[Closed] How interested in your job are you?

I'm a project manager in a architectural glass company and I want nothing to do with it when Friday ends. To tell the truth I want nothing to do with it when Monday starts either !

i have no interest in my job at all.
i go for 3 reasons.
it pays well. it is easy. i can spend the whole day on the internet, like on here.

I'm a Civil Engineer. I used to be interested in it, but it now gets more tedious every day.

I'm gonna give it one more go at another company amd see if I can find some enthusiasm......

Yep, I enjoy what I do and mostly it's easy to keep up to date in what's going on in the world. Work hasn't been that 9-5 for me for a long time so it's great.

dunno a certain le mans team are hiring

sadly by the 29th the year contract might be cut short to about 4 days

definitely not interested in jobs at the moment

Work in a bike shop, not all roses but on the whole a whole lot better than working for the Government! And definitely infinitely more interested!

I work on behalf of the Government 🙂 Don't mind my job and as soon as hometime comes I forget about it unless I'm on standby.

Love what I do now. Work for Nikwax so finally working in the outdoor industry.

Previously spent along stint in the city working for tech companies and spent every spare hour either replying to pointless emails or reading about tech. Which I realise now I wasn’t really interested in. A kind of Stockholm syndrome I guess!

My job is certainly as interestin/entertaining as my last one that's for sure. Last one I was a prison officer & now I take disabled adults & kids to day centres & schools etc.
This job is more interesting & a load safer!

Oh, & I'm on an annualised hours contract of 1020 hrs a year & well over the required hours already. Could be all of July & August off & still getting paid. 🙂

Not in the slightest. I read the s.o.p’s,smile and take the cash.

Overall I still enjoy my job. It has it's stressful, tiring and frustrating moments but I've never considered leaving which, after 23 years can't be all bad. I was at a retirement do on Friday night and speaking to a few colleagues who were literally counting the days until retirement. I can actually leave in 5 years aged 55 (although i'd need to get at least a part time job to subsidise my pension at that point) but when I mentioned the possibility of stopping on a bit longer they couldn't believe that I was serious.

I go to cpd events and have studied to pass promotion exams in my own time but having said all the above I still do very much consider it my job so definitely don't talk shop or generally brush up on stuff in my own time.

Sometimes it's interesting, usually when something goes wrong and I need to fix it. Day to day? Boring.

Doing/thinking about work stuff when I'm not at work? Good one! Free time is me time.

Interesting answers chaps.

I’m grateful for my job - it has loads of benefits.

Think I need to close down on it outside of working hours though as it’s not my passion.

Im a mobile crane operator and really enjoy the job , i get to work at different places most days with different people lifting all sorts of things from large animals at chester zoo , trains at and about Snowdonia, boats and even people . Although i never know what time i'll be home some days by lunch time other midnight but couldn't imagine doing something else.

Yeah I enjoy my job as an ecologist (as you mentioned that one!) and specifically retrained from the engineering side of the environmental sector because I wanted to work in something I found more interesting.

Things is, it is my job, so sometimes I don't enjoy it as much depending on the usual stuff like who I'm working with, or a particular project. I think that's normal for any full time job.

On top of that, there's bits I enjoy more than others and will happily do in my spare time (for example, I climb trees with ropes and harness to survey bat roosts and I enjoy the physical challenge and collecting/working with all my kit). Other stuff, like keeping up to date with case law from European Court judgements etc, well, that's just work work!

Overall though, yeah I find it worthwhile and can have some really good days at work, plus it's very varied which I really need to keep me interested over a long time. Do I need to restrict my work thinking to work hours only? I think I could, but I don't find the work stuff I follow to be "intrusive" into my time off, but it's more like reading around my work area in most cases rather than anything more structured.

Yup great job still has it downs but I get paid to drive around Northumberland a lot of the time.

I enjoy my job, and the industry I’m in.
I do keep up to date, and think about things often, but it Is not an issue for me.

Finding the right company to work for can be tough though, but I’m pretty comfortable.

Love my job, but on average I try to keep it to 45 hours and 4 days. The rest of the time is my own. I keep the phone on me and check my email on Fridays (I’m off, but contactable) and in Sundays in the afternoon.

