The Workplace & Job Hunting

[Your Pretty Brains]

After working under the same person for the past ten years who I adore, pretty much knows me inside out and who has become a genuine friend it's looking very likely that I'll be moving to a new team (a similar role) and the manager will be the one person in the unit I don't particularly get on with.

I know the most important thing is the job itself but I think your relationship with management can make a big difference to your job.

I actually disagree, I think! I'd much rather do a shitty job with genuine friends than a "good" job with typical coworkers or worse. I too have formed very close bonds at my current place of work. I left them for a higher paying job that was better on paper and by most metrics easier, and the way I accelerated towards depression was really something. Got fired. Back at job with people I love. Hope nuclear winter takes me before corporate America takes my company.

If you do move teams, make a point to keep those friendships, especially with your supervisor. That's the shit that matters in life, I've found.

 

[Kneehigh Girl]

I handed in my resignation yesterday. Leaving that mentally stressful job behind in mid-June and I have until mid-August to find a new one.

Good thing there are more job openings than there are educated teachers here.

It's going to be difficult to say goodbye to my 6th graders though, but it's my final year with them regardless. It will be difficult no matter what.

 

[IEngineered]

After working under the same person for the past ten years who I adore, pretty much knows me inside out and who has become a genuine friend it's looking very likely that I'll be moving to a new team (a similar role) and the manager will be the one person in the unit I don't particularly get on with.

I know the most important thing is the job itself but I think your relationship with management can make a big difference to your job.

I once turned down a bling job because I didn’t feel a connection with my to-be new supervisor. Never once regretted it. Mutual trust and respect are so important.

 

[rav4boy]

I’ve decided I need to come out of education, which sucks because I used to love the job- but after 8 years in management, I can’t handle the stress any more- it’s definitely having an impact on my health- and going back as a class teacher isn’t really an option as you simply don’t get paid enough for the hours you have to put in. The problem is, I’ve got a genetic liver condition that I manage well but it’s progressed recently and the jaundice is quite noticeable (a student told me last week that my eyes look like vomit!) I kinda feel trapped as I’m sure, no matter how well I interviewed, that a prospective employer wouldn’t take me on if I was having a bad jaundice day. Trying to stay optimistic- I’m looking into training as a counsellor at the weekends but that will take another 3 years before I can practise.

 

[Square]

Whew, full-time work is really grinding me down lately.

I actually like my work, colleagues, company, etc, but there's something about the relentless monotony of 9-5, 40-hour weeks that makes me want to tear my limbs apart nn.

It's giving me slow march to the grave teas

 

[Vasilios]

Whew, full-time work is really grinding me down lately.

I actually like my work, colleagues, company, etc, but there's something about the relentless monotony of 9-5, 40-hour weeks that makes me want to tear my limbs apart nn.

It's giving me slow march to the grave teas

Go freelance doll

 

[Laurence]

I love that I don't have a high stress job and get paid for it! It ends at Friday... 5ish. Working for myself freelance would be me worrying about getting clients, getting paid, doing a way better job as I have higher standards for myself than for things I do at my job... But both sides have their own negatives and positives.

 

[2014]

I loved my job this time last year. Now....tis a struggle.

 

[Leopold]

I've never found it as hard to find gainful employment as I am finding it now.

I left a decent position back in December because I was working under a husband and a wife and I couldn't stand being micromanaged by them. Lady was especially anally-retentive and I absolutely dreaded encountering her, conversations with her, etc.

But now I'm sending out CVs and barely anywhere/anyone replies, gets in touch.

 

[Laurence]

I couldn't be bothered to do some borings tasks that took me about a day or so each month...
So I automated those and didn't tell my boss yet. Maybe later I will, ah well.

 

[kal]

I couldn't be bothered to do some borings tasks that took me about a day or soeach month...
So I automated those and didn't tell my boss yet. Maybe later I will, ah well.

Don’t tell them.

 

[Vasilios]

I've never found it as hard to find gainful employment as I am finding it now.

I left a decent position back in December because I was working under a husband and a wife and I couldn't stand being micromanaged by them. Lady was especially anally-retentive and I absolutely dreaded encountering her, conversations with her, etc.

But now I'm sending out CVs and barely anywhere/anyone replies, gets in touch.

You never should've left Dua Lipa Inc.

 

[Laurence]

The way ChatGPT and AI will eliminate most writing, content creation and editing tasks in the coming months...
It does a better job than me sometimes too!

Thankfully, it still listens to me when I ask it to make pretty social media posts for the company. I wonder when it will revolt.

Can't wait to start to stan her:

 

[Square]

The way ChatGPT and AI will eliminate most writing, content creation and editing tasks in the coming months...

I work in content and it's only going to eliminate the people who weren't very good at it to begin with nn

 

[Your Pretty Brains]

I've never found it as hard to find gainful employment as I am finding it now.

I left a decent position back in December because I was working under a husband and a wife and I couldn't stand being micromanaged by them. Lady was especially anally-retentive and I absolutely dreaded encountering her, conversations with her, etc.

But now I'm sending out CVs and barely anywhere/anyone replies, gets in touch.

Seeking employment is legitimately something I don't think I can do again. I'm way too jaded to get anywhere close to "excited" about a new job. It sounds like it'll be worth it for you, though, micromanagement takes years off your life, I'm pretty sure.

 

[Hudvar]

What would you do:

Apply/take a job you don't want to prevent a particularly lazy colleague from becoming your manager, adding unwanted extra stress to the current situation?

Let them go for it, risking a potential nightmare, but not adding workload to your own stack?

 

[MusicLover1994]

What would you do:

Apply/take a job you don't want to prevent a particularly lazy colleague from becoming your manager, adding unwanted extra stress to the current situation?

Let them go for it, risking a potential nightmare, but not adding workload to your own stack?

Let the lazy colleage have the job, in my experience they usually fuck it up and don't last long anyway

 

[2014]

The ~thrill I get out of applying for jobs that I know are so far out of my reach yet get interviews for anyway and subsequently spiralling into a mess of doubt and anxiety for bluffing to get that far.

 

[Raichu]

I work at a high school as an English teacher and we interviewed a new English adjunct to teach a couple literature classes. He was a relatively weak interviewee and the end of it, one of my fellow English teachers asked the principal what she thought and she said, "Well, he has a pulse." She's going to offer him the position despite the savage shade. That's how bad the teacher shortage has gotten. There are no applicants. It's crazy.

 

[Raichu]

I’ve decided I need to come out of education, which sucks because I used to love the job- but after 8 years in management, I can’t handle the stress any more- it’s definitely having an impact on my health- and going back as a class teacher isn’t really an option as you simply don’t get paid enough for the hours you have to put in. The problem is, I’ve got a genetic liver condition that I manage well but it’s progressed recently and the jaundice is quite noticeable (a student told me last week that my eyes look like vomit!) I kinda feel trapped as I’m sure, no matter how well I interviewed, that a prospective employer wouldn’t take me on if I was having a bad jaundice day. Trying to stay optimistic- I’m looking into training as a counsellor at the weekends but that will take another 3 years before I can practise.

I feel you. I'm struggling to teach while having severe depression, non-stop suicidal ideation, and autism (along with extreme executive dsyfunction). I have immense influence with the students and they love me to a degree and intensity that's almost scary sometimes. But I'm not sure if I can keep doing it. I'm only good at entertaining classroom instruction, relationship building, and individual help. I'm embarrassingly disastrous at anything else that involves organization and paperwork and that's also an important part of the job. My disorganization makes me feel sad and embarrassed.