If you hate your job

[Redsunrise]

Can I ask what you do?

NHS admin. A specialist service with long waiting lists and highly paid managers that don't give a crap how understaffed we are.

Environment job - technical specialist for a ridiculously niche area that everyone flaps about but no one is willing to actually put any money towards so I’m left constantly spinning plates feeling like I’m doing a crap job, and trying to stop my team from feeling like they’re doing a crap job, as they’re doing amazingly it’s just there isn’t enough of us to cover the work.

Hilariously, given all the posts on here, I’ve been seriously thinking about retraining into nursing once I’m done with kids etc.

Was a primary school teacher - left 4 years ago NEVER to return!!

Ha! I left community midwifery for my current job. I'm now toying with the idea of going back to it, but I wouldn't touch a hospital-based job with a bargepole. Waaaaaaay too stressful.

Civil service client advisor. Inbound calls and admin. Moved countries recently, now earning 1/3 of what I was in a mind-numbingly boring and repetitive role. It's only a temporary contract so I'll probably be unemployed soon, and honestly it'll be a relief.

Retail manager.

I loved my old job, I was in a lovely shop with a great team, nice customers. I felt really respected and area managers were always impressed with my input. I was about to get a good pay rise...

Then Covid meant the shop closed.

I’m now in another retail management job which I know I was lucky to get so soon after losing my last one. However the new store is more ‘bargain basement’. We get a lot of horrible and abusive customers and are targeted by druggies shoplifting. The shop is ran in a very old fashioned way in an old crumbling building. I’m not allowed a say in anything as the owners take control of everything.

Luckily my team are really nice and we do have a laugh at times, but on the whole I just want to get the fuck out of retail.

God knows what I’d do though, I’ve got no qualifications and retail is all I’ve ever known,

Solicitor 😑 the anxiety over work is crippling. I feel like I'm in too deep to change careers now and I've no idea what I'd actually like to do.

Carer. I still do the same type of job now but in april I changed employers as I couldnt stand how toxic it was in the last place. I put up with it for years and really wish I didnt.. why I thought I was stuck there I'll never know. Finding a new job was easy (see: carer) and this one suits me much better.

Local authority. Utterly mystified how anything gets done with the level of absolute 'not my jobbing' that goes on, management are totally out of their depth, and everything takes an age, for no reason other than incompetence.

Came to it from private sector and spend most of my time banging on senior management doors and demanding an audience. My managers just quiver and say 'ooooh, you can't do that!' No? Frigging watch me - it's my taxes your pissing up the wall, you bloody well will listen!

Argh!

Grew to hate my last job with every fibre of my being over the course of 10 years (teacher). Didn't think I could do anything different, the outlook was so dark. On a whim applied for a completely different job and left a few years ago, life is a dream now.

A veterinary nurse.

Bloody love the patients and most aspects of the job but clients are absolute knobs. We/vets have the highest suicide rate for a bloody reason and it’s because people are awful.

@Gwenhines

Grew to hate my last job with every fibre of my being over the course of 10 years (teacher). Didn't think I could do anything different, the outlook was so dark. On a whim applied for a completely different job and left a few years ago, life is a dream now.

Ohhhh Gwenhines what do you do now if you don't mind me asking?

Corporate bullshit email communications, so boring, but it's mostly the insane drivel around everything and the panicking ans nonsense that kills me but would have no idea what job I would do if I left anyway.

I've been thinking of primary teaching ...

What's so wrong with it nowadays?

Accounts Assistant. Dull and a prick of a boss and colleagues who constantly stab you in the back and would shit on you as soon as look at you. Excited to say it's my last day tmw! Tbh my favourite job of all time was working on the checkouts at Tesco when my kids were babies, bloody loved it!

Manage a team for a transport company - it's okay but all feels a bit aimless

Customer care
I adore the (nice) customers and I’m good at it
My problem is my face doesn’t fit with the bosses and we are on our feet 9 hours a day/5days a week
I’m sick of out being able to walk,doing jobs I really shouldn’t be doing,working below a sex crazed boss who hounds the teenagers and the crappy customers
They keep sending our emails asking us to tick boxes that we are happy in our jobs
I told them the truth and nobody has got back to me so I guess nobody wants to know
Oh and we can’t call in sick-or the bosses will come to your home to check your telling the truth
I’ve been hit and sexually assaulted twice-nothing happened
The abuse ive taken is unreal-the bosses hide in the office
And they never back me up in front of the public

I’m off as soon as I find another job

Midwife 30 years hospital based.
Hate the ineffective useless managers.
Hate the tick box shit we have to complete to make them look good.
Hate the constant staff shortage on each and every shift with no help offered from management.
Hate the totally unrealistic expectations some people have.
Hate the verbal abuse when things aren't going how they want it to.
I love it when I can give the care to the standards I want to achieve. I love it when I can make a difference to someone and go the extra mile to enhance their care.
Now those days are few and far between.

Not my current job. I started that 2 weeks ago and absolutely love it. But my job prior was the most soul destroying, god earthly, horrific job. I was EA to a CEO who was the most nastiest, bullying, narcissistic and batshit harridan of a woman. The day I left was like winning the lottery. I now work in the NHS and I absolutely love it.

@RattlesnakesUnfold

Front line NHS, I’m burnt out and suffering long covid, and my employer won’t be flexible with hours now the pandemic is ‘over’ (at least until the next wave).

I used to love my job. I’m good at it, efficient, manage my team well.

Now I feel used and taken for granted. When managers needed me in the crisis they agreed to flexible working, now they’ve stripped it away and want to dismiss me on capability grounds (for long covid and another chronic health condition I’ve had for years that caused 2 recent hospital admissions, yet I returned to work the same week I was discharged!)

I rarely took time off, I worked until I was relying on so many painkillers I’d make it through most weeks then get so sick I’d take a few days off the following week. Or I just battled on, using the flexi hours to cope and working into the night on the VPN.

I can’t decide whether to leave via the back door with my dignity or take them to an employment tribunal!

Sadly dignity won't pay your pension or any of your bills.

I have always worked as an accountant (trainee accountant before that), some jobs I have loved, some I have hated. Depends on if you have a horrible manager really. Oh, and if the finance system works.

Admin manager.
Boss is great to me... pays me well and I get some added bonuses. Unfortunately they seem to limit this to me. Are absolutely horrid to other staff...which means high turnover. I end up getting stuck with extra workload. I have to work overtime to just keep head above water. It's making me so resentful. Can't even take annual leave as I just stress about what i go back to. To be honest I can't even enjoy weekends. The more i do the more they expect.
But I wouldn't get paid as well elsewhere...and we need the money.

I work in mental health, currently off sick and planing not to go back. I only work part time but when I come home I bring my job with me and it’s just too stressful. I want a job where I can go home each day and forget about it, something with less responsibility and something I enjoy doing (not easy I know).

Childcare practitioner, loved it at the start, hate it now

Retail in a supermarket. Hated it the day I started 3 years ago and I still hate it now.