How Do People Deal With ****ty Jobs?

conja

My first and only job was working in a meat factory for about 6 hours (yes 6 hours) back in 2007 it was the worst moment of my life the horrible meat smells, the low wages, having to get up at 6am. I just walked out.

6 hours is all I could take. On the bright side the fear of going back to a job like that made my current business successful.

Ten of Swords

It's not 2007 anymore, even $hitty jobs are hard to come by now.

Frosty McSnowballs

Necessity

OneArt

I'd imagine money makes it somewhat bearable.

Cool_CM

Probably because ****ty jobs provide income that can be used in exchange for goods and services.

whirlpool

Anti-depressants.

Capercaille

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Necessity

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I have to pay the bills. I rather be in a job I hate, than be a dole parasite.

Senna

conja wrote: »

My first and only job

:eek:

whirlpool

Capercaille wrote: »

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I have to pay the bills. I rather be in a job I hate, than be a dole parasite.

So would the majority of those "dole parasites."

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

You just get on with it I suppose. I worked a minimum wage job during the boom when everyone was wiping their hole with €50 notes but it was all I knew at the time so it wasn't particularly depressing. If I had to go back to it now I probably wouldnt be best pleased though.

Vincent Vega

Why was the word Meaty *d out in OP title?

Royal.Baby

Some people have no choice but to work such jobs, others are born with a silver spoon in they're mouths.

Nodin

conja wrote: »

My first and only job was working in a meat factory for about 6 hours (yes 6 hours) back in 2007 it was the worst moment of my life the horrible meat smells, the low wages, having to get up at 6am. I just walked out.

6 hours is all I could take. On the bright side the fear of going back to a job like that made my current business successful.

What time was quittin time, as a matter of interest?

shopaholic01

Most jobs become shitty after a while, you put up with it to finance your lifestlye and have fun outside of work. How many people do you know who would honestly stay in their current job if they won a huge amount of money?

conja

Capercaille wrote: »

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I have to pay the bills. I rather be in a job I hate, than be a dole parasite.

I would rather be a dole rat than get up a 6 AM everyday to go to a soul crushing job working around a sociopath boss for an extra 100 a week.

Capercaille

whirlpool wrote: »

So would the majority of those "dole parasites."

I know plenty of dole vermin who refuse paid work and remain on the dole.

Capercaille

conja wrote: »

I would rather be a dole rat than get up a 6 AM everyday to go to a soul crushing job working around a sociopath boss for an extra 100 a week.

I wouldn't. I'd rather not be a parasite.

Flesh Gorden

Capercaille wrote: »

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I have to pay the bills. I rather be in a job I hate, than be a dole parasite.

Surprised you're not having a nosebleed from being up on that high horse :rolleyes:

Nodin

conja wrote: »

I would rather be a dole rat than get up a 6 AM everyday to go to a soul crushing job working around a sociopath boss for an extra 100 a week.

...I used think the same. Still did it though. Anyhoo, what time did you finish at?

whirlpool

Capercaille wrote: »

I know plenty of dole vermin who refuse paid work and remain on the dole.

So do I. (Well, I know of them.) But lets be fair here and assume that the vast majority would prefer to have ****ty jobs than be on the dole. And I base that assumption on the dozens of people who I know personally who have been on the dole.

Senna

conja wrote: »

I would rather be a dole rat than get up a 6 AM everyday to go to a soul crushing job working around a sociopath boss for an extra 100 a week.

And this is the problem with this country.
I'd like a 6am job, better to get up early than (like me) have to start work at 12pm most days. Chances are you will only consider your boss a psychopath if you're nothing but a lazy c*ut who cant understand that you actually have to "work" if you want to earn money.

My name is URL

I've had a few really ****ty jobs but I enjoyed them all the same, for whatever reason. I'd never 'do a job' if I hated going to work every day. Sooner starve tbh

krudler

Capercaille wrote: »

I know plenty of dole vermin who refuse paid work and remain on the dole.

Everyone on the dole is a parasite now? What about people who were made redundant?

Ten of Swords

krudler wrote: »

Everyone on the dole is a parasite now? What about people who were made redundant?

