What it’s like to work now
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️ Christina 1986-05-20 
— 2 weeks ago(March 13, 2026 03:04 AM)I feel like the work is kind of stupid because it’s like I’d be working on minimum wage for the rest of my life. I tried to fit it in and keep going. I’m trying to learn to sell insurance. Are people like fighting tooth and nail to sell burgers at Wendy’s? Also, the part-time stuff is always so insulting.
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️ Christina 1986-05-20 — 2 weeks ago(March 13, 2026 03:05 AM)
Do you feel like you’re losing money by working a minimum wage job too much while you’re in college? Like do you even make much money when you do some of them? Seems like just the factories make a lot of money. I’m on Social Security but I wonder if everyone’s there. The studying insurance is going OK now I’m not rushing. I had to try a few times.
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️ Christina 1986-05-20 — 2 weeks ago(March 13, 2026 06:37 AM)
Then they don’t don’t don’t they technically come out that way? With skills that aren’t good for a job. Not honest work. I went home and lived with my parents. People pressured me not to do anything while I lived at home.
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FionaRay — 2 weeks ago(March 16, 2026 06:25 PM)
The feeling of meaninglessness at the minimum wage is quite understandable, because it is difficult to maintain motivation when efforts do not bring financial freedom. The transition to insurance is a step towards an area where income depends on skills, which is much more promising than exhausting fast food.Such career crises and dissatisfaction with working conditions are part of the great challenges that progressive companies are now trying to overcome:
https://betterme.world/articles/workplace-wellness-challenges/
. Such a transition is a way to make work part of your own wellness, not a cause of burnout.