Why I Hate Job

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I Hate My Job While growing up, we all look up to our parents as our role models. It’s an instinct for us to pay attention to their exact steps and repeat every one of them. For as long as I can remember my father owned his own business - building residential homes. I found his job intriguing, always wanting to do exactly what he did. Going to work with my dad sounded way more fun than suffering through school. In my mind, my dad had to be one of the best out there. My dad was the center of my life as a kid, trying to follow his every step. When I was a kid I had spent my free time building model houses out of anything I could find laying around: Legos, Lincoln logs, and such things. I could go down into the basement in the morning, and not …show more content…

I did not enjoy working with my brother and did not enjoy the work that I was doing. I put up with it until the end of my senior year, continuing to work there for the income. I knew that if I continued with this job, I would wake up each morning dreading the day ahead of me. A quality that I was raised with was attention to detail and perfection, but it’s not at the level of my brothers. At the end of the day I would end up being annoyed with my brother and how he expects everything to be perfect, even though it would be impossible. I didn’t want to work for my dad if it would hurt my relationship with my brother, who I had looked up for most of my life. Also, working in all of the different weather was not for me. Walking up steep roofs or balancing on two inches of wood at twenty feet is not enjoyable when your biggest fear is heights. At first, I had enjoyed the job, and wanted to change it from just a job to a career. After a few summers, I had begun to realize that plans change even when you don’t plan on it. It was hard to tell myself that I had to change, because I felt like I was letting down my family by not joining the family business. Other’s couldn’t understand why I wasn’t going to work for Schneider Builders, why I had pI assed up on such a good deal. They made it sound like such a good offer: I didn’t have to go for anymore schooling, I

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