View Full Version : Do you really like your job?
sreenathpktr
01-09-12, 04:18 AM
It's a simple question...
Do you really like you job?
When i first joined,I was very interested...But the usual work give made me bored....Day by day,my interest became less...I think every one who are doing same work every day felt the same way i do..But i am not really lazy..;)
sounds like you need a more challenging job? but you also need to pay the bills. the age old conundrum. we do things we dont like ... to survive. and then in middle-age we hit a crisis, and try to pretend we can go back and re-live our youth/re-write history to be one in which we only did things we wanted to do (and succeeded at them, by the way). that is, unless you are one of those fortunate people who somehow landed in a profession/job they love.
I have a friend who is convinced that she should be working in a large corporate office in the city, while in reality, she works in a (very) small suburb office in ....the suburbs. having been there/done that, i tell her its not all that - she doesnt believe me. please - i want to work in a small suburb office, but i can only seem to land jobs in large corporations in the city. you know what i say to her? go do it. honestly, i hope she does, and im afraid that if she doesnt do it, when she's about 45 years old, she's going to start believing that life cheated her.
this is my advice to anyone who hates their job/life, or thinks that some other job/life is the job they should have:
instead of whining about it, you need to go do/live it. you may love it, but HEY - you may find in doing/living it that you absolutely HATE it, and then you can stop complaining about what live DIDNT give you, and start being thankful for what it did give you. if nothing else, youll KNOW YOURSELF.
no. you know what i think? if a person COULD do what they dream, they WOULD do what they dream. We lie to ourselves that life, or someone, is holding us back, but in reality, if we tried our hardest, we might find that we ...simply didnt make the cut ....just arent good enough.....truly dont have what it takes.
but that's not something we want to know, is it?
Hey. I speak of myself as well. I have a short list of career goals I dream about and people tell me Im really good at and that I should do, but I wont because I'm afraid....of failure. That's MY problem, and I admit it to myself. So when I'm stuck in a job I hate, I have to blame myself. It's kinda like Sliding Doors - or whatever movie Gwyneth Paltrow was in where it showed two separate tracks her life took from one moment.
JKeller1068
01-09-12, 02:25 PM
sounds like you need a more challenging job? but you also need to pay the bills. the age old conundrum. we do things we dont like ... to survive. and then in middle-age we hit a crisis, and try to pretend we can go back and re-live our youth/re-write history to be one in which we only did things we wanted to do (and succeeded at them, by the way). that is, unless you are one of those fortunate people who somehow landed in a profession/job they love.
I have a friend who is convinced that she should be working in a large corporate office in the city, while in reality, she works in a (very) small suburb office in ....the suburbs. having been there/done that, i tell her its not all that - she doesnt believe me. please - i want to work in a small suburb office, but i can only seem to land jobs in large corporations in the city. you know what i say to her? go do it. honestly, i hope she does, and im afraid that if she doesnt do it, when she's about 45 years old, she's going to start believing that life cheated her.
this is my advice to anyone who hates their job/life, or thinks that some other job/life is the job they should have:
instead of whining about it, you need to go do/live it. you may love it, but HEY - you may find in doing/living it that you absolutely HATE it, and then you can stop complaining about what live DIDNT give you, and start being thankful for what it did give you. if nothing else, youll KNOW YOURSELF.
no. you know what i think? if a person COULD do what they dream, they WOULD do what they dream. We lie to ourselves that life, or someone, is holding us back, but in reality, if we tried our hardest, we might find that we ...simply didnt make the cut ....just arent good enough.....truly dont have what it takes.
but that's not something we want to know, is it?
Hey. I speak of myself as well. I have a short list of career goals I dream about and people tell me Im really good at and that I should do, but I wont because I'm afraid....of failure. That's MY problem, and I admit it to myself. So when I'm stuck in a job I hate, I have to blame myself. It's kinda like Sliding Doors - or whatever movie Gwyneth Paltrow was in where it showed two separate tracks her life took from one moment.
