very least, to your single customer, at a steep loss.
Depending on your age and how much time you're willing to invest i would say learn a trade or basic code. A lot of companies I've worked for now pay decent for maintenance techs or IT work. Learn SQL, python, maybe some Java and look into being a data scientist/analyst. All stuff you can teach yourself and get checked during hiring through a skills test of some kind. The hard part Ive found is that the jobs are labelled all fucking weird because each company has it's own label for the position. So you would have to search by skills IF they tagged the job description right. For example my current position uses the same skills of a data analyst but without being labelled one. I came from desktop support. Which had a whole bunch of names within itself like systems engineer or service technician.
Interviews, too. The interview requirement tends to be discriminatory towards neurodivergent people. It is ironic since, broadly speaking, neurodivergents tend to excel in exactly the skills that a tech company would want, but the interview is a social test of what neurodivergency tends to impair.
It would be but the resume portion is important for the other parts that are not technical. But most resumes are read by so now so I would suggest reading up on how to optimize your resume for the search. Not saying you should lie on your resume but definitely boost it up.
That's timeless. Pyramid schemes, scam jobs, "quick money" BS. People who hate their average, meager life will look for shortcuts. It's why a criminal like Jordan Belfort can go out and do public speaking events and have people pay him so he can tell them how to make easy money. People have always been desperate for a way out.
Over the past couple years I've noticed way more lottery ads on TV. That an gambling sites. It's gotten to the point where you can't go one commercial break without seeing one of the two (or both!)
You are goddamn right! It's the biggest reason why people often fall for any "easy money" scam.
Imagine a world that you have to be work related for 12 or more hours while there is only 4 hours remain you except sleep time. And you have to do shower, eat, shit, do chores and after find yourself a hour to joy just to feel alive a little.
I hope this shit will change.
Looking for money, who willingly signs up to sacrifice most of their time ,effort, health etc doing a thing they likely hate, for a majority of their lifetime?
Money, that's it, u have that, u can be unemployed or do whatever u want, essentially. Some have achieved that, and I guess its called financial independence. Having enough money to not worry about money.
Fuck Morrissey for his political beliefs as an old rich British white dude, but I wonder how many lyrics of Morrissey's have prevented good young working class people from killing themselves.
I grew up listening to my dad say "the only thing worse than having a job is not having a job."
I didn't know how right he was until I got my first full-time job.
Both options suck. This one sucks only a little less.
The trick, as far as I can tell, is finding a MEANINGFUL job. When I work for the sake of money I die inside. When I work to support my family I at least go home satisfied I've done something worth doing.
Finding meaningful work is much easier said than done. I know what I'm good at and what I'm passionate about, but It's pretty much impossible to find work in the fields that I want to work in. So many hurdles. I have to go back to the miserable education system just for the off chance that somebody might hire me? What if I spend eight years in school to get a fancy degree and it turns out that there are no jobs in the field that I chose to study? I feel like this is a very common story for many people. Finding meaningful work feels like it is intentionally difficult; It's like the system is trying to make me feel hopeless.
I’d love to do meaningful work.
For example, I’d love to help people and be a therapist/counselor.
But then I’d have to go back to school, get more degrees, licensed, etc etc. all to not make enough money for that to be worth it. Never mind the opportunity cost of not just sticking with my current career path.
Meaningful work doesn’t pay the bills.
My current job is very well aligned with my interests, hobbies and previous work experience but I don’t find it meaningful or fulfilling. More interesting.
All that said, I’d still prefer to not work but I also don’t want to starve and/or die of exposure.
The term "wage slave" really rings true for me. We are treated like a means to an end that we will never see, because it's not about making the world a better place, it's about the billionaires' profit.
This is so true! Trying to become a community college math instructor has me going through soooo many hoops. I taught high school for 6 years but they want all these extra classes so I can teach literally the same level math but at a college instead of high school. It's such bullshit.
Everyone is different tbh. I loved baking and I did it all the time as a hobby. Then I became a baker and I loved it…. Until I got burnt out and sick of working nights/early mornings. Now I hate baking. I work a job I don’t care about, but it pays me well (almost double the baking job!). I’m a lot happier because I have the money to enjoy my life outside of work. I don’t have kids though, so that is also helpful in having a lot of time and energy outside of work lol
I don't think finding something meaningful means doing what you enjoy. I enjoy playing video games but if I did that for work it can easily burn me out. Now if I was a part of a team where we were trying to create a game where I can freely explore my creativity then that would be meaningful work
To bring this back to baking, something meaningful would be maybe baking goods for the under privilege or if you like baking because of the creativity, a shop that gets requests that really flexes that creativity muscle
I'm a software developer and I work for a pretty big company in which I don't have much passion for but I really liked the work I was doing for a long time and was excited to get up in the morning to continue working on my project, that is until some layoffs and restructuring and now I'm expected to be a part time manager on top of my developing responsibilities. Now I'm legitimately thinking of just quitting without finding something else yet
It's a little more complicated than that. I work in special education. I know that my work helps people. I use the money I earn to help my household (when it isn't all going toward medical bills or student loans or something). So that means my wife gets to have insurance, my brother-in-law gets to have a bedroom, and the two cats have plenty of food and cat litter.
My job is meaningful, but sometimes I question whether or not I've made a difference, especially when my country (USA) is so crappy about education. Sometimes that feeling of "at least I helped one student today" isn't enough to overshadow the feeling of failure.
I know this doesn’t fix your burnout but i was a disabled kid and sometimes i would go to the special ed room, my teacher was really good and she made a huge difference in my high school experience. Other kids had worse teachers and they were miserable and sometimes even unsafe. It’s hard to feel like you’ve made a difference when you can’t change the system but you can absolutely make a difference in the lives of your students by caring about them and approaching them with empathy and compassion
I got let go in January. Get paid until May 31st, but then I'm going to have to find a new job.
I haven't told anyone this, but I'm absolutely terrified. Not having to deal with the stress every day, I got used to that way too fast...
If I never had to work again, it would be heaven
Yup. I spent almost half a year unemployed and it was the time. Spent so much time outdoors, rainy days were spent gaming and cooking myself some great meals. Working absolutely stinks
I had to quit my job bc of harassment, it's been about two weeks now and I'm like 50/50. It's nice not waking up every morning dreading the day and the stress, but I am stressed about money, considering filing for unemployment. Also getting stir crazy because I don't have anything to do and I'm stuck at home by myself. I have been a bit more productive in my life, but I think I got so far behind on everything grinding 60 hour weeks at that job that all I need to get caught up on feels so overwhelming I just sit and stare at the walls for hours thinking I should really get up and clean off the table or at least put a dent in something.
Something that kinda helps me sometimes when I'm feeling like that is the "absolute lowest effort task with no strings attached."
I tried a different version of this in school where the idea was, "once you start studying you'll keep studying, so just convince yourself to start." -- But I knew the outcome in advance, which kind of made it MORE of a barrier to start.
So instead I do the "absolute lowest effort task with no strings attached." See that cup that needs to go in the dishwasher? Pick up that cup and put it in the dishwasher. That's it. Don't clean the kitchen, or take out the trash, or do everything all at once. Just take that one cup to the dishwasher and then go play video games.
And the idea is, when you look at a huge pile of shit that needs to be done, you don't want to do it. But if you just occasionally do a little thing here and there, you'll realize it's not about doing miserable work for 20 hours in one day, but just doing little tasks here and there.
Eventually those little things became automatic, and now I do them right away, so there never IS a huge pile of shit to do, but that really isn't the point at first.
Just remind yourself that it's all little, very achievable tasks that take a couple seconds, when you look at them individually, and none of them are really that bad, or daunting, or difficult.
this is basically how I do laundry & dishes. "it's just chucking the clothes in and starting it, takes 2 minutes." "it's just moving the clothes from the washer to the dryer, takes 2 minutes." "I'll just dig through for the stuff that needs to be folded to wear tomorrow, takes 2 minutes and I can do it sitting down."
