Do you like your job?

[dissentowner]

I think every week I will do a poll just to pick CP's collective brain on things.
This week is a simple question, do you like your job? There will be four choices here, try and keep it realistic on the 2nd question, if you are thinking something out of reach like rockstar or other unrealistic goals don't vote for that. It is more geared to changing to another obtainable career. Poll will be open for 7 days.

[Caged Great]

Yes.

[dissentowner]

Hmmm, I thought I chose not to identify who votes for what but I can see my name on my vote. If I messed it up perhaps a mod can edit that, I can't seem to.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Poll modified.

[WhiteTiger]

Yep. I really enjoy what I do, even on the days where I wonder how Humanity has made it this far without imploding.

[OMG!WTF!]

Just jobs? Or can other income earners answer? Like business owners, investors, mobsters, etc? I'm thinking just jobs, right?

[Thor]

Love mine, took me til my late 30's to realize what I was meant to do and this year got my dream job with Visa Iceland.

[bubbsy]

i used to love my job, but some recent mergers/acquisitions, and strategic decisions that have come as a result of this, have made it almost unbearable. It's decent dough, good title, and quite flexible from an hours, attire, work from anywhere perspective. However, it just seems every quarter the cons are inching to outweigh the cons.

[DiracSpike]

Originally Posted by Thor

Love mine, took me til my late 30's to realize what I was meant to do and this year got my dream job with Visa Iceland.

Do Candaians need a visa to go to Iceland?

I'm in a weird position where my job is easily the best part of my life but I often wonder if I would be better suited doing something else. Maybe grass is greener syndrome or something.

[Thor]

Yep, you need a work visa, resident visa as well I believe.

http://utl.is/index.php/en/work

But its hard to get a good paying job here if you only speak english unless of course if you have a specialist skill thats in need then there will be the odd opening here and there. I know top Linux guys are in demand here.

[Coach]

I am in the last 3 weeks of my job, and I couldn't be happier about it.

EDIT: To clarify, I actually, objectively, have a good job. It's just that working in the finance industry regularly has me in situations in direct conflict with my personal philosophies and it has just become a total drain on my psyche. So I'm leaving to pursue a passion and hopefully get myself in the top category eventually.

[Finger Cookin]

No. It's a job.

[Puppet Guy]

I used to love my job. Now it's just a paycheque.

[troutman]

That's Why They Call It Work?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...y-call-it-work

If people aren’t into the work, why in God’s name would you have them on the payroll? I’m not talking about browbeating people into wearing corporate logo polo shirts and singing the company song. That’s the fake culture-of-merriment crap skewered so well in the movie Office Space—it’s flair. Fake fun is pointless; worse than that, it’s insulting. Real fun at work is in the work itself. The work is fun. It’s stimulating. We have a reason to give a fig. That’s every CEO’s ideal employee, right? What CEO capable of coherent thought would say, “No, I want the other kind—the employee who doesn’t care about us and has no passion for what we do. I want someone who’s here strictly for the money.”

When we hire people, we shouldn’t be so obsessive about whether they have seven years of marketing or an MBA or some obscure certification. Employers need people to have some level of proficiency with the major elements of the job. But we put way too much emphasis on formal job requirements, in the stupidest possible way. Your hiring process should focus on getting smart and nimble people in the door, and if those smart and nimble people aren’t excited about your opportunity, don’t hire them.

[MelBridgeman]

I have a career and I love it!

[malcolmk14]

Love it. Would like to take a break to try some other things eventually. But I'm thrilled to be doing my job.

[Sliver]

I'm incapable of loving a job. I don't see how anybody could, to be honest. Like, what's to love about having to go somewhere so other people can dictate how you'll spend your time?

I truly think people who love their job are just naturally optimistic/happy people that are able to enjoy almost anything. It's particularly hard to love a job for a full career. I mean, I can see kind of loving your job for a year or two, but beyond that it's not something most people can do.

I'm fine with my job, but it's my free time I love. There's definitely something off in people who like working more than free time.

[Imported_Aussie]

I enjoy my job - It is due ot the work being a great fit for sure, but I think most of it comes from working with good people. I have had times in my organization that I have liked my job at the time less, but looking back, it was more down to the office dynamic, as when that changed, even with minimal task change, I was happier.

I have been here long enough to carve out a nice niche, I feel expert in my area and have freedom to work how I want.

Only downside is the paycheque and potential for raises if I keep doing well, but in an unionized environment, you make the trade-off for security.
it does suck though to have a perfect performance review and not get anything monetary for it.

[polak]

"Like it, would rather do something else though."

I have pretty cool job. Even though it's an entry/mid level job, I get to work directly with our Senior Leadership (VP's, CEO, CFO...etc) and get to make some important analysis and decks. Lots of work on negotiations and lots of big presentations. Some of my decks even end up as part of investor presentations. For example right now I'm working on our strategy review for our board of directors meeting. It's a lot of pressure to make sure everything you send out is correct (one little excel issue like a cell being pointed one column off can make the entire presentation incorrect) but it's also pretty cool. I also have nearly complete freedom in terms of hours and scheduling. I have some daily reports I have to send but that's the only daily routine I have. As long as I make my deadlines, I could technically do whatever (workload and optics rule out taking advantage of that very often though)

Only thing I really don't like is the systems side of things. I hate being the point of contact for stuff that is generated by our lackluster systems as the system has tons of issues and there's lots of doubts in the numbers it produces which means occasionally I have to prove that the numbers are correct or troubleshoot why they aren't. I'm not an IT guy. People think that just cause you're good with excel you're some IT, programming guru but I have no idea what I'm doing when I'm looking at SQL code and what not.

It's not what I want to be doing though. My goal is to be a musician so I won't ever be fully happy with my occupation unless that happens but even if you ignore that I still want to be back in operations (I have a Supply Chain degree) at least to round out the analytics experience I'm getting now to set myself up for a leadership position in the near future.

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[CliffFletcher]

I don't dislike my job. I've done enough truly ####ty jobs in my life that I recognize there are far worse ways to earn a dollar. But if I had a choice, if I could be guaranteed a comparable income without needing to go to work, I'd take that choice in a second.