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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did everything the right way. I grew up poor & am a minority. Went to the military, got out and used the GI bill at a top undergrad. I interned on the hill. Got a prestigious fellowship for a year and then went to a top grad school. My resume is very strong and I am frequently praised for being a hard worker..but I legitimately hate working. I hate the creepy management, I hate office politics & the small 'watercooler talk', I hate that I have to put a smile on my face and deal with disgruntled clients, I hate working for the sake of working and having to fill my calendar with 40 hours even if I can effectively do all my work in 20 hours. I'm miserable trying to do this corporate grind. I left a job paying well over 100k because I have never felt so unfulfilled and dreaded going to work and not knowing what senior management was going to decide was a good idea that day. I'm not even motivated by the money like I was before.

For those of you who have experienced what I have, how did you survive? How did you end up finding something that was in that 30 hour a week time frame? Is federal side any better? Corporate? Small business?[/quote]

Stop looking for money or title or whatever box you feel you have to check off. Look for work with people you genuinely like and respect. It sounds like you like work just fine. (You could not have achieved what you have already if you hated to work.) Rather, you hate working in a toxic workplace. [/quote]

+1 hating your job is not the same as hating work

Sounds like you’ve worked hard and accomplished a lot. Based on all the hard work you did to get where you are, I suspect you didn’t hate work or you would have given up long ago.

Relax and figure out what you enjoy and then do more of that.[/quote]

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