I don’t love it. I don’t hate it. It’s a job. It’s what I do to get a check. Is it something I brag to people about? No, because I don’t want to talk about work at all when I’m not there. It’s not my life, not my identity. I don’t make a great salary, but I have pretty good benefits and I go home at 4:00 each day and don’t think about this place until 7:30 the next morning, which is the best benefit of them all.
Love the employer, pay, extremely good benefits, and fact that I’m employed again (after being laid off by Dell back in September, explaining my 2 month absence from the SDMB.)
HATE my job.
I also have a love-hate relationship with my job. But without the love.
I am completely wasted and underused here. I am an overpaid paper-shuffler.
Six more months.
I hate my job. I spend my days cleaning up the spelling and grammar of girls half my age. It’s like following the elephants in the parade with a pail and shovel.
I used to be one of the elephants, dammit!
I say that every six months.
Depends on what you do. I’m a substitute. Being a regular teacher with more authority would make my job easier.
I like my job. I often love my job. I am sometimes annoyed by my job. I have the best boss in the world (no; I am not self-employed). I genuinely like my coworkers. The owner shares the wealth; benefits are good; pay is better than good; I usually feel productive and appreciated. I am still learning new things and am getting better and faster at the old things. The commute is not fun (not so bad in the morning because I am just waking up, but tiresome in the evening because I want to be home already). I have, however, recently discovered books on CD, and the ride home has become less tiresome. I have had a lot of different jobs in my life; this is truly one of the best.
I love my job. One of the best things that ever happened to me was my last employer filing for bankruptcy late last year and eliminating my department. Not that I thought so at the time … I managed to land another job about a month before the shutdown. And I had never quite realized how bad my last job sucked. Aside from making more money, I have had more technical training in seven months here than I got in five years there, better benefits, a better work environment, generally intelligent upper management, and the company is in no danger of folding. And nobody complains if I stop by the SDMB a couple of times a day. 
Only one issue-both places (large call centers) let outside vendors come in periodically and hawk their stuff in the cafeteria or auditorium. But one of the ones invited by my previous employer was a masseuse. Gad, I miss that. Nothing like getting a chair massage on your lunch break to highlight your work day. 
Nope. Being unemployed is hard enough thank you.
Love my job. The owner (and his lackey daughter) are idiots; the pay sucks; I’m always overworked, and am looking at a six-week stretch where it’s going to get really ugly; I’m sick of my commute; some of my coworkers get on my nerves;
but I love my job.
Luciano Pavorotti doesn’t sing opera because it’s his job.
His job?!
Come on, it’s his passion. He must sing opera.
I feel the same way about what I do. I’m lucky.
I love my job. I teach gymnastics and trampolining. (Only part-time, I’m at uni as well).
Kids are usually so upbeat and happy, and it’s infectious. They are also enthusiastic and try really hard.
It is not tough mentally, but I get a good workout spotting the kids, so that’s another plus.
The money isn’t great, but I can deal. And l also have great co-workers.
It’s a really fun, satisfying job.
Welcome to the boards, nitek.
I like some parts of my job, and I consider my work to be both important and rewarding, but the current climate of my office is such that the workload is incredibly large, lack of staffing has put us into a triage mode, and my chances of getting a much needed and deserved promotion and raise are pretty slim. As I mentioned in another thread, I’m actually doing the work I would have been doing had I been promoted, so I’m really getting screwed over right now.
Judging from some of the recent posts from people who were laid off, I suppose that I should count my blessings.
Still, I’m beginning to look into other places of employment. I’m nearing bar admission, having had my character and fitness interview yesterday and a bar orientation session today (I’m not even a lawyer yet and they’re already making us do Continuing Legal Education courses!). I’ll be sworn in on Monday at 12pm; then it’s time to update my resume.
I feel lucky to have a job, when so many have been laid off. And it pays OK. But I still loathe it.
cuauhtemoc, XJETGIRLX, lovelyluka… for Pete’s sake, what do you people do? I would kill to have a job that paid me to sit in a cubicle with nothing to do all day! I hate my current job. I have way too much responsibility, and I’m required to “be proactive/take initiative” and other such nonsense. I’d love to be able to get a tepmorary job where my time at work could be spent cogitating about what I really want to do with my life. Seriously, how do I get one of your jobs?
Recently quit a job I hated. There is nothing worse than getting up every morning and dreading going to work ( especially if you put in fifty, sixty, or more hours a week ). Went back to work a few weeks ago when I landed a job at a great place that allows me to wake up every morning and look forward to going to work ( pays more too) .
I love my job. The pay is pretty crummy but it’s a set paycheck so I get the same amount every two weeks no matter how many hours I work (and that can be very helpful to a poor college student who has to study instead of go to work). I love what I do though. I tutor the third grade class at a local elementary school and those kids are just the best. I’ve never had so much fun going to work and most of the time it doesn’t even feel like work. I enjoy the feeling I get when those kids come up and tell me about their weekends and when they come up and give me a big hug out of the blue and especially when I help them improve their grades.
I only work around 15-17 hours a week now but I’m hoping I can get more hours next semester with a better class schedule. I like going to work better than going to class. Class actually feels like more work than my actual job (college homework is a lot more taxing on the brain than 3rd grade math problems).
Yup. I love my job.
I too love my job. I wouldn’t be doing anything else.
Gimme a year, and hopefully I’ll really love my job :::evil grin smile:::
Tripler
Pay sucks, but the work kicks ass.
See if you can get a state job?
Or a county job, I understand they’re really cushy. Probably just as unfulfilling though.
Where I work, I get very good benefits, decent pay, and lots of paid time off. However, up until recently, it was very, very boring. Previously, I was a medical transcriptionist. Typing for eight hours a day with a doctor droning on in my ear got old pretty fast. A couple months ago, I applied for an inpatient quality assurance specialist position and was offered the job.
Now that I’ve been promoted, I like my job quite a bit.
I started about a month ago, and I love it. Lots more responsibility, lots more variety, my coworkers are great, and I’m not stuck at a cubicle with earphones crammed in my ears all night. Plus, I got a raise.
All in all, I’m pretty happy.