Nothing any of you can do, just venting!
Know what you mean man…work does suck sometimes…but not all the time.
Just be thankful you have a Job…Life could be worse :-\
Work is way overrated. Most of the disruptions to my serenity come from the JOB.
But I am damn grateful to have one. There are almost zero prospects for entry level or experience in my profession.
I hear ya man. Most of the country has 6 week vacations, but I’m a contract employee so I get ZERO without taking a pay cut. I haven’t had a vacation that wasn’t just a long weekend in about two years. But at least I’ve got the job and it can pay off all my college debt.
I got tired of work sucking, so I moved to Hawaii and started my own businesses.
Funny thing… when I was an employee the hours draaaaaagggged by. Now that I work for myself time flys!
I could never be an employee again.
When I was working my saying was: “I love my work, I hate my job”.
Retirement does not suck.
Just be thankful you have a Job…Life could be worse
+1
My BIL has been out of work for 2 years, I got a 20% raise in June last year.
It’s my job to be different than the rest
and that’s enough reason to go for me
It’s my job to be better than the best
and that’s a tough break for me
It’s my job to be cleaning up this mess
and that’s enough reason to go for me
It’s my job to be better than the best
and that makes the day for me
Jimmy Buffett (written by Mac McAnally)
I feel your pain. Yesterday at work I had actual work to do almost until lunchtime. I’m not used to that.
Someday I want to open a brewpub, I don’t think I’ll hate working as much when that happens. But I’ve come to realize, that it’s not necessarily the job I’m working at, it’s just that I don’t like working in general. I think I’d be just as unhappy at any other job, unless it was one of the things I’m passionate about like drumming, bike riding, brewing…
But the way I see it is work allows me to do the things in life I want to pursue. Rather than living to work, I work to live. I don’t understand the mentality that you should live for your job. So as you can see, I’m not a career oriented person…
I’m on my 3rd 14 hour day in a row…show biz!
I actually like my job and I’m glad to have it but this time of year, I am dependant on a lot of other people to do their job so I can do mine and when they don’t, I’m the one that has to take the heat for it from our customers. Absolutely nothing I can do about it but get the blame. Of course, the people that didn’t do their job work in another division and have different goals so they don’t care. Just get tired of being 100% accountable to my customers and no one is accountable to me.
April is the worst month. Maybe I’ll take April off next year and go on a brewery tour of Europe or something.
Nothin’ winning the lottery won’t fix… 8)
McDonald’s is trying to hire 50k people today…just sayin’ ;D
I play the powerball…one must have dreams. 8)
There were people lined up around the block at the local Mickey D’s to apply for 10 positions - slinging burgers! Asounding!
My son saw that and was amazed. I said, “Stay in school, study hard and get good grades.”
It’s like religion…you can’t win if you don’t play.
Fixed that for you. I went to school, got OKAY grades, and my degree got me nothing but a bunch of debt. College is overrated!
The only point to go to college these days, is to get a degree in something useful, like medicine, engineering, computer science…
I majored in Geography…GEOGRAPHY! What the hell are you suppose to do with that? It’s like majoring in philosophy…seriously?
Even if you go to grad school the best you’ll do is getting a research job that pays squat or maybe, if you so desire, can become a professor.
I wish I wouldn’t have gone to college. There were some cool experiences I guess, but none of them had to do with school itself.
This pretty much sums it up for me too. I’ve thought about opening a brew pub too, but with my crushing law school debt (and current low-paying public sector attorney position), it’s really only a pipe dream.
Edit: despite my current student-loan debt load, I’m very happy I went back to school. I enjoy practicing law and I know my prospects for the future improve a little each day (eventually, I’ll make a move to private practice). It’s not school I resent. It’s just a still-bleak job market coupled with a lot of debt. Would I have done things differently? No way!
My advice to anyone attending college is to have an exact goal in mind and work towards it. If you don’t have this after the first two years you are probably going to waste your efforts. Sure there’ll be a diploma and all that but it is possible to graduate college without gaining any real skills or pertinent knowledge. I estimate the majority end up in this situation and find themselves working jobs they don’t like and never expected to do in the first place.