Posted on 04/06/2015 6:08:35 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The movie Office Space is a classic for good reason: We've all had a job we hated so much we wanted to take the printer out to an open field and smash it with a baseball bat. Sometimes you’re stuck because you’re waiting for your end-of-year bonus, need health insurance, or simply want your vacation days for an upcoming trip. Even if you’re in the right place, we all go through periods of disenchantment. In the meantime, here are some dos and don'ts of surviving the daily misery of a job that sucks.
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Good for you, I think you will agree with me, though, that “making hay while the sun shines”, and “if you aren’t rich by the time you are fifty, you never will be” are truisms for the reason that they have been found to be helpful and true.
I'm the opposite. The idea of all that traffic and the thousands of people crowded into the streets like I see on TV is just hard to understand. Where I live if there are two cars at a stop sign we think its congested.
How do you survive a spouse you hate?
People are as dependent on their jobs as their are their families.
Your working life occupies over 8 hours a day (your brain does not check out at lunch or during your commute). There are even periods where elements of the job (whether it is problem solving, disputes/stress, or some other factor) occupying your “off hour” waking and sleeping moments.
You can chalk up 1/3 to 1/2 of your day as work time. Why endure a lousy job if you wouldn’t endure a lousy marriage?
That seems to be how it works.
I’m speaking mainly from the tech sector, but many employers look down upon someone who stayed more than 6 years at one job. At least show that you’re moving around or moving up in that company shows motivation and resourcefulness.
Most of my bosses in my life were douchebags. However, i learned the trade and endured their crap, biding my time. Now I have my own production company, and some of those jackasses I worked for are working at Starbucks.
Like what Donald Trump said ‘you can never get rich working for someone else’. If you have a plan, know your trade in and out, go make your own business.
I certainly didn’t get rich by age 50 or by age 68 either but had I bent myself to it and become wealthy I likely would never have returned to Viet Nam. weighing the two paths, I am glad I went back.
“If you hate your job, be sure to look diligently for another one because you’re eventually going to be fired.”
Amen! God forbid I busted my ass for companies who eventually laid off good people and kept the morons. That’s why I have my own company and enjoy it.
Waking up late is one of the perks instead of getting there at 9:10 when you start at 9 and get chewed up by the lady boss who couldn;t get laid and men are her enemy, but that’s a another story.
Good advice. I stayed way too long in a job once to the point that as soon as I got within about a quarter mile of the building I would start to get sick at my stomach every morning. It was a horrible experience. The day I left it was like somebody lifted a 20 lb weight off my back.
That’s so true. I’ve always maintained that it’s worse to be stuck in a job you hate than to be stuck in a bad marriage, because you spend more time at a job than you spend with a spouse. Then there’s the commute, the time you spend after work unwinding from the stress of the job, and even on the weekend you’re dreading going back to work.
My only regret about being fired is I missed the gratification of putting in my notice. I was so looking forward to that, but God knew my already big head would have exploded and I needed to be kicked down a notch: being fired by a bloated bully who was overseeing an unprofitable, low-morale office was just what my ego needed.
A spouse is more willing to seek counseling/mediation with you than a bad boss.
I’ve only had 2 horrible managers in all of my work experience but one was dishonest and the other downright insulting and unbearable.
Yes my company was bleeding money and they wanted to get rid of the big paychecks first so I was under the gun day and night. It wasn’t long til the company went bye bye and my boss was lucky not to go to prison. Fortunately I resisted the pressure to do anything untoward.
I’m happy to say that was my last job and I started my own business and was successful at it for 19 years. I’d still be doing it if govt regs hadn’t finally run me out.
Good point. Plus there isn’t (or shouldn’t be) the power imbalance in a marriage like there is in a boss/employee relationship.
I’ve come across some downright evil managers in my time. But nowadays, if you told someone your boss was hitting you with a stick every day, some people would respond, “Be glad you have a job.” It’s not a good time to be an employee. Employees seem to have less choice or leverage than in the past.
I’m jUst glad we’re in Summer of Recovery V.
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