I'm sure it can't just be me....

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Does anyone else hate their job?

I mean really hate, so much so that you feel like screaming..

I keep thinking life's too short for this crap, but then I'm torn by the fact that I need to pay bills, look after my family and eat.

I just have this overwhelming sense that I'm going to look back at my life and really regret having spent so much of it doing something I hate and being unhappy....

At least it's Friday.
 
gingerweasel said:
Does anyone else hate their job?

I mean really hate, so much so that you feel like screaming..

I keep thinking life's too short for this crap, but then I'm torn by the fact that I need to pay bills, look after my family and eat.

I just have this overwhelming sense that I'm going to look back at my life and really regret having spent so much of it doing something I hate and being unhappy....

At least it's Friday.
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Only you can change the future for yourself and your family.

I'm the opposite to you.
Having done mundane jobs for years i got to a point where i thought the same thing. Now i won't do anything that bores me,my brain is too active for that.
 
gingerweasel said:
I mean really hate, so much so that you feel like screaming..

I keep thinking life's too short for this crap, .
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Life is too short to spend most of it hating what you do... pack your job in TODAY! nobody will die.. things will work out..anything is better than wasting your life.
 
I'd actually quite like to have a job to hate :shrug:
 
I don't do 'jobs'. I run two fantastic businesses and have never been busier or happier.

JOB = Just Over Broke. Or not, as the case may be. Break away from the treadmill and find a part time opportunity that builds a residual income. Can't say anymore... ;)
 
I am not a fan of mine. Its dull, the work is not taxing and I am bored to tears. However the pay is good and the hours are short so I will stick with it whilst those things are useful to me!
 
The pay in this place is amazing and affords me my lavish spending habits on things like cameras, but the reality is I spend more than I earn because it makes me feel happier about doing a crappy job where no one seems capable of doing anything without asking me a million questions.

I really wish I could just pack it all in guys, I really do but with credit cards to pay I don't think it would be wise....

I shall have to get my thinking cap on - thanks for all the comments guys.
 
I can say with total accuracy and honesty that I've packed in jobs when they were bad for me, and I've been supporting the family at the time. Something better arrived each time.

Totally recommend it - nobody died and the (now grown) children appreciated the less 'angry' mother, even OH preferred the new me ;)
 
I have a job that the basics of I still like. I'm an IT field engineer in the retail sector.

I still love meeting most customers.

I hate the people above me who spend all day picking fault with things that don't matter.

I hate doing 40K a year spending half my life looking for speed traps and dodging all the other idiots on the road ( myself included )

I hate incompetence of which there is plenty.

So why do I still do the job. Well thats simple, it pays the bills.

I'm 50 in September and do look back with dismay. I should have joined the RN when I had chance, I should have joined Manchester liners when I had the chance................

But life didn't work out that way.

I love to think I could just chuck it in and do something else, but my Mortgage and a roof above my head, feeding and clothing myself and many more things come first. I'm not lucky enough to have other means of funding and I can't live off fresh air.

So I just battle on and make as much of the intervals between work as I can. If I get made redundant ( escaped that 5 times in as many years ) then my mortgage and bills are sorted and a time for reflection starts.

Until then, today is Friday, tommorow is Saturday and I'm working. Sunday I get a lie in and spend the rest of the day sorting through my Chester Zoo shots from the other weekend.

Above all I sit here with a smile on my face and a grimace in my heart that I have to get off to my next job :D
 
Genuine question for those that don't like their jobs, would you rather have no job at all?
 
HuntMike said:
Genuine question for those that don't like their jobs, would you rather have no job at all?
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No, if that was the case I'd have walked out today.

Lunaticsamurai said:
On the flip side, its extremely hard to quit your job when your earning 30k plus a year, when you only earn 12-15k a year its a lot easier.
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Tell me about it... I really don't know how I could replace my salary at the moment as the company pay over the odds and in the current market I'd be looking at dropping from the £30k mark to the £20k mark.
 
I have to admit that after 18 years of being a tomato grower working in a greenhouse, I am starting to feel it. The 14K a year wages isn't exactly a lot to shout about, especially what with the 5.30 am starts and putting up with 30 C-plus heat and 95% humidity.

