I'm a workaholic! I love love learning new skills and being given tasks and being busy. I also have a negative habit of offering to do tasks for people when I'm already flooded with work, which frequently costs me. As a result, I've been working a crazy amount from my early university years - both jobs and internships, and extracurricular work. It's stressful, but I can't live without it.
The catch is that I keep ending up in very specific situations where I'm working for free or making almost no money. I do think all the effort I've put in will come back to me in form or another, but since I'm about to graduate soon, I want to be more practical about this.
But it's almost like I'm repelled by the prospect of money - if someone offers to pay me for casual / one-time work, I become deeply uncomfortable and I instinctively haggle my way out of it before I can stop myself. And it's also as if I repel money altogether - the most attractive opportunities I feel drawn towards are frequently non-paying or low-paying tasks, and I've had to turn down a number of well-paying opportunities due to one unavoidable circumstance or the other.
Looking back, I've been taken advantage of over and over, but I can't bring myself to care. I do, however, want to have a reasonably stable household one day...and give my future family a good life. Nobody else in my immediate family behaves this way.
Any insights from the chart?
https://imgur.com/a/v58wRSy
The catch is that I keep ending up in very specific situations where I'm working for free or making almost no money. I do think all the effort I've put in will come back to me in form or another, but since I'm about to graduate soon, I want to be more practical about this.
But it's almost like I'm repelled by the prospect of money - if someone offers to pay me for casual / one-time work, I become deeply uncomfortable and I instinctively haggle my way out of it before I can stop myself. And it's also as if I repel money altogether - the most attractive opportunities I feel drawn towards are frequently non-paying or low-paying tasks, and I've had to turn down a number of well-paying opportunities due to one unavoidable circumstance or the other.
Looking back, I've been taken advantage of over and over, but I can't bring myself to care. I do, however, want to have a reasonably stable household one day...and give my future family a good life. Nobody else in my immediate family behaves this way.
Any insights from the chart?
https://imgur.com/a/v58wRSy