Do You Like Your Current Job?

[Gail Simone]

If so, why? If not, why not?

Gail

[Gilda Dent]

I love my job, teaching first grade, and can't imagine doing anything else. Kids that age, 6-7 years old, are a lot of fun to be around, love learning new things, and give me an energy just by being with them that I can't get from anything else.

Kids this age also tend to be very accepting of differences. They're for the most part color blind, not yet having been taught to hate and fear and distrust those of us who are a little different from the mainstream. Their parents not so much, but the kids usually present an ideal for how we should deal with others when it comes to race and gender.

I am extraordinarily good at this, and get an enormous amount of satisfactiion at knowing that I'm doing a very important job, and doing it very well.

There are days when the 2:00 bell rings and I realize that it's time to go home and the day just disappeared on me.

Gilda

[kipster]

I liked it until Wednesday, when they came in and laid off my entire shift...

[TCJohnson]

Normally I do.

I am the computer support person for my office. Actually, I am computer support person for two offices, about 20 miles apart.

I don't have a boss looking over my shoulder. My boss works in Dallas, I live in Washington DC. He just wants daily reports over AIM and other than that I am on my own unless I ask for help. He is a good guy anyway. I like the challenge of solving computer problems. I never had any computer training, it is all self learned, so any problem I fix is a little personal victory. I make my own hours as long as I get the job done, and one a week I get to work from home. The people I work with is pretty nice.

Plus I come from a pretty poor family. FOr a couple of years straight I made 16,000 a year. The fact I am making just shy of $60,000 blows my mind.

THe only problem is that I am the only person supporting these two offices, and if there is a lot of work to be done there is nobody to back me up. People in my position from other offices can back me up with phone support, but there is still only so much that I can do. Right now I have a lot of people requesting things before the end of the year and I am just having a huge problem keeping up with demand.

[TCJohnson]

Kipster, really sorry to hear that. Last time I got laid off I bounced back really quickly, I hope you have the same luck.

[Gamma Charge]

For the most part I do. I plan on going back to school next year to finish my BS, but in the meanwhile I'm stuck working customer service in a call center. I get decent pay and benefits for what I do. My hours are pretty good. When I'm not on the phone taking a call from one of the residents at a property the company owns I can browse webpages all day as long as it is "work safe". Hell, right now I'm at work posting this. I get along with the supervisors and co-workers. I have some friends here I catch movies with before or after work. I'll be satisfied staying here until I finish school and can get a better paying position. Plus I can walk to work in 10-15 minutes. All in all not bad.

[Just_A_Rat]

I really like my job - I am one of 5 guys on a help desk that supports internal clients for a home building company. I used to have a more "high-profile" job at another employer, but also worked a lot of overtime. Then, I moved to Florida. I now work my 8 hours, and go home, leaving work at work.

I drive to and from work with a view of the Indian River, I am less than 10 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean and some beautiful beaches, I really like the guys I work with, and enjoy the work itself. My boss is good at his job (which is a HUGE component for me - working for a crappy boss can suck all the enjoyment out of even the best job), and has a sense of humor.

I needed a break from the Rat Race, and that is what I got. Now, while life is relatively relaxing, I can start doing some of those things I always wanted to, but was always too busy to get to.

Only downside? My wife is still in Toronto, and likely will be for about another 11 months or so. :( Still, when she gets down here, I think I'll be just about in Paradise.

[Azrael52]

I like my job most of the time. Of course, since it is corporately owned, sometimes you run into bad times. We're currently trying to go public, and we've gotta do a lot of changes for SOX. That has a lot of good interest at heart, I think, but it's about like security at the airport. Meaning, well intended, but way to thorough. Recently, I've seen a lot of good people lose their jobs b/c of stuff like this, and more recently, my manager. He was one of the best I've ever work for.

Other than that, I have a lot of responsibility and no one treats me like I'm 25 (everyone else is about 2x my age if not more). I'm good at what I do most of the time. I came from a job where I was crapped on for 4.5 years (my fault for keeping it I guess, but I wasn't raised just to walk away).

I'd still rather be writing or something entertaining, but for a "real job", it's not so bad, really.

Plus, I get to get out on the road some and just drive. That's cool. Sometimes on long trips where I get to bring my wife if the timing is right. I have no trouble taking off if I need to. It pays more than I've ever made. I'm learning a little of medical equipment and hospitals, and if I decided to go that route in the future, there's a lot of openings in the healthcare industry.

They'll pay for a portion of my college if I go back (right now, I only have my AA degree).

I get some overtime, but not much. Just enough, I guess. Enough to give me a little extra without having to work bookoos more hours.

