I finally got a minimum wage part time job after over 1000…
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I finally got a minimum wage part time job after over 1000 rejections and fail interview yet I felt empty and unaccomplished
Skip to TL;DR in the end if you don't want to read my long emotional paragraphs.
After 6 years of painful frustration, over 1000 rejections letter, way more times I got ghosted and over 50 interview ended in failure, I finally gotten a part time job at a Chinese Supermarket at the Produce section.
My best friend cry in happiness that I finally gotten a job and can't wait to tell other despite telling him to keep it a secret for now (he mention he struggles to keep that a secret despite holding many of my bf secret's for him with ease). That and I finally fulfill my promise to get a job to go on many overseas travel that I kept failing to fulfil my promise whether its deserve or not.
My Mom is happy and can't wait to take advantage of my employee discount for food, and is helping me find a 2nd job since its a part time job without any full time benefit (i don't want to look for a 2nd part time job now as I might work up to 40 hours per week as a part timer if others slack off)
My dad is finally proud of me for finding a job and its a huge step to adulthood and finding pride in a minimum wage job and encourage me to work harder than your employees to make sure your boss will like and promote me even though I doubt it and went on a large lecture about why current generation are lazy and ungrateful for what they are given compare to his baby boomer days.
And i finally defeated my long time childhood rival (and also my best friend as well) in beating her into getting a minimum wage part time job at the supermarket in my one sided rivalry as she congratulate me on my victory.
Yet I felt empty and depressed about upon further reflection. If this is the greatest highlight in my adult career, the job market is incredibly fucked.
So many of us Gen Z and Gen Y and later Gen Alpha when they get their turn will have to fight and scrap for a minimum wage part time job all because greedy cooperates refuse to pay us properly and keep the job scarce so they can keep the pay low for desperate unemployed people like me.
Also, being barely hired by the company after failing to qualify in the first job fair interview, came back for the 2nd job fair interview out of sheer miracle, then got surprise to do a second private interview with a manager who may not speak English and is forced to speak full Mandarin barely and is lucky enough that the manager find it endearing and hire me anyway does feel like winning at all. It feels like a hail Mary miracle where fate pities me and gave me a job to feel better about it.
That and when I do get hired I fully expect to fully be exploited, not treated well and probably get fired for all sorts of reason and my dad wants me to feel pride and loyalty to a company that might backstab me in the back when they have the reason to.
TL;DR- my friends and family are proud of me but I do not feel like a winner cause getting a part time min. wage job is not an accomplishment, its desperation to disguise my personal failure and the flaws of the job market.
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Skip to TL;DR in the end if you don't want to read my long emotional paragraphs.
After 6 years of painful frustration, over 1000 rejections letter, way more times I got ghosted and over 50 interview ended in failure, I finally gotten a part time job at a Chinese Supermarket at the Produce section.
My best friend cry in happiness that I finally gotten a job and can't wait to tell other despite telling him to keep it a secret for now (he mention he struggles to keep that a secret despite holding many of my bf secret's for him with ease). That and I finally fulfill my promise to get a job to go on many overseas travel that I kept failing to fulfil my promise whether its deserve or not.
My Mom is happy and can't wait to take advantage of my employee discount for food, and is helping me find a 2nd job since its a part time job without any full time benefit (i don't want to look for a 2nd part time job now as I might work up to 40 hours per week as a part timer if others slack off)
My dad is finally proud of me for finding a job and its a huge step to adulthood and finding pride in a minimum wage job and encourage me to work harder than your employees to make sure your boss will like and promote me even though I doubt it and went on a large lecture about why current generation are lazy and ungrateful for what they are given compare to his baby boomer days.
And i finally defeated my long time childhood rival (and also my best friend as well) in beating her into getting a minimum wage part time job at the supermarket in my one sided rivalry as she congratulate me on my victory.
Yet I felt empty and depressed about upon further reflection. If this is the greatest highlight in my adult career, the job market is incredibly fucked.
So many of us Gen Z and Gen Y and later Gen Alpha when they get their turn will have to fight and scrap for a minimum wage part time job all because greedy cooperates refuse to pay us properly and keep the job scarce so they can keep the pay low for desperate unemployed people like me.
Also, being barely hired by the company after failing to qualify in the first job fair interview, came back for the 2nd job fair interview out of sheer miracle, then got surprise to do a second private interview with a manager who may not speak English and is forced to speak full Mandarin barely and is lucky enough that the manager find it endearing and hire me anyway does feel like winning at all. It feels like a hail Mary miracle where fate pities me and gave me a job to feel better about it.
That and when I do get hired I fully expect to fully be exploited, not treated well and probably get fired for all sorts of reason and my dad wants me to feel pride and loyalty to a company that might backstab me in the back when they have the reason to.
TL;DR- my friends and family are proud of me but I do not feel like a winner cause getting a part time min. wage job is not an accomplishment, its desperation to disguise my personal failure and the flaws of the job market.
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