Have job burnout. Looking for things to do.

[adrian]

I don't know how I learned I got job burnout, but it started way before I got the walmart job (maybe a week ago).

I researched it online and one of the solutions is to relax at home - but I don't know how to relax! Either I'm planning something or doing something. I just realized that everything I do on the computer is computer related (websites, forums, web games, etc) and I seriously can't watch a movie w/out looking at the movie software and fixing something (either via themes or whatnot).

So I count on the expertise of HT, or else I'll be hanging around the electronics dept when I'm at walmart.

[tutusue]

Re: Have job burnout. Looking for things to do.

Hmmm...I don't think it's so much job burnout as it is computer addiction! I could be wrong, Adrian, but I don't think you've been in the job market long enough to qualify for job burnout!

[scrivener]

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It's not burnout, Adrian. It's tiredness. Congratulations: You have earned the "hard day's work" tired. It's a good tired, though. And for the first several weeks on the new job, it's going to be a constant companion.

Then an interesting thing will happen. You'll either brighten up and long days won't seem so long anymore and when you come home, you may still be tired, but you'll still have some brain cells left.

Or you'll realize the job sucks. And then every day will be worse than the last. And then maybe you'll take my advice and go back to school for your Bachelor's degree.

But it's too early to tell. You have to do it for a while. Bring home twelve paychecks or so. Then I think you'll know.

[Hellbent]

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so again, why did you take a job at walmart? you have your a+ certification right?

[Pua'i Mana'o]

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join the Jaycees. Join a gym. Find a cardio kickboxing class. Explore different dojo. Research scuba diving classes and certification courses and enroll. Go do the geocaching things with the other HT dudes, and, uh, climb ridges and find small stuff. Join one of those young yuppie mega-churches. Attend a church that is so alien to your own thinking and expand your horizons. Get a different part-time job, like one on those dinner cruises, where you are forced to interact with tourii from all over the world. Take up archery. Join a swim club. Round up some buddies and go camping. Try surfing. Or bodyboarding. Or snorkeling.

You live on O'ahu, home of all sorts of things to do, year-round and mostly cheap. Get out from between those two mountain ranges every day.

[cynsaligia]

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It's not burnout, Adrian. It's tiredness. Congratulations: You have earned the "hard day's work" tired. It's a good tired, though. And for the first several weeks on the new job, it's going to be a constant companion.

Then an interesting thing will happen. You'll either brighten up and long days won't seem so long anymore and when you come home, you may still be tired, but you'll still have some brain cells left.

Or you'll realize the job sucks. And then every day will be worse than the last. And then maybe you'll take my advice and go back to school for your Bachelor's degree.

But it's too early to tell. You have to do it for a while. Bring home twelve paychecks or so. Then I think you'll know.

join the Jaycees. Join a gym. Find a cardio kickboxing class. Explore different dojo. Research scuba diving classes and certification courses and enroll. Go do the geocaching things with the other HT dudes, and, uh, climb ridges and find small stuff. Join one of those young yuppie mega-churches. Attend a church that is so alien to your own thinking and expand your horizons. Get a different part-time job, like one on those dinner cruises, where you are forced to interact with tourii from all over the world. Take up archery. Join a swim club. Round up some buddies and go camping. Try surfing. Or bodyboarding. Or snorkeling.

You live on O'ahu, home of all sorts of things to do, year-round and mostly cheap. Get out from between those two mountain ranges every day.

i agree wholeheartedly with both these posts. you don't wanna be like me--mumble years in age and still finishing up your bachelor's degree, finally motivated out of anger that you're not achieving as much as you want and know you deserve bcs you don't have that piece of paper. it really sucks when you know that people lesser than you are making twice as much as you are even if they are idiots just bcs they are idiots with initials after their names.

also, i hated being poor. i can look on my "ninety-nine cent ish days" with a certain nostalgia now only bcs those times are years past. but when i was living them...ugh.

and yes, please take advantage of all the options you have in terms of free or cheap stuff to do. everytime i come back from a trip to the mainland, i always marvel at the natural perks of living here. don't spend so much of your time cooped up with some sort of screen in front of your face.

at the very least, understand that such inactivity will contribute greatly to a waistline that is wider than you'd like ten years from now.

[craigwatanabe]

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Adrian you gotta find yourself first then find the job that suits you. Here I was working as a technician fixing everybody's f*ckups either in the Air Force or in the Gas Company. I though I found true love working in radio (22-years in the biz) then I realized burn out. I still love radio but don't do it now.

Amazingly I found my love in working as a sales associate at Home Depot. I love helping people figure out ways to build their projects. I get school teachers to contractors helping them with their endevours.

To me this is a rewarding job (pay sucks but like radio it's a love) and the actual reward is when a customer comes in with a photo of their completed project, whether it's a classroom art project, a boy scout merit badge or a three bedroom home, and show me the results of our collaberation. I even get the warm welcomes while standing in the bank lines or at the supermarkets.

I never got that working at the Gas Company or after spending 14-hour days in the prod room at Clear Channel.

Certainly you'll have bad days, but it's the good days that always pull you thru. Working at WalMart I can see similarities at where I work. Like I tell my co-workers, "Give it a year to either rub off onto you or break you" At least give your employer the benefit of one year's service after all the training they gave you.

