Anyone else just really, really, really fed up of work?

[Jessybear90]

Hi all,

Just felt like I needed a rant!

I'm 24 weeks with my much longer for first baby and work in an office full time 40 hours a week and it's started to get me really down.

I feel huge already, I'm uncomfortable at my desk, fat, fidgety, and absolutely exhausted.

I have been making lots of little silly mistakes at work due to lack of concentration which I'm putting down to lack of sleep. I sleep terribly now ever since being pregnant and I think it's a mixture of hormones plus getting up to pee 3/4 times a night! When I wake up in the morning for work I'm exhausted before I even get there.

My manager is losing patience with me I suspect and I do work my butt off but I can't seem to stop making mistakes.

I work in a team of four unsympathetic career obsessed older childless women who have no idea how I feel. I'm very anxious in my pregnancy since one of my best friends lost her seemingly healthy baby at 32 weeks to the constant anxiety is also tiring me out.

I find I now am very irritable and have zero patience. No patience for snotty customers not patience for a*sey colleagues.

I don't go out on a weekend anywhere anymore because I'm so tired from the working week and I'm currently sat here dreading tomorrow.

I'm not leaving until the start of December but it seems so far away!

By 5pm Friday I am absolutely ready to drop down and and one minute to five the Friday just gone my boss asked me to start "looking into things" which I felt wasn't really unfair considering my coat was half on and my car keys clearly in my hand!

Anyone else feeling like this? Please tell me I'm not the only one?

Don't get em wrong I'm not a work shy slacker, I have always worked and always been in a full time job since leaving school but since being pregnant I've just lost my patience with people and I'm just absolutely sick sick sick of working!

I'm tired tired tired and tired on top of tired! xx

I'm 23 weeks and feel the same. Totally drained. I work in NHS and am a medical professional. I really couldn't give two hoots about work at the moment. I had bloods done at 18 weeks as I was admitted with pain. They identified that I was anaemic, and I'm taking medication for that now. Maybe you're anaemic too? Severe fatigue is a sign. Get your midwife to take some interim bloods.

I'm 16 weeks and feel the same.
I love my job, it's a,axing, and I enjoy it, but Christ I don't want to be there. I want to be in bed, sleeping, eating chips.

Yes, me! This was me for the last few months - finally finished work on Friday at 36 weeks but had been finding it tough for ages.

How many weeks will you be when you are planning on starting mat leave? Can you bring it forward at all or use some annual leave to break up your working weeks a bit?

To be honest I didn't deal with it very well and at one point was signed off for two weeks due to the stress/anxiety having got behind with work due to feeling terrible/unable to work long hours and lack of support. I don't recommend letting it get to that stage! Although the GP was very sympathetic and the time off did help. It is difficult but when I went back I tried to mentally detach a bit from work and not let it get to me, also doing things outside of work even when exhausted made me feel more positive and like I wasn't just existing, even when it was a massive effort to leave the sofa.

Hope things improve a bit and the next couple of months go quickly for you.

Have you spoke to your HR department?

Me right now.

Seriously considering taking a sick day tomorrow purely as I'm so exhausted. I NEVER take sick days either. How I am going to last 10 more weeks I do not know.

Yes thingy, I do have aneamia I had it before pregnancy but controlled it wth diet for years and it was fine until now I was really tired and dizzy went to have bloods again and it was back with a vengeance so I've got supplements and I was also in triage that week twice for reduced movements and at the time I didn't realise that I had anaemia back at the time and I was sure something was wrong with the baby purely because I felt so terrible in myself. I had three days off sick during that time which is the only time off sick I've had not only through pregnancy but during my time with this company and I was in the doghouse with colleagues for that for like two whole weeks and they haven't treated me the same since then!

Also I find it hard as I have no family in the area, moved miles away to live with the baby's father who is in the military so I'm pretty much on my own.

Carpet your story sounds like mine!

Oh ladies I'm so glad I'm not alone I really don't hate my job or working but while pregnant I absolutely cannot stand it! I'm practically crying that it's Monday tomorrow!

The tiredness is so unreal!

I'm planning on leaving at the start of December I will be 36 weeks then...seems a lifetime away!