Dead End Job

[Coldfusion]

Why am I in this dead end job?

[MORELLO]

Because you allow yourself to be.

[NoGood Boyo]

In my experience the best thing to do is learn how to do lots of different things. It takes time, but it does allow you greater job freedom.

[archbishop]

Are you an undertaker?

[Coldfusion]

No I'm a Civil Servant.

[Coldfusion]

...Just as bad!!!

[Greedyfly]

Because you have to pay bills and some people don't have the meansor sometimes the guts to grab life by the balls - take me for example I left my job of three years because the company was turning to god damn corporate....  2 weeks later I get offered a job at the same company I bow down and take it.  Why??? MONEY   I get paid an awful amount of money to do a very easy job.   But I am still miserable.

[apricot2]

Maybe because it's a warm and comfortable place to be.  Not stimulating or exciting but it does have a good pension.  Make your mind up.  Are you going to twine on for the rest of your life or are you going to 'drive your own bus'?

[New Forester]

Is there something else you'd rather be doing?

[Bangkok]

Either because you have not thought through your alternatives and acted on a rationale decision, or you have no choice because you cannot take the risk of not being paid?

[Coldfusion]

Yep, I did have a great job in the company doing what I liked doing, but then I take 2 week holiday and come back to find out my department has been disbanded. They offer me another job in the company which is doing something I hate that it just makes me so god damn ill and angry. I have to work for money though. Life sucks!

[sprogglin]

did you take a wrong turn at the water cooler? are you in the stationary cupboard?

seriously though i have great admiration for people who do jobs they dislike, i take a great deal of pride in the fact that i disliked my first job but persevered because i wanted to stand on my own.

[Coldfusion]

Well I feel like I was seriously s**t on as losing my position and having to do a job I dislike made me so depressed I was off work for 2 months and when I return I found out that my job (but with a different name)as been advertised in a different department. But because I work in an equal opportunities workplace they have to readvertise and I would have had to re-apply when they could have just transferred me to the different dept., But being I was off ill I didn't get a chance to apply and I feel like they done me over!

[roomby]

I am a serious believer that life is too short to spend your days doing a job that you hate. I was a civil servant fora  couple of years when I left school and I hated it. I got out and have done work that I love ever since. I would like to offer you a plan that might help:

1. start saving some money

2. While your savings are growing, think seriously about what you would  like to do.(this is the hard part)

3. When you have an idea, start studying or working towards your new goal. Try to get involved in your new field somehow, even in an unpaid way.

4. When you are ready, leave your dead end job and live on your savings while you get your new career going.

I hope that doesn't sound all preachy. It can work. I hope you go for it and enjoy the rest of your life.