Admit it! You hate your job!

Maybe it's just the type of work you do? I do not hate my job. Granted I've only been there 3 months.. but for me that is usually long enough to decide whether I like the job or not. I've honestly never held many jobs longer than 6 months. Probably never held one job for a full year. Subway was probably closest because I was there about 10-11 months. I certainly hated that job.. so much that I'm surprised I lasted as long as I did! So far I'm still liking my job. Over all it's a good job. The people I work with are great, the benefits are excellent, the pay is good, and for the most part the work itself is pretty much exactly what I wanted to be doing. In general I really like customer service type jobs. The only thing I occasionally have a problem with is the company's expectations of us. We are expected to get a certain amount of referrals per day (getting customers to enroll in new services or accounts). If we don't hit our referral goals there's heck to pay. The bank itself also has other goals it needs to meet, like it has to open X amount of accounts per week, and get X amount of credit cards per week, and we have customer delight goals, and wait time goals.. and on and on and on.. and each of us are responsible for doing our part to hit these goals, and when we don't the manager really comes down on us (not individually, but as a unit). So because we don't always hit these goals, we have more hoops to jump through. We have to fill out a form each day saying how many referrals we have, if we are above or below our goal, and what we did that day to make a customer's visit memorable. Also our computer will pop up offers for customers, and if we don't present those offers we have to print the screen and write why we didn't present that offer. On top of all that, we are expecting an audit any day now, and this is a big deal in our bank. Our bank has always gotten perfect audits, so there is a lot of pressure on us to continue getting perfect audits. The auditors will quiz each of us on certain policies and federal regulations.. most of which are easy but some are a bit more difficult. Some I'm still not completely familiar with yet, so I am certainly very nervous about this audit. So, I like my job, I'm just not crazy about being under so much pressure. I already put a lot of pressure on myself to perform well and do my job well. Each of these things just adds more pressure and sort of overwhelms me. There's a part of me that wishes the job could be easier.. just the simple customer service and that's it. I've even sort of debated finding a different bank to work for that didn't require so much of it's employees. But of course I have to keep in mind that every job has something like this to deal with. Every job has a bottom line, and of course that is what the higher ups look at. Even at Subway we were under pressure to cut losses and waste and up-sell. Other banks will certainly be the same way, if not worse. A friend who used to work at a different large bank told me they had to cold call customers to get them to sign up for stuff! At least we don't have to do that! So it's just something I'm going to have to learn to live with, and hopefully in time I won't feel as pressured anymore.. it will just be second nature and another part of the job. I know it is a good job and the employees are treated well. Most of them have been there for about 25 years.

i actually like my job. i work for a Christian company were we make radios and ship them all around the world and also set up Christian radio stations. i like the people i work with and i only work 3 amornings a week which is perfect.

hahahaha... you got me there! Yeah i hate my job right now, mainly because of my upper bosses! But will stay here for the salary though, i need the money until i find a job that doesnt suck anymore lol... Goodluck to us!

Dear friend, I would answer you in one way rather than another, if only I had the good fortune to have a job. Which, however, I still have not the age of 37! If one day I found a job, I'll keep in mind this question, and with all my sincerity, I will be glad to be able to answer you in some way.

I just started back up with a company I used to work for a few years ago. The novelty hasn't worn off yet, but of course I have days that I don't want to be there. I kind of (re)accepted the job because it's nationwide and a forbes and fortune 500 top 100 companies to work for. I had previously left them on a good note and since I just moved to a new city I needed work desperately and knew they would hire me back. Though I love the company culture, my job, my coworkers and the company president I'm only working part time and am ready to move on. I actually applied and interviewed for two other jobs last week that I'm sure I will get hired for, but I know I will hate. The money is going to be great with either one and the benefits are even better than the benefits with my current company (which are awesome). I love my current job, but I guess hating your job is a fact of life if you want to pay the bills comfortably.

As for me I can't say if I hate my job or not. I work in a small company. I am the only staff. I have worked here for ll long years. Actually it is the environment that I hated and it is getting worse now... I tried to keep the office tidy but my bosses are such messy people. I wonder if they are doing it on purpose .. know what I mean? Signs of trying to make me go away. If you don't like your job and you have alternatives/offers ..Go by all means. It's STRESS doing the thing you dislike.

Well, in a lot of ways there are many days where I know I have said I HATE my job. Sometimes I wish we could be more in control of what a driver does, or does not do, and keep more customers Happy. I also wish there was more of a challenge many times and more get along instead of feeling pressured. Overall there are days I would LOVE to walk out and never come back, but then I would be without a job, and this one is better than a lot of jobs out there pay wise, and medically speaking. So for now I know there will be the Good and Bad but until either my Business pays off like a job would with being able to afford Medical or something comparible comes along I will continue where I am at.

