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Why are traditional jobs so incompatible with us?

lina-chan

I hope the question makes sense as I am not too great at explaining things.

I have worked for 6+ years now in 3 different jobs; still in my 3rd job but looking to get out due to a restructure and also burnout due to being fed up of the role and also poor management. From my experience of working so far I find that although I can work, there's these underlying things that I will never understand i.e. Office Politics and such. As I used to do recruitment as well I am very aware of the fact that employers want you to fit a certain template as in, being the ideal employee who doesn't question anything if you get what I mean. If you aren't what they want or need they just get rid of you very slyly.

I don't know about other people, but for me personally as a creative person traditional jobs drain my energy and whenever I've tried to suggest ideas to improve a company (I.E. in my old job when looking for a deputy manager, I suggested adding incentives/benefits in the job ad to attract candidates and management shut that down) or create something to benefit the company (i.e. repographics) management has a go or they say we can't do X Y and Z.

I am now in the process of making an Etsy shop to sell art as I work full-time, starting as a side hustle (as I used to sell items online and enjoyed it) and hopefully turning it into a business. I find most of us tend to go self-employed or just don't bother working long because most jobs are just incompatible.

What do you think?

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  • I've always prefered being self employed then I can set my own terms and conditions.

    I used to feel so trapped and claustrophobic at school and at work into my teens and twenties, I was in a constant low level panic state.

    I can't do interpersonal politics, I did try and learn, then I stopped after realising that I was never going to understand what was going on and any attempts at joining in ended up with me being ganged up on. I've never understood that mentality and I don't think I want to either, it's all so stupid. In the past when I've not been playing I've been played, taking at face value what people have said, when behind my back all sorts of machinations have been going on and it's all blown up in my face. I've been acused of playing games! I'm the only one who's not been playing games and if I did I would of been a lot more subtle about it. I could never work out what I was more offended and upset about, the whole needless situations I found myself in or the idea that people thought me so stupid as to play such infantile games? 

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  • I've always prefered being self employed then I can set my own terms and conditions.

    I used to feel so trapped and claustrophobic at school and at work into my teens and twenties, I was in a constant low level panic state.

    I can't do interpersonal politics, I did try and learn, then I stopped after realising that I was never going to understand what was going on and any attempts at joining in ended up with me being ganged up on. I've never understood that mentality and I don't think I want to either, it's all so stupid. In the past when I've not been playing I've been played, taking at face value what people have said, when behind my back all sorts of machinations have been going on and it's all blown up in my face. I've been acused of playing games! I'm the only one who's not been playing games and if I did I would of been a lot more subtle about it. I could never work out what I was more offended and upset about, the whole needless situations I found myself in or the idea that people thought me so stupid as to play such infantile games? 

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