ANON: job dissatisfaction

[Anonymous <anonfwd -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM>]

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I've posted previously about job dissatisfaction in my current job and
previous jobs.  I'm getting really frustrated with myself and with the work
world in general.

After graduating from college I had one job for 4 months and left due to
boredom.  At that time I really didnt know what I wanted to do and just
took a job to pay the bills.  I took a temp job until I could find my ideal
job.

Six weeks later I had what I thought was my ideal job.  I had discovered
tech writing, entered a masters program and thought I had found a job that
would give me experience.  I did almost no technical writing there and left
9 months later for what, again, I thought was my dream job.

 At the next job I got some TW experience and a $5000 raise from my
previous job.  I left that job after I'd had it for 8 months because they
gave me a promotion with lots more responsibility and no raise.  Also
because I had no official job duites for 6 months and management wasnt all
that excited about putting any down on paper.  I also left because a
fortune 500 company offered me a job and a $15000 raise.

Now I'm at the fortune 500 company and I hate my job.  I'm doing lots of
Web work (which is partly what I want to do), but no technical writing.
Also the web work I am doing is not exactly the kind of web work I want to
be doing.  Most of all I hate the organization around here.  I never know
what I'm going to be doing when I get to work because they give me bits and
pieces of work on a daily basis and NEVER give me the big picture.  Because
they don't give me the big picture I often end up redoing things...

I've only been here since August and think I should give this job and this
organization and myself more time before I call it quits, but I get more
and more frustrated every single day.  When I first got here they werent
giving me any work at all and I complained to my manager and now I'm at
least getting work...

I need to hear other people's points of view here.  The people closest to
me think I will never be happy or satisfied with any job, but I dont think
thats true.  I also dont think its true that I always just end up in bad
companies or bad departments.  In other words, I'm willing to accept some
of the responsibility here.  However, every time I've left a job its been
for what I thought would be a better job and I've always received
significant pay raises in the deal...

Help!!!

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