Tropicals & Tender Perennials: jobs, 1 by dmichael619

dmichael619 wrote:
does anyone here other than me feel like they are consumed by their job? Mine is VERY stressfull. I work in a kitchen cooking for up to 50+ hrs per week. Some days I just think to myself what the hell am I still doing this for? I've been at it now with this comapny for 9yrs this coming April. Seven years in another kitchen prior to that and about 6 1/2 to 7 yrs in a restaurant before that.

I have many problem employees to deal with. Yes I am in a position to hire and fire them and they know that but go just far enough as not to push me to the point of doing that.

They are not the problem though. The job just weighs heavily on my mind and there is so much responsability on my part. Making sure people get to work on time and doing what is supposed to be done,all of the food and supply ordering is done by me.

I think after this many years at it it's just starting to take effect and wear me down!! I really don't know how many more years I can do it. I'm only 36 and it's really all I know other than gardening and having a lot of knowledge of plants and such. Which i've never been to school for. And at this point in life have no desire to go back to and learn something new. Call that stupidity on my part!!!

The great thing about it though is that I can come home from that BAD day at work and go into my greenhouse and fool around with my plants, brugmansias for instance and it just seems to make the world outside disappear.

I go in there and it's like once i'm inside i'm on my own planet. All the worries just go away. At least until I have to go back to that place at 5:50 am the next morning.

Well that's enough of me venting. Anyone else experience the same when they enter that magical GH?

This is the entrance to my never never land!!!