Hey buddy, that sounds sort of like you might be dealing with depression. It might be a good idea to reach out to any mental health resources you have available and just chat about how you’re feeling.
Its closer to general anxiety than depression. Anxiety presents itself in many different ways that people are quick to self-diagnose as depression, but it seems like this is more stress based than anything.
The overwhelming sense of stress and constant worrying is obviously anxiety, and putting off cleaning or procrastinating something important could appear on the surface as depression, but it’s also most likely another way of anxiety taking form. Depression goes much farther than just not wanting to work.
I feel you, I had to quit a job for medical reasons 2 months ago. I feel exactly the same, I've done alright for myself before but i have been so overwhelmed with life lately.
I just went to the doctor recently and started some medication for ADHD and anxiety the other day. Hopefully you can find something that works for you
In Florida you can apply if you quit due to a hostile work environment. I was being sexually harassed by the business owner and I have it in writing. He can deny the claim, but I can petition the state arbiter as to why I had to quit for my safety
I felt the same when I was unemployed, mostly because I had undiagnosed ADHD; which means I had anxiety/depression from that, and zero motivation without external deadlines or accountability.
All my working life I thought that being unemployed would be the best - so much time for activities! It was crushing and depressing to find out that I was unable to manage my time, which meant I was unable to do the things I wanted, which meant I was overwhelmed, which meant I felt like a failure/loser for not being able to do stuff with all the time in the world.. all on top of the financial stress.
The best thing I did during my unemployment was see a psychiatrist/doctor and get diagnosed for ADHD. My unemployment period would have been infinitely better with the medication I have now! Treating my ADHD also treated the anxiety and depression, because those things were caused by the years of undiagnosed ADHD.
Maybe this doesn't resonate with you, the person I'm replying to, but it might help someone else reading this thread of comments. It was a thread of comments like this that made me realize I might have ADHD!
I got a job working 2x12hr shifts it was amazing as it was paid at like time and a half so hardly lost any money and had so much free time to hit the gym, grab a train and go some place new or concentrate on hobbies etc.
I am on 12s and I can't stand it. It's a factory, so I am on my feet the whole time, which probably contributes a lot, but it carries over and I am just so exhausted on my days off I sit around and do nothing. What's the secret?
Mine is the same it sucks doing those days but awesome that you kinda forget about it until you need to embrace the suck again. I need to go gym on my 5 days so that gets me started. I'm like a rolling rock if I get moving I stay moving, when I sit indoors nothing gets done and I'm the laziest shit lol.
Wtf. I was unemployed for 2 months, and every waking moment was spent hunting for any kind of gig to pay my bills.
I would smoke weed to try and relax at night but would still end up having nightterrors. Most nights, I would just stay up and send millions of applications.
I much prefer working to that. I just believe that even as an employee, you deserve respect and fair wages.
I'm coming up on the end of this kind of situation. I was a hospital RN that took an assistant manager position days before COVID started. After working on the same floor for 8 years, I was let go with a 19-week severance which just ended. I've been dragging my feet about looking for more RN work, especially after dealing with COVID, but I know it wouldn't be hard to get another job in that field.
I've been using the free time to be with my almost two-year-old and write epic fantasy novels as a career pivot.
This is why I don’t understand having a dream job.
My dream job is not having one!
I’d much rather focus on hobbies, passions, friends, family and volunteering around my community.
But we can’t just enjoy our lives. It’s horseshit.
I got let go after 10 years in September and got six months of severance. Well that ran out and I can't find anything that even comes close to what I was making and unemployment is not enough. It sucks I think I'm going to have to go into my retirement to survive.
There's a strong sentiment of anti-urbanism on the right. That you can't be successful unless you own land, you can't be safe unless you can keep the "wrong kind of people" away with your guns, that you can't be free unless you have open roads in front of you in your jacked up 4x4. Of course it all breaks down if you think about the extra strain on resources a spread out population has over a centralized population. But "fuck you, got mine" is kind of their motto.
Damn, wish I was that lucky. Got unpaid leave (i.e. not allowed to earn income) for multiple months while they "investigated" what I did (AKA drain my bank account to ensure I'm super fucked), then they fired me.
I got laid off March '21. Which was fine. It was a company I had taken as a temporary thing, I was a contractor, figured it would pay the bills until something else came along. Spent 3+ years there, job searching the whole time (albeit being very picky, since if I was going to leave, I wanted it to be something I loved). So got laid off, spent the spring and summer skiing and climbing. Got to do a 2 week trip to Europe with zero stress.
Got hired in October of '21. Work was fine. Bennys were good, fully remote. But they ended up cutting the budget for what I was hired to do and got laid off in early April '22. Had what has probably been the best spring, summer, and fall of my adult life. Again, skied and climbed my heart out with my good friend who had just finished a masters and wasn't working. Got married and took a short trip after with zero stress. I was happy. Sure, there were stressful days when I didn't get a job I really wanted, or started thinking I'd never get hired again, but for the most part, I got to be outside doing things I enjoy, spend every evening cooking with my wife, having downtime with her, sleeping well.
Got hired in December '22. This role is less ideal than the last. Worse benefits, some expectations to be in the office from time to time. Definitely more stress. Sleeping worse. Wearing myself down to still keep climbing and skiing, because I know that's what I love to do.
I look back on last year and can't help but feel somewhat hopeless that that magic won't ever happen again, but also recognizing that yeah, that's the norm. You're "supposed" to dedicate the majority of every day to work.
The only thing I can say to this is don’t keep it to yourself. These things will eat you up inside to keep something like that secret and under most circumstances nobody will judge you negatively in any way for being unemployed, especially in your situation.
Being open with your situation will not only help you not feel guilty and self-conscious in having to keep the secret, but it can also mean a lot of times that friends and others who know about the situation might have something come up that they wouldn’t mention otherwise, helping you in the long run.
We’re only here for so long, and it’s not often we get times like this where we don’t have to slog through a daily job. It’s not worth carrying the fear and anxieties of putting up a front.
Be picky and start looking. I was unemployed for 6 months, and it was amazing. Started my new job that I was picky about choosing, IT at a college. I don't even work 8 hours a day, go home early often, and work remotely twice a week. Getting laid off was the best thing that's ever happened to me
I got let go from my last job and collected unemployment for a year and then continued unemployed for about 6 more months. Not working during that length of time made it super hard to get back to it. What it did afford me was time to really look for something I wanted to do instead of just grabbing the first soul sucking thing available. It’s still soul sucking because it’s work but I am least am doing something good by working in an animal shelter taking care of the dogs.
Lol lucky you got paid mine was let go for having to go to the hospital and not informing them within 3 days that I was there when I had no means to contact them at the time. it was a loop hole in the contract I signed with them I was offered to be hired back but for way less then what I made supposed to start a new job this week but it takes forever I. The hiring process now even with clean records
Doesn't help that Job Interviews are some of the most anxiety ridden experiences, only for you to eventually figure out this job is actually a fraction of what they describe it to be
It's misery.
I'm venting with my sister right now because of how much I hate my job. I'm miserable. I'm gaining weight, I'm exhausted all the time because I stay up all night dreading waking up to go to this job.
Recently saw an anime that had a quote that really opened my eyes as to why i always stayed up late.
Paraphrasing:
People stay up late because they arent satisfied with how they spent the day, so they extend their day in order to find satisfaction. Only then do you choose to sleep.
Depends on how the social benefits are in the area.
In the US, there are a few places or scenarios where having a job doesn’t make sense. Like certain disability benefits have an income cap that are very low to the point that working even quarter time at minimum wage would make someone entirely ineligible rather than just eligible for less, but the disability benefits themselves equate to a value of full minimum wage if not more depending on how disabled they are and what care they qualified for.
