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I Hate My Job

  • 14-11-2008 5:42pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Recently I have begun to resent my job. Its a basic job that anyone could do, and I'd rather not mention specifics for obvious reasons, but suffice to say that I have begun to dredd going into it.

    I am sometimes really depressed to get up on Saturday morning and go into work and despite the fact that I only work weekends (I actually took a cut from 5 days to 2 because I taught it was just that I was doing so much work that got me down about the job) I still cannot sometimes bring myself to go in. I am a man in his mid 20s who has studied at college for a few years and has degrees and diplomas and other pieces of paper that say he can do so much more than he should be doing.

    Recently Ive begun looking for other jobs, since its the natural step, something in another field more relevant to my qualifications. I am hopeful I will get a position but here is the thing...I would still love to leave this job tomorrow while I wait to get another one...even accept a stop gap position before I take a more professional job....anything to physically leave this building.

    I am not being bullied, I am not being picked on, but I just hate the nature of this job and some of the attitudes of my fellow workers. I am sure that they don't care what I have to say and its all for the better that it ends here. But still there is this feeling of wanting to escape, wanting to get out....even though financially that would make no sense and is not possible....and I have honestly never felt this way about a job before.

    Could someone please give me a bit of advice if they understand at all where I am coming from. Im not asking you whether or not I should stay, I pretty much accept I have to wait until I recieve another position before I can go, but has anyone else ever felt this way?


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  • #2
    BroomBurner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Yeah, I've felt that way before, like going in to that particular job feels like trying to swim upstream in quicksand or something. It can be for no particular reason bar just being a soul-destroying job for you.

    You're right to start looking for a new job, and believe me, once you start going for interviews, your current job will start mattering less and less and become more managable. In fact, the day you leave, you may even have nostalgic feelings for the place (ignore these and GTHO!).

    The only thing I would recommend is that if you're planning on leaving for somewhere else as a stop-gap, make sure that your CV (for degree related jobs) shows that you stayed in your previous workplace for decent lengths of time and have a good reason for the change (i.e. to something with more responsibility, etc.).

    Oh, and good luck with finding a more enjoyable job!


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