if you hate your job you probably hate yourself

[GetYourWarOn]

what say you

[Ace42X]

Nah, I don't think so. A lot of people do not allow their job to define them at all. I know my current job, while not thouroughly unpleasant, isn't rivetting. But it doesn't matter, it is just for me to have money for beer, blowjobs and callipos.

I suppose I could hate myself for selling out... I'd much rather put forward an "on your arse" lifestyle... But it is adequate, and has nothing to do with me, my abilities, goals, or desires.

[miss_bhaven]

I don't think that if you hate your job, you hate yourself. But you most probably aren't all that happy in general.

[ms.peachy]

I think it depends on whether or not you feel compromised. You might have a job that you are loathe to go to, but if it doesn't require you to compromise your core beliefs or principles then you just put in your time and get it done with. You wouldn't neccessarily hate yourself.

Bear in mind, this whole concept of "job satisfaction" is a relatively new one. For most of human history, people haven't really expected to feel personally 'fulfilled' by the work they do - work was (is) just one facet of life. I remember years ago, when I was like maybe ten, my grandad was over for dinner and he and my parents were talking and my dad was saying something about how he didn't find his current job all that fulfilling. A few times during the conversation I remember seeing my grandad roll his eyes and then at one point he banged his fork down and said "Jesus H Christ Danny, do you think I drove a goddamn bus around Paterson for twenty-five years because I found it freakin' fulfilling? No, I did it because you and your brother and sister needed to eat every damn day and so that you could go to college and meet a nice girl and have a nice family and live in a nice house and eat a nice dinner. So shut up and quit whining already."

(He always did have a way of making his point, my grandad did.)

[scotty]

No. If someone hates their job, more than likely its a means to an end. For myself, I was a car detailer for 3 1/2 years. The job would have been almost bearable, but my boss was a prick and my co-workers were a bunch of dumb fucks. But I did it to save for a house deposit and raise our kids in a better environment than the city. Now I'm doing something I really dig, Mazz is a successful business woman and the kids are happy as and we're living life the way we want to.

[jabumbo]

Too many variables. I believe it has to do with person, and their views of their own self worth. I don't hate my job, but I don't like to come to it everyday, I feel worn out by the boredom, and think I would be much happier doing something creative. However, I don't derive my self worth from my job, and it provides well for my family, so I don't hate myself for working here. Plus, since I found this board, I get to let my creativity flow like mighty streams of urine. Sorry, I need to take a piss.


what he said, minus the urine part

[guerillaGardner]

Do you mean in the sense that if your job is dragging you down you get depressed and in the process suffer low self esteem?

Or are you equating people with their jobs?

[Mot]

I HATE MYSELF!!!!
Not really but I DO hate my job. I just started a new job and I just find out that the "new hire probation period" is SIX MONTHS!!! SIX FUCKING MONTHS!!! Are you kidding me. So I've got no sick or vacation, and no health care. It serves me right for assuming that a probation period is 30 to 90 days. Isn't that pretty much standard? Every job I've had, probation is 30 days, and most of the benefits start immediately.

[Mot]

I hate you all...

[marsdaddy]

You probably hate yourself, regardless.

[Mot]

I hate everybody... including myself.

[Lex Diamonds]

For most people, their job is nothing like their self. Part of hating a job is about not wanting to be something you're not, like having to be polite to fat ugly strangers and stuff.

[cookiepuss]

well since I've had a series of jobs i hate, I'm starting to think it is because I hate myself. If I had better self-esteem I wouldn't accept the first offer a employer gives me and I wouldn't end up in these shitty situations.

Case in point: my current job has reached bolling point and I'm about to snap. I accepted the job for way less than what I'm worth, and my gut reaction was that there just wasn't something quite right about my employer. and I was right. he's an ass. i've managed to work my way up to the salary that I untilmately should have started at but that's not the point really. I had been looking for job for a little while, I was really dissatisfied with my job at the time and I jumped on the first thing that came along. I spent several hours working on my resume last night because I can't continue to work for a boss whose actions towards me borderline on harrasment. And now I really do hate myself for putting myself in this situation.


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