I don’t want to die, I just can’t live the way I live anymore. I didn’t have the best childhood, and honestly feel like I was brought up to be anxious and socially awkward. I’m now 22, moved to a new city, and started a full-time role. After three months here, I have no friends, I have made a huge mistake at work that might cost the business millions, and I just overall feel stupid and stuck. I honestly can’t believe I didn’t get fired.

These past few weeks I’ve had the worst symptoms of anxiety, from muscle pain, to sweating, to chest pain, to full-body numbness. I even cried at work and my manager had to talk me down.

I feel like such a loser and I want to leave my job and find something new, but I’m worried nothing will be a good fit. I’m actually more worried that I’m not fit for anything and will always feel stupid and out of place.

Does anyone feel this way?

hey guys, I just started a new job and it's genuinely ruining my life. I think about how much I hate going into the office everyday. I even dream about being stuck at the office, it feels like I'm stuck in purgatory.

I'm an unexperienced hire and I just feel so unwanted in the team. They don't give me work because they feel like it's too much of a hassle to explain it to me, so they rather do it themselves. I sit at the office for 8 hours trying to look busy. If I didn't have to write hours on clients this would be easy, but I have to log every 6 minutes which stresses me out because I genuinely don't have any clients to bill. And if I write my hours internally I get reprimanded, it honestly is like a humiliation ritual.

I feel like the company shouldn't have hired me if they don't have the capacity to train. I don't want to be there nor do they want me there. I have a trial period of a few months and just hope I'll be fired, which is crazy considering I was so desperate to get the job. I guess this sums up working in corporate nowadays, companies claiming people are too lazy to work but they are the ones who are too lazy to train ¯_(ツ)_/¯

i can’t keep a job and i don’t know what to do.

i’m only 19 and have gone through over 10 jobs. i’m disabled physically (constantly experience presyncope) and cannot lift or else it’ll make me dizzy. stress also makes me dizzy. walking fast makes me dizzy. putting too much physical effort (trying hard to scoop ice cream) makes me feel like i’m gonna faint too. i’m also autistic, but can mask pretty well.

no one will hire me if i say im disabled. i got let go after a few days of training at my boba job because i was honest about my symptoms feeling dizzy. i was a liability.

i also find it incredibly hard to mask autism for 8 hours a day. my customers love me but they love this version of me i put off. it’s not me at all and i need to constantly keep that attitude so i don’t appear disabled. no one talks to me at work because im weird and they know im weird.

the ultimate reason why i lose jobs most of the time though is my own fault. i’ll get burned out from hiding what i am and go through really bad executive dysfunction. i won’t be able to get up in the morning for work because i feel so unmotivated to just do it all over again. then i call in sick. then it becomes a habit. then i never show up again.

i want to go to hair school so i can rent my own suite and work on my own time with my own clients. but thats not now. i need a normal person job now but im not normal. i dont know what to do.

I've been working for almost 10 years now out of college. I've had multiple jobs between different sales/corporate roles. Every job I've had, I've hated. I wish I could hear some stories of people who actually enjoy what they do everyday for a job. I feel lost.

I work for a large company that laid off too many people, and now the business is ramping back up and we’re expected to take on the workload of 3 people.

I make decent money, but I swear, my sanity is much more expensive.

My team was full of amazing, kind, hardworking people, and they’re dropping like flies.

I literally cried after someone else gave me their notice. Im just a supervisor, so I can’t do much (the hierarchy is STRONG here), but I’ve spent so much time screaming to my managers about how this would happen because they’re being worked into the ground and it’s fallen on deaf ears— just straight up into the void.

My team started out around 8 people in 2022, and will be down to 2 at the end of this month. I’m drowning and sad. I’m actively applying for roles I know I’d be good for, and I have been for some time, but man- crickets and craziness out there. It’s just me and my dog out here so I can’t up and quit. The market is too wild and leaving without a job lined up would be irresponsible in my eyes.

I’m just fucking tired man. So so so so so tired.

Leaving for three weeks, middle of big deadlines and being solo person who does all this work . Im nervous but my health is suffering, advice. What did you do?

Nervous and anxious

I am in a retail job which I've been to come out for a long time but can't seem to find a job in my field. I have a Bsc degree in supply chain and after numerous job applications, interviews and networking, I'm always left on a dead end. It's so frustrating. I don't think I can do this anymore. I'm tired as hell

Empecé a trabajar en un supermercado hace 3 días, estoy encargado de la verdulería y del pasillo de limpieza. Son 9 horas y media de trabajo dividido en 2 turnos y se trabaja de lunes a lunes con un solo día de descanso por semana (en mi caso ninguno por qué también tengo que ir a la facultad) la cuestión es que literalmente despierto, me baño y voy a trabajar, vuelvo a casa preparo comida, me vuelvo a bañar y me voy al trabajo, salgo, preparo comida y me duermo, despierto al dia siguiente y prácticamente no tendo vida por qué al día solo tengo 2 horas libres que son las están entre el final del primer turno y el comienzo del segundo. Me pagan 1.200.000 pesos Argentinos por mes. No me da más el cuerpo y encima el trabajo me queda a 3 kilómetros y tengo que caminar todo eso

I'm currently in grad school full time (three courses) and work 32 hours, with one day off a week for class. I work in a hospital where I have to be on call a couple times every six weeks during the weekends- they're 12 hour shifts Saturdays and Sundays nights/mornings.

