<p>about the job whining, let them whine, if you don't respond, beyond, that's nice dear, the whining will stop</p>
<p>Mom, I hate my job, its boring, I want to hang with my friends....</p>
<p>Oh that's nice dear....oh dear, how sad for you....(but say nothing more)</p>
<p>(if they realize you aren't going to buy into the poor pitiful me bit and aren't going to say, oh gee, quit, they will get tired of trying through whining)</p>