quitting my office job = biggest mistake of my life

[SoFla]

I'm also an accountant by trade, and just so you know .. it's a bit rediculous staying in the "data" entry field after 25. Go expand your horizons. Check out forensic accounting or something or another field ... bookeeping work is only suppose to be at an intern or first 6 month level.

[JonnyNUFC87]

would take labor job over office job anyday. Working with buddies joking and messing around while still getting the job done. Coming home from working outside all day feels good. Maybe I'm just weird, but office jobs suck in my opinion.

This. Have worked as a labourer on sites and in offices. Definitely would choose labouring again (if same money), different things to do each day, don't feel like a ****, work with fun people and have a laugh at work. Also come out with a tangible end product instead of numbers on a computer.

[BIG_FAT_SLAPPER]

Hmm seems like we have quite similar views. You in London? �7.50 is a bit sh�t but if they're paying for your qualification...

So you're not even gonna follow it up? Gonna go for something completely different?

I think I'll be renting for a long time unless I find a rich bitch or come into a large sum of money somehow.

Nah the midlands, everything is pretty cheap over here.

[DesertOfShit]

This, I don't see what the big deal is. I come to work for rest and relaxtion

relaxtion

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RELAXTION

[snooter511]

MY office job makes me depressed. "Office Space" although just a movie is not that far off brah, people were not meant to be caged up like this.

[bmontgomery87]

oh god how i ****ing miss it. watching movies if ive finished my work early. working in a calm, quiet environment.

now im doing a labouring job and its constant hard working from start to finish. shouting, screaming. being too tired to go the gym after work.

im a fuking IDIOT for quitting my office job. i took it for granted....goddam it.

reading this from my desk. so far today I've browsed the misc for an hour. planning on watching a movie shortly.

[bustermac]

youre only 25 as if you cant go back to a office job

Well, look at OP's English skills...I doubt he could get back into an office job.

Just look at his resume:


__________________________________________________ __________________________
Name: Harry212
Age: 25



Office job - wuz so good I culd watch moovies cuz I was done fast. i am a calm, quiet wurker.

Labouring job - wurked hard and lifted goddam heavy things. im no fuking IDIOT. i can work good.


Goals - come back to office so i am not too tired to wurk out.

__________________________________________________ __________________________

[reyes12]

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fukkin looooooooooooooooooool

I love my office job, mine is sitting behind the large desk inside of the gym, I can workout on my time and eat whenever I want, then misc right after I'm done lifting, talk to girls, help out people, give advice, whatever! It's easiest $7.75/hr I'll ever make for a part time job

[bustermac]

relaxtion

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RELAXTION

You never heard of RELAXTION?


They even have cartoons about it: http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/r/relaxtion.asp




Read more about RELAXTION here:
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Ultima...Tub&id=5378037

"The Ultimate Relaxtion Experience - Only From a Hot Tub

People get stressed every time, everywhere. When you go to work, you get stressed, you may be at school, yet you still get stressed. You can even just play sports and get stressed. There have even been studies that show that stress is linked to the top six causes of deaths (heart attack, cancer, accidents, liver cirrhosis, and the worst - suicide..."

[bottlez]

owned u garbage man

[Chris_LAMBO]

strong lack of respect for blue collar workers


office fairy *******s go to hell


this country was build by blood sweat an tears and hardwork not sitting like a ******* on your ergonomic dildo chair filling out TPS reports punk bitch.

[dohhhhh6]

Get me my ****ing coffee....

lulz

[stonefacekilla]

i have respect for people doing manual labour jobs, ive done them once upon a time but its not for me.

brb

high salary
fast growing company, lots of promotions and good prospects
own room full with lots of space for me and my team, looking out over the city
brand new desktops, three screens (one for misc, two for work)
decent laptops
more often than not, once a week in basel, brussels or frankfurt - all expenses paid
free lunch everyday
mobile phone that can be used for personal use too (within limit)
supposed to start at 9am, never started earlier than 9.30 (same for everyone)
finish at 5 but sometimes stay back to finish work (trust enviroment)
big ass comfy chair
free health care and life insurance
monthly allowance for travel to work
36 days holiday per year
free tea, coffe, biscuits, cakes, fruit everyday
training and further education suppported by company
ideas respected and listened to - all ideas, not matter how small
....list goes on

i just couldnt give this up for anything else, regardless of how stressful it can get.

[blacksmith77]

lol at sitting at a desk for 50% of your waking life, i dont know how people do it long term

[Manchester_Brah]

u mad Im sitting here miscin' and watching Carl Sagan doc's in a comfortable leather chair, in a city office over looking a bay brah?



yea, u mad

in Wales

[jakobi]

i can't sit all day in a room...i'll fall asleep......

[engj]

What did you expect from a labouring job brah? The clue is in the title. wtf anyone would ever be a labourer over an office worker, i'll never know. Unless they prefer the company of big, burly knuckle-dragging men over office chicks, of course.

There are a lot of skilled technical field positions guys. My wifes brother is a plumber/gasfitter. $38 an hour at his job, and $2-3k in side work a month off the books. Another friend is a dual ticketed electrician/instrumentation specialist working in plant commissioning, and makes more in 3 months than most of the misc makes a year.


Both started as labour positions.

i thought office work was turning me into a pussy. (srs)

stupid ego crap. made no sense.

I hear you whining about a little hard work, maybe it did?

