The Jobs You Hate

We’ve all had jobs we hated.. Like in my previous story of the eggrolls and the small town Chinese mafia… but is it really common that people have jobs they love? I look at the people I know and the work they do. Everyone moans and complains about their job and I can’t think of a single person who does something they really love. Why is that?

Do people start off doing something they enjoy and after it becomes work they start to loathe it? Do most people just take what is available, even though they hate it, and remind themselves every day how badly they need the money?

How does one go about finding and acquiring a job they truly love?

I guess first you need to figure out what you love. What do I love? Animals, gaming, crafty things, children and chatting. Hmm.. I guess there are a few occupations in there but are they really viable for me at the moment?

I could be a vet, but that requires a ton of schooling that I can’t get here in NL. Plus, I’m kind of allergic to some animals so I’d spend half my salary on antihisamines.

I could be a professional gamer, but how the hell do you do that? I’ve actually considered just devoting every day and night to farming gold in the games I play, to sell it for RL cash… but I’m not sure I could farm enough to really amount to anything substantial. I know there are some games people actually get sponsored for. Does someone want to sponsor me to play WoW all day? Err… doubt it. Worth a shot though.

There is actually one guy I know who was smart enough to make a business out of gaming years ago when Ultima Online was all the rage. He started selling UO gold for $$ and has moved on to do so in every game he’s played since. He now has a bit of a gold / game item selling empire and from what I hear makes a very very good living from it. I believe he’s just bought and paid for a new house with his earnings. FUCK!!! Why didn’t I think of that?!! ARGH!!!

I could make crafts and sell them but while I like crafts, I’m not sure I’m particularly good at them. Plus, I have a bad habit of starting projects and not completing them.

Children.. having some would be nice but that doesn’t seem to be happening. Plus, I can’t make money off my own children.. not legally anyway. I could make money looking after other people’s children but again, the NL thing creeps up because I can’t speak the language well enough to communicate with the Jr Cloggies.

If Oprah can get paid to chat, I don’t see why I couldn’t. Then again, how would I go about starting my own talk show now? Everything has been done already! I could start up an online talk show about gaming and other geeky things. Hmm.. not a bad idea actually. Though I’m sure by the time I got around to it some other more motivated bastard will have read this and stolen my idea. Thanks a lot asshole!

So… crap… now I’m back where I started. Still been thinking about going back to the job I hate, simply because it appears to be the only one open to me at the moment. I actually phoned there the other day. I plucked up the courage/motivation/interest and was told by the receptionist that the person in charge of hiring was out sick. I asked who it was and [[[ cue psycho shower scene sounds ]]] it was scary Scottish guy! The one guy I was kind of hoping would have moved on by now, no such luck! It appears he’s gotten a promotion and now has even more power. (When I said that, I actually said “power” in my head with a scottish accent like Scotty from Star Trek *sigh*)

Now, I don’t know. I might go for it anyway and see how it goes part time, if they’d take me back after all this time. Even if I lasted only a month that’s like, new wood floors in our livingroom. Then again, maybe I won’t. Life here in NL blows enough without spending half of each day getting told off by British, Scottish and Irish secretaries who won’t let me talk to their boss. They called them “Gatekeepers” .. which I thought was pretty funny.

One thing I really hated about that place was that they timed you for everything. Like, if you were going to step away from your computer you had to put in this code and it turned your screen black with this timer in the middle. I don’t know if it was just me but whenever I had to have a poo I was like turbo pooper… something about coming back and seeing exactly how long it took me to have a crap weirded me out.

Dammit, do I really want to go back to the poo timers? I just can’t decide…

I need to do something though and soooooon, I’m losing my minnnnnnnnd!