[sito]

I don't feel enthusiastic about my job. I don't know if it is related to depression. I used to have enthusiasm when I was younger. I am 49 year old now.
Am I over the hill? Or do I have mid life crisis? I go mountain biking to relieve stress but when I get home, I have dread feeling again

Does anyone feel the same way?

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[Perna]

How long have you been working at that job? Could be you just need a major life change, a new passion? I like Barbara Sher's books when I'm feeling stuck or down:

Welcome to the home of Barbara Sher's WISHCRAFT!

[sito]

I have been working on contract jobs with various companies. I am an IT support specialist.

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[Perna]

For me, life experience depression/"why am I here" sorts of questions come up when a change is needed or after a big shake-up. I'm 65 and my husband passed away back in October and I moved to a retirement community, very big changes and now that I'm settled in and have traded in my too big car for something smaller I like and swapped out all my furniture, I'm looking around for "what's next" and getting a lot of the grief I put on hold during the last six months.

If you can, look positively at the discomfort, it's trying to help, like a bad dream sometimes does, gets you looking harder at what you want, what feels "wrong' or stale, etc. It can help consolidate and give you closure to periods of your life, tell you when it's time to "leave" :-)

Any yearning to travel or teach or design/fix electronic instruments? Does anything like Best Buy's, store-within-a-store ("experience centers"): Forbes Welcome excite you? Any yearning to design phone apps or games? Any project you have been kicking around for the last 10-20 years, daydreaming about?

[Bolivar83]

I feel this way about my job, too and it is the briefest employment I have ever had in my job history (most jobs held 8-10 years, only at this one 1.5 years). Can you pinpoint your restlessness? Another poster mentioned some big changes in her life - is something like this going on for you right now? Depression can really make me feel apathetic and unsatisfied, too.

I'm trying to find other things to generate enthusiasm, outside of my job. I need to be there for my family right now, so feel a little stuck at work. Is a transfer or promotion possible that might make your work more attractive to you?

I’ve been trying to find sources of fulfillment outside of the workplace. I'm trying to switch my focus from "live to work" to "work to live", and see if this brings me more satisfaction. I'm trying to do things that bring me more sustaining gratification, like writing and painting, and other avenues to improve my lot such as volunteering and taking classes.

In a round-about way, to answer your question, I do feel this, too. Some friends and I call this feeling Sunday Dread - it slowly builds until by Sunday night I am anxious and despairing about going to work on Monday.

Hope you will post again, write further about your thoughts, any plans to deal with it, etc. I'd be interested....

[sito]

I have depression for a long time. I experience alot of bs at work. People complain about Petty things like a bunch of toddlers. It makes me really mad and frustrated. I have no way of expressing my anger. It build up for a whole week. I feel super tired whole week. I feel like I went through a meat grinder

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[seesaw]

I suffer from major depression and I think the lack of job motivation is part of the "package deal" so to speak.

I'm here for you. I have the same issue too.

Seesaw

[sito]

My antidepressant medication cause considerable fatigue. I find that every activity that I do at work seem very Tiring. I have zero enthusiasm

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[seesaw]

I had that SAME problem too. We are so much alike. I changed what time of day I took my meds and it helped.

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[sito]

I take my medication only at night but it has long lingering effects all the way to day time

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[sito]

All of these medications have fatigue effects. I feel like I am taking weeds

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[sito]

I want to reinvent my life but I don't have a clue.

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[Bolivar83]

sito, how have you been holding up? How is the job going?

I think I understand the med frustration - it "double-sucks" that in order to keep my (bipolar) depression/mania at bay, I will have to deal with listlessness, fatigue....components that were very similar to what the unmedicated depression does to me.

Re: reinvention, wanting to make so many changes, but then I get overwhelmed with the massiveness of the undertaking. My therapist told me that might be too great a goal for right now, encouraging me to make small changes, chip away at it. It's hard when you want it to stop NOW. Does anything give you some relief?

Take care - Bolivar

[hvert]

Originally Posted by sito

I have depression for a long time. I experience alot of bs at work. People complain about Petty things like a bunch of toddlers. It makes me really mad and frustrated. I have no way of expressing my anger. It build up for a whole week. I feel super tired whole week. I feel like I went through a meat grinder

I do IT systems support as well and just get burnt out on it. I'm tired of helping people solve problems they could solve themselves, or even worse, problems they create themselves and then want me to fix. I would like to switch careers but I am not sure what else I would do.

[sito]

I don't know what to do with my life anymore. It is drifting aimlessly. I feel helpless. Sometimes I jus want to jump off a building to end it all.

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[SkyHighTime]

Originally Posted by sito

I don't feel enthusiastic about my job. I don't know if it is related to depression. I used to have enthusiasm when I was younger. I am 49 year old now.
Am I over the hill? Or do I have mid life crisis? I go mountain biking to relieve stress but when I get home, I have dread feeling again

Does anyone feel the same way?

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I feel the same way. I am 51 and cant seem to find a true vocation. I worked for 20+ years in the same industry; and that industry (for-profit education), has sort of blown up. I got burnt out on enrolling people in go nowhere online degree programs that cost 70K for a bachelors. No I earn almost half of what i did in a lame customer service job - truth is the organizations culture is awesome, very laid back, my boss is almost too laid back, so I really have nothing to complain about. I still do complain though and I am starting to literally believe I am losing my mind. My therapist suggests I need to find my purpose and I agree, but that for me is easier said than done. As an "adult child" of alcohol and dysfunctional family i have gone 40 years in denial of my needs. So I drive 45 minutes to a job that is not fulfilling in the least, and 45 minutes home and watch TV (an addiction). I need to change some thing!

[sito]

I feel scared about getting old and earning enough to retire.

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