Work

 Ok. This is about work. Career, occupation, calling, job, or whatever else you want to call it. I have a job and you (if anyone ever reads this) probably also have a job. I don't mind my job. It is not the best out there but it's certainly not the worst. I work from home 3-4 days a week and live only about a 20 minute bus ride from the office. A lot of busy work. But podcasts in the background or new music to listen to keeps my mind occupied even when I nothing more than a glorified monkey with a keyboard. There is still some resentment there, though. I think this is a normal feeling to have with any job. You hear about how these tech workers are making 200+ thousand a year and they say they only work about 3 hours per day. Meanwhile I am working 6+ hours every day making 28 dollars an hour. Or I see job openings within my organization for jobs that I know are a bunch of bullshit meetings and buzzwords making 100+ thousand a year. Its frustrating. I got a BA in college instead of a degree that could go more towards a high paying job. So now I have to work even harder to prove that I am a competent worker that you should pay X amount of dollars per hour. I am not saying that I am complaing about the pay for my job. It is about on par for what I think the work in the city I live in should pay. 

Now we come to the shit you see online. You see stories about people who are overemployed working 2 or 3 jobs bullshitting their way to making 300+ thousand a year by basically doing the bare minimum. So why I am here working harder than normal for a job that doesn't pay anywhere near 300 thousand? I don't know. So here is the plan: I am going to do the bare minimum. Fuck working extra hard. You know what I say? I say that the only reward hard work gets you is more work and no raise. So fuck working at a higher rate of speed on completing tasks when it results in the same salary as the shitbirds who slack all day. I am going to slow things down. Read more during work. Listen to more music during work. Workout more during work. I already am a fast worker. I'll turn down the speed 20% and it'll be all good. Slow it down just a little and fly under the radar. But of course I have a coworker getting a promotion so I will have to take over her responsibilities. Apparently it comes with a little bit of a raise so we'll see how that goes. 

On the bright side my first job after graduating during what I consider to be the worst time ever to graduate (May 2020) was paying me $18 per hour. Fuck you with that disrespectful pay. Now I am making $27.81 per hour and feel respected. Not like just some random employee that could be replaced in a heartbeat (even though I probably am). So heres to making $30 per hour and then $32 per hour and fuck it $45 per hour one day. Oh and I forgot to mention that I am teaching myself excel while on the clock. That is a fantastic hard skill to have and I think that it'll not only help me out profesionnaly but personally as well. Again, we'll see. Adios.