To hate working?

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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!

Project Engineer, hate my job. Used to love it but a lot changed while I was on maternity and I now despise it. Thinking about doing my pgde in primary teaching.

I'm a school counselor and I adore it and it means I get school holidays off with DC. If I won the lottery I wouldn't quit but I would definitely drop to two or three days a week.

My job is a pointless office job. I don't enjoy it. Weirdly I used to enjoy it when I was full time. After I returned part time after maternity leave I couldn't throw myself into work like before and it became stressful, unfulfilled and I'm unappreciated. I'm always compared to the younger enthusiastic and ambitious colleagues and I just can't compete.

I have considered a career change - like others primary school teaching appeals, but I also worry I'll regret the change in case work life balance worsens.

If you're talking about a £20 million set-for-life type win, I think most people that said they would keep doing the same job would be lying tbh

Even if you love your job (I do), if you wanted to continue the late nights/daily slog/childcare juggles (or whatever the worst parts of your job/working in general are) I'd think you were a pretty unimaginative person tbh!

I'm a teacher. Yes it's full on but it's never boring, and although it sounds cheesy I know I'm making a difference for the better to hundreds of teenagers.

I've certainly encouraged my children to aim for work which they'll find rewarding in other ways than purely financial. Realistically, unless you're in the tiny minority of people who will never need to earn because they were born into huge wealth, you'll be spending a good chunk of your adult life working. I think it's very sad when people admit to doing a job they loathe.

Secondary school teacher - love it. Teenagers are ace.

Yanbu I hate working too. If I could afford it, I would do voluntary work maybe a couple of times a week and the rest of the time I would be quite happy as long as I had some money to get out and about with. I hate the idea that such a big percentage of peoples life is taken up by work. All I hear is people dreading work and generally living for the weekends. It just doesn't seem right to me!

*If you're talking about a £20 million set-for-life type win, I think most people that said they would keep doing the same job would be lying tbh 

Even if you love your job (I do), if you wanted to continue the late nights/daily slog/childcare juggles (or whatever the worst parts of your job/working in general are) I'd think you were a pretty unimaginative person *

If you had a £20m win you could alleviate loads of the slog though. If you have a full time nanny you don't have to worry about pick up or drop off or scrambling to make arrangements if you have a sick child. You could get driven to work instead of battling trains and tubes. You could have all your clothes beautifully laundered, your house taken care of, an assistant to do all your life admin - you'd just have the actual work to focus on. If you don't enjoy your job then obvs the work itself isn't fulfilling on its own!!

My year not working wasn't horrific financially, but it was horrific emotionally.

Secondary English teacher here. My kids have grown up so feeling the pinch in having to fork out for term time premium on holidays.. term time is full on but I work with a fab bunch of people and we support each other. Teaching is very much about the school ethos you are working in

I think I'd still work if I won £20m. I am not very materialistic and my work is just mostly sitting at home helping people, wining court actions and that kind of stuff and reading quite a bit of law, writing about it. It's just intrinsically interesting. If I won £20m and got 3% interest on it before tax - that is £600m before tax so about £300k after tax. That's not enough to stop me working.

If I won even a million I'd give up my (much loved) job. I can pay off my mortgage and live off the rest til death.

Oh god I feel your pain. I do a hard physical job as a postwoman five days a week. I come home and cook tea and clean up. After dinner there is yet more cleaning to be done and the washing like gets bigger. Every morning I wake up and it's ground hog day and I have the can't be bothered feeling.
I used to do a job I loved but it was less money and I still felt the same. I would be very happy if I won the lottery and got to take things at my own pace, living through my hobbies and investing money into it.

I feel constantly tired and live for my days off. Even then there is grocery shopping and yet more cleaning to be done.
I always feel guilty because I never have the energy to bake with dd or go to the park or paint after work.

Allied health professional NHS. I adore it. I spent a long time as a sahm (over a decade) but feel working makes such a difference in a positive way. It is so deeply rewarding helping others. I prefer 3 or 4 days as have a long commute. It is very physical work and can be emotional and stressful too. But it is amazing. For me I could only do something that helps others amd not just making money for someone.