I've done unpleasant work throughout my life. Some of it blue collar, some of it white collar. It's almost never the work itself that made me unhappy and almost

I've done unpleasant work throughout my life. Some of it blue collar, some of it white collar. It's almost never the work itself that made me unhappy and almost always management. In the vast majority of the cases, the management issues had little to nothing to do with productivity or increasing income for the company. It was about petty turf wars and ego stroking. A minority of the cases were due to death marches from poor management. Conflicts with co-workers have happened but those are almost always short lived and resolved quickly. The nasty jobs like getting burnt by hot exhaust pipes while changing oil all day or manually changing strings random enough to defy regex into something new in thousands of files are unpleasant but you do them and they're done. The petty middle management sociopaths on the other hand, they just keep going on and on and on. Glad I'm financially secure and wise enough now to quickly exit those situations.