I’m curious how others feel about their job, and basically working for a living.
Poll to follow.
Kind of a hard question.
I said “I like my job” but it’s a relative like; I like it more than any other job I have ever done and I am very, very aware that I have a pretty good deal going.
If I did not need the money I would resign immediately, not a moment’s hesitation. I like it as compared to other jobs; I dislike having to do it.
Over the past year, I’ve gotten to work on a project that presses all of my “competency” buttons. It feels great being 100% confident about what I’m doing because I know I know it better than anyone else. For once in my life, I am not wracked by self-doubt or fear that I’m imposter. So I voted “I love my job”. Maybe next year around this time, when the project is finished, I’ll have to swap “love” for “like”.
Last night, late at night in the office a few of us were still there and joking as we worked away that each and every day we are to chant the mantra, “I love my job, and my job loves me.”
I have a brand new job at the company I’ve been with for some years. I love the job, but it’s still too new so the jury’s still out. For this poll I voted I love my job. Ask again in about six months.
And yeah I’m with Rick. If I didn’t need the money I’d be gone in a heartbeat.
Congratulations, that is awesome. My job used to be that way, now there is so much bureaucracy I can’t scratch my butt without written permission from my four different bosses. Strange as it seems, not being allowed to do useful, interesting work is worse than any actual work.
I love my workplace. People do a good job and are serious about it but at the same time, people don’t bring the hammer down for every error, I’ve never heard my boss yell at an employee, people have a “family comes first” attitude, etc. Compared to the last place I worked, it’s an amazing difference. I also make a fair salary which was a significant bump from my last place.
My job itself I could take or leave. It’s a position I pretty much fell into and it’s “a job” that pays the bills and is reasonably secure and I’m competent at even if I don’t have any passion for it.
On balance, I picked “like” since I’m happier with my employment situation than I’ve ever been before but it’s nothing I love.
My job is not challenging in the slightest. I love the people that I work with despite a few rotten apples. The monotony of the job can be soul crushing at times. There isn’t one portion of my job that requires thinking outside of an intelligence level I obtained in middle school. That is NOT a brag- my job is that simple. I’ve applied for many jobs since I got this one but I haven’t had any luck. I really know my stuff, have a great resume and cover letter, wear a tailored suit, and…the job goes to someones cousin, I guess. I’ve seen the alternates they’ve picked and I really don’t understand it. I’m very limited in job choices since I want to stay in government. Ugh.
I’m very lucky.
My job is teaching chess, roleplaying and computer games at a private school. 
A few years ago, I could have retired, but I still do part-time work simply because I enjoy it.
For a long time, I had two careers running side-by-side that I loved. I retired from one last year to pursue the other full-time. Life is good.
I teach sweet, talented, nerdy, poor kids who want to learn. Some of them are among the most talented minds of their generation. Many of them think I am the smartest, funniest, wisest person in the world. My boss likes and respects me.
There’s a lot of crap, of course, but I wouldn’t quit if I could. That said, this job would be EVEN BETTER if I had a housekeeper.
I like my job so much that I’d probably keep doing it after winning the lottery. At least for awhile.
I used to love it but as I near retirement and realize how the office politics have been going on for years, I can now tolerate it. When I’m not extracting daggers from my back, it can be quite a pleasant way to spend a day.
I’m with Bullitt and Rick – I really like what I do, but if I won the lottery, I’d be gone.
Normally I love my job, but I’ve had a tough week. My company had a lot of attrition earlier in the year, so we’ve lot a bunch of institutional knowledge. So it’s tough to get a new project or process up and going. I’m spending a lot of time on things like setting up databases, which isn’t what I was supposed to be doing. But there’s no one else to do it right now (this is for a new project, and the DB guys can only handle what they do normally; there aren’t enough of them either).
It will get better, I know. We’re hiring, and once we’re past the holidays it will be better. But getting there is hard. And sometimes frustrating.
That said, my boss is cool, I get to work from home twice a week (more if we have a snowstorm). So, you know.
It’s boring but pays well and offers good benefits. In a bad economy it’s as good as one could ask for.
sorry, double post.
The job I’m in now fits my personality and skill set better than any I’ve ever had, pays well and I have great bosses - but I work to live, I don’t live to work.
Love it! Only been there like three weeks but management is very cool and work with/along side us a lot and the mix of people is so wide that its almost like something out of central casting. The job itself isn’t rocket science (package sorting center) but there is a certain skill to it and the failure rate of new starts is like 75%. It gives me a sense of accomplishment my last job never did.
That’s pretty much my attitude. To the extent that I like my job, I like it on the scale of jobs, not on the scale of things I could do if my income was independent of how I spend my days.
These days, I go back and forth between “I like my job” and “I tolerate my job,” which is kind of a shame because even as recently as a year ago, I’d have been somewhere in between “I like my job” and “I love my job.” But things have changed: agency reorganizations and other changes have added responsibilities to my job that play to my weaknesses, rather than my strengths, so it’s become a lot more stressful; those same changes have resulted in a much more complex organizational structure where the lines of authority and responsibility are much less clear than they used to be, also adding to the stress; and they have been changing our virtual environment - that is, what we encounter when we work on our computers, which is pretty much all the time we’re not in gorram meetings - on an extremely frequent basis, and they do these changes with little forewarning.
With respect to that last one, I just want them to figure out what their intended end state is, and get there, so that we can get to a configuration of our drives, servers, email clients, word processing software, etc. that we’ll stay with for long enough to get used to, so that we’re not forever wasting time figuring out how to do our jobs in new environments.
Grrrr. Argh.
I like my job but hate the people I work with. What exactly would I vote here? I would consider job environment to be half the battle in enjoyability. After all, it’s because I hate the people that I keep fishing around for another job. I’d happily stay if I worked with different people.
I guess it evens out to “tolerable” nowadays.