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“Before I met my fiancé I went on a date with someone I met at the gym. He struck me as outgoing and artsy and the fact he was disciplined enough to go to the gym regularly was what kinda threw me for a loop regarding how the date went down.”
“He showed up 20 minutes late, and proceeded to say he did it on purpose to ‘build the tension’. I am a big believer in respecting people’s time and showing up on the dot — it’s really not that hard. Later on we began to discuss our careers and aspirations, when I told him I’m a graphic designer working in the tech field (my role is a mishmash of design and web development), he scoffed and said that’s not actually a real job and I would lose it to AI in the next five years.
Super cool he said that and I’m sure he didn’t feel threatened by my successes in any way. His job? Director of internal expansions at a marketing agency. I already knew where this was going so I asked him to elaborate, ‘well, I was hired on a few months ago and already made it to the director level, my task is to recruit people in the hopes of them opening their own marketing agency affiliated with my company’. It was a MLM. He worked for a MLM scheme. I didn’t walk out or anything but I switched gym locations not even a week later. I’m reading this back and realising that I’m pretty lucky this has been my ‘worst of the worst’. I heard it’s brutal out there.”
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