Is Your Job Making You Miserable?
MMparker, I do believe that a lot of job-related stress is self-created, and too many workers don't speak out when their work environment becomes intolerable. I was surprised that my sister's work environment became so stressful that it came to affect her health, but I've certainly seen instances in the workplace where clashing personalities led to an uncomfortable work environment.
Vicki, I have a friend who works for a nonprofit, making far less than she could if she were employed by a public company. And like you she also loves her work environment and her coworkers. That said, she's married to a man who is a high-earner, so making ends meet isn't a factor in the type of job she chooses. It's sad that so often people aren't able to work at jobs they love because they don't pay so well.
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Why do you keep doing it if you're miserable?
Some people are missing the point of this thread and going on tangents and criticizing those they label as complainers. This doesn't have to do with complaining about the career. It's about why people keep doing it when they don't in fact like it.
So far a few people have mentioned it's because they have to pay off their loans. What I get is that people are saying they're essentially trapped in the career because of their debt and are only continuing on to pay off those debts. So is it fair to say you wouldn't practice medicine and instead do something else if you didn't have loans to pay off?
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Do you think Mr Pelosi might be the most miserable man on earth?
I'm guessing that soldiers and innocent civilians who get their arms and legs blown off because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time feel a lot worse. Or people in 3rd world countries who never have enough food and clean water. Or men with life sentences or on death row for crimes they didn't commit. So, no, I don't believe Paul Pelosi is the most miserable man on Earth.
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The world's most miserable-looking fish?
In every way, it's the cutest fish I've ever seen! That picture doesn't do it enough justice, it's not just a fat blob, it has a tail.
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What are things that make a programmer's life miserable?
Having a test server with a 100 GB hard drive that serves as our test SQL Server, test App server, test FTP server, test network share emulator and in no way resembles our production environment. Yet they complain when we migrate code that fails in production.
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