As a result, I, too, am seriously thinking of a careers change. It's just a question of taking that plunge . . . oh, and an another job to go to.
 
Genuine question for those that don't like their jobs, would you rather have no job at all?
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Bit of a daft question if you ask me, but seen as you ask.

I would be OK if I where to be made redundant as I've had the common sense to get insurance on everything.

As a single bloke on the dole I wouldn't be too well off but as most of the dolies round me can afford fags and booze I reckon it can't be too bad.

I earn whats supposed to be the national average, so it's not a money issue but what do I do after being in the same trade since I left school in 1977.

I have ideas of things I'd like to do but either I don't have the required skills and knowledge, or although it sounds daft the energy to do them any more.

Are there enough jobs out there to go changing at my time of life, I doubt it unless I want to stack shelves at Tesco an admirable job but I'm too young for that yet.

Recently as I get to the big Five and Oh I wonder what I should do with my job but hey maybe someone has some good suggestions on how to step out of the rat race into something more fullfilling. Please don't say just chuck it in you'll be allright because we all know thats mainly not the case.
 
gingerweasel said:
1..the pay in this place is amazing
2..and affords me my lavish spending habits on things like cameras,
3..but the reality is I spend more than I earn
4..I really do but with credit cards to pay I don't think it would be wise....

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1...ok
2..STOP spending
3..then DONT
4..cut up the CCs ......manage on what you earn

THEN when debt free - QUIT - and go for a job you like instead
 
After studying fine art at university I graduated and went full time at the part time job I'd been using to support my studies....fast forward 12 years and I was still there having worked my way up through the ranks and sitting on a comfy little salary and great benefits then last year whilst expecting baby number 2.... I was made redundant...best thing that ever happened to me... I am now trying to develop my photography into a business and I am loving the challenge and the chance to get paid for what I have been doing for pleasure for 18 years!

Sadly this all means my husband now has to stick with a job he hates until my business is established but his turn will come. Life IS too short... do something about it today! Even if it's only cutting up the credit cards or choosing something to live without to help you get debt free!
 
ChrisH said:
Recently as I get to the big Five and Oh I wonder what I should do with my job but hey maybe someone has some good suggestions on how to step out of the rat race into something more fullfilling. Please don't say just chuck it in you'll be allright because we all know thats mainly not the case.
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stick at it and ask yourself again at 60.. then 70 then....

Make a change...50 isnt too late.. Make a change or live the rest of your life as you are now.. its that simple..
 
Kipax

The very fact I have been thinking about it recently has me planning around a change in life.

I have a credit card debt to clear, about 10 months. I have no other debt other than a mortgage. I have figured how much I can realistically live on with a few treats. My camera kit is all but sorted. I now have to work on saving for a car, I've driven comany cars for the last 16 years and thats one part of the job I hate.

What do I really want to do with my life, well it has to be outdoors in all shades of weather. The cold and the snow, the heat and the rain never bother me. It has to pay about 21K a year so I don't have to lower my ideals too much. I'm on that now with a company car. I'd still like to work around people I'm that kind of bloke. So what next, not an easy choice when I've been in the computer game since I was 16 1/2 years old.

I don't intend to be stuck in this rut in 5 years let alone at 60.

Maybe I should start a place for outdoor photography, a ssort of Johnies Kingdom mark 2 :D


ps was at your local Lidl fixing tills today, 7 days to call an engineer out, 40 miles to drive and 2 minutes to fix boriiiiiiinnnnggg :D
 
find a market for your photogrpahs.. enough to substain a part time wage... working tax credits.. over 50 bonus payments... business start grants will all keep you going for a year or more and you build up.. doesnt have to be 100% photogrpahy.. can do other stuff to make it up to a wage..
 
Well currently I hate my job too...
But only because I'm doing nothing at all...
This week I did precisely nothing.
Last week: nothing.
Last 'job' was about three weeks ago and that lasted an hour and a half.

I handed all my issued cameras back in a fortnight ago so all I have to look forward to between now and December is more "doing nothing".
The Army's like that - instead of saying "b****r-off and do something useful", I'm required to sit in an office surfing the 'net and doing...nothing.

