Do you love or hate your job?

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

I work the night shift at a bakery. Work starts at 4pm and when I'm lucky, I get to go home around midnight. Most of the time, however, I leave around 2am. Sometimes we get some special orders and I'll be there from 4pm to 5am.

It's a love and hate thing, to be honest. It's not what I had planned when I was a college student, but for the most part I enjoy what I do. The pay is alright and the hours are long, I think I get maybe 20 minutes to rest, and that's because I have to eat at some point.

The best part for me is that I love to create things, so I find myself thinking "fuck yeah, I baked the shit out of that bread" Also, I'm free to go nuts with their ingredients if I feel like it. I'll often make myself a pizza for dinner because I'm lazy.

I'm trying to turn my life around, though, but it's harder than I thought.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I really love my job. I just wish it could magically teleport to somewhere that isn't Dallas, TX, lol. I've had some pretty crappy jobs in the past, so I really appreciate where I work and am willing to overlook this fact.

Except for when I step outside and get burned alive by the twin suns of Tatooine while being devoured by all of the mosquitoes and it smelling like cars because no nature anywhere.

 

[Artina89]

I am a veterinary biochemist, and while I love my job, and the pay is decent, I hate some of the people I work with. Most of the other scientists at my work are really nice, but there is one guy in my department who is lazy and not a team player and, since he works in my department, I can't really avoid him.

Overall, I like my job, but I don't like one person, and that tends to have a negative impact on my day.

 

[Zetatrain]

Wouldn't say I love my job, but I do like it. I'm a delivery guy for a local Italian Restaurant chain and the work is that nice middle ground where its not so tedious that it'll boring you to tears nor is it so busy that it drives (no pun intended) you nuts.

I like most of the people I work with and ambivalent about the others. My manager and one of my co-workers are gamers so its fun conversing with them. The waitress aren't into games whatsoever, but I still manage to find something to talk about with them. The costumers are also usually pleasant, I'm actually on a talking basis with some of the restaurant's regulars, and I've delivered to an apartment so many times that I'm on a first name basis with the security guard there.

However, I swear some apartments are built to spite delivery drivers as sometimes there's no noticeable rhyme or reason to the numbering system. There's also some places where security is just a pain to deal with. "What's that you have a delivery for one of our residents? Well you can bring it through the front entrance. You have to go around the block use the rear entrance go through a security office and after that you may only use the service elevator despite the regular elevators that are right next to them." It would also be nice if customers would tell me that there is a security gate that needs a code ahead of time so that then don't need to call them for the code or to let me in while a congo line of cars builds up behind me.

But at the end of day to pros usually outweigh the cons.

 

[loc978]

Contract security, armed... the hours are pretty random (0300-noon one day, 1400 to midnight the next, anywhere from 20 to 50 hours in a week) I'm usually protecting the property of an organization I have major moral problems with, and it's the best job I've ever had... mostly because all of my previous jobs have been horrible in one way or another.

This one pays better and has a much more manageable schedule than tech support, electrical manufacturing for the semiconductor industry or the US Army... which are the only other jobs I've had that produce anything near a livable wage. Each of them usually demanded 80+ hour weeks. With tech support and manufacturing, if we were working under 60 hours a week, it meant the company was going under (that actually came true twice working manufacturing. I didn't get laid off or fired... my employer defaulted).

 

[TallanKhan]

I love the work I do, and by and large the people I work with. I can't hand on heart say I enjoy working for my current employer but I am certainly content enough to not be searching desperatley for an alternative.

 

[Kinitawowi]

I hate my job.

I work in customer services (not the job I signed up for, but reasons) for one of the most hated companies in the UK. And I can promise you that however much customers claim to hate us, the shop floor staff hate it even more. Deranged targeting of frankly unattainable measures (the McNamara problem - "measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure"? Yeah, the bosses have never heard of it), this is the final desperate thrashings of a dying giant. We've seen all the main competitors go out of business and thought "WOO! LAST SHOP STANDING! WE'RE AWESOME!", not realising that the writing is on the wall and however big we think we are as a company, we'll probably be done within three to five years.

What I want to do is what I signed on to do - the technical side. It was my technical knowledge that got me into the job in the first place, but since then they've outsourced 99% of the tech, and making the technicians into customer service dogsbodies is a rank waste of talent, experience and skill set. Which is, of course, the point - technicians have to be paid technician wages, but there's a million students who'll take minimum wage to stand at a counter and listen while you prattle on about how your problems are our fault.

I need to get out. The problem is that the tech work I want to do doesn't really seem to exist any more unless I start my own company; and I live in the wrong place, I can't drive and I'm too old to do that.

