I only hit fast apply to the first 3 jobs i saw on indeed because I have a fucking job I just want unemployment to pay me to sit around all summer like is my god given right (if they don't want school employees between terms to get money... maybe tell me Im not eligible!) but the state I live in has this dumb fucked to death work search requirement of three work related contacts per week or else I don't get paid
Anyway, one of them was for a private chef gig in a small suburb of the city i work in. They listed fuckin $14-17 per hour as the wage. To be a private chef running this client's kitchen. What??? I make $17.50 now to cook 3 dishes for 40-50 people and sit on my phone all day when they're not eating my food. If some bourgeois prick wants me to be their personal chef man like I think that's a $24/hr job minimum compared to what i have now
Anyway, fuck my job, fuck new jobs, fuck the unemployment office, can't wait to get paid for the week of nothing i did last week!
The entire time i was an apprentice the common line during particularly difficult jobs was "this is what we get for being funny in highschool"
Now it's really starting to seem like the correct path was to completely fuck up at school.
I'm really sorry the world is the way it is. Currency exchange rates notwithstanding 24 an hour shouldn't be the wage you fantasize about in your head it's barely anything in 2026
Yeah i know, it's really cool how over the last 4 years i doubled my wage but it's still barely more than minimum wage used to be like 50 years ago in terms of purchasing power
Yeah. I do ok considering the mouths i feed but the job i have would have been able to support a very lavish lifestyle back then.
Pretty cool