Would u mind when ur job becomes the most important thing in your everyday life?

There was a long period in my life when I was consumed by frustration and rage stemming from my job. I had become a stranger to myself. Growing up and even into my young adulthood I was not the angry and miserable person that I had become in later years. It was destroying me from the inside out. Then I was laid off and found work at a completely different job. The work was menial manual labor but the people I worked with treated me well. Over the next few months I unwound and decompressed. I returned to being the nice guy I used to be before the hell jobs. Looking back I wasted my life staying in those awful jobs. My sanity and sense of being at peace is far more precious to me now that I've regained them. No job is worth sacrificing them ever again. There's a saying and it goes something like this: "No grave stones have 'I only wish I had spent more time at work.' engraved on them."

I'd definitely quite the job if it takes up most of my personal time. I was fine with it when I was younger. Indeed, my previous job did require me to spend most of my time at work. But, when I have family, and I'll always put my family to the first priority. Working extra hours is definitely out of my list now.

Some years ago the job I was working in meant that not only did I do the day job but had to spend many hours in the evening contacting part time workers, it was the only time I could contact them, and spent most weekends out working because we had to monitor performance, as that was when the part time staff worked. As I enjoyed my work immensely I never thought of changing to get my free time back and eventually it was part of the downfall of my marriage. Eventually I managed to convince my bosses that we should employ other people to take on the additional work. This gave me a lot of my time back, eventually, but cost me financially as I no longer had the weekend overtime payments. which was of more value to me? If I were to answer that now I would definitely say the time so i can spend it with my wonderful wife, if i were in the same situation again then I would certainly be looking to change my job.

I spent most of my life working in that kind of environment. I worked over 60 hours a week, always brought work home, and my commute was over 1-1/2 hours each way. I made a lot of money but my health and my family suffered because of it. A little over a year ago, I decided that I had enough. I quit my job and now I work at a part time job that is very close to home. While we had to make some adjustments to our budget, we're all much happier.

i definitely mind! i originally got into my position as a temp, stayed on permanently and have hated it for the last 3 years. but now i am a single mom of a baby boy and its hard to just up and leave but im still looking for new jobs. i noticed befor ei had my son that everyday i would come home and feel miserable and just did not want to go in the next day. i woudl complain incesently about my boss and new nothing would ever change. i hope and prayed i woudl find a better job before my mat leave was up but im goign back next month and im pretty upset. work should never consume your life as much as it does for some people but sadly sometimes you cant do much about it! i know im looking around for a job i can love, even if it means a little bit of a paycut, in the longrun it will pay off.