Woman wants to quit her office job after climbing the corporate ladder, discovers that her true calling is in fast food: ‘It [only] paid about $1 more…’

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Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer
Jul 11, 2026 7:15 PM EDT

Have you ever felt ripped off after getting something you wanted? Yeah, we've all been there once or twice.

The problem with romanticizing anything is that you get easily disappointed. Granted, you must have some kind of optimism in your life, otherwise, everything looks worse than it is. But you also need to be realistic: not everything is as good as it looks. It's a balancing act. Apply it to people, objects, experiences, jobs, or whatever you want.  

The problem most of us have is managing expectations. If we don't like the situations we're in at the moment, we believe anything else will be better. However, the grass is not always greener on the other side. There are ups and downs for everything we do. 

In the workplace, it's easy to think quitting and taking any other job is better. We hate our jobs so we want to quit and do anything else. But that "anything else" can be worse than what we originally had. That's exactly what happened to Redditor u/K0ff33H03, who got an office job and was, initially, thrilled. That was until she found herself overworked and underpaid, taking care of someone else's chores and having little time to do anything else. It got so bad that she started thinking it might be a good idea to go back to work in the fast food industry. 

Usually we all want to get away from fast food and onto something a little bit more stable. She got it and didn't like it. Office jobs are not for everybody, that's true, and perhaps she will be happier with going back to McDonald's or wherever. Cheers to this girl for finding out her true calling!

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    I recently started working at a small, family- owned company, and I hate it. I was originally hired for a Personal Secretary position (handling scheduling, meetings, emails, etc.)
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    with the option of eventually going remote. The commute is an hour away from me, but I figured the experience would look good on my resume, and it pays about a dollar more than my previous fast-food job
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    At the start it was cool I was learning a lot of different processes and my coworkers are super chill.
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    3 months in I started taking up the responsibilities of another coworker that NEVER shows up. They work mainly on shipping out orders. First I started learning
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    about how to pick items for the orders then a month later I had an account for our shipping application. Ever since then I am now "in
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    charge" of shipping the US orders and the Amazon orders. She's also starting to train me on shipping out to our wholesalers.
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    I understand needing the help and I feel bad since the owners are 80 years old and yup they are still in the office everyday. We have no other manager besides them. I've talked to my
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    boss already just saying that maybe i could get more tasks focused on what i was hired to and she always says that she understands and will start taking that into consideration but... she's old and she always forgets.
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    Is it bad that i've started looking for a fast food job so that I can quit. I've always worked in food and I honestly don't mind it. I live in a
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    small town so it's not super stressful. I feel guilty leaving so I am planning on asking to work remotely. Is it bad to feel guilty to leave a office job, it's not a bad job it's just not what I
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    applied for. Should I just stick it out and try to keep working here or maybe ask for mainly remote even though it would only be a couple hours a day?
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    JohnMarstonTheBadass The extra dollar per hour probably isn't worth it considering the gas bill from that 1 hour commute.
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    You should do the math and see if you actually save more money working in a fast food place that's likely within a 10 minute drive of your house (assuming that's the case)
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    jerf42069 why do you feel guilt, that's kinda weird. you shouldn't care about doing whats best for you
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