I’ve been at my new job for more than five months now yet I can’t stop complaining about the old job. You know, the one that I relentlessly complained about, the one that caused me to cry every single day, the one that gave me daily headaches, and the one that I thought was surely going to kill me. I complain to my family, my co-workers, to you, my faithful readers. I can’t frickin stop!

It’s just so hard to get over. It’s like when you finally get out of a really bad long-term relationship and BAM! You finally realize how badly you were being screwed. It’s like an explosion of hatred and my Italian genes only make things worse. I’ve got four years of anger over being treated like complete shit hitting me all at once now that I’m free of the whole “I need this job to pay my bills,” crap.

Worst of all, I’m still not done dealing with all the crap dealt to me from my former employers. I still owe hundreds of dollars in taxes and parking tickets that I received from being at work until 4 a.m. each week.

At least the memories help me continue to appreciate my current job. I know I can deal with just about any situation my career throws at me. Heck, I dealt with them for four years.