Poll: Do you love or hate your job?

[brtshstel]

We all have to eat, clothe ourselves, and just be able to take care of our expenses. Some of us dont have to sustain ourselves just yet (we are too young and live under our parents), but have jobs anyways to earn our own money. Some of us are having a bad run of luck and have lost our jobs. Some of us are employed like what we do for our bread and butter. Others feel their employer is the bane on their existance.

All in all, we have to get by some how, and for the vast majority of people, it involves employment. The question is, do you enjoy your job, or do you loathe it?

 

[Fightgarr]

I'm a working artist so I'll summarize in a few points:
- I love the art I make and I love making it.
- I hate gallery openings and I feel that the artist community rife with fake smiles and bullshit
- I don't make any money an in fact generally just lose money.
Making my art makes it all worth it though, so I guess that means I like what I do.

 

[sms_117b]

I work as a lifeguard and swimming teacher, I love it. I don't like phoning in sick, I still had most of my annual leave left over at the beginning of March, I only take leave to visit my family as a general rule. I find nothing more satisfying that teaching a kid to swim, especially one, he has dispraxia (hand eye coordination is off and his motor functions don't work properly) after 9 months he was swimming, almost brought a tear to my eye

 

[Aardvark]

I work a terrible job for a great company. Pay's exactly what I'm after, so I'm happy to endure until I move up.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

I was fairly happy with my summer job of internal tech support. Although the hours were 5 AM-3 PM which sucked. I was paid decently well, and my only challenge was not to openly laugh at my co-workers who though that their mouse was wireless despite the rather conspicuous cord sprouting from the mouse.

 

[wewontdie11]

If university counts as a job (because I do get paid for going there), then I don't like it. I'm averse to any kind of work really, but my friends and the rare genuinely interesting topic make it bearable.

 

[Ranooth]

I work out side in a car park of a supermarket pushing trolleys. Sounds crap but my god i love it! I get paid bout 6.50 an hour to push stuff for a couple of minutes and then go up for a break.

I worked 5 hours on a Boxing Day once, we had no customers so i just played on my DS. Got payed 50 quid for playing games, it was just epic win!

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Park ranger. Pay is utterly stupidly low. But the work is relaxing, rewarding, interesting, different every day, and so utterly removed from my old kinds of work I just can't believe my luck. I see new people every day, and familiar faces every day. People come and use the stuff I look after and just feels really good when I see that.

I love it.

 

[MelziGurl]

I only work in a shoe shop, it's not my dream job and I've never had one. But I enjoy it, the customers that I have are generally decent people and easy to get along with. I also get my pay rises and bonuses every year and they are little ones either, they are actually very good. I love my job, I couldn't imagine working anywhere else right now and as the company is still only new there is opportunity here to advance.

 

[mannequin's_obsession]

im a student, spent all of yesterday playing battle for asgard. its wonderful!

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Under working age, have a paper round though.

 

[brtshstel]

Park ranger. Pay is utterly stupidly low. But the work is relaxing, rewarding, interesting, different every day, and so utterly removed from my old kinds of work I just can't believe my luck. I see new people every day, and familiar faces every day. People come and use the stuff I look after and just feels really good when I see that.

I love it.

It's a shame that the necessary public service jobs get such crappy pay.

 

[Gamine]

Im in the process of quiting my 9-5 pushing paper job. . .

just got another one, freelance writing, im also up for some graphic design jobs

I love FREELANCE, theres nothing better, cause i will be heading to Grad school, come Fall/Autumn, anyone you understand.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Guitar shop! big discounts=awesome

 

[somekindawizard]

Nightporter at the moment. Indifferent. It will do for the moment. Ireland is goin through a recession at the mo so im just happy to have a job. Im a qualified cameraman/sound editor so if I was in my career Id have ticked the "love it" box.

 

[antipunt]

I guess my question is: for those who love your job, what's the secret?!

Finding a job that you'd enjoy sounds terrific, but incredibly idealistic. I'm still bent on my theory that some people are just born with a genetic predisposition to like things, and others just hate everything D:

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Park ranger. Pay is utterly stupidly low. But the work is relaxing, rewarding, interesting, different every day, and so utterly removed from my old kinds of work I just can't believe my luck. I see new people every day, and familiar faces every day. People come and use the stuff I look after and just feels really good when I see that.

I love it.

It's a shame that the necessary public service jobs get such crappy pay.

Ohh I don't know. I would like more, enough to live on and not be worried about my financial situation would be great. But the work itself is its own reward in my case, and thus I don't feel badly about it.

The people I really feel for are the unemployed folks out there. Looking at the results of your poll so far, an knowing what I do of most of the people here, it is disheartening to see such talent and energy go to waste on such a scale.

 

[Matronadena]

Love my job!

main reasons being;

I own my business.
When I DO take up something as a freelance, or contract worker I still retain most of the control in when things are produced, and at what cost.
When it is a solo endeavor ( such as producing a Manga series, or hiring out other contractors to do something for me ) I have the joys of sitting back and watch something bloom to life that I created as I wanted it, not a knock off done by another.
Getting to travel has been a " more recent" side that is enjoyable, more so that my children and spouse can tag along,

My work attire is whatever I want it to be, most of the time I could just be wearing a short sleeping yukata all day unless Im going to meet a client, even then it's informal..

being able to better control what is and is not a tax write off has saved me alot of overhead costs that otherwise would have been kept were I with a company in the form of general revenue being held back rather than payed out.

lastly, I've actually flourished over the last few months and have seen better numbers, and more projects during this " oh so horrid time" than I had in years.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I work in IT, and my mood depends entirely on the day's offerings. Sometimes the grind of it all gets to me and dealing with a seemingly endless supply of morons (that necessitate my pay I suppose) grows old. But I LIKE the job in a very general way. At the end, the balance is i'm probably on the unhappy side of things but I've certainly had worse jobs so I'm fine with it for now.