Do you like your job?

[CaptainCrunch]

I like my job, and really like the people that I work with, but frankly I'd rather be a pirate or give prostate exams to grizzly bears sometimes.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by 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.

A couple things here. I didn't see any comparison between a job and free time in the poll. While I do love my job, of course I love my free time more. That goes without saying for most everyone, I'd think.

But as to loving the job...I work a difficult stressful job that I love...because I love knowing that what I do makes a difference. Without any doubt. I know, every day when I leave, that I have had a positive impact in someone's life, and generally more than just one person. I love knowing that what I do matters and is important. While there are days I wonder what's wrong in Humanity's collective brain, or days I'd rather stay home curled up on the couch watching some TV or the game, I still love my job. I've been doing it for 3 1/2 years now, and I find that I enjoy it even more than I did when I started, because I know more, can do more, can help more.

I think that whether or not one continues to enjoy their job depends on what one is looking to get out of it. My job is giving me what I want out of it. A sense of mattering. Of directly helping. Of not just having to watch from the sidelines, helpless, as the situation rages around me. And for that, I love it. I love coming to work. I love being here. I love doing what I do.

[Lubicon]

Don't love my job or even my profession by any stretch but have too many years invested to change now. It's okay and I work with great people but it certainly isn't my dream job. I sort of fell into it over time as it was not even on my radar coming out of university. Wish there were do-overs in life sometimes and I could start over again, I would most certainly have chosen a different path after high school. However I cannot complain about what my career has given me. A good standard of living, living in a great city and all that and I would not have it without this job.

[shermanator]

Originally Posted by 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.

Damn, Sliver is on a roll lately! Couldn't agree more.

[peter12]

I love my chosen field. I basically get to do everything that I like to do in my free time, but I get paid good money for it.

[Kybosh]

Originally Posted by peter12

I love my chosen field. I basically get to do everything that I like to do in my free time, but I get paid good money for it.

Are you a haberdasher??

[Sylvanfan]

I would say that I like my job. But no doubt I would prefer to do something different.

Right now I'm pretty specialized in Structural steel. But the work here is going off shore to places like China and Korea who pretty much pay General Contractors to supply the steel let alone cost them anything.

So I'd prefer to move into a the broader overall construction part of the business, as I see a lot of things done that are not very practical.or will impact other trades. I also would like to try and move more into the building design end. There's a lot of great new tools for 3D modelling.....but more mistakes than ever because information is missing or input wrong.

[Cuz]

I love my job, I get to play with a big train all day

[nik-]

I love where I work and I like my job

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Kybosh

Are you a haberdasher??

That is actually my dream job, although I really doubt I have the visuo-spatial skills to really stand above the rest. I am an excellent salesperson though.

No, I am a fund development officer for a large Canadian university.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Job is soul crushingly boring but I love the people I work with and the pay lets me live my life.

[CaptainYooh]

I would love to own a jazz bar on the beach in a friendly and safe Caribbean country. I'd work there as a bartender and jam with musicians when I felt like it...

[GGG]

argh, terrible poll gear grinder. Poll would be much better without the qualificaitons.

There are people who love their current jobs who might rather be somewhere else and people who like their current jobs and don't want to be anywhere else. The poll should be simple and allow people in comments to qualify their answer.

Better options

Love it
Like it
neutral
Dislike
Hate

Then a second poll with
not looking
casullay looking
actively looking
plan to quit without alternative.

The qualifiers decrease the relavence of the poll.

That said I like the idea of a weekly opinion poll on various non-political things to spur discussions.

[rubecube]

I dislike my current job because it's just not challenging enough. It's fine as far as jobs go compared to some of the other ####ty jobs out there, but I'm constantly bored at work.

[polak]

Originally Posted by CaptainYooh

I would love to own a jazz bar on the beach in a friendly and safe Caribbean country. I'd work there as a bartender and jam with musicians when I felt like it...

There's a running joke in the office that I'm perfectly fine with going bankrupt and living out my 7 years on the beach in the caribbean. Bar is a good idea.

[CaptainYooh]

Originally Posted by polak

There's a running joke in the office that I'm perfectly fine with going bankrupt and living out my 7 years on the beach in the caribbean. Bar is a good idea.

Wanna be hired as my Woody Boyd?

[Table 5]

I like what I do, I think it suits my skill-set well, and it's provided well for me and my family. I especially like that I don't have a boss (well except for clients) and I can theoretically work from anywhere in the world. I thank my lucky stars everyday that I don't have to stare at spreadsheets, TPS reports, and/or be involved in office politics.

Sure, I do get burnt-out every so often though, and find my interest drifting to other things. But that tends to pass.

All in all, 8-10, would try again.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by polak

There's a running joke in the office that I'm perfectly fine with going bankrupt and living out my 7 years on the beach in the caribbean. Bar is a good idea.

But how does that work from a "right to work" standpoint?

You can't just show up in another country somewhere and start working.

[Flaming Choy]

Nice try, HR. Not falling for this one again

[CedarMeter]

I like my job, though a would have liked to played in the NHL. Wasn't in the cards, no talent