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Your Career Is Too Short to Spend Years Being Undervalued, Underpaid, and Treated like a Piece of Garbage
A radically different approach if you feel stuck like I did.
Staying at a bad job is the behavior of a psychopath.
I don’t get it.
You wouldn’t waste your life. Why would you waste the time you spend working on a nightmare job?
A friend of mine is two years from retirement. He’s finishing on the biggest low of his career — a soul-crushing job. When the lights go out in my career, I wanna go out with a big freaking bang.
We shouldn’t settle for second best in our careers because we don’t have to.
(Arguably) the worst job in history
One job takes the cake for me.
The workday used to start with “who’s ready for a competition?”
That question meant my boss was about to have fun with us. We were his entertainment. He thought 80% of our team were total retards.
How do I know? He openly told me, and did it in front of others (mind-blowingly stupid).
The competitions he set up all had a booby prize, as he liked to call it. Last person to get their name on the…
