So burned out by my job...I'm really hitting the wall with it. Thank GOD we are closed tomorrow and I get three days off in a row. Something HAS to change soon or I'm not going to last there too much longer.
So burned out by my job...I'm really hitting the wall with it. Thank GOD we are closed tomorrow and I get three days off in a row. Something HAS to change soon or I'm not going to last there too much longer.
My apologies for getting to this thread so late.Originally Posted by SiouzQ.
I hear ya. Been there (twice, in fact). It sounds from your previous posts like you've really had to grit your teeth many days to get through them. It's hard!
But if your experience was like mine, days off (even vacations) are not going to fix this. In fact, you may be burned out on retail in general, given that other jobs you've had have deteriorated over time, too. Is there a job development center or local school or even a Web site which could let you explore your interests and skills and help you find something else you'd like to do?
The one thing that helped me most was recasting my situation as "My job as of now is to look for a (another) position in _______ (field). What I'm doing now just pays the bills and I'm outta here as soon as possible." Most days when I got home from work I was just dead to the world. But working on my new career was truly energizing. And it made me feel significantly better to think that there would be, at some undefined-but-not-too-distant-future date, an end to the madness.
ObPeeve: People who run organizations like their own private club with their own private clique and then wonder why no one wants to shoulder any responsibility...
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
well, going to the bar tonight and listening to my friends band (and drinking a couple of beers and having a couple of smokes) sure didn't help to get me outta this mood (I knew it wouldn't work but I did it anyway because the longer I am a practicing hermit, the worse it gets...). I just feel so stuck. Thanks for your post Steve, it makes me feel less alone that people take the time out of their busy lives to read and respond. I have wracked my brain for years about why I have been stuck in various retail positions my entire working life and what I would like to do instead...I really have no idea at this point, other than I have always wanted to be an artist and not to have to worry about being at a regular full-time job. I just don't know HOW to make enough money to live on while being an artist so I just end up in jobs that start sucking the soul out of me after a few years...my head is swirling with despair right now (fueled by the few beers, I guess) so I think the best thing for me to do is go to bed and start fresh tomorrow and try to get in a place of peace and hopefully gain some more motivation to work on sending out resumes.
PS: I did send my old job counselor an e-mail earlier this evening to see if I could meet with her again to help me work on my resumes and on-line applications. I'm not getting any responses so far and that is discouraging...
Retail is a very tough field even when the work environment is reasonably pleasant. Would it be possible for you to get some sort of commissioned sales work? That can be brutal if you want to make lots of money, but I don't pick up from your posts that you're materialistic. An independent, commissioned job would give you some flexibility in your hours and you wouldn't have a boss breathing down your neck most of the time.
Oh dear God! It was the neighbors to the West of us at 8AM with a lawn mower that sounded like it was choking on a carpet. It took them 35 minutes to do the side yard.
Now it is the neighbors to the East of us with an aged and smelly weekwhacker working their way, ever so slowly down the fence line.
Gaaahhh!
LOL, CeciliaW! Last fall (early fall), a neighbour of ours spent what seemed like the better part of the afternoon cutting her tiny patch of lawn. My husband, who usually says nothing about anybody, finally reached his breaking point and barked out loud, "if I knew I wouldn't end up in jail, I'd walk over there and club her"!
One of my neighbors was banging away with a hammer shortly after 7:00 AM. I really must get a taser.
I am completely and totally exhausted.
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Guess why I smile? Because it's worth it. -Marcel the Shell with Shoes
Another one of my kids was shot and killed yesterday...spent most of the night crying and wondering how to reach them, how to stop this stupid violence. I have actually lost count of how many are dead. I never ever thought I could lose enough to stop counting. I think it's a defense mechanism...
Clearly, your husband is a long-lost relative of mine. I'm as non-violent as can be (just ask my spiders-in-residence), but endless, droning noise pushes my launch button every time.
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