fuck this job.com

Your situation reminds me of, ... me! Sounds a lot like you are burned out. Only difference is it took me 2+ years to burn out after 5+ great years. You did the trick in just a few months.

I don't feel like doing anything, don't care about anything, just the painkillers that let me escape for a few precious hours a day. I live only for that high. Work used to bring me that high, but now it is just a shit hole for dumb fucks. I don't belong here. But I don't have the will to do anything about it.

Let me know how you escape this, because that answer has eluded me. But then again, it could be because I'm high on demerol and can't think.

I think hellcat, coloredguy and me are all on the same page today. Everyday, I loose more of the little will I have left. Yet, I try sometimes. I am so stupid, I offered to pick the owner and his wife up the other night from the airport, I was told I would get a "huge tip". On the way home it changed a little, he said I will tip you enough to go out to dinner with your family. It has been two days and I haven't heard of or gotten a thing. Maybe that was my tip - smarten up fool.
The money will not make a difference, I just wanted to see if I would be acknowledged, which I wasn't. That shit took up my whole Tuesday night, didn't get home until 10:30pm. I am embarrassed of myself. Glad you guys don't know who I am.

Maybe mine was worse since I grew sick of my entire profession. I hated every minute of it but lacked the energy to make the change. One day my boss gave me a bad review and I snapped and told him I was quitting. He asked me not to quit right away and I agreed. They laid me off 6 months later. It was a blessing. I took some time off and made a career change. It was a great move and I feel like my old, energetic, positive self has returned. It's not easy making a career change and you have to be willing to lose money, but it's worth it in the end.

Shit, man! Don't just sit around and waste your life away. In most cases you can't change how you're treated at work, but what you do once you walk out that door is totally up to you. You only have 2 choices: you can take the bullshit with no end in sight, or you can unequivocally say FUCK THIS JOB and make up in your mind that come hell or high water you will not be at that shithole past April, or May, or whatever timetable you want to give yourself, up to 6 months. Then you need to sock away every last dime you get your hands on. You need to, if possible, get involved with special projects that will look good on your resume. And you need to set up interviews, just for the sole purpose of getting your confidence back. YOU ARE WORTH IT!!!

I'm pretty much in the same boat, but I know exactly what I'm going to do and when I'm going to do it. Funny thing is, an unexpected little something came up that might put my plan into place a little sooner that I thought. But I still have a drop dead date as to when I will leave that shithole.

...And probably dive right into another one... :(

I have been thinking about this subject for awhile and economic conditions are such that I think many people have to work at jobs they dislike with people they dislike just to survive. That being said, we all deserve to be happy and being miserable all day is the surest way to be miserable all night. I haven't figured this thing out but there has got to be a better way. Please hang in there all of you.................