If you hate your job

[Redsunrise]

Can I ask what you do?

[quote WhySoSensitive]@ClarkeGriffin exactly! People forget that owning any animal is a luxury and privilege, not a right! I discount because I’m an absolute sucker and want to do everything I can to help anyone I can. Falls on deaf ears mostly.

Also, it’s because you have a horse. They’re designed to be money pits [/quote]
Oh yes they bloody are. Mine has cost me more than 3 times what I paid for him in 3 years!

@MyCatEatsPrawnCrackers

I have been a Primary School teacher since 1989. Can't stand it anymore so I resigned today.

Can I ask a really personal question and ask your reason?

I have a job interview in a school tomorrow 😳

To everyone who has posted on this thread, may I suggest that you all stop aiming to be helpful and enable lives, and concentrate on having a career, or at least a job that pays sensibly and works a sensible number of hours. Because until every woman expects a reasonable balance for work and life (and some will work in cleaning, catering, or hospitality, which are unsociable hours generally), the jobs available (and there are thousands available and unfilled atm) will not be fairly paid.

But the other side of this argument, is that it will cost you more to eat out, go out, etc.

RattlesnakesUnfold

"Interesting how many doctors, nurses and NHS workers hate their jobs.

Out of interest did you hate it before the pandemic or more recently? Did it have anything to do with flexible working and/or wfh?

I used to love my job but after battling through the covid waves, and recently suffering covid myself (now long covid) I feel totally unsupported by management and burnt out."

I hated my first job, which was years before covid. Wouldn't say covid has improved things with my current job, but it's been manageable. Hasn't been so bad that I've fantasised about being in a 'serious but not fatal accident' again. However my manager has recently retired and the new one isn't great, but luckily my colleagues are. My colleagues are the best thing about my current job; I don't know how I would have got through covid without them.

@EddieVeddersfoxymop

Teaching assistant, hate it to the very core of my being.

Seriously? Can I ask why ?

I have an interview for this very thing tomorrow

@Cherrytree1621

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

Yep me too. Loved it in the 90's/early 00's when I first trained, it now feels like paperwork overlooks the main reason I want to work with children.

It doesn't help that I work part time, yet have full time duties - so my work hours are even more intensive. I end up working from home.

If it wasn't for the fact I couldn't imagine ever not working with children, I'd get a job elsewhere.

Another Midwife here 🤦🏻‍♀️

I was a teaching assistant for about 5/6 years which was alright, there was a lot of flexibility in my role although the pay was absolutely shite. Went on to a learning support assistant role which was mentally quite draining - we had quite a few SEN children to work with and understaffed when it came to 1:1s - many ended up being 2:1s unofficially. I managed to get into class covers at the same school and I definitely began to enjoy my job (and pay) a lot more. Covid struck when I was at the start of maternity leave and also moved to a new area, I've been WFH as a live chat advisor in retail and I absolutely cannot bear the adult children that throw tantrums over such trivial things, especially during a pandemic. Still, it's not forever and bills need to be paid!

It's so sad to see that those who hate their jobs are the ones actually doing the jobs we need, rather than the useless jobs that benefit no-one other than the people doing them and the broken system they prop up.

It's just not right that it should be the nurses, healthcare workers and the teachers rather than the marketers, the bankers and the HR people.

HardBoiledEggandNuts

EddieVeddersfoxymop Teaching assistant, hate it to the very core of my being.

Seriously? Can I ask why? I have an interview for this very thing tomorrow

Because the pay is shit but there is a lot of responsibility and stress would be my guess!

Children’s social work, team manager. So much risk everywhere, so much mind-numbing paperwork and none of the fun visits with kids that I used to enjoy. No time for learning from our numerous mistakes is the worst bit. Pay is good, and team are amazing so I stay put.

Would love to run a b&b, maybe, one day.

@NommyChompers

Dentist - I fucking hate it

How come?? Do you do NHS or private work?

Social worker - children and families mainly child protection. It's a living hell.

Admin in a builders. Boring shit! Boss so moody. School bus run now much happier

Primary school teacher. I love the kids but that is about 30% of the job now.

I wish I had never trained, but I’m many years in and it’s hard to see a way out. There’s no longer pay portability so we can’t leave and be entitled to a job on the same level of pay, and most jobs advertised are on the main pay scale as heads are on a shoestring budget and need cheap teachers to balance the books.

I hated my last job to the point I’d cry in the toilets on a regular basis. I was a university admin responsible for almost 2000 students with no support - nobody knew what I did, including my own manager.

The person who did my job before me worked three days a week so management kept giving me more and more duties to fill my ‘extra’ days, insisting that my main role was only part time, even though the number of courses and students had increased massively since the last person did the job.

I had ten interviews in the last year I was there but nothing came of them so I jacked it in and started studying full time last summer. My colleague told me that she had seen me change into a different person in that job, she said I looked so worn down by the end.

@catlovingdoctor because the patients are so awful to us - underpaid and overworked in the NHS but get abused on a daily basis by patients who think their free root canal and £41.40 filling is buying me a lambourghini.... and picking bits of chicken out from people’s teeth as they are too inconsiderate to brush before an appt..... and hearing ‘I hate dentists’ twenty times a day.

To those patients I silently scream ‘don’t fucking come then, I’ll see someone else instead who wants to be here’

Classical musician, trained longer than my brain surgeon friend, get paid worse the the people who clean the building. Work crazy long hours, weekends, evenings, endless travel and pay out more in childcare than I earn, so I actually PAY to go to work.... but now due to Covid and Brexit the industry is on its knees....

I work in travel and have done for 20 years. I used to love my job and actually looked forward to going to work. Now since covid my role has changed and I hate it 99% of the time.

I work in Property Management and I HATE it!! Everyone is over worked, under appreciated and always made out to be the bad guy!

Nurse - 30 plus years - current role is horrendous due to workload. Finish at 5 and still typing up on VPN at 8pm. Managers know and don't care as long as work is done. Everyone is burnt out. Self care and family life are very neglected.

Local authority, don't quite hate it, it pays reasonably well, it can be mind numbing, today I taught a member of senior management how to add two columns and drag the formula down to other cells on excel not what I went to uni to do.

@HotLatteontherunplease2

Social worker - children and families mainly child protection. It's a living hell.

As an ex named nurse for safeguarding children I send you my solidarity

Solicitor. The stress is debilitating. I’ve been on medication and in counselling for year. I need to get out but I’ve got a family to support.

I work on finance. I like dealing with the clients etc but it’s all the extra burden that’s put on you. Never enough staff so it’s rarely relaxed as everyone’s trying to 9 things at once. Pays shit too for the responsibility and management are blissfully unaware how stressful it is and that they could make things easier. All the paperwork, nothing is streamlined, 20 different departments that often two many staff members are involved in particular cases because no one is allowed to ‘pass it on’

Wouldn’t mind winning the lottery