Endless cycle: Hating work & having nothing to come home to

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I quit my old retail job at a big box store as a greeter at a big box store. The other positions in retail aren't so horrible (I was allowed to try them). But being a greeter was the worst thing of my life. I don't know how I managed to do it for six month. I wouldn't be exaggerating to you at all if I said that a 5 hour shift felt like 13 hours.

Worse, was the cycle I was in. When I came home, I had a barely functional family that didn't show me much love. I had few friends, and I was just too tired from work to go out and meet new ones.

It was an endless cycle.

I hated being alone at home, so I love waking up for work hoping to see some of my acquaintances again. But after 20 minutes of work, I hated it, it was absolute hell and I wanted to home. I felt like a hampster in the cage.

Thank god I'm out of there.

It sounds like leaving was the best thing for you. It's good that you've experienced other roles that are not as bad, hopefully it's not put you off trying other jobs. I hope you find something that suits you better and gives you a better work life balance. I find that I'm so tired from work that I don't bother trying to see friends or do anything productive, it's no life, but I also get the looking forward to seeing work colleagues bit. Constant battle, lonely but don't like too much peopling It's a fine balance.

Some people would enjoy being a greeter I think.
It's not for introverts of course.
What are you doing now.

Interestingly, I worked as a greeter at a big chain store. I found that the people blended together and I became a cheerful sounding broken record. It was easy for me to repeat the same smiling greeting over and over again without end.

Sometimes I even stopped thinking about them as people, and instead saw them as a data stream with the occasional query.

1) I've yet to meet those people. Perhaps, they include low IQ folks who find greeting stimulating enough and 80 old people with no friends.

2) Actually, I'm quite extroverted. My issue was that, yes, while I had more social interactions in one week than most people have in their entire year, 99.9% of those interactions are painfully superficial.