Do you enjoy your job?

[Tseug]

Do I enjoy my job?
This hasn't ever been important to me. I hate my job. I hate every part about it. I hate the hours, the people I work with, the people I serve, the work I do, the work others DON'T do, everything.

God I love getting paid though. So I show up, on time or early, for every shift and no one seams to realise what I'm thinking about them. It's been like this ever since the novelty of first getting a job wore off and I recommend, to anyone in the same position, that if you're going to base your working life around lying to people, don't lie about your feelings to yourself.

Dammit, that sounded a little preachy...

tl;dr
I get paid = might as well be happy about that

 

[paiged]

I work at a Cumberland Farms. I used to be an assistant manager, and it was okay. The people I worked with were awesome, most of my customers were awesome...then my store closed.

I got shipped about 30 minutes away & demoted (at least they couldn't dock my pay woopdeedoo). The area I work in is mostly really poor people and drug addicts. The people I work with are two faced (that's putting it nicely). The assistant manager (a complete moron btw) complains to everyone about how much money I make (she's feeling threatened I imagine, I can do the job more efficiently than her and am favored by the supervisors in the area because I don't have a bunch of complaints filed against me). My manager is constantly screwing everything up and is closer to being fired with each passing day.

My schedule is different every week, either late late nights (until midnight) or 4am starts...I'm pretty miserable there and I've only been there since August.

I'm working on finishing college but it all feels so far away...

 

[crudus]

I bus tables for $2.13 an hour for 35-40 hours of the week. You tell me if I would like that. I at least like my boss and coworkers.

thats like...barley higher than sweapshop workers off in foregn countrys

I dont know what country your in but isnt mimimum wage like $10? an hour?

anyway Id sugest getting a new job...Im sure you could make more than that dancing on the street

It is $7.25 an hour here. I make tips which isn't a reliable means of self-preservation, but does mean it is legal to pay me $2.13 (which is the minimum wage for people who make tips that has gone up 10 cents in a decade).

 

[Engarde]

I do cleaning in a primrary school, but only an hour or two after school each weekday. I find it mind numbing, but I don't complain. I don't get paid to complain.

 

[trooper6]

I am a University Professor on my first year on the tenure track, teaching Musicology--specializing in Popular Music. I love my job. The pay? Sure. It's good. $60k. Though I have a LOT of student loans that I'm now paying off, so two thirds of my pay goes to pay my loans...so I'm not exactly living large, but I'm better off than many others, so I don't complain. Are the hours fair? I work pretty insane hours, but I'm single so no one gets mad that I'm working from the morning until 10pm (or sometimes 2am) Monday through Friday...and generally long hours on the weekend as well. I don't mind it...though I'm pretty exhausted and run down at the moment.

Luckily the summer is coming soon so I can work on my research. If have to get 2-3 article manuscripts out this summer if I want to keep this great job.

 

[A Weary Exile]

I work five to six hours a day, five days a week in a food court at Target. The hours are reasonable and the pay is good ($8.25 per hour) but man is the work hard. I'm cashier, dishwasher, cook, and janitor all rolled into one. Most of the time I work by myself, if I'm lucky I'll have someone else working with me for about two hours to help with the more time-consuming tasks but that's about all the help I'll get, and don't get me started on closing shifts. Ugh, I hate closing shifts.

Although I would like to work less days per week but work longer days, say seven or eight hours a day. I'm indifferent to my job.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I'm a full time student so no but over the summer I am working for silverstone race course and hopefully a 4 star hotel so I can't wait to get some money out of that

 

[Vault101]

I bus tables for $2.13 an hour for 35-40 hours of the week. You tell me if I would like that. I at least like my boss and coworkers.

thats like...barley higher than sweapshop workers off in foregn countrys

I dont know what country your in but isnt mimimum wage like $10? an hour?

anyway Id sugest getting a new job...Im sure you could make more than that dancing on the street

It is $7.25 an hour here. I make tips which isn't a reliable means of self-preservation, but does mean it is legal to pay me $2.13 (which is the minimum wage for people who make tips that has gone up 10 cents in a decade).

ah ok then

I understand that tipping is kind of a huge deal in America, so much the the government actually taxes tips or somthing

 

[Sepphyre]

Always wanted to be a programmer since I was about 12. Failing that, I would have liked to be an architect.

What do I do? I write software that allows for the design of housing... go figure huh. Pay is really good, co-workers are great too. Only downer is the drive is a bit far (35km) but overall I love my work.

 

[RatRace123]

My job is nothing, I very much like nothing.
Yes I enjoy my job.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

What job?

/broke, overworked student

 

[Cowabungaa]

Ugh, not even remotely. I work at a supermarket, do everything from working the register to cleaning and stocking the shelves. It's dull, the pay is shit and my co-workers are just whiny bitches.

Worst is that it's work that's just bad for someone of my physique. I'm just too tall to do a lot of the chores I have to do. I often go home hurting all over.

Hopefully it'll end when I manage to go back to school in September.

 

[tim98042]

im ok with it at the moment purely because the people i work with are a good laugh to be around. its only a part-time job and not a job i will be doing for the rest of my life, so i'd say im happy with it at the moment. lol

 

[Sebenko]

I don't really have a job, but being a student is massive levels of fun.

I spend my days coding, and my evenings geeking it up. Perfect.

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

My job is pretty awesome. I'm an artist at s game studio, working on a badass AAA game. The working environment is fairly open and lets me be creative, and we're still in the beginning of the project so the hours are decent. I work about 8-10 hours a day, depending on my tasks. Pay is kinda all right, but royalties make up for that.

It's what I always wanted to do, and it's still hard to believe I actually get to do it.

Which game, may I ask?
What sort of art? Character art? Environmental art?

 

[JochemDude]

Yes, I'm a sound engineer. I do mostly concerts in a local music "temple", Festivals and some studio work. I wouldn't trade it for anything else, sure it's hard work and wether you'll get paid really depends on how hard you are willing to work. If you really put everything into it you can earn up to 7000 a month, a had that in around this time last year, did sound effects on killzone 3, 2 times lead sound engineer on major festivals in holland (Pinkpop and Graspop) Had a lot of big musicians for the 5 year anniversary of our music center and I got to work with AC/DC and Metallica in Ahoy, Rotterdam. (work with their crew on the acoustics and such of the stadium) About the longest, hardest, best few months of my career. On the other hand if you have an attitude of trying to do things easy, you don't make shit.

 

[PureChaos]

i did but i was on a temporary contract which ended on the 31st March. had my leaving do last night, was awesome and i got to meet:

got a new job which i start monday so see how that goes.

 

[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?