Who loves/hates their job

How do you feel about your work?

  • I LOVE my work!

    Votes: 49 61.3%

  • I HATE my work!

    Votes: 12 15.0%

  • Eh its a job nothing special to get worked up about either way.

    Votes: 19 23.8%
  • Total voters
    80
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AdamZ

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Who likes their job/career who hates it and who is ambivalent about it?

What do you do.
 
afternoon naps.

'Nuff said. :D
 
I'm retired. Running the airport is what I do for fun. When it stops being fun, I'll stop doing it.
 
You know what I do, counselor.
 
Depends on what day you ask, and how much time I've had to spend with management...

Oh, fergot - I develop algorithms for automotive powertrain controls and diagnostics
 
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After spending about 15 years in mgmt & senior mgmt at three fortune 500 companies and finding out firsthand how innately evil Corporate America is...

...I formed my own corporation so I could be equally evil without having to worry about a boss and stockholders.
:)
 
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I got laid off from job #who knows over 4 years ago and said enough is enough. I've been doing my own thing ever since. I work for others on my own terms. Never looked back, never regretted it.
 
Love the type of work - hate the current client (and my management who doesn't hold them to the terms of the contract).
 
I;m a Pharmacist and I love my work. And it allows me to fly!
 
Ninety percent LOVE. 10% HATE. Very little in between.

After 20 years as as systems architect in Atlanta for a fortune 500 company, marrying the smartest woman I could find and putting her through veterinary college I quit to move to Florida and we opened a cat-only veterinary hospital. She has become one of only 73 board certified feline specialists in the world, AND last year she got her PPL. She does the work and flies the plane. I hire and fire employees, count the money, and wash and fuel the plane. (plus a few more little odds and ends).
 
Love being an operations consultant. In some ways working for "the man" is better than when I owned my own deal, in other ways not so much. The steady paycheck does make budgeting easier never mind not doing quarterly taxes. :smile: Dealing with the corporate BS is never ending and can get tiresome. :frown3: Being somewhere new every couple of days helps keep things fresh.
 
I'm a retired police officer, currently director of emergency management for my city.
The hours suck, the pay's bad, I'm on call 24/7/365, I miss police work every day, and I love it. I get to do things every day that make the community safer, protect my citizens, may save hundreds of lives if the worst happens.
 
Love what I do in theory - F-15C instructor pilot is awesome! Great jet, great mission and I love teaching the young guys how to employ the Eagle.

Hate the 20 hour days, 80 hour weeks, ancillary training that gets more attention than tactical prowess and how everyone in the USAF is just dying to tell a fighter pilot to F-off. ;) Small price to pay in the big scheme, but it helps to vent.
 
Haha, that's a loaded question for me on a pilot forum since most people know I am a pilot...

Most of the time I don't think about it one way or the other and I'm not much of a Pollyanna. What I do is what I do. However, when I really consider it, I'd have to say that I feel very, very lucky to have been able to make a decent (at least as far as I'm concerned) living doing something that is interesting to me. It's not just about the airplane either. I've gotten to see many things I would never have seen otherwise and to meet people I would never have met.
 
Pharmaceutical R&D. It's nice to see that the work you do directly translates to improved health for people. My doctor even prescribed to me one of the drug products I helped develop! :)
 
Dentist, part-time Farmer, both great
 
I love my job. I love what I do. I hate the stress that accompanies it. I have control over the stress, I need to exercise it.

Edit: What do I do? I will answer that next Monday :D
 
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Pharmaceutical R&D. It's nice to see that the work you do directly translates to improved health for people. My doctor even prescribed to me one of the drug products I helped develop! :)
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The question is: did you take it? :rofl:
 
SkyHog said:
I love my job. I love what I do. I hate the stress that accompanies it. I have control over the stress, I need to exercise it.

Edit: What do I do? I will answer that next Monday :D
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We know what you do -- smoke!
 
Love it. I get to help design and work with some of the largest computers ever built. An endless sea of fascinating technical challenges. (I work at a well known search company.)

Chris
 
Definitely love/hate. But a year ago it was hate/hate...so that's a good thing. :D

Today was a good example of love/hate... showed up for work at 8AM, found out there was a SNAFU and the call was really for 11... walked home and took a breather, but that just made it harder to go back. :frown3:

Got out of there around 3PM, went home for another quick break and some lunch, then off to another venue for another 4-hr call at 5:30(writing lighting cues for what promises to be an almost-unbearable amateur production of a long, windy play). Went directly from there to the arena to help load out a big rock show... just got home at about 2:15 AM.

