turbine

May 31, 2009

balltillifall:

I disagree with all of these people. If you hate your job, quit. Life is too short to have a job that makes you miserable. You should find a job that you like going to and that is meaningful. If that means you have to make less money, so be it.
I had a few month dalliance with corporate jobs last year and it was far and away the most miserable months of my life. It’s not worth it. I would rather be broke and happy. Like right now, I have like $12 in my bank account but I am doing what I want and I have never been happier.
If you put up with jobs you hate, it will crush your soul and you’ll end up being one of those fat Americans who has an unhappy marriage and who has to get sauced every night because they can’t stand their job and they regret not doing something more interesting with their life.

Your happiness with a job will wax and wane, depending on lots of factors. It’s very rare for someone who’s been in the same job for years to leap out of bed every morning, rarin’ to go. But not all jobs suck.
Though some do.
I remember I worked at a company that specialized in marketing financial software to small and medium-sized banks. The software allowed banks to charge $.05 for every check a customer wrote, and extract $.15 every time a customer talked to a teller. Essentially, they enabled banks to nickel-and-dime their customers for every last cent. I didn’t believe in the company, and I didn’t believe in the products, and I hated the service we catered to (on both sides), and when I arrived to work in the morning, I would sit in my car with my chin on the steering wheel and watch the clock tick forward to 8:30, when I absolutely had to go inside.
They fired me after several months, the only employer ever to do so. Not long after, they fired the one person there I got along with—the head graphic designer, whom I wasn’t allowed to collaborate with on projects, even though I was the copy writer.
Bottom line advice: work first with people whose company you enjoy. You’re going to be spending a lot of time with them, and if you don’t like them, then you’re fucked. Then look for fulfilling work, then look for the pay check. That’s probably the true order of importance.

I disagree with all of these people. If you hate your job, quit. Life is too short to have a job that makes you miserable. You should find a job that you like going to and that is meaningful. If that means you have to make less money, so be it.

I had a few month dalliance with corporate jobs last year and it was far and away the most miserable months of my life. It’s not worth it. I would rather be broke and happy. Like right now, I have like $12 in my bank account but I am doing what I want and I have never been happier.

If you put up with jobs you hate, it will crush your soul and you’ll end up being one of those fat Americans who has an unhappy marriage and who has to get sauced every night because they can’t stand their job and they regret not doing something more interesting with their life.

Your happiness with a job will wax and wane, depending on lots of factors. It’s very rare for someone who’s been in the same job for years to leap out of bed every morning, rarin’ to go. But not all jobs suck.

Though some do.

I remember I worked at a company that specialized in marketing financial software to small and medium-sized banks. The software allowed banks to charge $.05 for every check a customer wrote, and extract $.15 every time a customer talked to a teller. Essentially, they enabled banks to nickel-and-dime their customers for every last cent. I didn’t believe in the company, and I didn’t believe in the products, and I hated the service we catered to (on both sides), and when I arrived to work in the morning, I would sit in my car with my chin on the steering wheel and watch the clock tick forward to 8:30, when I absolutely had to go inside.

They fired me after several months, the only employer ever to do so. Not long after, they fired the one person there I got along with—the head graphic designer, whom I wasn’t allowed to collaborate with on projects, even though I was the copy writer.

Bottom line advice: work first with people whose company you enjoy. You’re going to be spending a lot of time with them, and if you don’t like them, then you’re fucked. Then look for fulfilling work, then look for the pay check. That’s probably the true order of importance.

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