Hate having a full-time job

Wow I didn't really expect positive replies so I never came back to read the responses to my thread.

As an update, I got fired from that job I hated and now I'm just doing what I can to earn money. I now resent having to work even more than I did when I made this post. Complete waste of my time.

I agree that having a job sucks, and doesn't seem a natural way for the human to function. I hope one day, we can evolve to a society that caters much more to human needs as far as living a quality life goes.
I have had a few different kinds of jobs. At a young age worked at Grocery store. I had friends around, and i liked it,
Then my dad offered job at his business. I think part was his way of giving me a better life- and part was his mistrust of anyone else in the world. (his famous line "Everyone, all people, are Assholes. People are assholes") this is what i grew up with, and i wonder now why i am skeptical and mistrustful and terrified of the world :/
I then worked w/ my Ex-h and now we are divorced so ...
Then worked at A different family company, and that dynamic was so ****ed up, even though i had an assistant, i couldnt seem to keep myself out of mischief there- and i was required to be there way too long like 7:30 - 4:30 was promised, but then it changed to 5, or 6pm!!! wttf
Then i went back to my dad. and here i am being stressed out, and my BF is telling me to find a new job, some of you guys here are telling me, and my therapist is also telling me and I did- i sent my resumes out there.

BUT guess what? Since i really hate working too for the most part, and i really love LIVING (unlike my German boyfriend, he actually goes a bit bonkers when he is off work too long- b/c he is very structured and good at what he does....)

Im pretty sure- that where i am right now is fine for now. Not to make excuses, b/c it can be rough as hell, there are weeks where we can not do payroll, b/c lack of work, but when it is good, its great. There are a few other things, dealing w/ my parents, working in parents house. this is a bit weird at times, but i am so used to it and i can work at home pretty much when i choose. .... I dont have a HUGE incentive to leave, other then every now and then, i get completely overwhelmed b/c my dad is terrible w/ money.
That said: i think the stress is so low here, that it balances the occasional extreme stressful times when things are ******.
.......i digress......

My reasons to get another job would have to be (outside of the family)

-We move down south, it is warm and beautiful and thus i likely have to leave the family biz. But i would hope that maybe my BF can help support for most part, b/c he has great job, and that we can have a family and i feel that being a mom, at least a stay at home for the first year or two, is the most natural thing for a woman. (IMO)

-I get another really incredibly fabulous job offer, that is completely irresistible, and not just something that is a ego boost job that i will really hate, but i will suffer through b/c "everyone else will think highly of me". I think allot of women i know (not being sexist) get off on the fact that they are in high power positions. I wonder how many really really like that place and i wonder what that stress does to them over the yeras.......

Oh here i went on a rant. I think that is enough for now! :O

i am disabled and get a small amount of ssd money. if i could work i would love to. i used to be a waitress and had alot of freedom before my son was born. i think the accident that disabled me was in a way a good thing because it made me stop alcohol, as my co-workers would drink every night. i am on meds now, i also didn't have a mental diagnosis until i almost had a nervous breakdown. what i'm saying is for people to realise any job is productive especially if you like what you do.i hope more people know what they are doing is great, even "small" jobs. part time would be excellent.

I don't hate having a full time job, however I do hate my current full time job.

I left a job where I had no future, no benefits, and zero ability to retire. Yet I was happy. Joyous enough to work 60-65 hours for way less than I'm making now.

I'm literally looking at my choices in a new light. If you're doing something you love, it won't feel like a job!

Money also can't buy you happiness. This job, I make a good hourly wage, great benefits, and plenty of room for advancement. Problem? It's stressed me to the point of me developing several rare health conditions, threw my happiness in the trash can, made me dependent on a handful of pills to make it through the day, and I've even started self harming.

Doing anything you truly hate can destroy you. Whatever that's a job or whatever else.

Once I get my health back, I'm not going to chase the almighty dollar anymore. I'm going for my hobby again, that'll fix me right up!


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I'm yet another one who found this thread and forum from a Google search on "I hate working". I completely agree with most of the stuff said here. I hate my job and while it's overall what most would consider a good job that I should be grateful for, that only makes me feel guilt adding to the problem.

I work in IT and have been in the same organization for 17 years now. Because of that, I have built up a good amount of annual leave, for the US at least, which I like. As my career has stagnated though, with no likelihood of going any further here, I've realized a few things. This was the first "real" job I lucked into all those years ago and was never anything I had any passion for but still managed to be good at.

I have no desire to start over anywhere else with less leave and this is one of the seemingly only IT jobs around with a hard 40 hour week. Everyone I know who has left has wound up working 60+ wherever they go. I hated school, so the thought of going back to school for another career path at 41 fills me with dread. The things I have a passion for are not going to be at all easy to turn into any sort of meaningful income, so that seems unlikely too.

