# Do you like your job? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-your-job/791207 "2017-07-14T01:09:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-your-job/791207/41 "2017-07-15T16:52:59Z")
Not to be That Guy, but I like my job. I have been there long enough to be the go-to guy for lots of the systems, and I start an interesting-looking new project Tuesday. My last job I lasted sixteen years and got told I did a good job, or Thank You, approximately twice. I switched to my current job. About three months in, my wife said “you know, you are a lot easier to live with since you changed jobs”, so apparently it sucked worse than I realized. I can’t complain, although I do - I am currently on call, and it gives me a chance to gripe about how everyone else is doing things wrong and not following thru. And I even can get things changed. One of the advantages of being an old curmudgeon is that people get nervous when I growl. I did it in a meeting a couple of weeks back, and my goodness, has the subject of the growl cleaned up his act and started hitting his deadlines. Regards, Shodan grrrr… ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-your-job/791207/42 "2017-07-15T17:42:47Z")
I like my job. Right now there’s not enough work, so it’s on the boring side, but the actual work is satisfying. I have a new boss who’s easy-going, but she doesn’t understand enough about what I do to want my help, and a new uber-boss who is the same. With my old boss and uber-boss, we’d troubleshot, with me through out different data sets to help ID problems. Now they ask for data after they’re already working on problems. Still, although I could be paid more, I’m making more now than at any other time in my life. I get 31 days of paid time off and work from home about half the time. If I have to work, these are all good things. StG ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-your-job/791207/43 "2017-07-15T17:51:26Z")
The job I have right now is objectively speaking the best I’ve ever had - it pays decently, allows me to work from home, features good bosses and nice coworkers, and isn’t too stressful. But it is simply something I do to pay the bills; there isn’t really, any thrill or enjoyment out of it exactly. Using the “lottery jackpot test” - if I won a sufficiently-sized jackpot in the lottery, I’d quit this job at once. No hard feelings whatsoever, but I would have better things to be doing. I am guessing that at least 95% of jobs in society fit that jackpot-test criteria. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-your-job/791207/44 "2017-07-15T18:45:20Z")
Love my job. It’s very stressful right now (health policy), but it’s interesting, important, and I work with phenomenal people. I’d prefer never to have to commute, and Capitol Hill meetings are not a thrill, but the rest is a treat. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-your-job/791207/45 "2017-07-15T20:58:24Z")
I like being an ER nurse because Tuesday is always different than Monday, I make a decent buck, and every so often I get to pull a kid out of an open grave, which is pretty fuckin’ cool. Having said that, some days truly suck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-your-job/791207.md?page=2)