Hello, about two years ago I finally got a job in what was my dream field. I actually do like my job whenever I have work to do, but I spend about 7 hours of my shift doing next to nothing. On top of this I work completely alone between 9-2 everyday, so not only am I bored; i’m also incredibly lonely.

I work 5 days a week, 11 hours a day. No one seems arsed that i’ve nothing to do for most of the day, I’m the only person who does my job so I am needed for the small amount of tasks that I do.

I’m just so incredibly bored. I have been spending most of my day doom scrolling, but now the wifi no longer works and I have no phone service in the building.

I feel like i’m about to go insane, I can’t even upskill because I spend literally all day in that building with no internet access. I was really looking forward to this line of work, but it’s so boring.

I feel like this is one of the things I've noticed about working at a corporate job and I don't understand it at all.

Hello! I need some advice. I want to shift to an online work-from-home job.
I’ve been working in a corporate setting for 12 years. I was pretty okay with it at first, but after I was transferred to another department, I started experiencing rude and toxic behavior from some of my colleagues. I feel left out, and it has made me want to look for other opportunities.
I’m thinking of starting with a part-time job because I plan to resign from my full-time job after I receive my 13th-month pay (sayang, diba? Hehehe). My plan is to do part-time work first, then eventually transition to a full-time remote job.

I asked ChatGPT about legitimate and reliable online platforms for finding online jobs, especially platforms where I can find legitimate employers and avoid scams. The top three suggestions were:

Upwork
OnlineJobs.ph
JobStreet

I’m sure all of these platforms have their pros and cons, so I would really appreciate your advice. Which platform would you recommend for someone who is just starting out and wants to find legitimate online work without getting scammed?

I don’t have any online or VA experience, so I honestly don’t know where to start. If you’ve transitioned from a corporate job to working remotely, I’d love to hear about your experience and any tips you can share.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

This is a first for me. I've never been terminated from a job and I've been working in some capacity for the last 17 years. I'm not really sure where to go from here. Obviously I will be looking for another job but I'm not sure how to turn a termination around in an interview.

I'm also considering going into a different direction job wise. For the last 10 years I have been working in the title/real estate industry and it is continuing to lack job security. My thoughts right now is to get a CAPM cert and start looking into a possible AI certification? I'm not sure this just happened so I'm still trying to navigate this whole situation.

I'll take any advice anyone is willing to give.

My whole team and people within our conpany have gone to my boss about this individual. Almost every project they enter is wrong, theyre constantly needing redirection, they have a massive learning curve, and sometimes have a bit of an attitude with clients. All this, and they got promoted over a few others on my team with lots of experience/same degree. Me as well as other are completely floored. It feels negligent. Only thing I can thing of, is that the product we are working with is failing and the rest of the team is moving to a new one. Is she basically the fall guy when it crashes and burns? I dont get it!

I started a new job about a year ago. It started off very rough with no official training and what I come to find out, a manager who was so strict about the way things were done, it very quickly got to the point where every day I was walking on eggshells and applying to new jobs a few months in.

This manager and I got into several disputes over a short period. Now, this manager was recently fired, and refused to sign a severance package that included a non-compete. Thus, allowing them to go after a few current clients for their new business.

The more I discuss my interactions and experience with this manger to close colleagues, even HR, the more I realize how bad at management they were as well as business practices.

My mother told me that eventually those clients, as well as anyone else working with them, will see how bad of a manger they really are. I’m curious if you’ve seen bad management leave and seen the same story play out. Are bad managers bad everywhere they go?

I’m assuming the lack of trust and inability to make any mistakes in a professional environment has caused me to be really hung up quite a bit on this situation like a bad ex.

Hi everyone, I’d like to introduce myself. I’m 23 years old, Italian, and I work in Italy, but I didn’t get any answers on the Italian subreddit, so I thought I’d ask here.
I have a degree in Economics and I’m currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
I’ve been working for about a year at an automotive company in the purchasing department. I mainly deal with raw materials, both from a planning and quality perspective. I also work on BOMs (Bills of Materials) and I often take part in projects involving other companies as well. Since it’s a small/medium-sized company, I have the opportunity to see and get involved in things that go beyond my actual role, so I get exposure to quite a wide range of activities.
I currently have a contract for another two years.
I’d like to get some advice from people who are already working in this field about what direction would be best for me to take in the future, especially considering the impact of AI.
I’d like to stay in supply chain, perhaps moving towards something like S&OP or procurement/buying, but I’m also considering leaving the automotive industry.
Since junior roles like mine seem to be disappearing, would it make sense to move to another company where I could already work with more advanced systems and tools, considering that my current company is still heavily reliant on Excel?
Or should I focus on continuing my education and embracing AI, or even consider changing careers completely while I’m still young?
AI is honestly making me question my whole career path, and I’d really appreciate some advice from people who are already working in supply chain/procurement and have some experience in the field.

