Is it normal i hate the idea of work?

Freak..I typed out this whole big long thing, thought I copied it but evidently didn't because I can't paste..here is the long and short of it.

Is it normal that I feel like growing up is a bad thing? I've only had a few summertime part time jobs in the last few years since I reach 18 (Currently 21 last month) and I always HATED getting applications and turning them back in to employers and especially the interviewing process...

Even when I do get the job each day I have to complain about how much my job sucks for like an hour before work before I could ever bare to go because it just felt like such mind numbingly boring work that others simply don't want to do and would be willing to pay others to do for them because they realize thats no way to spend your life.

So you go in each day, do your regular bullshit come home and self-loathe for doing a job that doesn't challenge you at all or even seem to feel like it serves a true purpose is it normal to do that?

My dad (whom I live with) always pressures me each summer to hurry hurry hurry! and find a job and makes me settle for shit I really don't want just by nagging me into it.

Then each day I feel so bad about going in to work and doing a job I hate for money...I think if I took my time and found a job I may not even quite *Like* but felt like my work was actually valuable to someone or some group of people like I wasn't just wasting my life away each day for 8 hours I might could actually get over this fear of growing up and going to work on a daily basis...What do you guys think?

Is it just because i'm being pressured into taking bad jobs that I have this fear of growing up to be that guy who goes into work everyday and hates his job then comes home depressed?

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  • Uzzie101

    YES the real world is boring and pointless.

    "Could you fax this to Marsha from Accounting? She's out with a cold today..."

    "FUCK OFF!"

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  • squeegela

    I run a string of very successful buisness but I had to start at the bottom, everyone does. I'm not angry or upset with u in particular, am just tired of staff who feel that they r just too good to work. Ever said I knew it all, just have a more realistic view, I guess. Also, I have a physically disabled 11 year old son. It is hard work for him just to stand on his own and he never complains about anything. Maybe this has given me a different point of view, who knows. Watching a child struggle just to Play with his friends, put his clothes on or even get off the toilet tends to change a person. Am just tired of listening to people bitch about how hard life is when they really have no idea how good they have it

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  • Crueltobekind1587

    I understand what you mean by wanting to feel like your job isn't useless... I feel that way. The majority of people aren't really connected to what they do in my opinion. I don't think it's selfish or considered complaining to realize this or want it. Not enough people see it that way. Just because someone makes a realization about something and comments about it doesn't mean they think they have it the worst or are ungrateful or should be considered any less than a person who struggles every day but doesn't complain. Seeing things in a different perspective is helpful but shouldn't put down what someone is feeling. It's not a good feeling knowing you'll have to work the rest of your life until your old and can retire and by then too old to enjoy life. Especially a bad job. It's not really fair how society has created us to be... people think society is so perfect and while it does have so many great things it's not close to perfect.

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  • BOYracer88

    im with you exactly, im 21 my jobs bullshit for 8 hours and i can never seem to save the money i get, this life is a rut my friend, try and find something better like college or university

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  • Scrat

    You die soon

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  • Ronin-San

    Well, I think its just that I've had to take a lot of bad jobs at bad places that has me down about working. I think if I could even find a mediocre job at a place where some of my old friends work so I'd have some people to make it less tedious I could enjoy it more and learn to live with working a job I don't much care for as long as its with friends.

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  • robbieforgotpw

    Live off the govt. there are a lot of people who prefer handouts who have no self respect, what's one more?

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  • That's funny because you feel EXACTLY the same way I felt like 2 weeks ago, until I found a decent job..
    I'm 17 and people where I live start working at 14-15, witch is to me RIDICULOUS but anyways.. So for 2 years my parents were telling me : GET A JOB IM NOT GIVING YOU ONE CENT BLALBALBAL
    But I stayed at school, took my time and i FOUND GREAT job at a Gas Station
    But I feel for you, before you really start, it sucks
    Just really do what you think is right for YOU
    If you donT want the job, the employer will se it ( that's what happened to me) but when the time will come.. well
    I don't know if you go to school but u should if u dont and get a part time job its worth it

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  • Judas_misunderstood

    Entry level jobs suck.

    Use this as motivation to get skills to do something you actually enjoy. Tolerate the shit jobs while you train, because you have to, but keep your eye on the prize and it will go faster and easier. The dull path you tread will make you appreciate your success more when you achieve it.

    Before you know it your own kids will be making similar comments to yours.

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  • squeegela

    You want to get a realstic view of how bad things can b and solve your job issues. Work with those who have real problems. Will change u and make u feel guilty for complaining about something as insignificant as your struggle for meningful work

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  • squeegela

    Oops, meant fulltime!

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  • Trust me I think most people hate work. Work has a lot of advantages besides the money. there is the social aspect. You will notice too that people who wrok have more to talk about and more life experiences as well. Dont get on the wrong side of the fence the longer your unemployed the harder it will be to get employed when you want or need to and that will happen sooner or later

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  • JRR

    Jobs are nearly all terrible. Life is terrible. It just comes down to what is more terrible- being unemployed and thus poverty stricken and unloved, or having a miserable job that you hate so that you can have sex, people to socialize with, and a small amount of respect. Either way you are going to be little more than a slave. You have to make the decision of which is the lesser evil.

    Life is awful and meaningless. Thats how it has always been, and how it always will be. I think it is unfortunate that kids today are brought up with the lie that life is something other than misery and hell. That is why people like you are hit so hard when they discover that their job is not fulfilling, sex and marriage has little to do with love, and if you are one of the few who is lucky enough to achieve everything, you will merelly be overcome by the misery of boredom.

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    • SoccerStud88

      i certainly hope this isn't true. I look at careers like firefighters and doctors and think they are the true winners in life. Too bad it's practically like winning the lottery to end up in these careers. eff.

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  • Ronin-San

    @ Boy I do go to college in the spring and fall thats why I'm not working full time etc, Also I couldn't stand to as the old saying goes "Work just So I can afford to work" never managing money for anything but bills and to afford to go to work everyday would fucking suck I truly do feel sorry for you payday to payday is bullshit.

    And Squeeg don't act like you know me bitch and get off my nuts in my opinion. So you had a bad day or your life sucks no fucking reason to take that shit out on me. I think something your mother should of taught you was how to direct your anger properly.

    #1 My parents are divorced, and I never speak to my mother and wouldn't care if the bitch dropped dead.

    #2 I have no misconception I'm special I unlike you evidently care enough not to want to work shit jobs my entire life and want to at least try for something better does that mean I think I'm better than you or something? No. I just don't wanna end up doing the shit jobs nobody wants to do.

    #3 You seem to have this misconception about me that I'm some kinda of spoiled upper middle class guy or something. I'm not I'm not by a long shot as a matter of fact. I have plenty of problems you need to stop being such a know it all bitch and learn that making assumptions especially when you're as bad at it as you are is moronic you can't generalize people.

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  • squeegela

    How about just sucking it up and dealing with it? If u r 21 and haven't had to hold down a dulltime job yet, concider yourself lucky. A lesson u should have learned long ago is that sometimes we all have to do things we don't like. Do the shit jobs that no one else wants to do(honestly, that's EXACTLY why they pay you) get the experience and move on. Just because mommy and daddy say u r special and perfect doesn't mean you r or that u automatically deserve better than the rest of the world. You are seriously not as special/gifted/talented as mommy says!

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