People who don't enjoy (or hate) their jobs. Why?

[Anonymous]

Job is boring but fine.

[Anonymous]

I work on a great cause, but terrible people who get off in undermining each other. Leaving to be a consultant and the rates I’m able to command are an eye opener! I urge you all to quit and free yourself from office politics and lane facetime.

[Anonymous]

My leadership is clueless, conservative and very very unprogressive. They are impatient and impractical. People are leaving in droves but our leadership doesn’t care.

I’ll be glad when I’m financially free enough to say f^ck you to corporate America forever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've had jobs I've hated. It's always been a culture/management issue. Tedious and hard work can be fun if you're with the right people.

This a good culture and group of people can make it worthwhile. Right now in a bad culture and terrible manager. It has taken all of the pleasure out of working.

Totally agree with you.
I love my work as an elementary school teacher but despise the cliquish culture of those colleagues, members of principal’s inner circle, who rejoice in making their less popular colleagues’ life miserable.

I have worked in schools like that and it was awful. My current school has lovely, warm, supportive staff but the needs of the kids are so intense. I stay because I know how rare it is to find a team like ours.

[Anonymous]

Love nursing, but absolutely abhor the hospital environment I do it in. The patients are no longer the primary focus, but rather the bloated, self-serving administration. Sad to see healthcare degraded over the years into a pursuit focused on "bonuses for the management"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This is so sad to read...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach a class of 2 year olds. After 15 years, I still love the kids, but I'm burnt out, and I long for a job without poop and snot. At this point, if I could make $40k anywhere else, I'd jump ship in a heartbeat...but it seems all the entry level jobs around here want someone to have 5+ years of experience and pay $12/hour. So I'm stuck.

Are you sure it'd have to be an entry-level job? 15 years of experience is a lot. Maybe curriculum development?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a spin-off on the great thread that was posted recently.

If you hate your job, why?

Please identify if you work in the DC area or not.

Because I add no value back to humanity. I just collect an enormous paycheck. I work hard to develop interests outside of work It is a fine balance to pretend I give a shit about my work.

[Anonymous]

I am a program manager at a hospital for a group of physicians...I work in Maryland.

Reasons I hate it:
I work 8 hours a day and probably actually work 2 of the 8.
I am bored out of my skull.
I do not do anything that requires real brain power.
My masters degree is a waste.

I would do anything for a job where my skills are actually utilized and I didn't spend my day warming a char.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm guessing GW or American?

[Anonymous]

This thread makes me sad. Misery loves company. These are the times I wish I was a genie of 2nd chances.