Ask HN: What should I do if I feel depressed in my job? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What should I do if I feel depressed in my job?

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Post by GeX2mULc » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 7:01 AM UTC

mbrock wrote: post #36

GeX2mULc wrote: post #19

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I love outbursts like these :D I am miserable in general and and this made my evening, thanks

If you love depressive yet uplifting outbursts, try Ecclesiastes. For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun? For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This…

Thank you :)

Re: Ask HN: What should I do if I feel depressed in my job?

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Post by johnchristopher » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 11:15 AM UTC

EC1 wrote: post #54

mrcold wrote: post #41

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I would be happy too if I was a freelancer working from home. Try cutting your income in half and going every day to an office to answer to a manager dumber than you. See how much you like it then.

I hated it and I quit, this was two weeks ago and I'm actually sort of struggling for income lol. I have like two months to make this work. But simply having that option sit in the back of my head made it easy enough to go to work, because I knew that if it got bad enough I can just get up and leave.

So in one hour you went from making stupid money to struggling for income.

Re: Ask HN: What should I do if I feel depressed in my job?

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Post by loumf » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 12:20 PM UTC

If the goal of promotion or more compensation is literally impossible, then choose another goal that isn't. For the purpose of enjoyment, goals are arbitrary.

Eventually, you'll be free to leave, and you can start pursuing other goals.

Or ... Ask your boss what you need to do to earn whatever is is you want, and then pursue that. Make it reasonable and achievable in 3-6 months -- to do that, ask for the appropriate thing (a small step towards a larger goal)

Re: Ask HN: What should I do if I feel depressed in my job?

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Post by EC1 » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 4:39 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #72

EC1 wrote: post #54

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I hated it and I quit, this was two weeks ago and I'm actually sort of struggling for income lol. I have like two months to make this work. But simply having that option sit in the back of my head made it easy enough to go to work, because I knew that if it got bad enough I can just get up and leave.

So in one hour you went from making stupid money to struggling for income.

Once this contract runs out theres no guarantee of a next one ;)