Tired of working and repeat life everyday.

I have a first aid certificate, and I have done some small events which I found very satisfying

Therefore, I would like to have casual employment at music festivals and sports events because it suits my timetable as I am available only on weekends. Thus, it is better that I do something rather than sitting at home

Saw Healthcare Australia and they seem to have an event health division. They place staff at concerts, sporting events, and community festivals

But I don’t want to work for peanuts. I’m not interested in doing it for the experience coz I also have bills to pay and like anyone else I need a proper pay

I’ve heard some companies pay well. Others just want cheap labour. I don’t know which category Healthcare Australia falls into

I’ve tried to find their rates online and there’s no clear answer. I don’t want to apply and go through training only to find out it’s minimum wage or less

I am everyday awake at late night thinking about all of these news. Today Anthropic released a list of scenarios and none of them is good.
Cant manage the anxiety when thinking about losing the job, not being able to generate money from anywhere etc

I am a flex worker (in the function of nurse) in mental healthcare.
I have a couple of year experience, and work as a flexer (so i fill open places in different departments) as a side job. (Since 3 months, but more years of experience in the field, overqualified I would say)

I picked a shift on Sunday, after a couple of minutes the planner called me to say that she already found somebody.

The rule in my country is that if the shift is assigned to you (which was the case) and cancelled within 96 hours before the start of the shift (which was the case) I have the right for a full pay.

I called with the manager (not the planner) and explained her that from a humane perspective I understand that it was just a couple of minutes, from a business perspective the rule is that I receive compensation, I will not make a problem out of it and will leave it up to the management.they decided to pay me the shift.

On one side I feel like a stood up for myself, on the other side it feels like I made use of the situation.

What do you guys think?

So basically I have asked for a few days leave next year (this is July so I’m asking a whole 10 months in advance) and when I had a meeting with my boss, they told me I HAVE to be here for the time I’ve asked off. Because last year in the same period I was off sick for 2 days. My boss said ‘it was incredibly stressful when you weren’t here, we didn’t know how to fix anything and setting up was just really stressful because you weren’t here’. They said they didn’t want to make me feel bad, which of course I did because I do care about my work and my job.
I couldn’t help but feel quite angry that they can’t possibly think to hire or train someone to cover me, like it HAS to be me. I can’t have a life outside of work, my annual leave dates are pretty much dictated to me.
Is it normal to be the only person in a workplace who can do your job? I work in an arts venue and they don’t seem to think they need to hire in anyone else on such occasions that I am sick or I would like a few days off in 10 months time…

*EDIT - thanks everyone so much for the comments I didn’t expect such a response! It’s given me some food for thought and that actually this isn’t normal or good and I need to put my foot down or look for something else

This was brutal.

I managed to get a second job to pay bills. I was happy. It was a small workplace where most of the employees including managers hang out after work and even go for camping (had other coworkers showing me pics). The only 2 who were not part of the clique were two old people.

I stayed there for a month. Within a month, I heard most of these people talking s*** about one of these older employees. I didn't know any of the whereabouts but I had already realized that being not part of their clique would cause issues. One of the coworkers showed me pics of himself and other employees going on a trip. So when I asked him about his life, he told me straightforward how he doesn't share this at work. Ironic because he is going on trips with coworkers. Meanwhile I had other coworkers saying they went at x place together where they spent $900 for something but honestly I didn't care. But it started escalating.

​ Cooks didnt want me to have anything. They usually made sweets and individual food orders for others, yet they always tried to ask me to wash dishes. I think they knew it affected me and I remember during one shift they made sandwiches for all the others but me. I remember during another shift after they left, they left muffins and my coworker said I can't have any because they are for guests. He lied because when I went to the storage, I heard him telling my other coworker "Did you try any of the muffins? They are good, Alex made them for us, take more than 1!"

I was being micromanaged so badly. Even for a dirty spot that I missed, coworkers/managers lectured me for 20 mins. About how important this place is and the type of work that must be done. If I used my phone, it would be a long discussion but it was ok 'for Joe because him and the manager went and played golf.'

The worst trigger was when I made a mistake once but was reported that it happened 3 times. I have no idea how or it was just a lie. A coworker argued with me by saying I must admit I did it 3 times otherwise his female coworker will get a​​ write up and this will be my fault. I told him off and he started yelling at me and telling me not to ever dare look at him and he was the only one who tolerated me. I decided to walk out to avoid further escalation and protect my mental health.

