How often do you daydream about quitting

[Sum Dum Gai]

your job? Multiple times a day? Almost never? Somewhere in between?

[swamp]

daily.

[Sam_2.0]

Depends on the day....

[Deleted]

Multiple times a day.

Every day I drive into work I go over my net worth in my head and calculate how long that could lat me if I didn't have a job.

[thyme4change]

It depends on how many meetings I have during the day. But, on average, I'm up to several times per day.

[Waffle]

Definitely daily. I've been reminiscing a lot lately about times when I enjoyed my job. I would love to have a job I cared about again.

[Wisconsin Beth]

a couple times a week, but not at work, oddly enough

[Sum Dum Gai]

Every day I drive into work I go over my net worth in my head and calculate how long that could lat me if I didn't have a job.

Now there's a depressing thought. For me anyway. If we cashed out retirement accounts and stopped paying the mortgage to live in the house "rent free", as it were, we could last a few years. Other than that we'd be going hungry in a matter of months.

[Sum Dum Gai]

I've been reminiscing a lot lately about times when I enjoyed my job. I would love to have a job I cared about again.

I've been feeling the same way for a while.

Sub-question:
For those in a similar boat, did the job change or did you?

[Chocolate Lover]

Every time my alarm clock goes off, but then I remember I'd have to get up anyway to take the kids to school and I might as well get paid to get up that early.

[Abby Normal]

Every damn minute of every damn day I'm here for the last year. The economy has been brutal on our business and it's been absolutely depressing. Until yesterday- finally something good happened.

[wvugurl26]

Depends on the day and current assignments.

[Waffle]

May 4, 2012 11:41:14 GMT -5 Sum Dum Gai said:

I've been reminiscing a lot lately about times when I enjoyed my job. I would love to have a job I cared about again.

I've been feeling the same way for a while.

Sub-question:
For those in a similar boat, did the job change or did you?

Good question. I think mostly the job(s). I enjoyed my job most when I was more directly involved with the operations side of things - moving to more of a support role has been a downer for me.

[Deleted]

At least once a day!!!!

[happyhoix]

Used to love my job, we got bought in a hostile take over and now - I'd say I think at least daily about how much I'd like to quit.

Unfortunately, DH pointed out to me last night, most jobs in my field are high stress and long hours, so I think if I went to a different job, it would be same heat, different frying pan.

Sadly I'm not at the point financially where retirement is an option yet.

Dang it.

[lynnerself]

Generally only when something particularly stressful happens (about once a week!). Like now when I have to deal with a staff error and a valid patient complaint.
The worst part is we could probably retire today, but it wouldn't be at the lifestyle I want.
So when of one of these days happens, I always dream of just calling it quits early.

[cronewitch]

April 29, 2013 is my projected retirement date so about 51 more weeks. I think about it everyday and sometimes think it is too far and sometimes I could work longer. When the stock market is way down I think work longer when it is up think hang it up now.

[sheilaincali]

At least a couple of times a week. I enjoy my job and I enjoy 99% of the people I work with. Unfortunately I work for my dad and my brother works here too (but for a different company). My idiot brother is a complete asshat. If he didn't work here I would very rarely think about quitting.

My DH hated his last job. Would probably spend half of every day day dreaming about quitting. He moved to a new company three weeks ago and loves his job. It's the same basic job and responsibilities but the atmosphere is so much more positive that he is way happier. Helps that it's better insurance, more $ per hour and he has had more overtime in the past three weeks than he did in the past three years combined.

[midjd]

My quitting-work daydream is usually also my winning-the-Megamillions daydream - so maybe once every couple of weeks.

I love my current job and would be happy to spend my career here - but I think I was very, very fortunate to find a job that suits me and has a good work/life balance. The thought of ever having to get a different job has me doing Archie's NW calculations...

[Abby Normal]

May 4, 2012 12:53:04 GMT -5 cronewitch said:

April 29, 2013 is my projected retirement date so about 51 more weeks.

I'm officially jealous. But cheers to you!

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Depends. When things are working how I want them to I am happy.

So based on that comment probably every couple of hours.

Right now I'd like to throw one of the machines out the window and quit.

[Waffle]

My quit-work daydream is becoming a full time antique dealer. I read in a book once that the vast majority (I forget the actual percentage) of antique dealers don't even make a profit, let alone a living. I've always wondered though if that isn't skewed by people cheating on their taxes.

[Epiphany]

several times a week

[Sum Dum Gai]

I read in a book once that the vast majority (I forget the actual percentage) of antique dealers don't even make a profit, let alone a living. I've always wondered though if that isn't skewed by people cheating on their taxes.

Probably not. Try to find your local business broker's listings. The number of business listed for sale that have been open for 5 years, or more, and basically make the owner next to nothing is staggering. I always figure they must have a spouse who's the main breadwinner and the business is the stay at home spouses hobby since the kids grew up.

[shanendoah]

I don't daydream about quitting. I do daydream about calling in sick when the alarm is going off in the mornings (but I set my own hours, so if I really wanted to start later, I could).
I'm very lucky in that I like my job, I like my coworkers, and believe in my company's mission. Plus, they pay me really well.

[sheilaincali]

Not so sure on our "Mission" because lets face it we just build roads.

[hockeygrl]

Daily. Every brutal second that I am sitting in traffic because I have to drive through downtown instead of getting transferred to the satellite office that is 2 miles from my house because they "can't lose the FTE".

I have changed and the job has changed. It's a combo of both. Being in a fairly thankless profession without support from the administration makes things hard, especially when the mission is all over the place and there is no strong leadership in DC. The administration has made our lives pretty tough in the field.

Plus, having a baby has made me yearn for better work-life balance, but that is a nonexistent thing in my field. I deal because I have to, but it isn't easy. Without the kid, the commute and all of the other issues would be merely annoying. Now they are almost painful sometimes.

Here's to hoping for economic recovery and a change in administrations, or at least their outlook on our mission!

[raeoflyte]

Multiple times a day...current company and work/life balance are 1000% better than my last one, where I thought about quitting 24x7.

I'm giving my job/industry 2 years. If I'm not in a better spot by then, I'm starting over. Not sure in what yet, but I can't spend the next 30 years like this and not even try for something else.

[Deleted]

I honestly don't think about it much, but that's because I am in pre-retirement mode. I think when you get my age (58), you are sort of counting down, anyway, and it just doesn't seem that long. I have seven or eight more years, depending on my mood, to reach 65 (medicare) or 66(full social security age). In seven years, I will have 25 years or 50% of my salary.

[Tired Tess]

I think of it several times during the day. But what I really want to do is cut my work week to four days!!