[Closed] How much do you hate your job? If indeed you do.

did I work with you?

I did now I work much closer to the top of an organisation (and coincidentally the bottom) not enough people to blame and dodge stuff and only 2.5 days per week.

Change is good.

dont hate it, bored with it tho. 😐

Life's too short to be spending so much time doing something that makes you miserable. I really like my job (well both my 'jobs'). There will always be issues and niggles and to some extent the grass is always greener, but overall I'm very happy with what I do.

I quit a full time 'proper' (but shit) job just after getting a mortgage and went back to Uni to do something creative. I don't earn loads but its very fulfilling. Sometimes the idea that I'm getting paid to do some of the things I get to do seems ridiculous - eg perform on the main stage at Manchester Jazz Festival wearing all my DH gear including full-face helmet. 😀

Love mine, occasionally clients make me want to do them great harm, but on the whole it beats the shit out of working (by which I mean what my parents & their generation did for a job - steelworks/pit.)

Totally bored with mine but it pays too much and gives me too many holidays and other benefits to easily replace it.

Actually quite like my current job, decent pay, decent prospects, decent folk. However, we've been put into a life situation where we can either properly tighten the beltstraps and scrimp and save and make do for the next 10 years, or sell my soul and sod off abroad chasing a bigger bottom line. I'm not happy about it at all.

I have conflicting emotions about my job.... I shouldn't because it's a really good role and I'm lucky, but do get bored when I'm not busy.

Run my own ship so it's both ball ache and brilliant I can find myself doing a ride over dartmoor on empty midweek roads as much as I can find myself working till 11pm, the staff are shite and I never get find it easy to make time off for holidays...The plus side is my office is at home and I can see my daughter all day everyday 🙂

i love my job, i'm amazed people choose to spend 40-60 hours a week doing something they detest especially when then they justify it with fleeting transitory periods of enjoyment like the time spent sat in traffic in their expensive car they adore or the 2 weeks holiday they are allowed to have. (and then having had that holiday having to face the realisation that there is no more time off until the next year)

I have always been lucky enough to have jobs that I loved doing,I never,ever take this for granted .

As grum says

Life's too short to be spending so much time doing something that makes you miserable

Love it. Self employed FTW.

MrSmith - Have we met? 😥

Millions of people do stuff that they hate for work... its hardly amazing, it's the minority that actually enjoy work. If you do enjoy working as I do then you are one of the lucky ones.

Bored of mine for sure, don't have the balls or skills to jack it in and try something else (there aren't many jobs I think I'd enjoy anyway, I guess I'm just lazy :p ).

My new year resolution was to not hate it. I'm doing OK, but I need a promotion this year, otherwise I'm off

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I like my job. The people make the place great and the role itself is challenging enough to be interesting. Plus it's just off the TPT which makes commuting fun.

That said, I am on the job hunt because as much as I enjoy this place; it doesn't have the opportunity to do what I want long term. Swings and roundabouts eh?

Looking back on my job the time I did not mind it was when I worked with a pretty good team and boss the rest of the time I hated it which I can pin down (in hindsight) to specific people I disliked usually machiavellian types. I gave it all up in the end to look after the kids and I'm much happier. Currently considering a way to earn a bit of money when number 2 son goes to school next sept, need a job that fits in with school times so it looks like I will have to work for myself doing something

bored stiff in mine. It's not challenging, boss is a tool, been promised a bump in grade for 18 months that's not materialised, HR are rubbish and won't support anyone
currently looking elsewhere!

Not keen on mine but it pays ok and get good benefits. My dad always said the they don't pay you to enjoy it, if you did you'd be paying them! He's been self employed for most of his life 😆

Hated my job for about the last twelve months, the previous thirty six years had good and bad times, mostly ok though.

Just over a year before I am fifty five and can retire so will put up with it for now, had I been younger would defintely be looking elsewhere

I have conflicting emotions about my job.... I shouldn't because it's a really good role and I'm lucky, but do get bored when I'm not busy.

+1

really like mine - awesome technology, wide range of people (some dicks, some good, like anywhere), plenty variety mostly interesting and challenging, decent money, but not out and about as much as I used to be, still out of the office on a regular basis though

ton - Member
dont hate it, bored with it tho.

