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imaginativeTiger4030
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Midlife Burnout, starting over
Work & Career / by imaginativeTiger4030
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 July 21st
...See more Why do companies claim to care about their employees while literally paying them the legally required minimum? I've found myself starting over. My situation is not as bad as most, as I have a stable place of my own to live, but I've found myself applying for literally any and every job because after a year of unemployment and thousands of job applications to anything paying a livable wage, I still have found anything. So I'm borderline desperate to have some cash flow, a purpose, and genuinely something to do because not working is draining me. I had a retail job offer today after a 5 minute interview. Minimum wage. I have a degree and literally decades of upper management experience in retail and restaurants. I am lucky enough to be in a situation that I could scrape by on minimum wage. But how is that the economy we are in? Again, I realize I'm lucky enough to be in the position that I could survive off minimum wage, but this is absurd that at my age I'm starting over literally to less than I made 25 years ago (I made over minimum wage at 16 years old). I'm at the point I need the job, so I'm taking it, but how is this the world we live in?
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