How good/bad do I have it at my job?

[meleader2]

Recent college graduate, been working for 1 full year, full time. Seeing as I have no frame of reference as to how good or bad I have it at my job, I thought I'd post what I do here and the crap I have to put up with, and whether or not I have it good or bad according to long time working veterans.

I will answer any questions anyone may have to help them in their decision.

I am 24 y/o, and make 30k a year before taxes. I pay 325$/month rent for a large place (i'm not new in this area in terms of renting).

After a pessimistic outlook on my budget and over-compensating for bills i have ~120$ in "spending" money left over for myself.

I live 5 minutes from work on a bad day, 3 minutes average driving time. I wake up at 7:30 am each morning, M-F. I get to work by 8am, leaving my house at 7:50.

I leave work at 4pm, sometimes earlier, depends if they have me drop submittal items off @ contractor's buildings.

I am a CAD drawer for a glass & glazing company, my work duties include interpreting architectural blueprints, pulling out necessary info & redrawing it.

I put up with "jerks" (project managers) who have inflated egos, and tend to talk down to me. For the most part i'm left alone all day in my own office, no door, but a window to the fabrication shop.

I see what I've drawn be built, which gives me a sense of accomplishment I suppose, but I have received zero raises in the time i've been here.

I have full medical, dental & eye care. I am supposed to have a retirement fund, but am being given the run around.

One project manager in particular dumps some of his work onto me, which he justifies to himself as OK because i "don't do much" in his eyes, but then again he takes 2 hour lunch breaks and gets drunk.

I take a 1 hour lunch, sometimes more because I drive home, cook lunch, sometimes have sex, and drive back.




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I have been given opportunities to send in resumes @ other companies, but weighing in that i would be working longer hours and saturdays for not much more pay, even though it has to do with my major, is not something i want to be doing.

So OOT, how bad do i have it? should i be looking for a job within my major/more money???

i have a BS in comp sci.

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