Do you enjoy your job?
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It's okay. I get paid too much for what I do. I don't really give a rats ass about my career. It's the other part of the day that means more to me.
Yes, it's flexible and it pays well. It also presents challenges and it offers many incentives on staying educated and the benefits to back them.
It pays well, but I don't wake up in the morning excited to go to work. Not a morning person either so it's a struggle to get motivated in the morning. Currently working on starting my own business,,at the point where I'm ready to go out on my own. Hopefully it works out for me. Tough to walk away from a steady paycheck.
Well it is a job, so clearly there are things I would rather be doing. Which is pretty much anything
What Job?
Friggin' poors around here. This place has gone to crap!
Friggin' poors around here. This place has gone to crap!
Good luck! Hope you become as successful as you want to be.
I hated, HATED! my last job. Especially the people I worked for. It was one of thee most absusive and intorallable places I have ever worked. I heavily considered giving up my profession and doing something else. Which would of sucked because I really enjoy what I do and am very good at it.
I have since found a new job and literally smile every day because I love my job. I consider myself very luck.
I have since found a new job and literally smile every day because I love my job. I consider myself very luck.
Neither love it nor hate it but they pay/treat me well and I am good at what I do.
At the end of the day it is just that....an end of the day. I don't have the headaches or worries that often are a negative of having your own business and can haunt you 24/7.
I have had several bad jobs where bad things happened. Whenever I have a bad day now I usually think back on those jobs from the past and it makes me feel much better about my current situation.
At the end of the day it is just that....an end of the day. I don't have the headaches or worries that often are a negative of having your own business and can haunt you 24/7.
I have had several bad jobs where bad things happened. Whenever I have a bad day now I usually think back on those jobs from the past and it makes me feel much better about my current situation.
Did I have a typo? I'm trying this new thing called "proofing"?
I'm a graphic designer, so pretty close!
Yep. I go in at 3 a.m (my choice)work for a few hours when no one's there then play on the Internet all day and go home whenever the hell I want. I don't ever work weekends and the worst part of my job is fighting to keep you damn 'libruls' from taking my money.
Best not let that guard down. We are going to get that money mate.
I know. I can tell I'm fighting a losing battle. Those free cells phones aren't um..free.
You are notorious for turning non-political threads into political threads. Quit being such an asshat.
Big picture, I like my job and my career path. My work is interesting and I get to spend a lot of time looking at new tech and new applications of old tech. Small picture, some days are annoying and I certainly don't like working as much as I like vacations or coaching youth baseball teams, but it's not a bad way to earn a pretty good living.
Yup. I hate my job and am actively looking for something else. I'd probably quit this job without another one lined up but my wife just opened a second vet clinic and so money is tight right now. I did see a couple of good promising jobs this week and a buddy of mine called me and said they were going to have an opening soon as well. I doubt I'll make it past spring in this place.
I work for a large employer in Des Moines and have for 18 years. I am pretty indifferent to my current job. I appreciate the pay and benefits and vacation ... but it's sort of just a job to me. After all, it's why they call it "work." ... In my 18 years I have worked in several different areas of the company and had many different managers. Some I really liked but many of them I did not and many of them left me wondering how they became managers.
As they say, most people leave their manager - not the job. It's interesting, I work in communications (i.e. editor, speech writing, etc.) and I see lots of different information related to consumer research. Read a recent report that only about 25% of employees are engaged in their jobs.
It's a challenge. It's still an employers market. They can pick and choose when they hire because there are so many people still underemployed or unemployed who are looking to make a move. That's why when a job opens up (even internally where I work) I am going against many other candidates from across the country (my company is coast-to-coast + international).
I think employees are under a lot of pressure ... expected to do more ... expected to have more skills ... in my world of communications, I am not also expected to learn graphic design (even though two completely different fields). Employers are to blame for employees not being engaged. It's about making shareholders happy.
For the past 5 years I have simply been telling myself that my job is a means to an end .. meaning ... I will simply use them so I can acquire enough funds to retire. As I mentioned, I love my vacation time and that is very important to me. I am not a "check my email while on vacation or away from work type of guy" ... I leave work at the end of the day ... and my Blackberry sits and charges overnight ... Some days I feel like the guy on Office Space (after he gets hypnotized) ... Days I just don't feel motivated by any of it ... And then other days I do enjoy certain aspects of my job ... Unfortunately, it's just a job to me ... but my company is to thank for that.
As they say, most people leave their manager - not the job. It's interesting, I work in communications (i.e. editor, speech writing, etc.) and I see lots of different information related to consumer research. Read a recent report that only about 25% of employees are engaged in their jobs.
It's a challenge. It's still an employers market. They can pick and choose when they hire because there are so many people still underemployed or unemployed who are looking to make a move. That's why when a job opens up (even internally where I work) I am going against many other candidates from across the country (my company is coast-to-coast + international).
I think employees are under a lot of pressure ... expected to do more ... expected to have more skills ... in my world of communications, I am not also expected to learn graphic design (even though two completely different fields). Employers are to blame for employees not being engaged. It's about making shareholders happy.
For the past 5 years I have simply been telling myself that my job is a means to an end .. meaning ... I will simply use them so I can acquire enough funds to retire. As I mentioned, I love my vacation time and that is very important to me. I am not a "check my email while on vacation or away from work type of guy" ... I leave work at the end of the day ... and my Blackberry sits and charges overnight ... Some days I feel like the guy on Office Space (after he gets hypnotized) ... Days I just don't feel motivated by any of it ... And then other days I do enjoy certain aspects of my job ... Unfortunately, it's just a job to me ... but my company is to thank for that.
Usually during the summer whenever the Royals game is over or I'm home from playing ball (softball guy) so on average around 10:30. I consider my GF and her kids my family even though technically I guess they aren't.
Not being a dickhead (sp), but when do you have time for g/f and kids? I get home by 6/630 most nights and feel as though I don't have enough time for everyone all of the time.
It helps that I only go in 4 days a week so I'm off every Saturday Sunday and Monday.
Not enough time? Have you tried meth, it will really open up the schedule. Imagine the family time.
I used to love my job. But over the years the Corporate BS, mis managed, quota driven selfish driven crap. Has made me now hate it. It pays good , especially if you hit your unreasonable quota's. And has great bennys. But I admit I will walk away within a year or so. Sad but true.
