Have you ever had a job you enjoyed?

[peenie 1,915]

A lot of people complain about their jobs.

Some, like me, are underpaid or overworked or are bored, too stressed.

I'd like to know if some of you love the work you do.

If so, tell us about it and why.

Thank you in advance.

[drobeski 3,061]

yes....way back, on my uncles cotton farm

[TylerRoseFan 16]

I teach. I love it.

[peenie 1,915]

I teach. I love it.

ok, so far, very good.

i know you all are guys and tend to be to the point, but would you mind giving a little more detail please.

do you teach high school, college? why do you enjoy teaching?

dig a little deeper trf.

you too drobeski.

[FlaHawker 24]

A lot of people complain about their jobs.

Some, like me, are underpaid or overworked or are bored, too stressed.

I'd like to know if some of you love the work you do.

If so, tell us about it and why.

Thank you in advance.

You are not underpaid. In fact, my guess, you are way overpaid.

[Mookz 1,346]

hand

[peenie 1,915]

You are not underpaid. In fact, my guess, you are way overpaid.

i am, i'm not making it up or simply complaining.

hey, the door is right over there. if i don't like it, i can do something about it.

i'm just stating facts.

i don't make a decent salary but my daughter goes to college tuition free, so that makes staying here worthwhile.

[peenie 1,915]

hand

details! i need more details!

[davebg 0]

I can honestly say that I truly enjoy my current job. Sure, there are the typical Dilbert-style headaches that you have everywhere and I think I'm overworked and underpaid, but I like what I do, who I work with (for the most part) and how I'm treated.

 

Part of what I like about working at an agency is that, compared to what I'm used to in the corporate/enterprise area, things are very fast-paced. I measure my projects in weeks and days, rather than the years and months that I used to. This has had a direct impact on my work:

 

1- I have had to cut the fat and just focus on the best practices that fit in my new world, which is like a breath of fresh air.

2- I don't have time to get bored on a project. Instead of staring at the same screens and functionality for months on end, most of my projects are over before I realize they began.

3- I am almost exclusively supposed to prepare and manage test efforts...all testing is off-shored. So I don't have to suffer through the monotony of testing the same thing in 10 different browsers.

 

I also work with a lot of young people. People here tend to be kind of hip and of a like mindset. Thus far I have only met one guy who I really just don't like. That's actually quite amazing, given my low opinion of the populace at large.

 

Finally, the company just treats their employees well. The benefits here are OUTSTANDING (who else do you know who gets 16 paid holidays per year?) It's also the little things, whether it's laying out a spread of bagels every Friday morning or bringing in a barista to make custom alcoholic coffee drinks as a thank you one afternoon.

 

Oh...did I mention the drinking? I don't think I've drank so much in years. We have afternoon meetings where, in addition to fruit, cookies, soda and water, we have beer and wine served. End of month? Time for timesheets...and a mini keg of Heineken. Every Friday at 5PM, my floor heads to the corner where we have a bar set up and someone serves a different classic cocktail every week.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

I liked that job where I provided sexual gratification to the women at the Playboy Mansion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I woke up

[peenie 1,915]

I can honestly say that I truly enjoy my current job.

 

thank you for answering my question thoroughly.

[kilroy69 1,248]

I have had some pretty shitty jobs in my life but I have had some really enjoyable ones too.

 

I worked at a IT recruiting company in A2 for about a year at the end of the tech bubble. I was by far the youngest.......and whitest guy in an all Indian (dots not feathers) company. The people I worked with were fannntastic people. Really. I blew my knee out and had to have surgery. I was on crutches for a few months. They gave me a cell phone(back when cells were not really common) and let me work from home. Before I started working there I thought people who made like 20-30 bucks an hour had it made. I was soon introduced to a world where people would laugh at you for offering them a 200 buck an hour 6 month contract. It was a blast while it lasted but boom goes the bubble and laid off goes the staff.

 

I also got a job as an erosion control inspector for the county. It was a job that afforded me a lot of freedom. I had an office in the county building. I was in the office mon-fri 7-12. Once 12 hit I grabbed boots, safety glasses, a pair of jeans and went out to do inspections in the county. I seen my boss once a day usually. My boss got into a pisssing match with the county and got the program under I worked was moved. When it was moved they gave my job to a person in that department who had much more seniority than I did.

[Frank M 181]

A lot of people complain about their jobs.

Some, like me, are underpaid or overworked or are bored, too stressed.

I'd like to know if some of you love the work you do.

If so, tell us about it and why.

Thank you in advance.

