This is why I’ve stuck with my current job for so long. The pay is at the lower end of the salary bracket in my industry, and switching will definitely get me a significant pay bump. But I don’t want to risk getting into a lower quality work environment or having a bad boss (my current manager is awesome). My current pay is enough to live comfortably so I’m not at the point where I need to leave.
i stayed at my last job for a long time for similar reasons. then i got a manager that was kind of mid and i still stayed. it wasnt so bad i thought. then that manager started drinking the chatbot coolaid and offloading his cognition to it and became a bad manager very quickly. i held on for a while for my coworkers. i was the only person with the skills to fill my role which was critical to the project, but eventually i couldnt stand it for one more minute and quit without notice. leaving after sending my resignation email felt like escaping prison. i kept feeling like they were going to call me and somehow convince me to go back. when i started there i had a good manager and every day felt like a friday. its amazing how bad things can get with a bad manager.
Come for the wage
Stay for the coworkers
Leave because of the manager
It’s a very common work experience.
Anon has his ordering wrong
>start job
>hate job
>start new job
>leave old jobIt’s the most basic principle in job hunting - the best time to get a new job is when you still have your old job.
pic unrelated, i’m morissey
If every job you work at is crap, then maybe…
… we need a better economic system?
You could always be homeless
I have a friend who went voluntarily homeless. You can’t really even do that anymore. You have to go some where shitty where theres lots of blm land, and then you lose out on resources you’d get from pan handling.
Hes charismatic and doesnt do drugs. Hes more a drinker and spends a lot of time at bars getting free drinks and food. He’s train jumped and went to a few communes and it sounds like constant work just to do basic shit like take a shit.
Like all this mall cop security shit gets fed into palantir and local law enforcement you can’t even sleep in a parking lot in your car anymore without getting a knock on your window. Its just hard to be homeless, and he tells me he tried one of those homeless assistant camps and he said it felt like a prison or a interment camp. They had barbwire to keep them IN lol. It doesnt sound too far off from that deep space nine episode about the bell riots. I think we are in the same year the Bell riots take place too ironically.
you can’t even sleep in a parking lot in your car anymore without getting a knock on your window.
That is not at all true. I’ve slept in plenty of parking lots. Its the same as it ever was - don’t go where you aren’t wanted.
In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, one of the fundamental aspects of their lives involves discovering their passion and using it to help others. They get paid to do the job they love. This, of course, is a fantasy. In reality everyone is forced to mould themselves where they don’t fit, and therefore create an adequate, but extremely unhappy, society.
My Little Pony if it was more realistic:
There are plenty of good jobs. They are just considered boring and unexciting, compared to drama-fueled workplaces.
Name one that I can get tomorrow. Boring and unexciting but pays well and has benefits is exactly what I’m looking for. If there are plenty, where are they?
I wish I could find a job. As an adult college student, it’s brutal trying to find part time work. Places won’t even consider me once they see I’m a student.