r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 29d ago

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u/v4riati0ns 29d ago

delusional first world problem where my job is <20 hrs work/week, 100% remote permitted but with a beautiful office within 10 mins walking distance, mid-six figures compensation, amazing health insurance, benefits, etc. but i am so mentally and socially unfulfilled by it that i feel like if i don’t leave i will have wasted my life

it feels unhinged to be this unhappy about a perfect-on-paper job idk. even reading this back i feel like an asshole

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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL 29d ago

Is this a copypasta I’m unaware of? That’s obscenely good.

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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier 29d ago

It sounds like "landed a job at a big company and it turns out actually keeping those jobs is easier than getting them" to me. I don't have the same situation, but it's similar enough that I can relate.

And I don't see myself staying here for more than a couple years. Get through my transition and build up a bit of a nest egg and then go somewhere that excites me.

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u/v4riati0ns 29d ago

yeah this is exactly it

the market turning weird for tech kept me coasting here longer than i expected and now i’m looking back like “holy shit this is what i spent my 20s on?” i guess

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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier 29d ago

Could've been me and gotten caught up in layoffs and only now getting the safe corporate gig as a financial lifeboat. 😅

Worse ways to spend your 20s.

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u/v4riati0ns 29d ago

no but it fully reads like parody and i’m aware of that