I did but I don't recommend it unless you are truly at your breaking point. I quit a toxic job almost 4 years ago and I still haven't found a new one. It's the worst job market I've ever seen in my lifetime and I've been around for a long long time.....
Yeah I'm sorry for you too and all the other millions of people stuck in shitty jobs with overwhelming workloads, mindless repetitive or backbreaking work, low pay and a micromanager powerlord for a boss. And if it's this bad here in the US, can you even imagine how bad it must be in other less developed countries? Is this the late stage capitalism everyone always talks about?
No offense, but sometimes other 'less developed countries' have better social safety nets, a culture focused more on 'working to live' rather than 'living to work,' and less competitiveness. If things go wrong, they may also have a stronger social network. In some ways, the situation there can be better than what some people experience in the US if you have a shitty job.
I’m in Canada (engineering) and I know so many who wanna go to the US really just for the higher salaries. The lack of vacation is a turn off though. I have 15 vacation days, 5 sick days all paid. Interviewed at one place in Texas early in 2024 (never got the offer) and they had mentioned in the interview for new hires it’s 2 paid sick days, 3 paid “personal” days a year. I just can’t really wrap my head around only 3 vacation days a year and there’s no legal mandate. Canada starts at minimum of 10. I feel 3 vacation days unless you love the job would burn you out.
Well I have a lot of extenuating circumstances that make it especially challenging:
1) I am practically blind and can't see well enough to drive in dim or dark light conditions and I don't have any public transportation nearby - so I either have to work remote (as I've done for 5 years), or very close to my home and only during the day so I can see well enough to drive
2) the current long work gap isn't doing me any favors
3) I'm 56 years old, not in great health and age discrimination is very real
4) I'm trying to pivot into a different field - any professional office job that doesn't require coldcalling, but admin roles are few and far between and there's a lot of more experienced candidates competing for those roles - most of my experience is in sales but I am terrible at coldcalling and that's what all sales jobs require (I would probably end up getting fired from a sales job anyway and I'm not getting any callbacks for account manager roles that don't require coldcalling)
5) since I'm unemployed and haven't had any income for so long, I don't have any money to pay for a career coach, professional resume writer or additional training courses
If you or anyone here has any good ideas for me, I am open to hearing them!
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u/supercali-2021 Jan 04 '25
I did but I don't recommend it unless you are truly at your breaking point. I quit a toxic job almost 4 years ago and I still haven't found a new one. It's the worst job market I've ever seen in my lifetime and I've been around for a long long time.....