I hate my friggin job!

**Love my Bonnie** · 9th July 2010, 09:35

I love my job!!!
The sun is shining & I am on school holidays YAY!!!!!
I'm off riding again.

CU

**Love my Bonnie** · 9th July 2010, 09:37

Originally Posted by mattian

I have a Bachelor of art and design from AUT. it isnt worth the paper its written on.

I got a Bachelor of Education from Auckland Uni
My piece of paper cost $16000 + 3 years lost income

**vifferman** · 9th July 2010, 09:42

I hate my friggin job too! The salary is OK (but less than I could be being paid for the same job elsewhere). The worse thing about it is that while I've been on sick leave / annual leave to have and recover from open-heart surgery, I've received one (1!) phone call from someone at work, and that was my boss, yesterday, basically asking if I was coming back next week. This is from a company that I've worked at for over four years, that prides itself on its social conscience, assistance programmes, wonderful company culture, blah blah blah. And the HR manager knew I was going into hospital and didn't even offer lip service to ask if there was something she could do to help.

**Bald Eagle** · 9th July 2010, 09:59

They definitely be off your Xmas card list then

**Grubber** · 9th July 2010, 10:08

Originally Posted by Bren

Get an OSH approved forklift cert and become a redneck like me....love it!

They screaming for good hoist drivers all over the place.
Work outside in the open spaces. Nothin wrong with that for a job.
Takes a bit of skill to master it to any degree too.

**Grubber** · 9th July 2010, 10:10

Originally Posted by Love my Bonnie

I love my job!!!
The sun is shining & I am on school holidays YAY!!!!!
I'm off riding again.

CU

Ok i think we've heard enough from you for today1

**dogsnbikes** · 9th July 2010, 10:20

Originally Posted by mattian

I've been working as a kitchenhand in the same job for more than 5 years. I am so over working in a kitchen. I'm miserable and its time for a change!!!!!!!!!

Thats your problem 5 years plus as a kitchen hand.......in the whole time I have been in the industry I have never known anyone to make a kitchenhand position a career

Have you never had the option of up skilling??or has upskilling never interested you??

I could say I hate my job and I am sure alot of people on here could too,

I dont mix work and hobbies but I look at how the benefits of my job can maximise the interest in my hobbies and I think I have it pretty sorted now and have been in the same job for the last 9 years...yes there are pro's and con's just like any job

The only bad thing I can say about my job is that I am required too work away from home for two weeks at a time.....

But the great things are

I work less than 6 mths a year,
I get paid all year round,
I meet great people,
I work with great people,
I get 4 weeks annual leave,
I get free travel outside public holidays,
The scenery is always diferent,

And when I am at home..I can have as much time with my bikes as I wish and I get quality time with the missus

**Max Preload** · 9th July 2010, 10:44

Originally Posted by Maha

But did the pizza get through? or did they have to scrape that of the road too?

Both.

Originally Posted by mattian

I have a Bachelor of art and design from AUT. it isnt worth the paper its written on.

So you should already know that combining a hobby and job doesn't work.

**avgas** · 9th July 2010, 11:18

sell drugs.
works for the gangs.

**Taz** · 9th July 2010, 11:35

I don't hate my job nor do I love it. It's just what I do so I can afford to do what I want.

**Mom** · 9th July 2010, 11:42

I'm unemployed.

**george formby** · 9th July 2010, 12:04

I was a chef for nearly 30 years, decades of getting my head kicked in. Now I'm self employed, I work six days a week at my business & my spare time is filled trying to make money for food etc. The business barely covers the bills at this time of year & certainly doe's not pay me. I get out on the bike for an hour or two now & again, it feels bloody fantastic, the best form of escapism their is for me.
I did a stint as a courier in the UK & trust me, you will find a new hobby very quickly. the bike will just be a means to an end.
You obviously have stamina, being an underwater ceramics technician for 5 years takes a certain amount of fortitude, apply that to a career which is going to give you a realistic life balance & a bit of fulfillment. Think about what your good at, not what you love.
I must admit I do have a hankering to be a first response medic. That must be an interesting job...