One of my best friends is absolutely miserable in his job. It sucks. Long hours, thankless work, always have a bullseye on your back…its the kind of job where you can do 3000 things in one day with no issue but god forbid you forget to dot an i on one of them, BAM! you’re getting called onto the carpet.

He’s got a crap job where he can’t win no matter what he does. I know because I used to work with him. It sucked, so I said screw this and found something else. But its been years and the job has only gotten worse and he’s still there. I meet him for lunch and all he does is complain about how miserable it is and I’m like “Then do something about it!”

Find another job. Find a way to make the current job better. Start making money on the side somehow so you won’t need to rely on the crap job so much. Just do SOMETHING.

I think part of it is sticking with “The devil I know” but geez…I don’t get it either.

“…90% of heart patients don’t change their lifestyles.”

Frankly, I think these people just like to complain and are happy in their misery – I mean what would they complain about if they actually did something about their circumstances?

Makes me think about the story of this man walking down a street. It’s a hot day. The sun is beating down and the streets are deserted safe for an old man sitting on his porch, rocking in his chair and a dog lying beside him.

The man walking down the street hears the dog howl every so often. He is curious and walks up to the old man in the rocker and asks

“pardon me, but why is your dog howling so?”

The old man in the rocker answers

“He`s lying on a nail”

“Gosh” the man walking down the street says, “why doesn`t he get off of it?”

The old man in the rocker answers

“Guess it don`t hurt him enough”

In the end, they have to make their own decision to change (or to sit back and do nothing), no matter how maddening it is to us. It’s not worth getting worked up over, although I’ll admit I can get pretty agitated sometimes!

Ommmmmmmmmmm.