u/Safe_Valuable_5683

I understand you don't need a lot of high end technical skills to pick things up and put them down in other places. But to do it RIGHT, you need to work at a satisfactory consistent pace, not sit down for prolonged periods, listen to people all day, and pay attention to where things go.

Plus, I am one of the few non-manager employees tasked with monitoring inventory and ordering additional product.

Then, I heave all the things that aren't my things out of the way in order to heave my things. I am tired of giving my body to the cause without having a satisfactory lifestyle. But I am so far unsure how to fix it.

Where people tell you they're sad for you that you're working and yet they're in the store, buying things anyway. Does anyone remember the rock song Hero of War?

Hero of shaws. Yeah that's what I'll be. Pick things up put them down, fill all the cheese.

The hero of shaws, that's what I am. No hope in my mind, six days til we die.

I have had other jobs where the expectations were confusing, where fitting the communication style is apparently more important than what you actually do. Many jobs you have to learn exactly what the problem even IS before you can fix it.

I deeply despise not making more money. I hate feeling like my thoughts are not valuable. I am tired of being a servant of fixing emptiness (stocking). But the daily annoyances are things you can fight through, and your body directly contributes.

It is a kind of misery I can understand and handle. But I am incredibly weary and want a different kind of life. But I don't know what other jobs I COULD even handle doing at this point.

I have had other jobs where the expectations were confusing, where fitting the communication style is apparently more important than what you actually do. Many jobs you have to learn exactly what the problem even IS before you can fix it.

I deeply despise not making more money. I hate feeling like my thoughts are not valuable. I am tired of being a servant of fixing emptiness (stocking). The daily annoyances are things you can fight through, and your body directly contributes.

It is a kind of misery I can understand and handle. But I am incredibly weary and want a different kind of life. But I don't know what other jobs I COULD even handle doing at this point.

The grocery manager asked me to fill the giant water cooler bottles. But he did not know they were in the storage trailer all the way at the back behind five pallets of water that also needed to be put out on the sales floor because they weren't yesterday night. Of course, there's no space to just move them out of the way and I might as well just put them out.

But I'm the cheese and yogurt man. Wednesday is by far, the biggest delivery of the week. JUST yogurt was 274 boxes, we're supposed to count the boxes.

I'm two people, apparently.

I need a more money job that I find more interesting. But I have an autism diagnosis and don't enjoy dealing with people or figuring out what to do.

Go to job, be disappointed in job, be sad at other people for making things harder, get tired, leave job.

I am not only tired of putting cheese on shelves, but in the inherent nature of the career reality. I don't know what to do.

I work for the major grocery store in southeastern new england that is not stop and shop.

The human resources person recently retired and was going around hugging people, saying how they're going to miss us and thanking everyone. But they haven't actually done anything to support the employees in the last like three years and every time you would ask them a question, they would get stressed out and mostly ignore you.

Whenever the tie wearing men come in, they don 't care about you. They care about achieving perfection, regardless of what it takes and always finding something to whine about.

Long may the ceo rule. Until they are replaced with another, who serves the company that owns our company better. And then long live them. The cycle continues until the end of time with nothing meaningful or good.

I work six days a week dairy in a grocery store. The job market overall seems pretty terrible. But when you factor in my other work experiences, what I know about myself, and what I can handle doing, it seems almost impossible.

I see something that needs to be done, I do it. Simple, little figuring crap out, no long-term planning, just get it accomplished. I move boxes that aren't even my boxes because they're in the way. I organize and order more boxes. I do whatever managers ask. I go home DOA daily.

But do I enjoy worrying about what other people get done? Do I like coordinating tasks with multiple people involved? Do I enjoy trying to understand social dynamics? Absolutely not.

There is nowhere for me to go, nothing to advance to that I want. No future where anything really was different from today. No new experiences to have.

All I really want is for other people to be grateful that I made myself tired for them. But that's not enough to improve my financial wellbeing, or be a potential life partner for someone. I can barely even stand to think about submitting applications because I hate the very nature of competitions, let alone having any idea for what.

I've tried other things before and other people always just throw me off. Feels like the next thirty years of my life have already been figured out and I hate it.

I work six days a week dairy in a grocery store. The job market overall seems pretty terrible. But when you factor in my other work experiences, what I know about myself, and what I can handle doing, it seems almost impossible.

I see problem, I fix problem. I move boxes that aren't even my boxes because they're in the way. I organize and order more boxes. I do whatever managers ask. I go home DOA daily.

But do I enjoy worrying about what other people get done? Do I like coordinating tasks with multiple people involved? Do I enjoy trying to understand social dynamics? Absolutely not.

There is nowhere for me to go, nothing to advance to that I want. No future where anything really was different from today. No new experiences to have.

All I really want is for other people to be grateful that I made myself tired for them. But that's not enough to improve my financial wellbeing, or be a potential life partner for someone.

I've tried other things before and other people always just throw me off. Feels like the next thirty years of my life have already been figured out and I hate it.

I have a much different goal than just have a lot of money.

I want to create a system of money that is self sustaining. I don't even know if that's possible. But how do I work on that versus just standard investing? So far, I'm just doing index funds because I don't particularly know what I'm doing and it seems reasonable.

You know those national weather service advisory tests that happen at random hours? The sad part is I'm not kidding, they should just get one of those.

"This is the (company) management tracking system. A corporate manager has been sighted in your area. Drop what you are doing and seek visual perfection immediately."

Nobody actually wants to make anything better, nobody cares about fixing any real problems. Just drop everything and race around pretending like everything is fine when everything is far from fine.

In my section of the store alone, the early morning person is out on long term injury, a different part timer cut hours to 2 days a week, the part timer who works the most puts it in real effort WHEN THEY WANT TO. They even hired another guy who only lasted like a week, got hurt twice clearly due to his own poor decision making skills, and left.

I work in a department that has had four people working in a single day, ALONE, for 2 days a week, EVERY SINGLE WEEK.

How am I supposed to get everything that makes everyone happy done? Please tell me, I would love to hear it. They would just quote me the Nike slogan "just do it."

Multiple career choices have ended in either being screwed over or utter failure. The only thing I am able to do is live the life of the pick things up, put them down.

My right to remain alive at all is entirely dependent on the moving of the boxes. But I cannot move all the boxes. Other people suck and I do not WANT and to understand them.

That there are too many boxes to make everyone happy, and too much wrist pain, and self hatred.

Since I don't really know what I'm doing, I started doing weekly contributions into FXAIX and FTIHX split 75%, 25%. So far I have $21,000 total invested. I have since found out that EFTs are better for taxes than mutual funds. But I don't know if the difference is worth being concerned.

It's not buy a house time or get married time or new car time or anything like that I can think of at the moment, and I have a different CD with about the same amount due January 2028.

What would you do now?