I want my sanity back!!

[nenen78]

Thats right i said sanity i hate my job so much. it was never a career move it was just supossed to pay my bills while i looked for my dream job guess what i't been nearly a year and i'm still doing it.
Its a catch 22 situation you spend your twenties racking up debt to get an education so you can get a dream job that pays you well enoygh to pay off all the debt but what happens when your finished studying and want a job, you can't find one in your chosen field so you do what you can beacause the bills never stop rolling in. But the problem with fill in jobs are they turn into your life and there you are one of those people you swore you'd never become who hates there job and does it because they have too.
all think thinking about this has made me trully mad what with all hatred so whats a girl to do??

I quit my shitty job in search of my sanity and my happyness, i'm not gonna lie it's been a struggle beacuse the shitty job paid well but somtimes it's not about the money. I found a new job and am going back to school

It's hard now but i know it's ginna be better this time around because i'm prepared I've been here before and i know i'm not alone and this is all normal.


New job new life .

[crazy-girl]

I hear ya. I was in my field of choice for 3 years and had to finally quit because I hated it. Everyone was so evil and I just couldn't take it anymore so now I'm working as a secretary and it's killing me in different ways. I love the fact that I have almost no stress related to my job but then some days I just want to scream "I can handle more than just stuffing envelopes!" But years of working in a job with it's own software programs has left me unable to perform anything basic functions on Excel and Word Perfect. I drift between thinking I'm better than this and thinking "How can I be better than this if I can't even perform a mail merge?"

I'm a horrid person because sometimes I think "I'm not a secretary---I'm the kind of person that should have a secretary!"

[princsstrish]

there is nothing wrong with being a secretary. I am an office manager and am damn good at my job. It's all what you make of it. I am given the freedom to learn other things and I have a hand in all aspects of the business. i think if anything, it is a good place to learn different aspects. Too many people in upper management don't realize that businesses would not run without secretaries. We keep it all together, remember that next time you are fretting about your job as a secretary.

[crazy-girl]

I totally don't mean to insult your job at all! I'm a secretary in an office of 2 people (I'm one of the two). ALL I ever get to do is stuff envelopes. The phone rings twice a day. I get to fax things occasionally to break the monotony. Secretaries, office managers and administrative assistants in bigger companies do a hell of a lot of work. I just stuff envelopes and reorganize the file cabinet. It's so slow. My friend is a secretary at a huge company and she does some very challenging stuff. I, however, stuff envelopes. I have paper cuts all over my hands.

[princsstrish]

try to improve your computer skills, try to take on tasks that involve using word and excel. they are great programs to know and what better way to learn than to use it! Try to think positive. It's not all that bad. I understand you are stuffing envelopes but without you, the company wouldn't even have mail to send out:) Just a thought. It' IS all what you make of it~ Good luck!

[Unregistered]

All I can tell of you is never take a job in an attorney's office! It's unbelievable to me how lawyers can create huge amounts of useless work just from a horrible interpretation. I can't wait to find a new job where people are halfway sane. I've been given a nightmare projects where good work breeds more work and if I don't do it right, I can get in trouble. They are so ass-backwards!

[Unregistered]

I'll second that. I work at a small (9 person) immigration law firm assisting paralegals. I spend the whole day mailing things and filling out forms- basic data entry. It pays better than some other jobs but the attorneys are insane. One has major mood swings and the other barks orders from her desk which can be unsettling sometimes. The only time they ever gave me feedback was when I had my annual review, the rest of the time, I just go thtrough the motions hoping not to screw things up. Since I'm the only recent college grad there, they cannot relate to any aspect of my life. I wonder if I'll ever be able to quit this job and find something I love, but it's so hard to give up a secure job after they've given you a raise. I wish I could find a job that was like a hobby you would do anyway on the weekends but I guess I'm just being naive. I'm sure I'm not alone in having this dilemma.

[MoonAngel]

Hello everyone,

I'm new here and I just wanted to share my situation.

I'm from the Philippines and right now, the job market here sucks big time. Last year was really terrible, with political problems in the country and the US terrorist attacks among others affecting our economy. As much as I would like to find work that I think I would enjoy doing or at least I think I would learn a lot from, there are only a few job opportunities available for me.

I graduated from one of the best universities here in Manila last 2000 and since graduating, I've had 2 jobs. For either job, I didn't feel a sense of fulfillment.

My first job, I really hated not because of my job description (I liked what I was doing) but due to the people I work with.

It was really tough there. I had to give 100% and more to do my tasks and not given enough training, support and supervision. My bosses played favorites and do not see the potential and worth of their other workers. I shouldn't be complaining about this, after all I got regularized AND promoted on my 6th month on the job. But seeing how they treated my co-workers, it was really disheartening. How the bosses yelled at them as though they were incapable of higher-level brain function was truly unacceptable. Not only that, I had to deal with two-faced, backstabbing people who, you'd think were befriending you, but really did nothing else but sabotage everything you have worked hard for. Working there for 8 months, I was becoming cynical and I felt that my attitude was getting worse (it's true, in the corporate world, rat eats rat...survival of the fittest). I had to leave the company and I did.

After that, I was on a five-and-a-half-month-hiatus since I couldn't find a job. Normal entry-level positions are now opened only for applicants with 1-2 years work experience and knowledge, IT-wise. I felt that I had to get a job, any job, or I'll lose my sanity staying at home doing nothing. Eventually, I settled for a job as a Customer Service Representative. I thought everything's going to be fine and peachy but guess what? I'm just on my 4th month and I'm bored to death with my work. All I did was answer emails. Sure, I'd get challenging customer concerns once in awhile and I love that but most of the time I'm concentrated at answering the same questions I've been answering since day one. I feel that I don't want to do this kind of work for a long period of time. I definitely do not enjoy it.

Right now, I'm still actively looking for other job opportunities, hopefully in my field but if not, I'm willing to try other fields. Who knows? Maybe I'll find my niche there. I don't know what's wrong, if it's me who has a problem or the jobs that I've had so far were just not for me. My long-term plan (or at least, my dream) would be to put up a bakery, restaurant or catering service with my best friend. Well, we can't start doing that without money to take cooking or baking courses and put up our small business. I'm also thinking about trying my luck abroad like in the US or Canada but right now, the opportunities aren't that many so I guess I'd have to try my luck next time.

Oh well, just felt like sharing my situation with all of you. Sorry for the long post. I just hope that this year will be better so that I can do something worthwhile with my life :)

[Unregistered]

This is to my fellow attorney slave (lol),

This is off the mark, but I've met young attorneys who flirted and seemed like they were about to ask me out--until they found out I was support staff! How hideous is that? I mean these guys are maybe at the most 5 years older AND some nothing legal intern this summer totally froze me out (didn't do what I asked him or anything). I think it was because he found out I was not an attorney, he was totally flirtatious the first week. I mean men criticize women for this, but many men are just as bad!