Some things like management just ruin jobs that would otherwise be fine. The constant anxiety of not being caught not doing anything (because there is genuinely nothing to do) and being constantly told off for talking to colleagues and not working every minute of the shift is just honestly burning everyone out. It's like you can never stop and just relax

"if I could get rid of 90% of your job, what's the 10% that you would keep?" The money.

I feel like a job and even a career is like jail. Everyone ends up an institution someway or another..whether you’re a surgeon or a cashier at Burger King, you’re locked into that job. I feel like the internet made everyone realize that there is more to life than being locked in one place

I've come to a point of burnout where I'd literally rather drop tf dead or go play in traffic on a highway than participate in the labor market. I don't know if it even can be fixed. I honestly believe that my 20+ years in customer service (while never having enough money to survive, so having to overwork myself regularly) has permanently broken me.

I feel like these titles are calling me out now.

For me personally, management is the #1 deciding factor on whether I like a workplace or not. I've been micromanaged, abused, mistreated by managers too many times now.

Listening to this while on the verge of quiting the job I detest.

Just about anything sucks if you do it 40+ hours a week for years. I love playing guitar or running, but doing either of those 8 hours every day would burn me out really fast.

A job should give you a positive feedback loop of giving you challenges that you can overcome to give you prove of self-worth. If a job doesn’t give you a positive feedback loop it’s a self-loathing death spiral.

Like myself before, I think a lot of people don’t take inventory of their experiences and what they are looking for. I worked a ton of different jobs in different fields and found one thing, I wasn’t passionate about them. Once I made peace that a job doesn’t have to be for passion but was tolerable enough to do so I can focus on actual passions it helped me alot

The best rule i have set to myself is that I never talk about my job or even think about my job when the 8-hour is done. I just get into my car and drive home and do things I like. Even if my friends ask about my job like, how it is and stuff I just say "I don't care, I don't wanna talk about that". Ofcourse sometimes I say things, obviously but, in general I just forget it when I am out. This really saved me. I know I cant live just in weekends. But I know that if I think that I hate my job or things I dislike at it or people I don't like there even when I am not at it, is just wrong.

I feel like the cause of my misery at work is within myself. I am so mentally disabled that even at an easy job where i'm not at threat of failure, i'll still have mental breakdowns/anxiety attacks AT MY JOB... and it's terrible. i wish i could work but my fear of failing my boss is so strong that i end up lying down on the floor and crying to myself.

I had fun and developed very efficient systems at my job, until the management didn't bother to replace coworkers who left or retired. Now I get way too much work on my plate and at the same time dozens of people bother me with their problems on a single day, while I'm supposed to work on these problems. Talking to my colleagues, friends and family this is happening everywhere right now. Companies just ignore that a whole generation is retireing and burn all the young workers until they leave. I always tell myself that I'm only a single person and I can only do so much, but trying to do good work, while the phone is constantly ringing and people additionally giving you shit for a situation you can't change on your own is just exhausting and drains all my motivation.

I hate my job, it's what drove me to start studying at night and work towards a different career, and luckily I get to stay at the same place I work. There's something out there bearable enough for everyone.

I'm a total wreck, I'm lazy, unmotivated and horribly addicted to social media especially KZfaq, it all started with slacking on job and over time it snowballed, the more I slacked the more I needed to do next, manager started to notice that I'm not performing that well, he encouraged me and softly pushed me to work harder, but I grew to hate the job, I'm super unmotivated, perform poorly while working 12 hours everyday, the only thing I dream about is quitting, but I'm scared to be unemployed and I constatnly thing that I can push more and be productive but it fails all the time, it makes me more depressed and all the effort feels so forced, so tough and stressfull, I just want a coouple of weeks of tranquility, but I can't get a long vacation because I'm not performing enough and we're pushing a lot of deadlines, it feels so bad, I hate myself for the fact that the thing I want the most is to give up and find something else, because I'm sure that I'm to blame, not the job.

All “normal” jobs suck. That’s our punishment for being average, I guess. The only way to find happiness is by being self-employed and that requires incredible amount of talent, confidence and luck.