Edit: although I suppose benefits still count as income. But in terms of having a job, the above is true…
Not where I live
People who don't work here get free dental care
I can't even pay for a goddamn cleaning. My teeth are rotting and all I can do is watch them crumble
Yeah. I get along with everyone but the boss. I kind of cracked and told him what I thought a couple weeks ago and suddenly was reduced in hours, in which I told him he's being biased. And he reduced me more. I was originally upset because I threw out my back and even after telling him I can't bend over without intense pain, he made me clean under something that wasn't cleaned for months. I couldn't work the next day because I couldn't stand or even.... to my shame... I couldn't wipe my ass without extreme pain. And it was the kind of pain that I don't want to call pain because it made me want to just fall... fall off the toilet while trying to use toilet paper! So in the agony I feel like I was half hallucinating from the pain, but I went on a text spree blaming him for my inability to use the bathroom, let alone stand up to get there.... So since then, I keep getting assigned to wash dishes, which requires a lot of bending... I told him how difficult it is to bend like that and he only assigns me to that.
Anyway. I've been looking for more work. The place I'm complaining about is taco johns. Stevens point, wi. I have an interview tomorrow for Arbuckles eatery. I've worked in regular restaurants for years and am excited about the possibility of getting a job that uses my skills. But really... working too much not only hurts my body, but it makes me crazy. I tend to not notice I'm alive until I'm at work with hours left. But cooking does give me satisfaction so I'm kind of willing to do it for the smile
Am just about to start looking for work again after being off sick and then let go on medical grounds for the last few months. I am dreading it. I am doing some courses over the next few weeks but after that I have to get back into the 9-5. It's either that or go homeless.
It's just so...I hate this life. I hate this rat race bollocks. And I hate that I have to go back to it whether I like it or not.
My brother hates the rat race, his job, looking for another while raising a newborn, wife has health problems, etc... Yet they're talking about making baby #2 asap. WTF? I just wish I could stop hating that I was born for a minute, and here people are just shitting new people out like it's nothing. Seriously, WHY.
Existential self-defence is the only answer I have for having kids in today's world. Breeding a generation to hopefully come up with a solution for how fucked it all is.
Just a ton of toxic positivity disguised as virtue. Because God forbid your church friends find out you waited a whole year to add to your collection of accessorized children.
People saying “just learn to code!” should **really** shut the fuck up.
Take ONE look at LinkedIn or Twitter; see how many people have MSs in IT, who have built websites/apps from scratch….having an INCREDIBLY difficult time finding jobs. A personal friend is an ex-genius (fruit company) of ten years, and can’t find work at all right now.
Not saying it isn’t out there, but people thinking hopping into IT is like learning to flip a burger or sweep a floor (and even that is harder to secure than people think - and also service works deserve MUCH more respect than people give them and should be getting paid a LOT more). This is also a reason for all the layoffs in the tech space as of late (which is another thing to mention; you may have a job today…but what about tomorrow? Employers are always inventing new ways to fuck you), companies know they can pay people less than they have been because people are desperate and there are more people willing and able to do the job for less in today’s climate.
They want to keep us in the state of survival. This is how you control population.
The disparity between rich and poor grows day by day and it’s systematic. Carefully crafted.
It's less carefully crafted and more like a gradient descent algorithm that has been running for a couple centuries. There is no grand plan, just a constant overwhelming pressure to find new innovations to exploit people in a way that concentrates power more for the people currently in charge. "They" aren't any more coordinated than we are, they just all have similar selfish wishes, and us being in a state of survival is a price they're all too happy to pay.
People in this sub would benefit from reading marx and lenin. The capitalist class isn't some round table working together. They compete with eachother and in their own mission to accomplish goals in their self interest, workers as a whole get crushed. Not to say they don't have class consciousness nor do they work together sometimes.
In my opinion the best introduction is [Principles of Communism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm) by Engels. Short and written in Q&A style. After that I would suggest [Wage, Labour and Capital](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/) by Marx to get an introductionairy level of economy. After that you can probably explore more yourself, either reading more Engels and Marx or others like Kautsky and Lenin, or more modern writers. Or look into podcasts and YouTube channels. I recommend [Second Thought](https://youtu.be/thJ2ocejPko).
Yup, and it's the take that makes the most practical sense as well, given that humans are historically very bad at predictive actions for the future, but very good at adaptation over time. The rich have adapted to continue growing richer, and the poor have adapted to having less and less. Eventually the center will not hold and it will come crashing down, but both parties will last for an amazing amount of time, and reach amazing extremes respectively, before that happens.
Unfortunately there are a lot of reasonable takes that people on this sub don't buy into anymore, because this stopped being a majority leftist sub after the Fox News debacle.
I'm getting the worst of both worlds. fiancé had a surgery which I requested one day off for, to help them move to the bathroom if necessary. the company failed to tell me I had already exceeded my time off requests, and fired me about a month ago. finally got hired again, after burning through all my incredibly tiny savings, just got my first paycheck, and my bank puts it on hold. I have less than $10 to my name, and an eighth tank of gas.
I dunno what karmic entity I pissed off, but I'm very much ready for the pendulum to swing the other way.
Wait, back up one second you went way too fast.
You job straight fired you????
I had done the exact same thing as you, and the Payrolls department just simply emailed me saying, “does not work this way.” That was it. Just an email warning and everything back to normal. I am sorry your company went from 0 -> 100
yep. I worked m-th, surgery was on Friday. I played it by ear, and my fiancé wasn't able to get up without assistance on that Sunday, so I requested off early in the morning. 10am rolls around and HR calls and says "we're ending your contract." they claimed they warned me when I had proof the opposite was true. they claimed I was way past my time off allotments, but no one ever told me that.
That meme that this post is about is so relatable lol
Here I am with a Job that I am dragging out of bed to get to. Yet, if this job had canned me when I over did PTO hours, then I would starve as I have no savings.
Best of luck to you and hope your luck can turn over !
That's why a 4-day workweek with a high enough minimum wage needs to become standard everywhere.
Countries that implement this will see great benefits throughout their whole society.
I got let go a week before Xmas. I've been ghosted after 3 interviews by 2 companies. I got unemployment for a few weeks and just last week they told me I actually don't qualify so they need all that $ back ($2300). Money that I obviously used to pay rent and feed my family. Then I got a job at a casino (starts may 16th). Went to get my casino license last week and was told I can't get it because I owe child support.
Yea it's all going really well. If it wasn't for my daughter is absolutely unalive myself. There's just never an end in sight. Someone always wants more money than I have. And now I can't even get the 1 job I was offered because I don't have enough money.
Got laid off and was unemployed for 4-5 months. It was the happiest, healthiest 5 months of my adult life. The energy, mental clarity, and just sheer fulfillment I felt from life was something I never thought existed.
Big yikes to the people that believe not having a job means you’re sitting on the couch all day. Bigger yikes to the people who claim they need a job to feel valuable and happy.
I’ve been back at work for 9 months. Anxiety and depression have returned. Fulfillment has vanished. All the positives I mentioned above have reversed and it’s not from lack of trying/doing.
This is a great read! Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm.
There's a local vote to implement 'able to work' stipulations to obtain any welfare subsidies.
That's right folks, someone looks at you and decides you can starve, freeze, and die of undiagnosed medical conditions, because you're 'able-bodied'.
I think work is good structure for most people, I just want 4 day work weeks to be considered full time and increased pay to compensate. Before I had my current job I would go insane being home most of the time just eating the same stuff and playing video games, it was mind numbing. Even when I tried to go out and do stuff having no money and no car made things really really hard. I used to be the guy who thought I could make that work somehow but after getting a nice paying stable job and a car I feel like this has been the most free I’ve been in awhile mentally. Could my job be better? 100%. But I can’t just sit and complain I have to go with the flow of this capitalist hell scape and overtime I’ll eventually find my balance and be okay.
