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re: Anyone else hate their job, but the money is too good to leave it?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:29 am to TRUERockyTop
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:29 am to TRUERockyTop
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Anyone else hate their job, but the money is too good to leave it?
Probably most of America
I am a sales engineer at an ISP, I support sales people in a technical role. I come from our infrastructure support and engineering group, so my career focus for a long time was to be as technical as possible. I started this job and quickly realized my technical skills were about 10% of the job, and the rest was shuffling papers, herding cats (salespeople) and making nice with customers and their IT staff. I HATED it at first and almost went back to my previous role, despite it being a 30% pay raise right off the bat (more like 45% after some additional raises since I landed the job). I questioned why it paid so well when the technical skill requirement was so low, because in my brain technical skill = $$$. But nope, generating revenue and preventing revenue loss through salespeople frickups is apparently worth a lot more money than being highly technical. Still irks me sometimes because I put so much work in
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You can do what you truly love and are called to do.
If i had a calling, I'd drop my job now and do it. I'd have my wife's full backing. I just don't have anything that I'm passionate about enough to try to do it for a living.
Guess I could try to drop my job and go play video games for a living, but I'm nowhere good enough at them for that
This post was edited on 6/22/21 at 10:36 am
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Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:38 am to Palm Beach Tiger
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Spent the last couple years here just focusing on making the actual job more tolerable. Improving staffing as much as possible (which has been the biggest help)
One of my biggest learnings with my career pivot is that the number of people you're responsible for or reliant on is directly related to frustration/stress.
I pretty much work independently, so my success or failure is on me. And it's great.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:48 am to Hussss
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Happiness, TRUE happiness, comes from helping others and being unselfish.
So the OP should give more money away to be happy?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:53 am to TRUERockyTop
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At what point is enough, enough?
If it helps, there are plenty of people who have found happiness and fulfillment without making lots of money. Of course it's important to meet your basic financial goals (house, education for children, safety, retirement planning, necessities), but it's wrong to think that wealth accumulation is a primary goal for contentment.
I say that as a teacher*.
And while it's been hard in some ways to see my close friends eclipse the $100k/year mark before 35, I wouldn't trade places with them. I enjoy my work. I have the time to pursue creative endeavors. I have a lot of quality time with my family.
*Wife is also a teacher, so we make about $120k combined in Alabama. Benefits are covered and we're in a defined pension plan.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 11:44 am to go ta hell ole miss
Yes indeed. Giving money to those in need is what I call “planting seeds.”
As long as your heart is in the right place and you are generous with what the good Lord blesses you with, you will never ever have to worry about “making ends meet.”
What goes around, really does come back around. I fully believe that.
As long as your heart is in the right place and you are generous with what the good Lord blesses you with, you will never ever have to worry about “making ends meet.”
What goes around, really does come back around. I fully believe that.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 2:34 pm to Hussss
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What goes around, really does come back around. I fully believe that.
words to live by
be generous with your neighbors whether that is money, time or just kindness. It will come back to you 20-fold
Posted on 6/22/21 at 7:55 pm to TRUERockyTop
You should contribute to the thread about paying off car loans early.
Live well below your means and out of debt and you do not have to suffer in a miserable job.
Live well below your means and out of debt and you do not have to suffer in a miserable job.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 8:10 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Living the dream!
Posted on 6/22/21 at 9:16 pm to Hussss
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Yes indeed. Giving money to those in need is what I call “planting seeds.”
To me the only benefit of being in a crummy job you hate is the money it pays allows you to enjoy other aspects of life or retire early. If you give the money away then you are in a job that makes you miserable with no extra money. That’s what makes people happy?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 9:37 pm to go ta hell ole miss
I am far from hating my job but it definitely has big swings where it’s really rewarding and other times it is a total beat down. With that said, I’m fairly compensated and have had strong career progression. It should enable earlier retirement and that’s worth a lot to me.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:04 pm to TRUERockyTop
Ever heard of biglaw?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 11:14 pm to Hou_Lawyer
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Ever heard of biglaw?
The salary raise and special bonuses have made it really hard to quit but dear lord it’s a terrible fricking job.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 8:30 am to TRUERockyTop
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Anyone else hate their job, but the money is too good to leave it?
What if we hate our job and get paid crap? Is this thread for us to?
I've been wanting to switch careers for a while because of the hours taking me away from family and am just in general very unhappy with the job. The only reason I've stuck around this long is because I work for a family member and he would be in a bind if I left right now but I'm not so slowly reaching the point where I won't have a choice.
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