a note about my job

hi all i wanted to take a minute to clarify something-yes; i hate my job...and i am really of the opinion that if you do not like what you do,it is very very hard to go to work every day. for many reasons, i am a jack of all trades type person and master of none- my background is retail be it cashier to sales to manager....i have done home parties and door to door; i have worked for huge high dollar chains; i have been ( and was a good) a walmart cashier....i have waited tables and i have done shift work in factories.... since may of 2004 (6 weeks post op!) i have been employed by sky financial group- i was on the bank side for 19 months and transferred to the insurance side in january of this year.i THOUGHT that it was a wise move.....i was a good teller and love ppl but i was needing a break from direct customer service- which i think really is due to alot of the "stuff" that has happened at home since my dh became ill last year.so; i was hired to work as a clerk in the accounting dept-and it is almost a no brainer job tho it really takes a lot of skills ( which i DO possess) to make it run smoothly--there are a few there who think of me as the lowest peon on the list; little do they really realize what i do for them that they have no clue how to do! ( sorry-i'm sure that is poor grammar!!!)... i miss the customer contact and i miss being good at what i do--the "mentality" or "mindset" is different- we all are different on this board-doesn't make any of us "better" or more perfect! same in my dept at work-however-they are annoying ppl there-in my dept.there is no comraderie and i feel as a total outsider- tuesday i will have been there 8 months! if i was totally honest i would say that i just hate having to go to work every day-but i pull up my big girl panties and thank God that i am able to work every day.what woudl be the perfect job for me...heck if i know! and- we have yet to win the lottery! once, i interviewed to work for molly maids- the owner of the franchise ( was a male chauvenist pig type)-- the guy gave me a very difficult time since i couldn't show longevity on the job--aside from teh fact i had just gone thru major life changes rapidly in two years....well i went off! ( i knew that i wasn't getting the job!)--i let him know that while others were working their lives away i had been fortunate to be able to be a stay at home mom and was the Girl Scout, BoyScout leader , soccer mom,PTA etc etc etc so many others couldn't be-that when i DID go to work it it was because my husband had taken a large pay cut to get a better job etc etc.... now- to the suggestion of switching jobs to something at which i am more happy- wi**** were so easy! i am kindof caught where i am -at least at working for the same parent company-( they ARE a great company to work for!) due to health insurance--i am afraid to go somewhere else in case dh's work decides to retire him--( that fear is very heavy on us-it could happen at any moment!!!) -i worked hard to get to the point that i have the ability to have my own insurance at an instant's notice--if i were to switch jobs, there are very few around here where i would be hired full time or where i wouldn't have to wait six mos for bennies....i have posted for positions back on the bank side-and am waiting now for an offer for a job-tho it would not be any closer to home-and i would go back to owrking saturdays etc...i have done the actual paper with the line down the center for pros and cons and really am torn--- it is just not as easy-- so-i just continue to go to work and get paid and say to myself that i hate my job. there are many things that i think i would do differently if i were living alone....however..i am not and my hubby will probably never go back to work--and we cannot live on his soc sec. alone.....and; we have yet to win the lottery!!!!!! no harm taken by the comments to find other work- i guess i felt the need to clarify tho....

I can almost relate. I had been in the Default area of a major Mortgage company for several years. We finally realized I was burned out with that position. Fortunately a new area opened up and they made me a team leader. I was able to write procedures and hire people to work with me on the project. Then all of a sudden there was a big management change and the work I was doing as team leader/supervisor was given to a new supervisor that I had to train and help rewrite procedures. What happened to me? I was moved to a new job that I was bottom man on the totum pole. I had more experience in other areas but had to learn this one from the start. I was treated like I was beneath others. But you know what, it gave me breathing room. I now have a job that is completed the same day the work is received, I am responsible that I get my job done. I am part of a team. That means if I am not there, the work gets spread out, it is not piling up on me to do the job when I get back. Right now....life at work is good. I am on medical leave and I know my job is being done while I am gone.

Hi Margo I sure did not mean for you to get upset it just seemed that you were not happy in the least about what you were doing. We all get stuck into our careers & stay for Insurance or just don't feel like changing. I know how hard it is to change jobs once you get older I have had to do it a lot in the last 6 months. I may not be getting rich at being a cashier at Wal-mart but I love working with the people as I have been a customer service person all of my life. (so I can relate) I was also in the Mortgage field for 16 years & can not find that kind of work here in Arizona. So have had to deal with other types of jobs & it has for sure been an experience. Hope you can work out the problems of you current situation an you start liking going to your job. It sure makes things easier to deal with. Hang tough & hope your husband has a quick recovery with his surgery. Marilyn, the Bearlady

Margo, I really feel for you. Ionce had a job that I loved, but got a new supervisor that I hated. This woman was evil incarnate and I cried every single morning before I left for work for 6 months. In fact, her name was Lucy and we called her Lucy-fer. Every other person on our team had been fired by this woman or quit and I was the last man standing. She did everything possible to fire me or make me quit but I hung in there because my husband was sick and I was the sole bread winner. Mind you that I had been doing this job for 3 years and never got anything, but the highest scores on my evaluations and had been employee of the month and quarter several times until she showed up. This woman was verbally abusive, demeaning and to add insult to injury, would give me more work than two people could do in 40 hours a week and then write me up when I couldn't do it. I started coming in early and staying late to get the work done until she caught me and wrote me up for it. Still she kept piling on the work. I started coming to work in the middle of the night with the cleaning crew to get stuff done and she couldn't figure out how I was keeping up with the work. I finally promoted out of her grasp and ended up in a higher position where I had the opportunity to do quality assurance checks on her work. How ironic. I recused myself from doing QA on her work because I really didn't think I could be fair and someone else would take her work to QA. Of course she took credit for me becoming successful and told people I was nothing until she trained and mentored me. So here's where I got even.... I really and truly hated this woman. I've never in my life hated anyone except her. After I no longer worked for her, she would try to talk to me in the hall, trying to be friendly and I would walk away. I wasn't rude (OK, maybe a little), but I wasn't going to pretend that she hadn't made my life a living hell for 6 months and have polite conversation. She started going to the same health club as I did and would try to make small talk. I'd walk away and go to another area of the gym, but she persisted. Finally one day, she walked up behind me in the pool while I was waiting for a water aerobics class to start and I turned around and yelled, "Lady, I don't know who you are or what you want with me, but if you touch my ass one more time, I'm going to report you to management!!!" She ran out of the pool and quit the club then and there. As usual, I've rambled and digressed. I was really just trying to tell you that I sympathise. It's not fun to force yourself to show up at work everyday. Keep your eyes open and wait for your opportunity. It will come. Hugs, Connie

connie your awesome. everyone is awesome but connie sure does have the bestest storys!