I have a million and one things that I need to sort out before I take my meagre skills and attempt to take the German photographic market by storm, but I'm way behind where I expected to be at this point in time.

I cheerfully predict I'll be going from earning £32k pa to about...oh...nothing for the first few months, with all my spare cash tied up in equipment purchases...

Oh and a baby on the way, arriving at the end of December, just after I'm made redundant.

Would I consider trying to find a safe, boring job just to pay the bills?

You must be joking. :lol:
 
Interesting predicament :thinking:

I don't mind a boring dull mundane job, to me it's all about the package that's on offer. If the perks are great, as well as the benefits, then I will make myself happy. One of the things about us human, we're adaptable.

So, while I am currently on sabbatical (a snobbish way of saying unemployed), I fill my time doing what I am interested in doing; biding my time until that right job with the right perks comes along. Boring, or otherwise, I will make it fun.
 
gingerweasel said:
Does anyone else hate their job?

I mean really hate, so much so that you feel like screaming..

I keep thinking life's too short for this crap, but then I'm torn by the fact that I need to pay bills, look after my family and eat.

I just have this overwhelming sense that I'm going to look back at my life and really regret having spent so much of it doing something I hate and being unhappy....

At least it's Friday.
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No it's not just you .. nuff said
 
I hated my previous job and so I left, spent about 4 months doing stuff I enjoyed looking at potential opportunites then got offered the job I have now which is great, a bit crazy but I like to be busy, as others have said life is short you have to enjoy your days as much as possible.
 
Think of it this way. You spend a third of your life at work.

Why spend a third of your life doing something you hate?
 
Do what makes you happy! I'm one of the lucky ones I guess where I have a job I absolutely love. It has it's moments where sometimes I wished I did something else, but in reality, I think I'll be doing my job until retirement :)
 
I currently have three main sources of income, I would hate to do either of them full time,the variety suits me.

I hated my last "cards in" job, got made redundant, took the money and figured that life is too short to be doing something you loathe. So I thought sod it, lets have a go on my own.It is working OK, bit of a slow start, but if you work hard and do the right things,it can be done.
 
Marcel said:
Think of it this way. You spend a third of your life at work.
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and about a third of it asleep....


Easier said than done, but roll with the punches, be reasonably sensible and make yourself happy. You don't know what's around the corner, no one does. Sitting in a job that you loathe isn't safe in this economy. More jobs are cut daily and I'd imagine that managers aren't letting employees know such situations til they say "Tommy, can I see you for a moment? We're going to have to let you go...." Of course this is speculation, me making assumptions etc.

Life IS too short, sincerely. "Tomorrow's another day" and all that....to be frank, as great as today may have been for you, there may be no tomorrow. Your world can crumble alot faster than your head can keep up.
 
It's not good for your overall wellbeing when you are in a job you hate. It carries over into everything else you do and you can't enjoy anything as much as you should.

I've been in a job, or rather a work situation, that I've not liked for nearly 2 years. I spent most of the last year looking for a new job but have found limited opportunites. There are so many people applying for each vacancy at the moment that there is always someone whose "background and experience is a closer match to what we are looking for", even when you get down to the last three or four candidates.

Fortunately I have just been offered a job which gives me more opportunity, new challenges, better salary, fewer hours, good company culture, etc, etc. The problem is that it will mean relocating and that is a really difficult decision to make with kids at school / preschool, wife's network of trusted friends to leave them with or pick them up, and loving the area we live in. In the short term, moving to a new area is going to be full of stress and hassle, but in the long term the prospect of having a happier existence elsewhere is quite exciting. So we're going. It would be easier to stay and just try to ignore the work situation but that won't do any good in the long run.

If you hate your job, keep looking for another opportunity. Something will come up and when it does you will question if you are doing the right thing. Of course you are!
 
I've worked for the same employer for 31 years since I left school. I quite enjoy it work is varied from day to day, we have a gym at work which means I can work out before work and during my lunch breaks. I get 30 days holiday a year, which apart from 5 days shutdown at Christmas can be taken as and when I want. So if I want half a day, a single day or a group of days, I can. Also the company pension is still very good even though it has been watered down slightly. Another 10 yrs I may be able to retire early (if my employer allows it) with a nice lump sum and a good monthly payment too.
 
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