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As I’m looking for a new job, I’m reminded why I wanted to leave my current job. I walked into work today and smelt the most horrid scent … dead rats! The exterminator said he found 6 rats and those left behind sooo many flies. It was so gross. My coworkers and I all held a fly killing contest, nasty way of making the best of the situation.
Aside from today, I guess I don’t mind my job as much as I used to. I work in communication at the moment, but I’m looking to switch fields. I mostly post on the organization’s social media, update the website, file simple paperwork, and make sales for the storefront. I don’t feel the most satisfied from this job, but it’s okay for now. They are trying to help out in the community, which was a big reason for me working there, but they’re just underfunded. :(
My current job does give me the opportunity to look through some old donations from the community. Today, I found some old yearbooks (pictured below).
Apr 10, 2024
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I can’t really share any specific details but I’m gasping and scandalized on a regular basis. I will say that once I got to overhear an outlandishly wealthy person talking about geopolitics and investment outlooks several years before things relating to what they talked about popped off and it kind of broke my brain a little bit and made me feel skeptical of media narratives. If I told you more I’d have to kill you 😔
Once I was pretty sure I uncovered an international sex trafficking ring related to a flop beauty pageant I had never heard of and fell down a Google search rabbit hole about it but I didn’t really do anything about it.
In the course and scope of my employment I’ve heard about a lot of people being killed or grievously injured by motorcycle wrecks even with the proper protective equipment and precautions and defensive driving. had their scalps ripped off and their leg bones rip through their skin etc so I would say don’t ride a motorcycle.
In another life I worked as a hostess at a restaurant which was a job my (niche famous post-punk musician) boss made up for me because he was a client of my dad and liked the way I dressed/thought I was cool. Because there was only one hostess people would often ask me if I was his wife or the wife of the chef and I always had to laugh. My coworkers always asked me if I had OCD because I would regularly wash my hands according to food safety guidelines. One of my coworkers (who had a tattoo in honor of our boss) had a nosebleed and left a long trail of blood all through the restaurant which I noticed and cleaned up. He was so grateful that I did it like I did it as a personal favor to him but I was just mortified at the idea of customers seeing it.
I worked at a farmers market and after I left it was discovered that the farmers market manager had been embezzling money and she died not too long after because it turned out she had cancer… so maybe that’s why she did that.
This is another silly workplace story I shared on here recently about my job at a vintage costume rental shop combination antique bookstore combination dance studio.
Apr 18, 2024
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In June of 2023 I quit my job as a news producer after two years. I had a “mini retirement“ or whatever name it has now before it was trendy. I didn’t quietly quiet. I literally quit. I’ve written poems, won awards for poems, worked on my novel, abandoned my novel, come back to my novel, solo traveled, slept in, got into block printing, planted a garden, gone to concerts, tried to untangle the knot of anxiety inside of me, helped take care of my grandparents, done yoga, read books, watched movies. Now I need a job again. I want to do something I’m proud of. I want to keep this life I’ve cultivated outside of the traditional career. I’m terrified I will never be hired, that I’ve tarnished after these two years of living. Somehow doing the very things we’re on earth to do — create, try, experience — has hindered me. This fear is only being validated with every rejection letter in my inbox. It seems that I’m asking for too much. I don’t care that I’m young. The scope I’m looking through may be narrow but it’s all that I have.
Apr 18, 2025
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Tbh I feel like finding a job you like is mostly self awareness and knowing that it’s still going to feel like a job
A few questions that Might help:
1. think about past work experience - who has your favorite supervisor been? Why? Same for least favorite - what did they do that you absolutely could not stand?
2. Think about morals - do you want to find ~meaning~ at work or is it more important to have stability and freetime?
3. Think about past coworkers - do you like working alone? On a team? Is it important to be around people during the work day?
4. Think about what you get satisfaction out of in your personal life - is your grocery list organized by aisle? are you the mediator in your friend group? While hobbies might play into this, try and think beyond them
try and translate some of your answers into something you’d find on a job description. Maybe this exercise won’t be helpful but thinking about work like this has helped me land in a job I like
Myself as example: I like organization, having autonomy, having my voice heard, and ~believing~ in the work I do. I also get bored at work quickly. This originally led me to social work where I quickly got burnt out With 24/7 work. I’m in continuing Ed administration where I work a 9-5 ~10 months of the year and have 1-2 very hectic months and that works really well for me.
Feb 16, 2024
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I like what I like and I like doing things myself (Virgo). Every birthday, for the last few years, I have been making my own birthday cake and I have been loving it. This is a vanilla cake with blackberry jam, lemon curd, and mascarpone whipped cream.
To celebrate my 23rd birthday, I had an intimate dinner party with my family, friends, and my boyfriend. It was a gorgeous time.
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 9, 2024
I love slow Sundays at the museum. I love seeing the families, the older couples, the new lovers. I love listening in on their conversations. Some are planning their lunch. Others are connecting their lives to the exhibits. It’s beautiful!
When I eventually get bored, I roam around and find the museum cat, Stevie.
Apr 7, 2024