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!

There have been aspects of it I've hated (mostly unnecessary bureaucracy) but I usually get on well with most of my colleagues and there's satisfaction in the work. I don't expect to love every single moment but I don't think I've hated any job I've had.

I hate working, but I mostly enjoy my job. It pays well and I have a good team. It can be pretty stressful though so I'd give it up in a heartbeat if I won the lottery!

I think if you work with nice people they can make a shit job good and vice Versa, but I don’t think everyone hates their job.

I felt dread before my shift for 12 years, wasn’t till I changed career I realised that isn’t normal and that my previous career was terrifying daily!

I wouldn’t work if I didn’t have to but I do like my job.

This is why I set up my own business over 20 years ago. I love what I do and will carry on past retirement age as I'm basically being paid to do a hobby.

Working for others can be either great or soul destroying ime.

I hated being a Teaching Assistant. Would dread every second of every day. In a different job now and mainly WFH. It's ok, very busy and does help people, but I would rather be with my toddler.

Absolutely hate it but do it for the money. Not a fortune but I get paid more than the average so have to stick with it. I am grateful for the money but hate almost every day.

I enjoy what I do but have been TUPEd and dislike the organisation, wouldn't have chosen to work here. Currently interviewing.

I don't hate my job or love it. It's a necessary evil to earn money. I wouldn't do it if I won the lottery. I have had jobs where I've dreaded going in and it's not nice.

Colleagues generally make a job great or awful ime.
I do like my job and what it entails in general, but hate dealing with the public. Some of them are just awful, even though we are actually helping them!

Same OP. I'm looking for a new job and have no motivation, and will have to fake my enthusiasm for whatever company will have me. I mainly have admin/ HR/ customer service experience - I've liked some of the places I worked, but still hate the idea that 40 hours of my week are dictated by someone else's schedule.
I know people say retrain, but to what? I don't really have the money to do that, nor do I have a really passion for a specific job. I have hobbies, but not ones someone would pay me for.

I like my actual job (love is a very strong word that I won’t use for work). I don’t l like the set up or management at my current place.

Husband thinks I find problems in workplaces (the last job I loved the team but didn’t like the inflexibility. Now this job is flexible but the structure/ organisation is pretty toxic tbh. Place before that was zero hours contract and place before that was ridiculous case load brining things home etc.

Like other posters I can think of other things I’d rather be doing. But work gives structure to the week and I enjoy looki forward to my non work time . I think I’d drift around aimlessly without it x

I've quite liked most of my jobs but I'd still be out of there faster than it would take to put my out of office on if I won the lottery!
tbh I just think it's about the amount of time you spend at work that makes it a slog.
I wouldn't even want to spend 40 hours a week every week doing my hobbies or things I enjoy so no wonder something that's only "okay" feels like a drag, let alone a job you actively dislike.

I've pretty much always enjoyed my jobs, I spend too long there to not enjoy at least a large part of it

I’ve never loved it particularly enjoyed work. But having colleagues you enjoy being with, either in person or remotely, makes a huge difference. My first job after uni was boring, poorly paid with toxic management but I was able to stick it out for several years because I could at least enjoy the time spent with colleagues. Other jobs I’ve had have been better, but the work is fundamentally rather tedious and the days have been lightened by having nice, funny, smart and interesting people to work with.

For the first time in my career, I now have a job where I just don’t gel with the people I work with and although the work itself is the same as in other places I’m honestly struggling to get through the days.

For most of my 42-working years I at least tolerated but more often than not, actually enjoyed my work. Rarely did I actually dislike it and if I did, it would have been due to a specific task or colleague.
That said, I always said that if it wasn't for the need to earn a living, I would not be working at all.
As soon as it became possible to (early) retire and still maintain our standard of living, I did it.

I've never had a job I hated and never worked with anyone who gave me the impression they hated theirs

I'd be amazed if most people do, hate is a very strong word

Have loved most jobs and hated a few, including those took because I needed the experience/money. I've found that the more autonomy I've had, the more I've enjoyed work (I've bee self-employed for years.)

