Ep. 20 — When to quit a low-paying job
Brown Ambition
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4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Welcome back Brown Ambition fam. This week, we take a reader question from a young woman who took a job before she realized how little it paid. Now she's stuck -- does she stay and remain loyal to her new employer, or should she start looking for new work and risk looking unreliable to future employers? PLUS: Tiffany shares her favorite book of the moment ... and how to manage career burnout. As always, join us on Facebook or Twitter. Email us your money and career questions at brownambitionpodcast@gmail.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, hey, we are back. It's episode 20. I don't I miss y'all. |
| 0:20.6 | I talked to you more than I talked to people in my family by the way. |
| 0:25.1 | I was thinking about it that way. |
| 0:27.1 | It's for because we have a good standing once a week day. I'm like, you know, I should do that with other people, but I just I'm just so tired. |
| 0:37.1 | But you know, it's so crazy. Like I went out with a I went out to poetry with a good friend of mine. Why not seen it forever? You're so cultured. I know. No, but I used to really be in the poetry. I mean, honestly, you know, I think for you, you know, I used to step on a stage or two. |
| 0:52.1 | Where you did spoken word. Yes, I did. Let me get a little can you get a little taste. Why? So let me see. Um, no, we can't. |
| 0:59.1 | You phenomenal woman. Every black woman who's ever done spoken word has got no phenomenal women. Of course. |
| 1:06.1 | You may push me down in history with your bitter twisted last. But I got done. I'm a woman. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm a woman. I'm a woman. That's me. No, no, but I really did used to be like especially in college. I was really into poetry. |
| 1:22.1 | And so this is young woman named Jasmine mans, who is dope, Tastic. If you guys get a chance, Jasmine mans. She, I don't know. She's like 25. But she's got this new poem called like message for Kanye or something like that. |
| 1:35.1 | Where it's this poem kind of like Kanye, what happened to you? But it's really an amazing poem. And she was having a show in Newark where I live. |
| 1:42.1 | And it was like 15 bucks at Symphony Hall. And I was like, you know, I want to go. But then you know how it goes when you buy a ticket, like a week or so ahead of time when you're feeling all optimistic. |
| 1:51.1 | And then the day comes and you're like, I'm sad. I don't want to go. But we ended up going anyway. But it now realize that so. So I'm 36 and most of my friends are in their 30s. |
| 2:01.1 | And I'm feeling it's like this general sentiment. And I don't know. You could tell me this because I know you're sewing your 20s. If you're getting this energy from your friends. Everybody feels so stretched to the limit, tired and no one's really taking time for themselves. Everybody's just in go, go, go, go, go, go, go. |
| 2:17.1 | Have you been getting that? I'm feeling like I'm in like the go to work and come home, go to work and come home. |
| 2:23.1 | I'm like, I'm a trainer and watch the TV and maybe work out and then go to work. And you know, like that cycle. It's me down. |
| 2:29.1 | Yeah, I don't know. Like I feel like the 30 rules and like the 35 36, you know, 32 years. I know they they've, it's not even like so much go to work and go home. |
| 2:38.1 | It's like everybody has kind of hit like the turbo drive because they're just like, OK, I'm past my 20s. I know what I want to do. I'm working in my fields. I got that promotion. |
| 2:49.1 | It's just like everything is going great professionally, but my personal life is totally dying. That like it's such a crazy sense in it. But every one of my friends has been like, you know, everything's going great at work or whatever. |
| 3:01.1 | Like business, whatever I have, but I just I'm dying on the inside help. |
| 3:06.1 | You are personally. |
| 3:08.1 | Yeah, yeah. Well, me, I've been feeling like that too because it's like like business has never been better at the budget. |
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