I HATE my @$!#^% Job!!!

Laredo7mm

Laredo7mm

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Sorry to get off the subject, but I just needed to vent a little.

I can not beleive how much I hate my day job! It is killing me. I am having trouble finding any redeeming factor in it except for the paycheck. I just need a six month vaction and maybe I would feel better.

Today, I am so close to walking out the door and never coming back. Damn, Damn, Damn, Damn, I just want to go home and work in the shop! Pound some iron and work out some of this stress.

Anyway, thanks for letting me vent, only 5 more hours to go, I thnk I can make it:confused:

Anybody else out there feel like this? I hope I am not the only one.
 
Sean,
I felt like that for thirty years. I retired and haven't been back since. Don't miss it a bit. However, I walk into that nicely equipped shop and realize why it's able to be there. Not being a wiseass, but work is just that, "work", or else it would be called "fun". Some people are fortunate enough to have jobs that are fun, but that's not true for most of us. It's just a way of making money to make sure we enjoy the time away from the hellhole.

Hang in there; it'll be better again, then suck, then better, etc.... it's the normal cycle of things. If something didn't suck then making knives wouldn't be the great fun it is, neh? It can get to be a PITA too, just take too many orders....
 
Been there.....done that!

But now I love my job!

After 911, I decided that life is too short to be unhappy on a daily basis so I "professionally" bailed out of my day job, sold my shares, and never looked back.

No regrets at all!

Laredo, with your education, talent and experience.....the sky is the limit! My decision was finalized when I was driving home, parked in rush-out traffic and I see this poor homeless fellow living under the freeway, collecting aluminum cans and eating from dumpsters. I figured if he could survive...then hell, so can I!

-Rob
 
I just retired this past Aug. 1st.after 24 years with a state agency. You don't realize how much stress you are under until you leave it behind.
 
i worked one place for 2 years, then one day left for lunch and never came back. too much crap to put up with in some jobs. i only have one life, i dont want to hate it :)

got a MUCH better job now. sometimes you just have to roll the dice
 
I have made a living with my hands for the last 23 years.There have been many times I have wished that I could work eight hours a day and have a paid vacation.I have been wiped out by medical bills and I have almost no retirement.But I love my job!People are addicted to secrity.Our grandfathers worked until they died and were better for it.Follow your dreams.
Chuck
 
I am currently very unhappy with a job i used to like. It is not the job, for me its the boss and the new co workers and changing times. I have been considering applying for a transfer to another office. I have to many bills to give up for good and a good crew will make the job better. I will get another transfer or job before leaving this one. The other thing is peaks and valleys.
Life can be a seiries of them. At the moment I know I am at the bottom of the valley trying to get back up to a peak.
SOmetime I benifit from a good venting.

Stay happy.
 
Venting is a good thing an it`s nice to have
a place like this to do it. Some times wifes just
don`t get it.
 
If it were just me I wouldn't show up for work on Monday morning! Fortunately I have a family to think about, it's not always just about "me", even though sometimes I wish it were. I keep hearing about "retiring" from some of you guys. I can't for the life of me imagine that. I've worked in the same line of business for nearly twenty years, but I don't have a retirement coming and little in the way of savings due to the fact that we decided that the best thing we could do for our children was for my wife to be at home with them. Companies don't offer "retirment" pay like they did in my Dad's day. I figure it will all work out someday. I can't really complain about my job, it's steady work and I really like my co-workers. I don't make a lot of money but there always seems to be enough to pay for the important stuff. My job just isn't doing much in the way of inner fulfilment and I don't even have the time for as much knifemaking as I'd like because I know I would be doing my family a dis-service. I already spend more time at the office working overtime to make ends meet but I at least have a way to make extra money. I suppose there will be more time and money someday. In the mean time, vent on! Who's next?
 
Retirment:confused: I never have a jod that offer
that. Saving hell my wife dosen`t know the meanin
of save.:( But hey who said life was fair or easy:p
 
I know where your coming from, right now I'm on an offshore oil rig, and I'm about ready to strangle a suppervisior. The bad thing is he's not even in my chain of command.

