Do you enjoy your job?

[Betancore]

Currently working at a pizza place and at a radio station and I hope to god that I'm not stuck working at Pizza Capers for the rest of my life. It's fun, and it's relatively well paid (compared to some of the other degrading jobs students are forced to get) but it's not something I'd want to still be doing in ten years time. Or even five, for that matter. But I guess at age 21, as a poor uni student, I wouldn't have much choice anyway.

 

[Illesdan]

I've been working at the local newspaper for seven years now. I love the work, my co-workers do their best, but the management has its head shoved in the septic tank. Pretty much why I gave up management, stepped down and just try to help out my department as much as I can.

Sadly, this job isn't really paying the bills anymore. When I stepped down, I not only took a pretty good paycut (12.00 hourly to 9.20) but my hours turned very unreliable, as well. Some weeks, I get 32-40+ (depending on work) all the way down to 22.

Soo... I accepted a position as a cashier at the casino 25 minutes away. I'm just waiting for the gaming regulatory people run amok through my background, badger my friends, piss off my current boss and tell me whether I'm in or not. It shouldn't be a problem; I was a blackjack dealer there ten years ago, and before that, I oversaw the graveyard janatorial department for them.

So, yeah. I foresee keeping both jobs. I'd rather have money than a life right now.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I'm a Linguistic Games Tester. My job rocks.

Localization tester?

Nah,not quite. Someone translates the text, and I check for any mistakes in spelling, grammar, structure. If a slang-word seems appropriate, I'm allowed to make suggestions. Not quite a Localization tester, though.

How'd you get into that, if I might ask?

 

[Erja_Perttu]

My job sounds like shit. I'm a Contracts Administrator for a midsized project management company. It's mainly a desk job, but occasionally I have to wade through factories with seizure lighting and floors made of old, trodden down fish guts. I stink sometimes when I get home.

Do I love it?

Hell yeah. My co-workers are fantastic, that fish factory is on a dock with a big fat adorable seal under it called Clarence, whom I can feed. The scenery is always changing, my work is different every time and my company is pleased as punch to send me on as many college courses as they can get me to do, so they get bragging rights in the 'team skills department'.

it even pays well. I'd say thats about damn perfect.

 

[WrongSprite]

Im a teacher - I absolutely love my vocation.

EDIT: for those who want to know exactly how much of a glutton for punishment I am, I add my vocation is at a fully comp British 11-16 inner city school.

How is teaching? I'm considering it once I've finished my history degree.

 

[wezzipooh]

I wouldnt say I "enjoy" my job, but it is incredibly easy. I work nights in a supermarket, part-time.

The pay is suprisingly good, almost as good as a full-time position in the day. At worst its boring, but I get to listen to my audio books on ipod for pretty much my entire working week ('a song of ice and fire' at the moment).

It's a very relaxing job. Infact, it's more relaxing than my time off.

Hopefully, next year i'm moving to the US to train as an aircraft mechanic. Im both excited and terrified, but its about time I got a proper job.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

I make tips which makes it legal. Minimum wage here is $7.25 so it is legal as long as I make that much in tips. Also, I don't know what glitch in your spy satellites you apparently have, but I am only 20.

Ah, so you were born late 1990. *amends dossier*

Also...you always make an average of $5.12 an hour in tips? I take it your workplace adds a standard 10% service charge that goes to you then? Still, that would mean you personally would have to wait on $50 worth of orders an hour, every hour. How?! How does this crazy system work? Tell me!!!

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I'm a Linguistic Games Tester. My job rocks.

Localization tester?

Nah,not quite. Someone translates the text, and I check for any mistakes in spelling, grammar, structure. If a slang-word seems appropriate, I'm allowed to make suggestions. Not quite a Localization tester, though.

How'd you get into that, if I might ask?

For my particular job you need to be bilingual, and good at both your languages. You need an eye for detail (or just a serious case of "grammar-nazi"-syndrome) and obviously you need to love games. If you tick all those boxes, you need to find the job you want, and then have a good enough CV. If you get an interview, regular interview skills apply.

