Much like the majority of people here, I hate my job. We're overworked, short staffed, and unappreciated. We get 50k grants for our facility from rich donors pretty frequently, yet employees are grossly underpaid. Managers don't do anything important, and it makes it harder to want to be there.
We're constantly told to stay busy through the day, and if nothing that “needs” to be done appeals to us, (filing documents, scanning things into the system, and other clerical stuff) talk to managers and they'd find us shit to do. Naturally, no one does anything, and we all just sit at our respective computers, flipping through text message tabs, and emails.
Quite frankly I don't make enough to care. I barely make over 10 an hour and turnover is crazy high.
I've been looking for other jobs for over a year. I can't leave this job because I need the money. Or I have something else lined up, and of course the job market is garbage.
When I was in college, I was an incredibly hardworking person. I went above and beyond to be a high achiever. Now? I wake up hating every morning, I'm depressed, and I feel like I'll hate every job I ever have.
I was always told working hard gets rewards and “employers see that!”
What a load of shit that was.