Me: Wireless computer networking specialist, like it, pay sucks.
Radio DJ, programmer, producer
love it
pay sucks
hours suck and there are many of them
very good benefits
basically I can’t complain
rats
Me: Non-profit environmental organization.
Understaffed.
Overworked (because of the above).
Underpaid (for the amount of work I do in one 7-hour shift)
Love it.
Absolutely.
Non-tangible benefits far outweigh the stress factors.
(Okay, I could use a vision plan on my insurance, but that’s okay.)
Nine-to-five: Magazine copy editor. HATE it. The literary equivalent of following the circus elephants with a pail and shovel.
Freelance: Biographer. LOVE it. Doesn’t make much money, but it’s the only thing that makes me wanna get out from under the covers.
Administrative assistant to the director of a tv & radio awards program at a big-ass university. Meaning I do all the day to day stuff, while the boss does the flashier things.
To borrow screech-owl’s list, I’m:
Underpaid
Overworked (yet bored)
Don’t love it, but it’s putting me through grad school.
I work for one of the big three national credit bureaus (you know, we’re the folks you can thank for that instant auto loan you got on your good credit, or the folks you hate because you couldn’t get that instant auto loan on your bad credit).
I’m a manager…blahh…it’s the lowest. I work with a bunch of corporate slaves who have no life, spend too much time at work and too much time travelling. They uproot their whole families and move away from loved ones for a few extra bucks like it’s nothing.
I hate it. I’d rather dig ditches for a living.
On top of that, most of them are dimwits, unable to approach anything intelligently, and they’re too busy backstabbing or having knives removed from their own backs.
All they do is complete tasks all day, many not very well…but they complete tasks - zippity friggin do-da. No charisma, no personalities…a big bunch of “nothings”.
It’s the freakin’ lowest. I hate it.
Anybody got a job for a fun, brash intelligent guy in the Phily area? Someone with brains, personality and a desire to do things right and do them better? Anybody think that having fun at work could actually make people MORE PRODUCTIVE and HAPPIER? Anybody believe, like me, that rules are guidelines and not set in stone to anyone reasonably intelligent? Anybody interesteed in working with a human being? Please e-mail me!!! HELP!!!
i’m a syadmin in a distribution center. actually, i’m more than that. i’m the entire MIS department here, which means that not only do i have the normal 40hrs, but i’m on call. even my vacations (there have been 2 vacation days for me this year) are interrupted with calls from work. i hate my job, but i love what i do.
waitress - normally love it, but the hours aren’t the best, some of my coworkers aren’t the brightest, get an occasional undesirable customer, and money isn’t guaranteed. Make 2.13 and depend on my tips. I’ll get anywhere from 7 to 25 dollars an hour.
Coffeehouse - love it, pay stinks, have to be up early also.
giftshop - love the discounts, pay really really stinks, hours are good.
All this and I’m a student as well. 13 classes away from my degree…
I’m counting down…
I work at AOL as a tech assistant. I used to like it. I used to have to think. Now they have this new tool out that basically tells us what to do. We have this rule here - 1 call one fix. You use the tool, give the member the first fix it gives you, tell the member to try it and if it doesn’t work call us back. I HATE that. And the people I had to deal with were to dumbest of the dumb, usually. It’s bad for the BP when you have to explain to some stupid woman who insists on telling you 50 bazillion times how computer stupid she is how to freaking right-click. 6 times!!! But now I’m training for DSL tech, which is new and cutting edge here at AOL, so that should be better. So I guess you can say I hated my job, but now I actually kinda like it.
SHERLOCK!!! Lol, I did the AOL Training, but they gave me the one shift bid I absolutly could not work, so I went to CGS (in Tampa)…
Small world I suppose.
User Help Desk. A great company. But work is very slow and I work the graveyard shift. The moneys ok. When we get some new customers in, it’ll be a lot more fun.
Support engineer - Telcom. Sit around waiting for stuff to go wrong.
Overpaid.
Underworked.
Love it.
Administrative Assistant to the Underwriting Manager at a very large insurance company.