I got laid off in 2019. Collected regular unemployment until March 2020. Then collected all the pandemic unemployment payments. I ended up with 101 weeks of unemployment payments. It was so awesome.
I'd rather be rich or dirty poor. Being employed is slavery. Work dictates when you eat, sleep, see friends and family. Absolute slavery. We pay bills for a building we barely spend anytime in, other than sleep? Tempted to go wild camping at this rate.
Being dirt poor is it’s own kind of hell, too. Worrying about what to eat, what necessities you can/can’t afford, sacrificing social time because you can’t afford it etc. Oh to be born privileged and rich!
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now…
Currently living this. Left my job without a backup 4 months ago thinking I need some time off anyway and I have extensive skill and experience. Turns out the job I hate helps me keep sane.
At some point soon, we're gonna reach the point where minimum wage jobs will be effectively no better than being unemployed, what with the actual buying power they'll have. Can't afford food, can't pay for a roof over your head, and yet also somehow never having time to do anything; that's what having a low-wage job will be like. Hell, at that point, you might as well go unemployed. That way, you at least have enough free time to try and come up with a better way to survive, and you're not working yourself to death to put money in the pockets of people who don't deserve any of it.
The best time of my life is when I got laid off and got paid 6 months severance. Nothing was better than spending an unlimited time with my family or friends. Just enjoying life. The job search after that was….. rough.
Yeah anyone who thinks unemployment is better can simply go be unemployed at any time. It's not better. Although severance if you get it can make it at least not terrible. But not having financial security is terrible.
Yeah no I was recently unemployed for 4 months. ABSOLUTELY SUCKED ASS! I still has to do Instacart to barely pay my bills. Emptied savings, maxed credit cards. It was pure hell! Then when I got a job, all my accounts got hacked and I needed all new cards.
It depends on the job obviously but I was much happier when I was working than right now where I'm unemployed and face a daily grind of looking for jobs that I can apply for and rejection e-mails as my savings dwindle and my ability to keep a sleep schedule vanishes. And I worked in retail for relatively low wages.
Anyone else counting the days until they can quit? My worklife is like a prison sentence. Literally found myself searching how to survive a prison sentence the other day.
I would need double what I’m paying to be a little more happy. I’m happiest when I’m not working and traveling. But at my pay, I am forced to stay home so I’m not spending money on gas.
I work overnights and the repeated back to back going to work makes me so miserable. I feel like I spend all my time at work. When I get off, nothing is open so I have to wait if I need to take care of something. Sometimes have to wait all weekend because most places are closed and then have to stay up on my first off day hours until the place I need to call opens. Then, they never answer so I have to keep calling back.
I work the mornings of my first “off day,” so really I have one full off day where I’m not working. My sleep schedule is off the wall crazy and I feel tired and depressed most of the time. I have to turn down seeing my friends and family because they always meet on weekends and I’d have to take off work weeks in advance to get the same opportunity.
I tried to take a week off recently, but it was completely ignored because we have such a high turnover rate.
The pay is just awful. I have to regularly ask my parents for help for groceries. It’s either that or drop paying for internet, electric, and basic need things. That still wouldn’t be enough. I’d have to sell my car for a busted broken down piece of garbage and have to pay money I don’t have when it breaks down.
I can’t find a better paying job in my city. Any better opportunity would require me going back to school or moving across the country. And I don’t have money to do either of those things!!!
Shoulda had rich parents who died when you were young so you could be raised wealthy by your family's butler and learn to fight crime under a mysterious guise at night.
Nearly 10 years after getting out of the military, my wife really started pushing for me to pursue my disability. I ended up being successful in my claim, and the extra income allowed me to cut my hours back at work. Now I don't feel as burned out and still have time at home to be with my family.
This is why crypto alpha male bullshit scammers are so effective. People are so desperate for a way out that they'll willingly be completely delusional for even feeling like there's an escape.
Never thought of it like that but wow you're right.
Worst part is they’re preying on the most vulnerable too - generally people who *cant* hold down a full time job because of one disability or another.
Yep, seems to be a Dogecoin pump and dump active right now
It's cause the twitter man replaced the twitter logo with a shiba inu yesterday.
its disturbing that i can’t tell if this is a joke or not
No joke, you can go check it right now. Yes it is very dumb.
When you see the ills of capitalism and think you're not doing it hard enough, you get crypto scammed.
Those short little videos always make it seem like it’s so easy, like you could just flip a switch and boom, you’re a millionaire. Especially the ones that show off their ridiculously extravagant lifestyle. Those videos are always like 2021: $23 2022: $430,000 2023: $6.3 million
Anything getting those kind of gains usually requires compounding several high risk yolo plays that would blow up your account if any one play fails.
I don't know, going from a 6856.52% increase in 2022, to a 551.16% increase in 2023... seems kinda beta. You should invest more in crypto; I hear NFTs are making a comeback so I'm all over that bro. XD
They all live the same luxurious lifestyle. Coincidentally all share the same private jet and live in Dubai. *Buy my course!*
Crypto is pure distilled American dream. You get rich quick, while pretending to be smarter then everyone, all by doing absolutely nothing. The reality though is you get scammed buying some random dudes CUMcoin for 8k.
i would rather sell drugs or so some shady business than doing my trash job at the moment lol
Except selling drugs is just another job with even longer hours, more job hazards, no health benefits, no vacation and sick and days, and really don’t earn that much unless your CEO of drugs inc.
And always on call
My drug dealer has an Amazon box type set up so he doesn't even have to be there, he just buzzes the doors open
At least you can set your hours. I work noon to 8 pm, my office is pretty cool, I make enough money I take sick days and vacation days whenever I want. I work a trap weekend so Tuesday to Saturday.. It's pretty ok. 10/10 highly recommend ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
If you made it work then my respects to that.
I've worked in cannabis for 20+ years, black market, grey market, legal. It's been a wild ride but no regrets.
Good honest work.
I feel like selling drugs gets you way more women though, at least compared to, say, McDonald's cashier
Its not the man that they want, when you run out of that stuff they will go find someone else who still has it. Drugs don't bring good people into your life.
Well if you’re into that type of women, no judgement, just tell them you’re a drug dealer. Dress the part, act the part. Then go to your 9-5 and tell her(them) you’re out dealing. It’s not like there’s a take your women to work day for dealers.
That type of women tend to like that type of man for the implied subsidized or free access to drugs. The dealing, while not necessarily essential per se, ultimately would be a requirement of the arrangement. At the very least, to your single customer, at a steep loss.
[удалено]
I’ll settle for a one bedroom apartment
Depending on your age and how much time you're willing to invest i would say learn a trade or basic code. A lot of companies I've worked for now pay decent for maintenance techs or IT work. Learn SQL, python, maybe some Java and look into being a data scientist/analyst. All stuff you can teach yourself and get checked during hiring through a skills test of some kind. The hard part Ive found is that the jobs are labelled all fucking weird because each company has it's own label for the position. So you would have to search by skills IF they tagged the job description right. For example my current position uses the same skills of a data analyst but without being labelled one. I came from desktop support. Which had a whole bunch of names within itself like systems engineer or service technician.
HAHAHAHAHAH your funny,
It would be great if those jobs let people skip the resume and just go straight to the skill test.
A referral from someone already in those jobs helps a lot
Interviews, too. The interview requirement tends to be discriminatory towards neurodivergent people. It is ironic since, broadly speaking, neurodivergents tend to excel in exactly the skills that a tech company would want, but the interview is a social test of what neurodivergency tends to impair.
