When You Don’t Want To Work

Mel1967

pascal30

Germanshepherdsmum

The OP has started another thread saying it will be eight years until she pays her mortgage off and then she can retire. So, find a more enjoyable job or, like many of us, grin and bear it until you can afford not to work.

and also the same OP talking about aged parents.. I'm wondering if it is low mood behind this lack of motivation and joy in life..

Why do you feel that I have low mood and lack motivation and joy in my life?

because you've talked about howmuch you'd liketo retire and travel, how you didn't enjoy boxing day and said that you don't like your job. and now having said you workfor the NHS I can completely understand, having worked there myself. Surely you have transferrable skills.. there must be many charities or smaller places with less chaosthat would welcome you with open arms.. meanwhile treat yourself as often as you can to anything that brings you joy.. 8 years is quite a long time and I hope you find a solution

Oh OP, I can so relate to your predicament. I loved my job in he NHS until the Cameron- Osbourne cuts decimated our service and all the pressure was put on patient facing clinicians to manage the fall out. The number of changes and downgrading, not to mention redundancies of highly skilled staff meant that the Trust failed the CQC repeatedly. No support, cancelled appraisals and supervisions, continuous change over of managers and bullying were commonplace. I would have worked longer than my state retirement age but I just couldn't in the end. I am now a different person to the one I was before I left my post. Happier. Healthier. Not carrying the weight of working in a service unfit for purpose is liberating. Hold on but in the meantime look for other jobs. There's bound to be something out there that doesn't drain the soul out of you.