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Hello I know It's been a long time until I have locked in, it's been two years. I really try to fight my own battles & I never stopped growing ever since those two years. As a matter of fact, I haven't stopped my personal growth ever since 2015 where I started my Bachelors in Sports Science. I never took a single break ever since 2016 up until now 2021. I have finished my Bachelors in the exact time, only for coronavirus to cancel all my plans ( I know I'm not alone on this one). But I was working multiple angles at the same time when I was in university. Doing martial arts & also doing my sports science degree, only to find out that I wouldn't land a de…

At my job, there is a(now former) friend that works there. She moved up the ranks rather quickly to team lead. There are 3 of them, and she’s not often a lead. Shortly after I started, she made a completely inappropriate comment. We have a relaxed dress code at work, but short shorts are on the no no list. No one has ever worn anything inappropriate since I’ve been there, but she took it upon herself to attempt to police it. One day, someone came in with shorts. They were a tad short but not a big deal. I am outside in the parking lot and I happened to glance at my colleague with the shorts. Former friend looks in the direction I am and states they are t…

As most of you know, I'm autistic. I don't understand social cues. Recently I stumbled upon an old college paper I wrote. An incident happened in that class that I don't understand: The professor handed back to everyone grade report sheets. One student crumbled it up, tossing it in the air. The professor asked him, "Was that your grade report sheet?" He responded, "Yes." The professor then asked, "Why don't you go?" He said ok, and got up and left. Why did she ask him to leave? Because he showed disrespect by crumbling up his worksheet so publicly? Thanks. :)

Hello, so as my team leader is away on vacation the mean vicious coworker is going through ALL my work as we speak and trying to find the littlest thing wrong. we just learned some new topics last week so as it is still new for us this is the perfect opportunity for her to try and bully and attack ... again she already started again today but I know from experience her mood swings will rage again this week and I know once I’m at the office tomorrow she will try and call me names again in front me people or make me look stupid if I made some trivial error learning a brand new task my question is - how should I respond when she starts yelling tomorrow ev…

Today we got our RHU offer and I got everything I wanted . 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and central air and a recent renovation ( 2017). Only $100 more a month than we pay here. We move first week of September. Sad I closed my daycare early but it will give me a summer off.

Recently started a new career in Jan and absolutely love the job and the experience (minus working with a mean “Karen”) is great. Anyways, there is the potential the company may lose its license to operate in EU due to Brexit and lost maybe 40% in volume over the last few weeks - but they plan to get back once a license is approved...if it gets approved. Within the last few months several heads of risk, finance, HR manager and last week the CEO resigned. I have a feeling they may know something they are not sharing. Other than that, the job is great. If you were in my position would start sending resumes and leave? I love how I can work from home and …

I made a previous post about my fiancé, and how I was looking for a job, hashing out responsibilities for my son, etc. I did take a job a couple months ago. It’s part time, i work weekends and 2 weekdays. My mom and my fiancé watch my son on the weekends, I am able to take him with me on the weekdays as we have free on site care for employees’ children(I work at a museum). I know exactly who watches him as employees rotate operating it. Pros to my current job: it’s fun!!! Obviously, the daycare, and the fact that I can check on him at any time(special needs) and I know precisely who he interacts with. My boss is incredibly flexible and easy going. It’s …

I am not even sure where to start. I grew up in a family that didn't have a lot of money. We had what we needed but there was not a lot for extras. I was raised to work hard and live within my means. I have done that. I am in my late 40's and I have a decent job, no debt and about $800k in retirement savings and $400k in non retirement savings and I have equity in my house. I remarried last year and my new husband is fairly well off. We are talking about retiring in the next 10 years after the kids are out of college and living a simple life somewhere near the ocean. We have the financial means to do so, I think. But the thought of not getting a salary and spendin…