Im pretty sure that post was aimed at people who refuse paid work.

conja

Senna wrote: »

And this is the problem with this country.
I'd like a 6am job, better to get up early than (like me) have to start work at 12pm most days. Chances are you will only consider your boss a psychopath if you're nothing but a lazy c*ut who cant understand that you actually have to "work" if you want to earn money.

No the guy actually was a sociopath I was not aware until a few of the guys told me how fcuked up he was.

Who the hell are you to call me lazy I work 12 hours a day on my web design biz 7 days a week. Just so I never have to work a job like that.

Nodin

conja wrote: »

No the guy actually was a sociopath I was not aware until a few of the guys told me how fcuked up he was.

Who the hell are you to call me lazy I work 12 hours a day on my web design biz 7 days a week. Just so I never have to work a job like that.

.....what time did your job finish at....?

Ten of Swords

conja wrote: »

No the guy actually was a sociopath I was not aware until a few of the guys told me how fcuked up he was.

Who the hell are you to call me lazy I work 12 hours a day on my web design biz 7 days a week. Just so I never have to work a job like that.

Good for you, if it's one thing Ireland needs at the moment it's entrepreneurs but don't mistake people who can't get work for people who won't get work.

Senna

conja wrote: »

My first and only job

conja wrote: »

I work 12 hours a day on my web design biz 7 days a week.

So you work 7 days a week for 12 hours a day, but thats not a job
If you don't even know what you do, what hope do the rest of us?

wazky

Hallucinogens.

The night shift in Tesco is so much more interesting after taking a few.

conja

Nodin wrote: »

.....what time did your job finish at....?

Well since you asked 4 times I quit on july 2007. Yeah I know you're still stuck in your ****ty job and can't believe others can break away and start their own 200k PA business. You will probably want proof now I suppose pm me and I will send you a link to my website.

Nodin

conja wrote: »

Well since you asked 4 times I quit on july 2007. Yeah I know you're still stuck in your ****ty job and can't believe others can break away and start their own 200k PA business.

You said you started at 6AM. At what time of day was your shift ended?

MonkstownHoop

conja wrote: »

Well since you asked 4 times I quit on july 2007. Yeah I know you're still stuck in your ****ty job and can't believe others can break away and start their own 200k PA business.

aren't you great, 200k PA must give you so much to do, like post on boards making a tit of yourself

mikemac1

Should have got yourself into the boning hall OP

Those lads earn very decent money.

Anything else in the factory is badly paid

marmul92

mu first job was actually pretty good I worked there for 6 years

Ten of Swords

Nodin wrote: »

What time was quittin time, as a matter of interest?

Nodin wrote: »

what time did you finish at?

Nodin wrote: »

.....what time did your job finish at....?

conja wrote: »

july 2007.

FFS

hfallada

Some people have different standards of sh1tty. Like so people see medicine as a dream job as you are helping people and making a **** load of money. Personally I dont think I could hack 30 hour shifts as an intern and treated like crap for the first 5 years of the job. To some day finally make it as a surgeon. But if your seen as a "bad doctor" you will than likely sent to some regional hospital in the country that no one has heard about

maxfresh

conja wrote: »

Well since you asked 4 times I quit on july 2007. Yeah I know you're still stuck in your ****ty job and can't believe others can break away and start their own 200k PA business. You will probably want proof now I suppose pm me and I will send you a link to my website.

www.waltermitty.com

A_Sober_Paddy

I work a job that has a title and responsiblities, and when i tell people my job I get a whole lot of

Oh that's greats, congrats

Oh that will look great on your CV

Suppose your going to be looking for a job with more responsibilities soon

To which my reply is...Ah its grand...By which I really mean, I miss my days working part time and at times really miss my days on a dole unemployed...

I currently earn €347 for working 39 hours a week...I also have an amount of sh!te I've to put up with from my area & regional managers, my own manager is grand...I also can't get a Saturday off unless I take a weeks holidays...

Currently exploring options to leave the real world and maybe go back to college or win the lotto, although if I decided to go back to college when I was unemployed I had a chance of getting it for free

I'm currently just sticking around until I can get anything better, but I do fear my experience level will make it hard to get one of those great low level, zero responsibility jobs

Elbaston

Capercaille wrote: »

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I have to pay the bills. I rather be in a job I hate, than be a dole parasite.