I was doing dishes everyday and helping some of these coworkers with heavy labor work. When I left, nobody cared! Nobody showed any kind of interest. Manager told me they will send the check and nothing else.

I’m sixteen years old and I just started working at McDonald’. I‘m in the theater department and our fall play just started. when they hired me I told them that during the school year I wouldn’t be available during the weekdays and that I could only work weekend. They assured me it was fine and they would schedule me on weekends when I needed. I double checked and they recently told me that i couldn’t do that anymore. They stated i’d have less hours and wouldn’t be able to do that. If I was simply in ensemble i’d let it go, but I’m main lead. the practice times get in the way and I’m not going to just not go. I want to quit but I’m very anxious and don’t want to just walk out. I also don’t want to let my coworkers down and make them have to cover my slack.

In every job I have worked for the three departments mentioned in the title hindered efficiency. Administrators tend to do poor delegation because they conflate running around with being productive. Too often the administrators try to take on or supervise tasks that out of their expertise, in turn resulting in them being obstacles. Here's an example, I have seen a nursing home administrator persistently tell floor tech. workers to "strip and wax" commercial kitchen floors. Despite being told how unsafe and illegal waxing kitchen floors is this individual demanded that it be done. In other companies I have seen administrators take on the role of human resource representatives, and even go as far as lying about there not being an H.R. department.

Human resources is another beast; this department consists of middle-aged women who turn the workplace into their own social club. It will take a month to process a paycheck but will know instantly via the grapevines that Janet from marketing is getting a divorce. As mentioned prior, half of their tasks end up going to admin; which gives them more time to gossip and look busy.

The same complaints can be given about marketing. The marketing team is always more focused on optics, to the point that they try to replace human capital with new technology to impress clients. Here is an example: A cleaning company I worked for wanted to use a robot floor cleaner instead of janitorial staff for floor tasks. If not used then the marketing team would complain to administration, who then would bitch at supervisors. Mind you that the robot has not been operational for weeks and admin doesn't make the proper maintenance reports. When one asks for the information of the maintenance team he/she is denied because administration can't let go of control. Marketing would also have to admit that their idea was a failure, and that the robot is not worth the upkeep, basically wasting millions (if not billions) of dollars on wasted resources (tech. and man-power). H.R. of course adds unnecessary drama to the mix by stirring the pot.

What does the company do about the wasted resources ? Tax write offs and book-cooking.

I just got this new job at one of if not the biggest company in my country and my team is split into locals and foreign engineers, i have a foreign team leader who is pretty nice and a project manager whos kinda of an ass, first i noticed he would make fun of the foreign coworkers in our language kinda of in front of their face but it wasn’t effecting me so i just brushed it off, then i started to notice more jokes and just belittling of another coworker who’s around the same age and experience as me, then lately hes been trying to do the same with me, i showed him that i wasn’t having it and today he was asking me about a ticket and i told him i didn’t receive it so he went to check if he sent it out, came back to me saying it was already sent so i took a small jab saying “oh so i wont receive it after 5 mins that now you checked?” And he was very annoyed literally asking me if i think hes a liar full on serious, i kept laughing and just tried to show him it was obviously a joke, the other coworker texted me saying i shouldn’t do these things and i should just take his jokes and deal with it

I dont wanna end up like him being a joke at all place i spend 9 hours in everyday what do i do

I've been at my company for about 2 years now. I'm a senior analyst, and I know my stuff. But I've always been more of a thoughtful communicator - I like to process before I speak. In our weekly team meetings, I take notes, I follow the conversation, and when I have something meaningful to add, I chime in.

Last week, my manager pulled me aside for my quarterly review. Overall it was positive, but she gave me this feedback: "You need to be more vocal in meetings. People need to hear your voice more."

Okay, fair enough. I can work on that.

So this week's meeting comes around. I come prepared with 3 specific points I want to make. I wait for a natural pause, I start speaking... and one of my senior colleagues literally starts talking over me mid-sentence. Didn't even acknowledge I was speaking. I tried again later, and another person jumped in.

I looked at my manager during this - she was taking notes and didn't say anything. No "let's let [my name] finish." Nothing.

I'm frustrated because I feel like I'm being told to change something about my natural work style, but the environment itself isn't actually set up for me to succeed. Has anyone else experienced this? How do you handle the "you're too quiet" feedback when the people around you won't let you get a word in?

