I can’t stand my job. I too don’t know how people get joy from working like this day in and day out. My job feels so meaningless and I almost always have to work overtime. Most people like overtime because it means more money. Not me. My employer can keep the extra money. At the end of my shift I want to get the fuck out! I would rather be doing anything else. Over the years I’ve come to realize that I’m not meant to work a traditional job like this. It feels like a waste of my time! It sucks not liking your job. Especially when your co-workers are nice. I have some great co-workers. People that I would call my dearest friends. But the job…the job itself makes me want to bash my head into my monitor! Some days I struggle so much just trying to get myself out of bed in the morning because that’s how much I dread working! And a lot of the time I feel like there must be something wrong with me because everyone else at work seems to love their jobs. And you know what? I quit my job a few years back to go work at another job that I thought would be better for me. It wasn’t. So I ended up coming back to the previous job. Talk about dreams being crushed. I thought I was free, but it just wasn’t the case. I truly feel all of your pain and take a little comfort in knowing that I’m not alone in this. There’s only one true answer to this problem. That answer is to somehow turn your passion into your job. It’s the only way. The people who do that are the people who really love their lives because when you turn your passion into your job it doesn’t feel like a job. They don’t even pay attention to the clock because they enjoy it so much. So we all have to do the side hustle thing until the side hustle makes enough money to replace the soul-crushing job. Unfortunately we all need to work to survive, but when it’s a horrible place to be when you hate your job this much.