For me it's never been the job itself, it's always been the people I couldn't stand. I seem to end up in places where people are pushy, in a rush, agitated constantly, one guy wants you to do it this way but another wants it a different way, they curse far too much or they just can't shut up, which is the most annoying.

honestly being able top miserably pull yourself to work on a consistent basis is a luxury. when I work I get mad depressed to the point of not being able to get out of bed after a week or two of working. It's the worst, I do want to help but I feel like I don't have the necessary facilities to be helpful.

It’s good to have a co-worker to bounce off of just to make sure you’re still grounded in reality when things seem unrealistic or unreasonable…Just be careful who you confide in and commiserate with in any job.

I think the most impactful ways to solve this problem are 1. Get some training. In anything. _All_ skilled labor/tasks have been way more enjoyable than the unskilled ones that I've done 2. If you don't find anything interesting, then you gotta just go try stuff (tech school, online courses, job shadowing, etc.) until you find something that is somewhat interesting. It isn't going to be 'fun' levels of interesting most likely but maybe not miserable 3. Try to figure out what you would be doing all day as a job if you could do anything. If you can, try it out for a few days and see if that's true or not (for example, streaming and editing videos isn't the magical wonderland you might expect) 4. What about the stuff you figure you'd "enjoy" doing do you enjoy? Can you find any similarilties between that and the jobs/careers you have access to? 5. Mindset is ~60% of enjoying a job, ~30% seems to be who you work with and ~10% is the actual job itself.

oh man working in a warehouse, as order picker or packer was like the worst job ive ever done, true misery

Listening to this while I go for my daily walk at the job i hate LOL

Work has made me suicidal from day 1. The moment I was a teenager and it fully sank in that I will be living in this world, going to school, working, interacting with people and having to eat, sleep and maintain a roof over my head until the day I die made me realize how much of a dead end life is. there is no hope, nothing helps. all you can do is abuse drugs to cope. Whether that drug be alcohol, social media shitposts or full blow heroine, there is no escape from the crushing hopelessness that is the human condition.

I enjoyed the job I had despite it being nothing more than entry level retail work in which I was eventually promoted, because the people around me were so great, and the work was manageable. Then all of them left/promoted/retired and my life was a living hell. It's interesting to me because on one hand, maybe their departure exposed how bad things really were. On the other hand, bad management ruins any establishment fast. I'm part of a growing line of people who left the business because of the superiors. It's weird being back on the labor market after so long. It's like getting out of a relationship after nearly a decade and having to learn how to date again.

some of the best choices ive made in the workforce was deliberately disregarding my parent's advice. Their advice to me was "never say no" and to keep my head down, do good work and don't complain. while on the surface that may sound like good advice, I was able to improve my overall happiness by just... asking for what I wanted. And because of that I rarely worked weekends, had a semi consistent schedule, (as much as you can have in retail) and switched departments to one I liked better than the one I was hired for. There is so much potential in just asking for what you want. You're not going to get fired for asking.

I mean you gotta find a job before you can hate it. Everyone's telling me there's a labour shortage, but I've applied to dozens of jobs and all of them have dozens if not hundreds of applicants.

every job i've had was violating some regulation or another. always involved making workers do things the business is not allowed to make workers do. im willing to deal with even that, if you just pay me enough to remain alive while doing the work.. i dont understand how anyone can justify paying people less than what it costs for those people to BE ALIVE.

I am a 17 year old who had just graduated high school and found myself working at a warehouse between friday till the end of the week, 10 hour shifts. Often times i forget how much i hate this job until the next weekend rolls by and im sitting there the night before just hating the fact that i have to get up and do the same old 8 - 6. I want to do something else but i am afraid that it would be a worse job than the one i currently have. I also dont want to bear the shame of having to tell my mother that i quit without finding a new job. My mother always says "ce'st la vie" when i complain about how much i absolutely hate my job. She tells me "thats life", and it kinda makes me feel alienated as if i am weird for hating my job and that i just have to deal with it. This reinforces the whole "this is gonna be this way forever" and that "all jobs are meant to make you feel misrable" and ultimately, it makes me feel like absolute shit.