I'm just feeling really depressed and hopeless and dreading have to deal with this for the next 25-30 years. Growing up, I was one of those people who never wanted a real job and held out getting a job of any kind until my parents threatened to kick me out and/or force me into the military. I had goals and dreams, but I had it drilled into my head that they were stupid and unrealistic so much that I never bothered pursuing them and now it's far too late for all of them.

I know it could be worse and I should be thankful that it isn't, but some days I just don't know how much longer I can do this.

That's been something I have always been looking for a flex schedule and still make good money those are hard to find and if you find them they want some damn experience that I don't have. I am looking into self employment down the road after I become full time in the job for a good while.

I don't mind a full time job, I am still looking for a full time job and where I live the market is still terrible don't care what the local news say it's been almost two years of job searching like really?!? I want full time hours that are day shifts in the mornings 7-3, 6-2, 5-1p still not getting those shifts that I want.

When I got of school, I barely got called for interviews. After 4-5 months of (trying to) sell at an insurance agency, I got multiple interviews and offers to do entry level data entry/analytical at other insurance companies. So, if you know what industry you want to get into, one thing you could do is take a crappy job in that field to gain experience.

Is there any way you can move or look for work outside your area?

I don't do crappy pay I'm 2 yrs now I'm asking for more money. The only way to move is to have a real income I'm at the poverty line. I look for jobs in other cities especially where I live look further north also thinking further south where the money is at. I'm still applying within the college district for jobs slow as ****.

I can definitely understand why you hate working. I wake up every morning and force myself to go to work. The whole time I'm there I wish I was at home. My problem is I need the money to do things I want to do. I want to buy a house. I want to go on vacation. At this point in time I don't have the savings to do so. Working is the only way I can even though I may dread it. What would you do with all the time off if you didn't work?

I too found this topic via a Google search and also hate the idea of working on a full time basis.

I'm only 22 years old and I feel like I'm being lazy for feeling the way that I do. Recently, (through no fault of my own), I was let go from a full time position I landed in December and now I am currently job hunting again. Whilst I was working there, I literally dreaded waking up every morning to my alarm and couldn't sufficiently wind down to go to sleep every night. I constantly felt on edge. I truly dread the idea of heading back into a Monday-Friday, 9-5 position, because I feel like I will have no freedom and no time to pursue the things that I'm interested in. I am also introverted, so having to put on fake faces and having to interact with others on a regular basis is mentally draining to me.

I definitely want to work, because I do want to earn money for the things that I want to buy and to potentially live elsewhere (I still live with my parents), but I don't want to work ALL the time. It's really hard to find positions in the field that I'm in, though. I recently graduated with a Media and Communications degree, and most of the positions within my field require a full time commitment.

I have said to myself that if I can't find a part time job in my area of interest, then I will settle for a part time office job, because at least then I can pursue and have the time to enjoy my interests.

It also depresses me that I will have to work for 40 years of my life. It honestly doesn't sit right with me, especially how I am such a freedom loving person.

I truly hope that I can find a sufficient part time position soon, because the thought of having to work full time all the time, put simply, depresses me deeply.

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I just have to add to what everyone on this thread has posted previously. I hate working full time. It's not because I'm lazy; it's because between the commuting and awkward interactions with people and the job itself, having a full time job is completely exhausting and debilitating and there's nothing left for anything else. I have always dreaded the thought of having to have a full time job, even when I was in high school. It just seemed like a prison sentence - all those people there to judge you and criticize you and make your life difficult. There have been full time jobs that I have found satisfying and not exhausting, but they've been the exceptions, not the rule and the ones I've had in the last couple of years have been awful because I've been working for private law firms that are just completely toxic. I too have had way too many jobs in my 49 years and I also learned the hard way that the grass isn't necessarily greener. I'm starting a new job on 3/14 and I'm petrified. I haven't worked at all in two years. I'm so afraid of what it's going to be like and how people are going to treat me and whether or not it's going to be another toxic abusive hellhole. I really hope not. I'd love to just be a normal person with a normal career that isn't completely stressed out and depleted by it, but with my mental health issues - depression and GAD - that simply isn't going to happen. I am grateful to every single person who posted in this thread. I feel awful that you're going through the same thing I am, but I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that feels this way. Sometimes I feel like such a freak because everyone else just seems to be able to effortlessly get on with the business of making a living and aren't overly concerned with the hardships or issues with coworkers.

I'm adding on to this thread instead of starting a new one. Sorry, I know it was originally written a long time ago, but I was going to start a new thread about exactly this topic, and I figured it might make sense to just re-use this one.