[TomGun13]

HATE IT!!!! I work in a call center. I didn't realize how pathetically stupid the general populace actually is. That is why I decided to go back to school, I figure stupid people get paid more, why shouldn't I. I know this sounds really bitter but, trust me people are ridiculous.

[Lester C.]

I hate my job as I work in a menial job where there is a great deal of down time for most of my shift. This is intentional as I need a gig where I can do homework and study for my Bachelors degree, which thankfully I’ll get soon, because as it stands right now I have no job satisfaction whatsoever. The only thing I do all day is sit at my desk and when my mind is mush from reading text books, like it is right now, I’m usually on the YABS message board. I do thank god that I’m not a vulgar mouthed, beer drinking, dirty minded Australian geriatric nurse. It sucks at times, but it's better than being a scumbag.

[Jared_Humpherys]

I quite like my job. I liked it so much, in fact, that I was thrilled at the prospect of working more often. I was going to get promoted and switch to weekdays.

Sadly, it fell through, as they brought in an old supervisor instead. That upset me quite a lot. So instead, I'm taking extra hours on Fridays, and work an extra shift overnight Wednesdays at another site, which I like a lot less. At this other site, I have to make patrols in the cold every half hour. Ugh. At least that one is only one night a week.

[Night Swordsman]

I am sorry to say,i dislike my job. I work in retail,and run the toy department for a department store. I also have NO support(ie,i do it ALL). I work the frieght,check the invoices,stock and restock,customer service and product information. Most of that i like(except the frieght). The problem is that the company i work for has the MOST INANE BUYERS ON THIS FRICKIN PLANET!
OR ANY OTHER!

They massively over-order items(especially if they are late or delayed),then ship MASSIVE over quantities to ALL their stores,are upset if they dont sell,then CLEARANCE the items out below OUR cost a couple months later. I can NOT see how they make profit from this(only as a write off to my mind..yet that dosnt hold water to the daily profits of my dept.). The WORSE part of this? The massive overstocking of items requires ALOT of manhours,usually GRAVEYARD shifts,to sort and clear thru. Thus i sleep ALOT of days.

And speaking of which..im late for my bedtime. its 11:30 AM. On the WEST coast. And i should of been in bed two hours ago.

Bad bad me. sigh. :(


ALMOST forgot. On top of that,i also work OTHER dept. when needed,especially the job of price changer(basically i set the sale ads,and check for price increases/decreases and sale problems). This is a FULL time job,yet i do that ON TOP of my OTHER full time job.

And i make 22k a year.
Before taxes.

[Jared_Humpherys]

Originally Posted by TomGun13

HATE IT!!!! I work in a call center. I didn't realize how pathetically stupid the general populace actually is. That is why I decided to go back to school, I figure stupid people get paid more, why shouldn't I. I know this sounds really bitter but, trust me people are ridiculous.

I feel your pain, man. I used to work as an operator at Sprint. I hated my job so much, and it was making me a spiteful person, particularly to some of my Jamaican callers(I'm sure the Jamaican populace as a whole is comprised of good people, but unfortunately, none of them ever spoke with me. I only got the bad few). One in particular couldn't understand why he couldn't call Miss Cleo, a 900 number, collect. I'm not joking.


The one good thing is that just after being laid off from that job, I had fuel for what I feel was my best standup work ever.

[Gamma Charge]

Originally Posted by TomGun13

HATE IT!!!! I work in a call center. I didn't realize how pathetically stupid the general populace actually is. That is why I decided to go back to school, I figure stupid people get paid more, why shouldn't I. I know this sounds really bitter but, trust me people are ridiculous.

I can believe it. I've been in call centers since I was a college freshman. Some doozies from people on the phones:

1- "What is a triangle?" and "What does a circle look like?" - This was to a rep trying to help the customer read the meter on their copies. What makes it worse: the customer worked in a city school.

2- Friend doing a survey for a market research company. The first 5 minutes is explaining Bio 101 terms. What is a cell, DNA, etc. It was for the Museum of Natural History and about the Human Genome Project. After explaining those basic terms she asks something like: "After what I've told you, what do you think a gene is? A, B, C or D?" The person's response? "Uhhhhh. Do you mean like blue jeans?" (imagine a deep southern accent)

Things get worse and worse from there. If you don't let it get to you it is an endless source of amusement. The stories one can tell. :evilsmile

[Selina Quinzel]

Yes, it's a fairly rewarding job and I work with really good people who are sensitive to whatever may be going on in my personal life. It's certainly the best paid I've ever been, which is great. A year ago I was putting make-up on drag queens though, so sometimes I get antsy on a computer. No complaints though!