I feel like I achieve more in games than in real life becuase in game, my achievements are somewhat simple to understand and feel happy doing so. With Irl Its the opposite.

I went through job hopping to find a great job and one i liked, Took like 5 years and ruined my work history but finally found one that i love and is the highest paying ive ever had. Don't give up doods

There was a time that I stayed with a hellish job because my bike commute was so epic I didn’t want to give it up. Imagine watching the sun rise over snow capped peaks as I get to bomb that 1.5 mile hill straight to the bottom, sometimes hitting 35+ mph! Eventually, the job was just too toxic to stay, awesome commute or no.

Ok, the notion that you'll get a better job from your crappy job, is a load of bunk. Most jobs hire based on either experience or interpersonal connections, meaning the only thing your crappy job is likely to lead to, is similar crappy jobs that is most likely equal or worse. How skilled you are at the crappy jobs is irrelevant, because most of them aren't based on any serious skills, to begin with; that's why they pay you by the hour, because your labor is primarily a function of time spent there.

Great vid. I've been working most of my life now. I've worked shitty ones and I have a good one now. The trick to liking work is just trying to have fun and keep a good attitude. Remember nothing is personal good things or bad things. Also, for the corporate types, don't just go for the most money. Go for the best manager. Money is a detail but your manager can set you back years or push you forward into something better you never imagined.

Sometimes, it’s the job itself that intolerable. Other times, it’s the people who are intolerable. The latter is more controllable than the former, though it’ll require some work.

I have always found amazing that people are simply capable of changing jobs so quickly and so easily.

I got wrongfully terminated from my job about 3 months ago, it was the first job I loved going to work, it was the first job that I got promoted to the very top and helped me get over my insecurity about my adhd - I felt purpose, I went above and beyond for my employees (I was a dispensary store manager) The owners allowed a new GM to come in, and he removed me because I was the only person who would be on to him (he later stole thousands of dollars of product, and really hurt the business) the owners even re hired some of the workers who quit because the new management was trash, but nothing for me even though I pointed out this GM right from the start as being a fraud... I have been more depressed and suicidal then ever, what's worse is people around me don't want to hear about it anymore, so I have all these hurt feelings kept inside, and everyone just wants me to be a man and move on and be strong - ive tried 2 others so far, not only am I finding it physically impossible to do (I have blood cancer and makes physical work quite difficult) or I just get anxiety and stress and depression and my brains gets into a cycle how much i cant do this job and how much i hate it. I truly dont know what to do anymore

The common theme below, with myself included, is that most people start off having good relationships with coworkers, actually like their job to an extent. Then those coworkers leave or retire, and either they aren't replaced or they are replaced with new people that are just different that you don't get along with. Coupled with this new normal of dumping as much work as possible onto someone if they are a good worker. And coupled with limited promotion/ job growth opportunities, and stagnant pay. That's why people are hating their jobs right now. I think the only ones that like their jobs are the young ones that are naive. I wouldn't be surprised if the f'ing elites and VPs also hate their job for the constant expectation to achieve growth year after year, or putting a spin on the positives of why it's ok to be performing poorly with losses, and explain the get-well plan.

I hate hustle culture, I don’t want to be part of a system of 9-5, there’s more to life than being work oriented. My life’s purpose is to be there for people and be the best friend, partner, sibling I can be.

It's really interesting listening to this considering that sometimes I get myself thinking about my job. I like the video, there's a bunch of things said there that I've been learning/realizing about my job and it's cool to reinforce it and hear from someone that understands the kind of stuff that we are not really taught.

This video just made my day whole lotta better. I work online, its like this whole day ive got not a single soul to talk to. I have never been wanting this office drama, coffee room break environment so badly in my life. I have to look for a work that I can meet people, even if it pays less or with a fucked up schedule. I need social activities in my life

Again with the videos I need at the right time. Been contemplating leaving my job the past... like 3 months and it is true that you can make adjustments and see if it gets better for you - i expressed towards my boss that I was planning to leave and she spent some time with me making adjustments to things and exploring new options. You also do adapt. You may not get any better but it's not as horrible as the first week on the job.