Same here.

Very bored with mine and struggling to bring myself round to be constructive to change this

Frustrated is best word for mine at the moment, pay is ok, but the seniors above me keep doing stupid things like this week all line managers on late shifts except 1 to run the shop in the morning, so any social life or plans out the window.

Currently we have no overtime, no hours for holiday cover and constant beatings for issues we can't fix due to the above!!

getting paid to sit talking boolax on here most day's.......could be worse i suppose tho, eh 😆

I spent a while hating my current job, but it's actually quite undemanding and low stress mostly so I can tolerate it fine - esp as I am on a 3-day week for now.

I've hated previous jobs though.

Self employed chippy/joiner here.

quite enjoy it. most of the lads/lasses that i deal with are ok and even if they are a bit of a twunt then i know i'll only have to work alongside them for the duration of the job.

have worked the last 20 days with one day off, something like hours 250 hours. i'm now taking a week off, have a small job at the end of the week and will be relaxing for the rest of February.

no boss. as much holiday as i can afford. get to work on some interesting and varied projects. don't know if i will be doing this till i retire, but i don't intend on retiring at 65, either.

Lets put it this way, my new years resolution was to find a new job.

Don't usually make them, but this year I AM STICKING TO IT.

Life's too short to be spending so much time doing something that makes you miserable

NSS 😀

My last job I enjoyed the work but hated where I did it due to the overall atmosphere created by the CEO. Colleagues were great but it very much felt like you were all surviving together against him rather than everyone trying to work to make the company better. I've relocated somewhere else and do more or less the same job just in a company of reasonable human beings so am pretty happy now though.

My main issue when I got to hate my last job was that I started to not care about doing it well. Once you're at that stage you should definitely be moving on.

I try not to hate anything but I certainly don't enjoy my job.

No challenge, not in an area that interests me, can't really relate to a lot of my colleagues, who are older than me or 'Eastenders and the pub' types.

I hope to be retraining in September.

I am slowly realising I don't like my whole line of work, not just the job.

I actually like my job - a lot.

Sure there are a couple of individuals who can be hard work (either through bad attitude, laziness or lack of ability), but you can manage that. And the odd arsey client escalation, but other than that, it's damn good.

I'm firmly of the belief that a good 60% or more of "hating your job" is self created. If you are prepared to be positive, carry yourself well, push, take on more responsibility, "build" your own role by proactively taking on more, you'll feel more fulfilled, get less sh*t from bosses as you stand out from the grunts and generally feel better about work.

I'm firmly of the belief that a good 60% or more of "hating your job" is self created. If you are prepared to be positive, carry yourself well, push, take on more responsibility, "build" your own role by proactively taking on more, you'll feel more fulfilled, get less sh*t from bosses as you stand out from the grunts and generally feel better about work.

Don't agree. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. If it makes you feel better, awesome but the only way to fix the hate for my last job was to leave it. Colleagues still there still have the same problems and all of them acknowledge that leaving is the only way to fix it (short of a hitman).

Conflicting emotions here too. On the plus side it is interesting, I really like meeting clients and getting involved in their businesses, there's a degree of responsibility, it's a challenge and I like the people I work with. On the downside it is all-consuming - leave home at 6am, never home before 8pm onwards and then usually have to try to work things out. I try to keep my weekends for us as much as I can. It also is high pressure and any mistakes don't wash.

To answer the point above, why would you do what you do, for me I have no choice. A sizeable mortgage and realise that I am essentially unemployable elsewhere owing to age and narrow skill base.

Hate mine.

Bored with the work (hasn't really changed at all in the last 5 years).
No chance of any promotion (dead mens shoes)
Crap pay (Degree, MSc less than I was on 12 years ago working in IT)

Went for an interview yesterday. Even though it's not perfect, if they offer more money I'll take it because I just want out. If I don't get out soon I'll be here for another 10 years with even less prospects.

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If you don't like something either take steps to change it or stop moaning. I'm stopping moaning. (for a few minutes anyway)

Papa-Lazarou - I've improved this business no end in 6 months even if I do say so myself but they continue to heap tasks upon me and offer no support because they are too cheap to do what's necessary and it's gone too far.