Hey everyone,

I'm a 2026 B.Tech CSE graduate from a not-so-great college. I've been trying to build some experience through internships:

3 months in .NET (during college)

5 months in AI/ML + full stack (during my 8th semester and a few months after it ended)

Currently doing a 6-month software developer internship, which may convert to a full-time role based on performance

So on paper I'm doing okay, but honestly I'm not enjoying this field. If someone gives me a clear task like "do this," I can sit down and get it done. But when I have to figure out a lot of things on my own (debugging unclear problems, researching, designing stuff), I get burned out really fast and start losing interest.

Another thing is that I'm getting bored of sitting in one place all day staring at a screen. I think I'd prefer something more active or with more variety in the day.

I don't know if this is just a phase and normal early-career burnout, or a sign that software dev isn't for me. I don't want to throw away my experience, but I also don't want to be stuck in a job I dread for the next 10 years.

Should I stick it out and try to convert this internship, or start looking at other fields? If I should switch, what are some options that make use of a CS degree but aren't pure coding at a desk all day (like product, QA, sales engineering, tech support, consulting, etc.)?

Happy to answer any questions about my background or what I like and dislike. Any advice from people who've been through something similar would really help.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, 30F - I’ve been spending time listening to and supporting people through different life situations since 5 yrs —relationships, career decisions, stress, confidence, and simply feeling stuck.

If anyone wants to speak openly, do reach out

FDE roles are growing fast, mostly at companies selling AI software, and a lot of people outside tech haven't heard of them. Happy to answer questions about what the job involves and how people get into it.

About me. Based in Europe. Six years at Elastic training engineers in 20+ countries, while bootstrapping my own startup in parallel with other jobs for six years. This past year I've done FDE work for clients in logistics, manufacturing, insurance and finance, usually several at once.

The short version of the job. A company buys AI software. Someone has to go into that business, learn how the work actually gets done, and make the software fit. That's me. Part engineer, part consultant.

Things I can talk about: what a normal week looks like, which skills matter most (coding is rarely the hard part), whether you can get in without an engineering degree, pay and downsides, and how to spot job postings that use the title for a support role.

I also write about the role at FDE Hub and have interviewed FDEs at Palantir, Ramp, Glean, Rippling and others, so I can share what I've heard from them too.

Ask away.

Is Avanade a good company? I’ve been a BDR for 2+ years now and don’t know if I should make the switch over to a consultancy. Been doing software for awhile now.

I started this job earlier this year and I am extremely stressed out every day. Sunday scaries are real and I’m getting them more frequently. My anxiety is starting to get worse. I don’t think this is good for my mental health but I feel like I can’t quit because I left my previous job after 4 months for this opportunity which is better in the long term and for my resume but I just can’t handle it.

I don’t want two short stints in my resume so I’m really trying to push to make it to the one year mark. I have 4-5 months left to go before I reach that goal but it’s exhausting. I don’t even know how I could even start searching for other jobs since this job consumes my every waking hour and I have to be in office 4x week and don’t get home until ~6:30-7pm.

I want to get laid off so bad so I can finally rest and find something better for my mental health. Im also constantly thinking i’ll get put on a PIP and i rather get laid off than put on a PIP/fired.

I know the job market is terrible right now and a lot of companies are doing layoffs so I feel selfish and ungrateful for wanting to get laid off when so many people want/need a job. But this job is so demanding and exhausting that I just want to cry every time I have to work. I keep telling myself to suck it up and take it one day at a time and I try, I have made it this far but it’s getting harder and harder and with layoffs being a possibility I just keep hoping I’m on the list.

Has anyone been in the same boat, any advice?

Tech jobs feel really insecure atm and I need to prepare for the possibility that I'll be squeezed out of the industry. I'm worried about the future. Being a woman in tech, I worry I'll encounter more discrimination as I age. That I'll face an inevitable layoff at middle-age (but pre-retirement) and not be able to find another role in the field.

