Your at the bottom of the totem pole at your job. You know you need to make a change but aren’t willing to make sacrifices. You might be working… but your just going through the motions and not working towards anything, your not making any advancements in your company. I wouldn’t even really consider your raises advancements either unless it was like 50% increase because your work has been so good, rather than a raise that’s just enough to keep you relatively happy and working at the same place.
Theres nowhere else to go in my job. Im second from the top now. I started out folding towels and now Im a driver, order selector and manager there.
AKA… time to get out of that job and do something else. Create some sort of financial net so that you have some room to make a leap into something else.
yeah, Ive been looking, especially after the way they keep fucking me over. Right now its secure so maybe thats why Ive been hanging on like the captain of a sinking ship.
Job market sucks right now. People getting laid off all over. I have a shit job but its union and reliable so I stick with it. Always got an ear out for something better but its a big chance to make a leap into uncertainty.
I actually read an article that albany hasn’t been affected by the recession and that the gdp has gone up.
Im not sure where they got that from cause all my friends are getting laid off from teaching, state, police, and EMS jobs and have trouble finding work. There may be jobs out there but they may be in the low end of the pay scale where educated and experienced people cant afford to wast their time.
Yah I’m not saying that albany has weathered perfectly… but I guess its been much better than other areas in the US. Let me see if I can find the article.
Shit, I was out of work for a year and contest while there is a good number of jobs open in the Albany area, they are shit jobs for poverty level pay. I’d say 80% of the jobs open were a decrease in pay over what I was making on unemployment. When I started where I am now, after working 40 hours a week minus taxes, i was taking home about $30 more a week then I was on unemployment.
As for my truck, haven’t touched it since Friday. Did some browsing online today trying to talk myself into buying a newer vehicle, just can’t talk myself into doing it
yeah, most jobs Ive seen are in the $8-10 range and theyre manual labor jobs that require heavy lifting or working like an african slave.
happy birthday pj!
happy birthday mr pj brown!
and its good for you.
not everyone in this world can be supported by their parents, or work half assed and get handed a monster paycheck for it. Some of us actually work like slaves for our money and dont complain about it…
you go to the gym right?
Ok. So pick up a manual labor job starting at $10 a hour, and STOP going to the gym. You are getting more of a workout just from working, and getting paid and saving yourself money from not going to the gym…
Can someone also merge all of the Jellies jumbo from the other thread in here? Thanks. Be great to have a ‘one stop Jellies depression/anger shop’ besides Adult World.
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Im already doing a manual labor job and busting my ass for more money than that so why would I purposely take a pay cut and not be able to pay my bills/expenses by doing so?
It doesnt make sense to make less money when I dont think Im making enough now, one of the main reasons I want a new job in the first place.
what are you doing now paul?
HOLY SHIT.
This.
So back and forth it’s unreal.
Dude, you gotta make some sort of change. Move in the right fiscal direction. Get rid of your debt so you can actually take a stab at getting ahead. I’ve only talked to you a couple times, but you seem like a nice enough dude.
Get OUT from under your debt. You’re not to old to start another career. You just don’t seem to want to take the effort to help yourself, you would rather just be Eeyore and be sad about it. You only get one life man.