The hardest part is always to find the job, though.

Well by the time I get back I'll tick all the boxes, unfortunately will probably have to wait until I'm tri-lingual before I give it a go as my 2nd language won't be as useful as my 3rd. (Mandarin Chinese and Japanese respectively)

Sounds like I could give it a go somewhere down the line though. Thanks for the info.

 

[Amberella]

I absolutely, positively hate my job!

I am a nurse and work in a doctors office with the worst boss ever! Not to mention some of my coworkers are down right idiots and like to blame me for their shortcomings. I am overworked and underpaid, that's for damn sure. -.- I work 3 different areas a day, sometimes 4.

 

[cWg | Konka]

my last job are fucking awesome, was a bar tender in a lab dancers dam i miss that job

 

[ffs-dontcare]

I don't particularly enjoy my job all that much, but I do whatever I can to get through each shift. This includes playing my own music (I don't care if Psyclon Nine or ye olde Sonic Syndicate isn't to your tastes when you walk through the door - my shift, my music) and being a lot more casual with my customers instead of acting like a robot and treating them like yet more plebs to deal with.

There are some who I swear only walk into my store for the sake of killing my good mood though. That definitely doesn't help. Nor does some of the habits of some of my zombies customers, standing there, staring at the cigarettes like nothing else matters at all, completely ignoring me when I say "hello" and then rudely stating the name of what they want without so much as a fucking "please", literally throwing the money onto the counter while giving me the evil eye and then walking out with a huff. I find myself wishing they'd drop dead - or at least go elsewhere - so I could have slightly better days at work.

It does make my day better, though, when people walk in and tell me how it's awesome that I'm playing something other than "Classic Hits FM".

I like my co-workers, but I'm not really sure what to think about my manager.

 

[hey_iknowyou]

I think my job is OK, certainly better than a lot of others I've had. I work in a bookies, the job itself is decent and I get on very well with my co-workers and a lot of the customers, it's a little depressing seeing the same people come into the same place all day every day just to blow their money on gambling though.

 

[Skorpyo]

I repair vehicles for a dealership franchise.

This involves me repairing a lot of shitty, sometimes hopeless vehicles, but at times I get to have a bit of fun.

RX8's, Porsche Boxster's, Loads of Audi TT's and S line's, etc.

I LOVE my job.

 

[Da Joz]

I'm an automotive engineer for a large U.S company and I like my job very much. I work in control development on hybrid vehicles which is the last piece to be implemented in prototype vehicles so I get to mess round with brand new cars that won't be available for at least a year. Also with some driver training I will be to test drive the prototypes, in addition to being a helluva lot better driver than I currently am.

 

[Shuvy]

I notice almost no people working commercial jobs like marketing, finance and accounting (I generally put retail/ sales somewhere else in my head). Wonder if that's a trend on the escapist?

I like my jobs, good co-workers and both within walking distance, with some intersting work now and then.

 

[EcHoFiiVe]

I am only 16 but surprisingly enough, I love my job! I work at a local video store that I have been going to for years, and I asked the owner if he was hiring and he said he was, so now I work there with fair hours and good pay. I work graveyard on saturday nights but I don't mind that at all.

 

[crudus]

Ah, so you were born late 1990. *amends dossier*

Also...you always make an average of $5.12 an hour in tips? I take it your workplace adds a standard 10% service charge that goes to you then? Still, that would mean you personally would have to wait on $50 worth of orders an hour, every hour. How?! How does this crazy system work? Tell me!!!

It isn't from an hour to hour basis. I just have to average above $7.25 an hour 70 hours (two weeks). Some days I may make under and some days I may make way over. As long as they average above $7.25 an hour. If I don't average it the company has to make up the difference (or change how many tips I claimed which is illegal and has been done before).

 

[Koroviev]

I am a research assistant of sorts for a woman pursuing her PhD. She has a very short fuse, an incredibly pessimistic outlook on life, and prefers cats to dogs, but she is also well-read, extremely intelligent, and insightful. I am very thankful for the opportunity, which will hopefully enable me to more easily acquire a more stable position in the future.