I REALLY HATE MY JOB!! !! !! !! !! !! !

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I need a real job quick because I'm sick of Slaveway and I'm not getting any younger! If I don't do something soon, I'm going to be stuck there for the rest of my life and I DON'T WANT THAT!! !! !! !! ! I'm sick of being treated like a 15-year-old nerdy Freshman. I'm almost 30 and I worked at the same job almost 12 years and I feel like a ret*d!! !! I'm sick of that feeling!

Safeway is a big corportation. Maybe you can advance? Some big corporations will even pay for schooling.

I can't. They don't think I have what it takes.

Manily, because they hate people with Asperger's.

Do you know exactly what type of skills they feel you lack that are required for promotion?

Maybe because I'm on SSI that they don't allow part time workers to get promotions.

Perhaps you should try college or a trade school.

I did and it didn't pan out as I spend at community college for over six years.

You have probably thought of this already, but is there anything you are good at, or that you really enjoy doing? If so, you can try to think of ways to make money with one or more of your interests.

I didn't have the confidence (I was not raised to have the confidence) to think I could be an entrepreneur or anything other than work a conventional job. Looking back, I definitely could have made money if I had turned my passions into my job. And it was possible - I had a lot of skills (not people skills, but very fast and accurate with detail work). Plenty of people make their living from one of my special interests (which is something a great many neurotypical people are passionate about as well). They found a niche for themselves and went with it. There are ways to get around being socially inept, like having a partner deal with the interaction-with-others part of the business, for example. Being a good partner is not one of my strengths, and I seem to have a way of choosing partners who care about me less than they want to use me. So much easier to see that in retrospect, though.... I sure couldn't figure any of this out at the time.

For whatever reasons, I didn't make my special interest into my career, and now I probably won't. I'm finding it a lot more difficult to learn new things, and just keeping it together in general, than when I was younger. Not to mention I don't have the energy. But I worked for over 30 years at different jobs, most of them for several years each, most of which I did not particularly like, and some of which I actively hated, and only stayed because I could not bring myself to leave the illusion of security.

The ironic thing is that even though I was afraid to break away and start my own business, the people I know who did that are making more money than I ever have, even when I dragged myself to a job where I was being bullied, which contributed to the health issues that have kept me unable to work at all for the past several years now.

It can't be worse that slaving away at nursing. I'm tortured every day. Pain, misery and suffering are my only companions. Try doing a job where you get tortured just for money to pay the rent.

That's for sure. I worked there for 3-4 years in their head office - it's very much a social club. If you're not one of the "cool kids" you'll be lucky to keep your job. If you come under attack/scrutinization by them - kiss it goodbye.

I had a good job there where I was a one-man show in my office position - I got my job done and not many people bothered me about it. It was an office of 90% women though, full of henpecking beyond imagining... one of the women in my area kept herself safe by spreading rumours about others to get management to scrutinize that one person (leaving the others free mess around.) Unfortunately, they shipped my particular job away and I had to be stuck on the same task as the woman I just mentioned. She turned everyone against me for making "soooooo many mistakes and making her job harder". True, I went from a job I was great at to one that played into my weakness of not being able to remember random streams of numbers in order to copy them from one page to a computer then new numbers back to the page.

It was only a matter of time... under such close surveillance at all times and less-than-stellar (but not "bad") performance, it wasn't long before they simply let me go under a flimsy pretense.

The bigger the company, the less humanity it retains... Doubly so for an American-run company vs. a Canadian one. It's also the way corporations work - profits above all and maintain the hierarchy.

If you guys are wondering what my last status was about, it's because I had another bad day at work and I would like to try something new for once. I'm just sick and tired of being treated like an outcast for almost 12 years and it reminds me of my Special Ed days where I worked my ass off and went nowhere! Even though I was the Michael Jackson, Hulk Hogan, and Joe Montana of Special Needs, I felt like I was completely forgotten about. From 1993 to 2001, I felt like a true king. Ever since, I feel like a pessant. If I can find a REAL job and a REAL girlfriend, then I'd be REAL happy for the first time in many, many years

You can put in job applications at other places while you still work at Safeway. Prospective employers will like to see that you have worked at the same job for 12 years. It shows dedication and stability. If you choose to take a new job, you would just need to tell the new boss that you need to give Safeway your two weeks notice before you start. Most employers respect that because they would like the same curtesy in return.

The other thought is that maybe it is the staff at your Safeway location that sucks. Are there other Safeways in your town/city that you could transfer to? Just a thought.

Nogyro could be on to something. I worked at two CVS locations. One was really nice and fun to work at, the other was very unpleasant.

If your unhappy, put in job apps elsewhere, maybe you could try to transition to part time.

Also, they have online school if you don't like going to campus.

As a man, a lot of blue collar jobs are easily obtainable to you with the right training as well, and many of these jobs are careers, such as welder, machinist, unionized dock worker, oil refinery worker, and so on. I had a mechanic who was a master mechanic. His social skills were horrendous even by my standards but he was an excellent honest mechanic.

Not that I have ever worked at CVS exactly, but I have had many jobs in similar categories and this is certainly true. The atmosphere at work is directly related to the personality of whoever else works there, especially the management. Crappy jobs can suck, or can be fun, depending on who's running the show. Not necessarily the owner(s) but the people on site.