My One Year Itch Has Arrived (Two Years Late)!

I have quite the storied employment history. If you were to look at a resume' of mine, dating back to my first job as a teenager through my current job today, let's just say I hope you have a few extra gigabytes because you'll need em! I have even gone back in my mind, trying to recollect when and where I was employed over the past 18 years. I believe the job I held the longest since graduating college over 10 years ago, and prior to my current job, was my second teaching position, which I held for all of about 1-1/2 years. So, that would mean that my current job holds the record for the longest I have worked anywhere before on a FT basis. The longest PT job I held was at a bingo hall for close to 5 yrs as a caller and floor clerk; coming in a close second was my very first PT job ever, as a lifeguard and swim instructor, which I held for a whopping 4+ years! I also worked another PT job while in college for about the same period of time. Since graduating college, throughout the past 10+ years, I have held a total of 10 jobs (7 FT, 3 PT) This is also not including various (and countless) temporary jobs that were fill-ins between the FT jobs. I have done everything from administrative work to bartending to delivering papers in those 10 years. Yes, she's a blaze of activity, that little resume' of mine. I attribute my wanderlust to a very low threshold for monotony and repetitiveness. I get stuck in a rut and find myself bored quickly if I don't have something to keep me challenged at work, which seems to have been my demise from many a job. Of the 6 previous FT jobs, I was fired from 3 (for beyond bogus reasons, also for another blog someday) and I quit 3 voluntarily.

I am coming up on 3 years in my current FT position, which is also the only job I have now (also a first). I usually get the itch after about a year...they've kept me 'baited' here by promising promotions, dazzling duties, etc...yet, as of yet, those promises haven't come to pass and I am beyond upset and am now drowning in a sea of ambivalence, from whence I rarely resurface. This nonchalant, non-caring attitude is considerably worse than the previous anger, given that any emotion is better than none at all . This is a very sucky time of year to be here and everyone is under much stress and very crabby as we are all putting in very, very long hours in the effort to close out another year. So, am I itching? Oh yeah...I'm just not scratching yet. I'm hoping things will become more tolerable after the first of the year when I start school and am working toward something I know I will eventually enjoy...and perhaps not have to endure that insatiable itch which has, in effect, manufactured my lengthy (yet highly colorful) resume'!