KCable- If this business is so miserable-GET OUT.  Why stay in a business where you are not happy. Life is short-make the best of it.  I've been in the cable business now for some 40+ years 

on the construction side.  Yea, it's had is rough times, as all trades have, but cable has made many men/women a life time of work opportunities.  If you don't like it-move on, make room for someone that wants any opportunity into the tele communication business. Get a job that your happy with, if your happy-those around you will have a better life.  Take Care