Why I Quit My Full-Time Job to Work at Trader Joeâs Spoon University
11 hrs ago Katherine Baker ,Have you ever felt like you âre failing at 'adulting? Sc
, and living that young and fabulous 20-something life ,in NYC, I graduated in 2014, feeling on top of the world. After all, you know what they ,say about NYC, if you can make it there, you )can make it anywhere, right? Ahh, what a high time that was. TVs - 32" and large Jumia &Flash forward a few months, and I am (sitting on my mom’s couch in suburban)Wisconsin, sobbing my hot-mess of a self &into my sweatpants once again because despite sending out like 10 million %applications, I couldn't get a job.What the hell is wrong with me? I kept thinking.
I worked my ass off in undergrad. )I even had a reputation for being at the (library 24/7 . I graduated with honors from NYU, triple minored, did (research and extracurriculars and yet… #fail. (I started to get really down on myself. *Discouraged, I wondered if I was even cut out for the “real world,†and spent an 'unhealthy amount of time nostalgically 'fantasizing about somehow returning to
undergrad. -Eventually (about 4 months later) I did find +a job as a behavioral therapist. And while a great job and something I still respect -and admire, it simply wasn't for me. I was -miserable tired, stressed, and emotional /all the time. I wondered if I ever be happy or successful at the adulting thing. (One day, after a particularly stressful 'Saturday morning at work, I was crying and sad and having a pity party in my car when I decided I needed to go to Trader Grocery shopping had always been (an awkwardly relaxing hobby of mine and was always a happy place for me.rolling through your feed, 'whimpering, convinced everyone you went -to high school with is already married, lives -in a cool city, has a real fancy job and owns &adult things like vacuum cleaners and 'dishwashers? And you âre just sitting /pantless in your bed, single as a dollar bill, struggling to afford your take-out habit and Netflix membership, convinced you âre 'destined to be a failure who becomes a .crazy pet-person? Well let me say this: I feel 0you. I have felt you hard. But let âs back up a &minute, and get through this together. After 4 blissful years of pursuing a psych degree/pre-med thing at NYU
11 hrs ago Katherine Baker ,Have you ever felt like you âre failing at 'adulting? Sc
, and living that young and fabulous 20-something life ,in NYC, I graduated in 2014, feeling on top of the world. After all, you know what they ,say about NYC, if you can make it there, you )can make it anywhere, right? Ahh, what a high time that was. TVs - 32" and large Jumia &Flash forward a few months, and I am (sitting on my mom’s couch in suburban)Wisconsin, sobbing my hot-mess of a self &into my sweatpants once again because despite sending out like 10 million %applications, I couldn't get a job.What the hell is wrong with me? I kept thinking.
I worked my ass off in undergrad. )I even had a reputation for being at the (library 24/7 . I graduated with honors from NYU, triple minored, did (research and extracurriculars and yet… #fail. (I started to get really down on myself. *Discouraged, I wondered if I was even cut out for the “real world,†and spent an 'unhealthy amount of time nostalgically 'fantasizing about somehow returning to
undergrad. -Eventually (about 4 months later) I did find +a job as a behavioral therapist. And while a great job and something I still respect -and admire, it simply wasn't for me. I was -miserable tired, stressed, and emotional /all the time. I wondered if I ever be happy or successful at the adulting thing. (One day, after a particularly stressful 'Saturday morning at work, I was crying and sad and having a pity party in my car when I decided I needed to go to Trader Grocery shopping had always been (an awkwardly relaxing hobby of mine and was always a happy place for me.rolling through your feed, 'whimpering, convinced everyone you went -to high school with is already married, lives -in a cool city, has a real fancy job and owns &adult things like vacuum cleaners and 'dishwashers? And you âre just sitting /pantless in your bed, single as a dollar bill, struggling to afford your take-out habit and Netflix membership, convinced you âre 'destined to be a failure who becomes a .crazy pet-person? Well let me say this: I feel 0you. I have felt you hard. But let âs back up a &minute, and get through this together. After 4 blissful years of pursuing a psych degree/pre-med thing at NYU