I hear people who say they enjoy their job and it amazes me as I often come close to self harming just to get out of the tedious office environment.

Do you actually enjoy your job and if so, what is it?

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I hate it, it is destroying my brain! So dull! Brown building after brown building!!

On the whole, I love it. Been a hard three weeks, and have a great deal to do before Friday though.

My job? Trying to make miserable people happy with a failing service. It doesn’t sound that great when I put it like that!

I like my job because of the people I work with. The low pay, pressure to hit targets and the depressing working environment do their best to make me hate it.

Love mine.
property developer.
I,m a builder by trade and really enjoy full renovations.
The end result is so satisfying.

My job? Trying to make miserable people happy with a failing service. It doesn’t sound that great when I put it like that!

Rent boy?

i love what i do, it never feels like work nor do i let it become work

Good and bad days

Not much that Is easy is worthwhile

Mine is frequently dull but sometimes very rewarding, and I work with people I’d be glad to call my mates. Not really what I’d choose to do if I didn’t have bills to pay but I love it when it’s good, i like it when it’s mediocre and I tolerate it when it’s dull.

My work (nursing) you cannot do unless you enjoy at least some part of it.

My day job I hate with a passion and am trying to figure away out before my expected departure next july.

My part time job I love, it has long hours, hard manual work, working outside in all weathers and at all different times, lots of traveling the money isnt great but I dont care I like the work, if I could make it pay on a full time basis I would but it would mean working away from the family for long periods of time.

I often come close to self harming

i work with people who do this, most days are different, thats the key to enjoying it i think

Its alright, I wouldn’t go if they weren’t paying me.

i love it. don’t do much of it, and not in an office

I used to really enjoy my work when I was working in IT. I got to meet and work with lots of nice folk. I think it does help if you’re held in high regard and folk value your opinion though. I left when I got a good enough offer to go and enjoy NOT working.

Working in a bike shop for a couple of years was a different experience. Lots of frustrating times and people, but more than made up for with good times and nice people.

Currently not working again (through choice) but I still miss the banter, comradeship and challenge.

When i go yes I enjoy it, I do odd job handyman work hence my title its very varied and it pays well, BUT my wife is the earner with a great job she loves sometimes, we have had a role reversal so i do school, washing, cooking etc but with all three children in school my days are mine to organise, so today me and a mate did a little 90 min ride in one of our local techy courses and the sun shone

for the most part i enjoy mine. i get to speak to interesting people, live in an awesome place, and i’m a partner in something that has the potential to be very successful.

downside is that, at the moment, the money isn’t great, and the young lady whom i very much like is in a different country. both of these should change by april/may though 🙂

Can’t say i do these days. In fact, coming quite close to quitting with nothing else to go to at the moment, as it is really starting to get me down.

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No. Feel stressed a lot more following a “promotion” recently. It’s not the work, its just the crap stuff like email politics & backstabbing that take the fun out. Starting to affect home life now & I’ll be damned if I’ll allow that to happen. Looking to pastures new now. Real shame. Same company for 16yrs. Will leave some good folk behind, but need to get out.

Sorry if that sounds depressing.

Love it, senior sourcing manager manager for a major global connectivity business.

Money, benefits etc are OK. People I work with are a superb team.

I genuinely love what I do

work in a lab and i enjoyit love the fact that im constantly learning and genuinely enjoy reading scientific papers,
it can be very frustrating at times though
edit:now i have a son id rather be at home with him!

Ambulance service. Love it. Can’t be bothered with the crap the job comes with, mostly management related but love it. Some days can really be rewarding, others can be full of cr*p and sh**e. Hey ho.

Social researcher for an Environmental Body advising the government – really enjoy it. Interesting work, constantly learning, stimulating ideas and discussions. Working on topics that I care about, and feeling that in a small way I’m contributing to making life a bit better for people. Most of the guys I work with are great – supportive, funny, irreverent, and interesting (there’s the occassional nobber and managers could be better!) Have turned down opportunities for promotion because I’d rather stay a specialist researcher than become a more generic manager.

A few downsides – workload is far to high (and getting worse due to lack of staff and government cuts), and too much travel – not always bad as sometimes I go to new, interesting places and meet some great people, but more often it just means staying in an anonymous hotel reading reports on my own.

But on balance, I feel priviledged to have a job I enjoy, where I look forward to going to work. Many people aren’t that fortunate.

Can’t imagine doing a job I didn’t enjoy. Life’s too short for that. Obviously there are some dodgy days but not too many.

Self employed!

Gardener/ Handyman.

Love it. Genuinely love it.

Been doing it for 3 yrs now, could never work for the man again 😉

Love it, currently on duty at Dale Farm 😆

It pays the bills.

I would stop doing it if they weren’t paying me.

Day to day is actually ok. Science based so I’m learning new things regularly and it’s got it’s challenges.

