After several years of working a variety of different jobs, I’ve finally got a job that I don’t hate. I don’t dread going to work everyday. It’s quite a change.
Granted, I’m finally doing what I went to school several years for (I’m a lawyer). But I’ve never had a job that I ever really liked.
My wife, on the other hand, has liked most of the jobs she’s had. She’s hated a few, but by and large, she’s enjoyed the different work she’s done.
So how about you? You loving your job, and can’t imagine doing anything else. Or are you hating your job, and just biding your time until the next big thing? Or somewhere in between.
But it’s the reason I came back to school to do what I’d wanted to do several years before, and the part time gig I have in the university library…I love it, and I can’t wait to finish (all coursework will be done as of the 29th) and go out and be a librarian full time.
I love my job! It’s the career I always wanted (I’m a lawyer). The other jobs I’ve had (store clerk, welder, college registrar, development officer) were just to get a paycheck. Kids need shoes, you know? When the kids grew up, I went back to school to be what I wanted to be and I love every minute of it!!!
I work part time and I actually like my job, I was *very lucky * to get it. I certainly don’t hate it but I do not want to do it all my life. It is a kick back job… after school I go to work at a Daycare about 2 blocks away I make the lil’ kids a snack soon as I get there and then play with them for about 2 and a half hours and go home. It’s great XTra money but it is only on 3 days a week and 3 hours a day. After I graduate that job is history.
However, I hate all but four or five of the people in the entire place, and they hate me back. It’s not that I don’t suffer fools gladly, it’s that I don’t suffer them at all. The place has the most inept, ineffectual management I’ve ever encountered, and office politics, only magnified x 500 are the order of the day. I refuse to play, so I pay for it. This means I am being prevented from advancing. I was the most skilled person at my particular function who had ever walked in their door. That’s why I’m still there. Otherwise, they’d find a way to get rid of me and make it look like it was my fault.
A project that was mismanaged by incompetence all around for 5 years in a row, until last year when they hired outsiders of a different level of incompetence to finish it, has just come to fruition. In the credits, which will be seen and heard by hundreds of thousands of people, the names of the folks who did most of the rescue work are conspicuously absent. Including mine. It’s like I didn’t spend six months of my life slaving over a hot computer to make morons sound like God’s favorite children. And now the general manager has taken the notion that she can talk down to me like I was a three-year-old.
You’re all saying, “well why don’t you work somewhere else?” There isn’t another company of similar type and equipment outlay in the entire state, and I’d have to move a minimum of 400 miles to find somewhere remotely like it. My wife has two careers and we’re going to be in debt for the next decade and more. We can’t move.
I like my job well enough for the moment, but I can’t wait to get the damn thing finished and do something else. (I’m writing the user manual for some software my dad’s company did, and I know jack shit about insurance, so it’s really confusing at times, and I’ve got people in, like, Texas who are pressuring me to get it done faster because they’re confused too.)
I love it. The people in my department are awesome, the work is awesome, the environment is very appreciated. I might have to spend at least a decade here.
I didn’t like my old job very much. The work itself wasn’t too bad - selling bath and body products. The problem was the women I worked with. Everyone was always gossiping, talking behind people’s backs. There was always some sort of silent feud going on between at least two of them. It became exhausting trying to stay out of it. Is it always like this working with a group of women? I’m a woman, going into a career path that is mostly dominated by women, and I’m scared that I’ll be dealing with this all my life!
I eventually had to leave when the boss wanted me to work more hours. She knew I was a full-time student, but she really needed me to take on two more shifts a week because she was just so stressed. When I told her that taking on extra hours might affect my grades, she said “But you’re so smart you don’t need to study. I need you here so much more! Can’t you study on the bus?” :rolleyes:
Love my job, hate where I am working. Granted I will never get rich doing what I do, but there is nothing else out there I would rather do. Unfortunately the place I work is run by administrators who have no clue as to what it is like “in the trenches” so to speak. It has likely been decades since any of them have been out and dealt with what we put up with. Also, I do like most of the people I work with on a daily basis.
There are a lot of things that sound good written on paper, but in actual practice just don’t work. Also, the higher ups in charge are almost like the old cliques in high school. If you are not part of “The Group” you are nobody. And heaven forbid you get on anyones “bad list”. If you do you are screwed there.
Morale is very low right now and our director blames it on the fact that our pay is low. That is only a small piece of the problem, but if you try to tell them, that they essentially put there hands on their ears and say “naaah nahhh naaaa I can’t hear you”.
I love what I do and the career I’ve chosen. I feel appreciated by my manager and I like most of my co-workers a lot.
I just wish I could kiss the babies…
Cyn, OB/GYN RN
I hate my job. I hate several of my coworkers. I cannot wait until I can go back to college and get out of this entire line of work, much less this specific job. :mad:
Unfortunately, I am not working right now. I was laid off about three weeks ago, so I am seriously ISO employment. I can’t say I’ve ever loved any of the jobs I’ve had - I either hated them or didn’t mind going.
I’m waiting tables, and while I don’t hate that, I hate … that the money I make is never guaranteed, that I get treated like a child at work, that I only work nights and weekends, etc. I have an interview Wednesday morning, though, and if I get that job… I think it’ll be just the thing I need and I’ll love it.
My job is split between two locations. One I love, one I hate. The one I hate is full of bitchy hens who have nothing better to do than gossip and snipe at one another. The other site, I am in a room with two other people who are adults and behave accordingly.
I hate my actual job, copy editing: mindless sweeping up the punctuation and grammar of kids half my age with one-tenth my abilities and background. No creative or editorial input. V. frustrating.
But the magazine itself doesn’t suck; most of the people here are nice; and I really like having a regular paycheck and medical benefits.
I have so many friends (most of them better qualified and more talented than I) out of work that I wouldn’t dare complain about my job!
Love it. It was the job I was meant to do. Teaching todays youth about human behavior in a collegiate setting. I love it. A little design work on the side just adds to the enjoyment.
