(relevant humblebrag coming up soz) Iām in my mid-20s and doing pretty well in a career I like, Iām self-employed and work from home which Iām happy about as anxiety means I often donāt come off well in real life and it takes me 15 minutes to write a one-line email. At the moment Iām working at a big clientās office and for a while it was my dream to actually get a job here but a few days into my contract I was wondering what life was like for the people who have been working here for 10 or 20 years. They must be getting paid really nicely but I canāt imagine going and sitting in the same cubicle day in day out for that long, looking at the same view. I guess you must just have to fill the rest of the time with stuff you really love and make an effort to do it, which must be hard if you come home knackered every night and especially if thereās kids involved.
I used to work in a kitchen which I loved and hated in equal measures. Worked with great people front and back of house and even the managers were sound, but it was shit giving up every single Saturday night to clean out drains and get shouted at by waiters who screwed up their order and wanted me to sort it out so they could get their tip. One of the things that keeps me going when Iām having a shit day at work is remembering that I can do whatever I want on a Saturday cos I donāt have to clean deep fryers at 2am anymore. Even so, sometimes I wish Iād put off the career stuff for a few years and just worked in kitchens, pubs, cafes whatever, because in most cases you can only really do that when youāre in your 20s and youāll never get the chance again to do something where you can just go home and not think about work until the next day, and where if you call in sick or go on holiday some other grunt can do the work and thereās nothing for you to pick up when you get back.
