Feminists

I enjoy my job and I feel confident when I'm doing it, it's a source of joy. As far as it making me feel confident overall, no.

Without going into a lot of too many details, it's not as secure as it should be, raises are few and I have no health insurance. It gives me very little security and dignity--but it is one of the few positions left of its kind and it is what I went to school for, and I'm going to be 42 so I feel like I should stay and not try to retrain for something that I could possibly get like a Silicon Valley cube job, but would hate and would still be precarious.

The work is satisfying but the field has eroded and it is getting worse. But I've been unemployed and I nearly mentally crumbled, it is a terrible feeling to not be out being productive and having a social relationship with other working people. I've had minimum wage jobs as an adult too, and they are soul-crushing in a different way.