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Petty Grumbling


I have three and one half working days left on my contract. I have no idea what happens when it ends. I haven’t yet talked to the boss about it, possibly because he has been away all week. I suspect that it is assumed I’ll just continue working, although I had thought there was supposed to be some sort of meeting about it; the type of thing where we discuss how I’ve been doing, if they want me to stay on, and if I want to stay on. I would have thought such a discussion would have happened by now.

I should stay at the job. That’s what people tell me anyway. That seems logically, what with jobs been somewhat hard to come by right now, especially for people with my lack of experience. The fact that I don’t like the job just isn’t taken into account in that assessment. I suppose there are lots of reasons why I don’t like the job – I work alone in over air-conditioned office with no windows; the entire day is spent sitting starring at a computer screen; I’m not trained for this type of work and I don’t think I’m particularly good at it; the rest of the company is in another city to which I have absolutely no interest in relocating; the pay is alright, but not enough for me to move out of my parents house and still pay off my debts in a timely manner; and my first two and one half months with the company where spent doing basically nothing, which for some reason required me spending the first two weeks in the aforementioned undesirable city – but none of them seem to matter that much; I just don’t like it.
I guess the facts that the job negates the last six years of my education and that I’m learning nothing (quite the opposite actually) don’t help either.
I should definitely mention to somebody here that I am currently looking for a different (by which I mean: more appropriate, or better) job. I wouldn’t be surprised if, having mentioned that, I would simply be told that I might as well just leave now, based on the departure of the person I was sharing an office with for a short time, who left on not what could be considered ‘good’ terms.
Although only a minor concern at this point, it looks like this job won’t break my record for longest term of employment, which still stands at a whole four months… I’m twenty eight and I’ve never held a job for more than four months, how pathetic is that? I think I need to go back to school.

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