I do have peak periods where it can be as much as 80 hours per week for a few weeks or months, but it’s part of what I do and I accept that.

I’ll qualify mine by saying I’m a bit cranky after Mrs K was in a&e with Jnr last night, nobody slept well before 3am.  Thankfully he’s fine.

Anyway, - National Sales Tier 1 customers - when I’m in the thick of deals, working a sale and the adrenaline running I love it.  When I’m sitting here typing on STW and I see managers emails firing into my inbox I start to loathe it.   I won’t answer them, but “work” is in my head now, and also gets there via the ironing of shirts, polishing of shoes etc on a Sunday.

it just grated on me the constant reminders of hard time ahead being the ruination of the present.

I’m lucky.

Every day I get to experience the gut wrenching drama of human conflict through Quantity Surveying.

Preparing to do battle...

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The thrill of Victory!...

The agony of defeat...

Absolutely love my job- cancer research lab, it's hard & frustrating, hours can be crap, salary is crap, but every day is fascinating.

I don't really do any social media with it tho, I save that for fun stuff & politics

About 25hrs a week interested.

Unfortunately I have a 37hr a week contract.

When I’m sitting here typing on STW and I see managers emails firing into my inbox I start to loathe it. I won’t answer them, but “work” is in my head now

So why do you even see them outside of work hours? Turn off all notifications, look when you want too.

Only when I worked in a bike shop and then a bike suspension place...since then been boring shit I don't care about but have (slightly)more money...

I consider myself very lucky to have a new job that I'm genuinely interested in (health and wellbeing) and which has allowed me to have real influence on the direction of the business.

The social media, podcasts and articles I already followed are still relevant and I am still happy to spend some of my spare time on these.

I do like it, I am lucky to work in R&D. In fact if I won the lottery, I'd try to do the same thing that I do, but in a different location. I tend to stick to my hours-which is something that my workplace encourages.

I continuously try to work on increasing my efficiency, especially on the e-mails and meetings department, since that's where I reckon a lot of the fat could be trimmed off.

The only thing I dislike is H&S requirements, why wouldn´t they just take my word when I tell them that everything is going to be okay and that their multimillion pound equipment will also be okay...

Building Services Consultant - used to enjoy it but no I really despise it with a passion.
The construction industry doesn't seem to have moved on in 25 years in some aspects - still making the same mistakes, blame culture and stupid questions.
I only go because of the money and I'm half decent at it.
I do zero work related stuff outside of work - don't think I have anything on my FB or Insta etc. thats work related - I even gave up with Linked In.

Outdoor access officer in the far north. It has it's moments, but I love my job. Much of my leisure time relates to it in one way or another and sometimes work and leisure do merge. Occasionally I have to say to people contact me at work, but depends on the situation at the time.

As jobs go, I find mine quite interesting. I'd be gone in an instant if I won the lottery (particularly unlikely unless I'm sleep-buying) but otherwise it's OK. Used to be keener, now have pretty much zero interest in my "career" - didn't bother to apply for a more senior position recently as I just CBA with it all (may turn out to have been a mistake but, as I said to my outgoing and very capable "boss", if it all goes tits up in the next year I can quit with a clear conscience rather than being the poor bastard at the top, responsible for keeping it going)

I actually think I would keep reading some related stuff even from my private island in the Caribbean but it'd be particularly nice not to have to write a document and plead for common-sense approaches to it in some platitude-ridden bullshit NHS meeting/email thread in the following few weeks

I love my job (fixing xray machines (no not the ones you find in hospitals)) but I make a concious decision to not involve it out of my contracted hours. To me work/life balance is important. I enjoy my weeknights an weekends. If a job took priority over my personal life I would quit. No amount of money is worth my life.

How interested in your job are you?

I don't like or dislike my job but it pays the bills.

But if I can work somewhere else or start my own business that can pay me well, I would be off in an instant.

I’m a Civil Engineer. I used to be interested in it, but it now gets more tedious every day.

I'm an ex Chartered Civil Engineer. I loved designing stuff - blank sheet of paper and a problem to solve. I got totally pissed off with contract administration and documentation and left to do other things. I can't say I'm totally engrossed in what I do now but at least I have retirement to look forward to in 4 whole weeks.