I've ridden my bike once in 7 weeks and cannot escape the idiot questions even on my day off without leaving the country so i am doing something about it. They won't change what they're doing so i will change what I'm doing.

Loads but I hand my notice in tomorrow.

I don't hate my job I just hate the way it's being run.

Dont mind the job have good days and bad days but despise the company I work for.
Have been looking for a change and looked/applied for other jobs but would really prefer to work for myself in some capacity.

I love my job. It is unheard of for someone of my experience to be working in the job that I do. Happy as a pig in muck.

I work in a busy emergency admissions ward. Sometimes, when it's all kicking off, I look around at my colleagues - and I actually love them. 😳

Last job I had was killing me. Huge stress, long hours , limited time to exercise - getting fatter, unfitter, high blood pressure, canning the ale. Good money though, golden hancuffs...

Took redundancy, 12 months later, fit, lean, happy, chilled, normal blood pressure - still like the odd beer, but not using it purely as a way to unwind any more

Went to the agency this week to get some work, but will be on my terms this time ...

How odd to see this topic today. I'm bored of my current job. I did have my ideal job that I loved massively (was in the Army), but gave it up for a women (always a mistake). Since then I have worked in a factory and can't stand it.
So, today I have been to college to discuss getting on to an Engineering course. I read on here a couple of days ago (can't find the thread) that life's too short, and you should get out there and tell life what you want. So that's the steps I'm taking. Hopefully my actions will open doors for me, and get me involved in much more interesting things in the future. 🙂

I love my job. Despite earning 25% less than I did in the previous job I am much happier, much healthier and having a great time!

nothing worse than a job you hate-- like open prison with no release date .

Hate? No. Bored? Sometimes. Frustrated? Yes. Mine is brilliant when it goes well but, when it doesn't (like when your biggest client goes into administration leaving you a couple of hundred £k up the spout) then you do question your sanity doing it. But he'll, if I hated it that much I would leave, and I haven't.

Life's too short to be spending so much time doing something that makes you miserable. I really like my job (well both my 'jobs'). There will always be issues and niggles and to some extent the grass is always greener, but overall I'm very happy with what I do.

+1 🙂 I do have some very boring shifts but I have to remind myself that I'm effectively getting paid to watch tv whilst pressing a few buttons every 10 minutes or so. Plus everyone I work with is awesome apart from a few idiots but you get that anywhere! Do wish I had a job with more of a challenge, but just over 1.5 years into being a tech op I haven't ever really had a moment where I've despised going in to work (other than the inevitable hangover shifts but they're self inflicted) 🙂 although I suppose doing shifts does mean you never really get a "case of the mondays"!

After today I'm really hating mine. Started at 8, finished at 5, got to go back in in a minute, and I'm supposedly on paternity leave. FFS.

Not hate as such ..... dislike alot .... dont do antything stated in my contract ! .... when i question them , all they say is .... its a job and you should be happy ?? .... and i work with the most boring bloke on the planet .... train spotter and into his wildlife !! ... bloke doesnt keep it to himself !!

oopps !! ... double post !

I am currently signed off with work-related stress so, guess my answer 😆 The work's alright but the workplace is horrendous. I've had bullying bosses, incompetent bosses, untrustworthy bosses and mad bosses but this is my first bullying incompetent untrustworthy mad boss.

I like mine. But find out on Monday if a change of employment is happening 🙂

If I was left alone to do my job, and not constantly have the goal posts moved or one department contradict another and be expected to please both, have my wages at least left alone instead continuously being manipulated and being asked to do more for less and my terms and conditions to last at least 2 years with something else being changed, reworded or revoked.
If I could have all that then I would actually really enjoy my job.
As it is I am beginning to feel like a slave constantly worried some eastern european is waiting in the wings to take my place for half the wage.

So in short It's not the job its all the crap that comes with it I hate!

The highlight of my day used to be the visit to the loo.

Got sacked for gross misconduct after failing the compulsory Anti Corruption test 17 times and having a row with the arsewipe of a manager.

Was escorted out of the building, didn't say goodbye, just got in my car and drove off. Wonderful.

