Thread: Hate your Job?

Love my job. They throw barrels of money at me. Work only half the year and make more than most with full 9-5 type jobs. I see beautiful country see my boss maybe once a week or two if then. But I'm realistic this too shall pass. Retire ? Ha! I'm 51 and I have a 4 month old baby boy and a 5 year old girl. I will happily work til the day I die.I have resigned myself to that fact. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. :')

Originally Posted by AndrewJM

I don't hate my job but it frustrates me...

The frustration was building up for a while, but I just did a list of the pros vs cons which really helped settle me down - I came close to quitting a while ago.

Pros: Once I finish for the day, there's no stress or thinking about the job. I like most of the people I work with. The money is fair considering the hours and duties (of course I'd like more $ though). I don't waste too much time getting to and from work. Interacting with all types of people help maintain and build my communication and people skills. I feel productive. It allows me plenty of time and energy to work on my side projects and businesses. Job stability. No job searching. It's better to be at work making money rather than not working and out spending money. It gives me a reason to go to bed at a reasonable hour, not drink too much at night and not spend my life sleeping in and pottering around the house.

Cons: Frustrating IT infrastructure, job feels repetitive. There's nowhere I want to progress to within the organisation. Management takes advantage of my ability, puts more workload on me but doesn't compensate me accordingly.

When the cons outweigh the pros, thats the time for a change, but for now, its good to have a stable job and steady income. Plenty of people are really doing it tough, and I'm grateful not to be one of them.

The best part of the day is when you go home and be with your family. Id rather have an unstable job and leave when I want to.

I have moments where I hate aspects of my job, but by and large it's a pretty good job. Generally the bits I hate are related to all the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with the various components of my job.

There's paperwork associated with the teaching bit. Then, when semester is over, there's paperwork associated with the research bit. Then there's paperwork associated with the grant application bit. Then there's the paperwork associated with the submission of research papers. Then there's paperwork associated with justifying your existance (they call it the academic review of performance).

I can handle all those bits generally. What really pisses me off is that they constantly "improve" it, so that as soon as you get a handle on what you need to do and are at the point where you can just copy and paste last year's paperwork (and update it), they change the paperwork.

It's almost as if these people have nothing to do and are afraid someone is going to find out, so they change things every few years to keep themselves (and the rest of us) busy.

Rant over!

James.

I hate my job
I have been at my work place for 28 years. The last 9 years as an owner. Its when I stopped being a minion without a care in the world, and became an owner is when my attitude changed. Now I don't sleep at night, I'm chewing blood pressure meds. like crazy and becoming greyer by the second.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I have moments where I hate aspects of my job, but by and large it's a pretty good job. Generally the bits I hate are related to all the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with the various components of my job.

There's paperwork associated with the teaching bit. Then, when semester is over, there's paperwork associated with the research bit. Then there's paperwork associated with the grant application bit. Then there's the paperwork associated with the submission of research papers. Then there's paperwork associated with justifying your existance (they call it the academic review of performance).

I can handle all those bits generally. What really pisses me off is that they constantly "improve" it, so that as soon as you get a handle on what you need to do and are at the point where you can just copy and paste last year's paperwork (and update it), they change the paperwork.

It's almost as if these people have nothing to do and are afraid someone is going to find out, so they change things every few years to keep themselves (and the rest of us) busy.

Rant over!

James.

It ain't a rant when you speak the truth. Had some years in academia. If you kept it anemic they funded you to find a cure. Knew an education researcher whose research always showed a + or - of .001. He was always in hog heaven over that because then he had to redo his research to see if there was any change in the interim.

I have been lucky enough to not have a job that I didn't like !! but I do know when I was unable to work I hated that !!

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I have moments where I hate aspects of my job, but by and large it's a pretty good job. Generally the bits I hate are related to all the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with the various components of my job.

There's paperwork associated with the teaching bit. Then, when semester is over, there's paperwork associated with the research bit. Then there's paperwork associated with the grant application bit. Then there's the paperwork associated with the submission of research papers. Then there's paperwork associated with justifying your existance (they call it the academic review of performance).

I can handle all those bits generally. What really pisses me off is that they constantly "improve" it, so that as soon as you get a handle on what you need to do and are at the point where you can just copy and paste last year's paperwork (and update it), they change the paperwork.

It's almost as if these people have nothing to do and are afraid someone is going to find out, so they change things every few years to keep themselves (and the rest of us) busy.

Rant over!

James.

Yes, you are ruled by a bureaucracy, as many of us are, one of the last bastions of the aristocracy and the feudal system, where innovation is feared, and the goal is seldom to improve and innovate, because that means change, and to bureaucrats, change instills fear and threatens the status quo. Questions from bureaucrats are usually patterned along the lines of covering their asses, being able to point the finger and shift the blame, and seldom if ever making a decision without many committee's being formed in order to isolate the innovator and distance themselves from any decision.

I notice Mr. Earcutter is a bit quiet here

I like your style brother

Mike

Originally Posted by Phrank

Yes, you are ruled by a bureaucracy, as many of us are, one of the last bastions of the aristocracy and the feudal system, where innovation is feared, and the goal is seldom to improve and innovate, because that means change, and to bureaucrats, change instills fear and threatens the status quo. Questions from bureaucrats are usually patterned along the lines of covering their asses, being able to point the finger and shift the blame, and seldom if ever making a decision without many committee's being formed in order to isolate the innovator and distance themselves from any decision.

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