You know what Dr K? I start my therapy session tomorrow because I hate my job 😂🥲. And your video pops out. Speaking of the timing, yours is divine!

I literally just searched "Dr K crappy jobs" on KZfaq because I had another anxiety attack before work this morning. What the hell Dr K..? What kind of Vedic magic is this?

I really needed this rn. Ty

personally I think it comes down to cost of living. You work your ass off and at the end of the week of toil, eating other peoples shit, you've got enough tokens to keep yourself alive and pay rent (usually someone elses mortgage). but don't stop because you've got to do it again next week. and if you don't eat enough shit and smile as you do it, you'll be threatened with homelessness and poverty. rinse + repeat

I actually love these videos. And I’m very anti authority and find it difficult to talk to a therapist. This helps a lot to love in the right direction in life

Thanks for your lectures, Dr.

I am personally experiencing this. I hate my job. I want to change but I am afraid that I am too old to be upskilled in another profession. It's not even going through motions anymore, it's wallowing in depression everyday. I've considered quitting but I need to put food on the table for the family and that is the only reason why I'm even staying in the job. I've been drinking heavily just to numb the thoughts of self loathing. Options are running out and I can only think of 'last resort' solutions to end this pain.

It's the managers most of the time that be tweaking. Cool co-workers will make you bare with it but it seems everyone is miserable now

LMAO 15:45 Dr. K is basically like “I know you hate your job but what I learned from people in prison is that you’ll adapt.” 😂😂 Great analogy tbh, Job = Prison hahahah

"we don't teach people like how to get a job" the public school system basically anywhere is such a massive waste of time for everybody that lives through it...

Granted, I live in the Netherlands, and I know we have quite a lot of safety nets. However, my plan is to literally do "move from job to job". I've done customer service for a year, and I know I'll never wanna work 8 hours a day ever again taking phone calls one after another constantly. That is not for me. So now I'm looking at maybe chat support. yknow like customer support but just chatting online. That seems alright for now. And if that isn't enjoyable, I'll maybe try to do some freelance work and see. Or I take a bootcamp study in smth like I.T. if I can afford it to see if maybe that is smth for me. Now, I know what is for me. It's music. I love doing music, I'm thinking using platforms like Artlist to make passive income from songs whilst also releasing my own music. Is it a small success chance? Yes. But outside of that, I just gotta look for smth that is alright to me no matter what

You have one of the most intricate ways to think about life (I was trying to come up with a better word than life, but then I just thought-heck, why not-life) out of anyone I've heard on KZfaq. It's truly at another level and makes me ponder life in a deeper way than I thought was previously impossible. Anyways, don't want to ramble on...I would love to hear your take on how things like "finding your purpose in life" or "finding ways to force oneself to get through a major part of life-work" ties in with the monetary system. I feel like I do know loads on the monetary system from spending 100's of hours watching videos, listening to podcasts, reading articles etc. but I'd still love to hear any thoughts you may have on that (even if you have less knowledge about it than some other people spending their lives focusing on it), as your level of thinking on these issues would lead me to think that your thoughts would definitely be of value. If you're unsure about this particular subject, I'd love to start a conversation about it, just to have some good banter.

this was so helpful, watched the whole thing, thank u

I worked as a Chef for 4 years at 4 different places and listening to podcasts during prep was my favourite thing. Much wisdom to learn from this video!

Really wish I saw this 2 weeks ago. I quit my job where I was (mostly) happy to start a new job that paid more. Turns out the new job was awful and I couldn’t make it 2 days there. It was too late to get my old job back. So now I’ve lost both opportunities. :(

The consistency vs. chaos (variety) got me. I like a bit of both in my jewelry career. I greatly value consistency, in that I can show up, sit down, and work without interruption. However, working on the same styles of jewelry all the time gets to be boring and unimaginative. Very little space for me to feel personally creative, paired with the frequent interruptions that come from jobs that need to be done right away because the customer decided to wait rather than come back later, are the two factors I can identify that cause me to feel poorly.