I quite like my job - interesting, varied and all that, but it's still [i]work[/i]

"Management" is becoming a bit more intrusive/demanding and I've been passed over for a promotion recently so I've adjusted my perspective a bit - fewer unpaid extra hours at home or a change of some sort in the nearish future I think. It's good to learn where you really stand now & then IMO.

I work with great people though (mostly anyway), which makes the job good fun even when the work's piling up

The deed is done, notice in, finish Friday, new pastures week tomorrow, woohoo!

More annoying are the folks who say in conversation "wow that must be amazing to work in that industry"
no its shit makes you sound like a miserable **** but why lie to them

Mines very dull, but i dont hate it by any stretch. The only thing i hate about it is the day i leave home - i work offshore - but i love payday, and i love the day i leave the place to head home for 3 weeks. As long as the loves outweigh the hates i'll be alright.
As a counterbalance to the boredom i still work in my local A+E Dept in my time off as i genuinely love A+E nursing, you just never know whats gonna come through the door.

i love my job, but i hate the company i work for, mostly because of the manager at my place of work. he has zero people skills, zero compassion for anyones feelings, he sacks people as the first step in any disciplinary procedure and is generally a ****. if id met him in my 20s im pretty sure he would be in a wheelchair by now.
on the plus side, its a steady job and i get paid.
i was once hauled in and threatened with the sack due to a complaint being made, when they reviewed the cctv it wasnt even me, yet i didnt receive any type of apology, it was just 'right, get on with your work'

I love my job. I work for me.

I get time off when I want, I get paid bonuses, downside it the hours can be long and the boss can be a bit of a slave driver but he is generous in other areas.

I hated my previous job, corporate nonsense all the way with the added twist of lots of back stabbing and departmental one-up-man ship by complaining, lots of HR investigations into said complaints then all charges dropped. This went on all over the company and as I had an especially brown nose sort of boss who was also weak and didn't have a fondness for backing up his team we were regularly dragged through HR crap because he "liked to do his washing in the open for all to see"

Strange as a year before I left and after the umpteenth investigation that went nowhere (just wasted every bodies time) I told him I would leave at some point and then he would have a smaller team and eventually, he would have no team at all and then he wouldn't have a job, unless he grew a pair and started supporting his team.

Strange as I heard the other day he has no team. Still got a job though. Everyone has left or transferred to other departments. Guess its only a matter of time.

Martymac, sounds like you work for my old boss!

id name and shame mate, but already been threatened with the sack for ripping the piss out of a co worker on FB. (she didnt complain, but someone else saw it and felt offended on her behalf)
in fact, when i think about it, every time i see him and there are no winesses i get threatened with the sack, despite never actually having done anything seriously wrong.

Im bored of mine and have the opportunity to open a shop (bike) on a 50:50 basis, but thats a £14k drop in salary so my dilemma is do I dont I.

Hate my job! Doesn't give me the time to ride my bikes enough 🙁 would happily take major pay cut to work less and live more!

I'd leave tomorrow, but really have no idea what I'd like to do.

I left mine last thursday! I'd had enough of 12 hour days, not riding and never seeing my kids.

Love mine, self employed gardener, gained plenty of certificates this winter so this year it's trees too 🙂 I'm very lucky to be doing a job I love

I'm a lorriest.
I wouldn't say I hate it, but, it does get me down at times.
Long hours, working with racist morons, nights away from home and murdering prostitutes takes its toll.

I love my job, pity the boss is a ****.
(the joys of self-employment ;))

I really like my job, the work is not the most stimulating but my colleagues are great and so is the pay.

Plus I only work 4 nights a week.

It varies from very stressful yet boring to very stressful and flippin dangerous. Unfortunately I sold out and bought into the "be a grown up, have a family, have responsibilities, mortgage etc"....and now there is no way back...

Holidays- never get to use them and the time I'm supposed to be off I still have to contractually be available

sensible working hours? hahahahahahahah erm no

oh well seeing as alternative is being dead, I s'pose stress and mayhem is just about tolerable.

ton - Member
dont hate it, bored with it tho.

^ This.

Lots of time off, great colleagues and a very good pension though so I'm in no rush to leave.
Hopefully be changing grade though soon so that will cure the boredom...until next time 🙂

I like my job - but I hate some of the people that I have to work with. I strongly suspect that this would be the case wherever I worked though.