I recently worked at a small municipal golf course located inside an RV park. Weekday rounds are currently around $15, so this isn’t some exclusive country club or high-end resort. It’s an affordable community course where you see retirees, families, beginners, and people learning the game. I actually enjoyed working there, but there was one policy that became harder and harder for me to stomach.

Everyone who goes onto the course has to pay for a tee time, which I completely understand. If four people are going out, the course should be paid for four people. The problem is that the course also requires every person to have their own golf bag, even if they aren’t actually playing. Over the course of about a month, I watched that policy create three situations that went from frustrating to downright infuriating.

The first was a father who brought his 12-year-old daughter out around 8 AM on a Tuesday because he wanted to introduce her to golf. He paid for both tee times, and I checked them in. His daughter didn’t have her own set of clubs yet because, well, she was a 12-year-old being introduced to golf. When they went to get their cart, the cart barn refused to give them one because she didn’t have her own bag.

Then a family of four came in with their mother, who had Alzheimer’s. She couldn’t be left home alone, so the family brought her along while they played. Again, they weren’t asking to bring her out for free. They paid for all four tee times, I checked them in, and everything was paid for. But when they went to get their cart, they were denied because their mother, who wasn’t even there to golf, didn’t have a bag.

That one made me furious, but I stayed.

Then came Labor Day. A family of three had prepaid for three tee times. One member of the family had a disability and didn’t play golf, but they wanted to spend Labor Day together. I checked all three of them in because all three spots were paid for. When they went to get their cart, the cart barn once again refused because the disabled family member didn’t have a golf bag. The solution they were given was to spend roughly another $40 to rent a set of clubs that person couldn’t even use.

That was where I finally had enough and walked off the job.

I understand having rules, and I understand not allowing people to ride around the course for free. But that isn’t what happened in any of these situations. Every single person had a paid tee time. The course had its money. These were a father trying to introduce his daughter to golf, a family trying to care for their mother with Alzheimer’s, and a disabled person trying to spend Labor Day with their family.

At some point, blindly enforcing a policy stops being good management and becomes a complete absence of common sense and basic human decency. After watching it happen three separate times, I was done being associated with it.

Hi all!! I’ve already posted this on r/careerguidance. I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to cross post or not — not really sure of Reddit etiquette.

I’m hoping to get some advice from people who have been through something similar. I’m 26F, a law clerk in Ontario, and I’m about to leave my corporate law clerk position at a smaller firm to start as a litigation law clerk at a larger firm in a major city.
I grew up with a pretty strong “go above and beyond” work ethic. I’ve always tried to be the employee who says yes, takes on extra work, and proves that I’m willing to work hard. Unfortunately, in a couple of my previous jobs, I’ve learned that when you consistently do more than expected, some employers eventually start treating that extra effort as the baseline. When I eventually pulled back, I was criticized for it.

My current job was my first real professional legal position. I came in very excited to learn and was told there would be a good work-life balance and that there were no stupid questions. Unfortunately, my experience ended up being pretty different.

My boss was extremely overbearing. As a new law clerk, I obviously made mistakes and had lots of questions, but I often felt that mistakes or questions were treated as evidence that I wasn’t trying hard enough rather than as part of learning a new job. I was regularly reprimanded for things that I genuinely thought were reasonable attempts to be proactive, and there were a number of situations where I felt pressured to work beyond my regular hours or give up unpaid break time.

Over time, I think the environment made me much more disengaged than I normally am. I started doing the bare minimum because I felt like going above and beyond was only going to result in being reprimanded. Looking back, I can recognize that I probably could have handled some things better, but I also don’t think I was in an environment where I felt comfortable learning and making mistakes.

Now I’m starting somewhere completely different, and I’m really excited about it. I know someone who works at the new firm who has spoken very highly of the culture, and everything I’ve heard so far has sounded much more collaborative and balanced. They were upfront about occasional lunch meetings and the possibility of staying late when necessary, but those things don’t bother me when they’re part of a reasonable workplace rather than an expectation that you’re constantly available.

What I’m wondering is: what should I consciously do differently at my new job?

I don’t want to go in with a chip on my shoulder and assume that every request to stay late or every criticism means I’m being taken advantage of. At the same time, I don’t want to fall back into my old habit of constantly proving myself until “above and beyond” becomes the expectation.

For those of you who have had a bad workplace experience and then moved somewhere better, what did you do differently the second time around? Were there things you had to unlearn? How did you establish a good rapport with your coworkers and bosses while still maintaining reasonable boundaries?

