Coming home too damn tired to do anything else, even including chores, is top for me.
I have dishes lying around, laundry needing to be done at somepoint, some extra small tasks to do. But, trying to go ‘above and beyond’ for a shitty job just leaves you with nothing left to do them, having to waste time off to finally do them.
I’m in a building that’s not my home, for 8 hours (used to have some days where it was 10 hours), a night. Where my company tries to tell me to treat their building that I work in, as a second home. Dealing with all of these tasks that ultimately mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Dealing with people who conveniently forget a lot of the time, as to how to be a normal human being and they being at your expense.
And in addition to coming home too damn tired to do anything else, I’m sometimes worrying if what I’m making now for however many hours, is enough to cover everything I need to have or want to have.
How to get a promotion you’re supposed to first go out of your way to do extra work they should hire for for no additional pay. I tried it at 2 jobs, both times I ended up doing the extra work for no pay for years before I left.
Meanwhile, every year, the yearly raise is less than inflation.
That strategy is valid but doesn’t work for most, because it assumes (1) a relatively high comfort level with selling your own skills, and (2) enough knowledge of local talent / labor market to realize what you can ask for. That’s a skill set you’d expect from an experienced consultant, not the average W2 employee, and if you swing and miss, or fail to swing at all, many struggle to pump the brakes and end up shouldering the additional responsibility without additional compensation.
Hence the common rule of beginning the hunt for your next job right away if you desire growth. Your manager probably won’t just promote you, so you have to promote yourself.