People who don't enjoy (or hate) their jobs. Why?
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Anonymous
You will make that money in restaurants and they will promote you to management pretty fast. Minimum in DC is $14 an hour and $15 next July I believe. I'm the only server tonight as we can't find workers. Easy work, good exercise and they feed you. |
Anonymous
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I work as a professor at a university that went from taking research and scholarship seriously to basically chasing after the bucks it could make by being open admissions, not academically rigorous and focussed on training rather than on education. We no longer get credit for engaging in scholarship, they took away sabbaticals and conference travel. We have much less freedom than we used to have to define what we teach and how we teach it. The students are often really ill prepared for college and there's not time during the semester to address their deficits nor are there resources for doing so.
I stay because my child has a tuition waiver that can be used at several schools within a pool/consortium and because my wife has a job in the area and those can be tough to come by. |
Anonymous
| Local government attorney. It is all politics and my boss is so miserable and impossible to work for. |
Anonymous
+100 Used to love journalism, the love went away, I resent the encroachment of the job (especially breaking news) on my personal life, hate that I feel like there’s nothing new — I’ve written a variation of every type of story so many times. Even have come to hate the insular and self-important nature of the field, which honestly didn’t bother me during the first 15 yrs. |
Anonymous
| I love my job and the perk of telecommuting. I liked the prior boss that left months ago. The new boss is the female version of 45. She is a racist bully and has done and said so many things that could get the company in trouble. Has absolutely no filter. |
Anonymous
| Neither of my corporate jobs were good spaces for women. Particularly single mothers. There was a lot of male peers foisting non-work duties onto women. Want a Christmas party? Assign it to a woman. Need Broadway tickets to court a client? Just appoint a female coworker. |
Anonymous
When I was a journalist, I used to wake up every morning in a panic about breaking news. I finally got myself onto a beat where there really wasn't such a thing as breaking news - and still I felt like I had zero room in my life for an actual weekend, actual nights off, actual personal time. It was so all-encompassing. Luckily for me I absolutely loved my beat and felt a real mission to do all that work - even though, as PP said, it did sometimes feel like I was writing versions of the same story a thousand times over. Then after surviving round after round of layoffs I got stuck with not one but THREE terrible managers, and left. Stayed in journalism for a few years after that but I didn't have the stomach to hustle for another job as good as the one I'd left - now I'm in nonprofits. Boring but hopefully stable. Weird personalities but I have real vacation time. Anyway, tradeoffs - and good luck PPs, either sticking it out or finding something you like better. |
Anonymous
| I just don't like working very much. I'd rather be independently wealthy. |
Anonymous
| It's a management issue and the way my agency is structured. And the red tape. I am seriously barred from so much because I'm a GS 12. I write reports and then someone else (who doesn't understand the report) presents it. Everyone takes credit for my work. It's asinine. And I can't get a promotion because I haven't had a manager in 5 years, just acting managers who can't promote you. I have a STEM masters degree. I've had 2 different job offers this year, but am not ready to leave yet. I love my subject area and am not ready to learn another. |
Anonymous
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Job demands I squeeze every dollar for profit. That hurts relationships. It hurts relationships with clients if I do, or relationships with bosses if I don't.
Hurt in all cases = a lot of yelling |
Anonymous
| My boss is a mean girl who runs a clique of mean girls. Boss lies, the other women backstab, and I can’t trust any of them. It’s become completely predictable that those of us not in the group won’t get the funding, approvals, etc. needed to go to conferences and do other things to advance our careers. But the paycheck is fairly nice. |
Anonymous
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I work in nurse administration. Hate it. Nursing is a 2nd career and didn't like the 1st career either. I always regretted not continuing my violin. Played for 10 years and then stopped. I wanted to be a pit musician or background musician for movies. I had all the right connections and LOVED the music but didn't have the discipline. Now, I go to movies and watch for the credits to see who the conductors are and musicians. I peer into theatre music pits after plays in NYC to see what might have been.
After all these decades, I still feel the music in my heart. I guess that's something. I think I'm going to cry. |
Anonymous
| It takes time away from family. I would enjoy it much more if i spent less time doing it. It now takes me about 40-50 hours in addition to travel of 2-3 weeks, and that’s just tough with family. So if I had less travel or less hours when I was not traveling, I would enjoy it more. |
Anonymous
Timing is everything Dust off that violin and get practicing! Don't cry. This one's for you, PP! https://www.bsomusic.org/calendar/events/2018-2019-events/rusty-musician-registration-fee/ |
Anonymous
Wow!! Thanks for sharing this! |