Have any of you kept a job you hated because you hate change

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Have any of you kept a job you hated because you hate change even more, I worked 9 years at a resteraunt where I was insulted on daily basis for being different, The only reason I stayed there for so long is that I was in fear of starting a new job and having to get to know new people. I guess I felt the devil I knew was better than the one I did not know. Have any of you encounter this before. This sort of like social anxiety and my hatred of change kept me in a mentally toxic environment.

I think that is common even among NTs. People stay in a job they hate for years because it feels like it would be too difficult to make a change.

I have, but it was partly based on the bad economy too. The job wasn't bad to begin with, but our workload dropped the last year I was there and was bored out of my mind.

I have only stayed at jobs so long because no one else would hire me but if I could have found something better I would of went for it. I do hate change yes but I hate retail just as much. Once I get a job as a dental assistant I wont want to change as long as the dentist I work for is a nice one.

I couldn't keep any job, love it or hate it.

There were many jobs that I loved going in and came to hate because the conditions changed while I was there, and yes, I stayed and put up with the misery because I had nowhere else to go and couldn't afford to quit. I would just hunker down and wait until they fired me, then draw unemployment for several months while I decompressed from the stress, then go back out and start the process all over again. That's how I survived for 35 years.

I don't know how an Aspie could stay at the same job for 9 years without p*ssing someone off and getting fired. If I found a work environment that was that tolerant of me, yeah, I'd probably stay forever.

YES. One of the biggest reasons I haven't been able to keep jobs in the past; the abrupt changes in routines. I ESPECIALLY hated when supervisors were like "We're making some exciting new changes!"... that always made me FURIOUS.

Thats the reason I was laid off I could not adapt to the change our company went through. I cannot operate the cnc lathes because of the anxiety I feel when I run them and all the noise and vibrations the machines produce. That was the only posistion they had left for me.

Yes. My husband pushed me to get a new one because he was sick of my complaining. Then, when I hated the new one he said "just quit". I've been without one since.

I hate myself enough for not having the courage to leave my sh***y COUNTRY (italy).

Ditto, with a few additions:

I've lost or left jobs because things DIDN'T change, even though they were good to begin with. Sometimes for me it's not a matter of not liking change. I don't like change I have no control over, but I also hate stagnation I have no control over. I've never made it past three years. Nine sounds like an eternity to me!

For me though, it's also a matter of hating with a passion working for someone else. I could see past this when I was young but now that I've got thirty five years of working under my belt, there's something about taking orders from business owners driving $60,000 vehicles at half my age that, well, kind of irks me!

Damn... here I thought keeping one job for 2 years was an accomplishment. I did that for my last two jobs. Both times I left, it was because of management change.

I like being the grunt at a job. Giving me responsibility beyond that is too stressful.

I have never had that experience but I would rather keep a job than not having a job. I would have to try and get a new job and then quit after I get one.

I've been at my job for almost 9 years, hate it, but if I want to take off, all I got to do is call in

yes. I've stayed at a couple of jobs because the recruitment process (especially interviews and "selling myself") scare the s**t out of me. Hence I got to the state where I could barely drag myself to work.

I've never had a job, but I don't think I'd leave one that I hated. I'm not really sure. The only jobs that I'd hate are like retail and customer service type jobs and I would never take one of those for a job.

This is one of the biggest things that scares me about losing my job. I hate having to sell myself and being put in the hotseat to do so. Second of all, with the ecomony like it is, no matter how much I hate a job, I don't want to lose it and have to find something else.

I worked a security guard job for close to 10 years years before I took on my current job. I have worked at my current job for over 2 years. This and my security job are polar opposites, as in I liked the duties in my security job, but not the low pay and few benefits. I absolutely hate the duties of my current job, but get paid well and have good benefits.