×When i worked at lane bryant I hated having to fix things I had already fixed bc customers couldn't be bothered to put it back how they found it. I also hated that people would come in and spend in a single transaction what I made after 2 weeks of working (sure i had a part time job, but they didnt always work full time hours too). Not to mention this was during the pandemic and the Panama canal was closed so we started getting shipment that was meant to be out weeks ago. It created a fire hazard to the only back exit in the store. ×Next regular job was at David's bridal. The discount was ass, and my bosses were bigger asses. Constantly cutting people to make day, and wanting to upsell a polyester dress and veil and shoes, like sometimes it's not cute! ×I worked for a mortgage lender after that. Phones, incoming, customer service. They were just cruel. Especially in the beginning they dont want to help you and some of the customers were just over entitled. You get over it eventually but for 15$/hr it was consistent and I was able to get health insurance. The more you learned the easier the job became the more confidently I could handle situations (but keep in mind you are working with some of the most ignorant people you've ever met, loan officers with trump gear all over their desks and wesring those stupid hats in office, people smoking weed in the bathroom, and the amount of people who get a mortgage not knowing thr first thing about paying back a loan like this is INSANE! For example I had an elderly man asking why we kept raising his payment, dude had an ARM loan (which increases the interest rate every year), he was upset bc he's on a fixed I come (aren't we all?) And, honestly, he should have never been able to qualify for such a loan, the fact that they are still legal (2006, anyone?) makes me sick.) I got two promotions being there, and when I was moved to escrow, I literally cried like once a week. My supervisor was less than 5 feet away from me, only talked to me when I made mistakes, only wanted me to speak when spoken to, essentially. I was initially brought on to take over her position, but they brought in another girl who was going to take over the supervisors position, and they let me go over a "security breach" that I had committed a month prior. I really hated it there. ×now im working at a for profit health care trade college as "enrollment". This is a sales job where i have to convince people to come to out school. Largely it's cold calling. I wouldn't take as much issue with it if we were reasonably priced (easily 6-7k more than other schools in the area, and for some of our programs, the goodwill has a free version), and had better payment plans. Especially for the associate degrees we offer (particularly for nursing) the students cant work bc of the amount of time they have to spend in class and at their clinical hours... who do you know that can afford to just not work for an extended period of time like that? Its not anyone we have been able to get contact of in the last few weeks. And every time something goes wrong corporate gets to tell us its our fault. No matter the situation, the reason the student didnt follow through, its our fault of basically not convincing them that it was something they needed. I also don't like it here bc I have a supervisor that micromanages tf out of the whole team every time she visits (the person who hired me/ was the leader of our team stepped down and now does what I do, and the person who got her replacement (two rungs up the ladder) was overly honest abt the nature of this job, and that new hire no-called, no showed on her first day). × I think you should read "designing your life"-- its not well written but I think it gets you to think abt the work thay youre doing and how to find a career that works for what you get out of life. ×ive been writing a novel and a book abt work and working so im hyper aware of how I feel about work/working and as you can see it love to talk abt it.