I hate working

[KarenMorgan49672]

I hate working and would rather be at home or with friends and family

thats it thats the thread.

I love my colleagues and often wish that work could just be a kind of endless chatty chill-out with them.

Do you have a private income, or are you expecting an inheritance soon? If not, your options are:

1. find a different job which you enjoy more
2. find a better paid job which allows you to work fewer hours
3. find someone else to support you (but you'd need to pick someone who didn't share your distaste for work, or at least was prepared to go on doing it for your benefit)
4. find a way to live without money (but you could end up begging and homeless)
5. find ways to change how you feel about work (such as engaging more, and taking on more responsibility)
6. turn to crime (which carries certain risks, including imprisonment, confiscation of assets and having to deal with some very dodgy people)
7. suck it up.

OP, I understand your feelings. I have a degree and a job that requires a fairly high skill level and pays decently (though not extraordinarily so). I enjoy it - both the work and my workplace and colleagues. But I'd still rather just stay home and spent my time as I want if I had the option of still enjoying a financially comfortable and secure lifestyle without working.

If I could have a fairly basic income without working and an option of p/t to top up I would jump at it.
I think furlough showed many ( not those already pushed financially to tte limit) that staying home gave a better quality of life.
Today was a stressful, shit day, to earn just 'NLW' for that level of grief is crap.

I love working as long as I love the job. I loved my last job so I loved working. I had lots of friends, and it was at a large company that had so many things going on, events, volunteer activities, get togethers, we could take our laptops and work anywhere - even outside at a table under an umbrella, it had a large cafe, a store, and multiple coffee/snack places where we could also work. I only went into the office twice a week but the day would fly by. There were rooms where we could collaborate and figure out problems which was always fun (I love problem solving). Then I had three days wfh which were also great cause we would have teams meetings or conference calls while working on issues. I really miss that job.

However if i won millions in a lottery i would quit, but i know that i would find something else to do, maybe buy a business and build it up or something. Just spending money and travelling would get boring to me.

There's nothing wrong with people that enjoy working. How boring of a world it would be if we all were the same? It takes all kinds to make the world an interesting place. 🙂

@Sunnytwobridges I'm that kind of a person too- working environment makes such a difference

I get it. I’m in the same boat, just working to pay the bills and it’s making me hate my job.
I don’t really hate my job. It’s just soul destroying at the moment.

I love working.

I love having a project to plan and execute.

I love learning about things which I wouldn’t otherwise learn.

Love writing (which is a big part of my job)

Love mentoring more junior people.

Love meeting people from different industries and walks of life.

Love getting better at things.

Particularly love having my own money and being able to support my daughter, pay for a decent house and the good things in life.

You seem very down on work and obviously not everyone has to like it but can you honestly not see that there are benefits?

Er, how do these boring people pay for their hobbies if they’re refusing to work?

I'd rather stay at home,but with the money still.coming in lol. I don't know anyone who loves their full time job
I do know some people.who love their side hustle.

Yes working sucks - I did it for 50 years - loved my job but had no idea how much it knackered me until I stopped - now I have total freedom and haven’t set my alarm for yonks - it will come

I love working when I am in my comfort zone which is making financial models in Excel.

I dislike other more stressful parts of my career (e.g. taking budget away from people).

I have an amazing job that im good at and im looking at promotion within the next year, however i also hate working! I would happily give it up if i could afford to!

@Hopingtobe4

I don't know anyone who loves their full time job

I know loads of people who love their full time job. It depends on the job.

This thread is a bit odd and ever so slightly nasty. I totally get that not everyone loves their job but it’s almost as if some posters are setting out to suggest people who do like their jobs are dysfunctional. I have seen this mindset a lot on here: people rant on about how enjoying work makes you “sad” etc. I find it quite unpleasant.

Its like anything else in life: there are good jobs and bad jobs. There are people whom it suits and people it really doesn’t. Take anything in life: marriage, foreign holidays, politics, public speaking. Not everyones is going to be good at everything and that’s ok.

But plenty of us do like our jobs and like to like them, thanks very much.

Pretty much all of that I can do with my hobbies and interests at home. Why do you need work to provide that sort of stimulation?

Nobody is refusing to work. They are just say8ng it would be more fun not to have to. Obviously.

Nobody is saying it’s dysfunctional to like your job. They are saying it’s a bit odd to think not working leads to boredom. There’s more to life than even the best job.

I love work. I’m a teacher and find it very satisfying and also really enjoy spending time with my colleagues too. I also love family and downtime but I get 17 weeks holiday a year and that’s plenty.

I love my job too. Would hate to be at home every day.

@cardibach

Why do you need work to provide that sort of stimulation?

I don’t need work for that sort of stimulation, I need it for the money. I’m a single mother so I need to earn money to support my kid.

But if I am going to work for money I want to make damn sure it’s interesting and well paid.

yanbu I work because I have to not because I like it or want to

Can I ask what you do?

I'm with you OP! I just don't understand how we, as a society, have got into a situation where the majority of people spend the majority of their lives doing something we don't want to do!!

It seems absolute madness to me.

@cardibach

Nobody is saying it’s dysfunctional to like your job. They are saying it’s a bit odd to think not working leads to boredom. There’s more to life than even the best job.

No one has said not working leads to boredom. This thread was started by someone who baldly stated they hate work and various other posters have piled on to say they also hate work and they don’t understand people who do like work.

Some of us are just saying enjoying your job doesn’t make you a saddo. I have seen people say a lot on here that people who enjoy their jobs are weird or don’t like their children or other forms of vaguely insulting stuff. Or the classic “no one on their deathbed wishes they had worked harder”. Which isn’t true.

I would love to not work, but would need a lottery win. I could easily fill my days.