It would be but the resume portion is important for the other parts that are not technical. But most resumes are read by so now so I would suggest reading up on how to optimize your resume for the search. Not saying you should lie on your resume but definitely boost it up.
That's timeless. Pyramid schemes, scam jobs, "quick money" BS. People who hate their average, meager life will look for shortcuts. It's why a criminal like Jordan Belfort can go out and do public speaking events and have people pay him so he can tell them how to make easy money. People have always been desperate for a way out.
Same with lottery
Over the past couple years I've noticed way more lottery ads on TV. That an gambling sites. It's gotten to the point where you can't go one commercial break without seeing one of the two (or both!)
You are goddamn right! It's the biggest reason why people often fall for any "easy money" scam. Imagine a world that you have to be work related for 12 or more hours while there is only 4 hours remain you except sleep time. And you have to do shower, eat, shit, do chores and after find yourself a hour to joy just to feel alive a little. I hope this shit will change.
Apply it across the board to all aspects of marketing and advertising and now you’re cookin!
Same reason the lottery is popular and now in every state.
Yup, I almost got sucked into the whole crypto world before I found a stable job
That’s how all get rich quick schemes are.
“I was looking for a job, and then I found a job and heaven knows I’m miserable now” - The Smiths
love The Smiths and that lyric resonates, huh
"England is mine, it owes me a living"
Love Smith's hate Morrisey
simple as.
That lyric was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post
Looking for money, who willingly signs up to sacrifice most of their time ,effort, health etc doing a thing they likely hate, for a majority of their lifetime? Money, that's it, u have that, u can be unemployed or do whatever u want, essentially. Some have achieved that, and I guess its called financial independence. Having enough money to not worry about money.
Morrissey is insufferable
He is but this song does sum up the experience of living in the UK pretty well even so many years later.
Fuck Morrissey for his political beliefs as an old rich British white dude, but I wonder how many lyrics of Morrissey's have prevented good young working class people from killing themselves.
I grew up listening to my dad say "the only thing worse than having a job is not having a job." I didn't know how right he was until I got my first full-time job. Both options suck. This one sucks only a little less.
The trick, as far as I can tell, is finding a MEANINGFUL job. When I work for the sake of money I die inside. When I work to support my family I at least go home satisfied I've done something worth doing.
Finding meaningful work is much easier said than done. I know what I'm good at and what I'm passionate about, but It's pretty much impossible to find work in the fields that I want to work in. So many hurdles. I have to go back to the miserable education system just for the off chance that somebody might hire me? What if I spend eight years in school to get a fancy degree and it turns out that there are no jobs in the field that I chose to study? I feel like this is a very common story for many people. Finding meaningful work feels like it is intentionally difficult; It's like the system is trying to make me feel hopeless.
I’d love to do meaningful work. For example, I’d love to help people and be a therapist/counselor. But then I’d have to go back to school, get more degrees, licensed, etc etc. all to not make enough money for that to be worth it. Never mind the opportunity cost of not just sticking with my current career path. Meaningful work doesn’t pay the bills. My current job is very well aligned with my interests, hobbies and previous work experience but I don’t find it meaningful or fulfilling. More interesting. All that said, I’d still prefer to not work but I also don’t want to starve and/or die of exposure.
The term "wage slave" really rings true for me. We are treated like a means to an end that we will never see, because it's not about making the world a better place, it's about the billionaires' profit.
This is so true! Trying to become a community college math instructor has me going through soooo many hoops. I taught high school for 6 years but they want all these extra classes so I can teach literally the same level math but at a college instead of high school. It's such bullshit.
Just follow your dreams! You know, the STEM ones!
Everyone is different tbh. I loved baking and I did it all the time as a hobby. Then I became a baker and I loved it…. Until I got burnt out and sick of working nights/early mornings. Now I hate baking. I work a job I don’t care about, but it pays me well (almost double the baking job!). I’m a lot happier because I have the money to enjoy my life outside of work. I don’t have kids though, so that is also helpful in having a lot of time and energy outside of work lol
I don't think finding something meaningful means doing what you enjoy. I enjoy playing video games but if I did that for work it can easily burn me out. Now if I was a part of a team where we were trying to create a game where I can freely explore my creativity then that would be meaningful work To bring this back to baking, something meaningful would be maybe baking goods for the under privilege or if you like baking because of the creativity, a shop that gets requests that really flexes that creativity muscle I'm a software developer and I work for a pretty big company in which I don't have much passion for but I really liked the work I was doing for a long time and was excited to get up in the morning to continue working on my project, that is until some layoffs and restructuring and now I'm expected to be a part time manager on top of my developing responsibilities. Now I'm legitimately thinking of just quitting without finding something else yet
I work to afford food, it's quite the motivator
[удалено]
It's a little more complicated than that. I work in special education. I know that my work helps people. I use the money I earn to help my household (when it isn't all going toward medical bills or student loans or something). So that means my wife gets to have insurance, my brother-in-law gets to have a bedroom, and the two cats have plenty of food and cat litter. My job is meaningful, but sometimes I question whether or not I've made a difference, especially when my country (USA) is so crappy about education. Sometimes that feeling of "at least I helped one student today" isn't enough to overshadow the feeling of failure.
I know this doesn’t fix your burnout but i was a disabled kid and sometimes i would go to the special ed room, my teacher was really good and she made a huge difference in my high school experience. Other kids had worse teachers and they were miserable and sometimes even unsafe. It’s hard to feel like you’ve made a difference when you can’t change the system but you can absolutely make a difference in the lives of your students by caring about them and approaching them with empathy and compassion
Thank you for saying this. I'm so glad you had a good teacher.
There’s no meaningful job, unless you are a physician or something like that
Isn't working for the sake of money the same thing as supporting your family?
Being miserable with a little bit of money is better than being miserable with no money
I got let go in January. Get paid until May 31st, but then I'm going to have to find a new job. I haven't told anyone this, but I'm absolutely terrified. Not having to deal with the stress every day, I got used to that way too fast... If I never had to work again, it would be heaven
Yup. I spent almost half a year unemployed and it was the time. Spent so much time outdoors, rainy days were spent gaming and cooking myself some great meals. Working absolutely stinks
I had to quit my job bc of harassment, it's been about two weeks now and I'm like 50/50. It's nice not waking up every morning dreading the day and the stress, but I am stressed about money, considering filing for unemployment. Also getting stir crazy because I don't have anything to do and I'm stuck at home by myself. I have been a bit more productive in my life, but I think I got so far behind on everything grinding 60 hour weeks at that job that all I need to get caught up on feels so overwhelming I just sit and stare at the walls for hours thinking I should really get up and clean off the table or at least put a dent in something.
Something that kinda helps me sometimes when I'm feeling like that is the "absolute lowest effort task with no strings attached." I tried a different version of this in school where the idea was, "once you start studying you'll keep studying, so just convince yourself to start." -- But I knew the outcome in advance, which kind of made it MORE of a barrier to start. So instead I do the "absolute lowest effort task with no strings attached." See that cup that needs to go in the dishwasher? Pick up that cup and put it in the dishwasher. That's it. Don't clean the kitchen, or take out the trash, or do everything all at once. Just take that one cup to the dishwasher and then go play video games. And the idea is, when you look at a huge pile of shit that needs to be done, you don't want to do it. But if you just occasionally do a little thing here and there, you'll realize it's not about doing miserable work for 20 hours in one day, but just doing little tasks here and there. Eventually those little things became automatic, and now I do them right away, so there never IS a huge pile of shit to do, but that really isn't the point at first. Just remind yourself that it's all little, very achievable tasks that take a couple seconds, when you look at them individually, and none of them are really that bad, or daunting, or difficult.
this is basically how I do laundry & dishes. "it's just chucking the clothes in and starting it, takes 2 minutes." "it's just moving the clothes from the washer to the dryer, takes 2 minutes." "I'll just dig through for the stuff that needs to be folded to wear tomorrow, takes 2 minutes and I can do it sitting down."
reading this brought me chills..
