What do you like, what do you dislike about your profession

darling.x

For anyone whos in the right profession for them and anyone who loves their career, what do you do for a living, and What do you love and what do you hate about your work.

I would just like to know because i recently went looking for advice in an english foroum and got so much abuse about something i disliked about the work i did. People inboxed me and told me i shouldn't be working. Don't want to say it here in case it happens again.

Potential-Monke

Well, it can't be much worse than the reason i dislike my job, too much responsibility. Not that i don't want responsibility, but i'm accountable for everything i do, even when i'm not working. It sucks!

LadyGodiva

i bet u r in repossessions?

themadchef

CHEF.......

I truly love my job, always have done. Obviously there are times when i dont...bad day etc!, but thank god they are few and far between.

Love:
working under pressure
The craic in the kitchen
workin 2 days a week in winter
joy of cooking..no it never gets boring.
BEING IN CONTROL...oh the power lol
Seing pleasure in peoples faces after an enjoyable meal
Rewarding career..ching ching $$
Teaching others

Not so nice,
Missing my kids...mostly:D
Keeping my GP levels good
having to discipline staff
grumpy customers (rare thank god)
long 80hr weeks in summer

I think if you get out of bed and dread going into work then change job and possibly career. Life is far too short to spend it wishing you were somewhere else.

Ronan Raver77

Love: 1.Money
2.Don't have to get up every morning.
3. Im my own boss.

Hate:
1.Unsociable hours.
2.Drunk people who talk S***.

Thats all i can think of:)
Im a Dj five nights a week...My weekend is tue and wed night:(

run_Forrest_run

I'm in software engineering:
Hate:
- The silly wasteful processes that 'must' be adhered to
- Last minute change in requirements
- Testers
- the run-up to a major release deadline
- wasteful meetings held by middle management or some designer on an ego trip

Like:
- coding
- designing (a bit)
- the rare quiet time
- listening to music while working

Elessar

Love: Nothing.

Hate: Everything.

I likethat I'm working close to home. And that it's an office job with little responsibility. But that's it. I want to get out of here but don't know where to go :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

connundrum

Property Manager:

Likes:
Varying days - some days I could be literally anywhere across the city.
Meeting New peeps - I meet on average 30 new people a day, most of them are nice.
Experience - I've learned so much about everything; Law, Finance, Project Management, Relationship Building etc.
Money - It has to be well paid to keep me here.
Colleagues - Best bunch of people I've worked with in a while.

Dislikes:
Hours - Average week would be 55 hours, most of my overtime would be off the clock i.e. running to different sites on a Saturday morning etc.
Pressure - Don't even go there.
Customers - 60% of people don't know what I do and therefore don't know what I'm not responsible for. The amount of screaming matches I've had with people who are screaming at the wrong person is unreal.

All in all its a decent job which will prepare you for anything, ever.

Door Supervisor:
Likes:
The craic
The experience gained in dealing with different people and situations

Dislikes:
Drunkass people who know everything.
The hours

I can't really complain about the dislikes, as I knew what I was signing up for when I joined.

fret_wimp

Systems Support Analyst / DBA

Love:
1. Learning new technologies and making myself a more valuable and hirable person.
2. Applying what I learned in college to real world scenario's.
3. Solving a particularly difficult issue, explaining to the dev'swhats wrong with their code, finding workarounds until the devs can fix, test and release a patch.
4. wearing what I like to work.
5. Not being monitored my my managers. They just let us get on with it, give us time off when we need it and they dont really look down upon us.
3. Watching my CV grow.

Hates:
1. Users. they always find ways to break stuff.
2. Non technical managers who dont understand that just because you know how their databases work, you cant create reports or fix thier issues instantly with them looking over your shoulder.
3. Responsibility. T2 are gatekeepers of important production info.
4. Understanding the business users view of a system including their rules, which is just code to me. its difficult at times to relate what the business users talk about to my understanding of the database/apps.
4. long hours. partly my own fault as Im not forced to work long hours, but theres a lot of work to get through and i regularly do 10+ hour days.

The saving grace also is that I know i wont be at this forever, and my cv is beginning to look quite nice after only a few years out of Uni.

I know there are a lot of hates mentioned there, but I do like my job despite the stress and everything else.

Eoin

Software / Web development:

Like:
- Getting to play with the new mobile devices when they come out
- Our team is very autonomous, but that's more my boss then the industry
- Listening to music while working
- Being paid for on call 24/7 every other week
- The stuff I do is not too propietary to my company unlike a lot of other people, so pretty transferrable skills

Dislike:
- Finally getting the hang of a technology when it's released again and I'm nearly at step 1 again
- Very rigid project lifecycle in my company; endless documentation
- Some of the socially inept mouth-breathers that IT seems to attract
- Being on call 24/7 every other week
- Commuting
- Out of hours deployments

RxQueen

love :: the fact i can spend my day on boards now that i found this!

hate:: everything else

ztoical

Animator/Illustrator

Love
- I built my own studio in my house so I can fall out of bed and be in "work" in 30 seconds.
- I can set my own hours
- I wear whatever I want to work
- I have tv in studio and watch dvds while I'm working.
- I get to draw comics for a living.
- Working at different animation studios is the most fun ever
- I get to travel alot

Cons
- expensive when your starting off
- Alot of networking involved , if you don't like going to parties and shaking peoples hands and leaving business cards with them you'd find it hard to get work
- Tight deadlines means to alot of all nighters.
- most people not working in the arts don't get my job and it gets really old having to explain it all the time.