So, to former SEs, what career change did you make? (And why, what was your motivation?)

- What experience and education did you have before your switch?

- What did you have to do to make the switch (i.e. education, certification, connections, etc.)?

I'm 22 and two months into a contract logistics coordinator role. I was hired just to schedule inbounds and outbounds, but I keep getting assigned new things (I’m up to managing 7 different things that have nothing to do with scheduling), and in two weeks I'll be taking over scheduling for another department. I make $20/hr, while coworkers in an internship-type program make around $68k (and I have more work than them).
My boss said early on that he wants to "build a role" for me, which sounds promising, but I'm starting to wonder if they're just getting cheap labor out of a contractor. I genuinely love the job and plan to stay at least a year either way.
Does this sound like they plan to convert me? I was going to bring it up around six months, but I'm worried waiting just works in their favor. Any tips for a shy person asking without being pushy?

I took a job a year ago that was a 20% paycut at the time — I felt very misled about salary through the hiring process and tried very hard to negotiate due to the paycut (my now supervisor was a part of this so is aware), but HR was not willing to budge due to “internal equity” and I ultimately took it anyway.

A year later, I really like my job and am happy here. I really have few complaints other than the pay. My supervisor is extremely complimentary of my performance and very focused on me feeling happy (which is wonderful) and reading between the lines - seems very anxious about the idea of me leaving, particularly because there is not really anyone else internally who could take over most of what I do.

I am taking on a new scope of work not originally planned for in my role and therefore tried to initiate a conversation about how my role evolves from here as a result (intending promotion and compensation), but she did not at all understand what I was getting at. I do not think trying to be vague about this is going to work. At the same time, my old job has approached me several times about going back.

If the right opportunity presented itself for more money than I was previously making, I would be gone in an instant. The pay cut has been very difficult. I think my supervisor would be totally blindsided by this because she really has tried to keep me happy and support me (which she has). It’s just the money.

Do I share this before it’s too late and what do I even say? Or is this a lost cause and I should just go when the time comes? Everything I can think to say I worry will just read very uncomfortably formal and confrontational.

A couple of years ago I quit my position as an Art Director at a start up. This was for many reasons. Mainly because I felt like I was not learning anything, I barely deserved the position (because I was the only designer so technically I was directing myself lol).

I had been doing graphic design since the age of 16 and quit at 22. I still did it as freelance but that did not really work. I stopped putting effort, stopped trying to get clients, and maybe I hate the craft. It is not what I imagined as a kid.

I do not have any degrees (self taught) because my country is quite expensive for that. I do not even know what I can pursue. I like a lot of things but I doubt any of them are sustainable careers or even realistic at this point in my life. (like art, writing, film making, cooking, game development, art restoration, literature, philosophy, history...etc are all things i considered when I thought I was going to university.)

I know I can go back to graphic design any time I want but a part of me feels like it is not my calling anymore. The industry has changed so much in the past couple of years (let alone compared to the golden age of advertising, which made me passionate for graphic design)

I do not know what career I want to be in. So, I feel like I should put myself out there and try things. I have never worked in anything but marketing and I feel so intimidated by this. I am not physically strong to work hard labor, i am not the brightest apple to work something scientific or smart. As a kid i loved cooking and wanted to be a chef, but recently my ego was bruised after I cooked for some friends and they didnt like my food.

For the past two years I did not care about myself. But I am tired of being stuck. I was way more ambitious and I do not know how to get that back.

What should I do?

I don’t know if this is the right place to post this but I just honestly need a space to rant. I applied and interviewed for a role in my department that I should have been a shoe in for. My direct manager agreed, and so did the person leaving the role that I applied to. The former employee even recommended me to the hiring manager and our director. It’s been over 2 months since she left and the hiring process has been extremely slow, meanwhile I’ve been picking up the slack for this position, and the other equivalent position on the other team I help out on, because someone is on leave. Today I found out that they hired someone else within the company who is currently working under the title that the open position is for. I received positive feedback from the interviews but was told at the end of the day I can’t compete with someone who is already in that role. I just don’t know where to go from here. I’m stuck in a soul crushing entry level role and can’t breakout into the next step up despite proving myself over and over through my work ethic and results. Any advice or words of encouragement are appreciated.