to think some people just aren't suited to 9-5 office work for someone else

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Hi,

I've recently taken up a new job. It is earning a lot more than I used to but I still really don't like it. I've always worked for myself in the past.

I just want to quit it but everyone says give it more time. I miss being able to just work when I like. Dislike all this brown nosing in the office. Find sat at a desk incredibly dull and restrictive. Hate having to wear a coat inside as the air con is so high. Hate the stale air from having the windows shut. Hate having to write objectives and all this other stuff. General dislike the office politics.

Aibu to just quit after 3 weeks?

Nothing is going to beat working for yourself, and setting your own agenda. Not everyone can do it successfully, as it takes a lot of self discipline, but if you can......why are you working for someone else?

Well I thought it would be less stressful working 8 hours 5 days a week than 24 hours 7 on my own stuff.

In the short term I'm richer working for someone else, but my wage will be pretty limited working for someone else.

what s/e work were you doing?

If you have been there 3 weeks and really hate it I would quit

But three weeks isn't any amount of time to give a fair judgment. After three weeks you're just about up to speed with a few tasks and you know where the loos and the kettle are. I wouldn't suggest anyone leave a job based on three weeks of being unhappy, especially when making such a big jump in working environment.

hmmn well i love my job but I have done similar jobs in an office working for someone else that I hate.
3 weeks is to soon to tell - i also think its a bit precious when people make sweeping statements like 'some people aren't suited to working for other people'

If you can't engage with that job or possibly with being an employee perhaps you should leave the job so that someone more motivated clean take it. Either you want less stress so you'll have to suck up the boredom or you want to go back to being your own boss and put up with the hard work, responsibility and stress.
You can't have it all but perhaps you need to do a bit of serious reflection and identify your priorities.

"Well I thought it would be less stressful working 8 hours 5 days a week than 24 hours 7 on my own stuff"

lol
Definitely less demanding of your time, and probably less stressful at times.
Still, I suspect not many who have worked for themselves would prefer to work for someone else again
Swings & roundabouts.
I like slides.

But there must be some pluses - holiday pay, sick pay, free coffee?

Oh yes there is a generous health plan thing ( after 3 months), pension, holiday dates and sick pay (well after 3 days in a year they can discipline you..)

But that doesn't seem to make up for the whole chained to the desk thing.

There's lots of free cake, although I don't see that as a benefit tbh! Lol

YANBU.

I work in an office and although I do enjoy my job, I hate having to sit there for a certain amount of hours. I feel very unproductive. I get very fed up of SITTING and facing the same bit of wall. I would much rather get to pick and choose when I work but I know that real life isn't like that.

That said, I'd hate to work in retail or a restaurant, or something outside in the cold so I really shouldn't complain!

Yeah, some of us are just on a higher plain. Just not suited to the life of a drone. Leave at once- the mundanes will be happy to do the job.

I hated working in an office. My job now is client home based so very varied. I have to work a bit more at christmas (no 2 week office closure for me!) which I do miss sometimes but it's the only thing I miss.

Honestly you send really unmotivated. I think if I were your employer I'd be happy for you to leave so that I could appoint someone who didn't spend her time in disengaged boredom looking down loftily and pityingly on ythe office drones.
Can't you even summon up any interest in the company you work for, or any enthusiasm for its aims, mission or objectives? Aren't you at all interested in your work even if the processes bore you?
What was your area of self employment and why was it too stressful?

I used to think I just hated work, when I worked in an office. Then I got a job which was field based. This means I am on the road half the time travelling to meetings (which may be around 1-2 hours plus travel time, can be anything from 30 mins to 5 hours away) and the rest of time I work from home.

I love it! No longer am I spending all day waiting for it to be five! Ironically I can do the same amount of work as I used to do in an office, be sat at a desk for 8 hours if I'm really busy but I don't mind because I know I can stop when I want, have a break, take a bath (I often do this mid day). Only because I don't have to be chained to my desk I don't mind.

My life's ambition is now to never work in an office again.

I can relate to this, only in the opposite way. Im currently in a labour intensive job which includes shift work and unsocialble hours and I'm tired of it. I ready for a rather predictable job mon-fri 9-5. I know my health would prefer it.

I have handed my notice in after 2 weeks in a job before. It was call center work and I hated it. It just wasn't for me at all.

I now work in an office and have done for 7 years, but not all offices are created equal. Even in the organisation I work in there are teams I would not join. I like flexi time so can come and go as i like as long as my hours add up in the end and the work is done, and i have a work from home day one day a week. If I have a choice I wouldn't work somewhere that didn't offer flexible working.

Maggie I think I need what you have! I quite like the work at times, but the whole chained to your desk really gets me down and makes me counter productive. If I was at home it would be fine. People often work a lot longer than contacted hours, for me I'm just waiting for 5 pm to come all day and if I've done all my work I leave then.