I’ve been avoiding my job lately because of how bad the work environment is.
The stealing, the fights, the drama, some of the people I work with (not all, but funnily enough they tend to lose all the better people because they don’t want to pay them more or don’t properly acknowledge them/promote them), etc. I sit next to someone who’s pissed off everytime someone calls in… in a call center. I can see why their absenteeism rate is so damn high (30%!).
I can’t keep this up.
Worst thing is I’m trying to find work more in line with what I went to class for. Something to start and put me on the path forward I want to go on, because I am not able to financially support myself and start freelancing right now. Man if I could, I’d quit, spend the next few months going over EVERYTHING I have here, and then retry finding work, but I can’t.
Job market as a whole is not good, with unemployment being so low, and everyone metaphorically tightening their purses and multiple rounds of interviews and what not. I feel like I’m stuck at this bullshit job, while trying to do/find something that I feel is more fulfilling at the very least for me anyway.
I’m banging my head against the wall so to speak. My wallet is suffering but I see no point in going to a place that I’ve already mentally checked myself out of months ago.
Can’t even sell anything for any profit or value because it’s either too old to be worth anything (not antique/valueable), or not new enough (used game console).
Nothing I do besides that shit job makes me any money. I’ve never been one to have multiple income streams or anything.
Money is my biggest problem, simply because most of the issues I currently have are because of shit I owe or needing money to improve my quality of life. That being said, I hate this system of needing money to get things that you need. Trade/bartering will likely always exist in this system, but you’d think we’d be getting to the point where people would be able to survive and use money for things they want to improve quality of life…
Anyway, not sure where I could even get proper financial advice without money.
Catch 22 strikes again.
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If you can get them to fire you, you can get unemployment for 6mo
I hear you. Lack of money is also my biggest problem, after health issues, but health issues are a result of a lack of money. So it’s catch22
What kind of financial advice do you need? Most financial advisors deal with stocks, bonds, retirement accounts, which I don’t think is what you need. You need advice on debt consolidation? Loans, credit card interest? That type of stuff? Most financial advice pages will tell you to 1- increase your income or 2- lower your costs. I wouldn’t recommend you pay for any financial advice.
Oh, if you do have debt, you should pay off the debt ASAP. Interest will kill you. If you have multiple debts, pay off the higher interest rate debt first. Completely.
probably debt consolidation honestly. I’d rather just have one thing to pay per month than all these different things needing to be paid…
how many different ones you have?
take the debt that has the highest interest. pay that off ASAP. don’t pay the minimum.
If I were still in academia, I think I could make a lot of waves by investigating the hypothesis that bad employers are the leading cause of suicidality in people from age 18-50. Workplace safety laws would mean that employers like yours would have to correct or pay severe fines every day operating without correcting the health damaging policies.
but I know at least part of their defense, because of hearing it from HR professionals “At will employment means you can quit. Therefor under current law you can’t demonstrate a hostile work environment because of your theoretical ability to walk whenever you want”….. there’s no defense for that, it’s utter lunacy.
but, I did take it to heart. If their position is that they owe me nothing, and I owe them nothing, then when I walk I’m free of any obligation. The shackles do in fact come off, at least the particular shackles of a job, the ones capitalism tends to clap on you are a bit harder to shake.
and maybe you make substantially more than I made, maybe under your calculations that amount is worth your sanity….. but your life? for, excuse me for saying, a fucking call center? I have a friend that quit a call center and is now delivering pizza and she’s making more at it. And she’s getting ready to get hired onto a lucrative government job she couldn’t have even chased with the way the call center limited her work hours.
I never made it at a call center. Call it a rebellious attitude, but after a few too many meetings about “going over metrics” that were repetitive and actively depressed me, I just said life’s too short and walked.
so what do I know? Only that for me I’d rather live in a tent under the freeway and eat food out of dumpsters than have another metrics meeting. That’s my liberation, the minute I realized that homelessness was less degrading than work, the shackles dropped right off. I’ve tried to put them back on a few times, but it appears they aren’t going back on.
Timothy Leary figured it out in 1966; tune in, turn on, drop out
The irony is the actual job isn’t that bad, the que I was in before was worse. That being said, I was in a higher position and I knew the systems and the que pretty well.None of that matters though when the place itself is such a shit show that you don’t even want to be there.
If I wasn’t such a mess, I’d be working multiple jobs trying to make as much money as I possibly can. The problems are my fatigue is screwing with me in general on a day to day (side effect of a medical issue) and I’ve done 2 jobs before but wasn’t able to save or put anything toward those loans. Going through 2 jobs for barely any more money wasn’t cutting it.
So yeah, one job that I can pay bills with and cut through my debts would be nice….
Idk, I tend to keep to myself majority of the time and try to just find a different job and game. I just need to get this thing going now honestly. This shit is driving me mad.