Love the money, love being able to walk or cycle to work, but hate the schedule sometimes. And I think I might be getting too old for some of this work- I can do it, but I find myself automatically stepping aside when the young eager beavers rush to pick up something heavy. Thank goodness for young people with something to prove... :D
 
Love the base job and all of the many, many components of it (U.S. Park Ranger), but have the usual complaints about the supervision/management aspects of my current position - though I like having what I hope :)rofl:) is a positive impact on my direct-reports. Like many supervisors I dream of the good ole days when I just went out and did it.
 
I love what I do - but I'll never do the same thing forever. For me it's always a matter of growing - if I'm learning and growing I'm happy. If I feel like I'm stuck I become unhappy very quick and move on.

Will I work with technology for my entire career? Who knows. I'm interested in any career where good money can be made.

Life is just too damn short to not enjoy what you do. If you don't enjoy it move on. There are a million jobs out there. It's a really dangerous attitude to ever think you can't find something better.

(I write this as I sit in a data center at 4am fixing some things)
 
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That ain't bad. The rest of the package which has been getting this "Made in China" machine up to par for the duty it's to serve, and educating a first time owner and micromanaging bean counter brother while being stuck in Australia.... That has been trying my patience to say the least.
 
My job is great...I have been in "rock and roll" for 25 years and made a decent living...
Having a good team behind you really helps!

Zucker, you ought to go into the cheese steak bidness!
 
I really love my work (aircraft mechanic) this is all that I've done for over 30 years. It seems like I live here, my kids grew up here too. I'm really getting tired and I am looking forward to retirement. It is exciting to start picking out the final homestead location. I'm keeping one airplane.

Kevin
 
I love my job. It taught me to fly among other things, and gives me good terms to work on. Plus it pays the bills. I also love my second job of doing rescue flights. Getting to fly on all sorts of cool missions and not have to pay for (most) of it? What could be better?

However like any job, they're both jobs and they have their days when I don't want to do it. I suck it up and go anyway, because, well, it's my job.
 
Mine can certainly be love/hate. Most of the time it's very good, but has its moments. I and one compatriot have a couple of main duties. First we support our on campus customer demo room used to present our products (cable TV set-top boxes) to our customers. We have a 92" screen projection TV system (3 chip DLP Panasonic projector) for the main screen.

Our second job is to support the technical side of trade shows that we attend. This one can be stressful at times as we prepare since the time line for a show cannot be slipped. A lot of the time we are showing cutting edge stuff that can be problematic yet must run flawlessly at the show.

Been doing it for 10 years now and am still employed so I guess I'm doing an okay job. :D We do get to work with some cool stuff but also have to deal with servers running Solaris, Linux and Windows and be fairly knowledgeable about them all as well as handling quite a bit of networking equipment at the same time. All in all a pretty good gig.
 
I love what I do but some days I just don't like who I do it for. I'm a Senior Project Manager in a small Engineering department. The new challenges every day makes it fun and learning or working with something new is always exciting. However, poor decisions from executive’s just leaves me wondering who is steering the ship and where the hell are we going.

The plus side is we operate four airports and one terminal at an AFB. The constant airport exposure finally drove me to pursue my PPL and for that I will always be thankful. Now if they only let me fly to and from our airports instead of driving I would be a really happy camper!
 
software/database geek - 15 years of self-employed consulting, but now a drone in the machine as it just got to be too much to handle all the ancillary stuff - taxes, marketing, billing, receiving, dunning, more dunning, collections ... and do my mainline job.

I think I'd rather be a cowboy ...
 
I love my job, I have been in the same line of work for almost 30 years, and the company cars are great. Now if I can just talk them into an airplane.:D
 

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I'm not going to say whether I love or hate my job but rather that I am scared to go into work every day, the climate in the office is just that bad. If I didn't have a year left on my contract I would quit today.
 
jstro said:
Pharmaceutical R&D. It's nice to see that the work you do directly translates to improved health for people. My doctor even prescribed to me one of the drug products I helped develop! :)
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Kewl.

The funny thing is that purd near all Fords have my stuff in them, but I drive a Mercury Villager which is really a re-badged Nissan Quest. So when something goes wrong, I don't know how the software works and have to dope things out just like any other mechanic...
 
After 34+ years with the same organization I must admit I'm getting a little tired. Why did I stay so long? Because I've been employed as a problem solver changing jobs every year or so with constant new challenges. Did I say I work in a bank?

Wherever there's a problem I get parachuted in too fix it. A year or so later on to the next problem. It's given me a lot of travel and a great feeling of reward. 13 different cities across Canada and the US.

The last 5 years have been working to try and turn around major corporations on the verge of bankruptcy. Some successes and some failures!

55 now and looking forward to retirement.
 
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