Job quitter11/7/2022 ![]() ![]() It didnt just happen though.half a decade of puttin out a dozen or so resume a week and fieldin interviews from recruiters and even then covid had caused a hiring freeze that nearly cost me the position. I feel immensely grateful I ended up in a control room in Michigan. I spend 5 of my 7 years at a wv coal plant trying to find a proper position to move on to without having to either start over, work myself to death, become poor again, or live in the middle of nowhere for the job. Many other plants werent even guaranteed not to shut down in the face of regulations or subsidy dependence that could dry up. Job quitter movie#Like no shit Ive been offered plants in deserts, and even one where theyd fly me to the arctic geothermal plants on an island for 6 months to live and work at a plant in canada like the movie The Thing or some shit. Flipside was you would get offered high pay, small relocation but itd be in the middle of nowhere. That said most jobs were long relocation with no relocation package and most to areas so god damned expensive to live you were worth a 3rd what the wages would be worth elsewhere. Pumps, motors,reactors, and treating things with chemicals to clean em up? Thats us. Were right up their with oil field folk because we are often hired to do that. That said most were shit and offered very little and the work in my field is often insanely harsh in labor and in environments and even hazards. ![]() She was right and people left all the time because of it.Īs a power plant/process plant worker with degrees in the field and in comp-sci I had no shortage of job offers and was often hit with recruiter offers all over the country. When I was leaving I told one of the clients in the program and she said " That's a shame, you're a good one and they must not have treated you right for you to leave". A few month later I decided to go PT and go to grad school. I told her that as much as I loved my job and my clients I could not work a job long term that required a 4 year degree and paid $11.00 with no raises. ![]() Her reply to me was "Well, people don't take young women serious and you do such a good job at your current position maybe you should just stay there." I once talked to my program director as to why she and my boss always said I did amazing work, I was great with my clients and was one of the hardest working people in my program but when I applied for a promotion I either never got interviews or got interviews and never got a call back. I use to work in mental health, I left long before Covid because the pay was awful, we were always over worked because never fully staffed staffed and getting promoted was impossible. There are tons of applicants applying to jobs and there is never a guarantee you’ll be chosen regardless of how qualified you feel for it. Instead of being upset by a movement that she feels tricked her into believing she would be getting tons of callbacks, she needs to remember how much of a game of luck it is to find work anyways. You never really know what the next job will be like until you are there working it. She made the choice to quit her job and go to a different one. Also the goal didn’t necessarily need to be higher pay but also better working conditions.īut to complain about the movement she was a part of is sort of silly imo. The Great Resignation was really best for people who were already struggling and working in underpaid, overworked fields or making very low incomes because it gave them the mobility and freedom to just say “fuck it” and go back to school or apply to a job that they normally would have been too exhausted to apply for. We’ll have to wait a few years and see what the actual studies show. The whole concept of people quitting jobs where they were undervalued and getting better gigs I’m going to wager only applied to a specific set of career opportunities and hardly across-the-board like articles may have one people to believe. It’s very difficult to actually trade up from certain types of career fields unless you have skills that you can bolster with external certifications or a portfolio. You could get some callbacks, but it’s probably low tier work compared to how things may have seemed, and if you’re getting something that’s somehow paying lower than mental health you got fucked. I don’t blame anyone and everyone for trying to get out, I’ve been cultivating new skill sets to do that myself, but as this woman demonstrated the whole process of the great resignation or whatever was kind of a false hope. The pay is terrible, the hours are long, the responsibility is astronomical, the stress is high, and the shortage is real. It’s a terrible field and I’ve actively discouraged people from pursuing this line of work. ![]()
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