Do I hate my job, or do I just hate work?

Yeah, I've thought about that, shewolf. That $80,000 price is for a big rig though, isn't it? I'm thinking more about maybe getting something smaller, something with a 20-foot box or so, and buying an already existing route that I could do. I don't really think I'd be too into the over-the-road driving. My dad owns his own truck and runs the mail from the main post office in Rochester to all the little towns. The hours are weird, but I've gone on it with him, and I think something like that, where you have an established route, would be great.

Here's something else to think about...

There are so many people that say, "You should do something that you love."

What a steaming pile of bullshit. What if you don't love to do anything that pays you money? I love watching sitcoms on TV, but there just aren't that many jobs like that in the want-ads.

For me, and for a lot of other people who don't fit into this "do something you love" bullshit paradigm, it's about degrees of hate.

I don't like doing anything that I have to do, which means that work itself is against my nature. But I know I have to work, so the trick is finding with a low degree of detestability.[/quote

I love singing and screwing...been at it 40 years...hope I got 20 left in me...dreams can come true....

How's responsibility strike you?

Does the idea of a lot of people depending on you make you sit up a little straighter and feel more alive, or feel like a giant is slowly crushing your head?

I genuinely adored my job, but I was the boss. I really like being a boss, in general, but the responsibility part was tough to deal with. These people DEPENDED on me! I could decide not to go to work today and if anyone had a problem with that it was too damn bad, BUT -- if I missed that meeting -- and nobody could advocate for Gloria -- and she didn't get the services she needed -- and her fragile faith in me was destroyed and she never came back --

so I worked 70 hours a week.

maybe even UPS, etc., would be good to check out.
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Okay, I admit it, I think responsibility is overrated, and the less of it I have, the better I feel. I don't know if that's wisdom, or immaturity. I'm sure most would say it's the latter.

And I sometimes think I'd be a good boss, but then I think again, and I realize I would probably be a micromanaging control freak.

Here's something else to think about...

There are so many people that say, "You should do something that you love."

What a steaming pile of bullshit. What if you don't love to do anything that pays you money? I love watching sitcoms on TV, but there just aren't that many jobs like that in the want-ads.

For me, and for a lot of other people who don't fit into this "do something you love" bullshit paradigm, it's about degrees of hate.

I don't like doing anything that I have to do, which means that work itself is against my nature. But I know I have to work, so the trick is finding with a low degree of detestability.