Feel trapped in bullshit job with good pay/benefits

[onesweetlife]

Anyone with me?

I hate my job. I don't believe in what I'm doing, I don't enjoy it, I ultimately feel it's pointless. I rarely get any recognition or praise, and I work mostly on my own so there is none of the team spirit/cameradie others talk about.

However. I'm pretty well paid for what I do (considering my qualifications aren't that great and I have no particular expertise) and the job is really flexible. I've just been able to reduce my hours to three days a week from four, and only need to work in the office one day a week.

Basically I hate it but I'm trapped because the benefits are really good. Anyone with me? I feel like my soul is dying so I look at online job vacancies but they all pay less and are full time and so I decide I need to stick it out with the current job and so it goes on and on and on...

Me too ! Redundant would be so great. But I am too useful and cheap.

Sometimes I do an hours work and as no in else would be able to do, consider that my work for the day.

You are bored indeed OP if even the joys of being a wind up merchant have paled. But I guess I do work with crazy workaholics, not nice people.

Can you retrain whilst working? Work hard for one hour, have the next hour off?

@onesweetlife Ive spoken to a few different types as my skills are fairly transferrable, finance assistant roles, finance support roles, recruitment research, some wealth management firms for support roles, construction firms who need credit controller/purchasing admin.

Ive been keeping an open mind!

I was wondering if I could ask to be made redundant if I was thinking of leaving anyway! Not sure how that would go down as it would be a bit obvious that you wanted to leave. It would be great especially if there was some potential jobs on the horizon.

I WFH full time. Get paid well for 35 hours, good benefits but do almost fuck all. I think I worked 9 hours this week.

Bosses know I have nothing to do and keep saying I will get more in future but it never comes. They don't seem to mind or care that they pay me for a full time job that is barely part time.

I've only been there since August after being made redundant from a good CS job. To date I have never worked 35 hours.

It'a mind numbingly boring. I feel ungrateful.

@MulticatHouse I would kill for that situation! I’d write a book in the downtime between work tasks. At my previous role I managed to repaint half my house during the working week. Sadly my current job pays badly and is really full-on; I’m sticking it out because it’s fully remote and 3 days a week – allowing for book-writing time – but if I could do it while getting paid…

I do a lot of cleaning and arts/crafts!

Yes me! Job is so flexible, I can book days off whenever I want, plan my diary, start early and finish late when I want. But I’ve done the job 15 years and I am bored! I could do the same job somewhere else but take half a pay cut, so I’m stuck staying where I am. I debated setting up my own business but not sure I want to be self employed (at least I still get paid at the moment if I am on holiday). Plenty of people at my company have done the job 20-30+ years as they are basically waiting for final salary pension. I think I just need to accept it’s just a job that pay the bills 🤷‍♀️