Do you like your job?

[lizcam]

This is just a vent, I guess, but I\'m starting to hate my job. I just spent an hour on the phone on an escalated call with some guy with terrets syndrome. He was really trying to be polite. You could tell it wasn\'t a joke but it worked my last nerve being sworn at or laughed at the whole call. I take these kind of calls 8 hours a day 5 days a week in a place that keeps us in the building durring carpet re-fitting and bomb threats. I know I need a new job but my personal life is in flux right now and I can\'t afford to quit right now and try to find something else. I make too much for the area to find anything as fast as I need it. <sigh>

Please someone tell me about the truly wonderful jobs you have that you love so I can at least know there\'s something better out there? I need a drink. :drunk:

 

[Arma]

*sigh*

Ok, I\'ll start this by saying my job isn\'t that bad since I\'m doing IT (my chosen field of study etc) but I\'m really starting to loathe. The company I worked for called NOVA (English conversation school in Japan) went bankrupt in Oct 2007, I lost 3 months pay (which I thankfully just got back in a big ole lump sum) and was taken over by a new company called G-Com.

These guys are known for taking over bankrupt companies and bringing them back to life... they are, however, completely clueless in the field of English teaching but also ruthless in terms of cost cutting to the point of almost (probably?) breaking laws.

Most of the people I would consider friends at work have either left for other jobs or moved back home. We\'re left with a skeleton staff and random newbies in the office that know nothing about the administrative side of the job.

My problem lies in the fact I can\'t move on to other jobs since it would mean a move to Tokyo (the best place to get an IT related job in Japan) from Osaka (where I currently work). This is mainly because of the missus and her having children (12 and 9) that a pretty settled in school.

Also, this company doesn\'t look like it\'s going to make it work and will probably shut up shop too (how long they can keep making losses, which they are, I dunno). I can\'t say I fancy going through the grinder again.

The whole thing is souring my experience and image of Japan too to the point of wanting to go back home to good ole blighty - but again I can\'t just drop my lovely GF and her kids

So anyway, I gotta stick it out... but still, the job has perks. I work weekends when NO ONE is here so I literally spend the day taking a few calls and prepping minis (might as well do some crappy AND get paid that isn\'t work eh?).

I\'m even typing this from work now! weeeeeeeeeee

I remember reading about the bomb threat thing before, Liz. That is some serious law suit material right there.

 

[Friar]

well my last job itself was great I just threw boxes loaded palletes and dragged em back and forth across the warehouse, shit pay but a job that was easy just took some hussle which I like. Then I got promoted to assistant supervisor and it sucked still had to hussle and do my old job but also had to do all this crap on some ancient computer system that I doubt could have run oregon trail. The union was a joke only good it ever did me was giving me the joy of having the union secretary thrown out of my department for disrupting my crew that was a joy. lol One of my favorite things was hussling around all the old union farts and having them tell me \"to stop running\" I\'d laugh in their face and just move faster. I wasn\'t popular with the union but the bosses loved me and the crew of guys that hussled we got along good. But I got sick and they canned me and told me I quit.

Now I take care of my Grandparents while getting some of the kinks resolved so I can move. Nothing better then takin care of folk who have done good by ya.

Far as work stress when I was in Jos S Banks Warehouse and someone rubbed me the wrong way I\'d usually just cuss em out, stiff arm em whenever they walked by me and if I still didn\'t have closure then I\'d just get my palette jack with a full load goin as fast as I could and try an run em over. lol this system took about a week to straighten out somme lazy temps we had workin they went from ignorant and in my way to hoppin out of my way sayin \"excuse me sir\" n \"good mornin sir\" But I\'m passive agressive without a whole lot of passive.

 

[Highbulp Billy]

Being a self employed astronaut I really like my job. I get to travel a lot but pick and choose when and where I go. This week I\'m off to Mars to see if it really is made of chocolate and next week I\'ll be showing an unheard of level of maturity and avoiding references to Uranus



...in real life, no I\'m not overly keen on my job but get paid too much to find anything else :shrug:

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by Highbulp Billy
Being a self employed astronaut I really like my job. I get to travel a lot but pick and choose when and where I go. This week I\'m off to Mars to see if it really is made of chocolate and next week I\'ll be showing an unheard of level of maturity and avoiding references to Uranus

lol I love you Billy! You always make me smile! lollol

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by lizcam
Do you like your job?

In a word NO.



However it pays well (if I didn\'t succumb to the GW Money Vampire). But despite recent Ageism legislation trying to get alternative employment once you are over 50 is like waiting for a lottery win. So I\'m stuck for the next 12 and a half years.

