Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home?

Re:Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home? by dizzystar on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @10:01PM (#14511337)

If you have a terrible job, no amount of therapy, exercising, and drinking will help you here.

You need to find a new job, plain and simple.

If it's your 10th job and you are feeling like this still, you have to figure out if it is bad luck (it does happen) or if it's something with you. Either way, it is sort of you, since you managed to keep finding and stepping into jobs you are unhappy at. Certainly, a hint or two during the interviewing stage was overlooked.

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Re:Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home? by RUG3Y on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @10:07PM (#14511364)

I agree with this. If you're a reasonably balanced person (meaning, the problem isn't just you) and your job makes you feel like garbage, you should try to find something else. I know it's not that easy -- I've been in the same situation. I've finally moved on and I'm in a _great_ place. I had no idea that life could be this good.

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Re:Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home? by mental_ on Thursday June 08, 2017 @06:49AM (#14513227)

How long have you been in this job?

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Re:Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home? by RUG3Y on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:23PM (#14516012)

I've been at this new job for only a short time, so I'm aware that my perceptions can and most likely will change over time, but even if I compare my first couple of weeks at both companies, the new one has an infinitely better environment.

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Re:Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home? by mental_ on Thursday June 08, 2017 @06:33PM (#14517675)

Awesome, best of luck!

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Re:Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home? by RUG3Y on Thursday June 08, 2017 @11:24PM (#14518968)

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home? by pmoriarty on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:31AM (#14511921)

"If it's your 10th job and you are feeling like this still, you have to figure out if it is bad luck (it does happen) or if it's something with you."

Or you could have just chosen the wrong career. Simply changing jobs may not be enough.

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