I cant stand my job. It's not the work I hate, it's my boss. I've worked for him going on 6 years now and it's enough already. As soon as my son is born in August our plan is for me to do the stay at home dad thing since my wife makes such a good living. When that goes into effect I will come into the office and proceed to dump gasoline all over this bridge and burn it to the ground.
Life is a balance of what is good for you & yours at a specific time.
You need to manage 'today' while you search and find that special thing you can reasonably switch to. Risk management is a part of life.
I loved about 33 of the 35 years of my work. I was senior middle management IT for the government. Won't bore you with the details. I will say that when you find that special job, it won't feel like a job but rather a hobby. You will excel at it because you enjoy it. They won't be able to wipe that smile off your face without a magic eraser! With luck and good management you will find it and with 'lottery type' luck you will be with nice fun people to be around.
I am not trying to discourage you. At your age I almost made a few bad moves (My wife is a smarter than usual person & helped me through the bumps in the road...lol).
I worked for the same company for 41 years. I held a number of different positions and enjoyed most of them. When I was most down and out I placed a small sign near my work area stating "Thousands of people would like to have your job". That sign reminded me how fortunate I was to be there. My situation changed and I found another position that I liked better.
Other times I simply outlasted poor management decisions.
The best time to look for a job is when you already have one. It's a tough global job market now and there are many who will work for very little pay. Good luck.
Well, that's kinda a loaded question for me. I'm a farm hand on the farm that my dad used to own. It's now managed by my older brother and I work for him. Working with your family can be a real pain at times. And, my brother can be the biggest jerk in the world. But, after doing this together for 48 years we kinda, sorta, have found a way to work through most problems.
As for the work it's self ? Well a farmer has to do and know so many different sorts of things every year that it keeps it from becoming boring. As the seasons change so do the jobs. As the years change, so does the equipment. It keeps things interesting at least.
But, there are parts of it that really suck. Pressure washing the hog barn down and getting hot, steaming, chunks, of pig manure splattered in your eyes really sucks. It makes my eyes swell shut for 6 hours or so. And, it really, really, stinks. That along with the pig dust and dander mean that after extended periods of time in the barn I feel like I have a cold for a day or so.
But, riding in the air conditioned, nice radio equipped, tractor is a easy if boring job. (Heck I don't even have to steer the tractor anymore that's all done by GPS) And, I really enjoy preparing and fixing the equipment!
So, do I love my job? No, but I like it and I have been doing it all my life. I don't know how to do anything else.
jgos929 wrote: I cant stand my job. It's not the work I hate, it's my boss. I've worked for him going on 6 years now and it's enough already. As soon as my son is born in August our plan is for me to do the stay at home dad thing since my wife makes such a good living. When that goes into effect I will come into the office and proceed to dump gasoline all over this bridge and burn it to the ground.
Um,, you should edit this. Where I'm from saying someting like this will get you jail time. Even if your only joking.
But, there are parts of it that really suck. Pressure washing the hog barn down and getting hot, steaming, chunks, of pig manure splattered in your eyes really sucks. It makes my eyes swell shut for 6 hours or so. And, it really, really, stinks. That along with the pig dust and dander mean that after extended periods of time in the barn I feel like I have a cold for a day or so.
To appreciate how really great a job is, one has to remember the worst job. That pressure washing the hog barn probably built character.
I remember my worse job.....driving a grain combine, harvesting maize in 100+ temps and 70% humidity in Central Texas. That grain chaff would itch to the point that I would cry.....but I was making .75 cents an hour and in a good week, heck 70 hours of pay. No, those combines weren't air conditioned and 60 years ago we didn't know what GPS was
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My wife does all the driving - I just get to hold the steering wheel.
Superman was an illegal alien.
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I have several marketable skills, if I don't like the job I move on.
Right now I set my own work hours so I can be at all of my son's Legion baseball games........ As a matter of fact, I am sitting in the stands at our city park waiting for one to start as I type this.
Mostly. I am a scientist. There are aspects of the job (the travel, the discovery, learning things NO ONE else knows, etc.) I just LOVE. I can't wait to get started each morning. On the other hand, there are aspects I just HATE (mostly paperwork, regulations, and some of the weird things we have to do to beg for money). Overall, I would call it 75% LOVE.
I thoroughly enjoy being a Civil Engineer; but at this point I'm trying just to make it the 10 or 12 years I have to go until I should be able to easily retire. Work stopped being fun right about the time I was deemed a good enough engineer to be a manager.
Which I'm damn good at too, however after making it to being a Partner/Shareholder at a place I gave blood, sweat and tears at for 5 years, only to have the majority equity owner close that 1000 employee place due to not getting an adequate ROI, then getting my practice bought out of that shut-down by the biggest mom and pop small-time-think firm going. I just quit there last week, and started yesterday at a company where 5 of my former co-workers have landed.
One can never coast at work these days, but this should be a reasonably soft landing. I can focus on the technical parts that I like while minimizing the negative aspects. At least I can hope!
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