[adrian]

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Adrian you gotta find yourself first then find the job that suits you.

Well, college didn't do anything for me (or maybe it did, but I have to "translate it").

Certainly you'll have bad days, but it's the good days that always pull you thru. Working at WalMart I can see similarities at where I work. Like I tell my co-workers, "Give it a year to either rub off onto you or break you" At least give your employer the benefit of one year's service after all the training they gave you.

I never got any training from this job - I learned from doing.

[craigwatanabe]

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Well, college didn't do anything for me (or maybe it did, but I have to "translate it").

I never got any training from this job - I learned from doing.

College will work for you when that dream job appears in the paper.

No training? Oh man that's bad, you ought to try Home Depot. As bad as it sounds on the outside, the training and employee support is really good.

I get paid vacation, paid sick leave, medical, vision and dental insurance coverage, matching 401k, employee share plan (discounted share purchases) and financial assistance when disaster strikes (Homer Fund) and I only work 21-hours a week (yes a part timer). Home Depot offers web-based Product Knowledge training on all the products we sell including selling techniques and closing the sale. It's quite comprehensive and if you take the training to heart you'll do well here.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

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Adrian, how would you describe yourself? Tell us about your personality, please.

[Hellbent]

Re: Have job burnout. Looking for things to do.

1) read a book - sci-fi, fiction, romance, whatever
2) #1 activity on the web- browse for porn
3) play World of Warcraft
4) start up a hobby, like:
a) drinking
b) browsing for porn
c) build trainsets
d) see every $1 movie at restaurant row
e) dancing - the paladium offers cheap dance classes
5) a 2nd job
6) find a girlfriend/boyfriend
7) remake star wars 1-3, but better using low budget special effects and if your little sister likes to write stories, it might have a better plot!
8) zen archery
9) take up rc cars

[scrivener]

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Well, college didn't do anything for me (or maybe it did, but I have to "translate it").

Adrian, with all due respect, college might not have done anything for you because you went to a tech school. Schools like that are designed to teach you HOW to do something. But how to do stuff is only half the reason you go to school. The other half is all that other stuff I tried to explain in that other thread. I agree with Craig: Finding yourself is critical ('though not at your age, necessarily). Earning a Bachelor's degree is one way to do that.

[buzz1941]

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Earn a doctorate online.

[SusieMisajon]

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I don't know how I learned I got job burnout, but it started way before I got the walmart job (maybe a week ago).

I researched it online and one of the solutions is to relax at home - but I don't know how to relax! Either I'm planning something or doing something. I just realized that everything I do on the computer is computer related (websites, forums, web games, etc) and I seriously can't watch a movie w/out looking at the movie software and fixing something (either via themes or whatnot).

So I count on the expertise of HT, or else I'll be hanging around the electronics dept when I'm at walmart.

What?! Already?

So what...you wen come home all tired out, or maybe you got a paycheck that ain't so big? Or you no like getting up and getting to work on time...every day? Or spending $$ on lunch is cutting into your salary?

Sheesh!

You came home and typed WHAT into your computer for the diagnosis? I like know.

[Kelly0040]

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When I first read this, I was like god, he needs a girlfriend. lol (sorry )

But then you said:

Well, college didn't do anything for me (or maybe it did, but I have to "translate it").

And then Scrivener said what type of college you went to.

So, to piggy back on Scriv...

Going away to college was the best thing I could have done at the age of 18. For the first two years, I was lazy and kinda just skated by - general ed courses were so blechh to me, but it helped me realize what I wanted to do, which I suppose made it all worthwhile. By the third year, I realized that the only way I'd learn anything was if I applied myself and stopped slacking so damn much. Plus, my parents stopped paying so I had to pay for my own education and dropping out wasn't an option. I wasn't about to pay big bucks and not get my money's worth. I had finally got it in my head that college was a full-time job and sucking was not an option.

In my last two years of school, I learned who I was and saw what I didn't want to be. I met all kinds of people and without them, I'd probably still be the same person I was when I was 18. I studied hard, worked hard and partied harder. I learned how to be responsible and independent. I learned how to budget my time and money wisely. I grew up. The only regret I have is not being so focused the first two years.

Best of all, by the end of graduation, I can honestly say I was an adult and I was more prepared than ever to start living. I had learned soooo much about a topic I was passionate about, I made bunch of friends who introduced me to the things they loved (among them, I learned how to snowboard and snowboard well, x-country ski and went backpacking for 4 weeks - things I would have never done before), and I made jobs contacts that were extremely helpful in getting my first really good job and real experience that I was proud to list on my resume.

College is worth every penny no matter how you pay for it. If you want some advice from me, apply for some loans, get a part time job (whether it's at a computer store, a cafe, wal-mart or work study on campus) and go to college on your own dime. It'll be the most expensive investment you'll make at your age and it's up to you to make it worth every penny and more.

But me telling you all this doesn't really do squat tho. I just like to type a lot.

Whatever you decide on, I hope it's not a short-term remedy. There are lots of fun and good ideas in the thread. Much luck to ya.