How long should you stick to a job you really don't like?

OK, I got a job two months ago which is boring the hell out of me.

I knew that it wouldn't be exciting, but I really wanted out of my old job where I was not being paid nearly enough.

I don't want to be seen as a serial job hopper, but I also don't want to stay in the place I am anymore. I am after all staying in the state with probably the single worst economy in the nation. And it's time for a change of scenery after living here all my life.

Any advice?

Suck it up until you can get the necessary experience and find a better job and then GTFO.

Start putting money aside to move. Sometimes a change in scenery can really help. :)

But, yeah, finding outlets to compensate for work is a good thing to do. Art, writing, any passion that could lead to something down the road...

get what you can from the job experience, while refining your longer-term goals. When this job is no longer providing you with anything other than a paycheck, and/or you find something else better, make the jump.

But...focus on defining your longer term goals so that you can more easily focus on what you need from a job now...

I hate my job..

There is no way, in good conscience, I can quit.

At least not so long as I can still cover my kids on my insurance. That looks to be next May when daughter graduates college and son turns 19. (He's not planning on college at this point.)

I too landed into a job situation that I hated. It was not what was promised and I began immediately looking for something else. Ended up staying only about six weeks. I don't list that job on my resume anymore.

Btw . . . I LOVE my current job.

i went thru 4 jobs on 2005, never had a problem getting hired at the next one because of it. and because the expereinces i gleaned at each stop, no matter how short, i'm actually better technically at what i do for it.

you may be rewarded (with a great performance evaluation, more money, a promotion) for being proactive and having a willingness to take on more work.

the pay and benefits have been enough to provide for me and my son. I have adored most of the faculty members I have supported. But there is nothing challenging about my work except having to deal w/ the MBA students.

Unless you have some sort of other constraint, like family loyalty or whatever, you sell your time to whomever is buying. Think about that-- you're selling your lifetime in eight hour parcels. Nothing else you own is more fundamentally YOURS. Nothing else you own is as valuable TO YOU. Why sell it to someone who disrespects it, undervalues it, or gives you less in return than you want for it? Sure, circumstances often dictate that you must get poor value in return, and many employers seek to manipulate the transaction in their favor, but you have no obligation to "honor" those circumstances or manipulations. The minute something better comes along, take it-- or, if you feel some sense of loyalty to your present employer, offer them the chance to match the better offer first (which can be about more than money, of course).

I just couldn't do that.

Having a good health care plan traps so many people in places and occupations that make them unhappy. But what are ya gonna do?:shrug:

DU thread: "Oldsters" advice to the young ones.

Check out post no. 15

on edit: good advice in the other posts as well...

and as others say, it had better have health insurance bennies too

nobody likes their job, even britney spears is sick of the high paying job of being britney spears