I used to enjoy my job, I don’t anymore...I work in a supermarket, management job. I’ve just had long term sick, returned 3 weeks ago and have struggled to get back into a routine. Shift patterns can be 4am starts or midnight finishes which can be great if the weathers good, can be a bit depressing when it’s raining all day and your knackered at 2pm having done 3 on the bounce 4am starts. Was on late till midnight Saturday collecting trollies in the dark as the lad had called in sick thinking to myself is it worth it anymore....

Last 4 years I’ve had to change jobs and go through redundancy process, I should of left, this year it’s not me for a change but my team so it going to be another difficult year possibly losing half my staff.

I really need to get out and do something different but I have no idea what, mid 40’s useless degree, have good admin management skills, fairly good at people stuff and work place health and safety, need to sort myself out this year!

Am now in a "political" role in law enforcement after many years of operational and intelligence work in the same. Quite like it at the moment. I'm now at a level where I won't be out on the ground anymore and after this its managment of teams or retirement and tbh I don't miss most of that.
Its been a bit of a change in mindset,I have to wear smart clothes and all that shizzle, but I'm quite enjoying it and it's opening a few doors. My real world experience also seems to be valued which is a pleasant surprise and I do quite a bit of informal mentoring, both on work matters and not making a balls up of life in general which I like.

Also having been comprehensively and utterly mentally screwed up in my last operational role it's working well for me on a number of other levels and I don't take it home with me now.

I can't stand my job. I work for a company that claims it wants to give everyone any chance to get up the ladder or work in different roles but in reality you have no chance unless you are ex-military or in the right clique.
Management pay lip service to procedures, requirements and progress and most of the time I just feel like I am wasting my time.
I work my contracted hours plus a bit of unavoidable overtime and don't give it a second thought once I drive out of the site.
However, it's close to home and the pay is good so I stay.

I work in IT support, I find it pretty boring and have realised after 10 years that I have no interest in it. Also I don’t keep up on any tech out side of work. I kind of fell into it as I didn’t know what I wanted to do, I still don’t.

Seems to be the same as plenty of other people. I was always of the mindset that its called work for a reason and if I loved being there then why would someone pay me.

My interest goes as far as watching the money land in my account each month. Beyond that, nada.

My job is fascinating and challenging. I'm busy. Few resources. Low pay relative to responsibility. But I get to make a difference. It's a lovely group of colleagues. A fleet of foot and entrepreneurial organisation.

Sadly they won't pay me enough or create the next role/title to for me, so it's time to leave.

I'm definitely in the "love my job" camp. I have colleagues in the US and Asia Pacific so definitely not a 37.5hrs a week job. My contract hours are "as required to perform in the role".

Just to add the nerdy love the job thing. I have some research alerts set up for things that I'm interested in that send the reports out on the weekend so that I have the time to get the journals and read the papers on the weekend....

I like my job but only in the last 7 years or so. I've always been interested in coding but the actual day jobs were always dull as hell. But since my current job I've enjoyed it, because as a consultant I get to go to lots of different clients to solve problems, design stuff, train and mentor and just generally be an expert. Which is far more fun than just slogging away with boring code.

Do I keep up with it outside work? Not that much, because my area is so specific there's not much to keep up on. The new role though requires learning a ton of new stuff and I do that in my spare time often cos I'm just interested.

Account director in media, so very much top tier global advertising clients. Keeps me very interested - partly because I'm lucky to be working for a good organisation that has things in place to help me earn the money I want (the whole reason for being in sales), partly because through a new CPD programme I'm spending more time with counterparts in other divisions, so always learning.

I follow quite a lot of sales/marketing people on social - asides from everything you can learn (and there's lots of little nuggets of info from them that really make a difference), they're good on a mindset perspective and also tend to be pretty interesting, extrovert characters.

So yeah - interested in my job, and the people in it, as well as the methodologies to get better at it.

I work in IT security on the offensive /pen test side. I really do enjoy it. I would sooner prat about breaking into something than watching inane nonsense on TV.

