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I don't hate my job, but I also work for a large corporation and agree that part of it can be a little mind-numbing. I also used to have a really nice window cube and as a cost cutting measure they grouped us all closer together and I lost my window. Even the few people who do have windows stare at an ugly brick wall all day, this is really cheap real estate!
I sometimes fantasize about going into business for myself, especially if I have a bad day. But it isn't worth it for me since I do actually like my job and have a great boss. The people I work with are really nice, they have their quirks but no one is annoying at least.
Hang in there, hopefully things get better! - Hooray for having a 4 day workweek - how did you swing that??
This has been me for the last 2.5 years. Honestly, the only thing that made me feel alright was to go on Lexapro for the anxiety and depression that my job and my hatred of it caused me.
Luckily, I got a new job and my last day at my hated job is Thursday (3 more days!!) so hopefully life will pick up.
Why can't you look for other jobs (other than possibily having to give up the extra day off each week)? You'll get vacation and all of the other benefits with a new job too.
I try to focus on everything else I love. My job is much of the same and eventually I will be a stay at home mom... so I'm basically just killing time until than. My Health ins rocks so I don't want to lose it.
We have 2 girls here that whisper constantly... I've never found whisper so annoying in my entire life except for it's constant. Once one girl leaves the room the rest are talking about the one. It's like high school all over again. Extremely catty and always complaining about EVERYTHING!!!! Don't get me wrong they are nice when you're here and I actually like the personalities... but I'm trapped all day and have actually walked in on them talking about me so I find it fake and I always feel on edge.
I say just focus on your goals and don't let it get you down. I always think... Think is just 8 hours and I will be home to everything I love most in my life. That's truly what matters. And good luck with the business!
@Mrs.KMM: I've been here four years so I'm sure I wouldn't get as much vacation time as I have here. I need the vacation hours because I shoot a lot of Friday weddings and have to take off. Also, I don't have a degree so it would be hard to find another job within the same field without it. And I only plan on being here another year or so and it seems pointless to find another job to get me through a few more months.
@moderndaisy: My company started offering "alternative work schedules" and I signed up. I love it because it gives me time to do things I need to do. But a ten hour day is a long day at a job you don't like.
Um, I have no choice either. My husband was out of work for a year and then went to grad school because he needed to do something, so I'll be working for 4-7 years while he's doing that. I cry multiple times a week because I'm so miserable. There's no window in my dark grey office and there's a lot of other things I could get into. Anyway, I'm miserable and to top it off, I'm working an hour away from home, so that means at least 10 hours away from my daughter every day.
How do I get through it? I don't. I'm miserable and I don't know what to do. I've applied for multiple jobs closer to home, but I haven't gotten anything yet and I've looked for 3 years. Seriously, it's depressing and I feel like I'm wishing my life away.
If it's just a year hang in there. At my last job, I would joke and say there were dementors (Harry Potter reference) at the door of the building that sucked every ounce of happiness out of you. I totally get how you feel. I would even break down and cry at times in my cube. I ended up finding a new job, less pay, less to no benefits, and just stayed there for a while until I found a better job. Anything was better than staying in that place. Is the vacation time and 4/10 work day really worth your happiness?
@JRL2012: Ugh I hate that! I had a coworker who would constantly talk about me in emails to a coworker I sat behind and could see her computer...it was catty, like about my hair, etc. I was so glad when she got fired for having "Strep" every weekend.
@TheFutureMcBride: That is totally how I feel! What kind of life is it just waiting for 530 every day? I wish I could give you a hug because I feel just as depressed and hopeless. 
It can be really difficult. I love my coworkers, but what I do is a little mind-numbing from time to time.
Is it possible to listen to music while you work? Not many offices allow that, I know, but here we can and it really helps. I listen to my ipod or plug into pandora when I want something different, and it breaks up the monotony of the day and keeps me motivated.
I also found page-a-day calendars to be a great solution to break up monotony and give me something to look forward to. Last year, my coworker had a 1,000 Places to See Before You Die calendar and we'd all spend a few minutes imagining what it'd be like to be in that place when she ripped the page off. I had Cute Overload's calendar last year and this year mine is Disney. It's fun to see something new every single day.
And if push comes to shove... daydream? I do that a lot, not enough to impact my work of course but I'll think about my wedding, my future or whatever book/movie/tv show I'm into at the moment and that keeps me from feeling too blah.
@kate169: My friends don't even believe me about how bad it is because every job has bad parts, but, when they have no good parts, there's no fun or happiness.
I HATE my job. And I think the only way I don't lose it every day is by doing things that allow me to grow as a person and professional after I get off work. I don't do it every day, but some nights I'll sit with my computer and design something just for me or work on a project that is completely self-serving. That way I don't lose the skills I'm not getting to use and I'm advancing ones I have...for a job I'll get in the future.
It's hard, but I try to remember that my job right now is not a reflection of me as a person. I am better than that. And to allow my job to stagnate my talent would be to let it get the best of me.
@jocember: I do listen to music but that gets monotonous when it's the same music all the time...maybe I need a new playlist or some fun podcasts. Hahaha my version of a page a day calendar would be scratching out x marks on the wall like prisoners do.
I hate my job, coworkers, everything.