Honestly, after watching through all the membership videos to date, this video spoke to me in a profound manner. Thanks again dr k

Thank you so much for this video, it really helped me alot

Thank you for this. I've been out of the official working world for a while and I'm preparing to jump back into the rat race. I've been very anxious about it and I cant say you've completely removed my anxiety but you have definitely given me more tools I can use when I'm struggling.

I'm watching this in advance so I can have the right mindset for working a job and also to maybe get advice on finding the career right for me

the people you end up working with is the biggest wildcard. people who micromanage, make decisions on my behalf without even knowing what it is i actually do or bothering to ask, push unreasonable deadlines down our throat, don't understand or acknowledge issues with management, are unwilling to accept mistakes of any kind, and who never are satisfied with the work being done have been the ones who make me miserable.

Thank you Dr. K. You are helping me in the right direction. I can’t wait to get on meds again, and have therapy. It’s a struggle and it’s painful. The lessons you are passing down are a gift I could never imagine. I’ve been taking notes and trying to memorize these lessons. I am guilty of binge watching some of your stuff, but I’d rather do that than mindlessly scroll through tik tok and instagram and fap to garbage. It would be a pleasure to meet you one day.

12:00 this is so underrated. As I recently moved from mid to senior developer I now experience the joys of recruitment. And too often I need to ask "what were you doing in this period?" and hear "oh I just worked retail its nothing worth mentioning." Really not worth mentioning? The fact that you managed to work while studying or wanted to work during holidays. Or even just worked somewhere while not being able to find work that you wanted. All these are super valuable because they show your determination. Remember. On your cv: any job is better than a hole. Especially during covid people just have a gaping hole for a year or more. At least plug in freelance and think of all the times you helped your boomer parents with their electronics. Anything is infinitely better than nothing.

You're asking really good questions

I havent watched the vid yet but ill share my two cents. Ive worked a lot of shitty jobs, and i mean really shitty minimum wage work in barely legal conditions. RN Im in a career i actually enjoy and its night and day from my first few jobs. I have hated almost every single job ive ever had, but the only ones I havent hated are the ones I can do for money and that dont have a toxic work environment. You cant quit just because of toxicity its a reason to quit not the reason to quit. You have to find out what kind of work you are compatible with, You might love to cook but you might hate it as a job. Unfortunately the only way to find out is by first hand experience.

love your videos

These are nice things to think about for young people early in their working lives, but I wonder what suggestions there are for adults a decade into a well paid work in tech who have zero respect for the organizations in general. They're all much less than the sum of their parts. People are great and smart yet the companies are pitifully run and ethically pathetic.

This was truly helpful. I wish I'd known that years ago, when I was just making my decisions about college and having my first jobs.

Currently reflecting if I should have a career change and this pops up on my recommended.

I don't think im made to work 9-5 and I hate that

To be honest, I had been watching another KZfaq channel called "A Life After Layoff" saying that spending a long time working for a company is BAD for your career. That is why you should be upskilling yourself in your chosen career/profession every opportunity you get, as well as the "free agent" mindset.

oh the misery every Job wants to be my enemy my enemy

last year i got a job at walmart in ogp, I was stoked when i first started as I was morbidly exhausted of my cycle of inaction (toking, games, porn, awful diet, general lethargy). ready to finally have a proper routine. months go by I become horribly ill with resentment, in every way unappreciative & heedless. for the last month I was there I started to accept it & realized it was all about how I chose to feel about it, you can go in miserable or you can try your hardest to be happy. the latter is sufficient for your well being days away from getting my attendance points reset (they reset every 6 months), I get blindsided by the flu, making it my first time being sick in years. not having enough points to cover the days, I rested at home with the thoughts of possibly losing my job subtly sprinkling in. I go to the doctor, get a note, scoop myself back up with a mental rusty spoon & come back in the next scheduled day. hour into workin, get a call on my phone from my tl to come to the back office. flailed my doctors note around like my castle just got sieged by the cumans & at last, I get inevitably fired. it was my first true lesson on why you should always be grateful for what you have, routine is the best drug against depression.