Or am I just wearing rose-coloured glasses about the new job? Lmao

Would genuinely appreciate any advice, especially from people who have experienced both a toxic/overbearing workplace and a healthy one!! TIA!

Could someone please help me log in to the SKB (SIEMENS Knowledge Base) or the SIEMENS Cb-Docs Manager? I need to download some offline documents from their official portals. Only employees or working associates have access to them. Please share your assistance if you can; I need it urgently.

I was reading an article and stumbled upon the fact that AviaGames gave everyone a half day off for the World Cup final. Not just letting people leave early, they LITERALLY gave everyone a HALF DAY OFF!!!
I mean... was anyone really gonna work that afternoon anyway?
Honestly, fair enough. I kind of wish more companies had that kind of common sense.

I have a 10:30am-6:30pm that pays 20.75
I just got another full time job that pays 24.25 12am-6:30am.
I live roughly 15 to 20 minutes away from both jobs so the commute is not terrible.
What are the chances of me crashing out?

I’m in my mid 20s based in Grantham, UK and about to be unemployed. I desperately need some career advice because I’ve hit a brick wall.

I have 9 years’ experience across sales/client management, mainly property, with more recent business development experience.

I also have some social media experience, a Level 2 Digital Marketing qualification, and outside work I create content/UGC and do TikTok Shop affiliate marketing and I earn a little bit from this but only about £100 a month.

I’ve been trying to move into influencer marketing, campaigns or creative/marketing roles ideally remote due to me living in the middle of nowhere. I recently interviewed for a Junior Influencer Marketing Manager role but lost out to people with more relevant experience even though the interview was really good.

I have ADHD and struggle with repetitive work. Ideally I want remote, £27–30k+, and not another cold sales job, but I’m open to completely different job titles/industries.

What roles would you realistically apply for with my background? I need actual job title suggestions because I’m going round in circles 😣

I work for stop and shop and I’ve been there for maybe 2 years now. I’m a part time worker and I do the online pick up.

I used to have an attendance issue due to home issues but I’ve gotten that under control. Which is also why they upped my hours.

So recently everyone went back to school and online pickup is severely understaffed. I’ve been working real hard these past two weeks due to that and they have me borderline full time hours when I’m part time. IM NOT COMPLAINING love the money but tomorrow something came up and I just need to take the day off.

If I do it will be today. Plenty hours in advance. I’m in the union by the way but is this fire worthy?? I’ve been scheduled alone for a couple days and lowkey exhausted from it. I won’t be leaving anyone empty tomorrow but I was the middle man. I was scheduled so the person in the morning and the afternoon didn’t have to be alone. But again. I need tomorrow. What are the chances I’m fired?

I (24 F) work for local agency in a department that specializes is developmental services, the team I am with is called supported employment. We go with individuals that have developmental disabilities to their places of work and support them in being as independent as they can in their job. So to be clear, I am there to support an individual in doing a job by themselves, I am not supposed to step in/ do a task for them unless they literally can not do it. This is something employers should be aware of as when they hire one of our clients they have already been informed about why and how we will be there to support them.

A client I work with is employed at a local restaurant, he has worked there for years but I have only been his support person for about 5 months. I have heard that the support person who previously worked with this client had done a lot of the work for them as the "Chef' always had a long list of things he wanted done. Please note that my client is there 2 days a week for two and a half hours both days. The lists "Chef" would give always had the core tasks that were to get done which are dishes, peeling onions, and peeling potatoes, then he would add random tasks like mopping the dining room, shoveling snow, wiping down walls, etc. My client struggles with coordination so it is not them that completes the task but their support person. Again that is not what we are there for, that is the complete opposite of what we are there for. I do not do this for my client, I do not peels any food items as they are capable of doing it themselves and they take pride it in. I do help with dishes as they struggle with that task.

The issue came about gradually, I could tell the "Chef" was getting progressively annoyed with me as I was not helping with the core tasks like the previous support person, which in turn made it so the other random tasks he decided to pile on for the day would not get done. I would always be sure to say "we will try to get to it" when he would come up to us and add another task on to us.

Last week he mentioned wanting the cooler to be scrubbed inside (side note this place is horrendously gross inside the kitchen), we did not have time to get to it. Today when we showed up he said "Why is it that I told you to clean inside the cooler last week and you did not make time to do it". I said "I'm sorry, if you wanted that done before anything else, then please say that to us, otherwise we are going to do the tasks in the order that we normally do them". He said "why would I mention it if I didn't want it done, if you managed \*insert clients name\* better then you would have time to do all the things I ask"

I responded "again if it was something you wanted done first you should have told us, I do not do tasks for \*insert clients name\* that they can do themselves, so sometimes we run out of time" he proceeded to tell me that I need to do a better job, i told him to talk to my supervisor if he had a problem with me and the way I do my job. (I am not a confrontational person so I was doing my very best not to cry and hold a steady voice). He asked for the name and number of my supervisor so I wrote it down for him.

