some incredibly positive feedback from a stranger who has heard about the home i run has left me feeling a little warmer inside 🙂

thing is, i can’t really imagine doing any other job… it just seems, well easy! i think i’m really lucky that i’ve managed to get into a job that suits my personality and strengths and i sometimes wonder if i’d feel the same having gone into a different career and seen some success in that?

so yeah, my question is: do you feel you’re in the right job, does it come naturally to you and are you still enjoying it?
🙂

I expect like many, I like what my job is supposed to be, but in reality feel stifled by bureaucracy and management processes.

Naturally gifted at it, it pays well, I get great feedback and I always get my bonuses.

Wish it involved being active and outside though.

Actually, sod it, I want to be shouting at fat people…

Yeti – are you a fluffer?

Depressingly enough, yes, I am naturally gifted at doing boring spreadsheets. 😐

Only for the love of it Binners. Doesn’t pay enought to keep me in Louboutins.

Yeah I reckon I’m pretty well suited to my job (I’m a photographer, and I run music workshops/gigs/festivals mostly with young people). I even sometimes get payed to play music. 😀

I don’t earn a fortune but I don’t have to work all that much either.

yeah, i’m a nerd, i have an ability to remmeber dull and useless piece of information with ease 🙁

Yes I am naturally gifted at what I do, it’s still shit though.

no

Yeah, sweet FA

Yeah, but I just quit. Since the job market is so bouyant at the moment I thought I’d have a little poke around and see if there was something more interesting that I have no experience of doing.

Feels pretty good weirdly…

some aspects of it yes, others not so.

Yes, meeting overseas customers who are accustomed to being cheated and robbed and convincing them my company isn’t going to do the same.

(Ironically, if we did cheat them most would never know.)

Don’t know about gifted, but I like what I do & I think I do it well.

(Winemaker)

i can talk the legs off a donkey……..which helps in my job a a counter sales person.

Some aspects, yes. Some aspects, not so much.

I’m one of those that takes pride in my work though. Therefore I like to know what the competition are doing and what other tools/apps/models/philosophies/skills/etc are available so I can utilise them in some way.

Yes and yes.

In fact, I often forget that I even get paid for my labours of love and it always comes as a surprise when my bank balance grows at the end of each month.

Oh, hang on a minute 🙂

Let’s see:

Pedant? Yes
Like words? Yes
Averagely clever? Yes
Risk taker? No
Pain in the a-se? Yes

Ideally suited to being a lawyer….

Yes.

i’ve seen your floors deadly, you’d think you’d have the sense to put the kitchen cabinets in first!

I absolutely adore my job and have done so for the past 13 years! Got an honors degree first and then decided to ignore that bit and do something i was interested in – havn’t looked back!
Working with animals every day…bliss!

We are soooo lucky aren’t we 😀

🙂

Not exactly, but I don’t mind it, and I don’t find it particularly difficult.. challenging, but not difficult.

Like being outdoors in all weather – check
Like driving – check
Like listening to music – check
Fat lardy git – check

I’m an lgv driver who mooches up and down our lovely quiet motorways during the night so you lovely people can get your groceries every day

If the job involves doing fa other than living on bike-related websites and planning the next ride then yes I’m gifted

I love colouring stuff in, me! And now I’m older, I remember to put the tops back on my felt tips, and everyfink

No, but just get on with it …

pretty much, yes. not sure about talented, but s/w developer / tester seems to suit me quite well. from school really, have felt “this is for me”.

to the point where these moments where you think of jacking it all in, I usually come to the conclusion I’d be crazy to do that..

I’m not sure – what is it I do again?

I’m not sure – what is it I do again?

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Hope so! Followed a dream (led by a unicorn up the spiral rainbow*) about ten years ago and trained to be a photographer. Still doing it, still paying the mortgage and still loving it 🙂 Half price family portraits this month with a free A4 print! Roll up, roll up!

*might have dreamed the bit about the unicorn and rainbows.

Are they a pretty family?

yes, very much so.

I make this look easy!
Wait, what’s that? you mean it IS easy?

oops….

Yes thanks I am.

Well I spend a lot of time on here GrahamS, so I assume I work in IT right?

Actually it is true 😳

All I need to do is draw pretty pictures and then help others try and draw as prettier. Occasionally a story board is thrown in.

I expect like many, I like what my job is supposed to be, but in reality feel stifled by bureaucracy and management processes.

+1
A lot also goes out to contract that we could still do 🙁

I suspect I might actually be better suited to exams and learning than I am to real work.

Id feel depressed about the amount of people her posting that they are exactly suited to their jobs, but I suspect many are just saying it to convince others and many to convince themselves.

How many people do you met who moan about other people being rubbish at work probably a good 70%.

It cant possibly work if the figure is above 50%.

Yeah I guess so. I’m doing audio and video stills/replays for live racing broadcast to betting shops/telly and it’s pretty easy and I enjoy it. I’ve always been into this sort of thing and pick it up really easily. Some people talk of stress and pressure in a live environment but I’ve never felt that.

Also I get to watch loads of tv in any down time whilst getting paid for it, which I’m good at.