Your Last Day of a Job You Hate
I think I must have been dreaming pretty hard because I had one of those situations where you hear a noise that you think is part of your dream but then realize it's your alarm clock (that moment you realize it really sucks)! I woke up to a nice pool of my own drool, no wonder my wife keeps her distance, like I said I must have been sleeping pretty hard. I got out of bed (reluctantly) and did my usual morning routine, probably the worst part of my usual routine is looking over and seeing my wife enjoying her sleep (I'm so JEALOUS!).
Every morning I drive to this job and I cringe, but half way there I remembered a crucial detail: THIS WAS MY LAST DAY AT THIS JOB!! At our warehouse there's more politics then Washington D.C. so going there is never fun, but not today. As I walk in the door the main loader runs up and says "you can't load we're not done you're going to have to wait another hour". Normally this would send me through the roof, but not today, I just look at him and smile then say: "yeah, I won't be waiting, I'm loading right now". He gets all hot and bothered but I tell him this is my last day and there's nothing he can do to stop me, HA! Every day I load the truck and hate every minute, not today, it was the best time I ever had loading. I say good bye to all the other guys and gals in our warehouse and as I'm leaving I take one last look at a place I'll never come back to (not even to visit)!
The whole way to my first store I'm singing, laughing, at one point I open up the window and just randomly scream outside (what a whack job), it just feels so good to know I'm just hour's away from leaving something that has been a plague on my life for the last 9 years! I get to the first store, walk to the back of the truck, open the back door and there's a surprise waiting for me. Three stacks of bread completely tipped over, normally here is where I would scream and start kicking bread and trays around, not today! I figure if you can't beat them, join them, so I go and starting dancing on the bread that's all over the floor, this way I can finish the job of crushing the bread and get a nice little cardio work out (that was a wee bit sarcastic). Look it's my last day, if I got to pay for some bread then oh well, I'm GONE!
Right when I walk in the first store, I sense immediate attitude, you can smell it in the air (YUM). So I sit there with my bread waiting to get checked in, people look at me like I'm from outer space, yep I'll be waiting a while. The manager comes up to me and tells me it will be a 15 minute wait, I get a little angry then remember that crucial detail: this is my last day! So I do the mature thing and go up to the manager and tell her she has three minutes to check me in or I'm out of there, HA! You know what she says right? So we agree to disagree and I take the bread and peace out, maybe next lifetime, BOOM. The rest of the day went pretty smoothly and I got a chance to say good bye to some pretty cool, nice people. I'll definitely miss some of them and I feel bad for them because I know how unhappy they are, I was just like them.
As I drive back to the warehouse I got the windows open again and I'm singing at the top of my lungs, it's the best feeling in the world!! I get there park the truck, get out and give the truck one last really good kick (I want the truck to remember me), see ya dumb truck! I'm putting everything away when one of the mangers walks up to me to yell at me about the incident in the warehouse in the morning, before he can start in on me I tell him this is my last day and he can go jump in the mud pit behind our warehouse. I don't think he liked that response but oh well this was MY LAST DAY AT A JOB I HATE! I have to say it was my best day ever at this job, to bad every day I was there could've been like that wonderful day.
What I just shared with you was my dream, if I had a day like that when people asked me how I was doing, I would definitely use that stupid catch phrase: "living the dream". Unfortunately I'm still working at a job I hate but it's fun to think about what the last day would be like. I know some of you will read what I wrote and think it was a little extreme, but you got the "lite" version. When a group of my friends and I talked about this I told them that I would show up to work in a full body speedo, WHAT? You're thinking about it right now aren't you? (it's gross I know, sorry)
Ignore what I said, if you're at a job you hate then you need to be thinking about that last day. You need to use the thought of that unadulterated joy as motivation to get out of a job that's not right for you! Our work affects every area of your life whether you want to admit it or not, 40 hours of your week is too long to ignore. How does work affect the rest of your life? How do you find a job you can love? Can you start a business in this economy? I answer all these questions and a lot more in my book which you see on this page. So BUY IT, for the $4.99 you spend I guarantee you'll take away at least one good idea that will make up for the price of the book. Buy the book, enjoy it and please tell everyone you know about it. We have to start a movement of people who say no to society and say yes to bettering our lives. Will you be part of that movement?
So what would your last day at a job you hate look like? Please leave a comment below or go and tell your story on the "tell your story page"