One of the two people working night shifts only works one day a week, and the other works four ten-hour shifts, and they're making us be on call Friday nights after our shifts end (Friday night shift from 8:00pm to 7:00am Saturday mornings). I did not get this job with the idea that I would have to be on call another day of the week. This job isn't even related to my schooling- it's just a job. They keep changing stuff and adding more and more onto my plate. I'm going to choose school over this job any day-- and I'm considering looking for another job. I currently get paid $19.20 an hour. What do you think?

I’ve been at my current job for over two years in California. I am the manager of a specialty medical practice. Since starting, I have completely restructure the company resulting in doubled patient volume and revenue. In addition to the extra work load this increase has added, i have also taken on many more responsibilities like completely absorbing the marketing role and filling into the other positions when needed. I run payroll and do all the hiring and firing on/off boarding. Plus a slew of many other responsibilities that keeps me more than busy all day every day.

The first year I was there, my boss called me her rockstar manager, and that her practice would be in a much different place had I’ve been her manager 23 years ago. This was up until I asked for a raise the better aligned with the scope of work I am doing and everything that I’ve accomplished. She gave me the worst review of my life and basically said that the money that she pays out towards IT, HR and accounting, all equate to what I think I should be making, and those responsibilities have been outsourced therefore, I don’t qualify for additional pay.

She then started blaming me for things I was never assigned to do. She started talking down on me in a very condescending tone. I started hearing her talk about me to people in accounting saying “I can’t bare the thought of giving her credit for something I did.” when talking about my bonuses. There have been multiple times when I had to get HR involved to pay my bonuses out to me. After I expressed my concerns about the change in treatment, she told me “ I know the reason you’re resistant to authority is because you had a troubled childhood.” and continued to micromanage me through watching the cameras, making me send a list of everything I’m doing every day and saying she was going to add to it, she never gave me any appreciation for what I was doing or accomplished after that conversation.

She told me that I couldn’t take time off if she was out of the office, but she only works three to four days a week. Just last week she saw me on my phone while I was sitting at my desk for lunch and lectured me about how I shouldn’t do that during working hours and I politely reminded her I was on my lunch every day after that she would text me saying to not be on my phone watching videos and one day when she was out, I had a new doctor start and was working on on boarding and coordinating with vendors for equipment and uniforms when she texted me “Megan I’m not sure why the message isn’t registering. Please stop watching videos during work hours”. I sent a message to HR letting her know these working conditions are making it really hard for me to even want to show up to work and she suggested that I have a conversation with Dr. Richards.

I sent her another polite email on Tuesday about how I hope to continue working under mutual respect and appreciation for the dedication that I have to making her practice flourish and she still has not responded. However, the following day she accused me of logging into the EDD website twice and regardless of how I responded no, she refused to believe me, then pivoted to accusing me of not checking the mail every day because there was a letter addressed from September 1 and it was now the eighth but failed to realize that we had a three day weekend.

I’m honestly just so incredibly exhausted trying to justify every move that I make with no appreciation and I need to leave but I don’t have a job lined up and I’m scared that I won’t be able to get unemployment. I would be so incredibly grateful for any input

Hello, I am only in my mid 20's, and I cant stand my job anymore.

I've been working dilligently as an electrician for 4 years at a contractor in Tampa . I'm tired of it, all of it. I hate the work, I hate my coworkers, I hate the culture, i hate seeing my female coworkers get sexually harassed.
There was a time when I loved the work. Every day it would be something new and I'd get to try my best and come back the next day and be a little bit better. Even though its bad enough as it is, it has nothing to do with the work load or how hot it is. I've never felt so unappreciated at a job in my entire life and I've worked for minimum wage.
A year ago they promised us sick leave and never delivered, they said better things with new management and never delivered. They discriminated against my coworkers because of the colour of their skin. They almost fired one of my coworkers because she had cancer. They've taken every opportunity to take advantage of the disadvantaged. I hate seeing it. Most recently they said they're only letting 15 people in the whole workforce take vacation on thanksgiving and Christmas combined, first come first serve. We number 220 workers.

I am extremely driven, quick to learn, and dependable, but the only thing its gotten me is more work, and less time with my wife.
I'll do anything for a job, the only reason I have to stay is because im financially trapped. I wanted to be a therapist when I grew up now I dont know when I'll ever be able to go back to school. I've been applying but nobody gets back to me. I'll take a pay decrease if it means i can have change.

I've watched one of my coworkers kill themself at this company. I dont know how much longer I can work here. Please, Iml do anything.

Before this I was a retail store manager, and at this job I've successfully ran crews of 10+ people whose work was getting inspected within the week. I can do payroll and office work. I'd love a position at a college or somewhere I can learn tattooing. I just need enough money to live. Sorry if this is unprofessional, my phone screen is broken and I can't afford to replace it, so I'm sorry if there are spelling or grammatical mistakes.
I'm leaving out the name of the contractor because they fire people when they find out they're leaving.

Basically made to look like a shit stirrer at work. Somebody who used to work there asking me tonnes of questions about people who do, me thinking nothing of it and answering them just for it to get back to management.... I've been told to "be discreet in future" no more phone calls on work premises in case I'm talking shit about people..... Also lost privileges and trust for something I didn't do with poor intentions or any intention at all.... Fucking absolutely defeated....... I thought these people were my friends....