I want you to lose your job and be unemployed so much that I'd give a kidney.

Renegade Mechanic

Elbaston wrote: »

I want you to lose your job and be unemployed so much that I'd give a kidney.

I dont think he meant all of them (2.5 yrs myself and thankfully no more). At least I really hope he didnt.

kc90

Elbaston wrote: »

I want you to lose your job and be unemployed so much that I'd give a kidney.

Why is everyone overreacting to this? I assume they mean those who refuse to work at all rather than those who are actively job seeking.

Esoteric_

I deal with my current shítty job by reminding myself over and over that in my job prior to this, I was assaulted both sexually and physically, bullied, harassed, belittled, demeaned and ended up in counselling over it, when I eventually quit. So, nothing can be as bad as that in comparison.

Plus, I have a proper job title and responsibilities, some lovely customers, and I work alone, so don't have to deal with shíte from the owner unless he comes in to do a spot check. I hate being on minimum wage, because I've never worked for such little money before (working since I was 15, always got more than minimum wage), but it beats being on the dole.

keithsfleet

I hate my job.
I hate it so much I'm leaving the country in January.

I'm on a relatively decent salary but it's a line of work I despise and only got into because I couldn't do what I wanted.
I would happily take 30% off my salary if it meant job satisfaction/enjoyment/fulfilment went up by 30%

Galwayguy35

conja wrote: »

My first and only job was working in a meat factory for about 6 hours (yes 6 hours) back in 2007 it was the worst moment of my life the horrible meat smells, the low wages, having to get up at 6am. I just walked out.

6 hours is all I could take. On the bright side the fear of going back to a job like that made my current business successful.

My first job was also a meat factory, difference was it was back in 1993 there was no Celtic Tiger and I was glad of the money.

I grew up on a farm though so I suppose the blood etc didn't bother me.

Nemeses

My first job was pretty pants, sweeping factory floors. Twas 2006 mid you. I dealt with it as it was my bread and butter.

Roll on a few years and I've reached a somewhat satisfying job that pays me well enough to live by and a bit of a career ladder plus some perks now and again.

I'm pretty content 'Til the next "Celtic Tiger"

sligoface

I call BS OP, I know quite a few web designers in Ireland, pretty good ones, they do well but none of them make anywhere near 200k, and they may do long shifts but none would do code for 12 hrs 7 days a week. I couldn't even do things I really really like for that long though I do work 5 12 hr shifts every other week currently. Still, an ultra-amazing web designer that can't spot the fact that in three separate posts the same person asked what TIME you finished at, not what year? Must be great at debugging...

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

sligoface wrote: »

I call BS OP, I know quite a few web designers in Ireland, pretty good ones, they do well but none of them make anywhere near 200k, and they may do long shifts but none would do code for 12 hrs 7 days a week. I couldn't even do things I really really like for that long though I do work 5 12 hr shifts every other week currently. Still, an ultra-amazing web designer that can't spot the fact that in three separate posts the same person asked what TIME you finished at, not what year? Must be great at debugging...

i thought it was assumed by us all that OP is lying

Highflyer13

I hate the saying ' you should just be happy you have a job' that people say. Im planning my exit due to ****e career prospects. Six years with AIB with not one pay rise and expected to work extra for a once off payment of 4% on a annual salary they can fcuk off! Not accepting the LRC recommendations!!

And I know AIB is still owned by the taxpayer but its low earning base staff (who had nothing to do with the cluster fcuk we are in) still contribute massively to the national economy.

That is all

Overheal

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EJw6oGSft0

mickrock

Capercaille wrote: »

I rather be in a job I hate, than be a dole parasite.

You probably secretly love w*rking.

Capercaille

krudler wrote: »

Everyone on the dole is a parasite now? What about people who were made redundant?

People who are on the dole and are not actively seeking work/further education and are happy to remain on the dole are vermin and should be treated like vermin. The person who lost his/her job and are doing their level best to get back into work/education, I have respect for.