Do you like your job?
- Thread starter Danoz
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It's awesome reading how so many people love their jobs!
I did love my last outside the home job. I worked in a local greenhouse/grower and i didn't deal with the public, i worked in the back doing all the grunt work. It was great, very relaxed but physical which i loved, music playing all day, great people.
Now i just sell shit on ebay for myself or on consignment and it's really hard to stay focused, but with the arthritis i could never do anything very physical again. So, for my situation it works.
Oh, and i get to play here whenever i want!
I did love my last outside the home job. I worked in a local greenhouse/grower and i didn't deal with the public, i worked in the back doing all the grunt work. It was great, very relaxed but physical which i loved, music playing all day, great people.
Now i just sell shit on ebay for myself or on consignment and it's really hard to stay focused, but with the arthritis i could never do anything very physical again. So, for my situation it works.
Oh, and i get to play here whenever i want!
I like my job. The last job I had, I loved at first, but over time I grew to hate it, and wasn't altogether upset when I finally got RIFed.
With my current job, the pay is good, the benefits are good, and I get to solve problems in the exciting world of health insurance.
The problems, at least, tend to be interesting and complex, so they never bore me.
I am not too thrilled with some of the people I work with, though.
With my current job, the pay is good, the benefits are good, and I get to solve problems in the exciting world of health insurance.
The problems, at least, tend to be interesting and complex, so they never bore me.I am not too thrilled with some of the people I work with, though.
I'm a full time student and I love that. My part-time job is tutoring which I really like. It's tough having to teach another teacher's work but it is fun at times.
I love my job. I was fortunate to get a lower-rung job in a children's centre as my long-term goal is family outreach work. My colleagues are mostly good people and we have a lot of laughs. The downside is the crappy wage, but that will improve as I gain more qualifications. My major concern is a Conservative win the UK general election as they'd close the SureStart centres and I'd be out of a job.
I work in a library at a community college. Only the paycheck keeps me there. The work is drudgery, my bosses are morons, the patrons are mostly barely-adult students that couldn't function if forced to do something that didn't involve their cell phones and Twitter...and you know the old joke about government services using stuff bought from the lowest bidder? Well, we use the stuff sold by his little brother who gambles on ponies and poker and owes loan sharks.
So, overall, I guess my answer to your question would be...ahem..."no".
I hate my job, but not the work.
I hate the atmosphere. There's a woman there that thinks I'm the anti-christ, and I can't really figure out why. I've tried everything I can to get her to talk to me so we can work out whatever it is. But, she's non-responsive.
On top of that, if anyone in the office speaks with me, they have offically moved to satan's team, and she won't talk to them or work with them.
There are only three of us in the office.
So, if the poor schmuck that isn't her or me talks to me outside of something clearly business related, she treats him like trash. Needless-to-say, I don't speak to him and he doesn't speak to me just to keep harmony, but it's agony for me because I have no one to speak with.
I hate it. I hate it a great deal.
I hate the atmosphere. There's a woman there that thinks I'm the anti-christ, and I can't really figure out why. I've tried everything I can to get her to talk to me so we can work out whatever it is. But, she's non-responsive.
On top of that, if anyone in the office speaks with me, they have offically moved to satan's team, and she won't talk to them or work with them.
There are only three of us in the office.
So, if the poor schmuck that isn't her or me talks to me outside of something clearly business related, she treats him like trash. Needless-to-say, I don't speak to him and he doesn't speak to me just to keep harmony, but it's agony for me because I have no one to speak with.
I hate it. I hate it a great deal.
Well I just started a permanent job this week after a few years of only getting temp work so at the moment I love it but only time will tell.
I do and I don't.
For instance, because I run an efficient team and have excellent time-management skills myself, today I had nothing to most of the day apart from some self-directed admin work. One of the few appointments I had around lunchtime cancelled and I didn't have any others until tea-time. So I could wake up late, go clothes shopping, read the Times & do the crossword over a long lunch and then pop into the office, gossip with co-workers and then dash off some letters and other assorted paperwork, ensure my caseload was up to speed and then do a little light actual work at the end of the day for an hour or so.
It's pretty hard to actively dislike a job that lets me do that. OK, not every day is like this. The lightness was extreme, even by my standard. But enough are relatively controlled that I can't complain about the workload, and the money is certainly very decent.
On the other hand, I don't really enjoy the job, because although this sort of schedule is nice on one level, all that time off is not really MINE, because if something DID happen that needed my attention, I'm still technically at the beck & call of the system. I just really dislike being an employee, albeit a well-remunerated and fairly lightly worked employee. I am not cut out to be an employee; it grates on me because I feel I am better than that. I also dislike the pointless adminstrative work that can be sent down to me from up on high, because I'm an employee. So I guess there's a slight feeling of unfulfilment, though when I have to do some actual work, I enjoy it enough.
This is why I intend leaving the job by autumn 2011 to do several other things. The current job may well have some enjoyable parts, it may well pay me well for relatively little work, but it just doesn't feel like I'm controlling my own destiny the way I want to.
