You're Unemployed or Working a Job You Hate

Here is a photo of my favorite shoes. I had to toss them.

When you’re out of options, you make bad decisions.

You make decisions out of impulse and fear and accept the quickest option available to give you five minutes of relief.

If you were drowning at sea and a pirate ship off the coast of Somalia saved you, what would your first thought be?

“Shit, I’m on a boat with pirates!” No, your first thought would be “Thank God, I’m alive!” You wouldn’t be thinking about whether they were going to hold you hostage or turn you into some slave, you’d just be happy you were breathing and not embracing the eternal slumber at the bottom of the ocean.

I took a job in 2019 that everyone around me told me not to accept. I took it anyway because I didn’t think I could do better.

It was billed as “direct marketing.”

In the real world, we call it door-to-door sales.

Serial killers and strippers get more respect from people than dudes selling Chinese makeup door-to-door outside of Baltimore and Washington D.C.

Those shoes in the photo above were a pair I purchased for a job interview at a lobbying firm a week before I ended up accepting this other job.

They were brand new at that point.

After two weeks of working 50 hour weeks, I walked so far I literally put a hole in them. I quit after week three, after being injured on the job and being threatened by a toxic supervisor for taking time during the day to go to the ER. He said I voided my base pay.

That week I worked 47 hours, and my final check, consisting of strictly my commissions, came out to a whopping $80.

That night, I cried in my car in the driveway of my parent’s home and made myself a promise.

NEVER AGAIN.

NEVER AGAIN MEANT NOW!

I had to figure out what skills were in demand myself. I had to figure out my next steps entirely alone.

You don’t have to.

If you’ve ever made that promise to yourself to never settle for less than exactly what you deserve for your time and labor, you know exactly what to do.

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