Couldn't agree with this more! The problem a lot of people face is just being comfortable. They don't want to leave that comfort level to go "take a chance." For whatever the reason may be (bills, fear of failure, etc)..... I think a lot of people are just "stuck" in jobs that are monotonous. They do the same thing over and over and over again. It becomes less of a challenge because you have done it a million times this year and will w doing it a million times more. It may not be the challenge that we are looking for, but more the evolving job. The job where your skills are put to the test weekly if not daily. Knowing that next week won't be the same as the past week or the week before that. To me, that would be better than doing the same task repeatedly and my only challenge is trying to figure out how to automate every single task so that I can do other things while at work.....
Brodinski
01-09-12, 03:03 PM
I like my job. Do I really like it? Like it enough to do it for the rest of my life? Nah. I work too many hours a day during which I'm doing too much strenuous mental labour for not enough pay to keep this up for the rest of my days, even if I got a raise. Now, if I make a promotion in the next 2 years, then things would be different, but as of now, I have to say "no".
Does that mean I feel like I'm asting my time doing this job? No, not quite. It's a cliché to say this, but I make enough to live a comfortable life and save a ***** ton of money each month for my standards, which'll help set me up for the remainder of my life. It's always easy to say that you WILL follow your dream when you don't have any bills to pay or a family to support. It's an entirely different thing when you do have other people to look out for.
I don't have the stones for it. I'm too much of a realist to chase my dream. I could still do it. I'm only 23... I could still move to the States, get a part-time job, join a boxing gym and hope I get noticed by a trainer who knows his *****. Then work my ass off in the gym almost every day, work my way up through the amateur ranks and finally turn pro in the hope of one day becoming a world champion. But what are the chances of me actually pulling that off? 1 %? If it's that much...
You always have other options in life. But most of the times, it's better to look before you leap instead of leaping before you look. I only did the latter once in my life and it was one of the best experiences in my life. When I went on my student exchange program to Sheffield, my mom asked me "why do you wanna do it?" I told her point blank: "I don't know... all I know is I want to do this". And maybe it's better to live life like that.
But thinking "maybe" and "what if" won't get you very far, except depressed and sad. Either do it or don't. When I will look back on your life, I doubt I'll be saying "damn, I wasted 30 years of my life on this job". I'll likely be saying "I'm so proud of what my kids have become". It's better to look forward instead of backwards. And just be content with what you have.
But I digress...
Money: Tick
Temperament: Cross
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*EDIT*
Nah, not really. Although I mainly blame myself for getting 'comfortable' in a frequently unchallenging role and not pushing myself enough (having spent years flitting between new roles and having much more of a blast, if less cash as a rule).
I'm not interested in the roles above me, nor in all honesty in the other jobs I've gone for recently. But I also see most work as bread-and-butter stuff, with what freetime you can carve out being for arty/otherly projects. Ideally the job should keep your brain ticking over, but that's not always possible it seems. Only the lucky few making a living doing what they love (without turning what they love into something hateful ;))
Ach anyways, I best find something new soon, or at least do the 'mature' thing and get some consistency in my CV by returning to old trades... (coz if I'm late for this job one more time, due to profound disinterest, I will probably be receiving my P45/pinkslip. Via a kick up the arse ;))
Monkeypunch
01-12-12, 05:13 PM
Nope. But I think some of that is my fault. I dislike doing repetitive tasks, and to me, eight hours seems like an eternity. I think I'm kind of lazy, yes. I don't like some of the people I work with, namely a guy who seems to anger and annoy pretty much everyone that works there by making fun of others, taking extra long breaks, cigarette breaks three or four times a day, and endless time outs to use his phone.
Ash_Lee
01-12-12, 11:36 PM
Nope.
My job is only temporary until I find something better, but it's pretty tedious.
The job itself, yes. The added baggage, no. I assume that puts me in the same boat as most people.
I :love: my job :yup: I meet the most wonderful people :) Over the 40yrs I have been doing mostly the same work I have only met a few clients i don't like, I have been very lucky that 99% of the people i have worked with I have not a problem with :yup: sooo maybe I am not the norm but i consider myself very lucky that i am not at that stage where i hate going to work yet :)
Nope.
