Short poll about your job.

1. What’s your job title?
Instructional technologist, and it’s my own fault – I was asked to come up with a job title and didn’t realize I would be filling it.

2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?
1%/4%/95%

3. What level are you?
Worker

4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for?
Large

**5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? **
Not easy to tell. I say four, except that my boss and her boss are roughly equal.

6. How transferable are your skills?
Very.

7. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.
What’s the best thing job wise to happen this year?
The guy who’s been a PITA to our department is leaving.

  1. What’s your job title?Retail Counter Person

  2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?10/20/80 Numbers do not equal 100% due to rounding

  3. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)Worker

  4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)Company= HUGE Store level= small

  5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)Three to Five

  6. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)I sell things. I might be able to go back to my last place of work. Never burn bridges

  7. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.How could you make your job easyer? Smarter coustomers. Not likely to happen.

  1. What’s your job title?

Marketing Coordinator

  1. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?

Love = 80%
Tolerate = 15%
Hate = 5%

  1. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)

I’m a worker, I guess.

  1. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)

On your scale, it would be larger (60 employees), on my scale, it’s small, but not tiny.

  1. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)

One, I report to the business manager, then the President.

  1. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)

I got this job because my odd collection of skills is very adaptable.

  1. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.

How flexible/family friendly is your work place?

My company is very flexible. I can change my schedule when I need to as long as I work a minimum of 32 hrs (needed for ‘full time’ status). Right now I work 8-5 on Mondays and 8-2 the rest of the week. They encourage taking time off to go on field trips with your kids school, or to work in the classroom. Extreme family friendly.

  1. What’s your job title?

Systems Administrator (or perhaps Sr. Systems Administrator. HR ‘redefined’ everyone’s titles a while back, and I’m not sure)

  1. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?

Hate: 5%
Tolerate: 70%
Love: 25%

If there were another category between ‘Tolerate’ and ‘Love’, it would probably get about 50%

  1. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)

Worker

  1. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)

480 employees as of 5/1. Personally, I’d call that ‘mid-sized’

  1. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)

4

  1. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)

Every company with more that about a dozen computers needs at least one of me, so I’d say they’re pretty darn transferable

  1. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.

How long can you see youself in your current job?

I’ve been here almost 10 years so far, working my way up within my job classification (with a brief stint in Lower Management, which I was really not all that upset to see end). Since my company is one of the few private firms left with an actual Retirement Plan (that’s free [as in beer] money), and since my job is also one of my hobbies, I could see myself there for the duration.

  1. What’s your job title?

Senior Archaeologist

  1. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?

90% love, 8% tolerate, 2% hate. It basically breaks down to the fact that I love fieldwork, analysis, working with other specialists, and interacting with the public; tolerate working with most clients; and hate working with a few clients.

  1. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)

Project manager supervising a full-time staff of 6 and additional temporary staff of 5-20 at any given time.

  1. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)

Medium.

  1. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)

Zero. I report to the owner(s).

  1. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)

Work would be easy to find in the private sector, I have a ton of contacts and it is a pretty small community. But it would be much more difficult to find something at my current rate of pay.

  1. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it. Have you ever found a dinosaur?

No. Archaeologists don’t do dinosaurs.

  1. What’s your job title?
    Senior Computer Scientist

  2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?

Depends on the day. I’ve been doing this job far too long and am bored out of my mind. However, they pay me really well, I work at home, and occasionally the work is interesting. Most other times its a bit of a grind.

  1. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)

Worker bee. I’ve been a manager/supervisor and it was really stressful and not rewarding. I like this better.

  1. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)

Your scale is ridiculous. 51 employees is “large”? My company is about 4000 people, and its not considered especially enormous.

  1. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)

I think 5 or 6

  1. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)

Really transferable – programming is all light typing, analysis, and lots of pragmatism in getting a system to work.

OTOH, 25% of my company has migrated to India, and I’m in my mid 40’s, which might make me virtually unemployable because of age discrimination and dirt-cheap engineers overseas, should I lose my job for any reason, a prospect that scares me shitless. I know a guy who’s an IT wiz, director level, who specializes in network security. He got laid off and hasn’t found a job in two years. He’s 51. So I’m watching my investments, thinking about what a good second career might be, and hoping to make it to retirement.

