I signed up for the free trial of LinkedIn Premium and the top job that it recommended for me was office administrator
Think I'm going to go lie on the basement floor for a while and question every major and a variety of minor decisions I have made in my lifetime
It wasn't that it was the 'top job of the top jobs recommended,' it was literally the only top job
So glad I threw the last five years of mental and social stability straight into a fucking dumpster fire so that the corporate algorithm could tell me that I am still probably only qualified to do the same thing I did when I was 20
@Motodrachen Oof. The things I was told at the start of this journey seem extremely disconnected on the other side of it.
Can't face down all of the sexual harassment I was warned about if I can't even get my foot in the door, so... yay?
@sashakovich I was sold on my career path in 2008, right after the financial crash, went to college, and got out making Less than I was making doing Landscaping.
For around Ten Years. And all along the way I was treated like I was just a Cost to the company, so I worked my butt off.
Last job, I managed 4 times the output of the previous machinist, but got dressed down because I was sick so much.
Turns out it was the atmosphere in the place giving me constant gastritis.
@Motodrachen Also goddamn, that fuckin' sucks. Did they fix the problem or did you decide to let them figure that out on their own time?
@Motodrachen Yeah, I left school in 2007 with most of a music degree, in the hopes of getting hired before the industry collapsed. Even then I was too damn late. Worked in violin sales for a while, and liked it well enough, but the writing was pretty clear on the wall that I wasn't going to get anything more than a lot of entertaining anecdotes out of it in the long run.
"Get a STEM degree!" they said. "It'll be lifechanging!" they said.
Sure it will be one day, but it ain't right now.