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1. You are frequently angry and resentful towards your workplace.
2. You dread going in to work.
3. You hate a number of your coworkers and supervisors.
4. When people in your personal life ask about your job, you change the subject or walk out of the room.
5. You spend a lot of time researching other career fields, even ones that will pay significantly less.
6. You are easily distracted at work and deep down, you know you're just going through the motions to keep the paychecks coming in and don't really care about what you're doing.
8. You spend more time on City Data forum whining about how you never get promoted, how your coworkers get away with bloody murder, and how you hate everyone at work and how fake they are, than actually doing what you are being paid for.
Constant “reorganization” and management changes every few months and when a company “centralizes” much of its administrative operatioins while forcing the old experienced workers out the door resulting in the loss of decades and decades of tribal knowledge. It’s time to cut bait and run
1. You are frequently angry and resentful towards your workplace.
2. You dread going in to work.
3. You hate a number of your coworkers and supervisors.
4. When people in your personal life ask about your job, you change the subject or walk out of the room.
5. You spend a lot of time researching other career fields, even ones that will pay significantly less.
6. You are easily distracted at work and deep down, you know you're just going through the motions to keep the paychecks coming in and don't really care about what you're doing.
I would be #2, 5, and 6.
1) I don't resent my work place. I more blame myself for the bad decisions that led to where I am now.I do resent society in general because of the way careers and jobs are set up, but not my job in particular.
3) Not really. They're OK. There's favoritism that works against me and people who ride me, but that's either prevalent everywhere or just par for the course for the career I've chosen.
4) I can talk about it.
Finding a new JOB is typically fairly easy. Finding a new CAREER is exceedingly difficult, so there needs to be a distinction of whether the cause of your unhappiness is the job or the career. Not an easy task.
Constant “reorganization” and management changes every few months and when a company “centralizes” much of its administrative operatioins while forcing the old experienced workers out the door resulting in the loss of decades and decades of tribal knowledge. It’s time to cut bait and run
The oldies are stuck because no employer will have them.
The oldies are stuck because no employer will have them.
Not entirely true. While it is a major challenge (due to discrimination) to obtain a decent White Collar job as you get older this is not the case in many industries. Retail, Restaurant, Light Industrial and Warehouse, Call Centers, etc. all will hire older workers because typically older workers have more experience and are less likely to take time off from work for various reasons. In the current economy which favors potential employees, finding a new job, regardless of age, should not be that difficult.
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I would consider any one of those by itself to be enough reason to look for a new job. I have never experienced any of those, but have left because I hit a dead-end in advancement opportunities. I'm in that situation again after 9 years at this place, but happy to play out the last few years before retiring in my current role.
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