I'm 25 years old and live at home with my parents. I am currently working help desk at a prominent Houston company. Up until I was transfered here about two weeks ago I had been doing hardware repairs and was a person that you could come to with just about anything company related and I could get an answer. Now I come here and it's like noone wants to help me learn my new job, I ask a question and get no replies, not even a raised head to acknowledge the sound of my voice. I persist usually until I get an answer but it's frustrating. My dad says I should just be thankful to have a job, I see his point. I do have bills but how much is my pesonal happiness and sanity worth? Today at lunch I wanted to just walk away so badly and be done with it. What should I do?
wait till you get a new job you like...then quit...unless of course you have a huge stockpile of money to pay bills for you until you can get your next paycheck. but if you're that unhappy it is time to start looking...life is much too short.
Work thru it. IT will be tough. Rule #1: DO NOT LEAVE A JOB UNLESS YOU HAVE ANOTHER ONE LINED UP! So If u hate it so much . . .find another one. . THEN LEAVE!! Rocket River
Basically what Pole said. Make sure you have another job lined up ... FOR SURE ... before you quit. Just milk this job for it's money til you can find one you really like. Oh yeah, make sure to loaf and steal all the company stuff(you know, pencils, paperclips, computers) that you can.
nah...i lived with my folks for 6 months after college before i got married...it's all good as long as you get along well with them. i had a blast living back there again, but i have a big family so it's like a zoo there.
Help Desk jobs are pretty high stress. I mean, you know what you are doing and sometimes it's super hard to try to make the "layman" understand... you have to consider what's more important your sanity or this job. As everyone else has stated, make sure you have another lined up first before quitting and if at all possible, give some sort of notice (1-2 weeks) you don't want to be burn any bridges by up and quitting. Hang in there and good luck!
first thing you do is make a computer virus that will round up all the decimal points in pennies and deposit them in a seperate personal account. kinda like they did in superman II. then you steal the printer and take it out to an empty field and beat the crap out of it. retire to cancun after you torch the mother down...
It'd be easier to quit your job if you're living with your parents, as you generally would be a little less stretched out with the cash. The big problem is, the IT job market in Houston right now sucks @ss, what with all the former Enron and Compaq people floating around out there. I will say that it's soo much easier to get a job when you don't already have one, unless you're a big enough stud to be solicited by headhunters from other cities. I'd generally say that if you were ever going to do it, you picked just about the worst time to start thinking about it.
Is the lack of willing assistance from your peers the only thing you dislike about your current job, or are there other things too? If you enjoy your job otherwise, or are at least interested in the field you are in, it might do you some good to stay put. As has already been mentioned, the IT market really isn't that great right now. You mentioned you were working for a large company, so its likely your current pay (and probably bennies, too) are better than you might find elsewhere right now. Learning to deal and overcome the adversity in your current situation will be something that will benefit you in other jobs you get. There will almost always be people who aren't willing to help for lack of knowledge or "job security purposes", etc. Learn to train/teach yourself; you'll learn more that way than anything you'll find in some training manual, etc. Hang in there...it builds character...
He may not be the military type. God knows that I was not the military type. But that was something that I heard several times. Fortunately, I don't hear it anymore.
Thanks, Milton. SSG, I really don't care for my job, either, but I'm sticking it out. Living at home with your parents is the best way to save money, so I hope you're at least doing that! That being said, I'll echo what Pole and some others have said : just get another job before you quit this one. One thing I've learned after both contract and full-time work for about 1000 companies is that your mental sanity and life's enjoyment is not worth sacrificing for any company. If you can't make a bad situation better, don't make your life worse by hanging around. Just make sure have another place lined up before you jump ship.
Thanks guys, y'all are right on about not quitting without having another job lined up and most of what I said earlier was just me venting to keep from making a total ass of myself. Will just have to wait and see how the next couple weeks go, I'll keep y'all posted. x34 There are definitley other things I don't want to get into now unless things happen like I sometimes think they will, we'll see Edited to reply to x34
