The OK Adventures of Peppersloth and Annie

Hello! If you are new here, my name is Annie, and I am an introvert. I live in Oklahoma, am married, and have a dog named Holly. I hate working. No, really! Working outside my home is the worst, and I’m convinced that it is not what God has called me to in life. Oh, yes. I also have a relationship with Jesus. It depends on the day whether it is a good one, or a bad one. But it is a relationship nonetheless. It is a little like marriage. I love my husband, but I don’t always like him. But I digress…I have been part of the rat race since my early twenties, and it is absolutely a hard pass for me. Someone once told me, ‘Annie, you should not expect to like your job. It’s great if you do, but it should not be your expectation.’ I have always thought that was one of the saddest statements, and have spent my life trying to prove them wrong! Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened yet. Yet! If you are new, I believe in yets, impossibilities, and fairy tales. Also, I digress quite often. Where was I? Oh, yes. Work, and proving a theory wrong. As I said, I have been part of the workforce since my early twenties, and it has been anything, but fun. I’ll give you a quick run down…

2012-2014: I worked at a string of daycares. All short term, which I am very thankful for! Daycares are filled with women who (for whatever reason) didn’t get their teaching license (or did, but didn’t get a job at a REAL school), taking care of children who all need a spanking, but their parents just want to be their friend. And you know what happens to those children? They grow up into entitled brats who stage protests about a country that they’ve never been to, and know nothing about. Woke. They become woke because no one bothered to wake them up with a paddle. I hate working.

2014-2019: I worked as a claims processor for a third party administrator. Honestly, I loved the work, and I was good at it. I was one of the best in my company, and I had a promising future with them. But you know what entitled children who become entitled woke adults don’t like? They do not like seeing people enjoying their work. And they feel the need to kill the joy from that person, until that person is so disheartened and so beaten down, that they quit. I was harassed and bullied out of this job because the administrators refused to do their job. I hate working.

2019-2020: I worked at a heating and cooling company run by the Russian mafia. They weren’t really the mafia, but they are Russian and they do believe that they own the world. More bullying. More entitlement. I hate working. 

2020-2021: Covid. Now, most people will say covid was terrible. People died, lost jobs, didn’t get to graduate, etc. For me, covid saved me. It gave me a way out of a terrible situation, and the ability to start over. It opened doors for me! I moved across the country, got an apartment, and started over. I spent a few months working at Amazon, and then started subbing. Neither of those were good fits, but subbing led to a job as a paraprofessional in a special education classroom. This was the greatest job ever! I loved it! If it weren’t for the lead teacher’s husband dying, the other para quitting, and me breaking my knee in a snowstorm, I would probably still have that job! But all of these things led to months of therapy (physical and mental), and a lawsuit. I hate working. 

2021-Present: I tried going back to being a para at a school district that I didn’t have to sue, but the new one just made me want to sue them even more than the other! I didn’t, but I wanted to. Power hungry, entitled people are the worst. I tried going back to subbing, but it is thankless and I can only take so much disrespect in a day. I tried going back to daycare, but then I remembered that I hate daycare, so that also didn’t work. I hate working. 

This is when I have to stop and run that quote from Scarlet Envy through my head. ‘Is it me? Am I the drama? I don’t think I’m the drama! Maybe I am. Am I the villain? I don’t think I’m the villain!’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LavszdClwkA) The expectation seems to be that we grow up to become working adults without any expectations of being happy, enjoying our work, or having non-bullying coworkers and bosses. Just do it for 30+ years, and then you can retire and be happy. How is that a sustainable life? No wonder mental health is at an all time low. The expectation of sucking it up is sucking the life away from everyone. Like that machine in ‘Princess Bride’. And we are just supposed to be okay with it? No. Nope. I won’t. I refuse. I refuse to spend 30+ years hating my life in the name of a paycheck. I’ll live in a box first…as long as my husband says it’s okay, but that is a separate issue. 

So, what is a stay-at-home, work hating wife, with a middle class bougie lifestyle to do? I’ll tell you! Tomorrow.