I am just curious. How many people here really enjoy

[RobinA]

83. I Despise My Job

and it is beginning to get to me. Both the job itself and what I don't get from it. I have changed careers a couple times and am nearing retirement. I have consciously picked all my fields, so I didn't just default into any of them. My first was retail which was fun and stressful, but I never hated going to work and enjoyed the stress. I'd probably still be in retail, but I got out of it when department stores started to go under. I then picked being a paralegal because I loved law. Law and working in law are two very different things. Ended up working for a company that was slowly dyeing. Boooooring. They laid people off the entire 14 years I worked there. I can't believe I made it as long as I did. At the end I wanted to leave but decided to wait around to get laid off since I had 9 months of severance accrued. Finally they laid me off the day I returned from vacation. I was not sad.

Then I went back and got my Master's and went into mental health, which was my original plan. That field is a disaster. The pay is low in psychology, but I managed to get a job with my state, which pays not bad and still has a pension. Although my job requires a Masters, a 10th grade drop out could do it. I wanted to be good in this field and I love the subject. The plan was to hook up with a really good supervisor and learn a lot after the book learning was finished. HA! SS says my retirement age is 66.8, I am 63. I could leave today, but between the pension and SS which increase meaningfully until I am 70, I would be leaving a lot of money on the table. The original plan was to work until 70. I will never make it the way things are currently, so I'm shooting for 66.8. Every day I wonder if I will even make that. No job has ever made me dread going to it before, but this job does now.

Sorry for the book, but this subject is on my mind lately.