#finding a job

[internetgreatesthits]

[hardkittycollection]

does anyone have good online jobs to do

im not in a good home situation and need a car and my own apartment so a good paying job would be nice

[lin-squiggly]

Really need some of that tumblr good luck energy, I've applied for a job I really want (alongside just under 120 others not including rejections) please send me success energy people!

Look, I'll even give you a GIF of the dog!

[smilesandsentimentaltears]

#trying to find a new job like

[bitchesgetriches]

Labor Shortages ARE the Father of American Business Ethics

Labor shortages have essentially shaped American business ethics throughout history, which is great for you, and ok for your employer.

Labor Shortages ARE the Father of American Business Ethics, Maury Povich Confirms

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[misterparadigm]

Breaking Into The Animation Industry

I have a student who essentially keeps asking me the same question about breaking into the animation industry. He asks it a little different each time, and he always sounds a little disappointed to hear the answer, and so I think he keeps slightly reforming the question, hoping to hear that there's a secret backdoor that doesn't involve building a reputation through networking.

They always want it to be as simple as putting in an application, and it's daunting for them to look at the portfolios of professionals and know that they have to get at least that good, and also they have to share their work ubiquitously, and also they have to network, and also they have to not be an entitled twit or generally difficult to work with, and also introversion is a detriment, and also it's project-based so they're out of work when not under contract, and also AI is ravaging the animation industry, and also studios are firebombing their ranks right now, and also people like David Zaslav have shown that the internet might find out that you lost your job before YOU do, and also shows like Big Mouth and Velma get renewed but Infinity Train and The Owl House get the ax.

[friendfromdsmp]

Venting About Finding A Job As A Neurodivergent

I left school by the end of May and by mid June I’d finished my exams. I couldn’t do university. I can’t mentally take going back into the school system and as much as I know my parents would’ve done the best they could to help make it work, I don’t think we could really have afforded to send me without me having a clear career path in mind that would require that kind of further education

I didn’t get to do my Sixth Form’s work experience programme while I still went there because of COVID, but I got lucky; my sister did the work experience, and came back very happy about it and telling me all about it. I asked her if she thought the job was something I’d be able to do. She said yes

She emailed them for me, recommended me. They let me fill out an application for work experience. It took until the end of August, but I heard back from them, and a week was set up where I’d come in

The job was actually a lot better than I was expecting. It was at a care home, and I was on the activities team. I essentially shadowed the other team members as we checked in with the residents, played board games with them, painted their nails, brought a bunny around to be pet. It was good. It was engaging and rewarding. It almost didn’t feel like work

The week passed by quickly, and it became apparent how exhausted I was now I finally had a break. I went dark online, more or less. I was still on social media sites, but I couldn’t bring myself to hold any sort of conversation with anyone. Same with real life; I have a large family and I just couldn’t stand to leave my room lest I had to interact with someone, because mentally I couldn’t take that right now. It wasn’t just physical exhaustion, but mental exhaustion, and really I think that was the much more challenging thing to handle

It’s only been a week since I finished my work experience. My parents have had talks with me already about how I still need to find a job - hopefully one that’ll actually pay me - but when I told them I was considering emailing the care home to ask about a paid position on the team, they started grilling me on how deeply I’d thought it out. I never really actively choose to sit down and think over something, but the matter of work had been running through my mind for months at this point. I only ever got a couple of commissions with my art stuff and Twitch was obviously never a serious venture as much as I’d have loved it to have been an option. I knew it was unreasonable to expect my parents to let me live here my whole life without ever contributing a thing, even if it was an option financially I could never ask that. So that just left finding a ‘real’ job, and this is the only option I can really see that’ll get me into a job that I won’t hate as quick as possible so I can start making even a little consistent money

I know that I’ve really lucked out here. I know I’ve found a pretty good job and all I need to do is hope that they’ll have a position available for me. I know that not many people can say that they left school without experience or any clue where to go and found a good job in a couple months. I know that everything’s going well for me and I should be happy and grateful

But I’m terrified and absolutely dreading even asking for a job

I don’t want this. I don’t want the exhaustion that comes with the job. Even if I can handle the job I don’t know if I can handle how my entire day will revolve around this job, dictating when I sleep, when I wake up, when I leave and return from my own home. The way I felt after the first week, hell, even after just the first day, I tried to tell myself it was just because I’d been lazy since leaving school and it was a shock to my body that I actually had to do something with my day, but I don’t want to feel that way again. Like I have to isolate myself for several days afterward. Where I couldn’t get up out of bed even for necessities and, by the time I finally made myself do so, I had to lay down on the kitchen floor because I almost passed out

And I *know* that’s me being stupid and crazy and I *know* that’s unrealistic and I *know* that I can’t just sit around the house all day doing absolutely nothing and I *know* I need a job to live but this isn’t a problem that *knowing* can fix. The problem isn’t that I don’t *know* that this is unreasonable and that everyone else does this so I should just be grateful I found something I enjoyed. In a way I feel like knowing makes the problem worse; knowing comes with feeling guilty and overdramatic and lazy and spoilt. And a small part of me is saying that my desire to not work isn’t unreasonable, just unrealistic. But rather than being reassuring and validating, that only makes me feel like I’m trying to justify my laziness

I went to the internet to see if maybe this was another autism thing, and I was shocked by what I found; only 22% of autistic adults are in work of any kind, and only 16% of autistic adults are in full-time employment. *16%!* I know I have low support needs, but I honestly don’t know how so many autistic people can’t be employed. And that’s not a matter of ‘I can do it so why can’t they?’, it’s a matter of ‘in this society where people will struggle to make ends meet even while working full time, how can so many autistic people be able to not have a job?’. Some of them will be house spouses or still live with their families, sure, but not close to 80%, right?

I don’t know. I hope whatever they’re doing, they’re safe and happy, but most of all secure. Because as close as I am to maybe being financially secure for a while, I don’t feel secure at all. But looking at that statistic, at least I think I understand why I’m having trouble, even if I don’t understand it exactly; the structure currently set for most working days doesn’t seem to be compatible with the needs of autistic people, and likely most other people too, of any neurotype. How many other people have felt like me? Like they physically can’t handle the job, even if the job itself isn’t the issue? Like they’re failures for struggling, even if they don’t let this struggle outwardly manifest in any way, shape or form? Like they’re wrong for simply not being compatible with a system created decades ago to maximise productivity, a system tailored to those profiting and not those performing? Like it’s either destroy yourself in the name of survival or not know how much longer your parents’ hospitality will last, even if they’ve assured you unprompted several times that you’ll always have a place with them no matter what?

Again, I’m probably just being overdramatic and unappreciative, but I just had to vent all this somewhere. If you actually read all this, thanks for listening to my dumb rambles. I know what I have to do. And I’m going to do it. Logically I have no problems, my emotional side is just having a bit of a freak out and needed to be heard, even if it means screaming into a technological void