Working in an agency honestly feels like modern-day indentured servitude. You're underpaid, overworked, and too exhausted to even look for something better.

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You make a good point, but it's inaccurate. Indentured servants in the American colonies were released after seven years, you're there for life! Seriously, it can feel like a grind some days. But I remind myself that I'm grateful to have a job where I won't be swept overboard or have a mine cave in on me. It's all perspective!

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Very fair perspective. It is PR not the ER.

Though I'm fastly nearing 7 years at my agency which has me thinking now...

Maybe not quite that bad, but it's not fun at all. Even if you find the time and energy to apply for something better, you know it'll just end up being more of the same thing at the next job. But hey, at least we made it through another week. Cheers to the weekend.

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Ha! There are some parallels now that you say it. Agency was supposed to be a starting point. Has become the end all be all for me though. Haven’t heard great things about the market anyways so that doesn’t exactly fill me with hope even if I did have the time and effort to look for something else.

The job market is so bad. I'm hoping I don't end up in an agency forever.

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