"A job that slowly kills you"

I am so pissed off with my job.
It has become one continual soul-destroying routine. I work as a lab tech for a "specialised coatings" provider. Simply put we paint stuff using fancy techniques. It is really difficult because I've been there for 10 years now so it's safe & comfortable & I have many friends there. I am also the company's trainer, a position that I adore & that I have surprised even myself by just how damn good I am at it. Sadly, it only accounts for about 3% of my time.
More than just the mind numbing dullness is getting to me though, I don't want to be a cog in a great big money making machine. I want to do something worthwhile, something rewarding, something where I can come home & think that my efforts have made some difference in the quality of someone's life.
The other thing I'm sick of is shiftwork. Until recently it's been ok but I'm in my 6th week of 6-2 now & it's not good getting up at stupid o'clock every morning. The nightshift (10-6) has just been changed to an afternoon shift; 2-midnight- Monday to Thursday. Now while this has the mega benefit of a 3 day weekend it has also thrown up a new problem for me. Ever since I moved back to Crapsville I have on at least 3 (usually 4) days a week picked up The Boy from school & we hang out for 3 hours or so. Now I have to tell him that next week he can't see his dad all week. He will be as gutted as I am. The knock on effect of this is that I will now spend all weekend with him to try & compensate, leaving no time for any social activities for me. While this blog malarkey has allowed me to make new friends, I don't think I'm gonna find someone to unleash my sexual frustration on, am I?
So today I start job-hunting in earnest. I don't know exactly what I want but I'll know when I see it.

So the "next blog" thing yielded little in the way of success. Mainly because my browser kept closing & warning me by saying "Today Microsoft internet explorer cant be arsed so hard cheese, you'll have to start over again! Ha ha ha!". When it did keep going I found that a lot of blogland is not my cup of gold blend. This is totally cool because we are all different & hopefully all the people who write get as much out of their blogs as I do mine.
However, there does seem to be a lot of political stuff (Honestly I have my own opinions about my country's powers that be but I find it impossible to take any interest in anybody else's), stuff about knitting & moving house & of course there are a lot of those previously berated examples of how to butcher the beautiful English language (Don't get me started!).
That said, it is a strangely captivating pursuit.