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And they ENJOY being angry, mad or hateful. It’s like some sort of control or relief of boredom for them. If someone took that misery away and replaced it with happiness, they wouldn’t know what to do with themselves.
I don't think I could ever be in a relationship in which the other person was miserable in their job. If they had a sort of peaceful coexistence with their job, I'd get that but misery that comes homes on a daily basis and having to sit through, "And then she said..." "And then I said...." "And then....." and getting a rehash of the daily drama would make me want to jump out a window.
There's a few assumptions in this thread that if someone hates they job they constantly talk about it. I think it's incorrect. Most of my friends don't like what they do, so we just don't talk about work much.
5 years ago, I really into my job and my wife was miserable in hers (she chose to keep it for 11 years because it allowed her time to raise our kids). Now things have deteriorated in my job and I am looking for a new one, while she joined a new company and seemed to be gathering speed in her career. Throughout this time, when we couldn't be happy with our own situation, we were just happy for the other one.
There's a few assumptions in this thread that if someone hates they job they constantly talk about it. I think it's incorrect. Most of my friends don't like what they do, so we just don't talk about work much.
5 years ago, I really into my job and my wife was miserable in hers (she chose to keep it for 11 years because it allowed her time to raise our kids). Now things have deteriorated in my job and I am looking for a new one, while she joined a new company and seemed to be gathering speed in her career. Throughout this time, when we couldn't be happy with our own situation, we were just happy for the other one.
I don't think it's an assumption if the OP specifically talked about people that "vent about it a lot" when they hate their job. That's what I was responding to. That would be intolerable to me.
There's a few assumptions in this thread that if someone hates they job they constantly talk about it. I think it's incorrect. Most of my friends don't like what they do, so we just don't talk about work much.
5 years ago, I really into my job and my wife was miserable in hers (she chose to keep it for 11 years because it allowed her time to raise our kids). Now things have deteriorated in my job and I am looking for a new one, while she joined a new company and seemed to be gathering speed in her career. Throughout this time, when we couldn't be happy with our own situation, we were just happy for the other one.
I didn't ask about friends. I asked about girlfriends/boyfriends. I'm pretty sure my old girlfriends never complained to their friends either. Just me.
Yeah, I know, someone is going to post right after me saying how much they love their job. I'm just saying in the big picture I don't know how common it is to love one's job and for those that do you got lucky and scored.
I love my job! No, just kidding. I'm about at the same page, or similar as you are with yours I would imagine. I love the work. I really can't imagine doing anything else to put bread on the table (working on my garden business, but man that has a long long way to go). The problem working for my specific company is that there's call-offs up the wazoo. And that really puts a huge stress on the whole day when that happens (which is kind of quite a bit).
When everyone shows up typically I enjoy it quite a bit. I told my co-worker one day that there's some days I just feel "off" at home and when I come to work it's like I find myself again and feel "normal" again. She told me I should get my head checked, I told her she's probably right. Most people in my career don't like this kind of work (retail pharmacy), you do get some like me who like it, but more just do it for the money (and maybe think it's okay but they don't enjoy it).
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Originally Posted by Chowhound
I mean it's called "work" for a reason.
Yes--I got from my husband that "That's why work is a four-letter word!" He incidentally complains about his job more than I do. He likes his job far less and is looking for something else. The most complaining I'll do is when I get home and if he's still awake I'll say something like "it was a rough day today".
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