[Closed] Who loves - and I mean really loves - their job?

Only Americans are allowed to speak like this.

There have been times in my life when I have really liked my job, but this has never last for more than a few months.

Mrs FD on the other hand truly loves her job and wouldnt change it for anything. I dream of having a job like that!

Has it's moments 😀

I love my job - exercise physiologist - I am very lucky!

I love my job insomuch as it enables me to partake in things I enjoy via fiscal reward.

However, there is a guy at our place who is a Radio HAM and electronics enthusiast. He can talk to you for hours about wave propogation ang yaagi's, absolutley loves anything to do with radio, and can repair pretty much any electrical device you can give him.

He works in our lab and repairs our rather complex radio system.

Happy? oh yes.

I don't really like my job but it enables me to do the things I [i]do[/i] like doing.

Nope, never loved a job in my life but I accept that I need to work in order to pay for the things that I do love. I am occasionally satisfied with a particularly good piece of work but in the grand scheme of things i just do it for the money. If I could earn more or earn the same in less time doing something else I probably would.

i love my job because i do it when i want .. earn enough to pay the bills and pay for toys.. spend days like today smooching on line before hitting the MTL

I hate my job. Every day.
At least it pays well. But I doubt it's worth it.

I've hated a few in my time, but now I'd love one if I had it.

I love my life. What I do to make money forms a part of that.

Bullshit americanism

I love mine, sure it's a cruddy wage and often I miss my independent student days and wonder if furthering my Education would have been fun as I could have my days free to ride, climb, sleep etc.
But I work in the bike industry and get to talk bikes all day, OK we have a few iffy customers but every line of work generally gets them, generally I'm happy and realise I got a very helpful boss when it comes to personal shiny bits, always happy to get me a good deal which adds to the job a little.
Though I do believe a job is what you make it to be, In reality i have worked in some pretty shitty places but somehow have seemed to enjoy every one of them and met some kick ass people.

Stuey01 - Member
I hate my job. Every day.
At least it pays well. But I doubt it's worth it

Hmmm, this sounds familiar. Really should look for something more rewarding, even if it entails a pay cut....

I've always found the main problem is getting a job you enjoy which pays well enough. I could go and do hundreds of other jobs that i'm sure i'd love and find very rewarding (not financially speaking) but then i wouldn't be able to afford my lifestyle or my house.

I have a mate who's a filthy rich banker and his new wife works for a charity in Brazil helping homeless kids which i'm sure she loves, but it's only made possible by her husbands very high salary. Would she love it if she was on the breadline and life was a struggle?

Guess i need to find a wealthy lady to take care of me....

Bullshit americanism

Harsh? I have met the odd one or two people for whom work is their life. They love it and devote endless hours to it. Looking at it another way, they earn a living doing what they love rather than work being a necessary evil to enjoy life.

I love my job,I've spent thirty years doing it,it pays really, really well, I work pretty much when I want and for who I want and I wouldn't consider doing anything else. hurrah etc.

Love it - started my own business 18 months ago and despite the odd 65 hour week, it still doesn't feel like work!

I want hughjayteens' job.

Really like mine, overall.

stumpy01 - agreed mate. Question is what, and in today's market... Very much looking at options.

Mine has ups and downs but in general I can't think of too many other jobs I'd rather be doing, or rather too many other environments I'd rather be doing that work in.

Interestingly, most of the people I've met that loved their work worked outside or doing something physical - natural endorphin supply. I've often wondered if that was a better route to go down.

I'd suggest that anyone who really loves their job wouldn't be killing time on STW...

My wife. Hospice Clinical Ward Manager. She has that place running through her veins (not literally-obviously).
Not me. Glorified Debt Collector.

When I'm being paid to draw or paint something I couldn't be happier. If it was spare time I would be cycling or drawing/painting anyway. I don't like the other side of having to network and sell myself but I'm learning.

My dad retired last year (property developer) and soon got bored. Now he's gone back to his roots of carpentry and is making bespoke dog kennels, bird houses, cabinets and things. He said he's never been happier.

i'm a glorified debt collector too, and no i do not love my job.

I enjoy my job, 11 years and counting and looking forward to another 11 years....still get that feeling in my stomach (a mixture of excitement and fear) when a serious sounding call comes over the radio....there are better paid jobs out there but i've tried sitting at a desk and it bores me to tears.

That said, i reckon i would be just as happy (if not more so) if i'd scooped that 100 million+ euro jackpot and spent the rest of my life playing around and indulging myself.

Stuey01 - Member
stumpy01 - agreed mate. Question is what, and in today's market... Very much looking at options.

