Does anyone else hate working no matter the job?

The counterpoint is what would you do with your life if you didn't have to work?

People volunteer doing similar work to me. And I'll probably volunteer in the field when I retire. Very much depends on the job though. No one is volunteering at Tescos.

I'm amazed at all the 'wage slave' posts. I've not always loved working, but I really like my job now and I've no idea what I'd do if I didn't work.

I get a lot of satisfaction from my job - maybe it's the job I have. I feel like I'm positively contributing to public health in Scotland in a small way.

I've just turned 50, and have teenage children. I feel like I've got a lot left to give and am happy to be doing it. I don't earn a high salary (public sector) but I get a lot of satisfaction from my work.

I just know that if I didn't have the structure at work I would struggle with self motivation. I'm not good at doing things that I want to do, rather than doing things that need to be done. If that makes sense.

Very true, and even then the name of the game is to pay just enough to get you coming back day after day. Its the same with time. It makes a lot of sense to employ people full time, not so so may hours they exhaust themselves and can no longer function, but just enough that they don't have the energy to run away.

Totally get you. I also suffer from the grass is greener syndrome. Went back to an old job I enjoyed (as much as you can for a job and also that old grass is greener thing) and honestly can't imagine levaing now. I'd rather not work of course but life costs money!

If people liked working they wouldn't have to pay people to get them to do it.

This is the same for me!! There is SO MUCH I could be doing if I didn't have to work!

I think that is a lot of people! I am a fairly good earner and get some decent perks (health insurance, car) and get to travel to some very cool places with my job; but I still find it tedious and stressful most of the time. I know it wouldn't be any better in another job (i don't want to work at all!) so I continue to stick with this one!
I try to work on stress management so it doesnt feel as draining day to day

I hate the commute. I can manage one day a week but 2 days in the office where thanks to TFL, nothing runs to schedule and I am travelling around 3 hours a day round trip. It just tires me out and the people in each others space on the tube. I don’t blame them, they need to go to work and all of us squashed into metal tubes just to keep the wheels of this capitalist system turning. It’s not about collaboration at work, it about increasing spending in the city, on lunches, transport, then drinks in the evening. the work itself is well paid and interesting, I’m just knackered.

I love/ am able to do my job for the first time ever (have loved the people and the places before but always struggled keeping up with the work) but for the first time ever don’t get on with most of my colleagues, I’d say because I’m at my most exhausted and I just shuffle through the day (4 kids and constant childcare issues plus me and dh up and down). I don’t know what’s better tbh, it’s probably a relief now that I’m not struggling with work and workload but I miss having people I get along with

I'm always bit surprised by people when they say they would be bored without work. I'm usually bored by it. People go to work for the 'intellectual stimulation' whilst I find that work takes too much time away from thinking. Left to my own devices I can occupy myself and I resent not having time to learn and research about things that interest me.

It's not unusual. Job hopping isn't either, especially these days - it was quite on trend a few years ago to have a "portfolio career" which was just a pretentious way of saying "a bit of this and a bit of that".

I know what you mean. I don't dislike my job. But I would really like a change.

I won't be able to start something else without taking a pay cut and I certainly can't afford to do this (just about surviving on what I earn now).

So I have been stuck for quite a few years now which makes me sad I've not been brave enough to take a leap.

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What's to stop you retraining or moving to something different?

With 30 years working life left you definitely need to look for a new job!

Yes, thank you. That is what I meant.

I've moved up (progression), down (after Mat Leave) and sideways in the same industry and i've still never wanted to go to work.

I was actually on your thread about work… how’s things @Greedybilly . Are you going to pass probation?

Are you me?? I feel exactly the same with the same situation

Fellow wage slave - it pays the bills

I’ve never loved my work, but I think it is ok and fairly fulfilling. I work part-time, not too much pressure. I didn’t work for a year (through choice) and I found it demoralizing and I got anxious about finding work, so I would say work has a purpose.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I could have written this post. Currently out of work for the first time in my working life and I realised I don't want to work anywhere! Not sure if I'm in a midlife crisis or what but I have no interest in work, other than I need money..

I don’t work. However when I did, I had a year timeline and as soon as I’d done a year somewhere the boring repetitive nature of the cycle repeating would play on my mind.

Now I do things I enjoy (for no financial benefit). I wake up every day feeling like I have the opportunity to do anything today.

When life starts to feel too repetitive I’ll travel somewhere I’ve never been.

I think she means changing industry so having to go down a level to retrain. Rather than moving sideways or up in the same industry.

I don't mind working and I actually enjoy the main bit of my job (lawyer, so I love actually practising the law though all the financial admin, office politics, client development etc not so much). I do feel working FT is a real drag though. I feel exhausted by Thursday, never mind Friday and then "waste" a lot of the weekend recovering and procrastinating.

I'm early 50s and really hoping to go down to 4 days in a few years, then 3 in the run up to retirement. I'm trying to stash enough in my pension to have the option to retire at 60 although I might keep going longer if I can do 3 days by then. Nothing really gives my brain a good workout like law and I think it's good for me cognitively and mental health wise.

But I have had less inspiring jobs such dragged and where I constantly clock watched so I do get it. Some people just aren't inspired by any job and/or find the actual working exhausting and overwhelming/too stressful/too draining. I've known people like that and they do try, but it seems like they are just destined to hate working.