Passion for my job...

[crazy-girl]

I think we're living the same life! I got in trouble last week for surfing the web too much and "not caring".

I go through different moods. One week I'm content enough to stick it out and the next week I'm so psychotically miserable I apply to every job I see.

My friend once told me something that was so true, "You can always find a job" It's true though, you can always find a new job, a new career however is different. You could be a retail worker at Dillards if you wanted to but many of us don't want to forego our great career paths.

I just want you to know that I'm right there with you.

Hang in there---one day our dream job will come.

[Wheresmyplace]

What is missing in my job? No passion! I come to work for one purpose- to make money to pay of debt. There is nothing rewarding about my job, my main goal here is to put money in my bosses pocket. I find I play on the internet more than anything else, and that leaves me feeling so unsatisfied, and ofcourse guilty. If they were to fire me because of this, I'd say youre right!
I want to find a job where I'm needed, on the go all day so I never look at the clock..where the clock actually doesnt matter just whether my job is done. I want to work at a company where the guy next to me doesn't come in everyday and say 'Is it Friday yet'
THIS is exactly where I told myself I wasn't going to be. I used to brag 'I'll never work in an office. No cubicle for me!' Now I look at my three walls in disgust and jump everytime the door to the warehouse behind me opens...I'm a mess. I blow up at friends and boyfriends because i"m unhappy...yet I feel like I'm doomed to work until my school loans are payed somewhat close to off....
I can't afford to just quit, thats not a luxury I have. Not many of us do since we graduate college IN DEBT. I feel hopeless even before I start my 'new life'....
I'm angry- not at any person, not at anything, I blame myself for this but I'm still just angry.

[Unregistered]

but no such luck. I always wanted to work in politics so when I got a job as a fundraiser on a Governor's campaign I was super excited. I work insane hours for shite money and am so tired at the end of every day I just want to go home and collapse. It is wrecking my relationship with my live-in boyfriend and I hardly ever see or talk to my friends. I'm really scared to quit because I have no idea what else I would do and don't want to be stuck without a job. I want work that I'm passionate about too. I don't want to do the 9-5 grind, although working 9-5 would be amazing... I usually work 9-7 or 8.

[Unregistered]

I wanted to go into a poitical/policy type job when I moved to DC but i took the first above-average pay job that came along at this law firm. I have 8 different bosses who and don't feel like an equal in anyone's eyes. They find fault in everything I do and make jokes at my expense to lift themselves up- so many egos, so little time! I no longer have a vision of what i want to do. I've been at this job for 1.5 yrs. doing admin./secretarial work and feel like a failure. I thought of quitting and going into therapy but then I'd have no health insurance which is too risky. I feel like a slave some days.

It's hard to change jobs when you get so comfortable in your current job. Maybe you should look at the government if you want a 9-5 work schedule (depending on where you live) the application process can be a pain in the ass, though. Best of luck to you.

[crazy-girl]

Wow. You're letter sounds like my life now. I do so much administrative secretarial stuff it drives me batty. My boss has such an ego he thinks I'm a bumbling idiot. He won't even let me print out my laser print labels for the mass mailings I do on a daily basis.

I too have considered trying to talk to a therapist to get me out of this 3 year funk. I have health insurance but it SUCKS. Massively. I also make chump change. I'm already broke. I can't imagine what life would be like if I was dropping money every week for a therapist.

[Unregistered]

It sucks to be treated like you're cross-eyed when most of us have degrees and honors. I'm just sick of being in a job that I'm totally not into and having an insane boss. It can be humorous, but he's out there! Now he wants me to find out how to check coworker's e-mail with information requests. He's mad! I work with attorneys and not all are bad,but they can be so freaking anal and condecending. Never again after this that's all I can say, they drive me nuts!

I'm just getting discouraged from all the rejection I've had lately with interviews, no response from fabulous job applications only to see the ad on their website a week later. I graduated with honors, am bilingual, even a pro recruiter said my resume looked great. I honestly don't know what else to do, anybody else feeling me here?

[crazy-girl]

I'm hearin' ya loud and clear. I graduated with honors and held the office of Student government president for two years at my college. I won two leadership awards my senior year and two awards associated with my major. I was on top of the world until my second real job. No one gave a crap and a half about college anymore. I moved to a different state and no one had even heard of my smaller college. I made a career change after suffering from stress related health problems at my previous job. Now I stuff envelopes. That's if there's actually something to mail. I also file. The phone rings about 6 times a week. I HATE it. My boss seems to think I have the brain of a gerbil on crack so he rarely gives me anything to do that requires thought even though I BEGGED when I first got here. I gave up begging. I have no idea when my life began reeling out my control but I'm starting to go insane.

I used to have so much promise and now I'm not even important enough to have business cards.


AGGGHHHHH!!!! I want my life back.

[Unregistered]

It's just a struggle for me to put applications together anymore. I figure what's the point, they're not gonna call me anyway and the ad will still be there. I do follow up by e-mail, but now they don't even answer you back. At least acknowledge that you've received it! Rejection is so hard, but I'm trying to dust myself off and keep pushing. That's what you have to do , you have to hope that there's something better out there for you. Try different things, at least you'll find out what you don't like, right?

[michalmm]

I know the feelingw ell. Office Space was the other night, and that is my life. I worked my butt off for a masters degree. And now I am in a job that is wholly related to anything I studied, and pretty much anything I like. I moved to Ohio because I didn't want to go to Jersey (the only places I was getting offers from), and I really hate the midwest (I am from back East). I have a couple of bosses who call when I make a mistake on intra-office routing slips. I spend my days in a cube staring at a computer screen. If I could do anything in life, I think I would retire.