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by lunarpunk
1308 days ago
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I'm very curious, how did staying at a job throw you off your feet more than doing a random minwage gig? Sometimes I have a feeling I could do with a random minwage gig for some time due to fatigue from programming in a corporate environment, but have been putting it off due to it being a questionable financial decision, especially now with a looming recession. Wha |
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At the time, minimum wage was a lot less and other expenses (helping pay for my now-ex-wife's college and car insurance, then a whole long story of undiagnosed ADD) made doing so untenable, especially since about half of that time was before the ACA was in a usable state.
I'll note however that there is a difference between fatigue (1), an unhealthy working environment (2), and abuse (3).
The job in question was in category 3. It is just over 10 years ago, at that job that my boss told me I couldn't have a day off when my mother had a 50/50 shot of surviving the next 48 hours.
Category 2, is something you have to recognize as such, because it has a subtle difference between 1 and 3. (Or, maybe, 3 is a subset of 2.) I've been in that boat, and it tends to be a situation where you can't take a proper break, or every 1-week vacation you ever take makes you regret taking it.