My job is only temporary until I find something better, but it's pretty tedious.
everybody jobe is temporary.
Miss Vicky
01-13-12, 11:19 AM
Hate it.
Hate the job, hate the boss, have come close to quitting several times but I can't afford to quit until I can find a new job. I need the paycheck and the health insurance.
So should all you people who are not happy in your jobs start looking for something you like :yup: you are all young and it is never to late to change or study :yup: I hate it that you are all so unhappy in your jobs as it is a big part of peoples lives :kiss:
I think that most jobs available are either highly-specialized or low-paying, and I actually think the Internet is contributing to unemployment. I was watching The Apartment not too long ago, and Jack Lemmon worked in a skyscraper with over 30,000 other employees in the same company. I was thinking that company nowadays would have a couple of offices and very few employees because their jobs could be done by a handful of people with some computers.
filmgirlinterrupted
01-16-12, 04:37 PM
I love my job. I love the company I work for. My boss is great. My co-workers are very cool, laid-back people.
I am one of the lucky few :cool:
RyanEsta
01-19-12, 03:50 PM
It's okay. It's not my passion (still working on that) but it's easy enough and it pays decent. I'm able to pay my bills and save up money for stuff like film & lighting equipment so in that regards, it's not so bad. But at my job, we essentially help companies manage their worker bees more efficiently, which is something I'm a little bit against morally. So for that reason, I would like to get out as soon as possible.
But you're your own boss aren't you Seds? ;)
(PS Ryan good luck with the passion work :))
Brodinski
10-08-12, 03:09 PM
I like my job. Do I really like it? Like it enough to do it for the rest of my life? Nah. I work too many hours a day during which I'm doing too much strenuous mental labour for not enough pay to keep this up for the rest of my days, even if I got a raise. Now, if I make a promotion in the next 2 years, then things would be different, but as of now, I have to say "no".
Funny how much things can change in not even a year's time.
Powderfinger
10-08-12, 05:54 PM
What did Romney say about the workers in America? I forget, but I have this number in my head..47%
I hate my job! I hate being in the office all day! I am going to quit but then.... I'm not sure what i'm going to do... take it as it comes i guess!
sreenathpktr
10-16-12, 12:36 AM
ok folks.... Now i am started to like my job...I got a new one.... ;)
Congrates Mate http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/wendy448/smileycheer.gif
sreenathpktr
10-16-12, 03:53 AM
Congrates Mate http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/wendy448/smileycheer.gif
Thank you very much...;)
zenderella
10-17-12, 12:37 AM
I love my job. I'm a lighting tech for musical theatre and it's just grand. We all have days where we don't want to go to work, but when those days appear for me it's not because I dread the work (I've been there in the past and it's terrible), it's because I like sitting on the couch with my doona watching movies. Pay isn't great but I personally don't need a lot of money.
At the end of the day, even though I love my job, it's just a job. It's not my life. My life is my husband, my friend and family, going to the movies and having fun. I'm just lucky enough to also get to do something I like and get paid for it.
Oh and even though I'm now 32, I also want to own a used bookstore, run a pop culture store, be a tattoo artist, a painter, a photographer, live on a boat, work for cirque du soiel in Las Vegas, work for Penn & Teller in Las Vegas, work on broadway, work in a hip record store in new york, get paid to travel, become a youtube celebrity, be a comic book artist, make and test kids toys, write a novel, write a screen play.. etc etc
DREAM BIG! :)
zenderella
10-17-12, 12:39 AM
Oh and one day I'm going to buy this place: http://www.astortheatre.net.au/about-the-astor Heehee
Grimm35
12-09-12, 10:41 PM
My soul died long ago at my job, now I just muttle through and go through the motions. It's alot like marriage only I get paid to show up. :D
Powderfinger
12-10-12, 10:00 AM
For myself, I do what I have do and sometimes it may be difficult, though I want to be a Draftsman and a personal trainer for people who have had stokes and brain injuries.
In hospital after the nurses let me off the lead (young children get a lead so they won't fall) straight away was trying to do crunches and push ups. I was on 8 medications at that time and when I went to hospital for pyshio, they said "you're pretty good what happen to you". So I trained myself, I had a few seizures doing it, though I never told anyone, as it would have affected my renewal of my licence.
