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I am leaving JP Morgan next month and have resigned before completing of my 1 year with the firm but technically my year will be completed next month before notice period. The laptop allowance and the relocation allowances will it be recovered from me during my exit??
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2. I make great money, have unmatched flexibility and yet the littlest things thing still sets me off. Constant pressure is hard to deal with. Been working with a therapist to help ease the he burden.
Any rec for good therapists ?
5. A little context, I’m living paycheck paycheck, my wife and I sometimes have to get payday advance loans to cover our rent, we have a little baby we’re raising and my wife has to work a few days part time to help me with the expenses. Meanwhile, I’m relatively new at my job and just starting to get clients, but not making anywhere near the commission I need to make to not have to penny pinch every week. Why the 5? Because I understand that life is tough. It’s supposed to be a challenge to make income and provide. That may not be the case for me later on down the line, but it is now. It’s a hard struggle everyday, and I’m not trying to escape it. Rather, I embrace and push to climb my family out of this cycle. It’s painful, but we have each other. We have no expectations about the next day because we may never see it. We’ve been through some hard roads, way harder than this, and God has always been there for us. We’ve never missed meals, we’ve always had the rent paid, had cancellation notices, but always got it paid, somehow. We live in a nice home, we’re comfortable, and well fed. We just don’t have extra. We realize we have less than some people and more than a lot of people. It’s not easy, but life would be so much worse if I thought that it was supposed to be easy. I’d feel like something is wrong, but it’s not. Life is going exactly the way it’s supposed to, and I’m thankful to God for the struggle. Because I’d rather have this hardship than other ones I could be having.
Great topic. As i'm sure many others in this thread will understand, as a family man, there are so many factors even outside of work that that contribute to low mental health. Been in my field for about 15 years now, and until I found the right work environment, mental health at work was consistenly a 1, with little to no work life balance and severely disliking the team I worked for. Over the years, I figured out what I valued the most in life (watching my girls grow up, maintining a good relationship for my wife, and enjoy the place where I'm working while having growth oppotunitied). You sacrificr certain things along the way, but now i'm closer to a 4-5, depending on what how the markets decide to behave on any given day. Ultimately, we live a God-centered life, and everything else just falls into place.
I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
You really should get help & maybe change careers! I can’t imagine living every day feeling that awful.
2. The layoff killed my motivation.
I give mine a 1.5 -2 management makes my life unbearable most days and expectations are beyond respectable. I work all the time and being salaried only get paid for 40 even though I put in 60 to 70 a week. Burnt out has come and gone and it isn't even from the work or hours it's from management. I liked the optimistic response and once was that person too now I just feel dead emotionally drained with all outlets to find joy stripped away.
3-4. Just normal. Work wouldn’t be having the biggest impact.
1-2 because I’m in a call center
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4.... It'd be better if I had a team I worked with. Solo is a little tough sometimes.
About a 2.5 on a good day. Not where I am now, but two jobs ago, that was a real mind f*ck. I saw the writing on the wall (talked to people at other places who were 5-7 years younger making $25-$30k more with no special degree) and decided it was time for me to move on. I had interviews at four different places but it seemed fate had other ideas.
The interview process was in full swing late September 2008. After the market crashed in October, three out of the four places didn't exist anymore. The last place couldn't offer me the position I applied to but they could give me a position working overnight on the European call desk, for about 35% less than what I was making.
I declined. I ended up sticking with this company for another four years until the laid me off. This company cried poverty at every turn. There were no promotions or serious raises the rest of my tenure. I got yearly increases that amounted to an extra $4.50 a week. In effect, my paycheck went up $19 a month total in the last four years there. They put someone's idiot golf buddy in charge of my department. If you spent more than five minutes with him, it would be obvious that he was in way over his head and knew nothing. To make up for his lack of knowledge, he became a stickler for tiny details, ex: you're 2 minutes late from lunch, among others. But the icing on the cake was they moved my department to a place that doubled my commute. I was going almost 5 hours a day on public transportation to get to and from the new location. The idiot golf buddy didn't care one bit. I was vastly underpaid, had a total moron for a manager and had an punishing commute. It's a miracle I didn't just snap.
My anxiety piqued about a year ago and I was burnt out, lowest I ever ever been at a job. Blood pressure was bad, was a zombie afterwork. Finally I started working with a therapist and got the right mixture of medicine and vitamins, I’ve sitting anywhere from 3-5 and any given moment.
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Prob a 3, great flexibility but work a lot. Do constantly feel that our business pushes new product that doesn’t make sense given markets and have to deliver meaningful investment insights that aren’t compelling. I’m talking alts.