who likes their job

[The Student]

I love my job - I spend most of my summers driving tractors, forklifts, welding stuff, burning stuff, fixing stuff..... loads of fun things. 6 weeks without a day off and 90 hours a week is not so fun though. If only farming was a 9-5 job which paid enough to enable you to do that, life would be awesome.

[al1991]

I hate my job more than anything, I feel physically ill before I go in and I breathe a huge sigh of relief when I leave. Boss can't accept when she's wrong and will go in to the most intricate and ridiculous made up scenarios to prove she's 'right'. Sets you on a task and then walks by every 10 minutes to check how you're doing it and then complain about the tiniest detail being wrong, even if she's contradicting something she's previously told me, just to be in a position to complain about my work. I've done her countless favours, come in at the last minute, worked my holidays etc and she's never repaid me in any way (letting me leave ten minutes early for something, for example).

If you enjoy your job, you're very lucky.

[Shay HTFC]

Hate my job. Don't particularly like the people who work there (all share the same 'type' of personality). Most days I just drudge on through feeling like I a mwasting my time.

Got initial plans to sack it in and teach English in South Korea come July though, so not too bad. When you work somewhere just for the money its time to ask questions!

[MidlandDan84]

Don’t want to sound like a twunt but I do actually like my job because :

1) Good salary and potential earning
2) Nice office environment
3) Decent variation of work and workload
4) Opportunity to specialise in areas of interest
5) Work hard but not too hard.

[Anthony Micallef]

Any vacancies?

[Rob13]

I probably go to work for the money. There are elements which I enjoy, but then the actual core purpose no longer appeals. I've been soul searching for about 5 months now as to where to turn next.

[W124Bob]

Same job after 32 year,several locations in that time and a lot of changes in conditions and technology but I'm still working shifts and weekends and I would not go onto the management ladder for anything.I drive trains.

[Dibby]

MidlandDan84 said:

Don’t want to sound like a twunt but I do actually like my job because :

1) Good salary and potential earning
2) Nice office environment
3) Decent variation of work and workload
4) Opportunity to specialise in areas of interest
5) Work hard but not too hard.

Exactly the same here but I don't enjoy work as such. Not as much as I enjoy what I do out of work but without work I wouldn't be able to do the things I do out of work ... if you get me.

I'm in the work to live camp, not live to work.

Play the games, jump through the hoops, appear enthusiastic but as soon as I'm out the door I have no troubles forgetting the days troubles. No waking up in the middle of the night scribbling ideas on a pad by the bed like a lot of the guys around me heading for a stress related heart attack by 50.

[MidlandDan84]

Well I’ve been doing nearly 60hrs a week for the last month, and i do seem to spend all my time at work.

I work to pay the rent and run my BMW.........and to go on nice holidays, but I have been questioning the reasoning behind it all recently.


Having said all that i dont hate Sunday nights

[Dibby]

60 hrs! Maybe if you pished about a bit less on the internet you could get that down to 40

Used to put in 80 hours between bar work and labouring when I popped out of uni with no money. Labourer with a masters degree! It was good fun filling skips and mixing cement.

[MidlandDan84]

[quote=Dibby]60 hrs! Maybe if you pished about a bit less on the internet you could get that down to 40

What do you mean, in between designing a new PFS a quick pootle on PH keeps me sane.

Plus my boss has left so its quiet today

[drivin_me_nuts]

I like what I do. It's different and challenging and it requires me to think on my feet very quickly. No two days are the same, it can have real rollercoaster days of huge emotions and intense logical thoughts. It's not got regular hours some days start at 10am, some end at 3am (having started at 10am as well) but it's got rewards beyond money.

[Simon_m]

I love my job. Get to climb oversized climbing frames every day.

Although not so much fun in horizontal snow at 200ft

Wages could be a LOT better though. Surpising how little I get paid for what is a dangerous job.

[m3psm]

Fairly long commute, long hours, crazy deadlines, constantly changing goalposts, relentless pressure. Love it

I get very bored very quickly if I’m not under the kosh.

[andyroo]

Nope. Boring and tedious. Every spare hour I have is spent trying to find a way into something I enjoy. Unsuccessfully so far.

[andyroo]

al1991 said:

I hate my job more than anything, I feel physically ill before I go in and I breathe a huge sigh of relief when I leave. Boss can't accept when she's wrong and will go in to the most intricate and ridiculous made up scenarios to prove she's 'right'. Sets you on a task and then walks by every 10 minutes to check how you're doing it and then complain about the tiniest detail being wrong, even if she's contradicting something she's previously told me, just to be in a position to complain about my work. I've done her countless favours, come in at the last minute, worked my holidays etc and she's never repaid me in any way (letting me leave ten minutes early for something, for example).

If you enjoy your job, you're very lucky.

This seems to be a female manager trait. My wife has had numerous jobs in accounting (dominated by women) and her managers all follow that same short sighting technique.

[Johnnytheboy]

My female manager is not like this, in fact if anything I feel undermanaged. But this is her way of expressing trust in me I think.

Love my job. Reasonable salary, lots of driving about in vans which I get to choose, a bit of physical labour, a bit of brain work, good coffee, nice rural location.

The only thing I don't enjoy is the line management bit of it, as my team can be incredibly glass-half-empty about almost everything at times. But in other ways, they're all I could ask for.

[andyroo]

Johnnytheboy said:

My female manager is not like this, in fact if anything I feel undermanaged. But this is her way of expressing trust in me I think.

Maybe it's just an accounting management thing then

[littlegreenfairy]

For the first time ever, I actually love my job.

I look forward to doing it every day and feel really satisfied with it

[SkinnyBoy]

I used to but now I am bored and need a change. Even the 30 minute drive to work just pisses me off for the rest of the day. Every day I go in, do above and beyond my remit and get no thanks, so rather than bh about it, I am planning my escape with military precision.