Unfortunately I find it a bit dull at times and doesn’t seem to have much scope for promotion and career progression so I’m looking for a move somewhere. If the HR side of the Job was handled better then I think I would genuinely enjoy it overall so it’s a shame really.

When I started working I was fairly happy since I was working offshore. I struggle with routines so the lifestyle suited me.

Unfortunately my part of the industry is being moved onshore since much of the job can now be done over the internet. I hate the Monday to Friday 9 to 5 thing so I’ve got plans to make another career change to something that won’t be moved onshore ever and should be much more fun than anything I’ve done before.

Done a fair stretch (by IT standards..) in one area, so I’m re-training to become more specialised.

At the moment, boredom is my biggest problem!

I enjoy the satisfaction of sorting out difficult technical problems 🙂

If you’d asked me 6 months ago, I’d have said no… I was commuting 3 hours, a day stuck in a high rise office off the Euston road and up to by neck in workload, petty bureaucracy and political bullpoo.

Left there in April to move to the South West – still working in IT, but for a small company in a lovely village on the edge of Dartmoor. Job is much more varied (everyone multitasks here), people are lovely and it’s a great place to work. I’ve swapped my 3 hour tube / train commute for a half hour bike ride through quiet lanes.

My wife is retraining so we’re on half the income, and if anything we’re busier than ever, but far less stressed – I genuinely haven’t been this happy at work for a long time.

I guess the only downside is that I sometimes miss the high profile of what I did before and the fact that I was involved in some pretty big projects, but in terms of overall quality of life, it’s a no-brainer really.

Mine is genuinely dull now, constant threat of redundancy and even apart from that I look around the room at the people who’ve been here 20 years and the pale skin and vacant looks makes me wonder if that’ll be me. My parents always said they were amazed I’d ended up in an office and questioned whether it was’me’, maybe they were right. Although the money isn’t bad the work/life balance just isn’t there.

It’s time for a career change.

I’m in recruitment and I like it. Get to meet some good people and help them along career wise, my boss is a top bloke and working hours and conditions are very reasonable. Bascially I get paid to chat to people for a living, can’t be bad.

enjoy…..

currently working for an event production firm here in munich.

each day is different and i get to build some interesting stuff and am left to my own devices much of the time. the few other people there are on the whole a good bunch (bar one, he’s a self-centred knobend).

last week i was in Copenhagen (and am flying there again tomorrow) for an event. all expenses paid.

next month i’m off to Vienna.

in summer i work as a bike guide and luggage driver. both jobs are for the same firm and each invole being in the Alps with my bike.

the guiding is more stressful, but also more rewarding – this is very much dependant upon the guests. you are on call pretty much 24 hours a day and have a lot of responsibility.

the shuttling the luggage is a nice number. sleeping in the van means you can find a nice spot half-way up a mountain with stunning views. pick up the luggage from the hotel(s) at around 9. drive to the next hotel(s) and deposit luggage. usually finished no later than 2pm which gives me a good 5 hours to ride my bike where and how i will without having to constantly look over my shoulder and check on the guests. get back to van. cook something up and enjoy the sunset. the only real problem is showering. i can either use the guides room or jump into a lake or stream (not for the weak-hearted… very cold!).
oh, and if it rains i don’t have to ride. nor if i don’t feel like it, whereas if you are guiding then you kinda need to be there.

yeah, life’s ok.

i’m not someone who deals well with monotony and i like the fact that my work is seasonal and feel the two compliment each other well…. inside in winter, outside in summer

Been in the same industry one way or another for nearly 8 years, a couple of companies and a few locations.

Currentl down in that London, where I’ve been for 2.5 years, and to be fair I need to get back home.

Like what I do, not overly fussed with the senior management and general organisation.

Again, I wouldn’t do it for fun.

work in medical sales which I have done for past 18 years, I really enjoy it but getting harder as capital purchases are all but dried up as you can imagine in the NHS.

Work for a great company so happy enough, we are trying to ride out the hard times 😕

I wouldn’t say I love my job, but its definitley not the worst one I have had so far…

My job is frequently boring, but the people I work with a quite good and the company treat us quite well (compared to what has become the norm) since working here I find that my life in general has become much better because my work no longer overlaps my personal life, and that’s down to the way the company treats us.

I would like more challenges, but I am not currently willing to sacrifice the rest of my life to get them, hopefully I can advance into a more demanding role within the same organisation at some point.

Self employed photographer here (weddings, portraits, dogs, anything else!). I love the 10% of my job which actually involves a camera. The other 90% is a mixture of enjoyment and frustration.

I don’t earn very much but my time is mostly my own. Can’t imagine working in an office or having a career now, although I do occasionally miss the banter – it can get a bit lonely being a one man band….

Love what i do (Product Design) but hate my job? – don’t ask!