About a 6. I like the company but it’s been a bitch in the financial/brokerage industry this year. I’m hoping things calm down next year and I can look for something in the same company that has little client contact.
About a 5. It was supposed to be a part time job, but turned into full time on my fourth day. If I had wanted another full time job, it would be a 7 or maybe an 8, but I really wanted part time work at this particular time in my life.
I’ll deal, since it’s understood that I will take Fridays and assorted afternoons without repercussion, but I feel guilty when I do, which rather takes the gild off of the lily.
I’m at about a 7 or 8. I’ve been unemployed since 8/22, but I’m one of the top two in line for a position at an interesting company with great products, so I’m pretty satisfied so far. The only downside to the company is that it’s 20 minutes further away from me than my previous job was. But, you can’t have everything, right?
I’d give my job at least a ‘9’ or higher.
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I don’t make doodely-squat, but I think I’ve found a solution to that.
- I’m relatively independent, have a home office, and my job is very interesting. I’m a quality systems auditor; ISO 9001, mostly. It pays well enough.
The workload is a bit too high.
A 9 for me. I can imagine more interesting work - and there’s a very things I could do that bring in more money, but life is pretty good right now.
8 or 9 out of ten, at least on a good day. I’m not sure why it’s an 8 or 9, since there are a heck of a lot of bad things about being a professor at a cash-strapped public university deep in McCain country, but for some reason I have a hard time imagining myself doing anything else.
Right now it’s about an eight. That’s low for me. It was lower a couple of months ago , when I was assigned to a position with about two hours a week of actual (and boring) work, but about two weeks ago, I was given additional responsibilities which are far more interesting and eliminated the feeling that I was being stuck off in some corner until I retired.
I got laid off earlier this year from a great job. I loved the work, loved the people I worked with and loved my bosses. The job normally takes at least 6 months to get into the groove and I was there about a year. I was getting to the point where I had enough canned shortcuts on the computer to make life a little easier and wham, the company decides to basically abandon the US market. Sigh.
I’d say a 9. I’m a university English teacher in China with the Peace Corps.
The students are great- enthusiastic, friendly, eager to learn and just happy to see me every day. Classes are often outright fun- lots of games and laughing and joking. I actually look forward to going to class.
My hours are pretty minimal (right now I’m only teaching 10 hours a week!) and I have plenty of time to travel over breaks and weekends. Which is probably the best part of the job- I’m in a prime position to travel too all kinds of amazing places- I could go to Tibet over a long weekend if I felt like it. I’m learning Mandarin and get an allowance for a tutor. I have a small but comfortable apartment. I make enough money to live simply but comfortably. My health care is great. And I get the experience of living in a different culture- something that excites me and challenges me every day.
All in all, it’s a great gig. The only way it could be better is if I got paid real money for it.
Right now, easily a 9 or 10. I love the work I do. It’s repetitive only by definition, and each day presents just enough challenge to keep me from getting bored. Likewise, I feel that I’m well suited for it, so I’m never in over my head.
A year ago? Hell, six months ago, I would’ve given this job a 4; 5 on good days. The management back then had no idea how they wanted us to function, there was no direction or vision with our work, and words like “consistency” and “accountability” were unheard of.
Since then, the bulk of our management team has been replaced by people who have at least half a brain and half a heart. We have clear goals, and are empowered with the tools we need to function. We have less supervision, more freedom, and a much improved work ethic. I love about 90% of my co-workers, including all of my managers.
Work doesn’t seem like work.
Seven or eight…depends on the day, really. I’m also in the Golden Handcuffs, as I could never leave here and make what they pay me.:smack:
It’s a decent job at a good company, with an awesome boss. My only problem is I’m not challenged enough. ::sigh:: I get so bored… Well, and it’s a supervisory role, which is fine, except when my peeps decided to play Kindergarten and have squabbles.:mad:
6-7, maybe. I like having a job, full stop, which is not as easy as it sounds these days. I’m doing one of those things that needs to be done, but not something that people actively shy away from because it’s gross or humiliating or anything. It’s just really incredibly boring and brainless. Despite this – or possibly because of it – I do not actually loathe any of my coworkers. I sometimes get up and think, “Ugh, I don’t want to get dressed and walk around today,” but I never have to go in chanting ‘will not kill idiots, will not kill idiots, will not kill idiots’ under my breath. There are Approved Corporate Ways of doing things, but the management generally looks the other way as long as our Non-Approved methods don’t look like they’re going to get anyone injured. And the only manager in the entire building who is unanimously hated by all – and with whom I never actually have to work – has had her power to fire people revoked by someone higher in the food chain, so I can basically ignore her.
The main downside is that it’s a retail-type thing (although not working with customers. Thank Og!), so the hours are incredibly variable, and it pays peanuts. I’m vastly underemployed, but peanuts are better than no peanuts, and since I’m splitting an apartment with the only two people on Earth I do not get the urge to throttle after three days of continual exposure, I don’t have to sit there and choose between paying rent and buying groceries. There are lots of places I would really rather be for between 20 and 40 hours a week, particularly ‘unconscious in bed’ or ‘glued to the Playstation’, but it’s certainly nowhere near as bad as it could be.
This is very enlightening - I thought there would me many more people rating their job happiness much lower. Good that so many people are so happy with their jobs, though.
I work in central government. My current job (i.e. position within my Department - technically it’s not a single job but one post within one job) just about scrapes a 7 because it’s so easy and unchallenging. However I’ve had jobs that were 10 before. I’m currently on the make for promotion so hopefully a job I do after that will be better. As much as the pay could be better it’s not terrible (and will go up each time I get promoted into the “pretty comfortable” range not too long from now), I get lots of holidays and the work environment/culture is very nice.
I think an 8 or 9.
I work in higher education, and I can’t think of a job that I would rather do (I mean, I can think of a lot of jobs that would be fun for a while, and a lot that are more glamorous BUT most of them I wouldn’t want to do day in and day out, or wouldn’t be very good at).
However, if I came into a fortune tomorrow, and didn’t have to work … I wouldn’t miss working. I wouldn’t be at home rolling around in piles of cash and thinking “gee, if only I could go into the office.”
It’s only my 3rd day in this position, but I’ve worked for the company for 1 year today. I’d rank the old job a 6-7.
So far, 8.
I have a 90-120 minute train/foot commute. (By 90-120 minutes, I mean I commute almost four hours daily.)
Imagine how awesome my job must be for me to rank it an 8 with that commute.
I can offer no real justification for my joy since from an outsider’s perspective, it’s mostly administration and account maintenance. Great benefits, 19 days PTO/year, wonderful excellent fabulous coworkers and the knowledge I’m making a difference in the lives of others.
I’ll be sad to go when I return to school.
Some days are a 15, others run about a -4.
In the last 2 1/2 years, my job has gone from a 9 to a 6. They’ve reduced head count by half, increased overtime, and eliminated technical training. Sign of the times, I guesss–at least the pay is good.
I’ll say probably an 8 or a 9.
I do work that I enjoy, with nice people, somewhere that I feel like I make a small difference, and I’m frequently recognized for doing a good job, with no backhanded BS from management. Plus, I make about 15k more than my previous job.