Comments: Wigging Out

I don't know that you can really call a job -- no matter how little work is involved -- at a company that doesn't respect you, pay you what you're worth, that you don't respect, that gives you little-to-no support in dealing with clients, etc. as a 'low stress' position. Even without anything bad happening, it would qualify as a stressful situation.

Speaking of which, I have to get back to doing bills.

Posted by Jonathan Dresner at February 11, 2010 01:55 PM

And yet, I'm not being at all sarcastic or unrealistic when I say this is the lowest-stress job I've have in the last 20 years, because it's the truth.

#1 - Always remember and never forget that what you read in the blog is sometimes (okay, often) a bit exaggerated for effect. "My phone rang today and I was mildly annoying at being interrupted" does not an interesting post make.

#2 - I blog when I'm whiny. 90% of the time I have no issues (aside from being underpaid) with this job. NewBoss Anais is very nice to me and very afraid I'll leave. She only interrupts me when she has to.

Everyone here is underpaid and doing more than one full-time job right now. Heck, thanks to Creeping Reaganomics, we now have an entire generation in the workforce who don't even know it doesn't HAVE to be that way. (Heh. There is no conversation so trivial that I can't work it around to, "it's all Reagan's fault" is there?)

Posted by Anne at February 12, 2010 08:32 AM