Does anyone else hate working no matter the job?

I feel the same. Even when I was a child I never had a dream job or career. From a young age I was saying I would take whatever job allowed me to be there to do school pick up and drop off.
I've never been passionate about any job I've ever had and it's never been anything more than a necessity for me. I have hobbies and interests but I can't think of anything worse than making a hobby in to a job. I've thought long and hard about what jobs I could possibly enjoy and I've come up with nothing.

I’m another one who think making a hobby my job would be a disaster.

I love my hobbies purely because I can do them at my leisure!

I don’t hate my job or working but I consistently hate having to rush to get up in the morning and sit in the rush hour traffic. Hate it. My best sleep time is early morning so I often feel I should actually be sleeping when I’m getting up/commuting. My mum said once to me that I’d find it easier to get up in the morning the older I got… I’m still waiting for that!!!

Soon as you monetise hobbies it takes the fun away

I am excellent at organising and using my time, if anything work slows me down because I have to involve other people.

My hours spent working are the least productive ones I spent all day! I worked 4 days a week a few years back and on the fifth day I did consultancy work, cooked, exercised and gained a new qualification.

I am task oriented, but being employed is a drag.

Nothing in anybody's life is on their terms - you are not alone in this.

This sounds like me

Work to live don’t live to work is the only advice I can give

I hate working. I was fortunate to go down to a four day week, then a three day week in my mid 30s which gave me plenty of time to do stuff I actually wanted to be doing. I've never earned anything spectacular either because I had enough, and didn't want to spend more time working to progress.

I was a very high achiever at school and outside of work! It's like the fact that something is compulsory, every day, makes even fun stuff no longer fun. I envy people who love their job.

It didn't help that my job was basically pointless paper shuffling.

I gave up ASAP upon having kids and absolutely love being a sahm. I suppose it's work, but it just feels like spending time with my favourite person.

I have found so far that working for myself at a good hourly rate is better than working for a company. It's often the office politics and useless meetings that are the worst. There is no such thing as an easy job I don't think.

Yes,I can't get round the idea that I have one life and most of it is spent at work!

I don't really enjoy my job, but changing means starting at a lower salary which I can't afford. I know I'm not fulfilling my potential at all.

Job satisfaction is mildly heritable and a quick google shows that around 30% of people are genetically predisposed to be dissatisfied with work.

Sorry that could be you!

I feel exactly the same as you. I’m so drained and bored and frustrated, and life is too expensive. I’d love to be in a position where I didn’t have to work and could just live a leisurely, easy, simple life.

Just found out my job is at serious risk of redundancy. I’m terrified about what this could mean but a big part of me is desperate for a break - though I have mad anxiety about not finding another role that pays enough to just barely scrape by like I do now. It’s horrible. It’s no way to live.

I hate to break it to you, but you are in charge of your own life and no one is going to come and rescue you. Start with a plan of small steps you can take to work towards the life you want.

I’m mid 40s and I’d definitely like to drop down to 4 days a week if possible. (I mean 1 day a week would be lovely). But I’m also grateful to have a job, as much as I moan.

I like my job, no stress, proper work life balance, amazing boss, colleagues etc.
But if I had a choice I wouldn’t work. I’m 57 and have worked FT since I was 16.
I’ve had enough now.

Why would changing jobs have to mean a drop in salary? That's not normal.

I never minded work was a bit of a workaholic as long as I was in charge.

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.

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 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 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..

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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.

Fellow wage slave - it pays the bills