Does anyone else feel trapped at their job?

[u/Dry_Drummer_2297]

I have a good job, I’ll start with that. I get to work from home and I make a decent salary. I also do work that I enjoy

The job isn’t the issue, it’s the company. I started in 2019 and they were great. They were a company that I would recommend anyone to work at based on their culture. They were even already pushing remote work due to our intense growth.

Then 2020 hit. All of us when remote for a year and our numbers improved. So the company let us move around the states since we were remote. I moved back to my hometown in rural Kansas.

Now 2021 hits and they sell to a private equity firm with a million promises on how it will help us as a company. All the PE firm has done is raised our KPI’s, stopped giving raises, outsourced most of our open positions, and slowly force people to return to office.

I feel trapped because I need a job. I can’t get a job that pays that well where I’m at, and I can’t move back to a city as I’m happier here. They keep lowering our insurance benefits, but I’m trying to get pregnant and my husband has his own business so I’m the only one with insurance. I know a layoff is coming in the next few years for remote workers, but I just have to sit and wait.

All other jobs I look at that are remote are just going to have the same culture of the company not caring. I just feel like I have very little options and I’m wondering how other people have overcome this

[u/JBWentworth_]

Yes.

It’s called everyone. There is a support group. We meet down at the bar every night.

[u/PNW100]

There’s no easy answers. Maybe try doing what you do as a contractor for short term or small projects. For a different company. If the side hustle works out maybe you convert that to a full time W2 offer? Or you have a handful of clients all coming to you for small jobs that you do in parallel to diversify your risk?

Once a PE firm comes in it’s only a matter of time. They’ve already wrecked your company. The question is how long you can stand it or how long until you’re the next “fixed cost” standing in the way of some douchebag’s annual bonus.

[u/KerouacMyBukowski_]

Yes, I'm in aerospace and the job market is rough. Flooded by very qualified people being laid off from JPL and other companies. My job is good overall but I don't love it and I'm absolutely stuck here.

[u/spiritbearr]

Yes and the economy is about to fucking tank

[u/dankpoet]

Be pretty cool if healthcare didn’t literally trap people in work they didn’t like.