@Juggs I'm glad you're able to get back to work and that you got a pay raise. I'm sorry that you hate your job. Hopefully you're able to deal with it until you can find something else or retire (not sure how close that is for you).
I was going to start a thread here soon too because I also got a new job. The full story will take a bit to explain but the short version is I'm leaving a company no one has ever heard of to go work at IBM. Big pay raise and no after hours work.
Long version. The old company has been around since 2004 (ish, it depends on who you ask as to when it started) but literally never had a profitable year until 2020. In 2019 we brought in a new CEO and he made big changes, including promoting me to the NOC manager. Basically I ran a call center but we did a lot more technical and security stuff than your average help desk. We were chronically understaffed and I told him that all the time. I brought as much data as I could, but we literally didn't have some of the data he asked for. It was impossible to get, or at least impossible to get within this decade. Everything was super manual in terms of pulling data and trying to get info from it and they refused to implement systems to make it faster/easier.
Far forward to this May. One of our customers started asking about SLAs. We don't really have any formal SLAs, but the CEO wanted to know what the performance was so we knew what we could offer. My boss and I delivered to the CEO the same data we'd been giving to him for a year and a half (improved, obviously because I'd fixed some issues and things got a little better) and he lost his mind. He was super pissed that we were performing that badly. He wanted to know why we hadn't hired more people. He has to approve every hire and he denied our repeated requests for more people.
Then he threatened to fire me for not being able to convince him that we'd need more people.
So I started looking for jobs. IBM called. I start Tuesday.
I'd been writing about 50 to 60 his power week. On call 24/7. Denied every request if made for improvements until something failed and the improvement became my boss' or my CEO's idea.
It's not going to be perfect. But I'll live with different and less hectic for now.