Do you like/dislike/love/hate your job?

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In my life, I have LOVED a couple of jobs (including a volunteer
job I had within the last decade for about 3 years), liked several
for various reasons -- but it's been quite a while since my job
has been anything other than a necessary inconvenience, at best.
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How about you? Why and what is the job?
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but since I'm self employed it's by far and away the best job I've ever had. If I win the lottery I should be able to keep doing it for another two or three years.

the politics. the jock-eyeing. the back-stabbing. that part makes me crazy. the work itself is rewarding.

That is why I have always tried to be self employed. And the gig I have right now is the most fun, most honest thing I have ever done.

Wow is this the wrong time for this question for me!

But I have had quite a few jobs I loved, more than I hated. I don't stay when I hate lol.

Right now I'm in a quandary, with a job (itself) that I love...but so many things going wrong with it.

I like my co-workers but I get all the jobs nobody else wants to do where I work and I seriously hate doing that stuff.

I'm a construction electrician. The hours suck, the work is brutal on your body, you freeze in the winter and roast in the summer and it's extremely dangerous. However, I do get a good wage and the benefits are top of the line. There are parts of it that are challenging and mentally stimulating and I do get a feeling of accomplishment when I complete a project. I would walk away from it in a second if I could find something I enjoy doing that paid something close.

I like that I don't have to take it home with me (with a couple of exceptions). I love the "hands on" part, but despise the legal/regulatory part.

I also don't like the time I have to spend away from home.

I guess it's because it's always been a part of my adult life. While there are things I miss while away, I love seeing new things and places, and a few days without the day-to-day stress of managing a household is a nice break.

:hi:

A good boss is a big help. There are far too many supervisors and managers in American business who dump their own shortcomings, insecurities, and mental illnesses/personality defects on their directly reporting associates - who they wish were subordinate.

Now I work for myself (freelance graphic designer). I work at home...no commute, no ridiculously boring meetings, no dressing in uncomfortable clothing, no pretending to work simply because it's between the hours of 9 and 5 whether or not I actually have work to do, no working over time for free. It's heaven.

I have a great boss. We work well together. My days are extremely busy but that means they go by fast. There isn't as much stress as was the case with my last position.

reasons to list why. I have six weeks vacation and am going to take three weeks off in either August or September to find another job/career. Sunday nights are the most depressing part of the week for me because the next day is Monday. I feel like I'm literally in Hell.:cry:

I used to feel that way about my last position. Used to wake up in the middle of the night with my mind running through everything from the day before and literally getting sick to my stomach.

I hope you find something really wonderful that suits you well. :hug:

and I would gladly give it if I could get a farm up and running (working on it)

I love what I do: map and determine demographics for statisticians on a Gov't research project, but I live on the road and really just want to go home!

I've had a job before that I absolutely loved! Looked forward to going to work every day. That ended, and now I'm stuck in an office with a bunch of rich Republicans who practice classism on a daily basis.

This situation has taught me a lot, however, about myself and life, in general. I am learning the needed lesson of making sure that other aspects of my life (other than my job) are well tended to, including having better relationships with my family and friends.

today I went to put some salt blocks out for the cows. I saw lots of new grass coming up and a nice bunch of healthy calves with their mothers, all looking pretty good.

LOVED that.

Then I went to check water gaps in the fence along the railroad. And got a flat. It was about 95 and 60% humidity and of course the flat was on the sunny side of the truck.

kinda HATED that.

Typical day. Plenty of good, always SOMETHING going wrong.

I simply have to.

if I do actually get one--is likely to be something I won't like. I haven't liked most jobs I've had in recent years, made all the more frustrating because I'm a person with an advanced degree who has become stuck in the ghetto of low-paying jobs (at the pay rate usually cited as the expectation for a high school graduate).

I did once have a job I loved, writing for a local rock magazine. That didn't pay much but it was a blast!

I'll take it over my last job. I thought prototype test driver would be awesome until I realized that most prototypes are normal vehicles and I would be driving them on public roads while abiding by traffic laws. Turns out driving is insanely dangerous and going 2000+ miles a week is not very fun. I can't even begin to count the number of accidents that I had to avoid, accidents that would almost surely be fatal. The only time I saw the department head he was bitching to us that we couldn't meet their impossible goals.

Now, I have almost nothing to do at work and it is not nearly as awesome as I had hoped.

I'm the head of fundraising and communications for a large regional food bank. I feel like my work matters.

I've been lucky. I've had a 35 year career in the non-profit or legislative sector and I have always loved my work. At times, colleagues can make the workplace trying but the work itself has been worth the hassles.

for the last ten years. But now that they're all flying the coop (youngest has graduated HS and is going to college), I'll be looking for volunteer work to keep me occupied. I'm thinking of going down to the Gulf, actually, have signed up with the Audubon Society, maybe will do something like that. I'm fortunate at this point, don't have to work unless circumstances force me to. And believe me, I know how those circumstances can change - I've spent my time in past years as a single mom struggling on one paycheck, occasionally on food stamps. I'm married now, but that may change, dunno. Life is always in limbo.

Eh, what was the question again? :)

Half the time I'm a painter (mixed media, not walls) and the other half I'm a consultant for CMW's business. I was a journalist for 25 years before I came to Europe, and this beats the heck outta workin' in the MSM. :hi:

But it doesn't pay very well. And over the years we've had some pretty obnoxious and/or crazy people working here (low pay = high turnover). My last frigginannoying coworker is a woman who is the biggest bitcher/moaner/whiner/complainer in the whole world and she's obnoxiously Republican to boot. Oh and I recently discovered this "highly intelligent" woman (just ask her) is fond of using the N word but jumped on someone's case when they jokingly used the word "cracker".

Want my clueless annoying pain in the fucking ass supervisor who works 3 miles away to go fuck herself sideways.