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My turn for the Thursday complaints thread! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I guess whoever is up earliest on a Thursday gets to make it, and isn't being up really early cause enough for complaint in itself? Hmm, this is far too deep philosophy for so early in the morning.

Anyway. My main complaint this week is that our new neighbours have got a new tiny puppy. It's a little bulldog type thing I believe, but absolutely tiny so even the couple of glimpses I've had of it running around the back garden it's been mostly hidden in the grass.

The complain is not the existence of a new tiny neighbour, it's that I can't think of a not-socially awkward way of meeting it.

I demand to meet the puppy!

Anyway how's your Thursday? Get it all off your chest before the weekend, that's the healthy way.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm late - it's Friday after all - but I've been trying to look for jobs to get away from where I currently am, but just can't find anything worth it that I could do.

I'm a minimum wage admin worker, at a job where they don't offer WFH, and I'm in an office from 9 to 6 every day.

I just want something with a bit more money, or a bit more time, or something like hybrid remote, but it feels like anything that offers anything beyond the minimum requires extremely specialised qualifications or experience, but I don't have any of this stuff, I've just been a grunt worker my entire life.

I'd love to learn something or pick something up but I'm always at work so feels like I don't have the time to do it - I'm already falling behind on just looking after my house! Job market and career progression seems messed up, but I have no real idea what to do about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That sucks, and I remember exactly how it feels. Worked in admin for years myself until deciding to learn web dev and go for that instead. But you're right that sometimes the energy for retraining just isn't there.

Admin is ridiculously underpaid given how quickly everything would fall apart without it. And it takes skill to keep things running efficiently, so no idea why it's so unappreciated.

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