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mousmeI have reached an all-time peak level of job hateage. Yes, that's a word: I just made it up. :P
I have been sitting on my hands not to go up to my boss and give them my two weeks' notice right fucking now. I have enough financial stability right now to go for a month without having a job, and perhaps even a bit more than a month if I'm *very* careful. Three months if I dip very far into my savings.
This job is sucking the life out of me, one phone call at a time.
So, in light of this, what do y'all think?
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I have been sitting on my hands not to go up to my boss and give them my two weeks' notice right fucking now. I have enough financial stability right now to go for a month without having a job, and perhaps even a bit more than a month if I'm *very* careful. Three months if I dip very far into my savings.
This job is sucking the life out of me, one phone call at a time.
So, in light of this, what do y'all think?
[Poll #137884]
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Date: 2003-05-23 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-23 03:04 pm (UTC)<----------
said.
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Date: 2003-05-23 03:05 pm (UTC)I know you're right. *kicks stupid common sense petulantly*
I just wish it didn't involve selling my soul to tbe corporate devil.
I'm *so* applying to Chapters next week. Or something.
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Date: 2003-05-23 03:13 pm (UTC)About a year ago, I quit my job without waiting for another job. But there was a reason for that: I went back to school full time to finish my BSEE. Which, of course, I'm doing now.
Practicality and Common Sense may not be what you want to hear, but would you rather kick now or kick yourself after several months when you can't find work because there isn't any?
C.
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Date: 2003-05-23 04:09 pm (UTC)Unless my tired brain is playing tricks on me, didn't you say only a couple of days ago that you were going to start sending your CV out? Well do it woman! People won't know about you unless you tell them :)
As an aside, please don't be a job snob like a few people (on and off-line) that I know... They're too caught up in trying to get the same wage as their last job or same wage as their peers that they won't take whatever's coming. Sure, I know you've got to live and there are bills to pay, but a job's a job and you can always keep looking.
Of course, not a good idea to tell the boss that you think they pay peanuts and you'll be out the door like a shot the moment a better offer comes along ;)
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Date: 2003-05-24 02:19 pm (UTC)UI -- er, I mean, EI (in Gliberal NewSpeak)
If it's been long enough and you get laid off rather than quitting, you may be eligible for EI. If you quit, though (or get fired for good cause), I don't think you can collect.
I'd look it up on the Net (do a search on 'Canada Human Resources Canada' or whatever the &@#$ ministry is called) before throwing in the towel. Who knows?
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One of my biggest pet peeves are people who complain about a situation without doing anything to change it. Within that group people whining about their jobs seems to be the most prevalent (although relationships seem to run a close second). Don't like your job? Quit! What do you mean it isn't that easy? Why not? Can't afford to? Well geez then, what's the point of having a job where you can't afford to save at least a bit? (and apparently, you have been able to do that). I don't see the point of working just for survival. In fact I think it's morally wrong.
If it sucks as much as you say it does, get out, now! Waiting until you have another job is lined up is good advice, if, and only if, you make a concentrated effort on actually doing it. Maybe you're different, for your sake I hope you are. :) But in my experience most people don't really do this until they're faced with the very real problem of having NO work. They get comfortable, even in their misery, and thus they never make the situation any better.
I think you deserve better than that. I don't know about Canada, but here even in the worst of economies I've always managed to stay employed. Sometimes it's been because of temp services, but that's not so bad to me. Hell, I got an assignment paying above average less than two weeks after the attacks of September 11th when almost no one was hiring, temp or otherwise, which later turned into the job I have now.
So anyway, that's my advice, hope it made some sense.
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Date: 2003-05-23 07:47 pm (UTC)I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living badly in anger, fear, and angst all the time. You won't die anyhow. Have faith. Go watch a sunrise and have something really yummy to eat. You know about the difficult financial situation I've been in lately, but you know what? We are making it work.. somehow.. I don't know how, but we have enough to pay the rent again and we have plenty of food and the overdue bills paid. I have job applications in several places and one of those will work out. I would really hate to stay in a job I despised and I refuse to torture myself that way. I hope you can get out soon. Yes, just DO IT is my advice.
Eh...
Date: 2003-05-23 07:31 pm (UTC)The drunken lawyers are all actually pretty darn cool, by the way. I'm having a good time.
Point being that having a steady income is a good thing, and worth a certain amount of suffering for, and things can turn around if you stick with them.
What the hell
Date: 2003-05-24 09:53 am (UTC)Daphne: I think that one of the unfortunate parts of life is not liking what you do for a living. I'm broke, I don't really like I'm doing. There are lots of bad things, but I ignore them. Why? Because I have a wife, who I love, who wanted to go to Togo. Because I want to go to Belgium. Because I can, with money, expand myself.
It sounds like you really don't like your job. But, I can't really tell from reading you if it is the job, the conditions, the clients, or what. It sounds like, for many reasons, you are perpetually unsatisfied.
Regardless, I would have to say that there are many reasons to stay, but mostly because I have an overwhelming sense of obligation to me and my dependants. I don't want to be staying in the job forever, but it is needful to get where we are going.
If you are not denying your obs (mostly to your cats, car, and appartment) then find yourself another job! You can afford, the longer you stay there, to be more selective about what you will leave for. Look for a job that you will like for a while, not just for the love of money. THAT, IMO, is why you should be staying.
Re: What the hell
Date: 2003-05-24 02:52 pm (UTC)No, what I said was working JUST for survival is morally wrong. And I stand by that. As for telling all those other people in that position? Not my responsibility. They're responsible for creating their own happiness. Now if they want to solicit my opinion on the matter (as I felt was the case here) that's another story.
But some people, like you apparently, don't seem to care if they like their job or not because other areas of their life make up for it. Fine. But for those of us that DO care about obtaining at least some level of personal satisfaction out of our work, it is important to obtain that.
Death is inevitable, living is not. My feeling is that if you go through a period of time, whether it's an hour, a day month, or worse yet, your entire life, and find yourself saying "well I survived that" instead of saying "wow, I LIVED during that!" that's where the immorality comes in. You're squandering the only thing we all have and know of for sure, our time alive in the here and now. I don't see how one can justify that.
And that's why I'm so passionate about this job thing, and the idea that it's wrong to accept that it's one's lot in life to suffer in one way or another. It doesn't have to be that way.
It's not wrong to not wanting to be a corporate drone. Their are other choices.
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Date: 2003-05-24 11:06 am (UTC)