To think most people must hate their jobs?

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Or am I just so bloody unlucky?

I've just switched jobs again and already not convinced it's for me. I am sticking it out for a couple of years before moving on but god, i can't be arsed to dread going to work!

Is this just life? I want to be at home with my kids and if I'm going to be away from them and putting them in childcare I want to atleast feel like it's somewhat enjoyable. But it never is!

I've always liked all of my jobs, so maybe you're unlucky or your expectations are too high for the jobs you are getting. It may be because you would rather stay at home with your kids, no job is going to be enjoyable enough for you.

I don't know. I can only think of a handful of jobs I didn't enjoy. And once I got fed up with a job, I typically moved industries, went back to education to re-qualify etc.

Maybe its because you don’t want to work? Can you change fields?

I mostly enjoy mine.

I've never actually hated my job (although I moan about it incessantly) but it is a means to an end.

I need money.....

I guess it depends if you enjoy your line of work. I've always enjoyed my jobs, and now if I'm looking for work I actively seek out smaller startups, or companies with nice ethics as I realise that's what I most enjoy. But, if your job is purely a means for money and you don't really enjoy what you do then maybe?

I don't enjoy mine. I don't think working is for me! I can think of a million other things I would rather be doing.

I have enjoyed jobs in the past, but more recently I'm just sick of all the bullshit that goes with it.

What do you do? Is it a job you had to qualify for?
Until I was in something where I am paid for my expertise I was pretty unsatisfied. It’s been an 8 year upward curve but I now work in a very exciting industry and am in a very responsible position.
if not, is there something you aspire to do? what’s your dream job?

Why would you stay in a job you don’t enjoy?

Sorry I love my job.

Maybe the issue is your actual job rather than all jobs are hated.

What would you like to do?

I don't hate my job, in fact at times I find it stimulating, worth while and even fun. That said there is too much of it and it takes up a lot of my life and it can be very high pressured and high stakes. So I often fantasise of winning the lottery and spending my days going to the gym, runs, walks, swimming, eating cake and spending time with my DD and DH. But alas not likely to happen, not least because I don't do the lottery!

On the whole, I have enjoyed my jobs over the last thirty years. Occasionally gone through difficult patches.

I genuinely love my job but I found my niche

I love my career. It’s the thing in life that brings me the most fulfilment.

If you’d prefer to not be at any type of job then I can see why it would be miserable, though. Do you do something that you’re at least interested in the industry if not in your particular job so that you could move around?

I think people who love their jobs are very lucky indeed. Most of us are there for the money I think and because it's OK really and the grass is not always greener.

Me. Same shit different job title. Started out in administration, worked my way up to band 5 NHS admin job. Miserable. Hate it. No qualifications or area of expertise. Not against re-training but as what?! Don't know where to go from here.

I've never had a job I hated.

This is how I feel too.
Exactly how I feel!

I love my job so much! Sometimes I think I'm probably abnormal for loving it so much

What do you like to do? What can’t you wait to do in your spare time? What can’t you stop reading/learning/hearing about? Try and monetise that.

I really enjoy my job but am very lucky that DH earns enough that I’ve chosen it purely for the enjoyment factor rather than the compensation (which is rubbish albeit still useful!). When I worked in a high paying job I hated it and I’d never work in an office/sedentary job again.

I think people overestimate the extent to which this is about the individual job as opposed to personality traits that make working itself more or less appealing. Even though I don't always like my job, I basically like working - I like the routine, getting out of the house (I did not love full-time wfh), interactions with colleagues, the sense of accomplishment, etc. The times in my life where I haven't worked (e.g. mat leave) I was happiest when I was almost recreating a lot of that for myself. Not everyone is like that. I am always amazed when people talk about how brilliant sitting on the sofa with a newborn feeding and watching Netflix all day was, because it honestly made me feel like I was under house arrest. I love my children and love spending time with them but 'I want to stay at home with my kids' isn't a sentence that resonates with me. This isn't meant to sound smug or superior, by the way - another way of describing it is that I'm much less self-sufficient and capable of entertaining myself. But I do think that almost any job is easier and more enjoyable if you're temperamentally like me than if you'd fundamentally rather not work.

I hated every job for years. And always thought, what’s the point in this, stuck on a treadmill working just to make someone else rich.
But then whilst on Mat leave I thought, if I’m going back to work I need to actually do something I love. I worked out what my real passions are in life, and now have a job with a meaningful cause, working to make a difference in an area I am actually passionate about. I can honestly, for once, say I love my job. It’s life changing after always dreading work!

I hate mine with a passion, I hope this is not life...for me is not just the job, I've had some issues with my manager, which does not help and there is no flexible working, so it is the conditions!

I don't mind my job, it's fine. I like the people I work with and sometimes the work is interesting but like all things, there are dull parts of it that can be a bit of a grind. However, I'm in no way mistreated, I don't think I'm terribly underpaid, I'm not put upon, discriminated against or unfairly treated in any way so I count myself very lucky overall.