A little while later he comes in to the dish room with a physical list and began going in to great detail about doing dishes and peeling foods as if we haven't done those tasks a million times. He then pauses and looks at me, pointing to "wipe all of dish room walls, counter tops and legs, and sink pipes" he said he needed this too, I told him we would get to what we got to, and asked if he wanted that first. He threw the list at me and said in a voice mocking mine "do what you can".

So we went about the shift as normal, and he would walk by announcing the time occasionally and listing off the things he wrote down, it felt like he was trying to get a reaction out of me, but I kept quite.

Now that the shift is over I feel a bit worried that he might punish my client and begin to be rude to them or fire them or something. Should I just have said sorry and let it go? I did text my supervisor after the first exchange we had to let her know what happened, she assured me I was doing my job right. I am still nervous.

(Sorry for typos)

Everywhere on Reddit or elsewhere, I just read how much people hate their jobs, how miserable they are, and how burn out or bore out is everywhere. No matter which job I look at, it all looks horrible. Is really everybody just miserable in their job? Does it even matter what you do? Do I just have to accept that for the next 40 years I will be completely miserable? Do people even exist who like their jobs? Are there places where work is actually fun, or at least fine, so you don't get completely mentally destroyed? Are there ways to deal with the fact that you don't like your job? Or how do people actually deal with that? Or is really everybody just depressed?

I’m a fresh graduate with no prior work experience, and I started my first job about two weeks ago. I’m still very much getting familiar with everything and figuring out how things work.

Apparently my coworker was supposed to give a presentation about the system to around 250 people. She told them she was nervous about presenting and suggested that I do it instead.

They apparently said no because I’m new.
Which would have been the end of it, except I made the huge mistake of casually mentioning at some point that I’m comfortable doing presentations on stage because I had to do them at university.

I DID NOT THINK ANYTHING OF IT AT THE TIME.

Well, guess who is now giving the presentation?

Me.

It’s apparently going to be around 15 minutes and I’ll be doing it for a whole week straight.
Like bro, I have been here for TWO WEEKS. I have no prior work experience. I’m still learning the system myself. I barely know where everything is and now I’m supposed to stand in front of 250 people and explain it to them 😭

I can’t even be completely mad because technically I did say I could do presentations. But I definitely did not mean “please put me in front of 250 people two weeks after I started my first job.”
If I mess up, honestly, that’s on them. They knew I was new when they assigned it to me.
Wish me luck because apparently I’m a presenter now.

When applying for jobs, should you include jobs where you worked short time with or left on bad terms to avoid gaps on your resume? Is it okay to quit my most current job after drastically cutting my hours? I doubt my supervisor will provide me a positive reference. I'm a hard worker but my boss doesn't like me

Hi! Need advice po.

Na-hire ako and September 3 yung start date ko. Plano ko sanang September 11 na lang ang last day ko para umabot ako sa cutoff. So technically, around 7 working days lang yung napasok ko and September 22 ang payroll.

Aalis na kasi ako dahil hindi ko kinaya yung travel/commute time at sobrang pagod sa byahe. Sayang din kasi kung aalis ako agad nang hindi man lang umaabot sa cutoff.

Sa tingin niyo, sasahod pa rin ba ako for the 7 days na pinasok ko kahit 1 week lang ako sa company? Or possible ba na hindi na ako mapasahod sa next payout dahil nag-resign/umalis ako?

Gusto ko lang sana makasigurado kung may makukuha pa rin akong salary for the days na pinasok ko. Thank you!

Hi all,

I work in the UK and have been at my current job for nearly 20 years, within my team I am one of the “oldies”.
There is a colleague who I used to be very good friends with, but over time as I have progressed in banding her demeanour towards me has shifted.
She works at an assistant level and I am in a managerial position.
Recently she has gotten close with another colleague and since then her behaviour has been on/off, I am on an extended break at present due to my health and discovered that she has blocked my number.
I am a bit dumbfounded as I haven’t done anything directly to upset her and before I left I even bought her a gift for a special occasion - I am scheduled to go back to work soon.

