Your Job

[Guest sarah f]

Does anyone else find their job as uneventful and boring? I like my job but sometimes I just find it boring because I can get everything done so quickly that my day just seems to drag on. I don't feel like I am using all of my potential and I guess that is why I want to try and buy my own company. I have been number 1 or 2 the last 3 years in over recovering for our company and that is good but still nothing comes from it. You get a little pat on the back but that is it. I just seem to want more sometimes. Oh well back to work I guess.

Love,

Sarah F

[Guest Donna Jean]

Sarah............

My wife and I had our own business for about 8 years...selling aircraft parts..

We worked our butts off. Put in a lot of time everyday and struggled to make a living. But, it was incredibly satisfying.

There was something about doing your own thing that just gave me the greatest feeling!

I work for an electrical concern now.

I keep busy, but it's not personally satisfying by any stretch.

I worked for a contractor in town for 14 years and it felt good at the end of the day to realize that you actually accomplished something!

Huggs

Donna Jean

[Sally]

Dear, Sweet Sarah,

Sadly most jobs are totally unfulfilling and that is their very nature and even one where you might feel good about yourself there is a corporate mindset that will not allow anyone to feel really good about themselves so when telling you about a good job that you have done they will find something, anything no matter how trivial to remind you of your shortcomings.

I hate to say it but I do not believe that society id set up for people to feel good about themselves but rather to feel guilty and that is at the very core so it is amplified when you add in GID.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest BeckyTG]

Great topic, loving Sarah,

This is the crux of our lives--going to work in the mines every day for little joy and less money....

I had a terrible time finding people to work for who shared my values and my passion for work. I became a standout in one company after another, only to find that I was getting stabbed in the back by the other workers and slapped down by management. Being GID only made it worse.

My therapist pointed out that it was most likely my GID that caused me to be so driven in the first place. It was how I kept my sanity--but it didn't work.

So, now I've found a company to work for that I love and the owners aren't so bad. They think it's cool to harness my passion and let me run like a racehorse. Everybody else wanted me to plow fields, but that's not what I do best.

I believe it was Warren Buffet who said, "If you're not so happy you're skipping and whistling every day on your way to work, you need to find a different job".

If it weren't for the passion I have in my work and the satisfaction I get from my career, I'd definitely be dead, in the gutter or living under a bridge somewhere.

I don't know how to tell you how to do it, but finding a job that you just love is one of the most important things you can do in life. Like anything else, it often involves a substantial risk to get where you want to go.

In my case, I stand to lose everything by coming out here at work. Not much I can do, but take my time, enjoy my little baby steps and let the girl slowly take over. This girl ain't going back, ever.

I'll find another job if I have to. I know how to do it now.

So, Sarah, the only thing worse than working at a job you don't like is doing it as a person you don't want to be.....

Love,

Becky

[Guest viv]

Hi Sarah,,,I stepped down tha ladder a few rungs

so as to make Transition easier for me . I will look

re promotion when my life is sorted out . I find

what I do now very boring /no challange ,,but I get

plenty of time off ,,swings and roundabouts ??? viv

[Guest sarah f]

Becky, oddly enough I work for a company owned by Warren Buffet. I just find it sometimes when it is slow to be boring. If we are busy and it keeps me going than it is ok.

Love,

Sarah F

[Guest Penelope]

I'm very grateful not to be contending with GID but the lack of a job is driving me nuts.

(Though this enables me to listen to good music during working hours.)

All the best,

P.

[Guest daphene]

Sarah f,

I too can describe my current job as you do yours. It really is a chore to come here everyday. I was a partner in an architectural design firm for 15 years prior to this job. My firm went out of business in 2009 due to the bad economy. It is not all good being an owner either, especially when owners miss paychecks and employees get them. But I must say the side I am on now isn't any good either. I need to win the lotto so I can just have fun.

Hugs,

Daphene

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Sarah,

You should come work for the company I work at. I walk in, busy, busy, busy... what seems like 15 minutes later, it is the end of the day, and it is time to go home.

Bored?... I am way too busy to even tell that I am hungry sometimes.

Love

Brenda

[Paula ult]

I do tech support for our companies field service engineers when they are onsite and can not fix the equipment, my job is different everyday, it ranges from helping fix printers, terminals to midrange computer systems, my day is almost never dull, even though our whole support group was made up of men, i am the first woman to hold this position in about 25 years, it was long overdue. Many of the companies we do business, IBM, Dell, HP, Sun etc. have Gender identity in their EEO policies, i found out recently that i am not the first to transition, a dispatcher was the first.

Paula

[Guest Jhira]

I've worked on and off as a cashier for about six years, and that must be the least satisfying job out there! You repeat the same line, the same actions, and almost always get the same results. I actually got to the point where I could, and in some cases did, do the job in my sleep, and STILL end the shift with a perfect till. But money is something we all need, and an easy job is better than a back-breaking job, or even worse, no job at all.

[Guest Pól]

Last summer I was on duty every night all night unlocking doors in 4 buildings for residents who got locked out of their rooms (poor door design means that happens all the time). Daytime was accounting. Neither were particularly personally satisfying.

[Guest]

I'm happily on a 5-day vacation from work, but still answered some emails today. My job is just computer support for a small hospital's operating room but I get to use skills from programming to accounting to engineering, from nursing to materials. In this age of specialization, I'm a specialist in nothing and do a bang-up job of it! There is an endless list of problems to tackle and I have high expectations of myself - so I'm on the go from beginning to end. The big problem for me is that often there's nothing left in the tank when I come home.

I've had mundane jobs and have gotten quality from them as well. Those kind of jobs give you the freedom to do other things with your mind and hopefully do good things outside your work.

Bottom line question? What kind of job can you transition with? I don't know. It takes alot of money, and a fair amount of time. It takes an atmosphere of acceptance that's hard to come by. I'd probably give mine about a 50% grade. But that's proably high enough - I'll get there one of these days...

Kat

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

Does anyone else find their job as uneventful and boring? I like my job but sometimes I just find it boring because I can get everything done so quickly that my day just seems to drag on. I don't feel like I am using all of my potential and I guess that is why I want to try and buy my own company. I have been number 1 or 2 the last 3 years in over recovering for our company and that is good but still nothing comes from it. You get a little pat on the back but that is it. I just seem to want more sometimes. Oh well back to work I guess.

Love,

Sarah F

Night shift desk clerk, how much more boring can life get than that. I do 7 of my 9 hours with out seeing another soul and yes I really hate being here.