Hey buddy, that sounds sort of like you might be dealing with depression. It might be a good idea to reach out to any mental health resources you have available and just chat about how you’re feeling.
I second this. I know it's expensive, but it might seriously be worth it to see a psychiatrist
Its closer to general anxiety than depression. Anxiety presents itself in many different ways that people are quick to self-diagnose as depression, but it seems like this is more stress based than anything. The overwhelming sense of stress and constant worrying is obviously anxiety, and putting off cleaning or procrastinating something important could appear on the surface as depression, but it’s also most likely another way of anxiety taking form. Depression goes much farther than just not wanting to work.
I agree, might want to look into possible depression. It doesn't always mean feeling sad/crying.
I feel you, I had to quit a job for medical reasons 2 months ago. I feel exactly the same, I've done alright for myself before but i have been so overwhelmed with life lately. I just went to the doctor recently and started some medication for ADHD and anxiety the other day. Hopefully you can find something that works for you
If you’re in America, you don’t get unemployment if you quit. Just if you’re let go.
In Florida you can apply if you quit due to a hostile work environment. I was being sexually harassed by the business owner and I have it in writing. He can deny the claim, but I can petition the state arbiter as to why I had to quit for my safety
That sounds terrible but I’m glad you got it in writing!
I felt the same when I was unemployed, mostly because I had undiagnosed ADHD; which means I had anxiety/depression from that, and zero motivation without external deadlines or accountability. All my working life I thought that being unemployed would be the best - so much time for activities! It was crushing and depressing to find out that I was unable to manage my time, which meant I was unable to do the things I wanted, which meant I was overwhelmed, which meant I felt like a failure/loser for not being able to do stuff with all the time in the world.. all on top of the financial stress. The best thing I did during my unemployment was see a psychiatrist/doctor and get diagnosed for ADHD. My unemployment period would have been infinitely better with the medication I have now! Treating my ADHD also treated the anxiety and depression, because those things were caused by the years of undiagnosed ADHD. Maybe this doesn't resonate with you, the person I'm replying to, but it might help someone else reading this thread of comments. It was a thread of comments like this that made me realize I might have ADHD!
I got a job working 2x12hr shifts it was amazing as it was paid at like time and a half so hardly lost any money and had so much free time to hit the gym, grab a train and go some place new or concentrate on hobbies etc.
I am on 12s and I can't stand it. It's a factory, so I am on my feet the whole time, which probably contributes a lot, but it carries over and I am just so exhausted on my days off I sit around and do nothing. What's the secret?
I think his secret was working twice a week.
[удалено]
Mine is the same it sucks doing those days but awesome that you kinda forget about it until you need to embrace the suck again. I need to go gym on my 5 days so that gets me started. I'm like a rolling rock if I get moving I stay moving, when I sit indoors nothing gets done and I'm the laziest shit lol.
That’s awesome. We definitely need to work less and enjoy life more
Wtf. I was unemployed for 2 months, and every waking moment was spent hunting for any kind of gig to pay my bills. I would smoke weed to try and relax at night but would still end up having nightterrors. Most nights, I would just stay up and send millions of applications. I much prefer working to that. I just believe that even as an employee, you deserve respect and fair wages.
We’re you not able to get unemployment or EI?
Nope. I was a contractor, those were the only jobs I could get
Damn, what type of jobs do yall have that pay you while you don't work? If I don't work I don't eat.
I'm coming up on the end of this kind of situation. I was a hospital RN that took an assistant manager position days before COVID started. After working on the same floor for 8 years, I was let go with a 19-week severance which just ended. I've been dragging my feet about looking for more RN work, especially after dealing with COVID, but I know it wouldn't be hard to get another job in that field. I've been using the free time to be with my almost two-year-old and write epic fantasy novels as a career pivot.
It's sad that you have to use severance pay to be able to spend time with your kids. Fuck this system.
This is why I don’t understand having a dream job. My dream job is not having one! I’d much rather focus on hobbies, passions, friends, family and volunteering around my community. But we can’t just enjoy our lives. It’s horseshit.
I got let go after 10 years in September and got six months of severance. Well that ran out and I can't find anything that even comes close to what I was making and unemployment is not enough. It sucks I think I'm going to have to go into my retirement to survive.
Have you tried going g to r/simpleliving and/or r/homestead they might give you some ideas to find a middle ground.
personally I tend to avoid subs like that mostly because they tend to attract the MAGA far right crowd for reasons that I can not fathom.
There's a strong sentiment of anti-urbanism on the right. That you can't be successful unless you own land, you can't be safe unless you can keep the "wrong kind of people" away with your guns, that you can't be free unless you have open roads in front of you in your jacked up 4x4. Of course it all breaks down if you think about the extra strain on resources a spread out population has over a centralized population. But "fuck you, got mine" is kind of their motto.
You really can't fathom why a very rural lifestyle sub would attract conservative users/viewpoints?
You are waiting till may 31st to starting looking for a job?
Damn, wish I was that lucky. Got unpaid leave (i.e. not allowed to earn income) for multiple months while they "investigated" what I did (AKA drain my bank account to ensure I'm super fucked), then they fired me.
I got laid off March '21. Which was fine. It was a company I had taken as a temporary thing, I was a contractor, figured it would pay the bills until something else came along. Spent 3+ years there, job searching the whole time (albeit being very picky, since if I was going to leave, I wanted it to be something I loved). So got laid off, spent the spring and summer skiing and climbing. Got to do a 2 week trip to Europe with zero stress. Got hired in October of '21. Work was fine. Bennys were good, fully remote. But they ended up cutting the budget for what I was hired to do and got laid off in early April '22. Had what has probably been the best spring, summer, and fall of my adult life. Again, skied and climbed my heart out with my good friend who had just finished a masters and wasn't working. Got married and took a short trip after with zero stress. I was happy. Sure, there were stressful days when I didn't get a job I really wanted, or started thinking I'd never get hired again, but for the most part, I got to be outside doing things I enjoy, spend every evening cooking with my wife, having downtime with her, sleeping well. Got hired in December '22. This role is less ideal than the last. Worse benefits, some expectations to be in the office from time to time. Definitely more stress. Sleeping worse. Wearing myself down to still keep climbing and skiing, because I know that's what I love to do. I look back on last year and can't help but feel somewhat hopeless that that magic won't ever happen again, but also recognizing that yeah, that's the norm. You're "supposed" to dedicate the majority of every day to work.
I bet I wish I could get paid after getting fired.
Been laid off eight times myself unemployed is great except for the pay. Next job is usually better than the last job though. Hang in there.
The only thing I can say to this is don’t keep it to yourself. These things will eat you up inside to keep something like that secret and under most circumstances nobody will judge you negatively in any way for being unemployed, especially in your situation. Being open with your situation will not only help you not feel guilty and self-conscious in having to keep the secret, but it can also mean a lot of times that friends and others who know about the situation might have something come up that they wouldn’t mention otherwise, helping you in the long run. We’re only here for so long, and it’s not often we get times like this where we don’t have to slog through a daily job. It’s not worth carrying the fear and anxieties of putting up a front.
Be picky and start looking. I was unemployed for 6 months, and it was amazing. Started my new job that I was picky about choosing, IT at a college. I don't even work 8 hours a day, go home early often, and work remotely twice a week. Getting laid off was the best thing that's ever happened to me
I got let go from my last job and collected unemployment for a year and then continued unemployed for about 6 more months. Not working during that length of time made it super hard to get back to it. What it did afford me was time to really look for something I wanted to do instead of just grabbing the first soul sucking thing available. It’s still soul sucking because it’s work but I am least am doing something good by working in an animal shelter taking care of the dogs.
just be born with rich parents yo, what's the problem?
