De stad Antwerpen stopt tot eind dit jaar met externe aanwervingen vanwege financiële problemen.
Is dit eindelijk verstandig besparen, of gaan we dit voelen in de kwaliteit van onze stadsdiensten?
En vooral: hoe komt het dat een stad als Antwerpen plots zo hard moet besparen?
Wat denken jullie? Verstandig beleid of jarenlang wanbeheer?
At every previous job, I’ve always wanted to be good at what I do, learn quickly, and have good relationships with my coworkers.
But at my current job, I genuinely don’t care. My goal every day is basically to do as little as possible, get paid, and count down the hours until 17:00. I think more about my days off and salary than the actual work, and I hate that I’ve become like this.
I think a huge part of it is that I work in a Dutch-speaking environment and my Dutch isn’t good enough yet. Almost all communication happens in Dutch, so I constantly feel like I’m missing information and don’t fully understand what’s going on.
I’m even anxious when someone approaches me because I’m scared they’ll speak Dutch to me and I won’t understand. It makes me avoid interactions, which probably makes everything worse.
I don’t even know how I’m supposed to become good at my job when I feel like I’m missing half the context everyone else gets naturally.
Part of me thinks I should stop pressuring myself to be a “good worker” and just focus on doing my responsibilities adequately, getting paid, and going home. But another part wonders if feeling this disconnected is a sign that this job just isn’t right for me.
Has anyone else experienced this, especially while working in a language you’re not fluent in? Did it get better?
started a new admin job about 3 weeks ago and I constantly feel like I’m doing nothing.
I technically know what my responsibilities are, but the problem is that I don’t really know how to turn those responsibilities into actual day-to-day tasks yet. Nobody is telling me “do this, then this, then this,” and I don’t have enough experience with the job to recognize by myself what needs to happen and when.
For example, I have responsibilities related to things like SharePoint/information and access management. I understand generally what I’m responsible for, but I don’t yet have that internal knowledge of “when X happens, I need to do Y.” So sometimes I finish something and then genuinely don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing next.
It leaves me feeling weirdly exhausted while also feeling like I accomplished nothing all day. I’m starting to question whether I’m doing enough or whether my coworkers think I’m just sitting around doing nothing.
For people who have experienced this: is this normal during the first few weeks/months of a new job? At what point did you start being able to see for yourself what needed to be done instead of needing someone to give you specific tasks?
Hey all,
Ik start binnenkort aan een nieuwe job bij Stad Antwerpen en ik ben benieuwd naar de ervaringen van andere jonge mensen, vooral Gen Z’ers.
Hoe ervaren jullie de werksfeer, de collega's en de balans tussen werk en prive? Zijn de werkuren flexibel? Voelt het werk eerder ontspannen of is de werkdruk hoog? En hoe zit het met de algemene sfeer binnen de organisatie?😭😭😭
Ik ben gewoon benieuwd naar eerlijke ervaringen, zowel positieve als minder positieve.