Comments on: Let’s Stop Feeling Ashamed About Our Jobs! (Here’s How) https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:52:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: lilllyloowalsh@gmail.com https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-235810 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:52:59 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-235810 thank you for this… It's a daily struggle… I wasn't so much ashamed until I heard feedback from my family and it was pretty brutal…. I don't know how someone motivates to be better when they are told how much of an under achiever they are being

]]> By: R https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-228632 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:14:27 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-228632 I feel a broken record here, but I feel Like a total failure in life because of my family, they have great jobs or dreams of upward mobility. My parents are both super smart and seem to succeed at all that they do. I currently work in a mailroom and struggle to know or justify my job that is lower than I expected to be at 36 years old. It's not that I feel below the job I have, but it is just not what I imagined what I would do, however to be honest none of my jobs are what I really expected.

]]> By: isabella pigozzo https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-227509 Sun, 09 Mar 2025 05:23:17 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-227509 In reply to Dan.

everyone is so poor it makes me depressed

]]> By: THANKS______R OBI SON BUC LER (G MA I l. C OM),,,, https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-220397 Sat, 07 Dec 2024 03:06:13 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-220397 My Ex is back after sad breakup,........... Matilda, USA]]> In reply to Dan.

✨My Ex is back after sad breakup,………..

Matilda, USA

]]> By: Dan https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-216449 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:34:26 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-216449 In reply to Leo.

Hi Leo – Please seek professional help. Dial 988 and speak to someone. You have so much to live for.

]]> By: Leo https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-216445 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:18:48 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-216445 For 20 years of my life I was living my dream i had purpose and felt fulfilled had something to look forward to everyday. I was important but due to lack of social media followers. Now I wake up working a humiliating labor job where having to accept someone belittling me for the lowest amount of money. I try to kill myself everyday but my body’s own natural response of self preservation keeps me from doing it. Every day im ready to die.

]]> By: Crenshaw https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-214782 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:07:36 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-214782 I’m a house keeper at a
Community Collage and The reason why I feel this way, basically embarrassed of what I do is because a lot of my family members are successful nurses, successful therapist or successful event planner for celebrities.. so that’s why I am ashamed of what I do which is housekeeping don’t make enough money. I don’t like to ask for help if I’m short of money the economy that I live in now this year 2024 less than what my bills say so in all it makes me feel less than a person because I feel like I’m always have to live with someone or I could never live on my own, because of how much I make in the work area that I work in life happens and I’m always thinking ahead but sometimes it’s scary because I don’t have the education background like a college degree because I don’t know what I wanna do because I’m scared to fail in the back of my mind, I feel like a failure because I worked in again housekeeping job only made $31,000 a year like really I can’t even afford a vacation because I have more bills than money. So when someone asked me, my family oh so what do you do at your job? I lie I say I work in customer service. When I was in high school I was in special ed from that point on. I felt so low that in my mind, I felt like I was never gonna be anything successful at anything that I might want to do because I’m always failure.

]]> By: Tanya https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-213147 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 04:50:01 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-213147 In reply to Dan Cumberland.

Hi Dan,

Thank you so much for writing this wonderful article. I have found it helpful, inspiring, practical and overall comforting. It is also great to see that you continue to follow the comments made by readers who have been positively impacted by the article. Please let me know where I can have more access to your work. Thank you again for the advice you have provided which has changed my outlook on how I view my current situation in life.

Best,
Tanya

]]> By: Ernie https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-212558 Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:51:54 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-212558 In reply to Melissa.

I am sorry. I came here looking for something to help my pain and shame as well. I owned my own business before COVID and now I am 52 years old and desperate for any job that pays over 15 per hour. Hundreds of applications sent out. Very few interviews. Now I spray chemicals on rich peoples' lawns for 18 per hour. I truly believe your story about being 10000% better than the job and people you work for. I feel the same way about my own situation. You have the advantage of a chemistry degree. All I have is a high school diploma. I am not trying to compare grief with you. I just read your comment and felt like if I could say something to help. Even if it's just knowing that somewhere out in the world someone cares. I hope you find a job where your talents are appreciated. I will say a prayer that your situation gets better for you

]]> By: Melissa https://themeaningmovement.com/ashamed-of-your-job/#comment-212380 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:49:01 +0000 http://themeaningmovement.com/?p=6837#comment-212380 Sorry but this didn't help me at all… I am the voice in my held. Because I am 10000% better than the stupid job and stupid arrogant sexist men I work for. I have a degree in chemistry, and was pursuing a degree in physics. Then ….I was called upon to "help" grow my inlaws business…they have grown 3x yet I am still an hourly employee paid less than most of the technicians and the men call me the secretary!!! I am already 50 years old!! There no"someday" for me…that was "yesterday"…and no one cares I was a chemist 20 years ago!!!! I can NOT be 100% embarrassed?!?!?!? Even just in front of the mirror!!! My apologies, I'm not really attacking your article. It is just frustrating when you are searching for help in an area and the first article that pops up seems to intensify those feelings you are trying to navigate. Sometimes juat a place to vent can be cathartic.

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