need to vent

[evangundy]

The main thing that is holding me back is vacation time. I get about 2.5-3 weeks a year including holidays and I don't have to work weekends. I probably could find a job closer to home to. My commute is about 22 miles one way and the way the gas prices are going it may not be a bad idea. ..

Don't let that stop you. I was at my previous job for 28 yrs and liked what I did and the people I worked with, but corporate management in another state controlled everything and things were slowly getting worse, and the stress I started feeling was beginning to affect my health. Then just over a year ago, I got offered a great job, but my commute went from 4 miles each way to 22 miles each way, and I went from 4wks vacation per year, to no time off the first year, to two weeks this year. And I couldn't be happier. This was the best thing I have done for myself since I got married (30 yrs ago). I'm happier at work, which carries over to home, and I sleep better and I'm healthier, and losing weight (a good thing), and I smile and laugh more, etc, etc, etc.

Life is too short to be unhappy and just "doing a job". You need to enjoy your work, just as much as you need to enjoy the rest of your life too.

Edna

[bmccasland]

Solobiker - you have a marketable skill. Other offices / clinics will have sick leave, vacation time too. They should be paying you the earned vacation time when you leave, so if nothing else, bank the money to fund a trip at a later date.

Save your sanity, dignity, and credibility and leave these malcontents.

I left NorCal because of a bad supervisor. One of us had to go, and she wasn't worth going to prison over. Was much happier, and saner after the change.