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@evelyn Unfortunately my counselor fired me yesterday. She basically just said “You’re doing everything right, keep taking your medicine, aside from that I can’t help you because it’s perfectly reasonable that working your job would give you depression and boredom-anxiety. Get a new job.” So I don’t really know what to do.

My job involves putting lenses on reflectors, and that’s pretty much it. I work around very negative people in a soul-crushing, monotonous, intensely boring environment. I can’t listen to a book or music while working, and so I just wait for every day to be over.

But my job provides amazing health and retirement benefits and pay. If I were to get another job that could, at the very minimum pay my bills without having a penny more to save at the end of the month, I’d need to make more than twice the minimum wage, and I’d be taking a pay cut of almost 40% before even factoring in that I’d likely be getting terrible insurance, terrible (if any) retirement, and terrible paid time off earned.

And that’s assuming I, an unskilled and uneducated twentysomething, could even get a single job that could pay the bills.

And I’d still probably hate it as much as my current job.

So I really don’t know what to do. I’ve been looking for a new job for three years now. Nothing sounds even a fraction more ideal than what I have now.

@steward-of-the-pen Thank you very much. I really need those prayers.