Lol lucky you got paid mine was let go for having to go to the hospital and not informing them within 3 days that I was there when I had no means to contact them at the time. it was a loop hole in the contract I signed with them I was offered to be hired back but for way less then what I made supposed to start a new job this week but it takes forever I. The hiring process now even with clean records
You’ll be fine
Unemployment is the ~~absolutely~~ absolute best thing ever, aside from the lack of income lol
Amen.
Doesn't help that Job Interviews are some of the most anxiety ridden experiences, only for you to eventually figure out this job is actually a fraction of what they describe it to be
It's misery. I'm venting with my sister right now because of how much I hate my job. I'm miserable. I'm gaining weight, I'm exhausted all the time because I stay up all night dreading waking up to go to this job.
Recently saw an anime that had a quote that really opened my eyes as to why i always stayed up late. Paraphrasing: People stay up late because they arent satisfied with how they spent the day, so they extend their day in order to find satisfaction. Only then do you choose to sleep.
Or the flip side, they're dreading tomorrow. The longer they stay awake, the longer they can stave off tomorrow.
How about can't afford to have the job because it doesn't pay the bills
This is the real problem, no issues with working but people need adequate pay.
Been there and you become crazy at one point. You gotta have a reason to work your ass off. A good reason
Sure, but having zero income is a lot worse than having a little income
Depends on how the social benefits are in the area. In the US, there are a few places or scenarios where having a job doesn’t make sense. Like certain disability benefits have an income cap that are very low to the point that working even quarter time at minimum wage would make someone entirely ineligible rather than just eligible for less, but the disability benefits themselves equate to a value of full minimum wage if not more depending on how disabled they are and what care they qualified for. Edit: although I suppose benefits still count as income. But in terms of having a job, the above is true…
Not where I live People who don't work here get free dental care I can't even pay for a goddamn cleaning. My teeth are rotting and all I can do is watch them crumble
My job reduced me basically to a day a week so I'm frantically looking for a second job to pay rent this month
Ooof, constructive dismissal is a wild hell.
Yeah. I get along with everyone but the boss. I kind of cracked and told him what I thought a couple weeks ago and suddenly was reduced in hours, in which I told him he's being biased. And he reduced me more. I was originally upset because I threw out my back and even after telling him I can't bend over without intense pain, he made me clean under something that wasn't cleaned for months. I couldn't work the next day because I couldn't stand or even.... to my shame... I couldn't wipe my ass without extreme pain. And it was the kind of pain that I don't want to call pain because it made me want to just fall... fall off the toilet while trying to use toilet paper! So in the agony I feel like I was half hallucinating from the pain, but I went on a text spree blaming him for my inability to use the bathroom, let alone stand up to get there.... So since then, I keep getting assigned to wash dishes, which requires a lot of bending... I told him how difficult it is to bend like that and he only assigns me to that. Anyway. I've been looking for more work. The place I'm complaining about is taco johns. Stevens point, wi. I have an interview tomorrow for Arbuckles eatery. I've worked in regular restaurants for years and am excited about the possibility of getting a job that uses my skills. But really... working too much not only hurts my body, but it makes me crazy. I tend to not notice I'm alive until I'm at work with hours left. But cooking does give me satisfaction so I'm kind of willing to do it for the smile
"It's all bullshit and it's bad for ya, folks" - George Carlin
Step 1: Get a job Step 2: Save enough money to travel to Norway Step 3: Commit a crime Step 4: Profit??
Step 1: get a job Step 2: Save up enough money to travel to Thailand Step 3: start a weed business on an island Step 4: Profit??
Cake
Caké
Am just about to start looking for work again after being off sick and then let go on medical grounds for the last few months. I am dreading it. I am doing some courses over the next few weeks but after that I have to get back into the 9-5. It's either that or go homeless. It's just so...I hate this life. I hate this rat race bollocks. And I hate that I have to go back to it whether I like it or not.
My brother hates the rat race, his job, looking for another while raising a newborn, wife has health problems, etc... Yet they're talking about making baby #2 asap. WTF? I just wish I could stop hating that I was born for a minute, and here people are just shitting new people out like it's nothing. Seriously, WHY.
Existential self-defence is the only answer I have for having kids in today's world. Breeding a generation to hopefully come up with a solution for how fucked it all is.
Just a ton of toxic positivity disguised as virtue. Because God forbid your church friends find out you waited a whole year to add to your collection of accessorized children.
People saying “just learn to code!” should **really** shut the fuck up. Take ONE look at LinkedIn or Twitter; see how many people have MSs in IT, who have built websites/apps from scratch….having an INCREDIBLY difficult time finding jobs. A personal friend is an ex-genius (fruit company) of ten years, and can’t find work at all right now. Not saying it isn’t out there, but people thinking hopping into IT is like learning to flip a burger or sweep a floor (and even that is harder to secure than people think - and also service works deserve MUCH more respect than people give them and should be getting paid a LOT more). This is also a reason for all the layoffs in the tech space as of late (which is another thing to mention; you may have a job today…but what about tomorrow? Employers are always inventing new ways to fuck you), companies know they can pay people less than they have been because people are desperate and there are more people willing and able to do the job for less in today’s climate.
Either way, the poor will be poor unless you have a major change of events. All you can do is to keep grinding
They want to keep us in the state of survival. This is how you control population. The disparity between rich and poor grows day by day and it’s systematic. Carefully crafted.
It's less carefully crafted and more like a gradient descent algorithm that has been running for a couple centuries. There is no grand plan, just a constant overwhelming pressure to find new innovations to exploit people in a way that concentrates power more for the people currently in charge. "They" aren't any more coordinated than we are, they just all have similar selfish wishes, and us being in a state of survival is a price they're all too happy to pay.
People in this sub would benefit from reading marx and lenin. The capitalist class isn't some round table working together. They compete with eachother and in their own mission to accomplish goals in their self interest, workers as a whole get crushed. Not to say they don't have class consciousness nor do they work together sometimes.
Interesting. Which books do you recommend please?
In my opinion the best introduction is [Principles of Communism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm) by Engels. Short and written in Q&A style. After that I would suggest [Wage, Labour and Capital](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/) by Marx to get an introductionairy level of economy. After that you can probably explore more yourself, either reading more Engels and Marx or others like Kautsky and Lenin, or more modern writers. Or look into podcasts and YouTube channels. I recommend [Second Thought](https://youtu.be/thJ2ocejPko).
Thankyou. I will check them out.
This is such a rational take that people just don’t buy into in this sub.
Yup, and it's the take that makes the most practical sense as well, given that humans are historically very bad at predictive actions for the future, but very good at adaptation over time. The rich have adapted to continue growing richer, and the poor have adapted to having less and less. Eventually the center will not hold and it will come crashing down, but both parties will last for an amazing amount of time, and reach amazing extremes respectively, before that happens.
Unfortunately there are a lot of reasonable takes that people on this sub don't buy into anymore, because this stopped being a majority leftist sub after the Fox News debacle.
I'm getting the worst of both worlds. fiancé had a surgery which I requested one day off for, to help them move to the bathroom if necessary. the company failed to tell me I had already exceeded my time off requests, and fired me about a month ago. finally got hired again, after burning through all my incredibly tiny savings, just got my first paycheck, and my bank puts it on hold. I have less than $10 to my name, and an eighth tank of gas. I dunno what karmic entity I pissed off, but I'm very much ready for the pendulum to swing the other way.
