/b/ - Random

I do "web design" for a foundation, which really means designing emails and updating website pages. I do nothing more than my assigned tasks and spend the rest of my time working on my passion projects. Work from home is a glorious thing. But the worst part of my job is the 1 day im forced to go into the office and interact with people, ALL of them with partners or husbands or wives and I am this weird lonely self-hating thing that just barely blends in (not that anyone ever asks me about my status, they go on and on about their happy lives). I hate the tuesday commute too as no one can fucking drive in my state.

I miss being an unemployment leech, and I'd love if they just let me go one day.

>>232819
Pretty chill, but im trying to go into IT for another nightshift job.

>>232824
Doesn't sound that bad. Is it really dead ? How many hours of downtime do you have ?

>>232819
Worked at a call center for 3 years now I work at hobby lobby.

>>232819
I am a server in a haunted IHOP

Seriously the places is haunted af they say there was a shooting there in the 90s

>>232819
9-5 white collar office work with coworkers who try to throw me under the bus, take credit for my hard work, and ass kiss the LAZIEST boss in the world for hopes of limited upward mobility.
It’s hell for me personally since I’m an autist who can barely keep up with small talk and understand social cues. What’s worse is that it’s an OPEN OFFICE FLOOR PLAN. I can see people in my peripheral vision. I can hear them talking, chewing gum, whispering gossiping complaining tapping their keyboards — MY GOD the fluorescent lights blind me and I get intense migraines every single freaking day on top of staring at my bright af screen.
I also prefer eating alone at the lunch room and people take great offence when I’d rather be alone than indulge in whatever it is they want to share (usually boring mundane things like the daily Wordle or Spelling Bee whatever the fuck that is) I just want to decompress and let my headache go away. There’s not enough space in the lunch room it’s always so crowded and everyone’s in groups and I’d love to have a table by myself just this once pls pls PLEasE

I get daily meltdowns when I come home

Why is it so hard for an Autist like me to hold a steady job … sometimes I wonder if I’m even High functioning if I’m slowly mentally sprawling from something so normal that everyday people live with for 50+ yrs

Anyways, anyone else relate?

I work at Arco making hotdogs and selling gas. It's not very hard but sometimes it gets very busy.

I work at my landlord's/housemate's analysis lab. Right now my hours are early morning, from 4am to 12pm, which is actually pretty nice. I don't mind getting up early and it means I have a whole day to do with as I please. It mainly involves cutting open bags, packing tubes, weighing and calculating, then handling hot things with thin gloves and doing a lot of data entry. It sucks I have to stand most of the time, but it's so we don't horribly burn our legs, so I don't mind. I get to sit for data-entry, but it's mind-numbing stuff with a lot of re-checking and cross-examination of endless long strings of ID digits, dates, job numbers and customer numbers. At least it's air-conditioned in summer and it's always hot enough to keep me warm in winter. If I'm there alone, then I can put my earbuds in and listen to an audiobook or something, while if my work wife is there, then we can play our mutually agreed spotify playlist on, so we can dance and sing with each other as we work.

Most of my moid co-workers do the bulk reagent/sample intake/handling out in the loading bay and aren't allowed to enter the lab on those days. When they do come in, they most congregate around the breakroom, which I just avoid during those times. It's not like they're bad people or they harass me, but they're all pretty rough guys and they're fairly loud/boistrous and crude. The only moid I work with is my shift manager who's very quiet and reserved. He expects perfection in testing, but isn't abusive or demanding about output. My housemate/laqndlord/boss's boss is pretty distant at work and always nicer to me at home, because he feels bad about picking me as a nepotism hire and doesn't want anyone to think we're sleeping together or anything.

I only work 30-ish hours a week, but I make $25/hour, can take my PTO easily and women get more sick days across the board because women who work with lead need more frequent testing.

Overall, pretty good.

>>296470
what dat ghost do?

At what point should I call my toxic ass piece of shit job quits even if I don't have a proper escape plan?

I'm extremely miserable.

I am a part-time art teacher. Working with kids is challenging but extremely fulfilling, they are generally very kind even if rambunctious. I enjoy teaching very much, it is a great feeling to explain something and see the change in expression/demeanor once a person understands a concept; it really is as though watching a light bulb turn on in their head.