I'm lucky, I mostly really enjoy my work. I can't do it at home so as soon as the shift ends I'm out the door and that's it. It has its moments of stress / hassle but it's short lived and all over by the end of the shift if not before.

I do keep half an eye on relevant stuff outside of work that interests me, but it takes up very little time and doesn't matter if I don't.

Not a fan of my job at all and have zero interest in it. It somehow manages to be utterly tedious and stressful at the same time. Have to deal with the US so it also means answering mail at home. It pays okay and the majority of the people are great, but it intrudes in to my personal life. I would love to do something else, but I’m in my early 40’s with no qualifications and a young family to support. Therefore I can’t see a way out.

Not even a little bit. I go to work, I do work, I finish work, I go home. Work is then stricken from my mind until the next working day.

I want nothing to do with it when Friday ends. To tell the truth I want nothing to do with it when Monday starts either !

Basically this. i'm a contractor in a Head of Sales & marketing role, in a stunningly boring company. Been here 6 months, contracts just been extended another 12 months.

Part of a big group of companies, but a relatively small (sub £20m turnover) profit centre, which is hamstrung by group policy & procedure. Endlessly feels like wading through treacle.

Coupled with some very difficult team members, makes for a challenging mix.

My job was a lot more interesting and rewarding when it was ****ing up any chance of a normal life. Now I have a life outside work the role I have is fairly tedious.

Hmmm

Well, I worked in various network engineering and IT security roles for one of the biggest companies in the world for 12 years (an evil bank).

It paid well and was easy (usually). However, I had this overwhelming feeling that if I stayed doing that all my life I’d look back at retirement and think “wtf did you with your working life? You could have done so much more!”

So... after much deliberating, entrance exams and interviews I started a Graduate Entry Medicine accelerated med degree in September last year at the ripe old age of 38.

With a bit of luck (and so so much work) I’ll be a very, very, very, very junior doctor in 3.5 yrs.
I’ll be earning a lot less than my old salary for a further 5 yrs post graduation but *hope* that I’ll feel I’m fulfilling my potential and am doing something useful!

Eek.

I used to enjoy my job, back when it involved actually doing things, but now I hate it with a passion because I am "Management". However, like a few others have posted, it's too well paid for me to leave it without rethinking quite a few aspects of my life, but I'm pretty sure that once I've finished paying off the house in a couple of years, I'll not hang around.

I yearn for a job where I feel like I'm actually making a difference to things, rather than just helping a rich firm get richer. Naive, perhaps, but it's a real concern to me at the moment.

I yearn for a job where I feel like I’m actually making a difference to things, rather than just helping a rich firm get richer. Naive, perhaps, but it’s a real concern to me at the moment.

That’s exactly how I felt. I’d say look for a change sooner than later else you may convince yourself it’s too late then!
It’s not easy but it’s not impossible to go from a well paid employee to student/trainee/lower paid job. We have two small mini RRR’s , mortgage , cat, hamster , debt and so on..

We only get once chance at all this after all.

I was very interested and enjoying it until a new technical manager came on board and told me and my colleagues our 30 years of experience was worth nothing and we were no longer allowed to talk to R&D staff about what customers wanted to buy.

Project Manager for an Engineering Company that builds things to go on Navy Ships... I like the actual job role, but dislike being reliant on people who care less than i do, and can't bare the big company corporate nonsense and the departmental politics.
I've travelled a bit, which is interesting, but takes me away from the wife/kids, so would be happy not to do much more of it.

I got shifted to work for an over-promoted idiot in France a year ago, which is sapping my enthusiasm.

But, as others have said, it pays well, i generally get left alone, i usually plan my own day/workload and the whole package of car/healthcare/reasonable pension/etc makes it hard to leave.

I'm definitely a "37 hours per week and not a lot more" type of person, but I've still got a huge mortgage to pay off, and kids to get through school/college so won't be bailing out anytime soon.

RopeyReignRider

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Hmmm

Well, I worked in various network engineering and IT security roles for one of the biggest companies in the world for 12 years (an evil bank).

It paid well and was easy (usually). However, I had this overwhelming feeling that if I stayed doing that all my life I’d look back at retirement and think “wtf did you with your working life? You could have done so much more!”

