[Closed] Do you enjoy your job?

"Well the hours are good...but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy."

Not usually. You just have to throw yourself into it and crack on. it makes the day go faster, and you enjoy it more.

Not that I spend all day on STW.... 😳

Never once dreaded going in to current job. Lots of unique, complex, interesting work, with good people. Get to travel enough to keep it interesting, but not so much that it interferes with my life. Work/life balance is brilliant, I'm really looked after.

Used to feel sick and had diarrhoea for weeks on end at the last one. Days without sleep. Coming off long haul flights and straight to the office. Working away for months at a time. Treated like a bit of meat. Bullying was common. Too much work, too few hours.

The difference is night and day. Changing jobs changed my life, despite doing pretty much the same thing.

I'm one of the Hate my Job for the first few days, then fall into the routine & get on with it & enjoy it keep busy & the time fly's by, month on month of in the Oil & gas industry over seas, the month of is spot on, tother half is at work & I'm out on the bike or digging of piste trails in dalby.

I've done it all my lif offshore & couldn't ever see my self doing anything else plus I intend to pack it in soon, fingers crossed buy a little place in Keswick & enjoy walking riding and just enjoying life oh and a few beers in the Dog & Gun and the George, top grub & beer.

It's pretty boring, but I get time to chat with all my buddies on STW ( 😉 ) so it could be worse.
The days I hate it are usually down to politics or poor management rather than the actual work.

Yes 🙂

Field engineer for Openreach, 4 day 36hr week, can be fustrating when you are on the receiving end at the customer but then again, often you end up being 'the one that cared/took ownership and sorted out an ongoing issue'.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of frustrations, like coming back from Christmas and finding we have no work as they have awarded thousands of hours to external contract, constant business change and performance management, but overall, I like being outside with varied work, and doing it well 🙂

very much so.

good wage, good work mates, customers know what they want and what they are doing.
job has good longterm future.
I can build bikes all day, I can sit talking boolax on here all day, I get free carriage on all stuff I sell and send out.

even the boss is a nice decent bloke.

Used to love it, but changes in legislation, decline in work levels and 10 years in same role doing my head in.

Love mine. Apart from when I get in, and realise I've forgotten to put the lids back on all my felt tips the night before, and have to use my crayons instead 😳

Nope. Rat race, innit.

Yes. Managed to get a decent job with fairly poor qualifications. Love the work and more than happy with the role I'm in. My only issue is that should I lose my job I would have absolutely no experience in any other career so would have to emigrate to pursue the same job abroad.

I had 33 years in the one company so, mostly, yes. Of course there were times that the workload was excessive or the office politics got a bit oppressive but I enjoyed the various roles I had, I got to meet (and work with) lots of nice folk. It maybe helped that I was (casting modesty aside) bloody good at what I did and therefore got recognition for that. My main reason for getting out was that I got fed up of applying for my own job every 2/3 years as outsourcing, insourcing, re-shuffles, mergers and consolidations carried on apace. I don't think I'd have stuck it out if I'd really really hated it.

Yes, mostly love my job. Great workmates, pay and benefits are good and get to work on really interesting stuff. Hours can be long and things can get stressful but I don't dread going to work like I did my last job.

If you dread going to work you need to change jobs.

Not my current one, but it's ok... I resigned last week 🙂

Had a few contracts, I've been very glad to finish, but now working for different customers, not having any staff to look after, not chasing work, working from home mostly and actually finding a sector that feels worth trying to make a little difference in works for me.

I'd still rather not work, but if I have to, what I've fallen into suits me fine 😉 I've been in that 'can I find any reason not to walk through the office doors today' situation and it's horrible.

I like my job - that's why I do it.

I've had jobs I didn't like so I left or got sacked from them.

Like is short, so don't do stuff you don't like.

No. Corporate grist to the mill.

Anyone want a bespoke artisan hand made focaccia holder? (Welsh people I'm looking at you.)

38 years, loved my job.

No!! Can't wait for my escape plan to come together, then I will be happy.

I enjoy mine. Im a self employed landscaper, own the business, have one guy working for me. Nice. I dont enjoy the periods of no work, waiting for the phone to ring etc, but they get less and less. I do worry about the future, and having enough money to retire / pay for the kids stuff / spend on bikes, but its all outweighed by the quality of life.
I learned early that we are only here for a short while, and could be gone in a instant, so why waste it doing something you hate.

On balance, yes. There's quite a lot of boring bits to be fair but boring's not so bad. And it's sometimes brilliant, often good, and never terrible. I'd not do it if I wasn't paid, mind!

It's alright. I (mostly) like the people I work with, I (mostly) find the work tolerable. It pays well, which is kind of a golden handcuff.

[i]Field engineer for Openreach, 4 day 36hr week, can be fustrating when you are on the receiving end at the customer but then again, often you end up being 'the one that cared/took ownership and sorted out an ongoing issue'.

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I'd quite fancy something like that. Out and about, helping people, seeing (fairly) immediate results of my efforts. *sigh*

6 months in so far and I can confidently say that this isn't where I'll be working in a few years time. I'm hoping that things change in the next few months otherwise I might go mad.