 

 

I work in the same field as you, peenie. I agree about the underpaid part. Why are you bored?

[JerkStore 13]

I don't enjoy it enough to masterbate into a tissue while at work or anything, if that's what you mean.

[GettnHuge 2]

i do stuff

[Juggernauts 0]

I work in the same field as you, peenie. I agree about the underpaid part. Why are you bored?

 

 

You guys work in higher education? What field?

[peenie 1,915]

I work in the same field as you, peenie. I agree about the underpaid part. Why are you bored?

i'm not bored, i was just giving some examples of dissatisfaction.

i get to use the computer at work so that makes me very happy!

[Frank M 181]

You guys work in higher education? What field?

 

Science. I'm in test development.

[Juggernauts 0]

I truly love my job or maybe more correctly so where I work. The people in my office are fantastic and the entire community is really cohesive. The students are awesome. The mission is fantastic. I don't really LIKE asking people for money, but I enjoy hitting my goals and succeeding.

[peenie 1,915]

You guys work in higher education? What field?

i work in a pathology lab.

[GutterBoy 2,899]

Science. I'm in test development.

 

You're the positive control for new AIDS tests?

[NewbieJr 541]

LOve my jobs. Both of them. For teh day job, I'm well-payed with great benefits and a very laid back work environment.

 

As a DJ, I get to hang in bars and have my drinks paid for. Always at least a handful of stunningly hot chicks at every gig. I would DJ for a third of the money that I charge, but I don't tell me clients that.

[joeshushu 51]

I know running Elisa's can get boring. I hate it too.

[peenie 1,915]

Always at least a handful of stunningly hot chicks at every gig.

guano

newbie, are you ever tempted to cheat on your wife by these hot chicks? why or why not?

[GutterBoy 2,899]

guano

newbie, are you ever tempted to cheat on your wife by these hot chicks? why or why not?

 

No. Because he's gay.

[NewbieJr 541]

guano

newbie, are you ever tempted to cheat on your wife by these hot chicks? why or why not?

Tempted, yes. Why? Because I'm a man and love women. And I've been with the same one for 17 years.

 

Cheated, no. Why? Too much to lose.

[peenie 1,915]

Tempted, yes. Why? Because I'm a man and love women. And I've been with the same one for 17 years.

Cheated, no. Why? Too much to lose.

[Strike 5,538]

Cheated, no. Why? Too much to lose.

 

What, the wife is an expert at frosting your tips?

[GutterBoy 2,899]

Too much to lose.

 

Like what?

[NewbieJr 541]

Like what?

Wife, house, kid, reputation (small town).

[GutterBoy 2,899]

reputation (small town).

 

You would actually gain some cred, people might stop calling you faagot and your wife "beard".

[NewbieJr 541]

You would actually gain some cred, people might stop calling you faagot and your wife "beard".

good one

[SUXBNME 1,499]

Owned part of a skateboard shop in my teens...Last job that I liked

 

*insert unemployment joke here*

[Recliner Pilot 61]

LOve my jobs. Both of them. For teh day job, I'm well-payed with great benefits and a very laid back work environment.

 

As a DJ, I get to hang in bars and have my drinks paid for. Always at least a handful of stunningly hot chicks at every gig. I would DJ for a third of the money that I charge, but I don't tell me clients that.

 

 

A while back when I called you out for scamming the system while collecting unemployment your story changed to "I didn't get paid forDJ'ing". Now all the sudden you make a pantload doing it.

 

Your story changes faster than an Obama promise.

[Frank M 181]

You're the positive control for new AIDS tests?

 

Wow. Funny.

[Voice_Of_Reason 0]

I just got promoted to head fry guy. Yeah, some poor geek lost his job, but I'm picking it up while also handling my previous position, sesame seed bun fluffler.

 

 

Seriously, I have good days and bad days. Everyone does. I highly doubt someone loves their job all the time. Sure someone could love it most of the time, but there is always something to deal with.

 

Most days, I'm content to be where I am

[frank 2,305]

hand

 

 

Just checking in to see how many posts before somebody made this joke......

[mmmmm...beer 807]

Although it's a bit physically and mentally challenging I really dig my job. I can't see myself doing anything else for quite awhile. I do sneakery stuff.

[nobody 2,671]

When I was in college I worked as a janitor at a healthclub. I could work out and play basketball as much as I wanted and met a lot of cool people.

[ens189 1]

I get paid to 4x4 off-road, ride ATV's, ride horses, chase people up mountains, and get to do all these things with little to no supervision and make a damn good chunk of change to do so.

 

Being a Border Patrol Agent is a damn good job.