I hate my job!

[Rome]

hotmovies.com wants someone to write reviews of movies and edit content on the site. they must work from the cc philly offices.

did i just...find my calling?

if you're reviewing fag porn, then yes, you've found your calling.

[MDS]

There might be some gay stuff involved yes. Not that I'm averse to it already

[Zanshin]

I manage...well, managed...a communications team for a huge IT department in a company of about 130,000 people. The powers that be decided to merge all of IT around the world into one group, and is undergoing a HUGE reorg. A couple of weeks ago, quite a number of senior people were shown the door, and there's more to come.

Worse, the communications team is splitting into two groups and I've been allocated to the "other" team that's largely staying intact. So, after years of having significant management responsibility, I've been reduced to an individual contributor reporting to a junior guy...because he was already part of that team. Feels like a serious step back for someone who's been a documented high-performer every year.

I'm trying to figure out whether I care enough to be a squeaky wheel about it, because these are supposed to be wholly "new" teams...not people appended to existing teams.

I think the answer is to get a new job...except for two minor details-- 1) nobody is hiring, and 2) I don't want to do this shtein anywhere anymore.

farg!

[Zanshin]

I'm feeling worse about it as the day wears on. I need an escape hatch, but can't seem to find one.

[rjs246]

Go back to school and make your wife support you. I seem to remember that you have a wife, right? Whatever. It's her turn now.

[Zanshin]

Good plan, but she doesn't make enough to support us. Like the idea, though.

So, start a business or buy a business? Discuss.

[rjs246]

Move to the hills, get satellite television, buy guns, live off the land, watch the world destroy itself from the best seats in the house.

[Rome]

The government's always hiring.

[MDS]

i hear an email marketing software company is looking for a writer/content creator

[Diomedes]

Reduce your cost of living by adjusting your attitude about what you want/think you need.

Get a job doing something you like, even if it doesn't cover the cost of the above adjustment. 

Bid your time, bust your ass, pinch pennies, do without.  You'll be fine, so will the wife and son.  Better than fine, actually.

[mpmcgraw]

all of that sounds horrible

[MURP]

open an Aikido training place

[Diomedes]

all of that sounds horrible

i'm liking it much better than the hefty income which I "earned" sucking satan's cock for a living in my corporate pod, being held constantly responsible for things over which I had no control, suffering the ever constant reorgs and team training gimmicks, being forced to navigate the petty politics of people who do what they do solely for money, etc. etc.

that is hell

i was born and raised dirt poor...lack of money doesn't scare me.  sugar tastes better when you can only have a teaspoon of it a day.


the list of ways to drop your high cost lifestyle and be happier is endless

the only reason you don't give up the soul killing job is fear of not having money, and that's a bad bad reason to spend your life doing something.  either that or you're a slave to material wealth and the attention of others who worship it, which makes you human garbage and you should off yourself

[mpmcgraw]

what were you doing drowning babies for a living?

no joke, you make whatever you do sound like hell.

[Diomedes]

I'm with MURP

get out, take a chance on yourself, you'll do well

one thing is for sure:  you're not gonna be lying on your death bed thinking "gee, I'm glad I spent all those irreplaceable hours days and months at the desk serving the corporate will, it was really worth it."