That's the problem. Recently bought a new house - not really stretched ourselves, but want to be able to pay the mortgage for the foreseeable future (including mildly overpaying) and want a job that has a decent amount of security.
The company I work for is making money, I've been here a while & can see where we are going. Jumping ship for a new job that might go down the pan shortly after isn't something I'd want to risk, even if this job doesn't feel me with a warm glow day in/day out.

I don't love my job, I'm possibly indifferent about it. I don't dread going to work other than the flannel I have to listen to from my staff talking about the latest soap drama/reality guff. I can't hate it as I've not had a day sick in 14 years. I earn well enough, can ride to work and my journey is only 30 mins each way so can be home early with family which gives me more time to ride. I work part time in a LBS which is always entertaining and keeps my in cheap bikes. I also coach kids and adults in cycling and also get to guide Charity rides to Paris and other European destinations for various organisations. I'm actually leaving Stratford next week, guiding 150 riders for Action Medical Research to Brussels via Amsterdam.
So though I don't love my job, it does allow me the free time to do things I do love, whether it time with the family, selling someone an exotic bike they have worked hard to afford or help someone meet their goals in doing a long distance charity ride.
Still wouldn't say no to a lottery win though, be tough giving up the LBS to do more charity guiding.

I have changed: Once I loved programming - building the system right. I still like it, but don't find it as satisfying. Now I prefer discovering user needs and designing solutions - building the right system.

The commercial/political aspects still do my swede in.

I absolutely love the main creative, performance and motivational bit of it, but totally hate the admin/detail and organisation bits, at which I'm shockingly bad. Meet interesting people in interesting places and do interesting things with them.

I think most of us would rather do something else than go to work, but the reality is we need to work to enable us to function properly.

If you are a particular type, you are not going to be happy making bird boxes, you probably don't enjoy it, but actually thrive on the stress of difficult periods of work and as a result properly enjoy the time at home which is a break from that.

Sometimes I really hate my job, but I'd be lost without it!

I absolutely love the main creative, performance and motivational bit of it, but totally hate the admin/detail and organisation bits, at which I'm shockingly bad.

This.

Yes, the vast majority of the time (Mountain Bike Coach). Meet loads of nice / interesting people, which is really good.

I used to. Well, I used to like it a lot at least. I really enjoyed getting out of the house in the morning and getting stuck into it. Now though, I just think that it's part of the bargain that I made to have money.

To be honest, my role in the TA is far more interesting and something I do genuinely love.

Wouldn't the test of whether you love your job be whether you would still do it if you didn't get paid ?
I reckon I've currently got the best job I've ever had, but I only do it for the money.
If I was independently wealthy, I'd find something to keep myself occupied, but it wouldn't be mending buses.

Wouldn't the test of whether you love your job be whether you would still do it if you didn't get paid ?

I used to do mine on a voluntary basis. Quite a few people still do volunteer with us.

If I could work part time for the same amount of money I'd love it, as it it is I just like it most of the time..... Science Teacher

Grum, I was thinking of Special Constables as the only example of a volunteer doing almost exactly the same job as a regular worker.
I guess there must be lots more though when you think of all the charity shops, museums, dog rescues and so on staffed by volunteers.

Bearing in mind the lottery comments and MTG's response, I must quite like my job - I'd definitely carry on doing it if I suddenly became stinking rich. Although I'd do it in a slightly s****ier way!

I swallowed the American dream BS referred to above in my (very) late twenties, put all my apples into one ricketty basket and spent four years turning my hobby into a business, via college and uni.

Sorry, but I really, and I mean really love my job, at least 80% of the time (photographer FWIW)!

MTQG - I work for a music education charity, running workshops with kids etc. I would happily do it for free but I need to pay bills like everyone else. We have quite a few volunteers, which is how I started.

I hate my job. Every day.
At least it pays well. But I doubt it's worth it.

In the same boat here...

Dad always used to say, [i]If you find a job you love, you'll never work a day in yer life..[/i]

He was right.

I found it.

Then I got Medically Discharged, and its gone downhill since then.. 😐

If I was independently wealthy, I would still work but I would take more control over what, how, when, and how much, I do rather than be a wage-slave.

I'd suggest that anyone who really loves their job wouldn't be killing time on STW...

MidlandTrailquestsGraham - Member
Grum, I was thinking of Special Constables as the only example of a volunteer doing almost exactly the same job as a regular worker.

My other half used to do this, before applying to join full time. She's now working in CID.

I like mine except the admin and CRM system side of things. I basically get paid to listen and do a little talking too, mostly to OK people.