Just in time! Thanks Dr. K 💚

Love Dr. K talking about his ice cream job. I feel like everyone eventually has that one minimum wage job that they actually really enjoyed

Dr. K, I'm glad you took on this question even though it didn't have all the details you mentioned. I'm glad because my guess is that having an undesirable job is a very common experience.

Dr K is a mind reader lol. I was dealing with this lately, I'm working minimum wage, but I'm trying to get a full time 9-5 job soon. Happy Wednesday everyone

I personally went through about 5 years of shitty jobs. Saved money, like 5k a year. Invested in stocks and crypto(becareful with this ponzi asset) and now I'm able to sell cover calls for stock options. Make 7k to 12k a month. I still work but part time. I control my life now. I don't need to work(I only work because is actually very chill and pays decently)

How should i bring myself to love the process of making my boss money, there is nothing to bring me joy from that transaction? Starting my own company is even more stressful and risky, for a short life i have on this earth, i don't see the reason i would want to have a business other than money, in which i am not interested. Only thing making job bearable is the aspect of me not dying and not being dependant on anyone

Love the main picture of the video! :)

Damn I get so intimidated by the topics of jobs bc I'm unemployed and extremely bad at almost everything work related, mainly due to my mental health, and to fix it I need money, for which I need to work... Thankfully I have Dr k and others' videos on mental health stuff so I can help myself even if a little bit

I AM the Boomer generation, born nearly 70 years ago, and I distinctly remember something along the lines of what I'm going to write below already being a cliche joke way back then. The story goes: My grampa told me, "Oh, you kids have it easy. When I was a boy, we had to walk five miles to school -- uphill both ways."

Just 10 minutes in and I’m loving it. I don’t dislike my job, I absolutely freaking despise and loathe my job. But I took it to get a raise, and save enough over a year period so that I can quit and move far far faaaar away. I hate this, but it has an endpoint and a purpose. I get massively overwhelmed and I’m very very convinced that this job isn’t really something one person can reasonably do. But I now know what to avoid in my job search when I move. And I know how bad work can really get. (Undoubtedly there’s always a way things can get worse. But this experience was more then enough to teach me what to avoid.) Point of my monologue is this, a lot of what he’s mentioning here are the only reasons I was able to make it this long at this job.

Psychiatrist here: EMR+Insurance = your job will ALWAYS suck. And people wonder why everyone leaves for private pay…

i am the same way as OP. my answer is to find places and gigs that allow me to control my schedule. i still hate my job but they only require 4 hours a week. it has stopped a lot of the misery, there is of course still plenty while im there but the week in between each four hours max gives me a good amount of recover time but still. i know theres something better out there than this and i think its within me and idk how to change it so ill keep watching the vid now.

I've been having this issue lately myself. I have an amazing position in a solid company doing work that I'm naturally good at and making great money, but the latest projects, staffing changes, and management culture has been genuinely soul crushing. Issues that I tried to call out years ago are finally coming to a head, responsibilities beyond my role and experience level are piling up, and it feels like we're headed for a cliff that no one wants to acknowledge. It's been causing me to wake up with panic attacks. These are issues in my specific group and particular projects that we're not equipped to handle, so it's not the company or general role that's killing me - it's the current situation. Leaves me in a shitty spot since I know that leaving would be an immediate relief, but I'd effectively have to start from square 1 making half as much as I do now after spending the better part of a decade making it to this point.

7:36 Wow, this makes so much sense. Any time I'm injured or very sick, there's definitely a feeling that it's going to last forever 😂

i feel like an isolated alien. im 30 and still feel like a child of some sort. i am barely even taking care of myself now. im getting my father to pay for sessions.. it all feels so complicated to me, despite having done therapy for months, and trying to train to grow, the best i can do is level myself or go overall downward. it feels like my brain squelches itsself into pain whenever i really get into it. i used to have a habit of emotional stoppage to try to keep myself from showing feelings as i was growing up, idk how much its affecting me now, esp since ive been trying to allow myself emotions.. but its so much.. its always been too much i think, cause food addiction and responsibility avoidance started very early and has not been healed. i feel more unreconcilable the further i go. im such a slow learner and i know its cause the part of me that doesnt want to stop doing things like this has such a strong grip.. i never got the help i needed and now i regret even growing older just cause i cant reliably get the help i think i need now. that thought process/addiction system seems to out meta everything else that i learn thats good for me.

