Feel like I’ve been punched in the stomach
A friend of mine got me an LTE job at the museum they work at a few months after I got my masters. They and the other people in our department essentially guaranteed me that my contract will be renewed. They even had me start learning things they do in the summer and learning things full-time employees learn. Time comes to talk about my renewal and the director kills it.
I took a VERY noticeable pay cut to take this job that I could have only taken if I lived with my parents, which I do. I have an entry level job (use to be my main form of work) I work on weekends to supplement my pay cut, and even got a third job at a YMCA so I can finally move out. Now, I have to go back to my side job, that I hate, for 5 days/week and scramble to find a third job in a job market where I’ve been denied entry level positions with a master’s degree and applied to 100s before I got my last job. All so I can make enough in this shit ass economy to move back out of my parent’s. I honestly feel like I’m rapidly losing my window in this field; I’m 27 in two months. I live too far away from the museum to justify volunteering, and I’ve volunteered at my local historical society coming on three years, so I have that at least.
This was my first paid museum position and I was naive to trust my coworkers. I haven’t been given a straight answer as to why it’s been canceled. I helped with multiple events and was directly credited with helping us make profit on events where the only expectation was the break even, I helped expand the skills of multiple employees, and was told by people out of my department that I’ve helped a lot.
I’m just really sad:/