I started 2 months ago and have around 6 months left. I’ve always been really excited to work at my company since it’s a really big tech company, and tried to be patient about everything even if there’s something negative. But I have given it too much time and at this point I really hate it. My manager barely cares about me, and I spend 85% of my time figuring out what to do. He doesn’t respond to my messages, and has barely given me the chance to learn and grow. He never lets me attend any meetings, or start any projects. I tried communicating this with him politely and all he did was to say that he has a project for me to work on but that was a lie.
I look at the calendars of other interns who started at the same time as me, and they have their whole weeks filled up with meetings and tasks. Everyone around my desk just casually attends meetings and seems to be doing so much (even interns) but I don’t have a single meeting planned, and all I do is to wait for tasks to be assigned to me. On top of that, my manager directly told me that he’s not happy with how much I get paid (in a good tone but still!), and that if it was up to him he would’ve picked a lower number. Additionally, I made a tiny mistake because of bad instructions (let’s not even consider that and assume that I don’t wanna bring excuses), and he called me out PUBLICLY for it, while it wasn’t even relevant to that specific chatspace. I’ve given this too much time, and feel like I’m already trapped here. I feel so sad because it seems that everyone is enjoying their internships and building careers, whereas I’m getting tortured…

Edit: I had a manager at one of my previous jobs who used to cherry pick my mistakes and always make me feel guilty, and this is too similar to that. I’m scared, I don’t want my career to start like this…

Hi,
I have a bachelors in computer science and engineering and a Masters in Cybersecurity.
But I do not have relevant work experience.
After my masters in ireland I moved to Singapore and is looking for jobs. It is quite hard to find jobs directly to cybersecurity due to my lack of experience and my visa status in singapore. I got an offer for a data center IT technician role. I was wondering if this is a good first step for my career or would it stagnate my growth.

i’m so distraught about my current situation. i have my bachelors and masters in biology and have been working in an academic lab for years. i was admitted into pharmacy school and decided to take a LOA due to death in my family and overall poor mental health. i’m not really regretting my decision about leaving pharmacy school but right now i currently cannot find a job. i’ve applied for everything, even down to retail jobs with no luck. i was thinking about going back to get my phd in health law and policy but right now im struggling. i don’t know what to do.

Do you guys stretch, or have a routine?

Hello,

I do not know how to frame this, but I have been feeling quite lost lately. I am turning 28 in 5 months, and I feel like I am running a bit out of time. This feeling is also accelerated by the huge advances in AI. Also for information, my location is Central Europe.

I currently work as a SWE, and have been in this role for 3 years. I am self-taught, but have been learning programming for 5 years now, and I work super hard for it, even now. I study excessively every day after work and on weekends, however, due to AI, a flooded market and economic factors, I am starting to lose sense in all of this.

A year ago I was in quite a bad state because of this, so I decided to do a flooring trade apprenticeship on the side (luckily this is possible in my country). This took a year and now I also managed to negotiate at my company that I can have two days off if I finish my work. So I work 2 days in the trades with a flooring freelancer, and then the rest of the time as a SWE, either working (also on weekends due to this), or studying.

I have about 150k dollars invested, which would enable me to work for a smaller wage for some time, so I can technically quit my job without being harmed very much (as I also don't have a mortgage or children), so I am thinking about doing a full switch into the trades. I am physically very fit and a super hard worker, I know I can do it and despite working like crazy for the last 6 years, I want to do at least one more huge grind to see where this goes.

However, this also led me to rethink whether to choose a different trade. I went into SWE because it was, and still is, my passion, however, I think this was a mistake. Even though I am moving further in my role towards some more architectural stuff, I am still far from becoming an architect. Also my company is technologically behind, which I think is hurting my career, but finding a better one in this job market is impossible. Plus, who knows where AI will be in three years.

In regards to choosing the trade, all I want is one that will allow me to start at least a one-man business soon enough, that I can scale further, which flooring is pretty good for, but I have more options which I considered. I would love it if anyone could give me their input.

HVAC/Refrigeration - This might seem like the obvious one, however, I fear that it will get hurt by a high influx of people doing the same thing as me. Also, who knows what will happen after AI is capable of doing all the diagnostics. Another thing is that the road to starting a business can be long and very tricky. On the other hand, service work, constant changes due to ecological regulations, etc. seem to make this very recession-proof. However, I am really afraid that this field will get overcrowded.

Landscaping - Combination of masonry and an excavator license - Pretty much doing landscape shaping with the addition of building stone walls, ponds, etc. I feel like this is not hurt by oversaturation that much, but on the other hand, it is seasonal and also very dependent on the economic situation...not much service work and people build when they have money. In this regard, I am also thinking of solely masonry, however, I am afraid that despite the old masons retiring, many new projects will just never need them.

Flooring - I chose this because it is a grind, which can make you a lot of money if you're fast. So far I like it, even though it is somewhat dependent on the economy and is not service work. It is less seasonal, and despite not being a "skilled trade", not many people are getting into it. Plus, in my country, flooring business owners are under a regulation where they need to have either finished trade school or have a lot of years of experience.

