It’s been a month since I started working and I will admit it is mentally exhausting. Rat race describes it best. Everyone chasing the cheddar with no prospects of breaking out. I hate to be a Debbie Downer but it’s truly sad to me. I don’t understand how people can commit more than 5 years to corporate retail with no prospects of moving up through the ranks. Everyone that I work with (minus a few) are bots. It’s extremely sad because each and every day I clock in I am plotting my exit plan to get out of the workplace and the violent rat race. The job is mindless, the interactions with customers and coworkers alike are shallow, and the overall dynamic of the workplace resembles that of a high school. Funny enough, it’s predominantly grown men and women that work there but that furthers my case. Not an ideal place to work.

I hate to be rambling and I do not want to sound holier than thou. However, I have dreams and aspirations which inevitably will help me ascend past the bullshit associated with corporate retail to go on to do bigger and better things. However, the lifers, let’s call them, appear to have had their dreams and aspirations crushed and now they’re forever trapped in this limbo state of the corporate retail 9-5. I don’t have many fears, but, one of my fears is to be stuck in the rat race forever living paycheque to paycheque effectively being a modern-day slave. My friends and family constantly reassure me that such a thing will never happen but in all honesty, you never know. Did the lifers ever intend on being lifers? Or were they merely a product of bad circumstance which put them into the position they are in? Comment below.

On a complete sidebar, something that resonates with me heavily is some bars that I read in a book about money, it goes like this… if you subscribe to luck then you also have to subscribe to risk. What does this mean? Stay with me now… In the same way, you can get lucky in this life and be a product of good circumstances the vice versa can occur with risk (bad luck). So although yes I cast judgment onto my coworkers I am also weary and know that I could be subject to certain risks that cause me to be stuck as well. I constantly pray to the man above to find a new opportunity and I know that my time is coming but I really wish that it would come sooner.

Everything will work out in due time. So to those in the same boat as myself keep your head up, keep striving forward, and don’t lose sight of the vision.

This too shall pass.