I hate it with the passion of 1000 burning suns. My coworker should be reported for harassment, he yells at me like he’s a high school football coach in the 1950s. I made the worst decision of my life going to second shift and working with the most horrible incel you can imagine. Even on a good day, I’m bored and miserable. I came here almost 7 years ago with eyes wide open and full of enthusiasm. Now, I just want to get through the 8 hours without wanting to cry.
Hence to say, I’m resigning this year as soon as I get a job in DC.
You know, I’ve encountered the same kinda thing. You KNOW you did something outrageous, and get no response. Then ages pass, and you get called on the carpet for something ridiculously petty - or nothing at all. Just makes you think NOTHING matters - good or bad.
I get compensated (pay+health care+33 days off a year) very well for what I actually do (babysit computers), so I can’t complain too much. But I’m bored outta my skull. The main workgroup has been together for a decade and we’ve all settled in to being on autopilot most of the time. Bleh.
I’ll be retiring soon enough, I can handle it for another 6 months or so until after I’ve taken all of my vacation time.
I’ve been very, very lucky - I’ve have had a career where I eventually hit senior mgmt in a profession I love that keeps evolving, and where my brain is often engaged. And yet…my work weeks are around sixty hours, and that’s excluding weeks when I travel…and the job is about 90% administrative at this point…and I’m pretty burned out. (but still, also grateful, because I know there are people working those kinds of hours without the same benefits)
So I love the job, but no chance in hell I would do it for free. I do plan to retire, maybe in the next year or so, and then I’ll have to figure out what I want to do besides sleep in.
This describes me as well. My job is programming autonomous aircraft, and I get to test them out in a big domed simulator. I’m trying to add some very basic intelligence and learning to my “apprentices” and it’s fun to chase them around in the simulator and see them react and even cooperate. I only see my manager about once a month and it’s always pleasant (he never hassles me), and my coworkers are great too.
I’m in the odd position of being financially ready to retire, but with a job that’s so much fun I’m reluctant to. The company is OK with me working 3 days a week, so I have 4 day weekends to practice for retirement. I may make the big jump after Brexit is over though. I want to wait and see how it effects the markets.
I’ve been at my job for going on 27 years. So, yeah, I like it. GIS. The field has been expanding rapidly the entire time.
It’s a County Government position, but really doesn’t have too much bullshit. It’s a ski resort community, and I really love living here. The pay is quite good.
Frankly, if I had to go somewhere else I’d be boned. I don’t have a college degree. GIS wasn’t even an acronym when I started in the field of computer mapping. Well, the acronym changed. It used to be call AM/FM - Automated Mapping/Facilities Management. I’m glad the acronym changed. AM/FM - “No, I’m not in radio”. Very confusing for a while.
I have a great corner ‘office/cube’. It’s really quite big. Two desks, three chairs and my own little refrigerator. I have beautiful views in a modern building.
Mid Last year my computer shop was pretty much dying for a variety of reasons. I acquired a service contract to do onsite support for model homes and construction trailers for several counties worth of a huge nationwide construction company/developer.
I dont run the shop anymore. I still handle a few of my old clients but maybe only 10% of them. The rest I am just doing the construction stuff. I love it, get paid very well, get paid for drive time, most of the work is technically easy, just requires alot of documentation/pictures of work. I could probably do this until I am too infirm to drive.
I don’t know. Sometimes. Not really. I’ve spent most of my career working as a “management consultant” (think firms like Deloitte or A.T. Kearney). Sometimes it’s fun. You get to travel around to different cities with a team of people, help some client fix some problem they can’t solve themselves, eat in a bunch of fancy restaurants, live in a hotel for a few days. But most of the time, it’s a grind of travel and long hours for a bunch of jerks or long stretches of no work while “on the bench” waiting to see if you are going to get staffed or “counselled out” (fired). It all depends on your client and how busy the firm is.
Sounds like someone has found the key to happiness, basically!
I’m retired now, so “no job at all” works for me, but one thing that has characterized all the jobs I’ve had in my career has been a similar degree of freedom, which I think is vitally important to one’s well-being. Working hours, for example. Most of my jobs have had what I call de jure hours – the time you were actually supposed to be there – versus de facto hours – the time I actually was there. The two were always vastly different, as I’m definitely not a morning person. But I worked long and productive hours and it was totally a win-win all around.
I finally got an email from the boss late last night. She was understanding and told me not to worry. I’m sure there are going to be some tough conversations next week, but the boss is at least signaling that she understands my frustration/anger and isn’t going to shitcan me over this. She seems to get that our school has major leadership issues.
My job as a business analyst at a major government contractor used to be rewarding. Then they decided to fire about 1/4 of the staff, give everyone else more work and layer on more meetings. I don’t feel I am being paid all that well based on my hours.
The killer is that they still make us do stupid stuff like - Engagement surveys. They say they are anonymous but our group is so small that they could guess what we are saying pretty easily so we just give them mostly 4s and 5s out of 5 to get them off of our backs.
We know they don’t care and only push the results as a way to advertise our company as “more engaging” for the newer employees they are hiring … all under the age of 40 while they whittle away at us 50 plus year olds.
I will say one thing if you want to get attention at my company … be a young woman with a degree. They are really given attention and perks.
How do I feel about my job? I’ll have to hold back because this isn’t The Pit. I suppose it’ll be a worthwhile intellectual exercise to explain without using profanity.
Don’t get me wrong, the work itself is not bad. It would be a great place to work if it weren’t for all the problems. But. All the machine have something wrong with them, some are only marginally functional, yet the maintenance department has time to build tables to raffle off for charity. We have persistent problems with our computer systems, yet half of our IT personnel complain about how bored they are. We always have issues with [overly specific warehouse thing] but the department in charge of that creates new problems instead of fixing the existing ones. Managers from different departments can’t talk to each other, every department is working against all the others, no one has the big picture in mind. Not to mention the other minor problems that keep me from being able to do my job efficiently.
I really want to swear now. :mad:
ETA: at least things have improved since they replaced the great micromanager with the great do-nothing.
Just as an incidental comment, that must be why the CEO and all the top executives there make really big bucks – because, man, running a big business is, like, complicated, you know? It’s not something that just any old idiot can do!
I like my job all right, although I’m another who will walk away when I have my Mega Millions (or Powerball, it could be Powerball) jackpot check in my pocket. I’ve been at it for going on eleven years come May, making it the longest-lasting job I’ve ever had since getting my first full-time job in 1976.
It’s also the only job in which I’ve accrued and vested any post-retirement earnings other than Social Security benefits eligibility, so at nearly 63, I’m not well-positioned to leave the land of the employed. And since I do not foresee a day coming when I am obligated to spend LESS per month than I do now, I’m expecting to take full advantage of the fact that my job doesn’t have a mandatory retirement age. By 2023, I expect to be collecting my full SocSec benefit along with my paycheck. After maybe ten years of that I’ll have been able to sock enough away to safely consider retirement.
I have a bank job. It’s ok at first but in the longer run i feel like it’s becoming a cycle of doing the same work over and over again. I think I need a break. I don’t know what to do right now. I’m confused.
