u/Beneficial-Air536

We love camping, we always go to state parks because we like to be connected with nature and we don't feel like you get that at a normal campground. Also, state parks seem to be more peaceful and other people generally are more respectful.

My girlfriend, our two girls and I like to go tent camping about a weekend a month. The girls really enjoy it as well, so its nice having something we all agree on as a family. We have had great experience, especially at this specific park, as it is our favorite and we have been there multiple times.

However this past trip was awful. Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful weekend to go camping, so I was super excited about it. Friday night was good, however Saturday it went downhill. The girls went with their aunt and uncle for the day, so my girlfriend and I were excited to finally have a day to just relax and veg at the site. We were by the group camping area and almost the entire thing was filled by a group which I believe was boy scouts and girl scouts, thats not a problem. However starting around 10am on saturday, they decided they were going to use the campground as their personal practice area for their marching band. They kept going up and down the road directly past our site, until about 5pm, then they stayed back in the group area, but continued to play until 730pm. This group also ran a generator all day and also trashed the bathrooms so bad that they had to close them until they could come clean them.

Saturday afternoon a group moved in beside us, I have no issue with being beside people, but this was a group of about 20 people. From the start they werent even remotely quiet, they were talking so loud we could hear their conversation plain as day. I am all for people having a good time, that's what camping is about. They started blasting music and continued being loud, they never left their site. This went on until almost 2am, my poor girlfriend barely got a wink of sleep. They were up at 6:30am and being just as loud as before.

I hate complaining about things like this, but it was so frustrating. We went for a relaxing camping trip with our kids and got anything but that.

Hi everyone, I am 34 M, I am pretty high functioning and usually excel at whatever job I do, so work performance isn't an issue. I don't really know what I am looking for with this post, maybe just to vent and get it out.

From 2010 to 2019 I worked for my families business (dad is owner), moved away in 2019 to pursue other opportunities. I moved back here the end of 2022 and they needed help desperately and I still had the credentials needed to do the job, so I was hired. I only intended on staying for a year or so. I was given a not so great wage and no insurance. Everyone else at the company has 100% paid by the company insurance. My sister now manages the business and my dad is mostly retired.

I figured that since I was family I would be treated fairly and compensated fairly, especially after I let them know I would be working there longer. My coworker was hired one month prior to me, and he also worked here in the past but quit. Him and I never really discussed our pay with each other, but I knew he got insurance. I figured my pay would naturally be higher since I wasn't getting insurance. (I am a full time employee).

Coworker again is tired of working here and found a better opportunity, and will be leaving. Him and I started discussing our wages and it turns out I have been getting majorly ripped off. We started at the same wage, except he had insurance and I didn't. In the course of the 2.5 years both of us have worked here, he has gotten a raise of $2.50, while I have only gotten a raise of 25 cents. When I found this out my heart pretty much sank. My own family has been using me as a cheap source of labor to make themselves more money.

I started applying to other jobs, and within literal minutes, I had a employer reaching out to me wanting to schedule and interview. This position offers better pay and way better benefits. The problem is I am really comfortable working here, as I also take evening classes at my local community college. The work I am in now, we are busy during the spring and summer months, but slow during the winter, so it gives me time to focus on school. The job I was offered an interview for would be busy during the winter and I feel would also conflict with my school work. It is also a significantly further commute, and also the whole deal of not liking change either.

But this is really taking a toll on my mental health, because now I feel worthless and that my own family doesn't even value me. I want to ask for a significant increase in my compensation, but I also feel like I already know how that conversation is going to go, and it's probably going to make me feel worse. I feel so incredibly stuck right now and I hate it. I guess mostly I just wanted to vent and see if someone maybe has some advice.