hi comrades I’ve been on this site with various accounts since it was a subreddit and I’ve just returned after deleting my last account a few months back
some time ago I posted about being unemployed for a long time and lacking the motivation to find work and just generally being alienated and having no direction in life. a lot of kind people had great advice, and shout out to the person in particular who suggested postal work, whoever you are! that planted the seed in my brain and the more I thought about it, the more sense it made to me. and now I’ve just received a job offer to become a mail carrier! I will be out in the real world, serving the public, getting exercise, and most importantly, not having to work for porky
it will be a difficult road ahead, this is a radical change in lifestyle but that’s exactly what I needed and I’m looking forward to accepting the challenge
PS any advice from other postal worker comrades is very much welcome, as this line of work is very much new to me!
I actually wasn’t aware, so thanks for the link. I’m still pretty ignorant when it comes to the union stuff but I will read up on it as much as I can. glad to know there’s an org out there fighting
it’s wild to me that CCA’s start at $20/hr regardless of location. that might actually be livable (if not great) in some places but unfortunately I’m in a very HCOL area so that’s a poverty wage. $30 would be a huge improvement but still barely livable here