Thursday, February 08, 2007
Sometimes I Really Hate My Job
Tuesday, when it all happened, my title was going to just be "I Really Hate My Job," but after settling for a couple days I can qualify that with "Sometimes."
It's no single thing, just a number of frustrations that all hit at once. Like the guy with no social skills that I'm required to have working on projects with me because no one else will work with him but they aren't willing to fire him. He is one annoying bastard. And then there's the guy who tried to slide in and take one of my major projects -- the only one I'm really excited about -- for his own.
Both of these guys, along with my boss who's pretty much an idiot in a very high pay grade who's content to not do anything between now and the time he retures other than play little bureaucratic games, just made for an all-around annoying day. And the freezing weather without the benefit of snow, which might shut down work for a day, ain't helping.
When I came home I really, really wanted a drink, and that's not really a good sign.
Maybe it's just me, a general inability to work with others. I'm just finding that I feel I set high stadards for myself, and I want to tackle challenges, and I just feel I work with people who are content to be basic government bureaucrats. All of which suggests that if I really want to accomplish something cool in my professional life -- and I do -- it'll have to be outside of government, Probably owning my own firm. Which sounds an awful lot like a conversation College Roommate Dave and I had 13 years ago.
But right now I'm watching "How They Make That" and I'm seeing some jobs that suck more, so it's not too bad I guess. Things got a little better this week, but I'm pretty close to counting the days until I'm done here.
It's no single thing, just a number of frustrations that all hit at once. Like the guy with no social skills that I'm required to have working on projects with me because no one else will work with him but they aren't willing to fire him. He is one annoying bastard. And then there's the guy who tried to slide in and take one of my major projects -- the only one I'm really excited about -- for his own.
Both of these guys, along with my boss who's pretty much an idiot in a very high pay grade who's content to not do anything between now and the time he retures other than play little bureaucratic games, just made for an all-around annoying day. And the freezing weather without the benefit of snow, which might shut down work for a day, ain't helping.
When I came home I really, really wanted a drink, and that's not really a good sign.
Maybe it's just me, a general inability to work with others. I'm just finding that I feel I set high stadards for myself, and I want to tackle challenges, and I just feel I work with people who are content to be basic government bureaucrats. All of which suggests that if I really want to accomplish something cool in my professional life -- and I do -- it'll have to be outside of government, Probably owning my own firm. Which sounds an awful lot like a conversation College Roommate Dave and I had 13 years ago.
But right now I'm watching "How They Make That" and I'm seeing some jobs that suck more, so it's not too bad I guess. Things got a little better this week, but I'm pretty close to counting the days until I'm done here.
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Overachievers unite! I have WAY TOO HIGH expectations on myself. It's at a level where normal people will look at it as abnormal. I know this
Knowing that there are other jobs that suck more than yours always help.
I hope you are doing better :)
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I hope you are doing better :)
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