Anyone else hate their job?

There is all kinds of good advice out there. But I’ll throw this out. From the movie Risky Business.

Especially when you’re young-

Evey now and then, say what the F. WTF give you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

It sounds crazy, but life is crazy. And nobody knows how it’s going to go. Don’t like the train you’re on? Get off and get on another.

 

I've not hated jobs; just the constraints of processes involved and partly some leadership. (When I could invent a workaround, I did it and gave myself a pat on the back!) lol

I've had several jobs since I retired from a 25-year active duty military career in Supply Material Management (Logistics).

Each civilian job presented its own set of challenges but the one thing I could not get away from was the higher standard expectations I practiced in the military.

The military offered transition assistance programs (TAP) and how to translate my job into civilian lingo.

Of course, supply logistics is easier to transfer than other primary skills not done in the civilian sector.

If you're not happy in your job, look for another...but stay at your job until the new one is secured. (Captain Obvious) lol

I'm on my 9th job since military retirement in 2011.

My previous job before being selected to my current position lasted 7 years.

I've made a full circle back to the warehouse I inherited on Dover AFB in 2006.

I'll sound cliche' in saying this but dedication/patience/endurance played key in my advancement.

I hope the best for you all who are in a job that is not satisfying.

 

My place, pay good, but 2 coworkers acting stupid. My employer he is useless, only stay in his office, playing with his computer, and playing with his cats. Also, they always feed stray cats that come around, employer started feeding them, they never leave. I get 2 more years, until retirement age, no need work too hard. Did work hard younger days. My location, not big city, not too much employment crap.

 

It's 'where' you're coming up short that makes all the difference.

 

First time I told that "little" joke was several years ago with some friends at a bar. I swore my buddy's wife had beer come out of her nose.

As stated, I needed to be "taller"

 

Thats Gonna be The Post of The Day Right There.....

 

Been exectly there for 5 years straight when I was 30 something years old.

Took me a year to find someplace else that I wanted to work at and provided the type of pay I needed.

When I finally found the next place I was going to be at, I ended up staying there for the next 25 years and retired.

You're still young and can find something else.
Good luck and always look forward, it will all work out.

 

Quick side note.

I was cleaning out my home office when I came across an old box my sister handed me from my family's home. It was all my military stuff from back in 1990 when I first joined the Marines. My pay stub said (after taxes) I earned for the month......$723. Sure the room and board was paid for (not like it was great stuff) and sure I had to go through the grind, but overall it was the best experience of my life. I've been fortunate. I enjoyed all I could. It's why I never understood meeting people who have never left their own town or state not even once!

 

Yeah, my 40th high school reunion is coming up (I have no interest in going). I'm amazed at how many people still live in the same area (suburb of Dallas). I'm sure most of them have gone places, but I got out of there as soon as I could with no desire to go back. My kids were born in the Austin area, but we moved to the St Louis area when the oldest was about to transition to middle school and lived there for 8 years. When they were in high school, they asked me at dinner, When are we going on our next adventure? They didn't hate it there, they were just ready for another change.

 

You just reminded me of something...

Military life can lead you to travel if the circumstance presents itself.

First is the travel to Basic Training.

Once completed...it's on to your first assignment.

From there, you learn your specialty and see there is a system of promotion and levels of responsibilities. (And probably make some drinking buddies) lol

If you survive the first couple of years, the yearning to expand your wings may/may not sprout.

That's where that "Y" in the road becomes evident...do you take a leap of faith or homestead?

If you take a "Leap", you'll possibly learn more than what you ever knew from home.

Time goes by fast and then you're moving to another location...picking up/putting down in a new residence; learning what it takes.

You become accustomed to all the responsibilities involved with moving to a new place.

You'll add to the experience, working with more people who are not from your home town/state.

Those experiences have definitely shaped the person I am today and I am grateful to be given that life.

 

am a mechanic. Don't currently hate my job.

I also don't necessarily see it as success and doing so may take something else at some point.
Regular things like a nice car, house, wife, kids, dog? It's definitely not doing that.
Sure funded that for some other people who didn't do the work though in the past. Sounds nice.

I have friends who tell me they do less, get less dirty, wake up later, and come home earlier for more money.

It used to be single digit pay. And was even called essential, whatever that means.

 

i retired early at 54... put in 32 years as a civil engineer... much earlier than my anticipated 63... the state job was terrific... traveled up and down California... and saw a lot of things... but the management sucked... too many "games" and "politics" in the office... toxic work environment... i had a field job so only reported in for filling in my time sheet, writing professional reports, and doing my expense claims... i kept my head on straight by concentrating on the job and not the people... did not attend any office functions... i learned you cannot change things in life and around you sometimes... retirement now for me is grand... not looking back...money is not everything... i enjoy living and driving my tacoma...

