u/yuumuzik

I've been thinking of a career change because I hate my job, but I'm worried the actual reason is because I dread the concept of working to survive for the rest of my life. How do people tell the difference?

My current job has good pay (~90k), nice coworkers and managers, good benefits, and is indoors/is a "cushy" office job. I feel ungrateful for being miserable, but I'm constantly angry at work because of the frustrations, crying about work, or exhausted after work/during the weekends to the point i just lay and do nothing all weekend. Everything I do feels meaningless.

I was thinking about switching careers for a job that I personally think might have more fullfilment/meaning/purpose (environmental/healthcare) or something I have an affinity for (creative work). It would require me to get an associates degree or start from scratch/entry level at the very least (I have a non-STEM degree, and not in the creative arts). I'm worried of taking the jump if I will continue to be miserable - just this time with a worse job with less pay, worse benefits, more debt, wasted time, etc.

What if it's not the job, and just the hopelessness of knowing I will have to continue to do this for the rest of my life? If that's the case, I might as well just stay at the current job.

Notes: While I have impulsively thought of this a few times, I will not be quitting my job with no plan. I do have depression, but I am on medication for it. I feel content during breaks (I sometimes take a week staycation to recharge) so I personally feel the above emptiness/exhaustion is specifically because of the job and not just life in general.

I've been thinking of a career change because I hate my job, but I'm worried the actual reason is because I dread the concept of working to survive for the rest of my life. How do people tell the difference?

My current job has good pay (~90k), nice coworkers and managers, good benefits, and is indoors/is a "cushy" office job. I feel ungrateful for being miserable, but I'm constantly angry at work because of the frustrations, crying about work, or exhausted after work/during the weekends to the point i just lay and do nothing all weekend. Everything I do feels meaningless.

I was thinking about switching careers for a job that I personally think might have more fullfilment/meaning/purpose (environmental/healthcare) or something I have an affinity for (creative work). It would require me to get an associates degree or start from scratch/entry level at the very least (I have a non-STEM degree, and not in the creative arts). I'm worried of taking the jump if I will continue to be miserable - just this time with a worse job with less pay, worse benefits, more debt, wasted time, etc.

What if it's not the job, and just the hopelessness of knowing I will have to continue to do this for the rest of my life? If that's the case, I might as well just stay at the current job.

Notes: While I have impulsively thought of this a few times, I will not be quitting my job with no plan. I do have depression, but I am on medication for it. I feel content during breaks (I sometimes take a week staycation to recharge) so I personally feel the above emptiness/exhaustion is specifically because of the job and not just life in general.

Hi - our landlord has been using me and my roommate to do showings/tours because he said it was more convenient than using an agent/broker (my roommate and i are both moving out). Today i came out of my room to get water and there was a stranger and my roommate telling them about how the laundry works. Am I wrong to feel the landlord should've let me know about someone coming to see the apartment, not just my roommate? My roommate and i also have separate leases for each of our rooms.

I also woke up one time with a text from my landlord asking me if someone can look in my room (they had already left by the time I woke up). He's been using my roommate more than me because I've expressed that I'm busy and prefer not to do showings (I saw the stranger in my apartment when i was working remotely today, for example).