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Why?

Someone please tell me why I should continue to work in this dead end job that drains me, that I hate with a passion, if it's not gonna matter within the next few years? The news talking about AI and how it's gonna replace jobs, and possibly worse. I work in a call center environment so my job will be one of the first AI replaces. We're already training AI at work to...."to help with Agent's questions" instead of having a supervisor help us, but I'm not stupid. I know they're having us train our replacements.

I've just been feeling very hopeless and depressed lately because of this. And everyone tells me to find another job before I quit and I've been trying to, but I can't find anything else I qualify for yet and the job market is so awful right now. What if I don't find another job? Am I just doomed to work in this place forever? And again what's the point if it's not gonna matter in the next few years anyway? Why continue to waste my time and sacrifice more of my mental health?

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User Profile: AsherTree
AsherTree Friday

@LilTatorTot1101

Your right to be concerned..

Your concerns are valid.

You will still need to put food on your table. 

And your going to get through this! 

I hope you will now refocus and focus on you priorities,  what matters to you your ambitions,  your dreams. 🌲

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User Profile: LilTatorTot1101
LilTatorTot1101 OP Saturday

I'm 40 and live with my parents cuz I can't afford a place of my own and can barely even afford to put food on my table. That's part of why I had feel like none of this matters. I can't buy food to put on my table anyways so why bother. My mom, who is on disability and can't work, gets free food from a neighbor's farm so... really I don't HAVE to put food on my table...my mom cooks.

The only thing I'd be losing if I quit would be the income to buy the stuff I want to invest in my hobbies but I don't even know if it's worth it anymore. I don't know if I can keep sacrificing my mental health.

I do appreciate your input. Thank you.

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