So… after much deliberating, entrance exams and interviews I started a Graduate Entry Medicine accelerated med degree in September last year at the ripe old age of 38.

With a bit of luck (and so so much work) I’ll be a very, very, very, very junior doctor in 3.5 yrs.
I’ll be earning a lot less than my old salary for a further 5 yrs post graduation but *hope* that I’ll feel I’m fulfilling my potential and am doing something useful!

Eek.

Tell me more? I didn't even know this was possible! This is almost exactly my situation and what I've been thinking about.

I did a geology degree and am a geologist now - I love doing geology stuff, but not necessarily my job. I've had three jobs in it now and one was amazing, the other two have been pretty rough. It's been people, not the subject, that have made my job unenjoyable. I'm pretty engaged with it - I join in webinars, present at universities, that sort of thing. I'm pretty lucky really.

Tell me more? I didn’t even know this was possible! This is almost exactly my situation and what I’ve been thinking about.

PM’d you fatdaddy!

when I was a self employed musician/producer/DJ/etc - very interested. Spent all my waking hours thinking about it, ate, lived and breathed it.

Now I'm an office monkey. It's fine, sometimes even enjoyable, but I'm not too emotionally invested. Spend all my non-office hours thinking about music, getting into my studio where possible etc etc.

I sometimes wonder whether I should care more about my job, but the pay is enough, the perks are nice (free drum practise rooms(!)), the work-life balance isn't too bad, so....?

My job revolves around Westminster, so much as I'd like to switch off at the weekends, given I also quite like R4, I can't really get away from it...

I don’t mind my job. 35hr week, reasonable pay and holidays. If a manager calls me after 3:31 pm though my first question is are you paying me overtime. The answers no so I hang up telling them to call at 8 A.M. the next working day.

I'd say I'm pretty interested, but I'm good at switching off evenings and weekends. I don't have anything work related on FB, Twitter but I do follow stuff that gets shared on LinkedIn.

We are also very strong on training and development - we're encouraged to book days out for this, we have various courses to complete (in work time) each year and lots of opportunity to focus on what we find interesting.

I'm customer facing, aligned to 5 large customers (8K - 30K people), so I'll also spend time on what's happening with their businesses and the industry overall. Our tech changes so quickly and customers can be very switched on, so I either have to be slightly ahead of them on announcements or very good at looking things up quickly while I'm on a call.

I tolerate my job but that’s it. Electrical engineer was ok 10 years ago when i was an intermediate but now it’s just stressful, ungratifying, hours are getting longer and I just yearn to get home and switch off.
Hate the clients we work with as well(developers mainly), bunch of wealthy arseholes.
Might go back to being a sparky once the mortgage is paid and hopefully the kids start paying keep.

I am retired.
Do nothing all week and get the weekends off.
Still miffed about the 47 years of boredom well 45 if you take out the interesting bits.

I’m a long distance coach driver.
I enjoy it, precisely because i take absolutely nothing to do with it when I’m not there.
I’ve been added to umpteen FB groups over the years, as soon as I realise that has happened i leave the group.
Works for me.
FB is for keeping in touch with my friends.
Work colleagues are not friends.

As a dolphin trainer I have a wonderful time at work with the only downside being the constant aroma of mackerel. But this doesn't stop me from enjoying watching episodes of Flipper back to back at the week end.

As a dolphin trainer I have a wonderful time at work with the only downside being the constant aroma of mackerel. But this doesn’t stop me from enjoying watching episodes of Flipper back to back at the week end.

😆

FB is for keeping in touch with my friends.
Work colleagues are not friends.

I always find that a sad thing, the 2 are not exclusive in most places and it's great to meet new people for me. We try and head out as a group and it's good fun.

On the doing nothing/thinking nothing about work when the clock stops, I guess it depends on what your work is, at a point I am what I have done, the people I know through work are important and the things I have done keep me linked to future opportunities, that is part of what makes me employable and the rewards I get for that. Post conference beers and networking events have connected a lot of things and opened doors for me.

I know a few people in the same sector and we actually have plenty of interesting conversations (to us) about what we do. They made a film about part of it - the efficient processing line part