Sometimes I Hate My Job

Today has been a really bad day as far as work goes.

Look, I have it pretty good with The Movie Blog and I know it.  I work for myself, from home and I have no clients to keep happy.  It’s the very best of both worlds.  How can I complain?

The problem is (and I’ve mentioned this before on here) is that a lot of people can say a lot of things that honestly are really hurtful.

I take a lot of pride in The Movie Blog.  I put a lot of energy and effort into it.  Oh I could just steal other people’s content, not credit it and throw up tons of emplty links in order to generate traffic… but i don’t do that, becaues I love the site and the readers that go there everyday.

But sometimes stupid people say really stupid things.  For instance, yesterday I put up my review of Lady in the Water (a horrible horrible film).  But instead of intelligent conversation, some people went on there to suggest I purposefully and premeditatedly gave it a bad review just because I don’t like M. Night Shyamalan.  Basically they said my reviews have no integrity.  That hurts.  A lot.

I don’t mind people disagreeing with me… actually I love it when they do because that sparks good discussion. But that sort of stuff hurts.  And when that happens, I shoot back.  Then things get ugly.

Today I have no joy in what I do.  Today I want to just shut the whole Movie Blog down and say "screw it".  Today I hate my job.

I’ll probably feel differently tomorrow… but today I hate it.