I am so unhappy and depressed because - The work that I do is not motivating and I feel like I am just in it for the money . I am making money with the worry that I won't have enough to support me or me&partner in the future. I am not fully enjoying the benefits of the money. I am using it only to pay the household bills . I personally have no ambition to get anywhere in life except for live it everyday as basic as possible. I don't have any big dreams of achieving anything. What I have now is enough however there is always a fear that what if I don't have anything tomorrow ... As a result of this, I feel unhappy in my relationship where my partner is trying to…

When do you feel its time to give up and retreat as a leader. I'm looking for relatable thoughts. Hopefully from experience. I work with technology in a senior leadership role. I have a handful of great concerns. All of them have me frustrated enough to impact my sleep and normal life. I feel powerless to change any of them and I'm at the end of my rope. They are based around my boss who is a micromanager, shows favoritism towards one of my peers, discrimination, doesn't care about employee burnout by praising those who work lots of overtime, inexperienced, and unreasonable to adjust and change. My primary concern is my people. Morale means more to me t…

Does anyone have any advice for not getting accepted into the university I wanted to go to? I planned on going there for so long and to be rejected just really stings. I have another option but I didn't like it as much as where I wanted to go. I am worried I won't succeed in an environment that I felt was not for me. It is also pretty far from home which makes me nervous.

I’m feeling so down and like a failure. I guess I just wanted someone to tell me it’s gonna be ok. For the nursing test you get unlimited tried to pass so I can retake it in 45 days. I’m just sad because I didn’t think I’d fail. I seriously feel like a dummy and the biggest failure ever. There’s so many other things in my life that I haven’t succeeded at and I just feel like there’s something wrong with me.

Really need some advise here. Since January I started a new career (which I love) and have been working with a very toxic, aggressive coworker. She always gossips and instead of working on a team, she treats us as competitors and has absolutely no empathy, a really vicious person. Even during our onboarding, she would try and make the group report to her and she's not our boss. If we showed up at 9:00 am instead of 8:30 am she would want to know about it. If you asked a question several times she would get angry and call you names in front of others. I always tried to be polite, calm and friendly with others. Did my work which was audited and the director e…

I’m feeling pretty low lately, I’ve worked a retail job for the past 10 years. Although it pays pretty decent for what it is , I’m completely depressed working there. I’m on disability currently cause I injured my back there, I’m getting better but I’m dreading going back. I wish I could just quit but I obviously still need some income coming in. I haven’t ever finished college . Is it even possible to find something else in a different field?

Hey y'all! Just for those that don't know me yet, I'm a 36-year-old woman and I live in a big city in Australia. When I was 13 years old, I was bullied at school and I started speaking to my high school counsellor. I thought she was really nice and helpful and I decided that when I "grow up", I wanted to have her job. In the last two years of high school I decided to study psychology, which I really enjoyed. I actually had a two hour long assessment once in my late 20's with a psychiatrist specialising in ADHD. I'd shown some milder symptoms of ADHD and my other psychiatrist suggested I do the assessment. It came out of the assessment that I probably do have it. But…

Anyone commute to work and live in two different cities, working mostly from home? I have an idea. I want to live in a very fun city and Prague is #1 on my list (lived there and have friends there). Anyone with a western EU salary living in Prague would have their living standards increase by 2-3 x, beer is even cheaper than water! I get to work from home and only have to go to the office 1-2 times a week (if I really want to), so I was considering getting a place in the old town where all the action is and just take a train / drive once a week (3 hour drive) and stay the night where I work when I need to go to the office.. Anyone else live and work in…

Hi there I have real trouble dealing with conflicts at work and always over think comments by colleagues. There is one i dislike and who has just started with us and felt she was patronising of me today. To cut a long story short, my boss asked me about something and i wasn't sure even though this used to be my area of expertise and she pipes up that my other colleague would know as she is transfering over there. I also have a colleague joining our team who i have had trouble with and i am dreading it already. I was enjoying this workplace until these two have joined. I lack confidence in my work just now and in myself. I think i habe inposter syndrome. P…