I've got 2 jobs.
My main job I hate every minute i'm there but it regular and reliable work and there flexiable and it's a secure job.
My second job I love it's just hard to make it full time, the pay changes from job to job from not great to fairly good. Would I also do the job if I didn't get paid? Yep and occasionally I do freebie days when it is the companies interest.

Me.

I'm in a bit of a quandry at the moment. I'm currently in a well paid job that I don't really like that much, but I can tolerate it. I've now been offered a job that I would really love to do, but it's not as well paid.
I cannot make up my mind if having the extra money to do things outside of work that I enjoy is more important than enjoying my work and having a bit less money.

Tough questions that. If I didn't need the money (lottery win etc) then I would consider jacking the job in and just doing the TA thing, maybe go for FTRS. There are risks involved with that, and I may end up disliking it a bit, but I think it's a more varied and more "me" career.

Either that or I'd buy a large chunk of France and grow my own grapes...

I do, i run my own grounds maintenance company, been doing it for 3 yrs and have never been bored or dreaded getting up even on a rainy Monday morning.

I consider myself very lucky 😛

I run a business too, which means I make my own decisions about most things which is good. No ****er telling me to do stoopid things for stoopid reasons is a good situation, plus I make decent money which is also good.

The only down side is the occasional stress that comes with it, but I suppose that is just character building!

Lucky? I believe one makes ones own luck, but I suppose I am lucky that am someone who has been given the ability to get to where I've got.

No-one will pay me to ride bikes or take photos or any of the things I love, so it's going to have to be IT for the time being.

Professional cyclist is out unfortuantely (although I wish I'd been a bit more aware of these things when I was younger, I might've had a genuine attempt at it); a writer I could be; I would also have a stab at being a photographer. However none of the creative options would put bread on the table for the family currently.

So I do short term contracts, get paid well and hopefully I can use the money to set myself up where I can take time off and really enjoy myself.

I love the work I do. The best bit is actually seeing something as a result of hard work and even better, having happy customers who say thankyou.

Money isn't too good though, but that's a price I pay.

Of which:

"HOLD the front page – or rather, please don’t. Page 2 will do just fine. What I’m about to “reveal” is only news to a small, close-minded elite of out of touch politicians, left-wing academics and social engineers. Believe it or not, but given the choice, people will pick a well-paid job with a less happy lifestyle (long hours, stress, uninteresting tasks) over a less well-paid job with a happier lifestyle. That is the main finding from an experiment involving thousands of adults and students conducted by a team of economists. Obvious, really, to anybody who knows anything – yet bizarrely, the news will have come as a shock to many of those in and around the government, especially those who have inherited large sums of money. It is easy for people who have the luxury of pursuing a career that satisfies them to look down on those for whom work is primarily a means to an end – providing for themselves and their families – yet those who sneer at such motives are being shockingly patronising in an age of austerity, declining living standards, wealth-destruction and elevated unemployment.

The study refutes the view that the goal of government policy should be to directly pursue happiness rather than to create the conditions for prosperity. Happiness – as measured in surveys – is not a goal for many people and is intentionally traded-off with other aspects of life. As Alex Rees-Jones of Cornell University, one of the authors, points out, if governments design policies to maximise happiness, they will end up imposing lifestyle choices and policies that people don’t actually want. The research doesn’t mention this, but we saw that in France a few years ago when absurd limits were imposed on people’s working hours, partly in the name of boosting happiness: millions were angry, and ultimately undoubtedly less happy, as they genuinely wanted to work more and earn more to provide for their families. The best policy, as ever, is freedom and individual liberty.

The researchers asked people to choose between a number of scenarios. Choices included picking either a job paying £49,000 per year which lets you get 7.5 hours of sleep a night or a job that pays £73,000 but which allows just 6 hours sleep. Many gave one answer for what would make them happiest (usually more sleep, less money) and another answer for what option they would choose (more money, less sleep). They would often choose an unhappy option if they thought it would give them greater purpose, social status, control or help their family.

The lesson for the government is simple: ditch all the nonsense about trying to promote happiness, which in fact merely reduces opportunities. At a time when the proportion of young people not in work, education or training is at a record high, we need more jobs and more economic growth, not mumbo-jumbo and compulsory reeducation. We need to boost Gross Domestic Product (GDP), not worry about Gross National Happiness (GNH). The previous government’s obsession with our “work-life” balance was always based on a meaningless artificial dichotomy. It some cases its sole purpose was to justify laziness and a culture of entitlement. It certainly feels very 2007 to speak in those terms these days. If we want to afford to consume more in the years ahead – including more healthcare and other services – we will need to work harder, longer and smarter to pay for it. "

Really like my job, IT consulting for a small and specialist firm. However really starting to tire of the travel that comes with it, not the firms fault though i moved miles from them for some stupid reason (love 🙂 )

I love my job!

