Anyone else hate their job? The location of my job is great (25 minutes to get here) and they pay for benefits which is ok too, I guess. I can listen to my music with no complaints.
My work comes in spurts though so I'm usually bored and the pay SUCKS. When I came here they said that you get evaluated on your anniversary and then discuss raises. So far I have had one raise and have been here for 3 years. (Last year after I had my daughter, my company was splitting up and my boss was going to leave and go with the other company. However, that job didn't want me and the company I was working for (this fucking job) didn't want me either. So essentially I was coming back to work to be unemployed. At the last minute my boss changed his mind but I had already found a new job in NYC. So they gave me the raise ($30.00 a week) to keep me and I stayed (the other job would have added at least 2 hours of commuting to my day plus pay my own benefits)).
The benefits get paid for but they are only medical benefits (no dental, eye or prescription). I would rather contribute to the benefits and have better benefits than the basics. When I worked in Georgia, I made pretty good money, especially for that area. So at the least I should be able to come up to Jersey and make what I was making in Georgia but no, I make less. In Georgia I got raises every six months, sweet bonuses, felt appreciated and also had my benefits paid for (with dental no less). There is an attorney in here who smokes and even though me and a few other people (including my boss, who is a partner mind you) have complained, nothing has been done about it. So in the summer we sweat because the window is open to let out the smoke and in the winter we freeze, again because of the window. If they ignore the complaints of a senior partner, it sure doesn't seem like they give a rat's ass about their employees.
Since hubby doesn't work and is in school right now, I can't leave here until the fall of next year, after he graduates. In the meantime, I'm so damn bored I could
. I can't wait until he finishes and then I can get the hell out of here but 12 months at this job feels like 12 years.
Rambling vent over.
My work comes in spurts though so I'm usually bored and the pay SUCKS. When I came here they said that you get evaluated on your anniversary and then discuss raises. So far I have had one raise and have been here for 3 years. (Last year after I had my daughter, my company was splitting up and my boss was going to leave and go with the other company. However, that job didn't want me and the company I was working for (this fucking job) didn't want me either. So essentially I was coming back to work to be unemployed. At the last minute my boss changed his mind but I had already found a new job in NYC. So they gave me the raise ($30.00 a week) to keep me and I stayed (the other job would have added at least 2 hours of commuting to my day plus pay my own benefits)).
The benefits get paid for but they are only medical benefits (no dental, eye or prescription). I would rather contribute to the benefits and have better benefits than the basics. When I worked in Georgia, I made pretty good money, especially for that area. So at the least I should be able to come up to Jersey and make what I was making in Georgia but no, I make less. In Georgia I got raises every six months, sweet bonuses, felt appreciated and also had my benefits paid for (with dental no less). There is an attorney in here who smokes and even though me and a few other people (including my boss, who is a partner mind you) have complained, nothing has been done about it. So in the summer we sweat because the window is open to let out the smoke and in the winter we freeze, again because of the window. If they ignore the complaints of a senior partner, it sure doesn't seem like they give a rat's ass about their employees.
Since hubby doesn't work and is in school right now, I can't leave here until the fall of next year, after he graduates. In the meantime, I'm so damn bored I could
. I can't wait until he finishes and then I can get the hell out of here but 12 months at this job feels like 12 years. Rambling vent over.
Fortunatley for the past year I've been a guitar teacher, and I LOVE my job! It's GREAT to wake up in the morning and actually look forward to work! It's not even work to me! It's been my dream in life to work in music, be it teaching, gigs, whatever, and things are slowly coming together for me! Imo EVERYONE should be so lucky, but I'm sure as we all know that's hardly the case. For me the most important thing in life is to work at my passion, the thing I love most, which for me happens to be music. I may never be rich, infact I highly doubt it, but I couldn't live with myself if I turned my back on music. It's kinda like what Frank said on the Alive 2 dvd about having no regrets. I'm the exact same way, in that I couldn't live with myself thinking what if? That'll NEVER happen!