  1. What’s your job title?
    Software Test Engineer with a number after it. 2 or 3, I don’t remember

  2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?
    5% hate, 90% tolerate, 5% love

  3. What level are you?
    Worker

  4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for?
    Large, although I’d consider us a medium size. 3000 employees that I can think of, not another HP or IBM

  5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men?
    Five

  6. How transferable are your skills?
    Pretty transferable. Network dude, SAN dude, software test dude, or any combination of them.

  7. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.
    EOS and FOS, but encryption is pretty close.

1. What’s your job title?

Cook. More accurately, emmerdeur, débrouillard and factotum. I’ll even put that on business cards. :stuck_out_tongue:
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2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?**

25/35/40. Used to be a lot more hate in the old days, but there are some aspects of my job that I genuinely enjoy, like holding down the dinner rush all by my onesy back there in the tiny kitchen. It’s exhilarating. I whirl around the kitchen like a dervish in a mad culinary frenzy.

3. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)

I suppose somewhere between supervisor and worker. Like, I actually do work, but I have minions under me to do my bidding as well. The dishwasher is my underling, and that’s about it. Waitstaff don’t exist in my world, except as objects to be yelled at when they screw up.

4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)

Medium - about two or three dozen employees. Peaks during holidays, and troughs during the summer slow season.

5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)

Zero. I report directly to my boss. When he’s not around, I report to the manager, who reports to the boss. So, between zero and one, depending on where Number One is.
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6. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)**

Very transferable. Restaurants only really care if you show up on time and do your job, and I do both very well. And there are plenty of restaurants in Tampa.

7. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.

How much should you tip your waitron? Depends. Most of the waitstaff are whiny prima donnas who think they’re entitled to a high tip just because they took your order. Waitstaff compare favorably to Vogons — they’re stupid, inefficient and half of them can’t even spell. You should tip them as much as you feel charitable, much in the way you give a homeless man a fiver so you can go home later that night and not feel guilty. But, there are a select few, an élite, who deserve the coveted übertip. Cherish them, and sit in their section often, for they are gods among mere mortals like myself, and I am honored to cook their offerings back in the greasepits of the kitchen.

  1. Optical Research Engineer (Clumsy, isn’t it)

  2. 80% Love 10% Tolerate 10% Hate (I work for a start up, the politics can be killer)

  3. Technical Expert. Basically I consult to the rest of the company.

  4. Large, ~140 people. (On Edit: Which in my world is small… I have worked for 2 companies with > 10000 employees and one with >40000 IIRC)

    1. My boss is the CTO.
  5. Very transferable. I don’t have my PhD yet which in some ways limits me, but in other ways makes it very easy for me to get a job as I am not over qualified or overly specialized but can do basically any job involving light.

  6. Sort’ve blue-ish purple.

  1. What’s your job title?

Project Geologist

  1. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?

Hate 10% (stupid Oracle based timesheets and expenses)/ Tolerate 30% (working weird hours)/ Love 60% (everything else)

  1. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)

I am an upper middle level worker bee

  1. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)

It’s a multinational environmental consulting firm with more than 5000 employees globally.

  1. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)

I have no idea. Some people who are upper management have been with the company 20+ years.

  1. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)

Very transferable. I’m a geologist with background in groundwater remediation, hazardous materials and, well, geology.

  1. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.
    -Completely unrelated…
    Q:Eye color?
    A: Green

Attorney-Advisor

I make a lot of money for the hours I put in :wink:

Non-supervisory

Gigantic. I work for the federal govt.

There are only 2 grades higher than me in my agency. shrug It’s kind of irrelevant.

I’m lucky in that I’m one of the rare Feds who does a lot of work with the private sector. I’m a transactional attorney and I work in banking/corporate/finance. I could probably go work for Deutsche or Wells Fargo after the recession recedes. Actually, my predecessor is now at Wells Fargo. My skills are pretty transferable because of the specific transactions I do requiring significant interaction with private sector law firms and clients-and the fact that I chose to work in the field rather than being placed in DC doing policy work. Not always the case if you choose to be a fed.

