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Why do I get the feeling that all the people who answer "Work is not supposed to be fun, it's all about making $" are the same people who make my life miserable at work.
Just about everybody who feels miserable does it to him/herself, without others' involvement. People around you owe you nothing, make yourself enjoyable and useful for others, they will pay you back. At 28 it's time to start understanding how human relationships work.
It's not something that I would be good at but if you aren't afraid of flying how about applying to become a flight attendant? Yes, working with the general public can be stressful but when you are done for the day you are done. Plus, if you like to travel you can see many interesting places both domestic and foreign. Also, if you fly enough you can make decent money. I know some flight attendants that make six figures (of course they have flown for many years). Also, most airlines have great benefits. Just a thought.
Just about everybody who feels miserable does it to him/herself, without others' involvement. People around you owe you nothing, make yourself enjoyable and useful for others, they will pay you back. At 28 it's time to start understanding how human relationships work.
In essence, you're right.
I can always get a job at Guitar Center and then the boss who scrutinizes my every move disappears. The people who call me an idiot or incompetent behind my back disappear.
But, it's MY job to make life easier for other people.
Which means forgiving their mistakes and not calling them idiots behind their backs. Everybody I work with is capable of writing comprehensible memos and doing multiplication and simple geometry and cooking a spaghetti dinner. So they're not idiots.
Even if that means that I look worse, then so be it.
As long as they care, I'll forgive. Maybe if they keep making mistakes, they're not cut out for the job. Maybe society should make it easier for people to find jobs people are suited for instead of calling everybody incompetent and/or idiots and/or hounding people to produce widgets for profits when they care nothing about widgets.
Even though I OWE you nothing, I will give you something. Capiche?
If you love your current job and the pay is OK, then get your metrics up. It sounds like they were good until recently. No matter what kind of job you have, you'll be subject to performance standards.
Having failed what sounds like freshman-level classes, you're not a good candidate for veterinary school or computer science or a career in programming. If you have no idea how to become a freelance journalist, you're not going to be able to do the research required of a journalist.
Seriously...look at your current situation as a challenge to be overcome, not a bad decision to give up on.
Getting a 90% customer satisfaction rating is impossible without cheating the system which if you get caught, you will be fired. For every bad survey you get, you have to get 9 positive ones to maintain your score. It's very difficult. If not for these metrics, I'd like coming to work. Now I'm just doing the bare minimum to make a check with a desire to leave.
Just about everybody who feels miserable does it to him/herself, without others' involvement. People around you owe you nothing, make yourself enjoyable and useful for others, they will pay you back. At 28 it's time to start understanding how human relationships work.
I disagree. Negative people and situations have huge negative impacts on a person. "Don't let it get to you" type sentiments are useless and outdated. People get PTSD due to circumstances beyond their control. Mild forms of PTSD are caused by verbal abuses whether at home or in the work place. You can put up a happy sheild all you want but eventually negative situations or people make their way in. That is why we have such high rates of anxiety and depression. If those people got to play around in their gardens or walk in the park all day long instead of being trapped in a cubicle with miserble people who just accept the system as it is then would they all still be so anxious or depressed? Most would not.
I was 43 by the time I found the thing I was meant to do. I stayed in one job that was not really my thing for 10 years before I found it. While I was there I excelled in the work I did. It is important to me to always be as good at what I do as I can possibly be. It develops charachter work ethic and self confidence. Don't be afraid to try new things. As long as yyou are willing to start at the bottom and gain the skills. You might find financially challangihng but there is more to living a good life than making lots of money.
It might be too late to be a vet but yyou could look into being a vet tech . Or maybe you can put those computer skills to use doing computer tech work for a large vet clinic. Don't limit yourself to one or two things. See what's out there and try what sounds interesting. I have a very good friend who has a PHD in chemistry who eventually discovered that what he really loved was woodworking. Now he is a very talanted furniture desighner. Don't be afraid to step out of the box your education puts you in.
I don't know what I want to do for the rest of my life and it's driving me nuts.
I currently work as a tech support advisor and they pay well. $13.50 an hour. Well I was placed on a 60 day performance probation for not meeting my customer satisfaction score. So I have to meet my goal for 2 out of 3 months to pass
I would love my current job if not for the metrics. I can't do call center work anymore. I want to get up in the morning and look forward to my day. Not dread every second of my life. I never get time for fun things anymore and work is taking over my life. I want to do something that I enjoy doing while making some money to pay rent. I'd like to be a vet, but the nearest vet school is 4 hours away from me and a term costs $12,000. I'd love to be a groomer but education in my area costs $10,000 and the annual income doesn't seem high enough to be liveable. I don't mind going to school for programming or computer science but job security is uncertain. I've also considered being a freelance journalist but I have no idea where to start learning.
Programming is kind of iffy with the rise of automation, offshoring, and H1Bs. I think it's a dying field to be honest and am kind of glad, in retrospect, that I didn't get to break into it as I likely would have hit a nasty snag later. I wasn't the best at it and have heard really tragic stories of those who did have 20 + years experience only to be tossed out in a layoff (possibly being replaced by some foreigner or even someone far younger than them) and then have a very hard time getting back in, and usually not be able to get back in or get back in way underpaid for all of their skills. I just wish I'd figured that out before I spent the money on the degrees, but, as I didn't go into debt, I kinda lucked out in the end there. Still,, at least I can design websites, and, with a few hours of looking up APIs, could do Java again.
Also, I learned from my call center/email job that sometimes it is better to follow those in charge, but I also learned when it might be a good idea to allow more freethinking for employees (as it can help in better responses to customers too) then to always sternly insist on using a template for a lot of things.
I even designed some of my own templates to get around the shortcomings of some of theirs.
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