Yes, be happy you have a job....

That's a phrase I hear too often. With so many people out of work, looking for a job, or fearing to lose the job they have, I'm told to be happy I have one if I complain a bit about mine.

Well let me complain darn it!

It's especially annoying when that comment comes from someone who isn't looking for a job but voluntarily going to school.

My job is stressful and my co-workers are jerks. I get paid pretty good, but I earn it. I am so dutiful, I even wrote a report and sent it in to the office via email while home sick. My free time is getting less and less. My relatively new boss has no understanding for the field jobs I do. He's a legal eagle, a desk jockey, with no knowledge of the realities of our work! And not only him... other's also. None of them have my qualification... I'm the ONLY one capable of doing this work... yet they don't listen to me when I try to explain to them that this or that can't be done that way.

I'm so stressed out by it all, that it's beginning to affect my health. I'm developing a tinitus (doc says there's he sees no physical problem) and I was just called in sick for 10 days because of laryngitis (ok, so I talk too much lol).

I would love to quit, but obviously I can't financially. At my age it's hard to find something new, but I'm still looking.

To top all that off, I have my own little problems. My daughter just left her husband, together with her two little girls (5 and 4). She's still on friendly terms with her hubby (he even helped her renovate the new apartment), but it's still emotionally upsetting.

And then there's my own situation.... a relationship of ten years yet still no idea of how the/our future will be.... and I'm not getting any younger...

Enough ranting... but I had to let it out, even if no one reads me here...

Willow