Anyone else hate their job?

I'm 33 years in (at the same place) and I hate mine. My actual job is fine, it's everything else sucks. Back in the day it used to pay good, but everyone has passed us by over the years. We've always had trouble keeping people, but since covid no one will work. It's skeleton crews day after day. So I get to do my job and two others. It's like getting a good kick in the nuts every morning. They take advantage of the few good workers they have and let the rest do nothing. Morale is terrible. I was looking out the window today and thinking...jumping off the water tower really doesn't sound like that bad of an idea.

I have no one to blame but myself. Made bad decisions, things didn't work out the way I thought. If anyone one young happens to read this try to find something you enjoy. If it doesn't work out there's alway time to get a regular job that just pays the bills.

 

Kinda sounds like my job lately, pay sucks, morale is down, no one will work because pay and benefits suck so we are always short staffed, yet the folks behind a desk think we are overpaid and underworked.

I loved my job starting my career field at the ripe old age of 18 but over the past 13 years it starts sucking the life out of you

 

I’m not too happy at the moment. The job is good, the pay and benefits are good, but can’t stand most of my co-workers.

 

Yep, not easy to find a good group of people to work with.

 

The whole country is getting like that. Sort of a snowball effect.No one wants to work ,and it’s because lots of companies don’t treat the people right which makes them not have a good work ethic and bad morale

 

Start to upskill and experiment in any way you can now. May pay off in the long run, even if it doesn’t it will have felt better to have grown than not.

I hated almost every job I ever had. Always liked working for myself over the years, always switched back and forth on and off. The jobs I did like or aspects I loved I took note of. The parts that killed me inside I took more note of. I have now narrowed down exactly what businesses I like to run on the side and what job I love and like both, but it took 20 years of experimentation, pushing limits, growing, upskill pushes, and a bunch of eating it at jobs I hated and failed business to get here. Start making changes now and say “I’m glad I did” in a decade or two rather than “I wish I would have.” Economy sucks right now, not saying there’s copious opportunity, but grind any way you can to the next way point then poke your head up, set a second goal, and grind through that. Rinse and repeat and no matter what your life will have been more purposeful than just passively watching it go by, I promise ya. Good luck!

 

I hated the last place that I was at, it was through a staffing company so I was a contractor, as were many of my co-workers. The pay was a bit under average, but I had no bennies or health care and the way that the management treated people, I witnessed a few direct employed managers, program directors and regular mechanical designers and ME's just walk out of the place. I was trying to stick it out until I could find ANYTHING closer to home and a direct hire position but they ended my contract last Wednesday. So as much as that place sucked a donkeys ass, at least it was a weekly paycheck that I needed.

 

We keep telling them you have to pay more if you want to get anyone good, but they doesn't make sense them. How about a piece of pizza

 

So what is the job you hate?

 

Curious what the job is and what lessons learned have come up. For better or worse i always 'worked for myself' (with a camper shell as a backup) and feel like i missed a lot of otherwise useful experience.

 

I am 31 years old.. I've had two jobs in completely different sectors I loved when I started then ended up hating. One small indie job and one large corp job, when I started both had good boss/manager. The indie one was retail, the boss' son got to be a manager after I was there about 6 years and he wasn't very good at it, two of the three people I looked forward to seeing daily left, I left a few months after, then the last person of our group left about a year after and said it had gotten pretty bad by then. The corp job was a Ford dealer tech, I really liked most of the other techs, two were my groomsmen, the service manager was a older guy who was a very fair boss, then shortly into covid corp fired the service manager and brought in a new service manager with three advisors and two techs who had not worked on Fords before, gravy work went to those two techs and one tech got his son hired as a full tech even though he knew so little. Little over one year after that both my two groomsmen friends had left and I left in 2022, Ive heard that two of my other coworker friends have also left as it kept going downhill.

I guess my experience has been that its hard to find a job that pays decent and treats you like a human being. Unfortunately the jobs that are good are easily killed by either managers/boss who decide to chase increased profits at employee expense or incompetent managers who don't know how to manage people. Unfortunatly both can easily lead to not hiring new people cause they want to pay minimum wage, so the good workers get overworked and word gets out that this business is not good to work for and the really good people leaving for better jobs.

People piss me off saying no one wants to work anymore, in general wages have stayed fairly stable while company profits have gone drastically up. I worked with a 60 year old who constantly bitched about "young" people not wanting to work and being lazy, while he had to get IT to fix something or another he screwed up weekly, hell he fell for one of those phishing scams with company info. He bought and paid off 2 houses when he was only 20 years old working at pepboys making $15/hr working on engines and transmissions, the houses weren't in a great area of town when he bought them but now a days they would go for $300,000 each even if run down. He could not grasp that someone my age didn't have a paid off home.

 

Get a side gig. Not a business, just something that makes you appreciate your skills.

Then just do only the required minimum to keep the day job and benefits.

I ran my own fab shop a couple days a week and worked the grind job the rest of the time.

Anytime anyone asked what I did, I just told them I run a small fab shop. I never got excited telling people I worked for a world wide petro chemical company.

 

Everything in life is expensive these days. I can't stand it when an old timer tells me I just need to work more to get what I want. Yeah right. Wages are nowhere near where they were. When it comes to things like buying a house or car or anything at all. Before a single income could buy you a modest home and a decent car or 2. Maybe even a boat. In today's world we are under way more stress financially. Both parents have to work, we can't raise our kids correctly because we are both at work all the time. The odds are really against low and middle class now.

With that said I recently went back to being a mechanic. It's my passion. I love fixing cars. I tried the office jobs, insurance jobs, slacks and dress shoes every day. I absolutely hated it. From body shop estimator down to mechanic I took a pay cut. But boy am I HAPPY with what I do. My job environment kind of sucks. That's going to happen at most jobs. But my stress level is much reduced.

Find something you love to do, for money, will set you free.

 

Nope just leased a shitload of choppers at the Catalina wine mixer and make about 550k a year..

 

Work to to live……don’t live to work.

 

Over time I've seen it, chicken or egg perhaps depending on the place/field and such. Sometimes it pays more in the long run to move around and that can climb one up the pay ladder. Flip side, it explains why people aren't career people at the place or the field like yesteryear.

That's just it, I'm in the top 10 of about 100 people in my unit in terms of production, plus know a lot of different locations, plus have helped write workflows and such. In day to day I am worth more because I do more in all aspects. On paper, I make more money and might therefore be more disposable. All depends on what someone is looking at.

The benefits and perks are decent. They've been much better in the past, one thing is they don't put money in our pensions anymore (separate from 401K which we do still have). Not an issue for new or recent hires but hurts for a longtimer to lose..it's one of the reasons I have stayed.

 

Not unless and until I work for myself, then it definitely benefits me more.

 

That's where a side hustle comes in.

 

Don’t settle. If you can afford to move to a different company, do so. Sometimes that comes with better pay and/or better benefits. Look somewhere else where at least you’ll be happier.