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Only tangentially related.

This afternoon I ran into a friend I haven't seen since we were eighteen. We started chatting and it became apparent he hasn't progressed anything in his life in the last five years. So much awkwardness ensued.

No full (or meaningful 'part') time job, girlfriend, education, savings, still living at home etc. Just vague plans of pursuing a b-tech and trying to get into Uni to teach music. Wish him the best but I have a sneaking suspicion that was his intention five years ago as well.

...you couldn't have started a new thread with this instead of being the first comment in another thread that is almost completely unrelated? That's a little annoying.

/not the thread OP

This isn't even remotely related to this thread.

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ill_omened - 2013-04-13 21:56 (UTC) - Expand

Wish him the best but then I totally went on fandomsecrets to tell everyone how much better I am doing than him.

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I'm a civil engineer and I work in highway design. :)

It's mostly interesting, and most of the problems come from being fairly low on the employment ladder. Good benefits package, though, and I get to see my designs made reality.

It would be so easy to give up.

When I was job hunting, I was hoping for a job in a fudge factory to open up just so I could say I was a fudge packer in a completely non-euphemistic sense. (Though the euphemistic sense is also true, which is why it's funny. To me, anyway. IDK.)

I just got a part-time one, yay! It was a last minute thing since apparently two people didn't show up on the first day of the job, and I still don't really know what I'll be doing, but it's a job and it's decent money and I'll take it.

I just got promoted and I don't really know a lot (of course I know I can't be expected to know everything right off the bat) but I'm dealing with a lot of legal issues and such so I want to make sure everything I say over the phone is 100% accurate, and it can be annoying asking a ton of questions all the time (I know some people are annoyed even if they appear patient with me)

Also the fucking copier in this section SUCKS ASS AND JAMS EVERY TIME I USE IT

I love my job, I love the benefits, and I love my coworkers. I hope my boss dies a slow, painful death. Preferably in the office so we can all watch.

I utterly loathe my job. Everyone I work with outside of my department (and partially within my department) thinks I'm completely inept and they can do what I do better, faster, and cheaper. They don't listen to my suggestions and force my work to end up looking like garbage, which they'll take all sorts of credit for, until our mutual boss says they don't like it and then honk honk here comes the bus to run straight over nonny.

They all mistrust me for no reason, do not believe I'm a professional and always act as such (even though no matter how furious they make me, I have never once been anything other than a complete professional, something I am completely and utterly serious about) and even though I work overtime every. single. day. and I haven't had a vacation or any significant amount of time away from work in almost three years, I'm lazy, slow, unproductive, selfish, not worthy of trust, stupid, and incompetent. I'm treated either with outright hostility or very thinly veiled hostility or teeth-gratingly obvious passive-aggressiveness by nearly everyone for no discernable reason, especially since I've been treated this way by people I've never even -met-.

Why do I keep this job, you ask? Well, someone has to pay the bills, and right now nobody's hiring in my town for the position I have. So I grit my teeth, get my morning cry out before work, and head in to be beaten up all over again every day.

Honestly? I'd get the hell out. I'd be prepared to take a shittier job, if it meant I wouldn't be harassed/taken advantage of.

Still... I wish you good luck. Maybe someday you can sue your workplace for bullying you.

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I feel like we need another perspective on your work situation, because honestly, I know a woman who is much the same. The reason she's so distrusted and disrespected at work is because she had an affair with our married boss (he got fired, by the way) and has never completed a project in four years (highly unusual in our department).

So. Yeah. Having a tough time believing you're some faultless victim here, sorry to say.

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I really hope you're able to find something better soon. That sounds like a horrible place to work. :/

I counted it up the other day and I have 15 weeks left at my job.

I CANNOT WAIT to leave.

I'm currently working part time in a warehouse. I desperately want out, but despite having a Bachelor's in biology, I can't find anyone to hire me (mainly because I focused on evo/eco because I thought it was more interesting).

On the plus side, I'm almost done taking a pharmacy technician course, and that pays about what I'd be making in an entry-level lab tech position.

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Two days ago I got an internship that sounded sort of related to what I studied in college, but what I was told on the phone didn't really line up with what the advertisement said so I'm kind of ambivalent about it.

Yesterday I found out about a film festival near my sister's college where I could have volunteered doing the exact thing I want to do with my life (write about movies). Only I can't, because I already accepted the internship, and doing both isn't really feasible for various reasons.

I'm trying really hard to get excited about the internship again, but this other thing would have been SO PERFECT and just ugh, everything sucks in comparison.

I'm on my dinner break right now. I feel like I die a little inside every time I come to McDonald's, but they're nearest the office and have the most reliable wifi.

I'm currently caring for five baby birds and one baby possum, in between writing up the next weekly newsletter and sorting through credit card receipts.

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I just cashed my first-ever paycheck! I'm so happy! :D

I need one. :(

Eighteen years working in Child Support Enforcement, and doing a bang-up job, so they promoted me to supervisor and halved my staff (State budget cuts!), and expected me to do my work, another supervisor's work, train two staff members, and do two other staff jobs as well.

I had a tiny melt down during a hurricane (Did I mention this was Florida?), when it was likely there wouldn't be power at my house for another three or four months (Did I mention I lived in Rural Florida? It does exist).

So, I moved north, being assured of quality jobs here, and have yet to find anything even close to what I was doing in Florida, not making use of any of my skills, and am currently working as a clerk at a dollar store, and hating every second of it, but it's the only job I've been able to even get a foot in the door for for the past two and a half years.

I had three opening shifts in a row, so I'm really happy to get two days off now.

On the other hand, my dept. manager doesn't seem to realize that the reason I'm behind on my stupid daily training things is because 1) they assigned them without taking into account my days off, 2) one got delayed by a day because the coworker I was with that day couldn't sign off on it, 3) I missed a couple days because I was sick thanks to everybody else who brings in their kids' various diseases, and 4) working the department alone while the spring/summer selling season ramps up means I have very little time to go off and do my own thing. So now he wants me to finish the 4+ training assignments I have overdue by the end of the day on Tuesday, and I'm just going to end up asking one of the store managers if they'd rather I spend ~3 hours in the training room, finishing things I know how to do already, or be on the floor during the week we're supposed to be filling a huge sale quota. Our department is barely staffed and the only reason it's doing better in sales than it was is because I got hired for it in the first place, so I'm not sure what my dept. manager expects to accomplish by putting me out of commission for a few hours :|a

I sell hopes and dreams. Today was a day of record numbers.

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