If work was always enjoyable, they wouldn't have to give us money to do it.

@CurbsideProphet curious what you hated about it?

What do you do now out of interest?

Hate my job. Really, really hate it. Toxic environment created by management. Only progression is for those who suck up management bullshit resulting in people in positions way above their abilities so they're not respected.
Problem is that I have a niche role, full time WFH (which works for me to fit around DC) and although I've tried, I can't find another job without a big pay cut that I just can't afford.
It makes me miserable and I work from holiday to holiday.
When I have to log back on after bbeing ff, it makes me want to cry.
I hate feeling trapped like this..

@Hardbackwriter I think there is some truth in this. I don't mind the physical working, but I hate the schedule of it all because I have never been a morning person and so every morning is a challenge before I've even got to work. I've worked full time for the last 19 years where the regular hours (special events etc aside) have been 8.30 - 5.30 or 8.30 - 6 and it sucks balls and no amount of trying to change my bodies schedules has worked! I'd happily not work, but I would volunteer in something with a more flexible schedule, but where you could sign up week to week. Lockdown we absolute bliss for me. I did have a bit of a routine but the actual hour of the day was less critical. Get up, clean a room, exercise, cook and eat healthily, get out for a walk, chill out, do a bit of learning something new and interesting even if it was ultimately pointless. I built a bike from scratch, following some youtube videos etc. I was much fitter and healthier both physically and mentally. I know this will be unpopular and lockdown was awful for some people, I do appreciate that, but honestly if I could either not work, or work on a completely flexible schedule based on output and not hours then I'd feel much better. I think it couples with clients seem to have come back from covid as absolute arseholes who now want rainbow glitter sprinkled on their moon on a stick, and they want it yesterday.

Sadly, I don't even know where to go when people say re-train, move industries etc. I think mainly my job isn't compatible with my soft skills, but it absolutely suits my technical skills and specific knowledge base, so I'm stuck in an unsuitable industry due to the level I've got to, and want to work at, and thus the salary that I am willing to drop to. (I earn nothing super special, but entry level is probably £20k too low) and I'm not interested in being the lacky again at this point in life with no autonomy on decisions etc. It's a challenge!

I enjoy the satisfaction of completing a task in my job and doing the best I can for my clients. The problem is that it's very much a seemingly endless loop of doing much the same thing every month, with only slight variations. I can never really be 'done', unless we lose a client! 😬I suppose that's true for most jobs, that they're repetitive or cyclical.

Some aspects of my job require that I find new ways to say essentially the same thing several months in succession, which becomes tiresome after a certain point. Every so often, a task comes along that isn't recurring, and I find I enjoy that much more. It's refreshing to finish something and know that I won't have to return to it next month. The trouble is that the recurring work is the steady, reliable income, so it's by far the bulk of what I do. And to be fair, the recurring work is in some ways easier; it requires less research and analysis, because you're already a bit of an expert in the things you've been working on for two or three years.

I love that I can wfh and that I'm able to dictate my own schedule, most of the time. In many ways it's the ideal job for me, but it's still work. I wouldn't do it for others if I weren't paid to do so.

I've just retired from a job I cordially disliked - it only tipped over into hatred a couple of times - after 20+ years. Why did I stay so long? Three reasons - the pay wasn't bad, the perks were pretty good, and I needed to make sure the bills were paid. My lazy, cocklodging twat of a first husband couldn't be trusted, so I had very little choice.

By the time I had actually Left The Bastard and found myself a decent husband, I was fairly senior in the organisation and over fifty anyway, so I decided to stick it out. Better the devil you know, and all that. In truth, work was much more tolerable when I knew I was coming home to someone who actually cared about me.

My first job/career was a bit of a mistake, but I was young and foolish. I've enjoyed the jobs I've had in the last 25 years.