re: Do you know anyone who has a high paying job but hate what they do?

Posted by mba1620

Tampa, FL

Member since Sep 2005

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 2:33 pm to PeteRose

ME!

Posted by jimbeam

University of LSU

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 2:35 pm to The Torch

quote:
He makes about 20K a week before he pays for all his equipment / hands/ diesel/ shite breaking etc etc

This means nothing

Posted by 777Tiger

Member since Mar 2011

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 2:38 pm to The Spleen

Love mine, approaching retirement, going to miss it

Posted by fallguy_1978

Best States #50

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 2:38 pm to 777Tiger

Don't they force you old farts out relatively young?

Posted by FLObserver

Jacksonville

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 2:48 pm to PeteRose

I think stress/hate comes from not having a good group of people you work with. I'm in I.T. and have had many jobs that i hated due to the Directors and Managers that made it almost unbearable at times. Add in bad team members then you have a recipe for hating your Job. Current job been at near 10 years has some great Co-workers and upper management. Hoping to retire with this group. Stress can be not so bad when team members and upper management are on the same page and the pay is very nice as well

Posted by 777Tiger

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 3:31 pm to fallguy_1978

Posted by billjamin

Houston

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 3:40 pm to PeteRose

I absolutely hated my life when I was doing corporate finance full time, but it paid well. I’m much happier being in management now and doing the finance work on the side in my free time.

Posted by BayouBreaux

somewhere between right and wrong

Member since Oct 2007

207 posts

Posted on 2/20/22 at 4:35 pm to PeteRose

I love my job and what I do. Pays decent. I just dislike the company I work for. The sad part is, there is no similar jobs in this area to compete with them and so, I stay.

Posted by OweO

Plaquemine, La

Member since Sep 2009

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 4:39 pm to PeteRose

If he hated it so much, why didn't he seek another profession during the times he took off?

Posted by olgoi khorkhoi

priapism survivor

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 6:09 pm to PeteRose

I make a lot of money in a short amount of time and have most of the year off, but the work schedule is grueling. 14-21 days straight,12-16 hours a day and switching between day and night schedule..3 days, 4 nights, 3 days, 4 nights, 3 days etc and sleeping in hotels. The worst part is every job is about the same and lasts a week so it's super repetitive. My best year was almost $400k in 16 weeks. I know most people would kill for that deal, but a few years in, I hate it. I start back late March after a 6 month break and I'm dreading it.

Posted by dodge70769

Galvez

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 6:09 pm to kywildcatfanone

Plant baw here. 22 years in O & G. We have a saying that once you get hired you're putting on the golden handcuffs! A co-worker of mine calls it a reverse mugging where they beat you up while stuffing your pockets with money !

This post was edited on 2/20/22 at 6:11 pm

Posted by Offshorewhore

Member since Jan 2022

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 6:25 pm to tigerdup07

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pretty much everyone that works offshore

Not every offshore job is high paying.

Posted by concrete_tiger

Member since May 2020

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 6:31 pm to Offshorewhore

There honestly is zero reason to hate my job. People would kill to work where I do.
That being said, when I sit in meetings with customers about diversity and inclusion, which makes zero fricking sense for my company’s products… I just want to say frick it.

I proposed instead of trying to develop something to pander to these idiots that we just donate to a cause, etc. I was basically told to sit down and shut up and let’s devise a way to make something to satisfy everyone. Ok. Which race? Which gender? Which sexuality? Which disability? No matter what we do, someone will say why not MY fetish?

Posted by choupiquesushi

yaton rouge

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 6:31 pm to PeteRose

Several

Posted by auwaterfowler

Alabama

Member since Jan 2020

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 7:50 pm to PeteRose

I know many retail pharmacists and every one I can think of right now absolutely hate their job. Especially the ones that own independent pharmacies. My wife is a clinical pharmacist at a hospital and absolutely loves her job.

Posted by Icansee4miles

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 8:21 pm to auwaterfowler

I had two jobs over the course of a long career where I absolutely loved the job and the people around me, but had a petty, unqualified idiot for a boss. Once in consulting, and once working in corporate America. In both cases, I didn’t even realize how much I hated it until I left it.

Both times, they were highly stressful positions, but I felt none of that stress, it was entirely being micromanaged to the point of misery that did me in.

This post was edited on 2/20/22 at 8:22 pm

Posted by etm512

Mandeville, LA

Member since Aug 2005

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 8:55 pm to PeteRose

Very few people actually enjoy their work. Notice I didn’t say job. Work is work and it’s going to be extremely difficult to find something you do every day that you genuinely enjoy.

Now a job that has a good work life balance can be something you “enjoy” because you spend less time doing the shite you don’t want to do.

I don’t know anyone personally that actually enjoys their work.

Posted by ecb

Member since Jul 2010

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Posted on 2/20/22 at 9:00 pm to PeteRose

Every one in the epc contractor business