How many people love their job?

Elessar

Considering the amount of people who HATE their jobs around here, i.e. only working for the weekend, and so many people looking to change careers I am wondering how many actually love their jobs?

I mean surely not everyone absolutely despises how they earn money? There must be a lucky few (I hope) that enjoy getting up each morning to do what they always wanted. So, what do you do?

grainne_t

I love my job now that I am leaving in a month!

seamus

I don't depise my job. As someone said on another thread, there are positives and negatives, but overall I really like it.

Can't say I enjoy getting up in the morning, but that's a symptom of not going to bed early enough and no longer having a motorbike. When I had a motorbike, I did actually look forward to the commute into work

Tom Dunne

I have two jobs, one regular 9-5 and one a few evenings a week.

The 9-5 is basically a handy number, which just doesn't do it for me. I am biding my time.

The evening job, teaching night classes, I utterly love. I did it full time for a while and loved every minute of it. Now if only there were more fulltime jobs....

NextSteps

I like my job.

zuutroy

I like mine, in so far as is possible for someone whos really a bit of a dosser and not cut out for the whole work thing.

snickerpuss

I like my job, I'm not particularly qualified for it, but I get to feel like I'm doing something useful.
Yay.

Supercell

Mine bores the títs off me tbh but.. pays well, doesnt challenge me too much, I'm good at it without trying very hard, there's a shortage of people in Ireland that have the required training to do it, and i don't have to bring it home - once I'm out the door at work that's it 'till the next day.

Hmm maybe I need to rediscover ambition again in retrospect..

dudara

I really enjoy what I do - it's challenging and pushes me to learn as I work.

Glowing

Those people who love their jobs, what do you do?

dudara

I'm a management consultant specialising in enterprise applications. Doesn't sound the most exciting but it is challenging.

kittex

tom dunne wrote:

The evening job, teaching night classes, I utterly love. I did it full time for a while and loved every minute of it. Now if only there were more fulltime jobs....

Fingers crossed for you tom.

I love my job. I'm a Secondary school teacher and I have never been happier in myself or my job. Every day I laugh, every day I learn something new.

The only downside is that job security in Ireland is hard to come by so I am in the UK at the moment.

I count myself lucky to have found my niche.

copacetic

I have days when I could do without it but in general I love my job..

Chinafoot

Library Assistant. Absolutely love it. Great hours, great holidays and of course the pension. Most people think it would be extremely boring but there's more to it than you might think. Definitely hope to make a career out of it. I'll never make my millions but I can be happy at the end of the day. (So far anyway )

445279.ie

copacetic wrote:

I have days when I could do without it but in general I love my job..

Ditto. Hate getting up in the morning, but that's more to do with laziness and not the job

Duff_Man

ah yeh i love my job atm! im an apprentice sparks. its just seems to suite me down to the ground! i hate gettin up every mornin but once your out teh door its a different story!

Pythia

I really enjoyed my last job but it was a temporary one and not one I could make a career of.

sunnyside

kittex wrote:

Fingers crossed for you tom.

I love my job. I'm a Secondary school teacher and I have never been happier in myself or my job. Every day I laugh, every day I learn something new.

The only downside is that job security in Ireland is hard to come by so I am in the UK at the moment.

I count myself lucky to have found my niche.

I'm impressed. Teaching left me suffering from depression and taking anti-depressants. Doing a training couse at FAS now and far happier with that. Don't know what'll be next but I do want to like my job.

eoinhealy

Landscaping - cant get better, fresh air, keep fit, look back at the garden you create and be proud.

electric69

flying. getting paid to do the job you have always dreamed about doing is amazing. love every minute of it

information

Love my job

Business Development Manager & Director

spurious

Teaching. I love it. Never wanted to do anything else.

The Hill Billy

IT Contractor myself. Not my dream job by any means. I just happen to be good at it (specialise in large telecoms & banking systems) & it pays well.

Would far prefer to be working in specialist food retail. And no - I'm not talking about a McJob.

AlphaMale 3OO

eoinhealy wrote:

Landscaping - cant get better, fresh air, keep fit, look back at the garden you create and be proud.

http://www.contractor.ie/item.php?id=21&dir=

Ill look you up if I need a job done. You look hard in your photo!

fret_wimp

I like my job. Dont love it, but it pays good, its close to my current place of residence and there are some nice perks. Support analyst, so im not changing the world and it can get a bit boring at times, but IMO, there are very very few people out there that absolutely love their jobs.

run_Forrest_run

a good question. I suppose I don't like my job. there are parts of it that I do like (programming) but parts I hate (process, wasting time in meetings just to justify the position of someone in middle management!).

Every now and then I spend some time getting cheesed off with my job and never actually do anything about it as I feel it is too late! oh well...back to the coding

Sonnenblumen

eoinhealy wrote:

Landscaping - cant get better, fresh air, keep fit, look back at the garden you create and be proud.

And what about the unfinished ones?

pclancy

I love my job too! Ive been a recruitment consultant for 8 months, every day is different, I meet loads of new people every day and the feeling of getting someone a great job is amazing. It has a lot of downs but you just move on and concentrate on the ups which are deadly. We're probably in the top 5 most hated professions because of the amount of assholes doing it but i dont give a crap, every one of my candidates ive placed I guarantee are delighted with their jobs and I leave it all behind when i close the door. Hours suck but pay is great!

edanto

I love mine too. It's a big change for me, I was working as a researcher for a few years and this is the first office job as such. I joined small company (nonprofit) and it's a new kind of business, building social capital. Specifically education, at home and abroad - but hey I don't want to waffle on about it.

Basically, I ended up with a job I love after taking a few months to write a plan, personal and professional and it's only a page or so (and probably will change!) but it really focussed my thinking about what I actually want to do.

Lots of cliches about life being short - then there's Billy Connelly's joke about life being the longest thing anyone can do, but ultimately ask any old person and they'll tell you life's fast. I'm not planning to look back and say, ya know I wish I'd done.....

eth0_

I wouldn't go so far as to say I "love" my job (don't want to stay in I.T. forever), but I am pretty happy with it, and really like the company I work in. I work in I.T. for a company that most web users use every day.

Kali

I wouldn't say I hate my job at the moment, but I do dislike it, mainly because there's no work to actually do... no work means extreme boredom.
Starting a new vmware analyst job in two weeks on some of the most important servers in the UK (systems that deal with turnover >£950billion a year). Should be a huge change, and really really looking forward to the challenge.
I find I love jobs as long as they're challenging, and I'm learning new skills... as soon as it becomes mundane and easy, I get itchy feet

Tom Dunne

Kali wrote:

I find I love jobs as long as they're challenging, and I'm learning new skills... as soon as it becomes mundane and easy, I get itchy feet

It's interesting you say that as that is the way I feel about my current (daytime) job. There's just no challenge, it's a handy number. I just don't do "handy numbers".

watna

I like my job to, once I'm here. i still hate getting up in the morning. I'm a recruitment consultant so every day is varied and you get to meet a lot of people. Before anyone says they hate recruiters I work in-house, not in an agency so it's completely different!

Mrs. MacGyver

I love my job, it has great variety and it gives me a chance to really develop myself and to take responsiility. I enjoy the pressurised environemt. I actually look forward to heading to work in the morning!

Although my dream job is as a conversation archaeologist i'm a good bit off achieving my dream. Once i've my masters finished i hope to take a career break and venture into the world of self-employment with my best friend (whos a conservation archaeologist...surprise ...surprise!)