I don't really like my job, but it pays way better than anything else I could get. What to do?

OP - this thread is dead without details. You're going to continue to get poor responses because we know nothing about what you do - it's silly;

What the heck is your job? Does this job exist in urban areas? Does it require education? What is your education? etc. etc.

You could be a geologist, a surveyor, a pipefitter, a contractor. For each of those I would have totally differing advice.

This wins the award for silliest post of the day! "I did what I loved for 10 years""I also find that its pretty much a myth to do something you love"

You sound like the main character in one of those 'fish out of water' comedies from back in the day, like "Northern Exposure". Find a writer to help you pitch it as a new show. Smart, plucky, snowflakish millennial takes job he can't afford to quit but finds it is in a strange backwoods world located between the coasts or Alaska which is populated by inbred, cornfed, methheads.

It worked for me. I am a PI in Hawaii, live rent free in a rich guys house and wrote all about it for a show in the '80s. Anyway, gots to go, Rick and T.C. are throwing a party.

So you don't like your job and you want advice but for some odd reason won't disclose what you do.

Thread finished - go away.

I only read the responses of the first page but completely disagree with everyone's responses. Yes, work is work. But no, you don't have to hate it. From the sound of it, you absolutely hate going to work. You're spending 8 hours of every day of the best years of your life doing this when there are other opportunities out there?

lifes waaay too short to be this miserable. If you're making 100k right now, don't go out and get a job that pays you 40 a year. But save up some money and then take a reasonable pay cut doing what you like. Doesn't have to be what you love but can be at least enjoyable.

As someone who quit a miserable job and went back into it in a different way, let me tell you: if you do it right, your only regret will be that you didn't do it sooner.

Couldn't agree more, I think the modern day expectation for love is too romantic

Sometimes I think about how I love my family but I dont always like them

Get out, and get out fast. In a few years you'll be mindfooked and unable to to see how miserable you are, like a dog that's been beaten too much.

Easier to shop around when you have a job, especially when you get 4 months off per year. Shop for other offers, especially during the 4 month break. See if you can't do better.

How in the hell do you make 250k in your mid-30s? I'm happy to be at 42k but know I can do better.

Quit. Make sure you tell your boss what a thin skinned lil bich he is and may the bridges you burn light your way.

Seriously, why waste your time doing something you don't like?

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Quit. Make sure you tell your boss what a thin skinned lil bich he is and may the bridges you burn light your way.

Seriously, why waste your time doing something you don't like?

You also have the option of leaving right this moment. You can literally get up and go do something you enjoy right this moment.

“I'd have to make ~$94k/year in Seattle to have the same standard of living,”

So you make $58k and have to live somewhere crappy? Why are you even on this forum? Go become a nurse, or something.

I understand you now that I started with the register a company in singapore to use I can say that my job is something very simple but with a lot of responsibility so much so that the problem is that it is one of the best that I've been paid right now I think it's the focus more with me than with work, that's why I try to find better ways to begin to understand what I can do in many better ways.

I understand you now that I started with the register a company in singapore to use https://osome.com/sg/incorporation/ I can say that my job is something very simple but with a lot of responsibility so much so that the problem is that it is one of the best that I've been paid right now I think it's the focus more with me than with work, that's why I try to find better ways to begin to understand what I can do in many better ways.

There's a reason they call it work.

I like my job.