This keeps up I may get an early boat ride.:mad:
 
Threads like this really make me feel good about what I do... Sure its hard work, and its a JOB, but its MY job! I made it, and I cant get fired..
Almost as good as working for the Gov.!!!..:D
 
I walked off my day job about 4 years ago and haven't looked back since.Things have gotten real tight since 9-11 but we are still making it..
I wouldn't tell anyone to quit there job and go full time as it does become a job at times but there are side benefits like spending the whole summer with the kids and being home when they are or Donna is,without anyone telling me when I can leave or do anything except myself.There are days I feel like firing myself,but then I remember jobs are hard to find so I better listen to myself and quit messing around:D :D :D then get back to work.
Venting is a good thing and this is a good place to do it.
Bruce
 
Heck
I can not work at a regular job,Crohn's disease has keep me from getting one for the last 8 years.I have a good wife with a good job
She is the one who pushed me into knife making,seems like I am putting
alot out to get started,but I guess that is the way it goes,you have to spend money in order to make money.I consider myself lucky,Like Rob spoke off,the gentelman picking up cans and eating form a dumpster.
I do have a sickness,but I still feel blessed even to go out into the garage and look at how far my shop has come along in the last couple months,No one know what the furture holds
so we must "Seize The Day";)
 
Like right now. You wanna talk about hating something...... I'm stuck here in the Middle East. Been here for almost three months, with another 3 to go after that. It's the holidays, my wife and daughter are back in Montana alone. The shop is in mothballs, and there are back orders that did not get done before I had to leave, and I'm outta the loop on everything that is going on in the knifemaking world. I suppose since I am so close to retirement, it's just a real bummer doing this at this point. Now that I've vented.........

The good side is that when I get home, those retirement papers are going in! If all goes according to plan, I will be a full time maker by mid September of 03. Now if I could just get one of the factories to pick up on one of my designs... :) :)

On the other side of looking at things.......I have often thought, as I watch people everyday who hate what they do for a living..."Is there a rule somewhere that says a person must be unhappy in their job?" Of course not! As has been mentioned, Life is way too short to be unhappy at what you do.......and there is always a way for a person to make a living, if they want to.
I've sacraficed the last 22 years to reach my dream of working for myself, doing what I love to do....making knives. And with the grace of God......maybe it will soon be reality!
 
Hey Ed, good to hear from you. I, as well as all the others here wish for your safe return.

Everybody else, thanks for your replys. I am glad I am not the only one. I know rfrink understands how the auotmotive business is, it can be a real B at times. My job has all the responsibilty and none of the authority (project engineer)plus I am doing three jobs because of the weak ecomomy, my company is not filling the open reqs for more engineers. Then to add to it all I get a 3% raise. Where is the motivation to excel when I am not being compensated? Especially when I have twice the workload as all the other engineers:confused:

Anyway, had a job interview last thurs which went well and am going back for a second next week. I also have another interview next tuesday with a different company.

It is definitely time to leave this company. It would sure be nice to start a new job at the begining of the year:)

I wish I was in a position to walk out and just make knives, but that is not the case. I just started doing the knife thing less than a year ago and have only sold one knife so far. The second order has been kinda put on hold. No big deal though. Hopefully, if i am still into bladesmithing in a couple years from know I will be in a position to do it full time. That will be a huge decision for me though. I am afraid it would become work then, and i have never really liked work. But you never know it may be different than I think to make a living doing a "hobby". I just don't want to ever dread the thought of walking into my shop.

Like someone else said, if it were all upto me, I would be gone, but i have a daughter who depends on me for support. And let me tell you, it is alot of support:) I could have a second house for what I am ordered to pay. Anyway, it is all worth it. She is what keeps me going and is the love of my life. Now if i could just get custody, I could build one hell of a shop:D

Anyway, thanks for your stories, and letting me vent. I feel better, and Monday will hopefully be a better day. Right now, I am going to go hang out with my daughter and watch some cartoons.:)
 
as sherry says, i dont have a "real job".
i just go out to my workshop and i 'play-around'.
:)

and i think she is right.
i am doing some part time work to keep food on the table .. and i cant believe how slow the clock turns around.
im only there from 9-4 .. (unlike my shop hours of 9-7) and yet when im in my workshop it seems like i have only just walked in half and hour ago and times up already ...

sure, we dont have a great deal of money at the moment.
but sherry supports my work 100% .. and we have enough to live.
besides .. the way i look at it nowadays: if i had a real paid job and were getting lots of $$ .. i would only go and spend it blades that i am making now.
so really ... i would be in the same boat ..
only difference is that at the moment i am having the time of my life.
and the other way, sure i wouldnt have the stress of money problems ..
but geez i would go insane.

well worth the struggles.
:D

D.
 
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