Bad Jobs - Seems a lot of us here are quitting lately

[Crazy Dave]

I'm seeing a lot of posts this week with similar stories as mine. People finally having enough and deciding their mental health is a higher priority than their checking account. I finally got the push I needed two weeks ago and started my own business. Reason, I got tired of every employer I've had for the last three years thinking my work day begins at the end of the work day. Four out of five days a week after already working 8 1/2 to 9 hours I'd get the, "Oh yeah I forgot to tell you, I promised the client he could have his map by 10:00am tomorrow. You didn't have any plans this evening did you?" Most of the time it was to finish somebody else's work who left an hour earlier.
Oh course I've told them over and over to kiss my ass and I'd go home anyways being considered the bad guy even more so than the original people who didn't finish the work. I finally had enough of being "the bad guy" all the time and now I work the hours I want for as long as I want by subcontracting to different and even some of the same companies I left. Currently I'm working out of my house and saving a load on gas. Things are a little slow at the moment but I've been promised a few big projects down the road.

Good luck to everybody else making moves.

[CBHagman]

1. Thanks, and the same to you.

:hi:

I'm another of those people in transition. The last few years have been a time of exploring alternatives and seeking some extra training. I finally started working with a career counselor lately to get focused and learn how to really get my foot in the door (a big problem for introverts like myself). I do network, but it's an uphill battle for us INFPs.

[RevCheesehead]

3. Hey, CB!

From one INFP to another, to the Ties that bind! :toast:

[CBHagman]

4. And gag, huh?

:hi:

A good friend of mine actually pegged me as an INFP without giving me a Myers-Briggs type indicator test. Oy,weh, it was that obvious, even before I took the test and had it confirmed.

I'm reading Do What You Are as part of my career reexamination. Have you ever seen that?

[RevCheesehead]

5. No, I haven't seen that.

Does it approach life choices from your Meyers-Briggs personality? That would be really cool.

BTW, a great number of pastors, clergy, etc.., are "NF"s. We're the sensitive ones! O8)

[RumpusCat]

2. Thanks for the thoughts

Good luck to you as well! :hi:

I quit my job because it was in an industry that bored me and I wanted to move. So move I did, and now I'm searching for work!