Really love it- although this years a bit pants.

I used to love whipping Stoner and Pedrosa.

Now theyre whipping me!

I do love my job. It's aways interesting and I have a good work life balance (work from home 2-3days p/w) and travel all over the world. I can't imagine getting a better job in my industry. It helps massively too that the company is doing well. I never dread getting up to work and hope I never will.

An interesting concept Woppit, and I have some sympathy for the idea the Govt's job is to create good conditions and let the people run their own lives. But it does assume that people know what is good for them. A great many people demonstrably do not know what is good for them.

I think it cuts both ways: there are examples of workaholics who's families suffer. There are the workshy. Some people "downshift" to re-balance their lives. Retirement kills some people.

I currently dislike my job. Not enough to keep me busy, and the stuff i am doing is fairly boring. But i'm slowly re-positioning myself in the business, and will be doing stuff which is more fun near the end of the year. Still, the money and perks are good.

I used to dislike my job, then hate it. Now I'm just completely apathetic towards it, unfortunately some of the people I work with make me hate going to work.

I try to think like Steve Jobs - must be easy when you've got a nack for thinking of multi-million pound earning devices. Wait, thats it...

...multi-million pound earning devices

What, like your 'guns'? 😉

I have no job, officially, but I am enjoying what I do currently.

It is easy for people who have the luxury of pursuing a career that satisfies them to look down on those for whom work is primarily a means to an end

It's not about looking down on anyone - but we live in an excessively materialistic, status-obsessed society - working long hours and never seeing your family in order to buy shiny things and keep up with the Joneses simply isn't healthy or sustainable.

That's right, and I'm selling tickets to the show.

Sometimes I would like to hate my job, as then it means I'd be able to go and drive bluddy big trucks for a living.

But I quite like my job, its secure, I'm out and about, and don't get any hassle off the boss re. productivity. If my boss ever changes and I start getting pushed and the job turns into a grind...I'll make use of the license they paid for and go and drive the biggest thing I can get keys for 🙂

Getting paid is nice, but I would do it anyway, and did previously.
Rather chuffed at taking the tractor off a 3 foot drop today, little stuff like this makes me happy. Lot of freedom but not too much responsibility. Nice variety of work, I'm involved in the whole industry from seed to product.

And if I came into big money? I would carry on. Would just have more toys at home.

I love my job. Work in Human Rights, which I'm passionate about. I could earn more in the private sector, but would be working for profit rather than people. 😀

I hated my time in the army! Luckily I was made redundant a d I found my self a very unique job.

I now work for my self more or less.

Too may managers spoiling mine!!!!

what you on about Whoppit?

Happiness – as measured in surveys – is not a goal for many people and is intentionally traded-off with other aspects of life.

Essentially this means we have to do stuff we dont want to or we die, hardly a revelation. However this hardly means folk dont pursue happiness or that they try to pursue unhappiness- it just means we are realistic - if you doubt this give folk enough money to live say £150k per year and see what they do - wont pursue much unhappiness then will they ?

Many gave one answer for what would make them happiest (usually more sleep, less money) and another answer for what option they would choose (more money, less sleep). They would often choose an unhappy option if they thought it would give them greater purpose, social status, control or help their family.

The previous government’s obsession with our “work-life” balance was always based on a meaningless artificial dichotomy. It some cases its sole purpose was to justify laziness and a culture of entitlement.

Me.

3rd video down on the midweek movies. 3rd section. That's me at work, that is! 😛

Don't have a job at the minute but I quite liked what I was doing before I moved away. Wouldn't say loved as the person I was working with was pretty annoying. If I can get a job where I get to do "creative stuff" working with video, graphics or photography and getting paid enough for it, then I'll be happy.

enjoy my work, hate the environment i work in and the narrow minded people i have to work with.

****ing hate mine!!

building trade sucks,

Love my job, every day for last 21 years
Never know what's round the corner, literally

I love my job I'm a fireman, politics get in the way and we have far to many managers but on a day to day basis my job is brill!!

I love 85% of my job. Good pay and conditions make up for the crappy 15%.

I love mine, engineer in the Royal Navy. Feel like I'm making a difference, pays ok/well, time for sports, variety and job change every 2 years.

I get to teach and ride my motorbike for a living, certainly can't complain. Even when it's raining.

I get to teach and ride my motorbike for a living, certainly can't complain. Even when it's raining.

Dream job that is!