My job is slowly killing me.
I work as a massage therapist. I'm training via apprenticeship to be a licensed esthetician (waxes, facials, anything to do with skin) which means they schedule certain services for me to do and I do them without getting paid because it goes toward my apprenticeship hours. When I originally started, I agreed to work 40 hours a week. With my apprenticeship, I need so many hours to fulfill a weekly requirement. I'm now working 50 hours a week and only getting paid for 30 of them. I often work 9-10 hour days. My boss yells at me for not having waxing models. I get home and don't feel like going anywhere. I'm crying right now. I cry at work sometimes. I have to put up with this for another 4 or 5 months. I can't leave or I owe them money for training me, even if I don't finish.
I better get that fucking raise. I'd make $8.50 an hour instead of $8. How fucking pathetic is that.
Of course what I do are services. However, it's not like McDonald's or Walmart where as long as you have an 80 IQ or above you can make at least minimum wage. I had to train for this, I had to acquire a lot of knowledge and pay for classes. Not everyone can give a good massage and not everyone knows techniques and muscle groups and pressure points, etc.
I'm getting raped. And I can't even tear myself away.
I have no life outside of work. That pisses me off.
My muscles twitch from stress and constant anxiety. I'm getting tension headaches. My knee is fucked. I need dental work.
I should probably try getting to sleep now. Have to leave here at 9:30 in the morning to be to work by 9:45 and work til 8pm.
Happy Fucking New Year.
I better get that fucking raise. I'd make $8.50 an hour instead of $8. How fucking pathetic is that.
Of course what I do are services. However, it's not like McDonald's or Walmart where as long as you have an 80 IQ or above you can make at least minimum wage. I had to train for this, I had to acquire a lot of knowledge and pay for classes. Not everyone can give a good massage and not everyone knows techniques and muscle groups and pressure points, etc.
I'm getting raped. And I can't even tear myself away.
I have no life outside of work. That pisses me off.
My muscles twitch from stress and constant anxiety. I'm getting tension headaches. My knee is fucked. I need dental work.
I should probably try getting to sleep now. Have to leave here at 9:30 in the morning to be to work by 9:45 and work til 8pm.
Happy Fucking New Year.