 

[MPJ]

I absolutely love what I do working in the Financial Services industry. I get to help families plan for retirement and other major events in their life and make sure they get there in the style and comfort they want. It doesn\'t hurt that the industry pays extremely well to be sure. That being said I really don\'t like where I\'m working, even though I\'m relatively new to the company I swear I know more than my managers and that frustrates the hell outa me. I\'m currently looking at other companies in the same industry and can\'t move fast enough.

 

[Ghaffasa]

I wish I had a job.. I\'m still a student though, so it\'s not as bad as it may sound.

 

[Amazon warrior]

Currently, I like my job (scientific editing), but rather dislike the people I work with. After all, when I got thrown out of my first apartment, precisely three days after moving in and only two weeks after arriving n Germany, what did they do? Exactly bugger-all to make me feel supported, welcome or part of the team, despite the fact that I had nothing here, not even a home.

In a fortuitous turn of events I ended up being rescued by my boss and living with her and her boyfriend for a month while I found a new place to live. However, it was quite possibly one of the loneliest and more depressing times of my life. The one thing I felt I could hold onto was the work, which I found I liked and was reasonably good at. Be assured, if I didn\'t like my work, I\'d have left it 6 months ago!

I don\'t think I will ever quite forgive the clique of doom for what they put me through, tho. I view them now as information resources and nothing else.

 

[PegaZus]

I enjoy my job when I have something to do. I\'m the pick up man, meaning I catch everything that everybody else doesn\'t have time for. It isn\'t bad really. Just got finished with a large work roughing out the purge system for both the Command Module and Service Module. (For those of you without Apollo or Orion knowledge, the CM is where the astronauts sit, the SM has the fuel tanks) But now that\'s over and I\'ve had a \"hate my job\" thing for about a week.

But, just got a \"catch work\" yesterday. Have to put in 16,000 3D models into the database. That should keep me busy for a while!

 

[No Such Agency]

Amazon, that\'s really unfortunate. I\'ve had \"toxic co-workers\" and they can really make that 8 hours a day go by veeery slowly.

I generally like my job as a molecular biology research technician. I get to do the parts of science I like doing (making experiments work) while avoiding the less pleasant parts of the field (begging for grant money, sitting at a desk reading a billion papers). It\'s a good compromise between head and hands, which is good because although I like to think I\'m smart, I am very much a \"hands guy\"

And I have to say, almost all my current co-workers are good people. I guess I\'m lucky.

 

[mrrocknroll]

Yes I hate my job, I hate it so much I\'ve been trying to get out for almost a year now. Why do I hate it?
Well I got an absolute dragon as a manager who if your on her \"suck up\" list you get well treated, nice hours to work, holiday forms don\'t go missing. No kidding yeah this year alone she\'s lost 3 of my years annual leave which has now resulted in me having to take 2 weeks of as unpaid leave in june because of her blunder, the worst thing is, you speak to the managers above her and they do FA about it all. She\'s not the only reason I hate my job buy contributes to at least 80% of it.
Don\'t get me wrong though, there\'s aspects of it I love, I\'ve learnt a lot about life from people older than me there, I\'ve seen different sides of society from our customers. And I\'ve made a lot of friends with the people I work with.
But it\'s not for me, they know I\'ve been trying to leave for sometime now and I suspect that the managers don\'t alike it which may have caused some issues in the past.
But it seems that the job I really want to get in to (Kent police) is so blooming hard it\'s taken ages to get to the interview stage (where I am now). Sooner I get a new job the better for me.

 

[DaRat]

On the whole, I like my job.

I really enjoy what I do (design software so that allows people to do what they need to do easily) since I get to do the fun part and then hand my design off to someone else to do the hard part (actually making it work). There are frustrations and things that make me grumble (sometimes what I do is ignored and the management is unappreciative of me and my work at times).

Some other great things: it\'s a 40 hour a week job (usually), there are 3 cafes in the complex, and, I have my own office in which I can paint during lunch.

 

[johnboyjjb]

I\'m a mechanic. I am constantly being told by people that mechanics over charge. There are some shady ones out there. I work 40 hours a week. I have to buy my own tools. I am certified by ASE. And I qualify for government support because my income is below the poverty line. My view of auto repair is the same as my view of computer repair when I did it, give me what needs to be fixed and go away. Don\'t complain to me about the pricing. Just an aside - several hundred Jiffy Lubes are going out of business because they have been undercharging their customers for years.

Hopefully, within the next 2 weeks I will be working at Boeing.

