🗣Your story about accepting the risk of changing jobs or resigning under current conditions — Friday 10 Mehr:

🔹 I work in a hospital, in the services division and as a security guard, in a place where there is no career future. I started a new job alongside it so that little by little I could leave the hospital. I could have been satisfied with that, hoping for retirement and insurance 30 years from now; but this life is not my right, nor is it the right of young people like me.

🔹 I’m an Uber driver. No matter how much I work, I still add something on top—money for the car, for spare parts, and for depreciation. I pay the mechanic. Honestly, I don’t know what I’m working for. I’m going crazy.

🔹 Since the beginning of March this year, they laid off staff and I’m unemployed. By God, I went to nearly 100 places—there’s no way it doesn’t happen. Either they want someone with more expertise and I don’t have the conditions with my 3 years of experience, or it’s jobs with wages of 22 to 25 million tomans, where being unemployed is better.

🔹 One of the riskiest decisions in these conditions is changing jobs. Because the first month is probationary; if they don’t hire you, your savings will also be empty, and you won’t be able to go back to your previous job. And that “salary to eat” that you had will also be cut off. Of course, if you have connections, you won’t have a problem.

🔹 This year, after 13 years, we permanently closed our shop; because we couldn’t manage the costs of electricity and rent and also buy new inventory.

🔹 The uncertain future of Iran, war, and the job market have taken the power to take risks even in terms of changing jobs from many people.

🔹 No one is satisfied with their work, but no one resigns; because in this situation they can’t accept the risk of having no income for a few months, and because there’s no certainty that you’ll find a better job. We young Iranians are stuck in a no-win game, with a handful of deluded people who have taken over the country.