Do you like your job?

PostDo you like your job? by **Herdanos** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:22 am

Do you like doing what you do for a living? Would you still do it if you didn't have to? Or are you looking for something else?

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **rinks** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:30 am

I liked my job a lot before, but now I'm working from home, it's better than I ever wished for. I don't take it for granted. It's taken me a long time to get to this point, and I've been through all of the poll options in the past.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Lotus** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:37 am

Nope, I hate it. But it pays fairly well meaning I don't really ever think or worry about money, so that's the positive. I think I'm one of those people who'd pretty much hate any job I have, just because it's work and therefore almost certain to be that something I don't want to do. I've just resigned myself to being miserable for the next few decades and I grit my teeth and try and get through each week.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Moggy** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:38 am

I hate my job, but I'd hate any job.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Tomous** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:40 am

I hated my last job but my current job definitely fits into: I like my job enough, but if I had the choice I'd rather be off work than in and considering the hours are both shorter and more flexible and I got a nice payrise when I moved, I'm really not complaining.

I like certain aspects / tasks of my job. But the actual work 'environment' and attitude of other people is what I despise at times - things can be very poorly managed, with minimal direction, oversight, feedback and advice which lead to a strong feeling of 'winging it', which can be very stressful.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Dual** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:45 am

I don't love it and I don't hate it. It pays well so I guess I'll stick with it lol.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Rik_** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:46 am

I'm in a weird place where I don't really like this specific job but in a different context I'd enjoy the work. Only thing that's stopped me quitting and going properly freelance is that Christmas is coming up so need a reliable income to pay for everything and that somewhere in the near future I might be moving into a proper salaried position with the same company with a bit more focus on editing other writers' work, which should give me some good experience and provide a bit more stability/better income/more manageable workload. Other than that I spend most days just not really wanting to do my work.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Cuttooth** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:51 am

My relationship to my job is such that I've spent more time than I should debating with myself whether I fit in the second or third poll option.

I'm still contemplating the full career change I was last January but into what role/industry I don't know

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Jenuall** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:51 am

I like my job quite a lot, it's interesting and often challenging work, I have good colleagues that I get along with, I'm paid pretty well for my time and the management is overall very fair and flexible to the circumstances of the individual. So yeah I don't have much at all to complain about - the commute is the only real downside.

But I would still happily not do it if that was an option!

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Preezy** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:53 am

I used to like my job, but the last 18 months that included the isolation of lockdown and a very stressful period working with a very demanding and high profile client ground me down considerably and made me quite resent my job. Not had a payrise for a few years and they've dicked about with changing how they award bonsues which has further dampened my enthusiasm. I'm basically just coasting now and going through the motions. It's been picked up on by my line manager (who is a company director) and I've basically told them that I'm just here for the salary now and not looking to further my career with the business anymore. That definitely lifted a weight off my shoulders but I know long-term the writing is on the wall for me here.

I feel like I'm "soft-trapped" here because the office is 10 minutes from my house, I only work 3 days in the office and I can do the work easily enough and have been here for 10 years so know how things works and am viewed as a steady pair of hands. Very comfortable. I also suffer with a lack of confidence and imposter syndrome a lot of the time which makes me scared to look for other jobs, I only know how to do my current job and the thought of being the new person somewhere else and having to do something different is just horrific... but I know that eventually I'll have to make that jump. I'd love to do a complete career switch and try something else, but having a young family and a mortgage I can't really afford to take too big a risk.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **OrangeRKN** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:53 am

I like it well enough but I'd quit if I didn't need the money to live.

I think my ideal job would be an indie game dev or a writer and poet but without the financial pressures either of those entail. Basically I'd just love the freedom to pursue whatever creative projects I fancy when in reality most of my time and effort is spent at work.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Cuttooth** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:00 am

OrangeMKN wrote:I like it well enough but I'd quit if I didn't need the money to live.

I think my ideal job would be an indie game dev or a writer and poet but without the financial pressures either of those entail. Basically I'd just love the freedom to pursue whatever creative projects I fancy when in reality most of my time and effort is spent at work.

I just want to make things that might fail and for that to be ok.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **jawa_** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:00 am

I'm not currently in work but in my last job I worked for a company for over twenty years. In such a time period, things varied as I guess it would in most jobs; there were some brilliant times and some crap times.

The last few years there weren't great (increasingly longer hours and the company were slashing staff numbers) and I decided to leave. Been in a kinda mid-life crisis since and I have literally no idea what I'm gonna do next, which is both scary and empowering.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **OrangeRKN** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:04 am

Cuttooth wrote:I just want to make things that might fail and for that to be ok.

Basically yeah? (I'm not sure with what tone to read this reply!)

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Cuttooth** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:05 am

OrangeMKN wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:I just want to make things that might fail and for that to be ok.

Basically yeah? (I'm not sure with what tone to read this reply!)

Wait it wasn't meant to be snarky or anything! This is literally what I want to be able to do.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Red** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:16 am

I jacked in the job/career I sort-of-hated-but-realise-rationally-wasn't-the-absolute-worst and now I do something I genuinely can't get enough of. I would (and do sometimes) do it for free anyway if I didn't need money to live.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Victor Mildew** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:18 am

I like what I do, but I get bored easliy as I need to be constantly loaded with work that is challenging and I could potentially strawberry float up, so doing a great job and delivering is a real buzz for me. When things go quiet, that's when I start to look elsewhere.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Nun** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:20 am

Not really.

Pharmaceuticals is just a crappy grindstone of labwork on the bottom and as people become more senior they just get more and more distant from reality and labs which make their role even exist.

I'd be interested in changing jobs but its hard to decide where when the grass often just appears greener.

PostRe: Do you like your job? by **Outrunner** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:26 am

No. I hate it. While it's not caused my mental health problems it has 100% made them worse. I've been bullied by a manager for years and dealing with the general public has ground me down. So why stay in it for so long? Partly the security, I am terrible at interviews and no amount of coaching has changed that. As bad as it is I've always been scared of leaving and ending up somewhere worse. Also, as bad as it is, I do have friends there. They may only be work friends (I don't really do much outside of work with them) the idea of leaving for pastures new and having nobody and being even more isolated than I am now was terrifying. So I ended up stuck in a job that was toxic to my mental health by my own mental health problems.

All that being said, things came to a head a few years ago. My bullying boss got worse (armed with the info she gained with a meeting my mental health nurse. She turned a meeting that was supposed to help her understand my mental health problems and how to support me and somehow managed to turn everything she learned into a weapon to use against me and manipulate me) and I was often going into work crying and thinking how to easy it would be to just step into traffic. I'm now at university but I have kept a Saturday shift on at work. It has the benefits of being a regular wage, I have zero contact with the manager that made my life a living hell and I still get to see my friends. I still hate the job itself but this way I've been able to 'leave' on my own terms. Hopefully I have a year studying abroad next year so will be finally handing my notice in properly. I have a lot of potential ideas for what I want to do post university and finally feel like I have a future.

The real shame of it all, is that the job I am in, the one that has caused me so many problems, was, at one point, my dream job. Once I leave I will never ever work in this sector again. I'm looking forward to my exit interview.

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