How is your job?

[marillion]

I love what I do, but compared to my peers in the private sector, I don't get paid much for my experience level.

I have a state government job and I enjoy the hell out of it. What makes up for the lack of pay is the benefits. I rack up a LOT of vacation and sick time, so I know I'll be covered if I ever need it. My wife, who, in the private sector, makes almost twice what I make, gets a set number of days off a year and has to draw vacation and sick time from it.

If I stick it out and retire after 26 years (I'm in almost 8 at this point), I'll be able to draw 80% of my salary...

 

[Lindley]

I like my job fine and it pays pretty well. However, I'm under pressure from the GF to move to another area, so I need to at least consider the possibility of looking for other opportunities.

 

[Admiral2]

How satisfied are you with your job?

I really enjoy my current job, though I'm really not making much money at the moment. I actually gave up my better-paying bartending job for my current position, but I think there is something to be said for not hating going to work every day.

I wish I knew what that felt like. I do hate going to work every day.

 

[Ethros]

I went for "Meh, it's a job, and I can afford to live."

I hardly love it, but it's not like I wake up on a morning dreading going to work. Yeah sure, some of the time I'm there I'm thinking to myself "I wish I were at home now" or "I can't wait till my shift finishes" but frankly I imagine a lot of people think that of their jobs, its just natural. Not everyone is lucky enough to have their absolute dream job.
The wages aren't overly amazing, but for how I live my life at the moment is gets me by fine. (ie, no wife, kids etc, a single man)

Recently in the past year or so I've been given more responsibilty, power, and authority to tell others what to do at work. I've never really had that in a job before, and I do like how it feels. So that's a little plus for me anyway.


The only thing is is I work in retail. I don't mind the job at all; I just hate the customers. In the words of the wise Randal Graves- "This job'd be great if it wasn't for all the fucking customers!"

 

[TheBrew]

I get 6 weeks off a year

Not to rub it in the face of anyone, but that's pretty much the standard here. Most people get 6 weeks of paid holidays during the year. Some people get more, some people less, but that's usually their choice. You guys on the other side of the pond work way too much in my opinion, to the detriment of your health and well-being.

Oh I agree, which is why I feel pretty lucky to get what I have here in the States. I've been looking at a job that gives only two weeks and even for nearly double pay I am still not so sure about it.

 

[Reapiereturns]

I work for Her Majesties Revenue & Customs and get to oppress the masses. It's bloody brilliant

 

[Skellington]

Meh. Desk job and a bit technical but dependant on way too many outside factors. Sometimes the stars align and I can get something of worth done, producing work satisfaction. No complaints with the money; as I've always lived within my means.

I work for Her Majesties Revenue & Customs and get to oppress the masses. It's bloody brilliant

Hey cousin!

 

[RoJoHen]

I get 6 weeks off a year

Not to rub it in the face of anyone, but that's pretty much the standard here. Most people get 6 weeks of paid holidays during the year. Some people get more, some people less, but that's usually their choice. You guys on the other side of the pond work way too much in my opinion, to the detriment of your health and well-being.

Oh I agree, which is why I feel pretty lucky to get what I have here in the States. I've been looking at a job that gives only two weeks and even for nearly double pay I am still not so sure about it.

Yeah...I only get 5 days off per year.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

My job pays the bills and I like my co-workers, so I can't really complain. I find the work dull, though. I just graduated from law school, so I'm looking (so far unsuccessfully) for a new job.

 

[Leviathan]

Money's good.

that said...each morning before coming in I seriously consider that I would probably prefer having my head set on fire and having the flames put out with a sledgehammer.

 

[Goliath]

If I didn't have to mark exams and term papers, I would say that, as a university professor, I had the best job in the world.

And since I'm going on sabbatical, and won't have to teach, I will actually have the best job in the world for twelve months.

Getting paid to do your own research. One can truly ask no more from life.

