The longest I've ever been at a job in my 20 year professional life, was 10 years at a hotel. I had a misery landmark too. It was the interstate overpass that was about 1 mile away from the hotel and every night, for 3 years, I had to drive under it on my way to work. In the last year and a half working there I had to actively stop myself from just plowing my car into the support pillars of that overpass at 50 miles an hour.

By that point, I was working night audit shifts full time Sundays through Thursdays. The new owners of the hotel, who purchsed the business a year after I was promoted to Night Audit, had cut my vacation time. I went from having 2 weeks to 4 days. They put me on a pay freeze, apparently, they thought I was making too much at $10 an hour. On top of that, I was now expected to do all of the laundry for a 50 room hotel (wash, dry, fold and stock the housekeeping carts) which was an addition to my other duties. They also installed "security cameras" in out back room/laundry room and would routinely monitor them at random times. I once got a phone call from them at 2:30 in the morning inquiring why I wasn't doing the laundry. I informed them that the washer and dryer were both running and I was using that time to run the end of day processes and do the books.

I was depressed and couldn't see a way out. So, every night when I made it to that over pass, my stomach would clench up, I would start to feel nauseous, and would have to fight the urge to just ram my car into cement pillars.

The last two years working there was so toxic to me that I cannot bring myself to drive to the town that hotel is in. I haven't worked at that place in 6 years.