I pretty much felt distressed going to work every day of my working life. I think it's one of the reasons I'm so happy now that I'm not working. I do volunteer work and I absolutely love it so it's not a pain for me when I go to "work". It's hard sometimes, yes, but I still enjoy it.

I didn't actually realise how much I disliked my job until I left. Now I don't work for an employer, and I have to say that it suits me far better. On the downside, I'm broke! My problem with paid work now would be my insistence on doing something which matched my values. Unfortunately, most jobs would fail at the first hurdle.

My current job is being a stay-at-home mother and I've been doing that for the last five years and there has never been a point that I've hated staying at home with my children. I even loved the job that I worked at when I was pregnant with my son. The only reason that I left that job was because of the fact that I couldn't afford to pay childcare for two children. The job prior to that, I did come to hate because I didn't like the fact that my co-workers didn't do their jobs right.

i only like my job coz of the salary im getting from it, my salary is twice as what regular office employee have in our country so even though i dont like it thn i have no choice but to embrace it. i tend to like it at the start as what i normally do but as years passed i come to think of being tired working from the same work again and again. i have the same feeling even if ihave regular job as it really happened so i just think of the salary and how it help me and my baby.

Oh no! Well, best of luck to you with that job interview!! My hubby could tell you a similar story. Last year when the new year started (almost exactly a year ago), he landed a great job opportunity with a local company. A higher position, great salary, nice people, fantastic perks . . . who could ask for more. But as the weeks and months went on, like you said, the "honeymoon stage" started to wear off. He worked longer hours than he should have, the team wasn't as supportive as a team should be, there was a lot of ridiculing going around, work politics started showing itself, etc etc. The dream job started becoming a never ending nightmare - oh my poor hubby was like a zombie - so stressful for him. It's a longer story than that, but the bad stuff kept being egged on - he couldn't stand it any more. So end of October, he just HAD to leave the place - and good riddens - he started becoming more relaxed and got better sleep . . . he was his ol' self again (thank goodness). Luckily his old company needed his help (another long story), so he was able to jump right back into work. Even though it wasn't the best company to work for, he was able to make a deal with the owner to have get freelance pay (considerably more than what he made when he was actually working there a few years ago). We needed the money, so this would be a good transitional gig - at least until he was able to find a new, stable job. And voila . . . a start up company found him via LinkedIn . . . and that's where he went THIS new year!! It's been considerably less stressful for him (a bit of a different industry), in a different environment - and he's liking it much more than from where he came from in the past few years. He his still freelancing for that transitional "old" job too - so it's all good for now. So anyway (to end my blabbering here) - from a terrible, difficult, stressful year ... he's now in a extremely likeable situation (well, it's the honeymoon stage still) - so we'll se how it goes!!

I want to try out strip teasing, sweetie. Care to come and see if you might find it interesting, without hating it? I think we get free ice with the job or something.

Good thing you posted this. I HATE MY JOB! that's why i filed for resignation, next week will be my last at long last yeheyyyy. I'll be venturing into a small business where I'm most passionate about.

I been at my job for 6 years, there's some things i don't like about my job too. I stick with it though because its hard to find a good job now a days. I just don't like lazy people and that's what there is at my job. I do most of the work every day and everyone else slacks off and just talks and gets away with things and i'm always left by myself taking care of patients. I don't mind working but it gets annoying too. I wouldn't trade my job for anything though i love my patients I see daily and love the stuff I do, we just need new people that actually work and not slack off.

I have hated most jobs that I have ever had during the course of my life, but I have to admit that I have really grown to like the work that I'm doing at the moment. I write articles, and normally manage to write between 10 and 12 each day depending on what else I have to do. I like the fact that I can plan my own working hours without having to worry about meeting other people's deadlines or anything like that. I think that as long as you have the money that you need to be able to survive, not all that much else matters.

There are times when I have and I do. I think alot of it is because I have been there so long and I feel like it takes away from the things that I love to do. I work so much. I am on the 7 days a week right now and it is grueling...these are the days when I consider other alternatives. When I start to feel burned out, that is when I try something different or do something that is not "planned." The days I do have off are not allowed to be scheduled at all. If anything is done on those days, it is on a whim or just something I decide to do. That helps...a day or two that I am not obligated to be somewhere or do something.

I am not working right now, but I have worked job where I felt just like you are feeling now. Sometimes the people you work with can help you love your job or really hate it. Then there are times when management changes, etc. More reasons to hate the job. But, I did have a few jobs that I absolutely loved when I was younger. I think jobs are much more stressful these days which contributes to the hate feelings.

As of these moment, I'm currently unemployed so it means I don't have a job. But then it had already came into my mind that once I hated my job because I am so pressured with the needed quotas. But I come to think of it that we should really love our job. Not every one in this world has a job.

I really hate my job because it is boring the people are no good and the place kind of smells like old people. :)