Somebody sounds like my husband! Don't risk your health for the sake of a job if you can help it. Money does you no good if you're dead. Start looking around, applying and when someone calls you tell those folks what they can do with their job!

What kind of work of work do you do that causes you that mush stress?
Let's try "much stress?"

Joe, that's a shame. What could be a really interesting job is made so dangerous because of dirty politics and/or lack of empathy. Believe me when I say I know how you feel, where I live is number 1 in the state for corrupt government and the state is number 1 in the nation for that corruptness. Law enforcement here is a joke to the administrators, a cop is killed/injured almost weekly it seems. You have the training and comittment, find somewhere that you can, at least, feel secure in your backup. Hang in there and look elsewhere until you can quit. I wish you good luck and good health.

Somebody sounds like my husband! Don't risk your health for the sake of a job if you can help it

She's right. Hillbilly had similar experience, down to the signs and symptoms of heart attack. Turned out to be job related stress. definately don't risk your health.
don't bottle it up, express what upsets you, (at work, respectfully of course) , and release it.
start devoting time to do things you enjoy and that relax you, when you are away from work.

Thanks guys, some of what you said is what others have told me. I finally spoke to someone about what I am seeing and quite frankly I do feel better. Being that I am also taking a little break from the site for a while I should be able to come back and not think so much about what is not happening at my job.


Even though I still hold, truthfully, that sooner or later someone is going to get hurt because of these practices (like the drunk supervisor not making an announcement to the people in the building when the fire alarm went off AND who somehow froze the fire panel such that it kept going off and the fire department came to the museum twice AND the fire panel had to be turned off for 3-4 hours for the whole building because if kept going off)


This is defiantly on other people not me and I can not fix it so I should try to stop worrying about it. I already started looking for a new job with more normal everyday problems.



Being that I am on the subject of health, I have to get wisdom teeth removed. is that actually a major operation like one doctor told me or a simple procedure?

I am a little scared... my teeth don't hurt... aren't they supposed to hurt before they come out?

I'll scan the x-ray in tomorrow so you guys can see it. They say I have an impacted tooth and its growing right into my back tooth.




If I loose my wisdom teeth will I loose my brain power????

Joe if a wisdom tooth is impacted it will revert you back to about 2 years old when it does begin to hurt! You probably want to get that fixed before it starts hurting, I've heard that it's not a pleasant type of pain. It is a major thing because they have to knock you out but at least afterwards you will be relaxed for a good while.

I will. I am going now.

Glad to hear you are starting to feel better about things. I would say definitely get the teeth pulled. If you leave them they eventually grow down and attach to your jaw bone. That happened to my mother and it was much more major than if she'd had them out when she was younger. Hope things keep looking up for you