(Company not identified due to company Social Media Policy regulations (yeah), but it's not particularly hard to guess.)

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Aluminium Fabricator. I enjoy it. We tend to have long downtime because the majority of customers come in early morning and late afternoon so I pretty much just play 3DS for several hours each day

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Landscaping. You see those big lawns in front of schools and churches? I'm one of the people who mows them. And in the winter, sometimes I scrap snow off huge sidewalks.

It's very thankless. A busboy can say without them that the flow of a restaurant is halted, a shelf stocker can say without them a store is pretty pointless, a janitor can say without them the place of business would be unsanitory and untolerable. Without me, pretty much nothing changes but the grass looks unkempt. And I'm the type of person who doesn't care about grass length.

So what I essentially do is only for the amusement of the middle to old aged owners who care about grass length, and maybe three other people. The hours I work are punishingly few, which is why I've been unsuccessfully looking for a job for around two or so months now, the pay is slightly above minimum wage, but the hours are just bad. I work with some above-average equipment for a few hours, whose gasoline engines are so loud that I can't listen to music with my headphones. So a lot of my days are mindless running up and down rows, trying to concentrate on some lenient thought that takes away from the usually unsuitable weather.

Generally my work is stopped by rain and I semi get to choose my own times, so that's cool.

 

[Johnny Impact]

Yes.

There are days when I feel good about what I do, the people I work with, the money I make, everything. It's a good place to be for someone without special skills or college degree. I have more than I need and, assuming the government doesn't find a way to steal it, a very decent retirement plan.

Then there are days when everything I do is futile, the people I work with are useless clowns, I don't get paid enough for this shit, and I'm so pissed off when I get home, I'm unable to go to bed.

It's not the job itself. The work is okay, the pay is good for the type of work it is, the crew is good people. It's that there are too many random factors. They have a way of ganging up on a guy. It's never just that you have a busy day, no no, you can't be that lucky. You have to have a busy day when your only help is a trainee, AND you've got that extra project to finish, AND so-and-so keeps messing up the computers......

Also, I find if I have a bad morning getting ready for work -- can't find the car keys, I'm out of toothpaste, didn't sleep well, 2-3 little things like this -- it puts me in a pissy mood that's hard to break out of.

 

[A_Parked_Car]

I like my job, as is it fits perfectly around my busy graduate school schedule. I'm very rarely super busy, so a lot of the time I get paid to do my homework. Even when I do have things to do, nothing is too overly complex.

 

[MadHatter1993]

I currently work at radioshack, The pay is low and i get constantly harassed by my boss for phone sales. Where we have to meet a quota each day of 3 warranties, and 1 phone. not too happy about it. so next time when you go to radioshack and they say would you like to add a warranty to that? that's code for "can you help me keep my job?"

 

[Strazdas]

To each his own i guess. you loved the odd job and hate the desk ones. i on the other hand now have a desk office job and love it. in fact im writing this from there! Im one of those rare people who you will fined smiling in a bus on monday mornings.
I had two previuos jobs though. One was at a supermarket which while fit for my obessivenness of everything has to be in order fully stocked was relentless job (lunch break? what is that?) and i got to listen to the boses moan every second day for not staying up late and doing more work without pay. Eventually i left that job when i went to study economics.
Another job was at a construction, but i hate physical work so thats that. the team however was while not something youd call educated people, quite friendly and i cant complain.

Id love to get paid more than what is equivalent of 400 euros per month though.

 

[Raikas]

I'm satisfied with my job.

I'm a systems admin within the human resources department for a large telcom. I have a decent amount of job security and a huge amount of freedom in terms of hours and places of work. I'd like to have a sightly higher salary, but I really can't complain on that front either - things are good.

 

[Kuilui]

Been working at a deli for 2 years now. The people I work with are really good people and fun to be around. The pay is terrible and the bosses want us to basically harass customers into buying stuff they don't want and make them say "No thank you" about 30 times to us before they leave. Luckily we all know tricks to get around harassing people for the most part but still it's annoying. They also continue to add more and more work on and give us no extra pay or incentives. One week we only sold 60 prepackaged slices of cheese instead of 100 and we got a visit from pretty much half the company for an inspection of how we handle customers. Looking for other work, just need to figure out a good paying job that I could get along with.

 

[kaioshade]

I greatly enjoy my job. I work for a large company as Human Resources for the IT department. My work is about 80/20 HR/IT. Bosses are cool, and the pay is enough that i am able to do what i want for the most part with my life.

the only bad is dealing with some of the executives. some of the most whiny needy and self absorbed people i have worked with.