the weary worker

Whats up with the worker thing lol We work in order to get paid our expenses. thats the only thing on my mind lol If someone have their dream work good for them. No need to be envious your time will come too. If you come to the state you have love your work better than nothing. lol

same here. I work for the full day, mostly overtime. I even work on weeknds. for what, just to earn sum extra bucks. and what I get is like peanuts. Now a days finding a job that pays what you expect is very hard to find. Mostly they either pay you good and make you work like a dog, or they pay you very less and make you work like a human being.

I have colleagues who are from Philippines and they are working happily. It is all the same everywhere. What is more important is you view yourself as an asset to your employer. If the employer looks up on you, there you are. Other than striving for that paycheck at the end of the month, there are many other aspects in a job. Improving and upgrading oneself is one good means to move up the corporate ladder. The higher you go, the more money you get but of course, more stress comes along with more responsibility. It is a fair world.

I work for my state's government, and most days, it feels like I'm a one-woman army trying to get everything done. We used to make war references, because every day feels like a losing battle. From the massive number of people we deal with daily, to hiring freezes, wage freezes, and overbearing co-workers, I'm truly surprised our turn over rate isn't higher. Of course, since the economy plunged, there have been a shortage of good jobs out there. I think it's too easy to get burned out in most jobs. Why go through the constant stress and that feeling of walking one step forward, two (or more) steps back. We have so many fires to put out that one might suspect we were a fire place. The pay raises people receive are not usually enough to truly make a difference to most, and to be honest, a lot of people try to live outside their means to start with, so any raise or promotion is gone long before it's received. Then, there are the people that just don't want to work. They're able to, they're capable of finding a job, but they can't keep a job long enough to pay a bill. They get fired, they stop showing up, they're constantly late when they do decide to finally come to work, and everyone else has to pick up their slack because they don't do any quality of work. It's frustrating on many levels, not just in the pay department. And usually, just when you thing your stress level has hit it's maximum, something else crops up. This is repeated day after day after day....