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I don’t know what I want to do for a job

The Ordinary Man
3 min readDec 3, 2022

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Sometimes you get to a point where you don’t know what you want to do in your career. Every option is bleak and all you want to do is live off of benefits and do some crack with the money.

When you’re not sure where to go in your career, what is the best type of job to take? When you don’t want a career, what is the best thing to do?

I’ve done everything I’ve wanted to do for an employer

I’ve done everything that I’ve wanted to do for an employer so I am fulfilled in that sense. I don’t have the desire to work my way up at a company and fight for anything as I no longer care. All I want is a nice job where I can work with nice people (ha!).

I have to be honest I didn’t have many career goals and the list got shorter the more I learned about the working world and life in general. I don’t want to work long hours for big companies with horrible people, it’s not worth it.

What I want is a steady job with a wage that will allow me to slowly build something that will allow me to escape my job.

You can’t become the best

Something that I get a lot of satisfaction from is being the best I can be at something, and that holds no value in the workplace or the UK in general. Work is…

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