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  • It has taught me that imposter syndrome fucking sucks.

    On a more serious note, it’s taught me to be a solid ally for colleagues but always be skeptical of the business owners and decision makers themselves. I woke up to a layoff along with 5 other people and was laid off for 3 months before I found a new gig. Don’t allow emotions to cloud your job search. It’s all a negotiation and you should push for whatever you can get in terms of salary, PTO, etc. Never sell yourself short because the company sold you some story about how they need help.

  • The company doesn’t care about you. The company doesn’t care about you. The company doesn’t care about you. The company doesn’t care about you. The company doesn’t care about you. The company doesn’t care about you.

  • No matter how much you invest you're time and effort for your job: You are expendable, and the only people who will know you were absent from home because of work 20 years later, will be your kids.

  • My biggest lesson was that decades of work means nothing if you become disabled (in the US).

    You can end up with literally nothing and lose literally everything if you become disabled. Even if you still have skills, even though you worked hard to contribute to society for decades, it can all go away overnight and you can suddenly not afford food anymore. There’s no safety net, and you won’t learn that until you need it.

    Because fuck you.

  • Everyone has a right to be lazy except for you.

    Recruiters do nothing except tell people "no" when they need a job, and companies aren't really looking for new people otherwise they wouldn't turn down someone for not meeting ALL of their ridiculous demands.

    Capitalism gets IN THE WAY of hard work, and sees hard workers as suckers, rather than rewards it.

  • Learned this very early at my first job. I was new to the whole content writing industry so I kept to just writing the minimum expected 2000 words per day.

    Meanwhile two other coworkers with more experience wanted to impress the management I guess and wrote way above that.

    The result? More and more work for them. And also when performance reviews came along I was the only one to get a raise because β€œthe quality of my writing was above average in the company.”

    In the end, they were punished for β€œover productivity” while I was rewarded because sticking with the minimum word counts meant I had time to polish my work.

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