Anyway, I just wanted to vent about how much work (jobs) suck for me. I have said for years that I am exactly the type of person who needs to be independently wealthy because I don't have the mindset or personality suited to the working world. If I had more money than I knew what to do with, I would not be one of those folks who continue to work!

For me, I think I got a bad start because I went to college to be a high school teacher, and I didn't figure out until after I did my student teaching that I didn't want to teach after all. But, I also had no idea what I did want to do. (Well, I think even at that young age I knew I didn't want to work at all). But, I wanted to have money to support myself and to be able to do and buy fun things. So, I came out of college with a BA in communications, and I just started trying to find any job I could get.

From that point forward, I just kept switching jobs as each one would become too stressful, toxic, and/or exhausting. I have always had a strong work ethic, and I tried to do every job to the best of my ability. I could learn new things pretty quickly, and I just went with the flow and took on various roles - everything from clerical, to data entry, to customer service...etc. etc.

Eventually, I got into project management and business analysis roles. I decided to go with the business analysis side because project management was often too political for my taste. I landed in the Info Tech world, and I have been doing that for many years. At many different companies. Ten different companies to be exact.

So, now, I have depression, anxiety, and PTSD and I find that the loathe of working is greatly heightened. If I thought it was just a matter of changing companies (again), I could do that. But, in my entire life, I have never loved any job or any company. I have liked some of my coworkers, and a few of my superiors, but never liked the jobs.

In my current mind frame, I wish with every fiber of my being that I could escape working. I struggle every week day to get through each day. All I can think about is how much I don't want to be there. But, I know I have to. Unfortunately, no one will pay me to just live my life and do things I want to do (which, at the current time, is mostly watch TV/movies, read about various topics online, and sleep).

I was very relieved to find that so many other people feel similarly about work. Just wanted to pile on, I suppose.

I am currently not working and i am afraid to. It is so tiring pretending to be put together and useful at work 8 hours straight. I don't know how I am going to do it again. The panic is so uncontrollable and even irrational at times but It is something I can't help and i end up getting a bad reputation at work for stress intolerance.

I haven't worked for 3 and a half years after having a breakdown because of a professional (stressful) job. I'm not sure what's worse, the stress and anxious hell of a job and the exacerbation of my anorexia, depression, gad etc or the shame and embarrassment of not working and needing sick reports from psychiatrists for disability

Im right there with you man! Its nice to see Im not the only one. I'm 31 years old and having a huge problem with full time jobs. I have always been able to handle most of my part time jobs especially if they are in the morning and Im off by lunch time. I have never been able to keep a full time job longer than 3 months before I quit because I was crying on the job or got so angry and crazy I had to quit. My last job (less than a month ago was a full time job making artificial heart valves. Something my degree was finally going to pay back but on my first day on the job I passed out right in front of my boss onto a ladies desk. I don't know what happened but I feel like my body just could not handle the stress of living sun up to sun down to work for a dog sneeze employer! Sometimes I feel like everyone else in the world must be stupid not seeing how enslaved they are to money and that they literally have no time for themselves in a day considering the morning commute, the shift and the evening commute. Its slavery at best but society has trained people to believe its the way of life. My wife works full time and it makes me feel like I'm not a man if I can get a better job and free her so we can finally start having kids. (married 6 years she's 31 too). If only there were $20 an hour jobs part time in the world maybe I could actually succeed in life??

I just need to BUMP this thread because it is so good!

My life isn't my own anymore-it's my employer's and they don't deserve it. I, too, have always thought having your free time determined by someone else for the majority of your life is wrong and soul-destroying. Glad to see others feel the same.

I am about your age and starting a new job on Wednesday so I know how you feel. I will have to work for several months in the office and then hopefully I can transition to working from home.

I have been quite lucky that for the last 15 years I have worked freelance, mainly from home, I had to somtimes go to meetings, but I could work from anywhere for the most part and had a lot of flexibility.

Earlier this year I quit consulting for a guy who turned out to be very unstable and abusive. I was doing that for about a year and a half, but couldn't take it any more. Then I was unemployed until November when I took a freelance job. I was recently offered the opportunity to work there full-time with benefits.

I am kind of nervous about adjusting to the whole office routine. I really don't want to do it, the commute, fixed schedule, dealing with other people, meetings. If I have to work, I prefer to just be at home or to take my laptop to a coffeee shop if I want a change of scene. Of course not having to work would be the best, but I need the money. I don't really have an excuse to not take the job, you know?

I just keep telling myself, I need to go in and focus and do my best job so I am given permission to work from home soon. I feel a bit like I'm being a spoiled brat, but then it is a huge adjustment.

