What job stressed you out so badly that you just decided you couldn't do it anymore and quit? I'm not proud of this but in spite of my best efforts, I just couldn't take it.

I lasted a total of 9 days at a non-profit agency. It was horrible, I tell you. Total disorganization and mass chaos. Absolutely horrific.

Too many chiefs giving different instructions, high turnover rate, no rhyme or reason to procedures. Chaos.

What job did you have leave and why?

My b/f has left numerous jobs, why? Well, we don't know. He has suspected ADD, which is why I am here; he gets into a new job, just starts getting inot it and enjoying it, geeting on with the people etc. Then a few months in, for no apparent reason, it just all goes wrong, big-time. Since he has been with me, he has walked out of two jobs, and is on the verge of walking out of the third.

He says he gets to a point where he feels trapped in the job, that he is doing something he hates and it is overtaking his life. I try to tell him that he's no different to anyione else, but that cuts no ice; he says he knows he is nothing special, he just resents it so deeply. He goes into mad rages about it to the point where you can feel the anger coming off of him.

It's not doing either of us any good.

I have a hard time staying with any type of structured job for any length of time. Factory work, cashier work, secretarial..... I end up feeling overwhelmed -- and stupid, because these jobs should be easy.
I have finally discovered that I need an unstructured job, something I am in control of. Now, it is just a matter of finding my niche. That is the hard part. You have to love what you do. Thats a good suggestion for everyone, but especially important for those with ADD.

Charliegirl

The only job I ever quit was when I was an Assistant Account Executive for a very large Advertising Agency. It just suddenly hit me one day that I really hated what I was doing, and I was 'stuck' in an industry where I saw little promise for me. Once I made the decision to leave, I had my office packed in about 20 minutes...lol. Of course...this was years and years ago, and I would never do that now.

A dishwashing job at a Sheraton Hotel.....it lasted two nights....more and more and more dishes...on my feet all night long...I just couldn't take it anymore...years and years ago...I felt so ashamed....but the repetition and boredom of it all...I thought I would go nuts....I felt like a slave....I couldn't do the same thing all night long...and that was the job...dishes dishes dishes...no change...so I quit.....realizing that type of job could/would never work for me......EVER

You guys dont have enough computer space to hold all the space it would take to list all the jobs that I have quit

What I find amazing is how many of the places have hired me back a second time after I quit and were willing to admit that mabee my ways of doing things were unorthodox but they could definatly see the results.

But then I got bored again and quit again.

Even I havent had the nerve to see if they would hire me a third time Grin

Besides Who wrote the rule that says you have to stay at a job for any certain length of time

He must have had a very boring life I think

Aw Garry: I've probably had and quit as many jobs as you....I mean some jobs are just tough, right? and BOOOOORInG, right? and we go nuts, right???? but then we feel guilty or bad or remorseful or whatever for quiting so we ask them to take us back, right? Hey I bet they WOULD have taken you back a third time...I likek some of your posts here Garry....like the one where you tell Dave how cool it was not blaming computer for his mistake....nice words...and I like your "if your going to dream dream big, it doesn't cost any more". What Its Like to Have ADD. Do you like Dr. Hallowell? I do. Would love to meet him sometime? Anyway thanks for your honest and wellwritten posts. By the way, has EX-President Clinton ever visited Clinton, Ontario Canada?

Alberson's
Customer service in the Meat Department Dealing with *****y and whiney, unsatisfied cunstomers day and day out.. drove me insane. People getting mad and yelling at me when its not even my fault... having to hold in the rage and act nice. That really gets to me becasue I have no choice but to dwell on it and make it worse.
On top of that being understaffed there to "maximize profits"
It was a multi tasking nightmare with all the stuff you had to have done while helping enourmous amounts of customers which was unpredictable on how busy it would be.
Had to
-Serve customers getting something out of the counter weighing it up ect..
-Help customers FIND something in the store
-Restock something if it was out
-Make the cuts(steaks) to go in the counter
-Steam cook shrimp, lobsters, crab legs
of a customer requested it.
-make anouncements to the store over the PA about your sales every 10 minutes.
-And finally clean and shut the place down at night which takes about 1 1/2 -2 hours uniterupted. But remeber I have to still help customers even while doing that until I clock out.

needless to say it was rare I actually left at the scheduled time.

I put up with that BS for 1 year at 7.50$/hour. Though it did have good medical benefits, that was the only reason that kept me there was so i can get my medication on insurance.

that was the worst of the list
Currently I'm bussing tables part-time
at about 200$/week... soon to be added to the list :)

As I have said I have had many Jobs .

I got my Big Truck Licence 3 years ago and I am now just gettingh around to Driving One

I love it as I am alone , Can think lots , talk to my hearts content to other truckes on the CB , am always on the move going somewhere , getting my exercise loading and unloading the truck, can work when ever I want or take a day off when ever I wish, get to look down into all the little cars and see all the pretty ladys ( and sometimes pretty ladies and there boyfriends ) doing things as there driving that you would never believe if I told you ,unless you see it with your own eyes ) and the best part is they pay me to do this and Im just out having fun driving around

Gotto love it

Grin

And nobody cares if i twiddle my thumbs, tap my hands to the beat of the music , sing or argue with myself

Becuase Im all alone

Well whaddaya know, I'm at another job that I feel like quitting. I'm working as an Administrative Assistant and it's driving me toward the insane asylum.

This is the job that requires LOTS and LOTS of multi-tasking. I just don't know how to handle it all. There are far too many balls in the air and I'm not a good juggler. Since I have the Inattentive type of ADD, this REALLY bites. I'm the kind of person who will put a person on hold and leave them there indefinitely if something interrupts/distracts me in the meantime. I'm a bit of a space cadet. :o

It has only been about 6 weeks but that's long enough to know that this is probably not going to work.

I need a job where I'm doing like only 1 - 3 things and those are my main or only tasks. But when I'm expected to keep up with the bosses' calendars, know exactly where all the bosses are at ANY given time and when they will return the second I answer the phone, arrange everyone's travel, maintain a travel calendar for the entire department, do expense reports (!) screen my bosses' calls, take their messages, schedule meetings/appointments, send out correspondence, make updates to charts, submit work requests, know everything there is to know about the new voice mail system, deliver the mail, keep track of visitors, meet/greet/smile and show them to their rooms, order and stock supplies, make copies, know all about the copiers and fax machines, etcetera, all while fielding a ton of freakin questions and answering a TON of freakin e-mail, I. CAN'T. DO THIS!!!!

I hate to feel like a quitter but I just know there must be a job for me out there somewhere that doesn't leave me so frustrated, confused and overwhelmed.

Why MEEEEEEEEE??????

Overload,

I have been in the same career for over 21 years. Believe it or not, its in the nightclub business and I have managed and owned during this time. Its the kind of job that is very unstructured but intense for periods of time. Fortunately, I can not be there when I am having difficulties, mentally. But it is a stimulatiing atmosphere
and the financial rewards are fairly good.