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08 November 2006

As long as we're all talking about job-related agida, today, →[More:] I think I've finally figured something out. Or at least discerned a pattern. For my entire adult life, I've gotten jobs and been real excited about them and been all go-gettery, then gotten disillusioned and merely been competent, then gotten bitter and done passive-aggresive type things until it becomes un bearable and an escape hatch appears and it all begins anew. The process generally takes about 4 years. Maybe it has something to with elections, or the Olympics, or the muentsral cycal of faraway alien bovines. I just don't know.

post by: jonmc at: 14:39 | 13 comments

Also, usually around the same time I'm getting passive-aggresive, rapid wild changes will occur at the company.

posted by jonmc 08 November | 14:47

At least your cycle is 4 years. Mine go about 6 months. This current one is probably going to last only 8 weeks.

posted by mullacc 08 November | 15:01

I used to be like that, but I found my niche in this job. 95% of the time it's great and in six and a half years I'm not bored or feel too exploited or put on to want to go anywhere else.

posted by essexjan 08 November | 15:10

That's wonderful EJ.

posted by chewatadistance 08 November | 15:12

I wanna be retired, just like my father was.

posted by JanetLand 08 November | 15:23

My Dad is 60 and still not retired. For many years of his life, bith him and my mom have worked multiple jobs. Dad never looked happy coming home from work. Usually within 10 minutes, he was in his chair with the newspaper, a drink and a cigarette. I guess I learned early that work isn't fun.

posted by jonmc 08 November | 15:26

It's funny, I kinda go through the same thing. Not as bad, and I'm doing alright, really.

Oddly, my mother-in-law would correct herself if she said she "had" to go to work, in front of my girls. She would say that she "gets" to go to work. She seemed to think that somehow she could help them believe that working was a fortunate state.

Now, I don't really think that's completely cuckoo, but I think kids have a really effective bullshit detectors and would be wondering why Nana was being so weird about work. I have no qualms about telling my kids that I would rather be hanging out with them than working. I think that's normal, really.

posted by richat 08 November | 15:43

I rarely like working, which I think is basically normal, unless you're doing something you really love. Which most people aren't. But I'm working on changing fields, so I'll get back to you on this at about June...

posted by Specklet 08 November | 16:36

unless you're doing something you really love. Which most people aren't

and most won't ever get to, which is a bitterly hard lesson to learn.

posted by jonmc 08 November | 16:39

I know, but it's never too late to figure out what you want to do and do it.

posted by Specklet 08 November | 17:09

If only I could figure out what I'd like to do, that would also still pay the bills.

posted by redvixen 08 November | 20:21

*uncaps 40, passes it vixen's way*

posted by jonmc 08 November | 20:32

*takes swig, then another, passes it back..*
*errrp. Thanks, dude.*

posted by redvixen 09 November | 20:10

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