I am miserable at my job but am shackled to it because of my salary - Help me break free!

be thankful you have a job idiot

quit complaining

We all hate going to work everyday. The only recourse is to suck it up, keep moving on to another job that you hate, or become a gubmint dependent. Go home tonight and have a few beers. It helps a lot.

Startup some dumb channel on YouTube.
There are folks that play computer games all day, and some that play with babies toys they make millions of dollars.

I can totally relate, am in the same exact boat, and trying to figure out how to "break free." Compounding my problems is the fact that I have developed some kind of sciatic nerve pain or something similar in my right hip that makes it painful to sit for any period of time, and the nature of my work is that I need to sit for 8 hours a day.

I'm not sure, other than winning the lottery, what the answer for people like us is. But know that you're not alone, and I will send prayers your way for something to come your way to provide the break you seek.

Many Blessings...

~ QuantumKev

So, what do you "like" to do? Have you started something on the side? I had a small local sports website that I was running for a while, but like you, kids, activities, main job...I just couldn't keep up. I'm restarting it now since the kids are almost grown - one away at college.

It will always be a side interest, but I'm glad to be rebuilding the site and hope to market it to local businesses to get advertisement to pay for the cost of maintaining the site.

Now, I will say this, I do like my job. I left my profession for a short period of time, only to realize, that I missed doing what I do.

Last Edited by Big Daddy D on 09/28/2015 10:21 AM

Some of us have been looking for work going on two years now...

Try an income of $0 and sell everything you own (except your clothes) and get back to me, or quit whining, pussy. Get back to your fucking desk and off company-time GLP "breaks."

Last Edited by AkashicRecord® on 09/28/2015 10:23 AM

Yrs ago a friend of mine was pretty much in the same boat as you! He rented some property and started a paintball field,Make a long story short a few yrs later and a huge piece of land he has a very sucsessfull paintball field and of coarse he quit his job

Call a headhunter, plan to relocate. Problem solved.

Downsize everything that you are able. Move to a less expensive house, buy a cheaper vehicle, cut cable, etc... You would be very surprised at what you can comfortably live without. You won't be able to make a break from your salary unless you realize that you're capable of living without the majority of it.

This.

If you can get an email addie to me, then we can arrange for me to show you some accupressure points that will help relieve the sciatica stress and release the psoas muscle that's jackin' your hip up.

Post an addie here or on the OMG/energy thread if you want to learn about it.

Same boat, except its only 60k to 70k a year for me and I have five jobs. Teacher, Sell Gutters, Sell on Ebay, Pressure wash and Tutor. I wish I could find a business that made enough to only do one thing but I feel stuck as well.

Hey, Babbit, give the guy who drives a trailblazer and goes bowling with you a call on the phone. You need your own website to sell shit. I can make that be so.

Cash out, downsize everything in your life, take some pertinent classes, and go work on an organic farm. Then pick an idea you like and build a beautiful grotto to it. Works for us, we've never been happier.

Good luck to you

Everyone I know who is looking for a job can't find one, send out hundred's of resumes, no bites. Some have had one or two interviews, no bites and then they discover that the job posting is still up. Sort of like the apt. they advertise which really doesn't exist.

People who have jobs, but are being paid horrendously for a white collar position, can't find new jobs.

It's a mess out there, keep your job and change your attitude towards it.

More than anything, I LOVE FISHING!

If I did it for 40 hrs. per week it would become a tedious job.

There is a reason they call it WORK!

lol, is that suppose to be funny, you can afford to go bowling? haha

dude, there is a huge world out there, I am in the gem and minerals industry. I sell em , dig em and make jewelry outta them. Good luck man.

You won't be able to make a break from your salary unless you realize that you're capable of living without the majority of it.

Thanks scumpet that's pretty solid truth there.

Plus, there are many people like myself who are looking for sponsors, I have 100s of dig spots man, if you want to make good mone and be free while you do it, get ahold of me sometime.

Plus, there are many people like myself who are looking for sponsors, I have 100s of dig spots man, if you want to make good mone and be free while you do it, get ahold of me sometime.

Nice!!!

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Man that video when the guy "enters the work force" made me want to cry.

i have a two year old son with cerebral palsy too so insurance becomes a key concern. I think a fear too with losing that income is at a 9-5 job even if you are tired and don't feel like "producing" that day, you get paid. The thought of only eating what I kill is scary because I've been so brainwashed and made to be addicted to the 9-5 salaried system. Ugh.

Our future is found in our past , search and pray I hope you find what your looking for

It is easier to leave your miserable job now that the kids are young. Do it fast as fast can be. Go out the back Jack, make a new plan Stan, no need to be coy Roy, just get yourself free. Take the family with you. Buy an R.V., go on an extended vacation and clear your mind and then find your joy when you have separated yourself from all the madness. Become one with nature, travel somewhere where you can do that. Give enough notice at your job so you can get one elsewhere. Let go and let God, so to speak; even though I am not religious. Be your own light that leads you to the God kingdom of un-attachment to "things" we have been conditioned to think that we need. Ask your wife to support you in your dreams and your vision, but also let her know that you support her in her dreams as well. Be strong now and you will be happy for it later. Stop being miserable or you will grow up to be a miserable @uck who nobody wants to be around, even yourself unfortunately. Doors will not open for you, unless you close the ones you are walking through now. Do you understand me? If you won't do it for yourself, do it for your kids. Do you want them to be just as miserable as you? Be a living example. Be the light of your own life, your own existence and shine it on them. This is your opportunity, be glad that you recognize it; because most don't.

Get a higher paying job, maybe you'll like it more.

100k is peanuts especially with a stay at home wife.

100k/12 months equals $8333 a month before taxes. After taxes and 401k at best you take home $5,833?

Peanuts! Get a better job

Can you explain? Thanks

You have it all backwards:

NEVER quit your day job and take the plunge.

Do what most people do: work, come home, work on your entrepreneurial idea. Make a part time income.

Be sure to design your income so taxes don't bite you. This can be done thru an LLC , partnership, or other vehicle so you can legally preserve your income.

After and ONLY after your idea is a STABLE income, then you can consider leaving your job.

Until then be grateful, especially given your child has CP.

BTW, in a downsize you will be on the list to think about getting rid of. Employers hate expensive insurance burdens.

Good luck.

I can relate. I have been miserable at my job for 16 years. I have been trapped, because I needed the pay check. In a few more months, I will retire, and leave this shit for good. I'm glad I stuck it out, but it has been hard. I know it effects my attitude, even when I'm not at work, so I have to work on being positive. I try not to let it effect my home life. My retirement will be more like a change of career. I will be training to take over my in-laws farm. I have been around farms most of my life, but never actually farmed on a commercial scale. This will be a challenge, but at least it's not the pressure cooker I've been in for 30+ years.

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... our daughter always says "If you don't spend it you don't have to earn it"! ... right on the mark!!!! ...
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