I relate so much to this feeling. Im 27 and have always hated having a job. But it was what i was supposed to do so i alway kept a job. When i was just part time it wasnt as bad. I had been at a company for awhile had some vacatio n but it wasnt wnough money so i had to go full time. It sucked i hated having to wake up so early and spend the majority of my day working. Even at full time i dont make enough money to move out of my parents house. Even if i was more finacially responsible i STILL wouldnt be able to move out. Im so tired of feeling like im working towards nothing but getting through to the next day off. I feel like i have no freedom and my life revolves around having a job. I recently was unemployeed for 2 months. Best two months i had no money but just havong back the freedom was so great. Now havong to go back to full time i have the same feeling of like what is wven the point. I struggle with a lot of depression and anxiety and having a regular 9 to 5 makes it so much worse. I feel like no one understands the way i feel. It all about suck it up and deal with it. It called being an adult. I just want to scream with frustration. I also in pain constantly because of standing on my feet all the time. I cry almost every day out of frustration and pain. People are tired of hearing me complain but wven writing it feel better but it all will just come back the next time i have to work. I feel so defeated.

I love working, I love accomplishing things, I love the money, I love the company, my moods are what mess up my work, but I need to work for the routine it gives me, once that routine is broken.... I am a mess

As of yesterday I just completed six months at my new full-time job. As jobs go, it generally is good and I get to work from home most of the time. Still, the routine is starting to drag on me. Today, for example I just really don't have the energy to deal with it. Also, more and more is asked of my team for the same salary.

There are so many things I'd rather be doing with my time, but what can I do since I need the money? Just thinking of having to deal with this for another 20 years or so is depressing.

My life's in what I feel is a tailspin now because of my relationship with work. So far, I've never worked a job I liked. Doesn't help that I dropped out of college and never learned a skill, so I'm stuck, as far as I can see, scraping the bottom-of-the-barrel, unskilled work. I don't necessarily think I'm incapable of working, but I don't think I can really do a "job". If I'm not invested in what I'm doing, I can't stand it, and I'm not big on working for other people. Could never really get motivated by a dream that isn't my own, or by financial reward.

I've always wanted to do creative work, but I haven't had the time to work towards that. I started recently because I landed contractor work with very lax supervision and time requirements, but I've just wound up not working much at all, and now I'm so far behind on my bills and my roommates can't float me for much longer (not that making them pick up my financial slack makes me feel any better about the whole thing). I can definitely feel the pain here.

It feels like working is destroying my soul.

I keep looking for excuses to not go in, I hate feeling trapped, so much it actually triggers me into wishing I had rather woken up dead.

The only reason I have not quit is money. We need to eat and such.

I sure as hell don't feel accomplished for being miserable beyond belief and not quitting.

I can't even work toward anything either, too little money, too much responsibility... Ugh

Working feels like a terminal illness.

Right?

Why else do you think that I'm so obsessed with my idea of starting an online business?

I hate working. I only do it to pay for my living expenses and save up money so that I don't have to work a regular job my whole life. In fact, I would choose death over wasting my life for over 40 hours a week every week doing something that doesn't interest or stimulate me. Why live and be miserable if we're going to die eventually anyways?

I believe that humans were evolved to be creative thinkers; not mindless servants working a job that doesn't provide any intellectual stimulation. Unfortunately, thanks to the greed of a few, the many have to be mindless obedient slaves to survive.

I don't care about capitalism or the corporate rat race all that much. All I want out of life is to eventually get one of those custom cabinet homes made out of recycled shipping containers for cheap and buy a cheap piece of land to place it on and get solar power and a water well for water so that I can live off the grid and not pay rent or most of my utilities and be able to have the freedom to do things that interest me and live life how I choose without having to worry about making enough money by working most of my life to pay rent or bills aside from maybe a couple small ones while hopefully making what impact that I can in the world without having to sacrifice doing things that I actually enjoy or living the type of life that I want in the process.

Some might call me crazy for wanting this over an expensive car, house, and a regular family, however, I know that I cannot be happy without a life where I'm not free to do what interests me.

I posted this four years ago and I hate having a job more now than ever. Currently I'm working at a custom cabinet factory and all I can say is I'd rather be homeless.

I've been here for a little over two months and am already starting to dread every single day. I ****ing hate it.

I don't know exactly what's gonna happen but when this job fails I don't think I'm going to bother getting another one. The pain and frustration of having to work is unrelenting and I just don't think I can do it anymore. I'm going to pack up my most important **** and give up completely. I've read about being homeless and unemployed and that life sounds way better than what I'm living now.