Songs About Quitting Your Job?

Today I resigned from the job I accepted at the start of this thread (also the start of this board) (to start a better job).

"you can't fire me cos I QUIT!"

"N.O. J.O.B.
I don't work no more for this factory!"

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"I'm working my job while I write this song
The pay ain't good and the day is long
They're takin' away my life and it just ain't right
I gotta be strong and bite my tongue
I wanna soar 'em the bird and say 'So long ...
I'm gone ... and fuck your job'

But if I won the lottery
I'll tell you what I'd do
I'd tell my boss to go to hell
Then drive straight home to you

I wasn't made to work this hard
But I guess for me it's just in the cards
I'm a pawn in a losing game

My boss he's a regular S.O.B.
He's trying to take my soul from me
He's an asshole, drives me insane

But if I won the lottery
I know just what I'd do
I'd buy this place and fire my boss
Then drive straight home to you.

This place has gotten under my skin
I hate the smell when I walk in
It's a dump! It's a real shit hole

It's run by a bunch of idiots
Who make up the rules and don't know shit
It's a joke ... and it's on me

But if I won the lottery
I know just what I'd do
I'd buy this place and burn it down
And drive straight home to you."

(Yes, I'm redundant. This was crossposted on Songs about Shitty Jobs and Hating Your Boss thread.)

FIVE MORE YEARS

(except I don't have that stuck in my brain, I have "Final Day" by Young Marble Giants)

I had a job in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell

I guess Barse77 - I'm On The Dole would kind of fit here.

Get your paws off me! Get THE FUCK away from me!

I got a job making money for the man
throwing chicken in the bucket with the soda pop can
puke green uniform on my back
I had to set it on fire in a vat of chicken fat

I leaped on the counter like a bird with no hair
running through the mini mall in my underwear
I got lost downtown couldn't find a ride home
sun went down I got frozen to the bone

'til a hooker let me share her fake fur coat
as I took a little nap the cops picked up us both
I tried to explain I was only trying to get warm
I knew I never ever should have burnt my uniform

He said too bad. You want to bite the bullet hard son?
I didn't have no teeth so I stole his gun
and I crawled out the window with my shadow on a spoon
dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon

get busy, get busy, you know it
I ain't going to work for no soul-sucking jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't saying jack

i'd been listening to radiohead-polyethylene on the longass commute to work via express bus. i figure it had something to do with my decision.

at what i suppose would be the start of part 2, the lyrics go: "So sell your suit and tie and come and live with me"

. . . other lyrics include "If you don't believe me, well, sell your soul"

I decided to see what threadid=1 was and found myself, 7 years ago, pimping britpop. lovely!

Revive!

Was this really the first ILM thread ever?

"work it out" by 42nd street

"Life in Prison," Merle Haggard/The Byrds

I had a whole tape of these before I moved to Seattle.

sort of per above: "When I Win the Lottery," Camper Van Beethoven

kind of existential, but: "Drop the Bomb," Trouble Funk

"We're Not Gonna Take It," Twisted Sister

sort of: "Don't Talk to Me About Work," Lou Reed

"Big City" by Merle Haggard.

You celebrate by making a mixtape? No, YOU DO NOT. You celebrate by ordering a brilliant pizza, picking up some fantastic wine and having a laugh with your friends. And if you're not doing this right now I will chain you to the Levellers' caravan and make you listen to them AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Once all that is done, then you make said tape. So 20th century, though; it's all CDRs and mp3 folders these days. Try starting with Ween's "Pumpin' 4 the Man." ;-)

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 August 2000 00:00 (7 years ago) Bookmark Link

Sigh. 9/11 changed everything.

Hate my Job - Butthole Surfers - 'sat here at my fucking desk, looking at it and all the rest...

'I hate Work ' Millions of Dead Cops

A -'five in the morning' spoke eloquently about not getting oneself into that ridiculous situation in the first place - like many of us, including me have managed to

DKs -' take this job and shove it'

'Surf Wax America' by Weezer
http://www.seeqpod.net/search/?plid=605dbbe782

Poison Idea's "Just To Get Away":

Quit my job
Told my boss stand aside
Grabbed a gun
A fifth of booze and my ride