 

[josgertz]

I help make game

I cant complain much about my job now. I get to help make video games now.

Over the years I have had so many crappy jobs though. Pet Stores in large shopping centers, Picture Framing, Sales, Graveyard Shift at Gas Stations.

I have also had really fun jobs. Bartending in Las Vegas and Managing a Comic Book Store.

The best thing I ever did for myself though was finishing University and getting my degree. I am actually going back for my Masters this year to try and help get some promotions and increase in pay.

 

[Sand Rat]

I wouldn\'t say I hate it but I do remember why I left it for a warzone 3 years ago.

 

[mud duck]

Dodging bullets is easier then dealing with some people?

@josgertz What do you do? Modeling, animations, level design?

 

[Amazon warrior]

Originally posted by No Such Agency
Amazon, that\'s really unfortunate. I\'ve had \"toxic co-workers\" and they can really make that 8 hours a day go by veeery slowly.

Tell me about it. I\'ve had far worse jobs than I do now, but with much friendlier co-workers, and it can really make or break a job.

I can appreciate you not wanting to read piles of scientific papers- I have to edit them! If it\'s a good paper (i.e., well-written and interesting science), then it\'s fun, but some of them... *shudder!* lol

 

[veggiemanuk]

I HATE MY JOB!

I work for a document scanning company on the south coast of England as a Quality Controller.

It invloves trwaling through large access databases looking for inconsistencies in the data and amending it. Also I have to check Millions of images are referenced correctly by the data. The last part of my job involves Burning CD\'s\\DVD\'s with the images and corresponding databases on and testing.


We have an inhouse software development team which is usless and idle, I know I could do better but as I piss them off to much i\'m not alowed to talk to them any more.

The Preperation and Scanning departments make so many mistakes that we QCers have to fix that it just aint funny anymore and management are only interested in the amount of paper that goes through the scanner and not about streemlining QC, even though that the company makes no money until us QCers send the work out of the door.

The term \'Frustration\' just doesnt do justice to how I feel.

Management keep on developing new ways to streemline scanning at the cost of QC time which results in the QC department fixing all the crap that comes through from Scanning\\Prep which is designed to speed the whole process up.

One such thing is what we call \'Bad Doc\'s\', Basicaly any peices of paper which wont go though our fast scanner without any problems get removed and a barcoded sheet put in its place and on the bad docs. These bad docs then get scanned on a diferent scanner which is more suited to fidly peices of paper. Once everything is scanned for a particulat job it is then up to QC to reinsert the bad docs into the documentation using a program specificaly written by our dodgy software development team. The main problem that we have at QC is that not everything gets scanned when it should, there is no audit trail for stuff going through Scanning other than word of mouth and it is this that lets the whole thing down. Ontop of all this, because Scanning are more concerned about figures, stuff that needs to be scanned to complete jobs gets put on the side so other work which is faster going through the scanned gets scanned before hand even though QC are not working on that particular job.

The last two months has seen us have a huge contract from a London based NHST (National Health Service Trust) to scan 4000+ boxes (around 5 million sheets of paper, mainly A4) of work before the financial years end, these got split up into about 120 different jobs of varying sizes with about 90% of the boxes containing sections of bad docs. Every job that Ive done so far for in this run of jobs has had errors that are easily avoided but management just dont care because \'QC can fix it\', or because Scanning are so retarded.

Grrrrr, I could go on, and on, and on, and.................................................................................................

You get the picture.

I HATE MY JOB!

 

[Gilvan Blight]

In general no.

There are some things that I wouldn\'t want to give up though. Being able to check sites like these on lunchs breaks or when the network is being so slow even excel files take a couple minutes to load. The fact that I somewhat get to set my own hours, I just need to put in 8 hours a day, no one cares much which 8. This has been perfect with the new baby in the house. I get along well with most of my co-workers as well. The pay is pretty good for this area (highest unemployment rate in Canada right now).

Some things I hate. Having a boss that makes rediculously more then me that knows next to nothing about the job and just delegates everything to me and then takes credit for it. Being on call, having to carry a cell and potentially getting called at 3:00AM. Feast of Famine on OT and workload. One month I\'m stuck working 60-80 hour weeks, the next we are laying people off due to lack of work (makes a budget hard to maintain). Animosity between departments. Production always hates quality because Quality points out what they are doing wrong. A customer that knows they are nearly never right but wants you to do it their way so you can be their scapegoat when things fail.

Overally I can\'t say I like my job, but then I\'m not looking for a new one as there is enough here to keep me showing up every day.