To hate working?

[caddywally]

I really don't enjoy my job and resent having to spend the best part of 5 days a week doing something I don't enjoy on any level. I can't imagine ever finding anything I would want to spend 40 hours a week doing, unless it paid enough that I could pack it in after a few years! Does anyone else feel this way or have I just not found the right job?

To those of you who do enjoy your job and wouldn't resign even if you won the lottery, what do you do and what do you like about it? I need some inspiration!

I am an astrophysicist and would still keep doing my research even if I won the lottery. It is my dream job.

@caddy

It can be a little bit like that, if it goes wrong the results can be catastrophic. But it's rare that you are ever in a position to make a decision you aren't qualified to or capable of making. If you do, then you need the balls to say so.

I feel the same. I don't hate my job and I really like the people I work with, but for a start I am massively underpaid given I have specific qualifications for the job I do. Doesn't help that I have access to sensitive salary info, so can see just how underpaid I am compared to my colleagues, and I work for one of the largest oil and gas operators in the world who are renowned for being big payers 😞. I'm still young though (27) so just need to be patient I guess.

Emergency services.

It's high pressure, long shifts, always changing, always different, amazing bunch of colleagues, and feeling like you're making a difference. I absolutely love it.

Solicitor here and I hear you - if I had a lottery win I'd be out like a shot. I've got great colleagues and am paid very well in comparison to most people but it doesn't feel like good pay when you take into account my hours and stress levels. I'd love to do something more rewarding but it would be very tricky to take a pay cut now.

I loved my job, can't be too specific as it's very outing but it involved managing a team of 13 engineers. It was like having 13 kids, the job was fast paced and I loved the banter and the pay was great and more importantly I was very good at it!

I was medically retired 3 years ago due to chronic ill health and disability and haven't worked since and I'm bored shitless!

I'd love to go to work, I'm only early 40's so still young (IMO )

I'm a writer.
I think I'll be doing it until the day I pop my clogs

Me neither. I bloody hate having to work! I am currently debating dropping a day a week to 30 hours but I'd loose around £400. I think I could manage without it but also hate the thought of struggling!

I HATE working. I feel so resentful of it and feel...cheated in a way that this is life and I have to do it. I cannot believe I won't retire until at least 70 and am so sick of it already. YANBU. Sadly no answers, just head down and slog on I guess.

I hate working, I like having all my time to myself to do exactly as I please

Also I have asked to go down to four days a week and the fuckers won't let me. Even though all the mums in the office are part time. But they've said because I don't have childcare needs I have to be full time. I feel so fucking sour about it.

OP I think you need a list of 'what I want in a job' and 'definite no nos' to get anywhere. Also what are your best skills?

I love my job

I take very strong opioid pain medication to manage chronic pain from a spinal injury, and had to come off them completely for about a year while I was undergoing multiple rounds of IVF, being pregnant and having miscarriages. I wasn't able to work during this time and was pottering around at home. I've never been so bored shitless in my life.

Whilst I would have liked to have not been able to return to work because of being pregnant and having to take maternity, sadly things didn't work out that way and we have to accept we can't have children. So I'm back on my pain meds and have been back at work since my last miscarriage.

I didn't realise how much I missed being at work until I was back. It's a huge part of my identity, keeps me fulfilled, keeps me learning, mentally sharp and stimulated and I get to meet awesome people. I went completely batshit not being at work!

I didn't realise how much I missed being at work until I was back. It's a huge part of my identity, keeps me fulfilled, keeps me learning, mentally sharp and stimulated and I get to meet awesome people. I went completely batshit not being at work!

I had something similar: time off for health reasons. Once I am well enough I am start itching to go back. My professional identity is a huge part of my identity; it is important to me to be at work if I possibly can be.

I love my job and retrained approaching middle age to get it. I had a decent-but-boring job that was middle-of-the-road paid and was at a point that I felt I couldn't face the next 20 years waking up and doing it. I now have more of a struggle to balance work/home life and frequently miss out on sleep and eating, but I have an enormous amount of self fulfilment and don't regret my decision in the slightest. I am v. v. happy.

All that said, if I won the lottery - no damn way would I keep on working.

Love it. Lawyer, work for myself, most days from home, work very hard but as it's as enjoyable as any hobby and I keep all the money too it just about as good as it gets.

I own my own business. I love it - it's not a job as such, it's what I do, it's just part of my life. It's like being a parent in many ways - I'm always on, always worrying about it, but when it does well the satisfaction is immense. I manage my own time and every bit of effort I put in, I reap the rewards (I also suffer the losses of any failure of course, but hey ho).

I wasn't able to work during this time and was pottering around at home. I've never been so bored shitless in my life.

See I don't get this. I took a year and a half off work following redundancy and had a great time. Loved pottering about. Had no interest in going back to work but I ran out of money.

What do you do banana?

@CorporalNobbyNobbs I went hatstand pottering about at home. If I had been able to get out and do some volunteering or something maybe I wouldn't have been so bored rigid. But the reason I wasn't in work was for health reasons - so if I'd been in a state to be able to go out volunteering I'd have been in work!

I'm a digital strategy consultant - so basically I help make digital products and services. I'm freelance so I get to tart around with loads of different organisations, which I love. I did a bit of consulting work from home where I could, but otherwise I just felt completely stale. My confidence was completely shot as well - I get so much satisfaction from work, and as I was having failed cycle after cycle and miscarriage after miscarriage, I just felt defective. So not being in work made me feel like a total non -person - I wasn't achieving anything!!

Being back at work has made a huge difference to my mental wellbeing. I can feel good at something! And I get the stimulation of being with lots of other people, as well as being challenged by the work I do. While I've been having more failed treatment, and had to get through the heartbreak of accepting that we can't have children, I don't think I could have hacked it over the last 9 months if I hadn't had the distraction and satisfaction of work

Just to answer the OP, yes in teaching you work ALL the hours but you can manage it yourself to some extent. If I've not got a meeting, I leave at 3.30 do my work later on the evening in front of the TV.

You are also semi-autonomous in your own classroom. And teenagers are brill. We have a right laugh.

I'm a secondary science teacher and despite the workload and pressure I love it!

I love the kids and every day is different. It's lovely seeing them get their grades in the exams and grow into young adults.

Plus I get the school holidays with me son

I love my job, it's dead good.
I'm an enbalmer.
See, even us undertaker types have a sense of humour.
Yes, if I won enough on the lottery I would retire.

Embalmer.
Have sense of humour, but shit spelling.

I'm a children's nurse. I work on a general paediatric ward, which whilst we do get hard stressful days and deaths, are few and far between. Most days are wonderful, rewarding, we have a really supportive team ethic with a great work-life balance so staff morale is very high. We also work 12.5 hour shifts so you typically have at least 3 days off a week.

I love my job, I can honestly say I never wake up dreading going into work.

YANBU. I wouldn't enjoy ANY job. I don't like being committed to having to work. I just don't like working.

If anything happens that means I don't have to work, I'll stop immediately and never go back.