For the first time in my life I just withdrew and application after several interviews. I feel weird about it like a decade ago I was begging a local diner to let me work 2 serving jobs and please not fire me and now my current job is begging me to not leave and offering a raise that literally equates to one of said serving jobs. I worked 1000x harder at said dual serving jobs and still made less $- both jobs combined- than I will in 2023. Anyways. This isnt to brag. Unskilled labor is a myth. My one “professional” tip is whenever you have imposter syndrome just remember there is some old crusty white dude making more than you and doing less so why should you feel like you’re not doing enough work/doing good enough work? You shouldn’t.
In the tradition of looking for something to be grateful for on this day in the USA, @dduane, I want to say thanks for your Young Wizard series. It was one of the works that helped form my worldview. I’m of an age that I grow up with the characters as you released the books. I found a battered copy of So You Want To Be A Wizard in –fittingly–the local library. And the universe you wrote in the series became a haven I ran to whenever the life I was living got me down or tried to take away my hope. I still turn to them for comfort and sanctuary in my thirties, by listening to the audiobooks. They always restore me. Thank you for writing this wonderful universe. Thank you for writing lonely kids who get invited into a universe of cousins and committed friends. Thank you for writing young people with the agency to help heal the world and stand up to evil. Thank you for writing magic that is a good and wholesome part of the world, walking hand in hand with science. Thank you for writing books that told a lonely kid there were friends out there, if I kept looking for them. All my gratitude.
Thanks so much! It’s a pleasure to have been (and to continue to be) of service.
how many people could be working on actual problems in the world instead of being forced to do jobs that they are over-qualified for just because they dont want to go homeless and starve?
climate change is threatening to kill us and people with biology degrees are working at starbucks if they didn’t get lucky in the nepotism department.
capitalism is possibly the least efficient way to allocate work.
You love art–have spent your entire childhood developing a style people love and appreciate? you could possibly work to improve the lives of millions with your beautiful creations?
sorry you need to work 12 hours a day at a walmart that doesn’t need you while some billionaire who took a painting class once sells some ugly bullshit for 3.5 million.
Millions of people want to be doctors but can’t afford medical school, it is a well known fact we don’t have enough doctors for the demand. hmm wow real efficient capitalism.
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of
Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent
have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould
This world is too cold and too cruel for you to stay long, my sweet girl. But oh how we love you. Friday night dinner as usual; Sunday we are saying goodbye. I wish you no pain and that you know how loved you truly are. Bye for now Belews clues💜
When I started my new job I decided I was going to have strong work-life boundaries. This has become even more important now that I work from home. I swore I was taking a full hour lunch break everyday, I was using AT LEAST the equivalent PTO as if I had 3 weeks (we have unlimited pto) and I was not working overtime as I’m a salaried employee. I was super anxious and still sometimes get anxious whenever it’s a super busy day and I unplug for lunch or there’s renewals to go through and I could easily knock some out after hours BUT…I like this job more than any other job I’ve had. Is it because of this new boundary thing? Or do I just like it…idk. I’m taking 4 days off to go to the mountains and for once I don’t feel immense guilt about taking time off. I’m one person and no one else is going to protect me from overwork than me. Anyways use your PTO and don’t work through lunch 🥙