Although the pay is pretty decent compared to the other jobs I have had, I could not afford a decent standard of living if not for my husband's relatively lucrative career.

My job is something I only do because I truly enjoy it, although a supplementary income is nice as well.

>>297691
Nice nona, how did you get a job like that? Did you take art in college or do you just need to go to teachers college?

>>296481
I used to work as a delivery food person (aka I wanted to get paid to bike)
I was reminded why I would never work white collar every time I have to deliver to an office building. I have anxiety attacks every time I'd go in. I would just want to leave, I felt like how I imagine a pig feels in an abattoir.

I do not understand how sentient human beings can handle such an environment. I'd rather get blacklung in a coal mine than deal with that hellscape for 8+ hours a day 5+ days a week.

im trying to get a seasonal position at a fragrance shop for the discounts

>>297697
I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. I did not study teaching whatsoever, but I was TA for Intro to Painting for my internship elective in college. My employer sent a scouter to the college's graduation exhibition. Since I was handing out my business card to literally everyone who looked at my work for longer than a few seconds, I guess they decided to take a chance on me. I've always wanted to be a mother one day so I was excited to be presented with such an opportunity. ♡

>>232819
My job? What do you mean?

>>296481
RIGHT why do people hate when you eat alone i hate it so much i can't even relax on my break

I work at a consultancy firm and mostly do technical drawings. It's fine.

Under present conditions working just isn't for me. I can't imagine any jobs that would fill me with purpose and i dislike communicating with most strangers. Also i hate my country's government so i try to avoid paying taxes as much as possible.

>>298123
work sucks

Neet 4ever

The USA is a bankrupt warmongering police state, but nothing will change because Americans think everything is just fine.

i work with kids and goddamn, they sure are annoying

Not working rn, but I've worked as vet assistant on dairy farm and pig farm and have mixed feelings about it. At the same time I like veterinary medicine and I honestly enjoyed working with large animals more than with pets, but industrial agriculture is cruel. I want to work with cows, because I liked working with them and cows themselves a lot, but knowing that I will never be able to help them to the fullest extent (because it's easier to get rid of seriously sick cow that to heal her) and that they will be eventually slaughtered is depressing af. I wish there were opportunities to work with large animals other than agriculture

>>298239
was it a lolcow.farm perchance?

>>298264
Would be funny but no

Americans scream tyranny is wonderful, but Americans are unable to explain why Cubans try to escape even though Cuba has gun control and free medical care.

I write, read, and occasionally do boring presentations about what I write and read.

I'm a janny. Extremely monotonous but at least I'm by myself most of the time. I got into carpentry last year and still aiming to continue learning this year so I'm hoping something good will come out of that and if everything goes well I'll get a more exciting job

i'm in a senior position at a random, unremarkable startup. management is always changing so no one knows what i do and my performance isn't tracked. spend less than an hour working and then i do hobbies or workout for the rest of the day. 6 figures but i'm quitting next month to move abroad (pain).

>>301043
btw, i felt trapped at this company because despite my resume and interview skills, i was never able to get a job elsewhere (interviewed for ~2 years while at this startup). i know the US job market is ass rn but still.

>>301043
>>301044
do you have a job abroad?

>>301079
no, i'm going to school abroad but might take on contracted work with start-ups so i can keep my resume up to date

Jobless Engineer

The elites have turned everyone into criminals, liars, hypocrites, and cowards.

The only good thing about living in a police state is that no one can take the moral high ground on anything.

>>301147
girl what

I’ve never had a job before but the closest thing I have is doing nsfw asmr commissions

>>301155
It’s different for everyone but what I do is have people come to me for commissions instead of stuff like Patreon if I’m gonna be honest the best ways to get your name out there is making sfw stuff on YouTube or make some free content on soundgasm I will say one thing don’t expect to make a ton of money from this only do it if you genuinely enjoy doing it because you won’t make jack for awhile

I work part time at a sex store and it’s a lot of fun. The pay is pretty good as I get commission on top of an hourly wage. I love helping other women take control of their sex lives. The biggest downside is obviously men. It’s a place where they feel comfortable showing their true colors, no filter. I hated men before but this job has really shown me some horrific things.