 

[RoJoHen]

Getting paid to do your own research. One can truly ask no more from life.

Getting paid to do nothing would trump that for me.

 

[Goliath]

Getting paid to do your own research. One can truly ask no more from life.

Getting paid to do nothing would trump that for me.

Not me. I'd get bored with doing nothing.

After a while.

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, sure, I'm not saying I would do nothing forever. But it would be nice to have the option to do nothing if I wanted.

 

[Lord Garth]

"Meh, it's a job and I can afford to live".

It's better than the last job I had. I used to work in a TV studio at a community college. I was young, stupid, and thought I could go somewhere with that. Then I woke up and found out better. No hope of advancement, a dead end, and I no longer trusted my boss-- to the point where I wouldn't believe him if he said rain was wet -- and I caught him in five lies relating to me. That I know of. Everyone complains about him, I've heard that most of my co-staff also wants to quit... and the whole Department is a mess.

Now I work in a call center and contact shareholders for a living. The fact that I prefer doing this over a job that was related to my passion says something about how bad my last job was.

I'm still working on figuring out what to do next because I won't want to work in a call center for the rest of my life.

 

[Kelso]

I'm by myself all day with no one looking over my shoulder (giving me plenty of time to listen to audio books, meet the gf for lunch, surf the bbs on my phone, etc.) and I make more money than I need.

It'll do.

 

[MHT1138]

I work at Joanns. It is actually a pretty good part time job, but now that I have to live on what I make at it its not so great. I do get a little more hours, but not enough. Plus when it was a part time job it was great getting a discount on crafts and fabric, now that I can't afford to do any projects not so much.
Now when I worked at the bookstore, that didn't pay much, but it was an awesome job.

 

[TheBrew]

Well, sure, I'm not saying I would do nothing forever. But it would be nice to have the option to do nothing if I wanted.

You know what I would do with a million dollars?

Absolutely nothing.

 

[archeryguy1701]

Pays well, but not happy. The attitude at work has been becoming increasingly negative, unhappy, and hostile in recent months. We've also recently had a boss change and it's frustrating because I feel like I was my previous boss' project and the new guy just acquired me and he has no idea what he wants my roll to be. I would love to get out and find a different job, but I've put myself in a position where I need the money that this job brings in, and as someone with very limited work experience, I question my ability to get another job that pays as well or better.

Not to rub it in the face of anyone, but that's pretty much the standard here. Most people get 6 weeks of paid holidays during the year. Some people get more, some people less, but that's usually their choice. You guys on the other side of the pond work way too much in my opinion, to the detriment of your health and well-being.

I am not going to argue with you one bit.

The American work ethic is that "work" is its own reward.

We "live to work" whereas the rest of the civilized world "works to live."

And this concept depresses me a great deal. We should be living out lives. Instead, we spend our entire childhood/ young adulthood training ourselves so we can go out and spend the rest of our lives working until we're no longer useful to the workforce. Seems like a pointless existance when it seems like the point of our lives to to go forth and work until you can't anymore.

 

[RoJoHen]

Pays well, but not happy. The attitude at work has been becoming increasingly negative, unhappy, and hostile in recent months. We've also recently had a boss change and it's frustrating because I feel like I was my previous boss' project and the new guy just acquired me and he has no idea what he wants my roll to be. I would love to get out and find a different job, but I've put myself in a position where I need the money that this job brings in, and as someone with very limited work experience, I question my ability to get another job that pays as well or better.

I am not going to argue with you one bit.

The American work ethic is that "work" is its own reward.

We "live to work" whereas the rest of the civilized world "works to live."

And this concept depresses me a great deal. We should be living out lives. Instead, we spend our entire childhood/ young adulthood training ourselves so we can go out and spend the rest of our lives working until we're no longer useful to the workforce. Seems like a pointless existance when it seems like the point of our lives to to go forth and work until you can't anymore.

Well, if living wasn't so damn expensive, we wouldn't have to work as much!