Originally Posted by The Batlord

I guess that's the one good thing about working a garbage fast food job. There's no opportunity to trick myself into thinking there's a desirable future there so I'll probably never wake up one day and realize that I just can't go to work that day as a district manager or whatever and now most of my adult life was in all practical senses of the word a waste.

My mom didn't have a job she hated but a few years ago she got a new boss who basically ran her out, and the job market was/is ****, starting pay for positions she'd be qualified for wouldn't cover her monthly expenses, and to top it all off much of the reason she wasn't able to fight for her job was because she had a long-term, debilitating illness that almost killed her that also prevented her from getting a new job. Now she's got some weird cognitive issues going on that have made it nearly impossible to hold down a job and she's hoping she can get on disability before she loses everything.

Over two decades of a job she liked and was committed to flushed down the drain and the only thing she has to show for it is a house that's now an anchor around her neck, without even the ability to make a new life for herself. That's the kind of **** to destroy your faith in the world.