Anyanymous · 8d

It sounds like your employer is abusing you...
Is it hard to find a different job or do you stay for another reason?

Honestly, I just don't know what to do in terms of work.

For a retail job, it's fairly easy. I can sit and be on my phone as much as I want when customers aren't around. I get along well with some coworkers. I get access to a bunch of free luxury chocolate. I get paid a decent amount of money ($13.77 an hour currently), and it's a relatively easy job all things considered.

However, yeah, my coworkers walk all over me, the boss is completely checked out and doesn't care, and so we're understaffed and overworked essentially.. (my coworker/the assistant manager works 50-60 hour weeks for holiday months which is insane to me)

So basically, in terms of retail, it's probably the best I'll be able to find- the evil I know vs the evil I don't or whatever. In terms of other jobs, I have no idea what I can do.. I don't have many connections, my only work experience is retail, I dropped out of college.. I could probably collect disability if I tried but I feel like that's a cop-out and also probably extremely hard to get when I have no desire to do anything difficult. I don't like phone calls or driving or physical labor or long hours or loud noises and so the list of options I have is extremely short.

All work is evil and I don't want to do any of it but I need money to survive...

Ideally, I can survive off streaming someday, but it's very unlikely. I'd need to make about $12000 a year in streaming to live comfortably and could probably live on around $7000 if I cut back enough, but I'm not really made for monetizing myself or being a popular streamer, I think. There's also art and art commissions, but they suck my soul and turn my passion into labor for profit which really kills my love of art... let AI do art as a business for people I don't care, I just want to do art as a passion.

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