I love my job. Occassionally I’m too busy to read/post to the board and that’s the only drawback… that and the fact that it takes me 30 minutes to drive here from where I live.
I work from 8-4 Monday through Friday and I make really good money for the little bit of work that I do. The benefits suck but they’re better than nothing. I also have a really great boss to work for. He doesn’t look over my shoulder and he doesn’t watch every little move I make because he knows that I’ll get my work done and that it will be done right.
Administrative Assistant to the Regional Manager for Children’s World Learning Centers.
My boss is constantly traveling, so I always have to keep myself busy. I’m usually lurking here the better part of the day.
I’m also a part-time record producer and engineer for
Delta-9 Studios in Elgin, IL. Hopefully this will be my full time gig very soon.
Quality assurance, software- and web-testing. The pay is decent, but then, I’ve only been out of college a year. I love it. It’s a challenge to hunt and track bugs in code that isn’t mine, and it’s gleefully selfishly fun to say “Ok, it’s broken, now you go fix it” to the developer.
I can’t imagine what it’d be like if I hated my job and couldn’t bear to get out of bed. I’m probably luckier than I realize.
Kindergarten teacher at a somewhat hoity-toity private school. The hours are good (part-time), the pay sucks (of course), the kids are great (for the most part), but it’s the stupid parents of the kids that I hate.
I was thinking of starting a Pit thread about them.
Some examples:
You spent 20 minutes at Back-to-School night telling me how smart your kid is, then he gets here and I find out, that at age five, he can’t even recognize his own name.
We explained that your child needs a BACKPACK for school. Not a tote bag, not a mesh grocery bag, not a paper sack. A BACKPACK. How hard is that?
Read the newsletter I send home, dummy. One comes home every week. Why is it still in your child’s backpack a week later, all crumpled up? You look like an idiot when you show up at school with your child and it turns out school is closed that day for an in-service training seminar. Don’t say, “No one told me school was closed”, because it was in the newsletter AND it was on the school calendar you got at the beginning of the year.
Ok, that’s enough hijacking, I guess. When I get home later I just may have to start that Pit thread.
Design Test Engineer at a Midsized semiconductor company.
Basically my job is pass/fail new designs and characterize them before they go to production on them. I get the specs on the new chips the day it is decided to design them, I sit down with the chip designer and we both go over what needs to be tested. I then design new test hardware if needed, and new software (Always needed).
The pay is SoSo for the valley.
Am getting burned out, I am much better with designing small widgets and software modules to be later used than trying to come up with a complete test.
Legal Editor. I went to law school and now I edit books for other lawyers.
Used to be a fabulous job–lots of research, writing and showing off how much smarter I am than many of the lawyers who write for us.
Now I sit around all day, putting in SGML tags. Yeah.
I am underpaid and severly underappreciated. Someday I hope to become a law librarian. Resumes are on the way.
Administrative assistant in a nonprofit political activism organization.
Love the organization, need more interesting work for the job.
I make beans and live in New York City.
I’d love to work harder, as long as it isn’t punching in more names into the database.
Ivy League degree. Great intentions. :shrug and sigh:
Help Desk support operator/LAN Administrator/Network Engineer/Indentured servant to the U.S. Army
First of all, the pay really sucks! The benefits are greatly overexaggerated. Most of the people I work with are complete morons who, mostly, don’t really have legitimate work orders. I am the low man on the totem pole and am force fed just about as much crap as humanly possible by the people who outrank me. Everyone thinks they are the most important person and expect me to drop everything I am doing right away when they need service. Even though I go out of my way to go that extra mile, all I am thanked with is more demands.
On the upside, the work itself is really enjoyable. Although I hate the Army, I do really enjoy my job. Things could be worse. If only we lived in a perfect world…
I am really proud of the fact that I do my job really well. Even though the people are terribly demanding of me, it is rewarding to be called names like “Guru” and “Dr. Long”. And more rewarding still (although when I am having a bad day it can be rather annoying) is the fact that of the 300+ users that we support, most of them bypass both of my bosses and come directly to me for support. Not to brag, but it is because I have a much larger knowledge base of the work and am much more expedient.