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Campfire Kahuna
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Can't stand the management?  He is a janer.
I am MAGA.
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I was a county prosecutor for 10 years. It was very fulfilling at times, but I lived it 24/7. Grew to hate the stress. Moved to the City Attorney’s Office for 3 years. I didn’t like much about that gig. Then I took a turn that I didn’t see coming. I went to work for a utility company as the contract manager in supply chain. I really enjoyed most aspects of it, but last spring I was recruited to a major Silicon Valley company doing the same job. Much better pay and I work from home. I’ve been to my “office” three days in the last 9 months. I enjoy the work but I really look forward to retirement in about 8 years.
Mike
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Corrections. Love the job, detest the management. Always seems the folks with no leadership skills end up promoting.
Yup.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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People quit bad bosses more often than bad jobs. I hear that alot. I'd counter that a lot of people leave marginal jobs with marginal bosses more than bad/bad or good/bad. If you're neither hot nor cold about a job or boss - it's easy to move on.
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People quit bad bosses more often than bad jobs. I hear that alot. I'd counter that a lot of people leave marginal jobs with marginal bosses more than bad/bad or good/bad. If you're neither hot nor cold about a job or boss - it's easy to move on. Good points. All of them. I didn't hate working in tough jobs. I got a lot of personal satisfaction completing a tough assignment and doing it well. What I detested was a tyrant who didn't know the job and expected the impossible and held me responsible for their lack of planning, knowledge, or leadership.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
2 Thessalonians 3:10
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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People quit bad bosses more often than bad jobs. I hear that alot. I'd counter that a lot of people leave marginal jobs with marginal bosses more than bad/bad or good/bad. If you're neither hot nor cold about a job or boss - it's easy to move on. Good points. All of them. I didn't hate working in tough jobs. I got a lot of personal satisfaction completing a tough assignment and doing it well. What I detested was a tyrant who didn't know the job and expected the impossible and held me responsible for their lack of planning, knowledge, or leadership. Agreed. Or leaders that never could admit someone else had a good idea. Or that their perspective doesn't match reality. I also generally distrust leaders who consistently get things wrong within the industry. One of the positives (and negatives) of LinkedIn - you can see what people think about the industry and current events in it - not specific to your company/role. When I see things there that are so 180 degrees opposite of the reality on the ground - might be a great boss but I question why I'd hitch my career wagon to his leadership tractor.
Me
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Nope.
I retired 5 years ago as a butcher of 40 years. I started in 1978 and worked at it till 2002 when I quit for another trade that pays better. I always liked cutting meat and still do it a bit in the fall for friends who get a moose or deer. That always gets me an invite to the camp.  I would have had 45yrs in if I'd kept at it but I like what I do now as well.
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Not so much my job being a building contractor but supply chain issues and customers just aren’t fun anymore!
Be reasonable. Do it my way!
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My father, my wife, my cousin, my uncle, all worked as engineers in the same job for 40 years.
No way was I as good an engineer as any of them. They all got patents.
I got no patents and changed jobs every 2.5 years, negotiated for more money.
It turns out success is more about self promotion and negotiation, than it is about quality and quantity of output.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I work for myself love what I do but hate the employee aspect folks just don’t want to work period This
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Retired,
so if I hate my "job" it's on me to make it right or leave.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?
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Campfire Regular
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Yes been retired since 95. Love my job. Fishing, shooting, and hunting whats not to like
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I love my job.
Being retired is a job, right?
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I love my job.
Being retired is a job, right?
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I am beginning to feel like I've not been able to see how things really are at work the last ten years. I'm glad I thought it was all great, for the most part, all that time but I am seeing things a little differently now. It's a clownfest featuring a lot of childish egos who think they've got me where they want me indefinitely. They're about to learn that it ain't so. I don't HATE it---I've had those jobs where your stomach winds up in a knot the moment you pull into the parking lot in the early sunshine and I've enjoyed much better over the last 17 years but I am ready to hang it up. And all the sorry [bleep] I've been having to share the road with 62 miles per day can go to hell (and that's exactly where they'll be every weekday morning and afternoon). Six weeks closer. It's gonna be sweet to turn in my access badge.
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Sure hate is a strong word.
I was supervising 50+ guys in a machine/fab shop it was fast paced and not that bad. The biggest problem was the level of entitlement felt by some of the guys and their laziness but for the most part I enjoyed it.
Then came the promotion to scheduling. I’m not a “computer guy” but understand our systems and processes so it seemed like a logical fit.
Bottom line, I really can’t stand it. Hate coming here every day and hate sitting there 75% of my day. Don’t really want to go back to babysitting adults either.
Constantly dreaming up ideas to do something different, start up some kind of business and work for myself.
But with a truck payment and mortgage on a home and 57 acres walking away from a sure paycheck every 2 weeks is a scary proposition but one I’m willing to make if I can find the right opportunity.
Just curious if many of you feel the same way or if you’re all loving your job? Weigh your responsibilities against your frustration with the job and make the decision that works best for you and your family.
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Campfire Ranger
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I didn’t hate my job, I just hate the customers, employees, vendors, salespeople, sub contractors and their employees. If it weren’t for people I’d say it was the perfect job.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Sure hate is a strong word.
I was supervising 50+ guys in a machine/fab shop it was fast paced and not that bad. The biggest problem was the level of entitlement felt by some of the guys and their laziness but for the most part I enjoyed it.
Then came the promotion to scheduling. I’m not a “computer guy” but understand our systems and processes so it seemed like a logical fit.
Bottom line, I really can’t stand it. Hate coming here every day and hate sitting there 75% of my day. Don’t really want to go back to babysitting adults either.
Constantly dreaming up ideas to do something different, start up some kind of business and work for myself.
But with a truck payment and mortgage on a home and 57 acres walking away from a sure paycheck every 2 weeks is a scary proposition but one I’m willing to make if I can find the right opportunity.
Just curious if many of you feel the same way or if you’re all loving your job? Retired 11.5 yrs ago...... Had all the BS I could take from the brown truck owners Was a good career....8 weeks off every year....now I have 52 weeks off Haven't missed working at all Teamster pension is just AOK
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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Work for myself pick n choose what I do
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