If you hate your job

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Can I ask what you do?

NHS admin/junior manager

Constant pressure from those above. Chronic understaffing yet the team I manage is too big for me to realistically do everything properly (27 people) for them, and spread across several areas. Not enough hours in the day. I hate the pressure we're expected to put on the clinicians to always give that bit more. We ran the service throughout covid as much as we could and everyone is burnt out.

College tutor. Fed up of the constant criticism, the constant changes, the poor management, being surrounded by demotivated colleagues. Been trying for years to get out.

Childrens social worker - destroying my soul and health

A+E Sister of 24 years.

We see so much crap every shift.
I really don't understand why GP's still aren't seeing anyone. They sent everything to us. The last 3 shifts I've worked have been horrendous with 11 hour waits to see a Dr, I feel so sorry for folk having to sit there for so long when their GP should have easily sorted it

Staff trainer in healthcare. Delivery training such as behaviour management, first aid, safeguarding, manual handling and MCA & DoLs. Absolutely love it!

@ThinWomansBrain

Supposed to be a finance business partner - with covid the opportunity to travel to sites substantially diminished. Now have about five times as many projects, and spend 95% of my time locked in a spreadsheet. That other people use/update from time to time and bugger up all the formulae.

@ThinWomansBrain You can protect excel sheets so that other people can only type in certain cells and can't mess up all your formulae. You would keep the password a secret so you still have the ability to change any cells. I used to have to idiot-proof my spreadsheets!

I often wonder if those who hate teaching did it straight out of university. I did my degree and then worked in call centres for 5 years. I worked in customer services and sales and I can hand on heart say I have never hated anything so much. The antisocial hours, the people, the customers. I used to cry before work at the sheer boredom of it.

Now a secondary school teacher and although it's incredibly stressful, I'm certainly never ever bored! I just have to think back to those days to be grateful I trained in teaching. Certainly made me grateful.

Beirut management, cold, wet and miserable plus too many hours over what I was offered. And as for the pay….

Start a new job at the weekend, doing what I love. Head phones on and cleaning. Just two shifts a week.

@Bargebill19 what's Beirut management?

School admin. Over worked, underpaid, no progression.

@RosaBudDrood

I've been thinking of primary teaching ...

What's so wrong with it nowadays?

I once had to have blood taken. They tried both arms and both hands several times before they found a vein which gave blood. To get as much blood out of it as they could, I had one healthcare professional taking the blood and another squeezing my arm downwards to milk it for all it was worth.

As experiences go, it was remarkably similar to teaching. You give everything you’ve got, yet they milk you until you are drained.

I gave up teaching last year, then agreed to go back after Christmas to ‘help a friend’. I love, love, love the children, but the workload is beyond a joke. I’d been back two weeks before reality hit again. It is not unusual to double working hours just on planning, assessment, reports, SEND documentation, behavioural support, resourcing, keeping on top of the learning environment, other duties such as subject leadership (no tlr) and safeguarding paperwork.

@goshthatsawful so many things- the shift work, the hours, working 13 hours without a break, the lack of staff, feeling unsafe due to staffing issues, low morale in the team, condescending doctors. Being put in unsafe situations. The fear I was going to lose my pin every shift. The anxiety before every shift and the sleepless nights. The list goes on really ..

I HATED being a hospital nurse. With a passion. You couldnt pay me enough to be a ward nurse.

Im a General Practice Nurse now and love it.

Retail. I hate the way the place is run.

When I’ve had jobs I’ve hated in the past I’ve done stuff just to get me through each day like downloaded albums and books to listen to on headphones, prepped nice lunches and gone out to eat them, and made plans for the evenings and weekends.

To get me from week to week though, I booked myself on courses/cpd, built up my LinkedIn profile, updated my cv and got better at applying for jobs.

Just doing that helped me cope with a crappy job.

@GooodMythicalMorning

Cleaner. Hate it. Nobody listens to me, I'm constantly given way more jobs than I can actually do and the people who work there aren't particularly nice either. I can't leave though as been applying for jobs for 2 years and nobody wants me.

I cant leave your post unanswered. for you xx

goshthatsawful I know nursing it will be harder in some ways but honestly as a hcsw I'm overused and underpaid and feel completely unvalued, I love the patient contact and when I get to work autonomously using my skills, I have worked in a range of areas in the nhs and the nurses have so much more invested in them and so many opportunities for progression.

@Hobnobsandbroomstick

Nurse. I don't hate my current job, but I hated my last one with such passion that I used to almost fantasise about crashing my car on my commute. The relief when I left my last ever shift there was amazing.

I had a job in nursing once where I used to drive to work thinking the same. Not life changing injuries just enough of a fractured limb to keep me off for a good 6-10 weeks. The bullying in my dept was awful and I can look back now 20 years later wiser and stronger but at the time it was hell

@WhySoSensitive

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.

It's horrible that people are nasty to vets. I'm bloody grateful when someone fixes my animals.

@phonicscloud

Childrens social worker - destroying my soul and health

I take my hat off to you. I have worked alongside many a great children's social worker and wouldn't do the job for a gold pig!

I work in a call centre taking repairs calls for a housing association. I expected to get the odd difficult person as I've worked with the public for over 20 years, but the sheer volume of rude, aggressive people who genuinely seem to think that shouting at the person taking their call will summon a genie to repair their leaking tap instantly is just staggering.

I can't imagine a worse job. I feel battered and bruised at the end of every day.

How sad that so many replies are public sector and in particular NHS/healthcare. I've had some absolutely miserable jobs in the NHS. I am now in a very niche role with a fab team and a very patient manager who channels my ideas and enthusiasm but doesn't expect me to be a completer finisher. Between us we get shit done!

Dentist - I fucking hate it

Secondary school teacher.....also hate it! Contract finishes December I hope to not go back!

@ClarkeGriffin sadly clients like your are few and far between.
We can go above and beyond, we can discount you to an incredible extent and make your bill 20% of what it should be, we can do absolutely everything and give you your animal back and we will still be berated, ridiculed, verbally attacked, social media shamed.
It is EXHAUSTING. I’m leaving the profession soon and already feel relief that I’m not going to get verbally abused in one way or another every week!