# How happy are you with your job?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-with-your-job/464903>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 23, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-with-your-job/464903 "2008-09-23T23:07:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-with-your-job/464903/41 "2008-09-25T03:23:49Z")

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I work in post-production. I’d say I’m about a 7 or 8.

Pros: Cool work, interesting and diverse co-workers, good benefits, commute is a 20-minute walk, I kick ass at it

Cons: Unpredictible workload, pay could be higher

Not bad, considering I sorta just fell into this job.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-with-your-job/464903/42 "2008-09-25T05:41:04Z")

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I’d give it a 7, most days. I’m talking about the main job, which is PT, teaching college students English comp. and more. What keeps it from being a 10? Well…construction that never ends, an awful lot of paper and take-home work, and the fact that I cannot get a freakin’ interview for a FT position no matter what.

I give my secondary job, assessment test scoring, a fat 9. No work to take home, just a few hours, fun colleagues, some very funny sentences, and I can snack and drink coffee all I want while I do the job.

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