Personally, thanks to the pandemic, I believe the best job nowadays is remote work, which companies are trying to take away by returning to the office to go back to "normal" (workers were doing well working at home during the pandemic) or depending on some jobs, some managers become overly controlling online, but if it's a good team/communication, as long as you get work done, that's the best job, because they respect the work you do and know you will get the job done without micromanaging you all the time. I am just starting out in my career but I love working from home, I get feedback from the team but I feel like I am in full control. I get to work and be productive for a certain amount of hours, and then I have free time for learning a new skill, self care, cooking in the kitchen, some time for exercise, finally having time for fun hobbies like video games or binge watching shows/movies, or getting extra rest at home, etc. Remote work IMO has been such a blessing in many ways. I save money from commute and more time and energy for myself, and spending more time with my family. It's going to be so hard to transition to a physical work environment if I apply to a different job in the future post pandemic because remote work showed me the alternative to working, I love working at home. At least if I'm gonna go to a physical environment to work, I want hybrid, some days in the office/studio and other days remote at home. I want a career but I also need balance and have time for myself as well. Before college I used to work in retail for minimum wage to buy school supplies and the manager treated me so awfully in front of customers, I was so embarrassed but I just did what she said and make sure I did my job in retail, but that was the worst time of my life, it made me so down and with a loss of energy. It pushed me to finish my education to pursue jobs with better pay, flexible schedule, and a better work environment.

I worked in warehouses in hellish SoCal heat for a decade, boys. Now, I work from home doing tech support and am far happier and more comfortable. You can get out of it! Keep going.

Nice one, this pops up in my feed while I'm at work in my job which is boring me out to death

In fairness, pretty much all jobs actually do suck.

Very timely 😀

The world is very cruel to people without some training, certificate, or degree. Once you get some training or certificate you truly get to escape the most boring, soul sucking jobs out there

The best days at my old job were the ones that I got done everything I set out to do during that day. The worst days were the ones that everything wasn't going well and more problems showed up... btw I find it really hard to understand my preferences, its like Im always in "third person mode"...

I just have really bad anxiety when I’m at work. I walk in everyday and since I work at a lab, there are a lot of different things that us student workers need to do. So I usually don’t know what I’m going to be doing that day, and there is a new thing for me to do a lot of the time and I am very worried that if I mess something up, then people might think that I’m dumb and that is my worst fear when I’m at work, so every time something gets explained to me I worry that I’ll mess it up, I don’t fully listen and then I mess something up. Its like I just choke in everyday work life and it’s not that I can’t understand how to do something, I just panic and don’t listen or I forget out of over panic and fear from judgment. I just need help on working on not worrying about what people think of me or about me failing.

Multiple of us new nurses on my unit discussed how much we hate our job and our unit and how we're leaving when we reach 1 year. Every shift is miserable and everyone who's left our unit has said it was the best decision of their career. And it's so disheartening going into work everyday.

Being physically disabled [legally blind] means my pool of jobs is severely limited. Also having higher anxiety levels than a normal person means call centers puts me in a really bad space. So it's difficult for me to find work both on site and most work from home. So I feel pretty stuck. Been working at a hotel front desk for almost 3 years and felt pretty ambivalent towards it for most of my tenure.

I used to love my job, until my boss passed management to this guy, who I not only he doesn’t bring enough stock of things people buy, but he want us to force people to buy things they don’t like. Then, every-time we’re making more money on commission they change it, and every time we’re getting paid less and less, and they even took our chairs away! We don’t have a lunch room, and spent 10 hours standing? Like I’m looking for something as close to me, but damm is it hard to enjoy it