I'm approaching the end of my junior year in high school and have been thinking of colleges, majors, and whatnot. Since it's remote learning, I feel a bit alone in the process and am unsure of which colleges I would enjoy attending, or how to discover more colleges of the majors I like. I definitely want to major in something art- or design-related, and have wanted to for a while (it's just something I've been building up to and had decided long before my junior year- I've been working on a portfolio and taking multiple art classes per week and the like), but I'd also like to have my options open and maybe minor in some STEM or language courses for fun, rather than a…

Joined this company about a year ago, was working in Big4 prior to that. The role is junior, far more junior than anticipated for someone with 6.5 years experience (analyst level) with no sign of progression in sight. I thought the role would be interesting, but it turns out I'm either not connecting with the company or they're downright dysfunctional. Here are a few examples: No 1-1 in one year since I joined. Never got a single feedback or been told I've done a good job by anyone. I used to be a high achiever in my previous roles, here nobody seems to care. I'm lucky if I get a "Thank you" for anything. Every interaction is very transactional. I used to ha…

Our move date is 15 July unless they don’t have room for us where we are going then we can stay here a bit longer . Now, my daycare contract states I only need to give people two weeks notice to find new care. I feel I should give people longer considering the current climate and it is almost impossible to get care right now. My last working day if I am moving the 15th would be June 30th. Should I announce I am moving June 1?

Hi all, I received an email from a recruiter I know pretty well for a role in a Big4 I left about a year ago now. I currently in industry and would eventually like to return to this Big4 at some point. The requirements in the job description don't 100% align with my current skill-set as they require someone working towards a corporate finance qualification (ACCA, ACA, CPA etc...), which I am, but they also require this individual to have 3 years PQE (I have 6 years professional experience, but obviously not PQE as I haven't finished my exams yet). A bit confusing. The recruiter basically bragged about how great this Big4 would look on a CV etc... (pe…

Hello everyone, To quickly get to the story, I need to give details on a prior incident that happened during a period of VERY severe weather in my state. Due to the weather, my team and I were allowed to work from home for several days. On February 18th, I asked my manager if I could continue to work from home the rest of the week to be my mother whom had not had electric for 4 days and I was needing to go to her apartment every day to charge her phone using my car. I gave him these exact reason. That morning, HR of my company sent us an email stating the office would be open at 10am, however if we felt unsafe driving we could remain at home. During th…

In June, I took a job with a company that started out small, but which is in the process of growing rapidly. It's an exciting opportunity for me, career-wise. But I have had a lot of frustrations along the way. And I am not the only one. Since I've been hear, at least two people have quit out of sheer frustration from the way the owners are running things. I know what they were going through because I was on the job with them when it was happening. Now, I am in a different position within the company and facing new frustrations. The owners emphasize communication, but they themselves do not communicate and are inaccessible most of the time. They do n…

During the pandemic I was let go from my company. The region wasn’t doing well. My company terminated me but the company reached out after 4 months telling me they wanted to offer me a fixed term contract for 3 months. I was very grateful to be in a job even if it was a short one. After proving myself I asked if the contract would likely extend or go perm. My manager told me it was not possible and that I should start looking. So I did. I’ve been in final stages and waiting to hear back when my company told me that can offer me a fixed term contract that will be another 6 months. Of course I was pleased but I told them I had starting interviewing and that I’m now in fina…

Hi all, Title basically sums it up. I am currently working as a Software QA at a company I've been at for 3+ years. In my spare time, I've been doing a bunch of online study with respect to full-stack (MERN) which I feel is good as far as what is in demand lately. I had thought about attending a part-time coding bootcamp but ultimately decided it would be too expensive (with either loans or ISA) and I feel like I can cover a lot on my own as I am fairly focused on this path. Recently, my current job put me on a new team after our company got bought out by a bigger, nationally recognized corp. Oddly enough, the new team is quite backwards in how they approac…