Long answer to your short question, Danoz, I know. But there you go! I picked "Meh" in the poll, but I think this answer explains why.
For instance, because I run an efficient team and have excellent time-management skills myself, today I had nothing to most of the day apart from some self-directed admin work. One of the few appointments I had around lunchtime cancelled and I didn't have any others until tea-time. So I could wake up late, go clothes shopping, read the Times & do the crossword over a long lunch and then pop into the office, gossip with co-workers and then dash off some letters and other assorted paperwork, ensure my caseload was up to speed and then do a little light actual work at the end of the day for an hour or so.
It's pretty hard to actively dislike a job that lets me do that. OK, not every day is like this. The lightness was extreme, even by my standard. But enough are relatively controlled that I can't complain about the workload, and the money is certainly very decent.
On the other hand, I don't really enjoy the job, because although this sort of schedule is nice on one level, all that time off is not really MINE, because if something DID happen that needed my attention, I'm still technically at the beck & call of the system. I just really dislike being an employee, albeit a well-remunerated and fairly lightly worked employee. I am not cut out to be an employee; it grates on me because I feel I am better than that. I also dislike the pointless adminstrative work that can be sent down to me from up on high, because I'm an employee. So I guess there's a slight feeling of unfulfilment, though when I have to do some actual work, I enjoy it enough.
This is why I intend leaving the job by autumn 2011 to do several other things. The current job may well have some enjoyable parts, it may well pay me well for relatively little work, but it just doesn't feel like I'm controlling my own destiny the way I want to.
Long answer to your short question, Danoz, I know. But there you go! I picked "Meh" in the poll, but I think this answer explains why.
GodThingFormerly
A Different Kind of Asshole
hell no. i work for minimum wage in a newsagents in shitty town where half the population is addicted to the fucking lottery and two thirds seem to smoke. and the majority seem to be ignorant bastards who think just because you're a till jockey you ain't got two brain cells to rub together.
No need for the devil smilie; you're right (though I actually think the initial plan was 2007 not 2006, but I did start thinking this way in more general terms in 2006). They effectively bribed me with enough money to stay for a further 5 years. I've prostituted my independence away in the short term for the money I need to ensure I won't need to return in, say, 10 years time.
I've used the time to plan my retirement strategy carefully, start other business that I run in my spare time and are growing nicely, all ready for more of my attention when my contract expires in autumn 2011. It's a more planned and sensible exit strategy than the truncated and riskier one before, and so I'm confident I won't get cold feet this time.
A friend of mine who DID get out in 2007 teases me relentlessly about my decision to stay in it for the money for another few years, but I think in the long run, it was the wisest decision and means I'll never need to come back. Part of me wishes I got out in 2007 though.
Meh. Not quite Hatred. But meh.
They keep giving me more and more work to do and it's harder and harder to get caught up. I end up behind on my work on all fronts and feel like I'm pleasing no-one.
On top of that my boss sits in the next cube and nitpicks everything I do.
They keep giving me more and more work to do and it's harder and harder to get caught up. I end up behind on my work on all fronts and feel like I'm pleasing no-one.
On top of that my boss sits in the next cube and nitpicks everything I do.
Lately I've gone from Like to Love. It's always been pretty fun working for an ad/branding agency that focuses on eco stuff - the people working in the eco biz are generally smart and nice - but now it's been getting more fun as we're branching out into more online stuff, working with TV documentary folks, etc.
And I recently finagled things so I can do most of my job from home! Splitting off the boring stuff I don't care about to another position we're creating and hiring some sucker err new colleague for.
And I recently finagled things so I can do most of my job from home! Splitting off the boring stuff I don't care about to another position we're creating and hiring some sucker err new colleague for.
I've had a pretty irritating week or so at work, which may have impacted by voting when I clicked "meh". I definitely don't hate my job, but I don't love it, either. My employer offers really great benefits. My direct boss and the co-workers within my group are awesome. My salary is quite decent. I've been treated really well there so I can't complain.
Having said all of that, I have been in my current position for three and a half years. Things have changed dramatically in that time. Many of my daily tasks and routines have evolved or changed completely in that time. My job duties have really evolved into something different, and some of it is mind-numbingly boring and tedious. I'd like to try something new, pick up new skills, shake things up.
Having said all of that, I have been in my current position for three and a half years. Things have changed dramatically in that time. Many of my daily tasks and routines have evolved or changed completely in that time. My job duties have really evolved into something different, and some of it is mind-numbingly boring and tedious. I'd like to try something new, pick up new skills, shake things up.
Gah, what a nightmare. I'm sorry you have to put up with this garbage. Shame that bitch-slapping is against the law, eh?
This is why I prefer working with children. Adults often don't behave any better than toddlers, but at least with children there's hope that they'll outgrow their immature behaviour and become better people. I hope your coworker either leaves her job or has a personality transplant.
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