  1. Assistant manager

  2. From like to despise, depending on my mood or the day of the week. Usually tolerance.

  3. Assistant manager

  4. Large - 50-ish convenience stores, plus office and support staff.

  5. About 4.

  6. Very easily - I’ve been doing this for sigh years.

Joe

  1. What’s your job title? Correction Lieutenant

  2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time? I don’t know about love and hate. I like the fact that I do my job well.

  3. What level are you? Supervisor

  4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? Large plus.

  5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? The local man at my prison is the superintendent; three levels above me. Then there’s higher levels in Albany.

  6. How transferable are your skills? Not at all.

  1. What’s your job title? PA/Programme Administrator

  2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time? I’ve only been in the role three months so still quite positive… 0/75/25

  3. What level are you? Worker bee

  4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? Huge and global

  5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? 3 I think

  6. How transferable are your skills? Extremely

  7. What’s the fastest land animal? The cheetah. Not to be confused with The Cheat.

  1. What’s your job title?

Q/A Services Associate. That title has nothing to do with my real job.

  1. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?

10/10/80

  1. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)

Worker

  1. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)

Large. Our division only has about 100 but we have many divisions in different states.

  1. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)

3

  1. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)

I don’t have a “set” job. I do lots of different tasks. The skills I have to do them is transferable but the majority of the knowledge I have is not.

  1. Do you like the people you work with?

Yes. We all make a great team and work well together. I never had to really work with others but that changed a little over a year ago. I never knew I had the skills to train others and the patience to deal with it.

  1. What’s your job title?

Director for Aceh Programs

  1. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?

20/10/70ish

  1. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)

Director for large field office and subsidary sat. offices.

  1. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)

I manage 120+ people who are part of a larger organization.

  1. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)

2

  1. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)

Not very, I run humanitarian aid projects anything else I’d suck at.

  1. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it. What is your unofficial job title?
    King of Aceh

**1. What’s your job title? ** Student Assistent

**2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time? ** 20/30/50

**3. What level are you? **

Assistent - Bottom Rung

4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for?

Medium

5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men?

It’s a pretty flat organization - 1 person in between.

6. How transferable are your skills?
I could work in a lot of research-oriented organizations … as i’m hoping to.

1. What’s your job title?
Database Administrator

2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?
2/93/5

**3. What level are you? **
Worker/supervisor (I am the “Lead” DBA)

**4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? **
About 500, which I would consider small

**5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? **
3 or 4

**6. How transferable are your skills? **
Very transferable, but I’d probably have to move to find a job quickly.

7. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.
What do you enjoy most about your job? Going home at the end of the day.

  1. What’s your job title?
    (Workers’ Compensation defense) Paralegal
  2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?
    Mostly “tolerate”, occasional “love”, very rare "hate"
  3. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)
    Worker, although I am more or less a department unto myself
  4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)
    The firm has 50+ employees, but the office has ~25.
  5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)
    In the department, 0. In the firm, 1.
  6. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)
    Hmmm. This is my first job doing this so I don’t know, really. I wouldn’t think it would be that hard, especially at my pay grade ( :mad: )
  7. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.
    Yes, I would love free cheese.
  1. What’s your job title?
    Bridge Management Engineer

  2. What ratio of Hate/tolerate/love for your job do you experience over time?
    5-75-20

  3. What level are you? (worker, supervisor, manager, director, or something else)
    Supervisor

  4. Loosely speaking - what size is the company you work for? (small - 1 - 10 employees, medium - 10 - 50 employees, large - 50+ employees)
    Major State Government

  5. How many levels are there between you and the top man/men? (if you are the top man, then technically it’s -1. as zero is one below top man because there’s nobody between)
    4

  6. How transferable are your skills? (this is just a pure interpret the question however you want, just talk about it - how easilly could you find a similar job if brown coloured matter got terminally near to a rotating wind generation device)
    Not terribly. Every state has someone like me and if was willing to relocate it would be moderately easy. I’d have a much easier time getting work designing bridges.

  7. Seven is where you make up the question and answer it.
    Would you rather take a promotion to a job you didn’t like or stay at the current level in a job you like?
    Stay in the job I like. I did the promotion for the sake of promotion once and hated every second of it.