I was originally going to quit Job A, mostly due to the company being bought out and the culture and tech changing entirely, but I realized I was only doing a few hours of work a week and no one complained. So I decided to see how long I could go doing both.

lmao, too hilarious. way to cake up!

i swear, there is a real phenomenon where sometimes i reach terminal stage of don’t-give-a-fuck at a job, and then everybody backs off. where i am at, a decent raise is balked at, but its more acceptable to refuse work. the ways management is internalizing the tightness of the labor market are strange. critical people keep leaving, even the ones management threw big money at to hire recently. the bosses are too ideologically blind to see that they could stabilize the situation by using those salary savings to give the rest of us peasants significant raises and instead will blow it on another “rockstar” that will probably leverage it into an even higher paying position elsewhere.

it must be difficult to be an employer and be ideologically blinded to understanding why people work. sure, the pay is good, but lately it must be very confusing.

God I can’t think about retirement. I did the math a few times and it fucked me up with how early it’s feasible. It feels thoroughly unearned compared to the moderate difficulty & anxiety spike :foucault-madness: