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Posted: 7/19/2010 5:10:12 PM EST
I realize the economy is bad, but at what point would you finally have enough and quit your job?

I always told myself I'd never work a job I didn't enjoy.  I guess I lied.  Been doing it full time for a couple years.  Don't get along with the boss, don't like the work.  Takes a toll on my body, feel like I'm 40 at the age of 18.  Losing sleep, etc.  With the amount of hours I get, and the self employment tax I pay, I did the math and I could make the same money working a job making $8 an hour sitting on my ass or working in air conditioning

Worst part is, I don't even need the money.  I paid for a reliable car, paid off my debt, and I live at home.  Planning to pay for school next year.  Other than that, right now I could live off $200 a month for rent.  Just seems like I can't convince myself to get out of the shit cycle that starts every day at 6:30.

[/rant]

Should I fo?  Anyone else in love with their job situation?

Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:13:26 PM EST
[#1]
I've been out of work since last August, because I decided to finish my classes, intern, and then graduate but the last job I had was pretty sweet.  It was at a camp.  I had 3 hots and a bed for free.  My sister was my boss  and the work load wasn't terrible.

You should hang on as long as you can, because while quitting could in theory work, the problem is will you be able to find a job that's even full time, with the competition for work and the fact that very few people are hiring?  That's the issue I have now.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:14:07 PM EST
[#2]
When my pay goes down, or a better job shows up.

Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:16:20 PM EST
[#3]
18, huh?


Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:17:44 PM EST
[#4]
You know... if you can live without the job, FUCK IT.

You're 18, and will probably have all the opportunities to bust your ass for the next 40+ years.

The "break" on your resume will be filled with school, but you could also put some volunteer work in there for the hell of it.  Or travel.  Or self study.

Or whatever the fuck you want to do.


Chances are that an opportunity like this won't come around for a looooong time.   TAKE IT!!

Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:18:22 PM EST
[#5]
Don't quit shit until you have another job ready to walk into.  Preferably, take a week or two off of the one to see if you'll like the other one.  Don't want to walk out of a shitty job and into a shittier one.  Trudge on, but read the classifieds too.

Before anybody else says it, talk to your local Marine recruiter.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:18:31 PM EST
[#6]
You quit at your convienence, not their's.
Keep your job, look for something else, quit once you get all your ducks in a row.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:18:31 PM EST
[#7]
In this economy, I wouldn't quit a job unless I had another already personally.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:18:46 PM EST
[#8]
Quoted:
I did the math and I could make the same money working a job making $8 an hour sitting on my ass or working in air conditioning


So go get one of those jobs. What exactly is the problem here?

Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:22:40 PM EST
[#9]
what are you a subcontractor/roofer.  You mention not liking your boss and self employment taxes.  those things seem to contradict each other.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:23:55 PM EST
[#10]
I HATE my fucking job with a passion. BUT i have a family that is counting on me to put a roof over they're heads and food on the table. I am 40 so it is too late for me to change. As young as you are ,try finding some thing you like.

That being said , I don't know a whole lot of people that like their jobs. It is called WORK for a reason....LOL.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:25:11 PM EST
[#11]
Don't get off her until you get a better offer!
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:25:18 PM EST
[#12]
18



Good luck pal.

I was punkin steel at that age, don't recall any AC involved with that. (cept in the truck when I drove home)

Suck it up.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:25:20 PM EST
[#13]
Quoted:
You know... if you can live without the job, FUCK IT.

You're 18, and will probably have all the opportunities to bust your ass for the next 40+ years.

The "break" on your resume will be filled with school, but you could also put some volunteer work in there for the hell of it.  Or travel.  Or self study.

Or whatever the fuck you want to do.


Chances are that an opportunity like this won't come around for a looooong time.   TAKE IT!!



I'm gonna go with this, OP, since you're only 18.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:27:55 PM EST
[#14]
Quoted:
18



Good luck pal.

I was punkin steel at that age, don't recall any AC involved with that. (cept in the truck when I drove home)

Suck it up.


I don't mind the hard work, I enjoy hands on stuff.  But when you don't like something, the fact that it's 12 hour days in 100+ temperatures, chaps your ass, no matter what you're doing.

ETA - in more ways than one


ETA II -

Quoted:
what are you a subcontractor/roofer.  You mention not liking your boss and self employment taxes.  those things seem to contradict each other.


Landscape subcontractor.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:33:15 PM EST
[#15]
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:39:21 PM EST
[#16]
gotcha subcontractor are you using all you applicable deductions when you do your taxes.  there are a shit ton of legal deductions  save all your receipts.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:41:29 PM EST
[#17]
Either

A: they finally agitate me enough
or
B: the checks ain't on time.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:41:34 PM EST
[#18]
If it's a shitty job I hate it doesn't take much for me to quit then and there.  If it's a job I like with good benefits and pay like the one I have now, I can (and have) put up with a lot of shit.  
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:42:11 PM EST
[#19]



Quoted:


When my pay goes down, or a better job shows up.





What he said.

It takes everything I have to NOT take a friggin crowbar to the (empty) heads of those damn people I work with.



The only thing that keeps me going is the hope I get to see one or more drop dead. I could use the lolz.







 
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:45:21 PM EST
[#20]
Find another job, but leave as amicably as possible. The world's a small place and being welcomed back may be valuable at some point in your future. I've been where you are myself –– what it does to your mind is worse than what it does to your body.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:47:36 PM EST
[#21]
Quoted:
gotcha subcontractor are you using all you applicable deductions when you do your taxes.  there are a shit ton of legal deductions  save all your receipts.


Did what I could last year.  Ended up only paying about 15%.  Fuck me when the taxcuts expire.

Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:48:08 PM EST
[#22]
Quoted:
When my pay goes down, or a better job shows up.





This.

I sucked it up for a year and a half until an opening came available.  I took a slight pay cut and loss of a week's vacation, but better hours and closer to home...


If you quit you will end up like 80% of the work force stuck without a job for 14+ months, but without unemployment.  

Dad didn't have an option to "suck it up" when he got laid off.  He finished his MBA and started looking for jobs.  He put in for jobs from Maine to Alaska trying to get anything that would pay his student loans.  13 months later he finally got a job making 2/3 what he made before he got laid off.



Suck it up and keep working, build up a savings so when you need to pay for school it is available without burning both ends of the candle.  Or keep it saved up for after college.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:48:55 PM EST
[#23]
For me it's when I get a better offer in writing.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 5:50:53 PM EST
[#24]
Make sure you have another one lined up and leave on good terms. Like the poster before said, you never know who you will end up running into again. Even in larger markets you find that the higher up you get the more of the same players you run into.
Link Posted: 7/19/2010 6:21:49 PM EST
[#25]
When you are activly looking for the most interest spot to have you body be found at work it is time to move on.
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