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Anyone else hate working, no matter what you’re doing?

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whatnoooow · 17/03/2025 15:41

I’m 38 and I’m hitting the horrific reality that I’ve probably got another 30 years of work to do.

No matter what industry I’ve worked in, as soon as I get about 2 years in to a role, I start to despise it and I can’t keep job hopping in to random industries. My CV will look like a patchwork quilt! The kicker is, I don’t even earn well!

Does anyone else feel like this?

Has anyone got out of this rut?

OP posts:
HornyHornersPinkyWinky · 18/03/2025 19:09

ohforfoxs
I totally agree - I used to work in HR, in three different companies, and realised that they promise a lot, but so much of it is lip service.
You’re not actually there for the employees benefit, no matter what they say - you are paid by the company at the end of the day.

Because HR wasn’t a department that generated revenue, they were basically ignored by senior management, meanwhile the sales guys could get away all sorts.

DingDingRound3 · 18/03/2025 19:19

frozendaisy · 18/03/2025 08:28

Well sort of
you were dead at 26 mind
in pain
no teeth
childbirth was risky
if you were ill, no use to the tribe you were left behind
always on alert for predators
no bathing
covered in fleas

No teeth is a myth. No sugar, good teeth.

LurcherMumma · 18/03/2025 19:22

Well, no, and yes...I really would rather hold on to the hope that it's the job and not that it would be impossible for me to be happy in any job.

And yet 2 years is about my trend so far.

MyObservations · 24/03/2025 11:16

PoppyBaxter · 18/03/2025 07:15

Nothing's unreasonable if it works for everyone involved.

That's true, but if the reliance is on the State, and the only income the State has is from the taxpayer, how does one know if "it works for everyone"? Given the general view that taxes are too high (and the highest they have ever been in the UK apparently) then perhaps the notion that it doesn't work for everyone is a reasonable proposition? If I'm wrong here, then I'm quite prepared to go on the record that where there is no extenuating circumstance for financial support to be provided by the State and it is one of personal choice by the recipient, it doesn't work for me. Therefore, using your line, it is unreasonable.

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