I'm sorry if this is really long, so I added a tl;dr at the end.
I won't be giving too many identifying details - but I'm a Canadian Engineer who graduated literally the moment COVID hit the fan in 2020. I had a job offer lined up for after graduation that was withdrawn just before I graduated because of it. I was an intern for a year at a large and fairly prestigious company (who isn't hiring right now) and also participated in FSAE - so I have some pre-graduation experience.
The job market was tight then, but when it loosened up near the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 I was unemployed for so long that I assume most employers thought I was unhireable or something. I also applied to a variety of regular jobs, only to get ghosted for literally every one other than a temp agency, who would hire me for minimum wage to travel 3 hours away in random directions to work for 7 hour shifts... I barely made back my gas money for that work. I've had countless friends, university career counselors and hiring managers on LinkedIn look through my resume and do mock interviews and they all say something like "It looks great I'm sure you'll find something soon just give it time the job market sucks right now".
Its not like I did nothing during my off time. I'm in the process of getting certified with the CAPM (Certificate of Associate Project Management) and volunteered at a food bank for the majority of the time.
Anyway recently, I got a job at what seemed to be a small engineering company (30-40 people). I have a close relative that was friends with the company's owner, so he gave him my resume and I was hired after a relatively short interview.
I've been there 2, nearly 3 weeks and I'm already sick of the place. There is one manager - the company president who spends the entire day out of his office running around the facility micromanaging every process. I work with overworked and depressed middle-aged men who literally don't talk to eachother, let alone me. I'm working literally 60 hour weeks and being constantly berated because I'm not doing work fast enough. Nobody even told me what the machines do or what they're called - and since I'm crunched 24/7 I had to write them all down and find out on my own time. I've worked 2 overtime weeks out of the 3 I've been here other than this one (because of the holiday).
There's an "engineer" (from India) who literally racially degrades his Asian (Chinese) coworkers in front of the president (there's no HR or anything) - who does nothing about it. Says shit like "Hey bring Ching Chong in here" in earshot of the guy like what the fuck. I literally don't even pity laugh at his shit and he keeps DOING IT. I'm literally 100% sure they aren't friends. You should see how sad he looked when he walked in.
I wrote engineer in quotation marks because the president lied to me in the interview when I asked if there were any actual professional engineers who work there. They don't have any. So this job literally does not get me closer to getting accredited by PEO. (You need experience under a registered professional for 3 years before being a professional engineer in Ontario)
My major issue is that I feel like I need to keep this job since my resume is going to get instantly rejected if they see I'm looking for a job literal weeks after getting one after a YEAR of not being employed full time.
I'm a hard worker. I arrive 30 minutes early every day and never complain about overtime. But I'm pushing 60 hour work weeks at literally the most toxic job I ever imagined in my first 3 weeks. But I've been unemployed full time for over a year during COVID and honestly if I quit this job there's no question it'll be a long time until I get a new one. If quitting a job within weeks already sends out red flags - quitting after a few weeks with a 1 year gap is a fucking siren.
Anyone have any advice for me? Might sound like I'm bitching and moaning but I literally can't even go to the gym anymore during the week because of how exhausted I am mentally and physically. Everyone was so proud of me when I got this job after that long and honestly I don't want to disappoint everyone by being unemployed for another year but it's killing me.
What do I do to find a new job at this point? Add it to my resume? Don't?
tl;dr
Graduated in mid 2020 during peak COVID. Got a full time job in my field in late September 2021, but literally jumped into the most toxic job I could ever imagine. 60 hour workweeks, genuinely racist supervisors, zero training and lied to out of the gate when asked if this position would qualify me for my engineering professional certification.
I've been unemployed for over a year on paper and really need to leave this current toxic job - though the job and job title look good on paper.
How do I get a new job on my field as fast as possible at this point? Add it to my resume? Don't? Hide it on my resume in a way that lets me verbally tell the manager that this position misled me into thinking it would qualify me to be an engineering professional?
I'm lost and honestly could use some advice.
EDIT: I'd like to also add I'm being paid nearly minimum wage for all of this.
Thanks everyone.
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