Yes,compared to my previous job I don't even consider this working.
It's all turned out rather nicely.

On balance, yes. It's very stressful but I get to go to the Houses of Parliament, stride around Whitehall, meet Secretaries of State and Ambassadors and see stuff I'm working on appear on the news all the time.

Get paid f*** all though.

My job is currently lying in bed putting off going out and getting a job....its notsobad.

My job flip flops between dullage and interesting, when I get onto Capex stuff I like it but that only comes round every couple of years. OTOH I pretty much decide what I want to do and when, my boss has never interfered in 5 years, with anything I've done and since I turned round a loss making enterprise they like me. It could do with being more exciting though and I doubt I'll be here next year, but sometimes I think it's better the devil you know.

does anyone enjoy their job that much they would continue to do it even if they didnt have to?

[quote=jaffejoffer ]does anyone enjoy their job that much they would continue to do it even if they didnt have to?I've been lucky enough to be in that position. My current (summer seasonal) job is really enjoyable. I work for a bike hire and transport business in Inverness and love it.

Love my new job! Moved in November from a very quiet LBS with terrible staff management to a smaller busier place where I can use my specific skills (and keep expanding them) working for a decent bloke.

Perks of the job include trade price bike stuff, free bike stuff, demoing bike stuff, talking about bikes, allowing people to enjoy riding their bikes more, and helping those that want to go faster win races!

It's all good apart from I now have a driving commute (40 miles) rather than a bike commute (3 miles).

EDIT- I would definitely do parts of my job unpaid (if I could afford it). It would mean I could charge less and more people would benefit.

I feel I have the 'right' job for me, which I suppose its as good as its going to get. I would still sack it all off if I won the lottery though.
As the owner of a small geotechnical consultancy I get a good mix of outside work, technical office work and meetings. I work on a range of projects from constructing new roads, infilling mine workings beneath 11 storey blocks of flats to performance of foundations beneath new machines for Rolls Royce / Mercedes F1. I work from an office at the end of my garden, my wife takes care of all the tedious paperwork (accounts) and I can pick and choose the jobs / clients I work for. I have enough experience that 75% of jobs are relatively straight forward, but there are still enough complicated ones to make it interesting. Downside is that I am very rarely 'on holiday'.

I used to enjoy it, but in the last two years after Arriva have taken over it's gone from bad to worse. So after alot of thinking and talking to my partner i;ve decided to do what i've always wanted and join the Army.

It's so good ,I don't even like to talk about it in case I jinx it 🙂

I was way ahead of the curve on this whole work/life balance thang.*

* [i]I never,ever take it for granted though[/i] 😉

Struggling to enjoy it.

On the whole yes, very much. I get to fly business class around Africa, meet some great people, drink loads of good beer (if I'm forced to drink lager the locally brewed ones are very considerably better than keg Europiss like Stella, Heineken and the rest) and my boss leaves me alone to do the job exactly as I wish. When in the office life moves at an easy pace dictated by email enquiries and by preparations for the next trip so it's generally not stressful. My agents are on the whole satisfied and compliant and don't cause me much bother. I get a good car and have valuable shares in the company.

No, but I'm trying to do something else.

jaffejoffer - Member

does anyone enjoy their job that much they would continue to do it even if they didnt have to?

Hmm. If I didn't have to work at all, there's still parts of this job that I'd be totally happy doing for free. But other bits I could not be bothered with. And it'd be pretty hard to separate them. But yeah, I reckon I could put in a day a week of good stuff working with good people to do good things

Nope. I do, however, enjoy the things I can afford to do as a result of doing my job, so I keep doing it.

at first it was 'ok'

i didn't notice it becoming 'meh'

and now it's just catastrophically dull and pointless - an utter waste of my life.

but i hear that worse things happen at sea, so i really do try to keep my grumbling under control.

On the whole, yes. There are a few stressful periods but it's generally interesting work, in a fairly pleasant environment, with nice, bright people to work with. Big downside is that contracts are rarely longer than 2 years (FE) and I hate job hunting!

I count myself pretty lucky though compared to some people I know who really hate their time at work and seem to be surrounded by idiots while they're there.

Hate my current job, but I am being made redundant this Friday and start a new job, which I should enjoy much more, on either 19th or 26th of January with a nice payoff!

Self employed 🙂

Ace whats not to like!

Such a tough question to answer, I suspect we all moan plenty about our jobs, but I really am well rewarded for some of the hassle I get.

At the moment we have been absorbed into a massive global organisation and while I have work to do it's not very clear exactly what I *should* be doing, so I'm keeping myself busy enough and keeping my team busy.

It's also left me in a position where I am able to let my wife work part time and spend more time on the things she loves while still be able to afford to travel and overpay the mortgage (although to a slightly lesser extent than before).

Is it my dream job, no but I'm not really sure what that is anyway.

If it was really bad I'd move, but my boss is a nice guy, my team are all pretty easy to get on with and work with so it could be loads worse than it is.

The nuts and bolts of it are OK but the associated crap I could do without - especially the long periods of silence from upon high interspersed with occasional bouts of "why are you doing it like that".

On the whole, I'd much rather not be working for a living, but as the alternative is death, I guess I'm stuck with it.