I work at a daycare, my job is literally playing with toddlers all day and making sure they don't die it's great

>>301175
Hot tea with honey works wonders for me personally might work for you

>>301175
My go to remedy is hot lemonade with a spoonful of honey mixed in

>>301170
I miss working at a daycare

I'm neeting right now but I used to be a caretaker for the disabled at a group home. It was mostly fun and fulfilling unless I had to help with the one creep disabled guy who definitely should've only had male caretakers.

I teach kids in the afternoon and do homework with them. It's honestly relaxing, I just wish they could stop hugging me but if I don't hug them back, they will suffer from a lack of affection and they will be more likely to kill themselves in the future.

I work at a pharmaceutical distribution center. I fill totes with things like Omeprazole, Bupropion, and lots of vaginal creams. Like so many. There’s also a locked vault that has cool stuff like Amphetamines and medical grade cocaine. I really like it. 4 day work week, overtime, incentive pay. I get like 20k steps a day and the days go by so fast because I stay so busy.

>>301685
Tell them you prefer handshakes or fist bumps it's good to teach kids about boundaries

>>232819
Customer service to the biggest most misogynist population of wrinkly disgusting old scrotes on the planet. If one more walking corpse of an old man calls me honey I’ll lose my mind.

I housekeep for a couple of homes and a string of motels. On the weekends I tutor kids in English. It's not as bad as you'd think, since the motels have bathrooms designed to be hosed down and the homeowners would be too embarrassed to leave anything disgusting for me to clean. Tutoring is much harder because of the sheer amount of kids who REFUSE to learn. They resent their parents dragging them to a library on the weekend and forcing them to read and write, so they will simply sit there and dissociate for an hour, saying "I dunno". The parents reject any attempt by me to stop tutoring them so I can actually help other kids, because to them it's more important to be seen to help, rather than actually help their kids.

A few of the kids I really enjoy tutoring, because they're clearly very bright, but were trained to hate school and fell behind the rest of their class. I take pride in not just improving their grades, but helping them learn how to learn, and improving their understanding of society and history.

One of the people I clean for is almost never home during the day and can't use his phone at work, so we communicate through cute little notes we leave each other. He always leaves me drinks and snacks and really appreciates coming home to a perfectly clean home, so he pays me very well. It usually takes me a fair few hours to clean, so he actually put up a TV and couch in his empty guest house so I can take my breaks while watching TV and movies we recommend each other in our notes. It's like having a penpal, and feels very comfy, but whenever I clean through the empty rooms in his house, I get this feeling of sadness and pity because he's so successful, but is a very solitary, lonely guy without a partner or much social interaction; just a few online friends.

>>302348

Nona maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic but the last guy seems like you could turn it into something, if you wanted.

>>302351
I'd be lying if I said I'd never thought about it, but he's 30-something and a research scientist, while I'm 20-something and a cleaner. He's likely not the least bit interested in me, and if he is, it's probably for the wrong reasons.

>>302361
No man in the eons of time has said "she is pretty, fun to hang out with, nice to me and also other people but sadly she can't match my career"
You're not a NEET bum or a whore, the rest doesn't matter.
You'll find hundreds of studies like this one They found that men felt the most anxious when they were the sole breadwinner in the family, and the least stressed when their women partners were contributing 40% to the household income. But as women made more money past that point, men become “increasingly uncomfortable"', etc. pp.

I recently got a government job but unfortunately it's in a call centre. I wanna try and do my best and stay until another role comes up. I struggle with the tasks, but it's nicer than 90% of other call centres so I can't complain too much. You're not allowed to finish case notes/info in-between calls and there's a lot of info required so it can be pretty challenging.

I work at a research library, specifically for math/physics. It's part-time and I also TA history classes at my university on the side.

It is actually really nice and I enjoy it. It works well with my schedule which can be tough because I am a full-time student who takes a lot of credit hours. Often at night there is really nothing to do so I can just do homework. I know nothing about physics + very little about math but it's not hard to bullshit if someone needs help finding something.

There are definitely a few creepy moids + comp sci types who smell AWFUL, but it's not as bad as when I worked at a public library. If anyone wants any library horror stories I am happy to share lol

>>302467
theres more to it though like matching education level. men and women will still prefer ppl on the same sociological level as them. men who dont care about you being on the same page as them are weird