I hate my job

[alarimer]

I don't know how much longer I can take it. I wish I had the courage (and the money) to up and quit.

The progress of job searching just got a little slower with Ike, as several of my applications were to positions in the Houston area. But the whole process moves glacially slow even at the best of times. I just feel like shit all the time here. My coworkers suck and everything always changes at the last possible minute. Forget ever making plans for an evening this time of year. "Nope, you have to work late". (this being told to me at about 3 hours before quitting time. Granted, at least it wasn't a hour before quitting time). Fortunately the rest of the week shouldn't change much.

Sorry this is my quarterly "I hate my job" rant.

I am really looking forward to that beer this evening.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Sorry to hear but

may I suggest a nice jog instead of a beer. Go for a nice run three or four times a week and maybe some of the bad stuff at work will ooze out. It worked for me many times and there really is an endorphin high. Good Luck.

[alarimer]

4. I do work out 3-4 times a week when I can.

I haven't noticed any real endorphin high to it. Mostly I have to drag myself there. LOL.

[Runcible Spoon]

2. beer AND jogging IMO

as my little sister likes to say: "Oh you hate your job? There's a support group for that, it's called "Everybody" and it meets at the bar". :evilgrin:

But yeah, I know how it feels. I started leaving off my advanced education on my CV because I'm certainly not getting hired by some middle management douchebag who probably got C's if he even finished his BA. People like that don't much like educated females. I actually had one manager say to me "oh I see you've got one of them fancy degrees". How can I compete with that hahahah

I'm chronically underemployed and have long considered the only way to remedy that would be to move somewhere where the social climate values my degrees. Fuck, I would work for almost nothing if I was doing something worthy but social action orgs and NGOs are cash strapped and run skeleton crews these days. It sucks. I owe the government almost $80,000 for an education I never get the chance to use.

[alarimer]

5. It's tough out there.

Even without hurricanes and it looks like it might be getting worse.

[hamsterjill]

3. Singing my song!

Would love to be able to work in a field that I was actually interested in!!!!

[alarimer]

6. Well I am interested in my field.

It's my job I'm not so keen on. I just feel sort of overqualified for it. And it's time for a change, now that I have finished my MS.

I don't know why I am so surprised when plans change. It has always been like that since the day I got there.

[Orrex]

9. Testify, sister!

I'm currently (ahem) between assignments, but during my most recent employment I made the following realization:

I hate my job.
I hate my boss.
I dislike my company.
I despise the industry.

I think that I could have continued to work productively, even if any two of those statement were true. But all four? Forget it!

It always amazes me to hear that someone actually loves his/her job. I can't even comprehend it, or envision a world in which that might be true.

[old mark]

12. I have at least disliked almost every job I ever had.

I started working after school at age 15 and retired at 59 - I am now 61.
It is still something I deal with - the amount of my life wasted doing stuff for the benefit of others merely to afford to eat and live somewhere.

I am sure I could have done something differently, but a large portion of this was beyond my control, and I actually ended up much better than I ever imagined I would.

I enjoy every day of retirement, and have no plans for any further work other than do paint a few more paintings and possibly sell some stuff I have accumulated over the years.

If you can, try to make things better for yourself even if it means planning and working to engage in a totally different type of work.

Life is better when you are happy about simple stuff.

mark

[Orrex]

17. Wow--44 years of employment bliss!

That really stinks, and in sympahty I can only offer that I have yet to work a job that I didn't dislike strongly. Well, that's not quite true; in college, I worked 10 hours a week as a dorm sign-in guy, and that was pretty cool.

Other than that...

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. I hate people in power who don't have lives outside of work...

so they want to make the rest of our lives a daily hell by being a bitch for no reason. Stop recruiting us to stupid shit in your name and then get mad when the instructions that you gave us were wrong. Argh.

[MichiganVote]

8. I hate mine too.

[Orrex]

10. You have my deepest sympathies!

The feeling of being trapped in a hated job is an all too common torment, with little or no obvious way out.

Best of luck to you in your applications and your beer.

And by all means, keep up the quarterly rants, if they help you preserve your sanity for another three months!

[alarimer]

11. I am also not making ends meet at this job.

Get this, they gave us a "salary equity" raise in which they made sure that similar positions agency-wide had similar pay rates. My raise ended up being about $100. Okay, so that's better than a kick in the head.

Still I went month to month on my rent in the hopes that I would be moving soon. I am nearly a shoo-in for more than one of those Houston jobs but now I have no idea if there even is a job there anymore and when (or if) I will be moving. I could go ahead and sign a lease but I am afraid that if I do, one of those jobs will come through and then I have to pay through the nose to get out of my lease. So now, I am unable to make ends meet. I have an irregular schedule so I can't get a second job.

[Orrex]

16. That sucks!

I've never heard of "salary equity" raises, but I'm sure that they screw better than half of the people who receive them.

At my former employer, the standard work week was 37.5 hours, to allow for 2.5 weekly hours of "overtime" at regular hourly rate in addition to the standard two-weeks' salary. At one point they tried to increase the standard week to 40 hours, which is fine, but pretty quickly it was pointed out that this would amount to an across-the-board reduction in pay, and every employee affected by it balked. Ultimately, they chose not to pursue that policy, but I suspect that employee response had little to do with it.

For five years straight I received no bonus (always with some excuse that the industry is tightening its belt, we have to cut overhead, etc.) and a grand total of $700 in raises. All told, these incentives amounted to a raise of somewhere around $0.18 per hour.

I definitely feel your pain, as the expression goes. I hope that you find something better!

[grace0418]

13. HUGS! I hear you and I'm in the same place.

Thanks to Bush fucking up the economy I don't know when I'll find a better job, either.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. right there with you alarimer. How to explain the fact that I love my

work but, I hate my job! :beer: :toast:

[Coyote_Bandit]

15. Delete

[NJmaverick]

18. TGIF!

:toast: