Yes, I know, at the mere age of 26 I should not be so fed up with the working world. But I am. I am so tired of working. I took yesterday off, and all I could think was, "I SO do not want to go to work EVER AGAIN." I wish there was some way for me to stay home and make money. The only way it is really socially acceptable to stay home and not work is to have children and become a stay at home mom (and even then, they don't get much respect). However, I don't want the children piece, so that foils that idea!
It would be so nice to be able to sleep in until 11 if I had a headache. It would be so nice to take a nap at 2 if I had a headache. A lot of wanting to stay at home has to do with my constant headaches.
My job is uninteresting and I have not made any friends. I miss the social aspect of work. At my last job, people talked to me. Wacky things happened. I had a few close friends to talk to. At my new job, I am lucky if someone says "hi" to me in passing.
Maybe if I was doing something remotely interesting at my job, working wouldn't be so bad...but editing this subject matter is like gnawing on old, dry toast. I think I am going to have to move if I want an interesting editing career.
The other thing that's bugging me is that all of my friends are getting huge raises and promotions. I have yet to hit $35K, almost 5 years out of college. I have friends in my age group making twice that.
*sigh* just sad, crabby, and sick of working today (and yes, I have a headache).
On the spending front, I've spent way more than I had budgeted. Car is not fixed yet. Enough said.
really tired of working
December 13th, 2005 at 04:18 pm
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The only saving graces are that I generally like the nature of the work I am doing and I have (finally, finally) a boss who lets me work from home when huge deadlines are looming. Though I would not want to do it regularly, I actually get more done when I am at home. I take shorter breaks because I am more aware of the perception that I might be slacking.
Hang in there. It's taken me till the ripe old age of 35 to get to this point. You only sink when you stop trying.
December 14th, 2005 at 04:46 am 1134535598
However, I like a couple of things about this job (even though my wife says its just my excuses for being lazy). One, I work 8 hrs/5 days a week and that's it. I don't have to wear a pager, I don't have to work overtime etc. Two, the hours are flexible to a certain extent. I go in at 11am and leave at 8pm...missing the rush hours and being able to spend time with my little girl in the mornings.
But you answered your own question, if you want to enjoy freedom and wealth you have to have your own business. Not to mention the tax advantages of one. I've been wanting to do something myself but finding what to do and quitting work to make it happen is a challenge - so start thinking about it now while you're single and don't have kids because it only gets tougher
March 1st, 2006 at 10:12 pm 1141251166
www.jillward.net
good luck there with the job.....
November 5th, 2006 at 05:26 pm 1162747572
Being tired of working has nothing to do with salary. I am 36 and make 120K a year. But I am not at all happy in my job and would love to do a job which is satisfying. I would even do it for half of the money, because believe me, money is not a motivator at all.
Working is all about being staisfied with what you do 8 hours a day and who your colleagues are. At the end of the week you shoudl be proud of what you accomplished.
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Quite frankly, you are incredibly rude. I am going to assume that your vile reply was directed solely at me, since this is my blog.
I am perfectly entitled to say whatever I wish on my own blog. If I want to complain, I will. If you don't like it, oh well.
It seems you didn't take the time to notice that this post was made over THREE years ago. In that time, I have done a significant amount to improve my career situation, but I am sure that does not interest you. If it did, perhaps you would have read more recent posts instead of digging this one out of the archives.
Congratulations on finding someone to snark at this evening - I hope you feel better about yourself.
January 2nd, 2009 at 01:51 am 1230861107
8 years and I can retire.
I wish I could retire today but still have 3 kids at home.
I am currently looking hard for another job.
Good luck on finding what you want.
David
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Even worse is my job is in a basement, no windows, no sunlight, it's depressing.
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This site made me feel better... & well at the same time worse. It is so obvious that the majority of the people are living by society's rule & really not doing much because they believe there is no other choice. Also lack of cojones, if you know what I mean...
Now tell me, did you google tired of working because you wanted a site that would lift your spirits up? (I know for a fact I did)... or were you looking for a mysterious site which would recruit you "fight club" style??? Maybe looking for other options???
In any case truth is, that although work may suck most of us are not brave enough to live freely without the common fears (debt, children, payments & the like).... But if you reaallllyyyy absolutely hate your job, so much you'd actually consider punching a nail in your head to get a day off, LEAVE. RUN TO THE WOODS MAN. On the other hand, if still bearable, HANG IN THERE.
More than a job, think about what you want from life & think real hard on what you want to get done before you die. Time flies & it's really such a shame wasting it being all pessimistic w/what you've got. Whatever you want to do in your life, just do it. & please, NEVER SETTLE.
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Me too.
Working sucks. I used to own my own business and it was like being married to an overly-needy partner. And no sex. Now I work for "Da Man" and there's the normal workplace idiocy.
Really, it's an ideal job for the work. But working just sucks. Just another clog. All those studies from the past about how many people hated working all the sudden "disappeared." Yeah right. Everything's become so alienated we've not only lost touch with each other, but ultimately ourselves.
At least until we all end up wolfing down meds and paying off shrinks while we choke on artificial food of every type.
Self/World destruction or bust! Nice legacy.
October 12th, 2009 at 05:54 pm 1255370047
I barely have 9 months at my present job and I am already tired of it. I hate sitting down in front of a computer for 8 hours a day. Job is ok, but not 8 hours a day.
I remember working as a waiter and hating to be standing and rushing 8 hours a day. I remember working in the field (which was really cool) and hating to
have to do it 8 hours a day.
I have worked in so many different places and still don't feel satisfied with any of those. To me it seems that I reach a point when my new job is not something new anymore and then monotony strikes and I loose any kind of interest.
I just think having to do anything 8 hours a day sucks. Even something enjoyable -say playing video games or going to the beach- would become tiring and monotonous doing it 40 hours a week.
I tried to start my own business. I failed and quit easily. But I am going to try again and again. Next time I'll do it better and won't quit as easily. If I fail I will do it again and again until I succeed reaching economic independence and freedom of schedule or until I die trying.
Thanks for opening a place to be able to express all my frustration with the work matter.
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People who sneer at you for not wanting to work are just taking an opportunity to feel better than you. They should be ready with a full list of why you _should_ want to work, and leave any theological rigmarole out first of all.
If they weren't too busy being unpleasant, such people might instead make the salient point: When has wanting something meant anything? You were famously born without wanting it, since there was no 'you' to want it (not until you first drew breath, and probably not after, given that your first reaction was to cry and scream). You will quite possibly not want to die when you do. Why should anything in between be as you want it?
Things are right only when we make them right ('There is no Justice, there's Just Us,'); this can variously take the form of finding a better job, working like a dog and being lucky until you can retire, or working toward a revolution (social or technological) that destroys the hierarchical jobs system and doesn't replace it with something even worse.
Get cracking; do as good a job as you can at getting what you want, without being a jerk about it. Know that it's right to want what you want, but that this has nothing directly to do with reality.
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