Post here if you don't feel that bad about your job.

I hate my job. I want a more flexible schedule, more diligent coworkers, a higher salary.

But I love what I do... most of the time.

Therefore, I'm glad to have the job. I make enough to pay my own rent in a place I want to live, afford my car and the occasional vacation without going into debt, and can (usually) make time for important people and events. I'm not worrying about being fired.

Could it be better? Of course. But it could also be a lot worse.

 

Yes, there are days I hate my job....don't look forward to coming to work, worry that I can't afford to drive to work based on what I'm making, regret that fact that my vacation has to be taken with about a 58-day window, wish every team in our area would lose and want to dismantle our SE, ASE, ME, AME, classified manager and a random payroll clerk.
But those days are rare and normally a moment of nougatocity hits and all is write (cq) with the world.
The rest of the time, I'm happy to show up to my job shoot the breeze with several of the funniest psychos I know, glad to go watch a college basketball game, interview a kid, and surf SportsJournalists.com. This job doesn't suck. If it did, I woulda left it 15 years ago.

 

A year ago, I would have posted on this thread.
Six months ago, not so much. Worst professional experience of my life.
Now, I'm here again. And very glad to be.

And I haven't switched jobs.

 

"I've been the luckiest guy on earth. I've had a great life. I sat, most of my life, at glad events, as a sportswriter, amid friendly multitudes gathered for the purpose of pleasure."
-- Jimmy Cannon to Jerome Holtzman for "No Cheering in the Press Box."

"I've always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again."
-- Red Smith, to Holtzman.

 

I liked the people I worked with when I was in the biz, but the hours sucked. Now I work for the government, make more money, have excellent benefits, work with great people, and have holidays off. I still work shitty hours, but can't win them all.

 

When I think about my job, I am reminded of the episode of Family Guy when they took a "vacation" to purgatory. "This isn't bad. It's not great, but this isn't bad." "It's so-so."

The job has its good days and its bad, and some places are better than other, just like any other profession. No matter what, the best part is always going home to the world that really matters.

 

I spend my days talking with smart, interesting people and learning stuff, then writing about it, hopefully in new and creative ways. I get paid decent money (for this industry) to do this for a big metro, in a cool city, and I'm still in my 20s. And I'm home every night for dinner with my wife (I write business, not sports). So I can't complain.
Will this business ever live up to its potential? Probably not. Is it frustrating sometimes? Sure. But I get paid to do what I love. So things could be a whole lot worse.

 

Sxy, I'm ripping yours off and agreeing, esp. the part about the schedule.

I try to put the job/career path in perspective this way:

My classmates have jobs like organizing high school mock trials, writing grant proposals, coordinating "annual giving campaigns" (translation - begging for money), working in a laboratory ...

And many of those same people once dreamed of being lawyers or lobbyists or college professors or senators ... but somewhere gave up the dream.

Of the few I keep in touch with from college, one of my former teammates once told me, "You know what? You're the only person I know from school who is doing EXACTLY what they wanted to do in life."

 

Someone at my high school reunion a few years back said the exact same thing to me.


Yesterday and today, not so much, but on the whole, it's not that bad. Though if the right situation came along...

 

All's well in Omar's corner.

 

Thank you for starting this thread.

I was lucky when I started out, and I have stayed lucky for twenty-plus years.

I have worked for psychos and princes and for myself. Definitely preferred the latter.

I can't believe I get to do what I do.