I generally like being in a union. Unions can be good things. But holy fuck, I’m really sick of dealing with some of my coworkers.
Most of them don’t give a shit anymore. They just want to stay doing exactly the same things for the rest of their lives. Good for them! But why, when an opportunity for growth and career development comes up, do they prevent other people from getting it? “A week of training,” they think. “Good, that means I can sit on my ass, fuck off, and do nothing!” But I
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I’m dreadfully terrified of attempting to hold a job. Even though I have straight-A marks and can clearly qualify for most any kind of career path, I just crumble under sustained time spent in self-supporting drudgery once my depression flares up. I’ve fouled up one career attempt in nuclear engineering mostly because I became chronically depressed with the schoolwork and ceased to make regular efforts, though this was exacerbated by things like death in the family and a police raid on my
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I’m a straight A student in my first year of a Radiography degree. I’m 22 and after 5 years of working entry level jobs since graduating High School, I decided I should find a career. I left my hometown to move 7 hours away. My girlfriend changed jobs and moved down here to this backwards town to join me.
All I want to do is go back to where I came from, be a career barista and play soccer. Soccer is all I care about and there’s not much soccer in this bumfuck place.
I get ostracized for
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