I hope you're actively stacking enough bills to quit that God-Forsaken industry.
No raise other than "merit increase" which doesn't even keep up with inflation in over ten years. Rent has nearly doubled in the past 5 and I haven't moved. I have savings, but I don't think I'll ever have enough to get out. I've been recording audiobooks for a while now, but the competition got insane during the lockdowns, so I barely make enough to make it worth it, now. I figure I'll just work until I die on the job.
That's pretty gloomy
I don't want to be that guy suggesting "have you tried [something else]?"... It's not as if you didn't think about it a thousand times already. Now what looks almost certain is that you need something else on the side, anything worth attaching your hopes to because as it is, it sounds like everything is a giant one way grey corridor to you, with nothing else other than a door at the end of it with "death" written on it. That's not super healthy.
I have been recording and editing audiobooks for at least 5 years now. Companies are hitting authors with the AI crap, now though. So even that is fading...
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