 

First, I'd like to thank everyone who replied. I hoped this thread would be helpful for some, and a chance to vent a little for myself and others. Lot of good advice in here.

Second, I'm in my 50's now and think I'm reasonably intelligent and I sure haven't cracked the code of a happy life. I'm a creature of habit. There's good and bad to that. In 33 years I've only missed 3 days and one of them the governor said we couldn't drive cause of a blizzard. The bad thing is I just kept going to a job that sucks the life out of you. There's a clip of Joe Rogan talking about how people get sucked in...need a new car, then a house with mortgage, insurance, next thing you know you're stuck in the rat race. I can really identify with that.

Third, to my fellow unhappy employed friends...we have someone that poops on the floor. Now that's gotta make you laugh if nothing else!

 

Look for the guy with the strongest knees and the best balance.

It's tough to hover crap.

 

Hate that mentality that training someone makes them a threat. One thing I have been told in my unit by several coworkers unsolicited is that certain managers feel that way about me and a couple of others, and don't want us going to another area because they lose our knowledge. Great for them, sucks for us.

Aside, I am stealing the squeeze a nickel saying..

 

Mad poopers are the worst. I am highly grateful I haven't met one yet. Well, almost. At my very first post-collegiate job I did have one colleague. He frequently said that his greatest ambition was to leave unclaimed baggage in every toilet in a single day. There were nine heads in four bathrooms. He always said that the day all nine were simultaneously befouled by his doing would be the day he quit. We knew he was working his way up to it because HR emails were going out about flushing, and there was more than one mention about hygienic practices during team chats with management.

And then one day, he stopped showing up to work altogether.



I hope wherever you are, you are achieving your life goals still, dude.

 

This gave me a chuckle. Went from mountainous area "really interesting" R&D to midwest consumer goods production after really bad 2020 decisions. I wouldn't advise anyone do that if they liked the R&D dynamic..or to be more blunt, I'm ready to jump off a very high bridge most days.

 

Assuming he started his job at 16 he's 49 at the youngest...

 

For me it’s about perspective. Have there been jobs that I’ve hated…yep you betcha. But I learned to balance that frustration with the reason behind the job. I spent my younger days as a bi-vocational minister. Someone just the other day asked “what’s that mean?” Well it means that I was the pastor of a church that did not pay my wage. So I spent 25 years serving people but working a variety of jobs. Some good…some horrible. For 4 years I worked for a tree company trimming the lines for the power company. We were responsible for everything under, near or around the lines from Fresno to Yosemite National Park. It was nasty, scary, and dangerous work but I’ve used what I’ve learned about climbing and falling trees for over 40 years now. When that job ended due to a downturn in the economy, I sold insurance, landscaped, and rode the back of a garbage truck for $5 an hour under the table. The driver of the garbage truck was an a$$ who loved nothing more than to find creative ways to get me to fall off the back of the truck. I hated having to run the 3/4’s to mile to catch up with him…but had a family to feed. I finally left that community to take a job at a church teaching 5/6th grade at their private school. I made $222 a month, the took tithe out of my check and charge me tuition for m daughter to attend the school which was a requirement. But we faithfully served that community. Two years later we moved to Seattle where I worked for a painting contractor. My boss would fire me about every other week. His lead painter would bring me back on. When I found another job at a state run institution for adults with developmental disabilities, he begged me to stay. “You’re my best cut and tape guy, you can’t leave I’ve got jobs lined up” The job at the institution was rough, but the skills I learned there would come into play down the road. When the boys were born, I started my own landscape maintenance and construction business. I ran that for 18 years. At the same time I taught in a school that provided structured education for home school students. By this time I was pioneering an urban mission church, building it from the ground up. Good things were happening, but still no pay. When a larger church approached me to partner with them I agreed, assuming that they would allow me to drive the work. They did not, in fact they soon after let me go, but kept all our equipment. Did I love that? No. Instead I decided to reinvent myself. I went back to school, graduating with a bachelor’s in elementary education with a special education endorsement. I graduated to of the class, was chosen as the commencement speaker and my work was celebrated. The school district that hired me did so because of the vast job and life experience. 4 years later I went back to school and earned my masters in education administration. I was immediately hired as an Assistant Principal upon completion of my program. I doubled my income over night to a six figure income. 4 years later I was hired as a principal where I have served for the last 3 years. When I talk about perspective, it is because I am where I am because of where I have been. All those experiences have led me to this place where I have found favor a rapport. I make a ridiculous amount of money, have a pension that will pay me a great monthly salary upon retirement and I can honestly say that I now love what I’m doing…most days anyway. The days I don’t…I reflect on where I’ve been and remind myself to be thankful for what I have.