The moment I feel that someone is miserable doing their job, I feel bad to be their customer.
The Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now singer was treated in a Michigan hospital in January for a bleeding ulcer.
It also made me recall how downright miserable I was in an earlier job, stuck at a desk in a windowless cubicle.
While driving home last night, I had the miserable experience of listening to a financial journalist being interviewed about the anemic growth numbers that were just released.
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One night, I had grown so miserable about the bathroom that my fastidiousness overwhelmed my fury.
At 40 years old, I felt sick, miserable, and depressed with my current line of work and job, which was product management for a leading membership services organization.
This may sound harsh but (and this is my opinion), spending vast amounts of money to keep the most senior of seniors alive on machines and in homes when they are utterly miserable (I know I would be), and plagued by extreme dementia is ridiculous.
"I, poor, miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, during a dreadful storm, in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called the Island of Despair, all the rest of the ship's company being drowned, and myself almost dead, " Crusoe writes in his first entry.
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Back when I was dating a few years ago, I heard a lot about miserable ex-husbands.
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Looking back, I am glad I did not just quit the miserable job.
Either way, I was ready to make myself miserable all over again.
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"It was wet and miserable in Birmingham and I threw from a standing start whereas on Sunday I will be throwing from a spin which should help, " she said.
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She added she was "so miserable", saying "I'm crying... nobody can help me".
So, for now I guess I'm just going to stay a miserable night owl.
How he was miserable is more complicated than even I could get into a hundred thousand word book.
But I'm sure I'll find some other way to be miserable, you know, in a good way.
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It's also true that had I not seen the negative reviews before I left, I would have ended up at the place, miserable and mistrusting the site even more.
"I think photojournalism can be criticised for looking at the miserable side of life and depressing issues, " Max adds.
With its characteristically detailed look at the pop-cultural detritus in a miserable late-night rest stop, "I-95" first appears to be just another Fountains of Wayne-ian look at someone's mundane, loveless existence.
They were thoroughly miserable when they toured here two years ago - I still have vivid memories of Chris Gayle standing at Chester-le-Street, frozen to the spot at first slip with his hands thrust deep into his pockets.
Also, I was new to New York, and at times it was miserable to be alone.
What actually happened: he forced me to play golf with him for hours when I visited on Saturdays, even though it seemed only to make him miserable.
I've been in blue blowing snow on the Canadian border and understand miserable.
I've known people who wanted to die, but most of them were so miserable they wanted to escape it.
Naturally, as her manager, I had an obligation to watch her like a hawk after that, which made life miserable for both of us.
It was a few years later that I realised the possibility of yet another interpretation of Kurtz's final words: the horror of realising his own miserable inadequacy, the darkness in his own heart.
If that occurs, I will owe my clients an apology for not jumping on the conventional wisdom and will have no excuse for our miserable 8.7% to 10.3% returns of our balanced portfolios when the gold and real estate weights would have out-performed by about 2% to 3.5%, if history repeats itself like our worst inflationary spike.
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