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I get paid $24/hr on holidays, I get medical benefits, 80 hours of vacation pay, and like 2 weeks of sick pay every year. Not bad for a part-time employee/college student.

Right now, minimum wage in Oregon is $6.90 an hour. Not bad for high schoolers that live at home. We also don't have sales tax, but wait, what's that i hear...INCOME TAX!!!

I don't have a job.

I need to find me a sugar-momma.. (Working on it, but it comes with ALOT of baggage)

I work for my stepfather's hardwood flooring company. I hate working for family! college, college.....take me away......

it's federal at $5.15, then the state can add more which some do due to cost of living and/or the way they tax.

I hate my job, hated since I started almost 3yrs ago.

I get paid well, with bonus I average close to $30/hr on a 40hr week but money isn't everything. I get 176hrs of vacation every year as well

Considering I'm salary and my company bills me out at $290/hr I make sheit!

I have worked over 300hrs of OT in this fiscal year, none of which I get paid for. My bosses are 80% foreign, we pay so low we can't keep American staff at our firm. It sucks, dealing with British, Danish, French, Kiwi's, Aussies, Indians, Jordanians, Russians who are all so happy to be here working like an indentured servant while on there H1B's. Apprently none of them like there home countries much.

I am planning on looking for antoehr job mid Sept. once I get my annual bonus and my RBAP to vest.

It sucks working for clients who have deadlines which are unreasonable, of course if they are late with there portion I can't be with mine. So I frequently work long nights and weekends. I rarely have to do the same thing twice, I am continually presented with new challenges and my bosses think I should know it all. There are 148 FASB's last I counted, a few hundred EITF's and countless other accounting rules I must keep up to date on.

The only thing I like about my job is the respect I normally get from my clients and the face time I get with senior VP's. Sometimes I get to work at big companies which is is cool, a big online auction site, a video game comapny now in bankruptcy, a video/voice telecom client and the like.

I hate my job because I'm underpaid, overworked, and uncared for. People don't respect you or treat you like a person should, you are there to make the firm money and nothing more. Our turnover is higher than 20% every year, and no one cares if you leave. All my friends have left, I feel lonely now.

It's better than being in the Army, I did that for 3yrs and left. I loved my old job but that was only part time at $10.50/hr. I supervised event security at large venues like fairs,concerts, and sporting events. I'm sure FatMike knows the company as I went to the UO in Eugene. I quit that job to start my career in public accounting and sit here and fondly remember the Def Lepard concert I worked at the Oregon state fair a week before I moved to the Silicon Valley.

Sorry for those who are unemployed, life sucks. Were hovering at 8% here in Silicon Valley but I wish I could get fired and be on unemployement for a while. Would make me feel better.

Better to whine about my job than the fools who whine about a messed up cake or a broken heart

I really hated my job yesterday (if you read my worst day ever post). Its not too bad though. Mon-Thurs, $8 an hour, and I swing a hammer. Just for the summer, then I get to go back to school and do nothing. . . can I get a hell yes for state universities!!

hate it
fmr12b described how sh!tty things are pretty well, although he does things on a MUCH larger scale than I do.
I hate it because of the people I have to work with.
I love the work. I love the concepts, but I hate the crap I have to go through to do the things I love.
boss is a prick - is totally unreasonable, he's a relic, he relates any and all situations back to himself and if you can't be like him, then you're not dealing with a situation in your personal life correctly in his opinion.
He treats professionals like children. He's motivated by anger. He uses fear tactics to motivate his employees.
It's all utter b/s. He's sexist and puts too much stock in status and labels. oh and did I mention he's a lawyer.
I now understand why people hate lawyers so much.
He is incapable of hearing other people's side of the story. I believe that's the lawyer in him where he always has to be right.

Granted this is only the second firm I've worked with since I received my degree, I'm convinced now from my experiences that it will be sh!tty like this no matter where I go in this industry, no matter how big or small the firm.
The sh!t will always pile up high and it'll ALWAYS get in the way of me being able to enjoy the actual work.

I want out but have no idea where to go.
I feel I've wasted years of my life trying to put myself into a career that I'd love and would support me for the rest of my life only to find it's one of the most unhealthy situations I could have ever put myself into.

on the topic of comparing hardships:
don't do that. Knowing that someone else out there has it harder than me does not help my situation suddenly get better. You can't compare how a difficult sitation affects an individual both mentally and physically based on another individuals' difficult situations.

I hate my job so much I went in yesterday and took the next couple days off.