Work is called work for a reason, but in these economic times I'm grateful for my gov't job despite the fact that I pretty much hate it.
The key is not to expect your job to provide you happiness. I just look at it as a paycheck and nothing more.
Fortunately it's easy, decent pay ($100K) and has good benefits - true pension, 401K, fully paid insurance for my family and 45 paid days off combined (vacation, sick, and holidays).
I also spend a lot of time in the field which is nice because I'm not an office-type person. I'll never get rich from my job but it won't kill me because of the low stress.
The key is not to expect your job to provide you happiness. I just look at it as a paycheck and nothing more.
Fortunately it's easy, decent pay ($100K) and has good benefits - true pension, 401K, fully paid insurance for my family and 45 paid days off combined (vacation, sick, and holidays).
I also spend a lot of time in the field which is nice because I'm not an office-type person. I'll never get rich from my job but it won't kill me because of the low stress.
It'd be pretty hard to hate a job that had no stress, paid 100K (that is rich BTW) and get 45 days off a year and full benifets. I'm not embarassed (although I am pissed) to say that I make less than 1/3 of what you make through my ft job and have 8 days off a year and my boss is currently stiffing me on $1250 he was supposed to pay since I went of his insurance.
Me too. I was hired to help out on a project for a couple months last October and the upper bosses like that I come around twice a day to ask how things are going that they decided to keep me on until May 1st. The other computer guy and I have about fixed every problem so there's only work for one guy.
After that I'll take some time off and look for another job maybe in June.
Sorry to hear about your boss screwing you and hope you get that worked out. My wife just left a bad situation like yours and now works for the gov't in the healthcare field.
Maybe I don't hate my job particularly but just work in general. I can think of a hundred things I would rather do. The lottery winners that continue to work because they "love" their job really baffle me.
I am fortunate for what I have but I also worked hard to get it - master's degree and two promotions in 10 years with my employer.
100K isn't chump change but in SoCal it really isn't that great. My wife still has to work full-time to have a middle-class lifestyle but we have no complaints.
Not long ago it felt like I was making peanuts compared to my friends in the real estate industry (agents and title reps). I would pull up to a barbecue in my older accord and they all had new BMW 700 series and Range Rovers. I feel bad for them because they are now unemployed and unfortunately didn't save any money when the times were good. I'm the tortoise, they are the hares.
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