Top 5 Signs You're in a Dead End Job

Question:
Oh Opinious One: I feel like I'm in a dead end job. What are the top 5 signs it's time to look for another job?
Signed: Stuck in the Muck

Opinion:
Ms Knowitall: I'll check around but here's my opinion
#1) You feel like you are in a dead end job
#2) You look around and realize that most of the people who have worked for the company as long as you..... are losers in a dead end job.
#3) The new hires are temporary and are mostly either college or high school students AND your boss immediately implements several ideas from one or more of the "students" and they are similar to ideas you have been trying to get implemented for months
#4) Your boss had some excuse for not promoting or issuing you a raise at least twice in the last 2 years.
#5) They have hired you an "assistant" that is pretty and perky and knows 1/2 as much as you about the job but you suspect is getting paid almost as much as you. (P.S. The Assistant is your only explanation for the unexplainable leaks of information that you boss seems to find out, but you can't prove it. )

Angry Mike:
Why Work?

Sigmund Fraud

Number 1. You vill not feel challenged or fullfilled but vill decide it is better den rocking da boat.

Number 2. You vill rationalize your misery and may possibly come to tink you deserve no better
Number 3. You vill daydream about vhat you'd really like to do with your life and it is da complete opposite of your current situation.

Lucille The Hair Stylist
Well, I used to work in a dead end job. Working in an office 9-5, pushing papers, answering phones, dealing with the office politics, who's dating who, who's chatting on the phone instead of working, oh and dealing with the customers. Oh, those customers.... I'm so glad I changed careers.
Rita the customer in Lucille's chair: Lucille, when was you an office worka?
Lucille: Oh you know Rita, before I came ta the beauty parla
Rita: Lucille, that must have been atleast 15 years ago
Lucille: Well, yeah, right after highschool, about 25 years ago
Rita: oh, how long did youse work in a office?
Lucille: 1 week, and dat was long enough for me!


Lady walking big German Shepard:
I read somewhere that if there is a change in management or something and all of a sudden you are no longer invited into the meetings about your clients, or something like that, then you should start looking for a new job.

Two Ladies Walking around the Lake:
Lady #1) Oh, If you hate your job. You know, dread getting out of bed and the weekend isn't long enough because you waste Sunday worrying about going to work on Monday, that's terrible. I had a job like that, thank goodness I met Mike.
Lady #2) I had a job where people kept quiting and the company never replaced them. So everyone had to pick up the slack, that was terrible. (pause) Hey, who is Mike? I thought your husbands name was Joe?

Young Couple with Infant:
That's easy, you can't stand going to work. You don't feel like you are appreciated and you can't stand getting up in the morning to go to work.

Random Answers:
You hate your job
You hate your co-workers
You can't stand talking to clients or customers
You haven't had a raise in several years
Someone else keeps getting the praise that you think you deserve
You wake up one morning and find that you are one of the oldest people in the office
Everyone got a generous holiday bonus and you got a walmart gift card
You walk into the break room and everyone stops talking
You notice new people visiting with the boss behind closed doors, almost as if they are candidates on interview... which they probably are
You happen to check the classifieds and see your company has a job opportunity whose description closely matches your job responsibilities
You keep getting assigned as secondary contact for clients, however you do all the work, but the primary contact gets all the credit.

One More Opinion:
Work is like High School. There are clicks (or social circles) and "teachers" pets. Each level of employment has it's own social circles and favoritism. Some industries are more competitive then others and have caps to the levels of achievement allowed. Each person has to decide their own path to happiness. It is never too late to dream. It is never too late to figure out if there is a better path to the destination you have mapped out for yourself. I'm not saying it will be easy, I'm just saying it's never to late to dream, plan............ try