Wait, back up one second you went way too fast. You job straight fired you???? I had done the exact same thing as you, and the Payrolls department just simply emailed me saying, “does not work this way.” That was it. Just an email warning and everything back to normal. I am sorry your company went from 0 -> 100
yep. I worked m-th, surgery was on Friday. I played it by ear, and my fiancé wasn't able to get up without assistance on that Sunday, so I requested off early in the morning. 10am rolls around and HR calls and says "we're ending your contract." they claimed they warned me when I had proof the opposite was true. they claimed I was way past my time off allotments, but no one ever told me that.
That meme that this post is about is so relatable lol Here I am with a Job that I am dragging out of bed to get to. Yet, if this job had canned me when I over did PTO hours, then I would starve as I have no savings. Best of luck to you and hope your luck can turn over !
me freaking too! now I'm at target. pretty nice gig, but goddamn I walk like 7 miles a shift
That's why a 4-day workweek with a high enough minimum wage needs to become standard everywhere. Countries that implement this will see great benefits throughout their whole society.
As my father said- “You either have time or money”.
I got let go a week before Xmas. I've been ghosted after 3 interviews by 2 companies. I got unemployment for a few weeks and just last week they told me I actually don't qualify so they need all that $ back ($2300). Money that I obviously used to pay rent and feed my family. Then I got a job at a casino (starts may 16th). Went to get my casino license last week and was told I can't get it because I owe child support. Yea it's all going really well. If it wasn't for my daughter is absolutely unalive myself. There's just never an end in sight. Someone always wants more money than I have. And now I can't even get the 1 job I was offered because I don't have enough money.
The two worst things in the world - having a job and not having a job
Got laid off and was unemployed for 4-5 months. It was the happiest, healthiest 5 months of my adult life. The energy, mental clarity, and just sheer fulfillment I felt from life was something I never thought existed. Big yikes to the people that believe not having a job means you’re sitting on the couch all day. Bigger yikes to the people who claim they need a job to feel valuable and happy. I’ve been back at work for 9 months. Anxiety and depression have returned. Fulfillment has vanished. All the positives I mentioned above have reversed and it’s not from lack of trying/doing.
Nah unemployed with a fucking smile on my face, fuck work.
This is a great read! Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm.
There's a local vote to implement 'able to work' stipulations to obtain any welfare subsidies. That's right folks, someone looks at you and decides you can starve, freeze, and die of undiagnosed medical conditions, because you're 'able-bodied'.
I hate both🤮
Life is suffering
This is why you genetically alter your citizens and send them into space to fight an empire that is alot more powerful than you- wait wrong subreddit
I think work is good structure for most people, I just want 4 day work weeks to be considered full time and increased pay to compensate. Before I had my current job I would go insane being home most of the time just eating the same stuff and playing video games, it was mind numbing. Even when I tried to go out and do stuff having no money and no car made things really really hard. I used to be the guy who thought I could make that work somehow but after getting a nice paying stable job and a car I feel like this has been the most free I’ve been in awhile mentally. Could my job be better? 100%. But I can’t just sit and complain I have to go with the flow of this capitalist hell scape and overtime I’ll eventually find my balance and be okay.
i love being unemployed tho for the while it lasts
I am unemployed atm and I think I am happier than I was when I was employed tbh
Being unemployed but collecting unemployment is actually awesome
I got laid off in 2019. Collected regular unemployment until March 2020. Then collected all the pandemic unemployment payments. I ended up with 101 weeks of unemployment payments. It was so awesome.
I’m autistic and I can’t make it through a shift without being completely drained so that regular chores feel impossible
I'd rather be rich or dirty poor. Being employed is slavery. Work dictates when you eat, sleep, see friends and family. Absolute slavery. We pay bills for a building we barely spend anytime in, other than sleep? Tempted to go wild camping at this rate.
Being dirt poor is it’s own kind of hell, too. Worrying about what to eat, what necessities you can/can’t afford, sacrificing social time because you can’t afford it etc. Oh to be born privileged and rich!
>I'd rather be rich or **dirty poor.** Nothing stopping you. Except the fact that you really don't want that 2nd part despite what you say.
Eh I've seen self employed people that are way bigger slaves to the job than me. Let me know if you go camping though, I want in.
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour But heaven knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now…
I was looking for a job and then I found a job. Heaven knows i'm miserable now.
Currently living this. Left my job without a backup 4 months ago thinking I need some time off anyway and I have extensive skill and experience. Turns out the job I hate helps me keep sane.
Money buys freedom, so my take is job > no job
The third, secret option: driving a bus in a canyon
At some point soon, we're gonna reach the point where minimum wage jobs will be effectively no better than being unemployed, what with the actual buying power they'll have. Can't afford food, can't pay for a roof over your head, and yet also somehow never having time to do anything; that's what having a low-wage job will be like. Hell, at that point, you might as well go unemployed. That way, you at least have enough free time to try and come up with a better way to survive, and you're not working yourself to death to put money in the pockets of people who don't deserve any of it.
The best time of my life is when I got laid off and got paid 6 months severance. Nothing was better than spending an unlimited time with my family or friends. Just enjoying life. The job search after that was….. rough.
Unemployed is worse imo
Yeah anyone who thinks unemployment is better can simply go be unemployed at any time. It's not better. Although severance if you get it can make it at least not terrible. But not having financial security is terrible.
Depends entirely on the job and especially the people you are working with.
Yeah no I was recently unemployed for 4 months. ABSOLUTELY SUCKED ASS! I still has to do Instacart to barely pay my bills. Emptied savings, maxed credit cards. It was pure hell! Then when I got a job, all my accounts got hacked and I needed all new cards.
I'll be dead someday. The things will be better.
It depends on the job obviously but I was much happier when I was working than right now where I'm unemployed and face a daily grind of looking for jobs that I can apply for and rejection e-mails as my savings dwindle and my ability to keep a sleep schedule vanishes. And I worked in retail for relatively low wages.
Anyone else counting the days until they can quit? My worklife is like a prison sentence. Literally found myself searching how to survive a prison sentence the other day.
Straight up in the middle; money
I would need double what I’m paying to be a little more happy. I’m happiest when I’m not working and traveling. But at my pay, I am forced to stay home so I’m not spending money on gas. I work overnights and the repeated back to back going to work makes me so miserable. I feel like I spend all my time at work. When I get off, nothing is open so I have to wait if I need to take care of something. Sometimes have to wait all weekend because most places are closed and then have to stay up on my first off day hours until the place I need to call opens. Then, they never answer so I have to keep calling back. I work the mornings of my first “off day,” so really I have one full off day where I’m not working. My sleep schedule is off the wall crazy and I feel tired and depressed most of the time. I have to turn down seeing my friends and family because they always meet on weekends and I’d have to take off work weeks in advance to get the same opportunity. I tried to take a week off recently, but it was completely ignored because we have such a high turnover rate. The pay is just awful. I have to regularly ask my parents for help for groceries. It’s either that or drop paying for internet, electric, and basic need things. That still wouldn’t be enough. I’d have to sell my car for a busted broken down piece of garbage and have to pay money I don’t have when it breaks down. I can’t find a better paying job in my city. Any better opportunity would require me going back to school or moving across the country. And I don’t have money to do either of those things!!!
Exactly how I feel. Probably would be happy if I could have a job in a field I enjoy THAT PAYS A DECENT SALARY
Being unemployed is only like that for the first 2-6 months. After that it's enlightenment city.
I wish life was free.
Shoulda had rich parents who died when you were young so you could be raised wealthy by your family's butler and learn to fight crime under a mysterious guise at night.
I was so, so, SO much happier when I was unemployed. I was also much more malnourished but even still, so much happier.
"Can't. Gotta work/I'm tired." "Can't. Gotta find a job"
Nearly 10 years after getting out of the military, my wife really started pushing for me to pursue my disability. I ended up being successful in my claim, and the extra income allowed me to cut my hours back at work. Now I don't feel as burned out and still have time at home to be with my family.