The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, right?

If you’re a freelancer, you might crave a salary job, and vice versa.

But these kinds of things are very situation-specific.

Some salary jobs are a total nightmare and some contract gigs are wonderful!

You just never know…

Check out what this woman had to say about why she’s having second thoughts after she landed a long sought-after salary job.

Do I have the wrong idea of what a salary position should be?

“My dad held salary positions my entire life, and I’ve held three so far.

This third one has me thinking maybe I got the wrong idea of what salary really is compared to hourly.

She thought it was a good thing…

I remember when I finally went on a salary. It was a breath of fresh air. I didn’t have to punch a clock anymore. I could go to doctors appointments and family emergencies and take kids to the doctor and wouldn’t have to worry about my pay.

The job I have now has me rethinking if I have a misunderstanding of it.

I’m salary, but have to clock in and out, and have to have an excuse for any day unfulfilled. Which means if I didn’t work a full 8.

Last week I worked 7.25 hours one day. But over the next two days I made it up. Which again, I’ve never had to do being on salary, but we are busy so I have the effort.

Hmmm…

Well I guess I still needed to have an excuse for that shorter day. Even though I ended up working the full 40 that week. It doesn’t matter. They need to know why I didn’t work my full scheduled hours.

The only benefit I can see that I get are 4 floating holidays to use and 4 hours is considered a full day so if I have a doctor’s appointment or something I’m fine.

She’s not so sure about all this…

And that’s all fine. But if, let’s say my kid can’t find his shoes and it causes me to be late and I end up working 7 hours that day. I have to have some sort of excuse for that.

I don’t know why, but it aggravated me to the point I wanted to go home. I was late. I didn’t have an excuse. But I made up the time to make sure I was at 40 by the end of the week. But they still wanted some sort of comment put into the portal.

Oh and one day I clocked out One minute early. One minute. But it was at the minute where it rounded down.

So it rounded me down to 7.45 hours for the day, instead of 8. And I had to clock back in and back out to make it add up to 8 hours or they would’ve flagged me for it.

Am I overreacting or am I valid for wanting to look elsewhere?

I’ve never had to deal with this as a salary before.”

Reddit users shared their thoughts.

This person weighed in.

Another individual shared their thoughts.

This person spoke up.

Another reader weighed in.

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And this Reddit user shared their thoughts.

Well, this didn’t go as planned, did it?

Absolutely not!

At least now she knows that all salary jobs aren’t what they’re cracked up to be.

It sounds like she might want to start looking for a new job…