My once great job had becoe hell

[iGary]

I'll just keep up with the electroshock treatments and keep taking the drugs they give me at my present position.

 

[Queso]

Lee

I went freelance six years ago. Although I'm in a technical rather than a creative field, you'd be amazed at the difference it makes towards your attitude to life. All that politics rubbish that happens in companies is just someone else's problem now, and although it means that the buck stops here, I don't mind putting in 16 hour days when it's me that gets the rewards. It's a daunting jump to begin with, and in the first 12 months there's a big learning curve with respect to taxes, cashflow and such, but once you get into the rhythm of it, there's nothing better.

Do it. You know you want to.

 

[jsw]

Go to work to be happy, not make money. This place doesn't make you happy any more, and that alone should be reason enough to stop going.

Just note that those with families/others being supported often can't make such a decision. For them, the money is more important that the happiness the job provides, at least to a point.

 

[leekohler]

Lee

I went freelance six years ago. Although I'm in a technical rather than a creative field, you'd be amazed at the difference it makes towards your attitude to life. All that politics rubbish that happens in companies is just someone else's problem now, and although it means that the buck stops here, I don't mind putting in 16 hour days when it's me that gets the rewards. It's a daunting jump to begin with, and in the first 12 months there's a big learning curve with respect to taxes, cashflow and such, but once you get into the rhythm of it, there's nothing better.

Do it. You know you want to.

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[iGary]

I'm working on it, man. Thanks for the encouragement.

Hey, I just did it and I'm a complete chicken. You'll be fine, Lee.

 

[Takumi]

Do they pay you overtime for working 10-12 hours per day?

Welcome to the minig industry

It's 9am and you've been at work for 3 and a half hours, 5pm comes and you know it's at least 1.5 hours until you get to leave site.

Fortunatly the mining industy is a little more forthcomming when it comes to giving you your dues.

Takumi

 

[Takumi]

I'm working on it, man. Thanks for the encouragement.

If you're not into web design, start a not-for-profit compitition on this site to see who can come up with the bst web page for you?

Takumi

you do something similar to establish a company name, hold a poll or brainstorm thread

 

[jefhatfield]

having been through cancer with my wife and having been an AIDS agency volunteer, especially working with intravenous drug users, has shown me how short life really is for many people...and none of us knows if we will be among the ones who has a shortened life on an already short life

so life is too short to have a terrible job fit...the reason i say this is that a sucky job for one may be the dream job for somebody else

it sounds like you may be unhappy with your job and there is nothing wrong with that...definitely explore other options like other employers, working for yourself, or a combination of an employer and being self employed

anyway, good luck and it sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders

-jefhatfield

 

[Peyton]

The second you feel your job is depressing, the very moment you wake up and wish you didn't have to go to work - don't.

A job that does not make you happy, and is not absolutely 100% what you want to do, is not only not worth doing, but is also better of being done by someone who wants to do it.

Far too often people find themselves with jobs that do not make them happy, and are content with the idea that 'any job is better than no job.' This is not true.

Do what you want to do, no matter what it is. A person who sweeps the street, knowing every day that there is no place he'd rather be, is much better off than a person with a top-level office with a window overlooking the world who hates every minute of it.

Go to work to be happy, not make money. This place doesn't make you happy any more, and that alone should be reason enough to stop going.

I tend to agree about 90% but seriously, maybe not 'the very moment' I think every job has its down side. (however small that may be) I would say after a week or month instead of 'the very moment' to start looking for different jobs, like I've always thought -

'find out what you love to do, and then find a way to make money at it'

Example, I love monopoly, so I'm going to start building hotels on boardwalk and park place. JK, but seriously, like others have said, life is too short.

 

[jadekitty24]

I know the feeling. To feel oppressed at your place of work is no way to live. Life sucks when you dread what you have to do every day. I wish you luck. Also, on the OT note, do you have a contract stating that you work 40 + hours and get paid only 40? Last I knew it was illegal to force overtime on people and not pay them for it. At my last place of work my employer was required to post a huge sign in the breakroom stating that anything over 40 hours was to be paid time and a half. I thought this was a law

 

[leftbanke7]

http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/main.htm

This webpage should have all the information one should need to understand the OT rules in the US.

 

[GanChan]

I, too, have lost what little enthusiasm I had for my job, and am about one centimeter away from going freelance. The prospect of building a clientele from scratch is pretty daunting, but I'm thinking about phasing into it gently by doing some little part-time job just to make sure the rent keeps getting paid while I get up to speed. Then scrap the PT job once my freelance income starts to surpass it.

 

[Thomas Veil]

One of the last jobs I had, well...the day after I started there, I found out that they had been lying to me about the kind of support I'd be getting. It was a double-whammy, since I was up for a promotion at the place I'd left. God, that job turned into a nightmare.

But my wife's was worse. She worked for a medical insurance company, and their "efficiency experts" got so bad that people literally had to raise their hand and say "Mother, may I?" to go to the toilet. They were timed on how long they were away from their desks. Utterly degrading. She's gone from there, thank God.

I'm happy to say that I'm in a much nicer place right now. The staff is literally five times as big, and the work is much better and more rewarding. Everyone has noticed how much happier I am.

 

[blackscooby]

My job is in exactly the same boat, the old adage of "working to live, or living to work" appears to be also true and is badly engrained in the company I work for.

Weekends do not belong to me, they belong to the company if I'm required to work I do. Example from the other week.

Friday night planned activity on customer system 23:00 ~ 01:00 (2 hours)
Saturday on-call work 11:30 ~ 22:30 (11 hours)
Saturday night planned work 23:00 ~ 02:00 (3 hours)
Sunday am checks 04:30 ~ 7am (2.5 hours)
Sunday am customer called me out 09:00 worked til 17:00 (8 hours)

Thats about 26 hours work, after most people have finished their week !!!!

One in every 3 days I work 04:00 to 7am, then drive to the office and work until 3pm, this has gone on since early Jan. Our team is completely knackered. On top of this 1 in three weeks I work in Istanbul (Just got back yesterday am), 1 in 3 weeks I'm on-call which leaves just one week left for me.

I am totally totally knackered.

One of the times I was in Turkey in March my hours totalled 90 hours in a week, with 3 18 hour days in a row.

Honestly this job is now killing me, and killing the social lives of my colleugues and their partners !

 

[StarbucksSam]

The universe is trying to tell you something Lee. There's something better for you out there, and you shouldn't be afraid to make the change.

I couldn't have said it better myself. I second that. You deserve better.

 

[scem0]

And I third that.

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