Vacation ending and I am miserable

You have a daughter now living in Atlanta...? Hmmm... j/k...

At 25 years (very) old, that sentence right there confirms why i have no regrets about moving to Atlanta to do something i really enjoy... i miss my friends terribly; Bruce, Andrea, Gus, Josie and the rest of that wackie Tri-State group, but if i stayed in NY and kept at my miserable job, i would've went nuts...

Duke, i don't know how old you are, but you need to get off your ass, stop counting the hours, minutes and days before you go back to work and figure out what you LOVE to do and go do it...! i can't stress this enough... i was on the very brink of self destruction when this job came along... Now i'm happy, i'm having a great time and life seems livable... Sure i miss my friends, but that was the sacrifice i needed to make to get the rest of me in an acceptable situation...

Stop reading this post; figure out what makes you happy then figure out how you can make that happiness pay the bills... Go.

Go now.

 

You got P-mail.

 

I am very sorry you feel this way. Sometimes I get depressed myself. I guess the diffrence is that I love my job, and am very anxious to finish school and get my own dealership.

However, I must ask somthing. If you hate your job, why are you still working it for 25 years? What made you want to do it in the first place?


What is your dream job? You should start doing that. I think you should read a book. Its called "The seven habbits of highley effective people" by Stephen R. Covey. It's not going to magicly cure you, but it will put you on the right track. I find it to be a very interesting book, and very motivating.

I see you are a tech. Maybe you should look for a service manager position?

 

Sorry to hear that your career is making you miserable. Few people truly love what they do. Sounds like you need to find the inspiration to listen to yourself and figure out how to live your dream. You're on a car forum and you work for a car company so obviously cars interest you. So why not take the skills and contacts that you have developed and figure out a way to do what you do on your own? I think that if you "are the man" instead of working for "the man" your passion for what you do will show. All the rest will follow. I'm living proof of that Good luck.

 

I think it goes deeper than that, your youngest has left the nest & is off to school. Maybe that's what is troubling you.

 

Good luck. Life has its ups and down.

Take pride in this fact:

After one is gone, the biggest impact he or she has on history is often the children they rose. It seems to me you have done a fine job raising them and should be commended and take pride in your accomplishment.

 

I'm a bit sad tonight too. Had a great night, my only all summer. I've only had about two weeks free since summer school ended but I start fall semester on Monday. I played around for a couple of years in school and now I am paying for it. I work really hard in school now but my past semesters are really hurting my GPA.
I have friends that are attorneys and have involved me in some of their cases and showed my different aspects of the legal world. I am truly fascinated by it and hope to go to law school. I know that unless I can get a school to help me clean up my transcript that it may keep me out of law school.

I also see guys in careers that they once loved being completely burnt out and not happy anymore and that scares me too.

I guess I am rambling and should go to bed. LOL

 

Sorry to hear you're bummed out about your job. Jeezz,but two daughters in school - that rocks, what an accomplishment! I don't have any kids and have absolutely no idea if I ever will.

I'm also coming off vacation and going back to work tomorrow - kinda strange how it throws things into perspective. As another poster pointed out, I really don't think that many people are happy with their jobs, and some that are, are probably justifying it by telling themselves it is better than doing bla bla bla...

Seems like every year I end up trying to think of something else to do - I can think of a few things, but nothing ever seems to be the big one. I know I'm just rambling and probably offering no value whatsoever with this post - but hey, ther'e a reason they call it work.

 

Study what you wrote in your'e post, now say to yourself boy im lucky, i have had steady employment for 25 years, i have great kids who are going to college, i have a lovely home, i can afford great holidays, without that steady employment would you have had all this?

 

I can say with complete honesty that the BIGGEST reason I ventured out on my own a few years ago is because of Sundays. I was always happy about Friday - got the weekend coming! Saturday was relaxation day - do a few things and maybe go out at night. Sunday was horrible. I'd have this feeling of anxiety about having to go back to work the next day. Counting the hours and minutes until work started again. I seemed to spend Sunday preparing for work - washing my work clothes, making sure my ties were clean and pressed, etc, etc. So basically I only had one day a week where I could relax.

Maybe you need a change? It doesn't necessarily have to be doing your own thing - it could be a new job within Toyota? Maybe now that your daughters are gone, you want to do a little more travel in your job? I'd think about what you want to do that makes you happy and try to transition into it. That you have been there for 25 years should buy you some respect and leeway to give you the opportunity to do something new if you want.