I may get drunk on occasions, but that's because of circumstances. F'n family and my mates are in Sydney.
I can't do what I use to do, but I know good formation with weights and boxing. Hopefully next year that counts for something?
I will never be a full on chippy again, I know that! Maybe I can rework the brain for exercise as so many can't do it. Hopefully God will bless me with that, hopefully!
bighuey
12-14-12, 10:02 PM
Im retired and loving every minute of it. Every day is Saturday for me.
Ash_Lee
12-15-12, 08:22 AM
New job. It's ok, pays better & has regular hours, but it's a customer service role where I don't always know what to do, & it's frustrating because the people calling us really do need our help.
Oh well, 3 more days then I'm off for 8 days over Christmas.
Dastardly_Bastard
12-15-12, 06:06 PM
I currently do not have a job and am looking for a new one, but my last job, no I did not like at all. Still, better than being unemployed! GRRRRR!!!!!
The Rodent
12-15-12, 06:16 PM
Worst job I ever had was the best paid.
I worked for the Civil Service with the M.O.D at £25k a year, which ten years back was a decent wage... it was one of those jobs that you had to be in the clique.
Even though I was one of the managers, the other managers were in with the top brass and I wouldn't play Yes Sir No Sir with them.
I wanted to be professional and work my way through the job, and maybe through the ranks by being professional... but because I wouldn't play along with the clique they made it an extremely hard working environment.
I ended up quitting. You'd think that civvies in the military would be professional, but no. They're not.
I do. I didn't realise how much until today. I have only been in this current employment for a matter of weeks, however, I find myself completely enamoured with what I am doing (newspaper dogsbody). Aside from part-time jobs held during my high school days (photographer's assistant, modelling, commercial/ad and TV extra roles) this is only my second job in my working life. Previous to this (upon graduating high school at 18) I went into the Defence Force (Navy) first to ADFA: Australian Defence Force Academy then as an officer until I was discharged on compassionate grounds a few months ago aged 33 after a little over 15 years service.
I have been extremely fortunate in my working life. Hopefully that shall last. I like my boss, my co-workers, the tasks I am assigned--though I have no idea what I'm doing half the time; my motto: Wing it!
meatwadsprite
05-14-13, 08:17 AM
Right now I get paid to play videogames.
I really hate it.
gandalf26
05-14-13, 08:45 AM
Right now I get paid to play videogames.
I really hate it.
Say wut! Tell us more.
What kind of games, and for whom?
Do you play videogames in your free time too or has doing it as your job put you off? Are you expected to play games at home for your job aswell?
What sort of pay/hours etc?
Most people would love that kind of job.
meatwadsprite
05-16-13, 12:44 PM
I get paid based on advertising revenue. The company I work with has been screwing me over for the past year though, but it's still a lot more than I was making with my minimum wage job before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqw-cP51MSQ&list=UUsvn_Po0SmunchJYOWpOxMg
teeter_g
05-16-13, 03:57 PM
I don't have a job. I am in the process of researching CDL classes to become a truck driver. I think I would like it. I don't mind being by myself and I like to drive. We shall see.
Oh and even though I'm now 32, I also want to own a used bookstore, run a pop culture store, be a tattoo artist, a painter, a photographer, live on a boat, work for cirque du soiel in Las Vegas, work for Penn & Teller in Las Vegas, work on broadway, work in a hip record store in new york, get paid to travel, become a youtube celebrity, be a comic book artist, make and test kids toys, write a novel, write a screen play.. etc etc
I like the way you dream. :yup:
cinemachaser
07-08-13, 04:33 AM
My story goes like this:
Finished Law School in 2007, lawyer from July 2007 to October 2010, then legal consultant from May 2011 to the present day. I hate this job, it's easy, no complaints there, but it has no future, no way to go up in the firm I'm in. Really thinking about quitting and opening up a firm with my future wife, sometime in September. Seeing she has economical studies (Finances/Banks section of the Economics Academy), we could do something of a financial/legal consulting firm. It may not be much, or it may not be safe, but at least it will be ours. And I'd rather fight for myself and my new family, than for basically nothing, under the command of others.