What exactly do you do in an "Office Job"?

I estimate, bid, and manage projects in industrial construction, but started in the industry 14 years ago shoveling sand bags.

MY office job makes me depressed. "Office Space" although just a movie is not that far off brah, people were not meant to be caged up like this.

Some jobs offer a nice balance. I spend 2-3 afternoons a week out in the field, and travel to remote location sites once a month or so. Still average 40hrs/week with flexible personal time as well.

Jobs like this come to people with a decade or more of hard work in the field (ie. labour and technician positions).

strong lack of respect for blue collar workers


office fairy *******s go to hell


this country was build by blood sweat an tears and hardwork not sitting like a ******* on your ergonomic dildo chair filling out TPS reports punk bitch.

Its the biggest problem I see with the current generation entering the workforce. You've all been told to get some generic econ or accounting degree, cause college is important. Colleges have been pumping out cubicle fodder for a decade, with nobody wanting to do real work.

Nobody gets paid until the ditch is dug, the welders finish the boiler, and the electrician passes inspection.

[ovlifter]

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

bruce lee quote, nice

[johnnyscans]

Worked my office job for 2 years. So long 65k$/yr,4 wks paid vacation, sick days, 13 holidays, 8% match on 401k, etc.

Quit to go back to school and I promise myself I'll never do the 9-5 slave grind again.

[Maestro]

the down side about the contruction jobs and this industry is that a lot of low lifes work these kinds of jobs... and you gotta be around them all day.

construction jobs in California have you working with a bunch of ex-cons most of the time. I'd be afraid of being shanked if one of them are having a bad day.

[HEAT-34]

i have respect for people doing manual labour jobs, ive done them once upon a time but its not for me.

brb

high salary
fast growing company, lots of promotions and good prospects
own room full with lots of space for me and my team, looking out over the city
brand new desktops, three screens (one for misc, two for work)
decent laptops
more often than not, once a week in basel, brussels or frankfurt - all expenses paid
free lunch everyday
mobile phone that can be used for personal use too (within limit)
supposed to start at 9am, never started earlier than 9.30 (same for everyone)
finish at 5 but sometimes stay back to finish work (trust enviroment)
big ass comfy chair
free health care and life insurance
monthly allowance for travel to work
36 days holiday per year
free tea, coffe, biscuits, cakes, fruit everyday
training and further education suppported by company
ideas respected and listened to - all ideas, not matter how small
....list goes on

i just couldnt give this up for anything else, regardless of how stressful it can get.

and this is why Spain's economy is in the ****ter.

[BAMBAM78]

Brb

I built your office.



Notevenmad.PDF

[viennafat]

I did the manual labour thing for many years and different jobs.
I came to the conclusion of FACK THAT!

Now I work in an office. Yes, it gets boring. Yes, you feel like a drone.
But fack me it's pretty easy going.
I Misc'ed yesterday for (no joke) about 6 hours of my day.

The key is to find the good desk jobs. Not too much work, not too much stress, not too much micromanaging. Then you're good to go.

[buckeyenutz]

you dun goofed OP. chilling in my climate controlled office right now.

[bottle_cap]

lettuce be reality
you guys are sitting in cubicles, not offices

[hait2]

thx i needed this thread. gonna graduate in a coupla months and deciding what to do. had an internship at an office job, they were really impressed w my work & offered me to come back, i just haven't accepted yet
feel like a drone.. but on the other hand
large company, big potential to move up, good pay (especially right outta school), quite interesting/important job devising hedging strategies and ****, pretty chill (a lot of my day is reading market news lol), new office, cool people etc..
but still feel like a drone
foreveradrone.jpg? worth it?
>.<

[Autopilot]

Misc'n from the office right now.

[INSANEREACH]

I know a guy who is 60 and works tarmacing rds motorway maintainence etc etc. He still manages 3 full bodyworkouts a week, looks ten years younger than he is.


I myself do a job which is partially outdoors and still manage to get to the gym 5 days a week. I actually found office jobs much more stressful and tiring than the security work I used to do which was 12 hr shifts. I also hated the office politics, the back stabbing which goes on. Silly old women who pass round cookies everyday and get all offended when I didn't eat any, or the guys who saw me as competion for the office whore or the better job. It was when I beat up some idiot I worked with in the pub toilets that I decided office work wasn't for me.

During that period I slacked off my workouts as I was so stressed out.Now in my current job Iam out the office a lot which is better for me and the guys I do work with are mainly in the army or ex soldiers and you don't get people bigging themselves up. They have nothing to prove,so it's an easier place to work.

[omeezy4sheezy]

would take labor job over office job anyday. Working with buddies joking and messing around while still getting the job done. Coming home from working outside all day feels good. Maybe I'm just weird, but office jobs suck in my opinion.

lol dont think you read the post. Said its extremely tough and that hes constnatly getting yelled at

[omeezy4sheezy]

Its the biggest problem I see with the current generation entering the workforce. You've all been told to get some generic econ or accounting degree, cause college is important. Colleges have been pumping out cubicle fodder for a decade, with nobody wanting to do real work.

Nobody gets paid until the ditch is dug, the welders finish the boiler, and the electrician passes inspection.

And no one can help him save for retirement, help him sue his company when they force him to work unreasonable hours or when he injures himself. No one can give him a loan to buy that car, or get that slightly bigger house either brah.

Its not one or the other, they both work together organically.