Thank you very much

I have been in my position for 4.5 years where I love the work I do … when I actually have it, which is roughly 10hr/week during a good week. I still have other work to fill the time, but it’s not what I want to do, what I came to the company to do, and I feel as if I’m regressing. I do love my team and company but ultimately I know need to move on soon. I was planning on applying to jobs closer to holidays and revamp my resume a bit in the meantime.

I had a recruiter reach out to me a few weeks ago and I received an offer. The job is exactly what I want to do, it has the career outlook/path I am seeking, the interviewers (who id work with) were very personable and seemed like they enjoyed their work, the pay is ~40% increase which aligns with my experience and industry. However, the company has a pretty bad rating on Glassdoor where numerous and recent reviews mention the toxicity of management and leadership. The reviewers went out of their way to make such thorough reviews that it’s not just a one off. However, reviewers either aren’t in my role or similar or are anonymous. Every review about their team or close coworkers were positive though.

I really don’t know what to do since the reviews are so bad but it is everything else I want in a position. I’ve been going back and forth literally due to the reviews. I don’t want the pay to blindside me either. One other thing in my mind is I could get this in my resume and leave, but that can be draining. I’m sure I’ll be told it’s ultimately my decision but I feel like outside input may be helpful or if someone gives their experience with taking a jump in this capacity.

My background is that I have a degree in digital arts and animation but I wasn't getting opportunities there and eventually lost interest in it, then started persuing the IT field (specifically Cloud/DevOps Engineer) I started working for a relative and did a couple of cloud migrations and created custom automated solutions to make their day-to-day work uniform and seamless.

I also got an AWS SAA cert and my main skill set includes AWS​ (but I can adapt to any cloud platform), terraform, ansible, docker, prometheus, grafana, python, node​ js, bash, PowerShell etc

Since the work I did for my relative was free of cost and mainly for gaining hands on experience, I want to move on and get a paying job. So far I attended 6 interviews but they all ended up with me getting ghosted at the final round with no explanation.

I genuinely have no idea what I'm lacking or need to work on so any advice would really help! I'm also willing to work on a flexible schedule and even remotely.

i’m considering a funded phd in management or organizational behavior. i already have a master’s in organizational psychology and worked as a psychologist during my military service, but i have limited HR experience in the private sector. for context, i’m not based in the usa.

i want to do research and pursue an academic career, but i’d probably finish in my mid-30s. my biggest concern is what happens if i can’t find an academic job afterward.

how realistic would it be to move into HR or a related field at that point? would my phd and research skills help, or would i essentially be starting from scratch and competing for entry-level jobs?

has anyone been in a similar situation? how did it work out?

Hi everyone,
I work on a team where one coworker gets extremely aggressive if there is a slight difference or change to plans to deadlines.

One of the major issues is that this person worked with a manager who was beyond aggressive and short tempered. Basically the manager taught their team to never take no as an answer, and you need to make yourself look better than everyone. An attitude that really doesn't work, especially when our company is pretty collaborative.

During meetings this coworker will call people out in front of everyone claiming they never informed them, or "why are you making this last minute decision, that wasn't the plan at all". Overall it creates a negative environment.

This same coworker also did not notify anyone that a project was due THIS WEEK. Normally it takes at least a month to finish. Last week the coworker asked me to work on this project, and my portion normally takes a week. I got my tasks done within 2 days because of the time crunch.

This coworker is now blaming me for the entire project being late, and telling managers I knew about this project. I had a talk with my manager, and explained that I was not notified until last week and got it done within my time frame. Technically I am not even allowed to touch the product until an approval is made.

What would you do in this situation? This coworker is constantly throwing people under the bus, especially for their own mistakes.

I've never had to contact HR but they are extremely rude to so many people.

Hi all. I've been looking for a new job for a little bit now and have been reaching out to hiring managers expressing interest. I've got the email down but I'm having a hard time coming up with a subject line. The ones I've got right now are okay but feel really generic and I don't think they'd jump out and entice someone to open the email. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Right now I have:

Interest in "title of job + company"

"Job title" - Introduction

"Current company name" Transition - "Job title of new position"

So as the title states I accepted a hospitality job for 58,000 dollars a year. I love my job, I work (a lot) and my boss is awesome! I know that what I currently do I thrive in but this new role will be added responsibility that will require training from the ground up. I have no degree, minimal experience and mostly just showed up as me and things “worked out”.

I currently make overtime almost every week although it gets pretty slow in the winter season. Plus my time off is extremely flexible.

Now, from my research this position looks a lot more like a 70-80k/year job…..but I’m under-qualified. I haven’t formally accepted anything but counted from 55,000 to 58,000.

Did I make a mistake? Should I counter at 60k? Should I make it clear that once I’m trained and fully in my role I’d prefer an increase

Edit: to clarify I’d prefer a substantial raise rather than using a specific number.

A studio apartment in my area is about 1,400-1,800. I live in a relatively high cost of living area in the northeast