Any thoughts on my situation? I'm kinda unhappy, and as you all know Europe is not the safest place to be right now. Especially Romania, where the working people are worked too hard and the pay is not that good.
Devils Angel
07-08-13, 04:44 AM
My story goes like this:
Finished Law School in 2007, lawyer from July 2007 to October 2010, then legal consultant from May 2011 to the present day. I hate this job, it's easy, no complaints there, but it has no future, no way to go up in the firm I'm in. Really thinking about quitting and opening up a firm with my future wife, sometime in September. Seeing she has economical studies (Finances/Banks section of the Economics Academy), we could do something of a financial/legal consulting firm. It may not be much, or it may not be safe, but at least it will be ours. And I'd rather fight for myself and my new family, than for basically nothing, under the command of others.
Any thoughts on my situation? I'm kinda unhappy, and as you all know Europe is not the safest place to be right now. Especially Romania, where the working people are worked too hard and the pay is not that good.
It sounds like you dont need any one elses opinion. You know what you want to do, and you know the direction you want to go. You live once, do what you need to do to be happy, take risks and live your life is my advise. If you have the means and knowledge then do it, you should regret things for trying to do them, dont sit on it and in 20years time think " aww man I wish Id done it right there and then in that moment."
I love the job I do. I loved learning it, and its a job where I will always have questions and keep learning, if I ever wanted to in future I can work my way up and earn a little more money than what im on and boss other people about.
However, the industry has changed and it is no longer about getting whats best for a customer and helping them and their needs. Its all about the company making money and being competitive which I dislike to great amounts. All the targets we have to hit now are stupid, they now try and sell people things they dont need just to bump up how much they pay in order to hit these targets and its wrong.
But overall im happy there :D
The Duchess
07-16-13, 12:04 PM
I'm semiretired and work for myself!
Not too bad!
MovieFan31
07-21-13, 02:10 PM
I've never worked! :D A few years ago, I found out that was all for the best upon realising that employment represented the new slavery. Our wages in the United Kingdom are crap and well below what you actually need to live on.
gandalf26
07-21-13, 02:29 PM
^^^ What do you live on then? Just out of interest?
MovieFan31
07-21-13, 02:34 PM
^^^ What do you live on then? Just out of interest?
Disability benefits since a government sanctioned diagnosis. Both disability and money were placed onto me, neither were sought.
The Gunslinger45
07-21-13, 03:17 PM
I like being a professional door kicker, but the way my Regiment is run, it takes the fun out of being infantry. Moving on to law enforcement ASAP, which it what I really want to do anyways.
gandalf26
07-23-13, 06:21 PM
Disability benefits since a government sanctioned diagnosis. Both disability and money were placed onto me, neither were sought.
In one post you make it look like you are choosing not to work as some sort of protest against slave labour/low wages etc. Like an activist.
Then you post that you don't work because you are on Disability.
It can't be both.
MovieFan31
07-23-13, 06:56 PM
First, it was the disability benefits and years later while still claiming had the realisation of what's really happening.
I really enjoy mine. I'm in industrial sales and every day something new and fresh happens. Hard to believe after over 35 years but it is true.
BlueLion
07-25-13, 09:31 AM
I only really work two days a week + I can work from home if I like, and I pretty much get paid like the people who have to work 5 days a week and spend 8 hours in an office. What's not to like.
If I didn't, I wouldn't be doing it
PHANTELM
08-23-13, 10:35 AM
I'm working via an agency for a company. Job is good but the agency is taking big wet bite out of my ass and leaving me with half the wages I'd actually be getting than if I was actually working directly for the company.
I'm working on a book though 4 months in I 've written 2 paragraphs. Look out for writer initials N B L in ten years Might have finished by then.:)
Mr Minio
08-23-13, 11:59 AM
I love my job!
Wait, I don't have a job.
MovieFan31
08-23-13, 12:39 PM
I love my job!
Wait, I don't have a job.
That's the best way! :yup:
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