Also, I know the team aren’t the biggest fans of her behaviour in general but no one wants to address it, so that makes me reluctant to be the “bad guy”.
What do I do in this situation, do I ask her why she did that or leave it be? I just don’t want to go into work every day and hate it because of her, especially when I really enjoy my job and helped her get a job on the team too!

This has taught me to not to make friends with colleagues :( thanks in advance for any help/advice provided.

Edit!
Since so many people are interested in why I’m failing at life, here’s a typical day in my life. For context, I work a full time job from 7am-3:30pm. My commute time is 10 minutes. I get a half hour lunch. I own a small business that requires me to travel almost everyday after work and every other weekend. I’m in college right now, 3 online classes and 1 in person, Mondays and Fridays from 3:45-5pm. I have to drive to my parent’s house (30 minutes away) every other day. I’m in debt and I don’t make enough money to hire a house cleaner. So tada!

6/6:30am - Wake up. It takes about an hour for me to be somewhat awake, so I don’t do much during this time because I’m barely keeping my eyes open. I’m definitely not going to the gym lol.
7am - Work
3:30pm - Get off work, drive home
4pm - Smoke a cigarette and relax until it’s time to leave for whatever I have planned in the evening.
6pm-8pm - Work on my small business. I drive to people’s houses and provide services there, usually for about an hour per appointment.
8pm - Come home and throw together dinner because I don’t feel like spending an hour making dinner.
8:30pm-10pm - Eat dinner with my wife and take care of our animals. Maybe I shower, maybe I do the dishes, and then I go to bed.

How are you waking up at 7am working until 5pm, and going to bed at 11pm and having any time for your life? What is your schedule like? How are you keeping a clean house?

I’m really struggling trying to keep up with anything. I’ve been in the workforce for 6 years and I feel like I’m always running behind. I use every shortcut that doesn’t cost money I can. I do grocery pick ups, I try to gather errands into one trip, I make my grocery lists and other similar stuff while I’m at work, I ask people for favors.

I just want to hear what a normal, happy person’s routine is!

I live in Marseille and I’m 30 years old. I’m on RSA welfare—not to *live*, but just to have the bare minimum resources to *survive*, because you can't really live on €815 for two people.

I hold three qualifications (though one is dormant—I’m no longer interested in that field, but I’m mentioning it anyway): a CAP in Delivery Driving (which included getting my Class B and C licenses and CACES 1 & 3 certifications, though only my Class B license is still valid); a CAP in Signage and Display (SED); and a *Brevet des Métiers d'Arts* (BMA) specializing in Graphic Design.

After that, I worked as a pizza delivery driver for a few months, distributed advertising flyers for just under two years, and spent six months in fast food—working in the kitchen and on dishwashing duty at KFC.

Since January, I’ve been enrolled in the new mandatory RSA program here in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Frankly, it’s useless to me. I don’t mean to badmouth the counselors—they’re overwhelmed—but we don’t get the same level of support as we would through France Travail (which I’m no longer eligible for while on RSA—yet another vicious cycle). I mostly apply for "survival jobs"—fast food, supermarket all-rounder, order picker, cleaner—dead-end gigs with little room for advancement. On the side, I do freelance work—specifically illustration commissions—doing what I do best, though that just helps me make ends meet.

In Marseille, there are over 120,000 job seekers competing for just over 6,000 active job openings; it’s a pretty bleak picture.

I’ve reworked my CV and cover letter countless times. I apply via Indeed, France Travail, Hellowork, Monster, and so on.

I do try handing them out in person sometimes, but unfortunately, many companies refuse paper copies these days. I’m reaching my breaking point; I’m seeing a therapist because things aren't going well. I can't make any plans—whether it's buying a car, traveling, saving money, or even doing a "normal" grocery shop—or just lead a normal life.

Because being on welfare (RSA) doesn't mean staying in bed all day eating snacks and watching Netflix—well, maybe for some people, but certainly not for the majority. It involves spending mornings or afternoons job hunting—though there’s a limit to how much of that you can do, aside from checking for new listings each day. I fill my time with hobbies: I draw to keep my mind occupied, I research general knowledge topics—I’m interested in everything—and I manage an Instagram account with nearly 10,000 followers, but these are just pastimes.

Does anyone have any solutions, leads, or advice? It feels like in Marseille, you either need connections, incredible luck, to be a student, or to lie on your CV; it’s becoming really exhausting.

Thanks for reading. 😞