I should get a life!

You should definitely get a new job, man this is crazy. I hate working an extra hours with no pay. What type of job do you have? I can somehow relate to you especially my 3 co-workers. We are into design and rarely went home with a light. Especially the Project Architecs, they always go out 6:00 pm and up, they even do overnight work but what's good is that we have an overtime pay. Our boss is to workaholic that he always wanted to push work to the limit and give our 101% in the job. I mean, I can't go home at exactly 5:00 pm, it should be given a 15 mins. interval or I need to ask him first if I can go home. I didn't do that in my past job.

Hi Gloryacam. Your at the office and you don't get any extra pay no extra money for the hours your there! I think I would be finding a job a lot closer to your home.

I know exactly how you fee, as often I take work home to do and it is so hard to balance family, work, Church and a little social life at the same time. My boss is also unreasonable but I have to accept it as I need this job. I would advise you to look for anther job but do not leave your present job without having a definite work to go to - this would be madness. Good luck

See as how it seems to me that your employer is taking advantage of you, I think that there is no other reason needed to try to find a new job. I know when I worked in the hospital my supervisor always seemed to be taking advantage of me and I really didn't like it at all. That said, I had started to find a new job when I injured my back at work. That really was the straw that broke the camel's back and I ended up working for another company that didn't have benefits but it all worked out well because of the fact that I was a lot happier.

And yet you are on mylot... All the things you mentioned are signs that you need to move on. There is no perfect work - there will always be late nights, cranky bosses, missed family affairs. Personally, when I begin to feel all the negative things in my work, then its pack up and go for me. But when I like my job, I overlook all those negative things and just happily work.

Oh so sorry that you are working like this and I do remember my last job only oh so well. I was a salary employee who had to avail myself 24/7. I was paid well but was never able to have a happy personal life as there was always a crisis that caused me to stop what I was doing and return back to work. I would advise you quietly seek other employment as you do not want to let off that you are looking because you could be let go first. See although I need a steady job now, I look back and say to myself life had flown by and I never got a chance to smell the roses, so to speak. Good luck to you honey, and think of yourself first, see after you are long gone the job will continue without you, but after you long and gone you have to live with the resentment of not having spent that quality time with your love ones.

I feel that companies expect too much out of the employees sometimes and I believe that if we were in the past where stores and businesses were closed on Sunday we would be in a better place as well. I truly believe that we have put ourselves into the life we are in as people needed to be able to have things available at any time. do you honestly think that the pioneers would have shopped a store that was open 24 hours at 2 a.m. The only way that I can see that is if they needed medicine and that is why they had doctors who made housecalls.

My Life is even more sucks, i don't have a job and i have lost my will get another. i thought i could pull it off but i didn't i end up staying unemployed for a long period of time. but i guess i am enjoying life of having at home with more free will i supposed.

Goodness Girl; You should really got to get out of there... Yes, while it maybe true that it's so hard now a days to have a decent and long term job... but the way I see it is that you got it all wrong; You work, yet you also have to play.. YOU have to have a life! remember it pays to be idle at times; because life is suppose to be fun and work and joy! Having a rest full day isn't a luxury; It's a necessity!

I feel your pain. I moved to Virginia in late 2008 and have not made any friends so my life up here is rather lonely and boring. The only thing I really have to do is take my son to places. When I lived in Maryland which is where I grew up I was surrounded by friends, some of which I new from elementary school and I was almost always out every weekend and it actually pees me off and upsets me when I look at there facebook status or myspace status and see they are going out or have been out