Jobs

25-06-2009


You should never go and complain about your job with somebody else who hates their job just as much. More so when it is a college mate that tells you exactly what you don't want to hear: that maybe you picked the wrong line of work.

It isn't going to be too big a secret to those that know me well that I really hate my job lately. All that seems to happen is more work and less reward springing up constantly. I don't really do stress, but I can see how the current levels of work could lead to it. I always sort of thought that the working world went along the lines of reward for work. Not more work as your reward.

But my college mate is of the same view in his job, that he no longer is happy in it. While talking on MSN this morning we both tried to figure out what would make us happy in our work. For me a short term solution would be to change the place I work at, that would solve all the crap that I have to deal with. For him a bigger change is on the cards, but enough about him.

He also suggested that I possibly need a bigger change, not just a work place change but a work change, a full and total job change.

But what to change to? Become a writer? You need to be good. Become a graphic designer? The work has dried up and you need to go back to college. If I had other skills or talents I would look at a new job, but the thoughts of going back to college and being poor for years while I get another skill set is not one I relish.

Not to mention that doing that would be like admitting I made a massive mistake with my first college run by picking something that I don't truly love doing.

I think that all I need to do is find a job with less crap than my current job and my love of the work will be born again.

Or in six months I will be pointing out this rant and saying things along the lines of "Remember I said I was thinking about changing job..."

Because despite the social stigma of working with computers and the result of being called a geek, I do love working with computers. I enjoy the coding, the hardware, the problem solving. I think it literally is the shitty amount of work that my current job has me doing for the tiny amount of reward. During the msn chat I realized that I have 24 holiday days left to take. We are half way through the year and I have over four weeks of holidays to take, because every time I get a big project done and plan to take some time off I either get another big project or have to cover for somebody going on holiday. Then when that ends and I head towards more time I could take off I end up having to cover for another person.

Since every other aspect of my life is going so well lately, some areas going beyond my wildest expectations of well, it would be nice to have the job thing somewhat in sync with the rest of my life.

But then, at the end of the day, changing that area of things really does boil down to taking action myself I guess.

Time to get the finger out and get this book finished.

Blue_jester