To be afraid that I'll never find/do a job that I will be happy with.

[BigRedBall]

Is everyone happy with their jobs or studies?

I've always ended up doing the wrong course or wrong job where I end up slogging away and getting into a rut with and hate with a passion.

It's left me afraid to retrain in anything because my life experience hasn't been that good with work. I think it's because I've always had to work under someone and I don't like that.

I'd really like to start my own business where I have flexibility and choice of what to do. Ideally I'd like to have a little online shop. I'd like that. But again I'm worried about getting bored, uninterested.

Im worried ill end up too old to do anything and then it'll be too late.
Anyone else feel like this?

I don't enjoy my job/career and it's something I trained for three years to do and have been promoted in/am doing well in.

The workload is unrealistic, management make it more stressful than it needs to be, feel quite sick at the thought of another 20 years. Don't have any other skills though so feel im faced with admin type roles (I have previous experience), shop work, going back to uni and retraining for what would be my third undergraduate degree, I have a masters as well. Dh would kill me!

I do love studying though and if I won the lottery Id enrol on a different degree course every three years.

I only like mine because the hours are short and I get to be off in the school holidays so therefore don't need childcare.

Otherwise it's manically busy, very physically demanding, not what many people think and the place is shite.

Like the people I work with.

I've never loved any of the jobs I've done. They've always been a means to an end. That end being a social life before I had children and now to pay for stuff for them and whatever else needs funding.

Working for a living is overated.

I mean I like the people I work with.

Thanks for all the replies it's really interesting to see what other people's views and experience of work are. My last job I was never at home with the children. Weekends I was so tired from the week we never did anything and this is what's happened everytime I've worked since having dd1. Too much stress and not enough pay.

I've given myself a kick up the bum and am going to start doing research into possible ideas I've had for an online business. No use crying about it and doing nothing is there? At least I'll know I've tried. .

I could have written the exact same post myself... No advice to offer unfortunately but i do understand how much this can affect your confidence and quality of life in general... Reasing replies with interest

Another one unhappy with their job - and many of my previous ones. I've had two which I loved and then circs changed/made redundant from, a few stop gappers and 2 in particular bosses from hell ones (hence I didn't just leave the job but the industry as well!).

Currently off work due to stress from current job

foslady . Wish I could give you some advice. My last job made me very ill indeed.

I don't enjoy my job. BUT it earns me enough money to pay the mortgage (ok contribute as DH earns twice as much as me) Its flexible so I can do the school runs two days a week. Its stable. If I had money to burn, I would make bags for a living. However I don't - and making bags will not a steady income make. So I suck it up.

I'm a bit like this.

I have high expectations of what I want from work so I get disillusioned when it's not all I hoped for.

I had a couple of really great jobs when I was younger (that I didn't appreciate at the time) and everything else will probably be in their shadow.

I feel exactly the same!!! I left a well paid job approx 9 months ago due to stress and lack of support. I took a very part time job which doesn't obviously pay as much. The staff are a great team but I don't enjoy the work at all. Feel quite restless and unfulfilled but equally don't really know what I want to do either!!! Awful feeling being unsettled!!! Always try to look at positives - as Baz Luhreman advises. I am lucky to have a job!!!

Bigredball - please don't think for one minute that working for yourself/being self employed is the greener grass on the other side. it isn't. if I knew years ago what it would be like I probably would have stayed in my boring 9 - 5 local govt job. instead I have no regular income, I have to be available to e mail at any time day or night because my quote for the work has to get there first (this is how you get the job!) some days I am just absolutely exhausted dealing with people who work for us directly and indirectly. there are no easy money making ideas because if there were we would all be doing them. there is no such thing as Mr Right when it comes to jobs only Mr Compromise and each of us accept and compromise on different things. why does everyone have these high expectations of work? its a means to an end nothing more nothing less.

From reading these posts it seems we are all a little bit over qualified. (Widens door frames)