I need to get out

My wife is all but "out the door" because of my bad attitude. She said ever since The holidays last year, I am miserae. It's true. Ever since the layoffs on the other side, I have not been the same. I know my days are numbered and I have no Plan B. I have two teenagers who will be driving soon and going to college. I hardly work. I get up at 8:30 and I have no energy to leave before 10 and then I drive around. I cannot snap out of it. Anyone else feeling demotivated? Bitter? Worried?
She is going to see her parents over the Fourth of July and I know this is it. I need to figure things out.

 

Serves you right, you white devil.

 

A career should never control your life. You need to get counseling before this beast controls you. Swallow your pride and talk to an unbiased person and let your thoughts and feelings go ape shit. Next, I don't know if you talk about your problems with your FAMILY, I doubt you do because you are posting on CP, but perhaps you should let them know the realities of what you are going through. If need be, perhaps both your kids could pick up jobs if they don't already have one, perhaps you could put your wife on a weekly budget, etc. I don't know what to tell you because there are too many variables involved. I am curious as to why you are all of a sudden starting to feel this way and are now deciding to do something about it.
My advice to everyone on here, or anyone that lives a comfortable life financially , go volunteer at a soup kitchen, come home, and really think if you have it rough or not.

 

I agree- this job does not define you. Look how many people are no longer with the company that seem so much happier. It's crazy to ruin your home life over it.
I, too, was taken back by the layoffs last year. I realized that not one single person, division or territory is exempt from layoffs. So, I polished off my résumé and started a linked in account.
Get off your butt and find a new career. If this job is depressing you that much, go get an anti depressant, join a gym, save some money and move on!

 

Go to church! Pray, have a personal relationship with JESUS!!! That is the only way you will ever be truly happy!!! I will be praying for you!

 

Pristiq 50mg. $0 copay Pfizer employee plan

Also, engage in coitus with your wifey TID this summer. It'll make you both feel better.

 

Get on STD.

 

Sound advice. Get counseling, ask her to go with you. Ask yourself what matters more: keeping your family together or hanging on to a job that you don't like. The job will go away... you will either leave, get laid off, retire or get fired for cause. But you don't have to lose your family. Choose carefully, you will live with the result for a long, long time.

 

Change careers...I hated the stupid, worthless job of a drug rep...Lazy useless liars paid ridiculous wages for no real purpose other than sway a physician at any cost. It should be banned and IS eroding away.

 

1. call up people who you have liked working with or for during the past and are no longer with Pfizer. You have to take charge of your life and NETWORK. You will feel 1000% better just by reacing out and talking to old friends. (this is by far the hardest step,) disengaging from this miserable company and breaking through the layers of misery that get laid upon you by all of the ass kissing, backstabbing and politics that created the toxic culture here.

2. find out where the good people you liked are at and what they are doing and make plans to join them. Save up money and make a long term plan to jump off this miserable, stinking ship. Give yourself 6 months to a year. Get a car if you need one. Take a 401K withdrawl if you need to. You can worry about that at tax time but you have other, more important things to tend to right now.

3. Convince yourself that you are better than this job, because you are. You don't have to put up with Pfizer and the insufferable people who work here. You don't have to just go through the motions and collect a paycheck because that is no way to live.

4. reconnect with your family once you get a new job. The transformation in your personality will be instantaneous once they close you out and they come and get your company car. In a couple of short months, you won't even recognize the person you were working at Pfizer, where the shit piles up so fast you end up choking on it. All of the stupid straight talk sessions, putting up with the manipulation and lies, getting jerked around in job interviews, they are all tactics put in place to frustrate you.

You will be so glad that you are out of this crooked behavioral science experiment your feet wont even touch the ground and your family will re-embrace you. Old friends will start calling again and you will feel 15 years younger, like you did when the whole world was in front of you

 

The original poster is feeling guilt and laziness. He/she knows that this job,or any pharma job,is meaningless. It has caught up with you. Of course,it should have caught up with you after the first year,but that's another story. You want to leave but you're afraid of actually being held accountable and working. This job is not work,it's acting. You act like you're doing something impressive when in fact everything is done through managed care specialists. Doing a lunch Corner Bakery is not improving sales. It's improving the nurses waistlines and your ability to communicate with them but that's about it. You're probably a nice hard working individual who got caught up in getting a decent paycheck for doing absolutely nothing. It's caught up with you. I have the same feeling when you wake up and you can't believe you have to do what you do all day. I'm scared of those that don't feel like this.

 

All true.....I got out and I miss none of it....it was killing me......if you can do this you have no shame

 

Oh for gods sake suck it up, stop whining and take control of your life

 

go to whole foods and buy a couple bottles of Liquid vitamin B - take every morning.

 

What was the name of the MASH TV Show's theme song again?