I seriously don't know how to get through it. The job wouldn't be SO bad if I had a friend. But everyone here is at least 20-30 years older than me. I spend a lot of time chatting with friends online and weddingbee to get through it. I have no one to eat lunch with or anything. I see younger (late 20s-30s) in the cafeteria, but I'm not sure how to make friends with them!!! I never run across anyone nice in my meetings at work or work interactions. I feel SO miserable! Recently I've even stopped wearing makeup to work (and as a former sorority girl, I can't believe I've ever gotten to this point.).
I guess I'm just working for the money?
@TheFutureMcBride: OMG! This sounds just like me. I'm serious - I don't know how you feel about medications - but starting on Lexapro has made me a much happier person. I was crying multiple times a week from the hatred of my job (and getting upset about lots of other stupid little things because I was always just on edge). I'm much more content now and better able to focus on things that DO make me happy outside of work (despite still hating work just as much).
@kate169: Have you tried Pandora? I listen to NPR all day and mix in Pandora when I'm tired of talk radio.
@rubyroad10: Good point. I knit on the bus to work and wear fun shoes that make me smile when I'm down. How could I not smile at lime green Danskos?
@kate169 haha my calendar has DH and my paydays circled in bright pink and colored in. lolll
@Mrs.KMM: I tried meds when I was in high school and I really hated how they made me feel. Plus, I'm a breastfeeding mom.
I work at a hospital and I can't stand some of my coworkers. It sucks, but I just remind myself that I'm there to do my job and as long as I'm good to my coworkers/patients, then Im in control of the situation. Don't let it get you down.
@PinkMagnolia: It wasn't as bad for me back when I had one friend here...there is one person my age but she's always arguing with me about dumb stuff so I just don't talk to her.
@TheFutureMcBride: I have pandora on my iphone but I don't get the best signal inside and Pandora is blocked at work :(
I hate my job!!! Been here for 6 years, but it sure isn't what I thought I would be doing when I got out of college. It's kind of a state job and the pay SUCKS. Co-workers are drama queens and my boss is at total NUT JOB!! I live in a small town and it's hard to find jobs. I've been looking for awhile, but no luck yet. I even went back to school to get another degree. I have a few close friends at work that I really like and trust, but the rest are just miserable to be around. A few of the really bad seeds quit last summer and it was a breath of fresh air. I just try to focus on my job and stay far away from the drama.
@TheFutureMcBride: Yay another NPR junkie!
I don't hate my job, but some days can get slow.. and boring. Echoing the music suggestion. I always have tunes or talk radio going to keep my mind off not wanting to be at work. We've got a pretty lax internet policy too, so that helps :) As you can tell since I'm posting here. Hehe.
I've been in that boat too. It was truly awful. I had left a job I absolutely loved to move to a different city to be with my fiance and I was in this awful job. My boss was a creepy pervert and there were all sorts of things that were going on in the office that I didn't feel comfortable with. The whole office was very divided and I'd spend a large amount of my day listening to people complain or yell at me over things I couldn't control. There were some co-workers I really liked, but the majority I felt were very two-faced and catty or just outright mean/crazy. It was one big stress ball. Every morning I would have to stand outside the building and take deep breaths just to psyche myself up to go in and face another day. There was one week where I cried on multiple occasions. That was when I knew it just wasn't worth it. I've always sorta felt like this is a hokey saying, but it was truly a toxic environment. I was always upset, I could feel my head throbbing and it was really really hard to be pleasant throughout the day, and that just wasn't me. I was fortunate that my fiance's job could allow me to stay home til I found another job, but there were days that I felt like "oh gosh what did I do? and did I really do it in this economy?" and it would stress me out. Then one day I was outside picking up our dogs' poo from the yard and just realized how relieved I was not to be there. I 100% preferred to be picking up dog poo for free than being paid to be at that place. I really, really wish all of you the best, it is such a hard place to be in.
@kate169: Horrible! You will make it through and look back and be happy you aren't like them!
Two jobs ago I had horrible coworkers...To the point that I just despised them and also my job. Twords the end I thought I ws going to loose it until I bought the "annoy-a-tron" http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/
Anyways, it made the last few months of my job tollerable with there amusemnet of the small annoying devise that slightly tortured my brainless coworkers.
I still laugh to myself about it.... i highly recomend it as a prank or humane work torture.
I have a love/hate relationship with my job. I honestly don't know how I get through it myself. It's not too bad if I work with particular people. Unfortunately, most of them are leaving for a different unit or hospital because they've had enough of ours. Wish I was one of them. Anyways, I always go in with a "kill them with kindness" attitude. I stick to what I have to do regarding my assignments. I work on a weekend where it's mostly Phillipinos so they all stick together and speak their language. Everyone else is older than I am as well. I am the youngest one to work on the unit. It is what it is, but I'm stuck until I can transfer out or find a new job.
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Right now I work as a corporate slave…it’s incredibly boring. The job itself is super repetitive and dull. The coworkers are annoying, especially one lady who just drives me up the wall. She’s a nice person I guess but I hate her guts because she has the most annoying habits! There’s also no window at all anywhere near me so it’s always fluorescent and gray in here no matter what. I’m seriously depressed here but I have to stay at least another year until I get my photography business successful enough to where I can do that full time and quit my corporate job. Getting another job isn’t an option either…I work four ten hour days now and really like having the extra day off…it’s the only thing that gets me through the week. Plus I have vacation and stuff like that here that I wouldn’t get if I left to work somewhere else for a year.
What do all of you that hate your jobs do to make your lives less miserable? I am seriously close to breaking down at any minute but if I do I won’t be able to pay bills…so there you go.