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Is it possible to have a job you enjoy?

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  • #32
    scholar007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭scholar007


    krudler wrote: »
    in America pilots can qualify for welfare they get paid so little.


    But they get the pick of the trolley dollies!:P Money isnt everything my friend.


  • #33
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    As the saying goes....."If you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life".

    Definitely possible. The majority of jobs that you hear regarding 'love' etc have a creative element. Architects, actors, artists, fashion designers, even more basic jobs like florists, could all find joy in doing what they do on a daily basis.

    Then you have people in professional sport. Admittedly not all love it, which can be even more frustrating given that millions of others would love the same role. The downside of that is their career only lasts x number of years.

    TLDR: Yes, it is possible.


  • #34
    bluecode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    You can have a job you enjoy. But there are few jobs that are always enjoyable. I'm a pilot and my job is considered a dream job for many people. But there times when it feels like the worst job in the world. But I've had worse jobs than that over the years. So I know I should enjoy it. But sometimes it's hard.

    Often the good jobs have some form of compromise. OP you need to go and get some training somewhere. Remember you have the rest of your life ahead of you. There's no point in working in one crappy job after another.


  • #35
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    OP
    You just listed some pretty menial jobs as what you have done. That is the problem. You may also have to accept you need to build up experience before you can raise through the ranks.
    In saying that I have done similar jobs before getting a proper job. I must have been 24 then.
    Like what I do but that might be more about doing it how I like. I have hated the same work before due to the company and people.
    Unless you are really actively sick from the job I would hang on to leave. Give yourself a deadline to decide what to do.
    I loved going into work the last place I was in. People make a huge difference.


  • #36
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    Q: What's the difference between your job and your wife?

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    A: In 5 years time your job will still suck. :pac:


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  • #37
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    asherbassad wrote: »
    Q: What's the difference between your job and your wife?

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    A: In 5 years time your job will still suck. :pac:

    Just because you don't know about your wife doing it, doesn't mean she doesn't do it to some of the other boardsies. :D

    I'll get my coat :o


  • #38
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    As a kid I always wanted to be a park ranger, I could picture myself on my horse with a rifle with a pet bear shooting those damn poachers.

    Me mate is one and all he does is cut the grass and empty the bins


  • #39
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    I hate my Fkucen job,

    I would have liked to do something in the sciences, a geologist or biologist.

    A film critic.


  • #40
    3DataModem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,212 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    Yes

    http://www.pokerstars.com/about/careers/


  • #41
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,674 ✭✭✭TheBody


    I love my job but the pay is crap.


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  • #42
    mhigh86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭mhigh86


    bluecode wrote: »
    You can have a job you enjoy. But there are few jobs that are always enjoyable. I'm a pilot and my job is considered a dream job for many people. But there times when it feels like the worst job in the world. But I've had worse jobs than that over the years. So I know I should enjoy it. But sometimes it's hard.

    Often the good jobs have some form of compromise. OP you need to go and get some training somewhere. Remember you have the rest of your life ahead of you. There's no point in working in one crappy job after another.

    You ever been in a cockpit before, bluecode?
    You ever seen a grown man naked? :p


  • #43
    crazy cabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭crazy cabbage


    I dont know OP but i hear ya

    Anyone ever heard of WWOOFing? Now that is something i could see myslef doing for a few years and being happy out.


  • #44
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    I spend my day messing around with big machines, buying expensive stuff, doing stuff people stand around and watch while we are at it -like smashing down large structures and getting to hang out with interesting people. I actually love going to work, say it quietly, but I'd do it for free as it what I'd like to be doing if I had to do somthing. It never really feels like work tbh and the pays rather good.:) Most other people think it looks awfully hard, but it's my idea of fun. I actually hate taking holidays, works more fun.


  • #45
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    It's hard to believe there's people out there and when their alarm goes off in the morning they're thinking "deadly, time for work"


  • #46
    Fritzl Funderland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Fritzl Funderland


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    That job would be a load of balls to me.
    Tiger aint doin to bad on and of the course ha


  • #47
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    My job is easy, I have a certain amount of authority and I get on with everyone. I'm happy enough with my job.


  • #48
    IrishJack89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭IrishJack89


    Cheers for all the comments folks, good to see I'm not alone but ya the jobs I have had so far are fairly crappy to say the least, I don't think ya have to have experience in any of them to know how boring they are!
    Stuck in minds whether to go back and do a short course in college or maybe travel and see what jobs crop up, could find something I might really enjoy that I would never have imagined myself working at..


  • #49
    hoochis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭hoochis


    Im farming full time and honestly, I love the job but hate the stigma that has attached! Even culchies have it in for farmers now! Awaiting ban from After Hours!


  • #50
    BornToKill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭BornToKill


    Tiddlypeeps wrote: »
    Look at what you like to do in your spare time and try find jobs related to that.

    Thanks, that advice is gold. It narrows things down. Now think; something to do with drink and/or porn.


  • #51
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    hoochis wrote: »
    Im farming full time and honestly, I love the job but hate the stigma that has attached! Even culchies have it in for farmers now! Awaiting ban from After Hours!

    HUH what stigma.


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  • #52
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    I dont know if Ill enjoy it forever, but Im taking a year out of studying my chosen career. I loved going to college everyday, I love studying, and its a really rewarding career that i can honestly see myself enjoying going to work everyday!

    Hope I can still say that in 20 years!


  • #53
    Eden3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Eden3


    Ive a job I enjooy ('o' keeps sticking, sorry) - because Im a newcomer Im sure nooo one wants to know - but Im happy:). Will be accepted as a 'pooster' when Ive a thousand posts ... I will work away here post-wise ....


  • #54
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    Eden3 wrote: »
    Ive a job I enjooy ('o' keeps sticking, sorry) - because Im a newcomer Im sure nooo one wants to know - but Im happy:). Will be accepted as a 'pooster' when Ive a thousand posts ... I will work away here post-wise ....

    Im so immature, I actually laughed out loud at that :pac:


  • #55
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    IZEVAL wrote: »
    Slut whose job is being a prostitute I assume..

    ..oh wait all prostitutes are angelic young women who wished for a better life in another country only to be lured in by an evil pimp with a fake hotel job and used as sex slaves by the evil, evil gender that is men :mad: :rolleyes:

    I assume the thanks for this post are ironic.


  • #56
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Eden3 wrote: »
    Ive a job I enjooy ('o' keeps sticking, sorry) - because Im a newcomer Im sure nooo one wants to know - but Im happy:). Will be accepted as a 'pooster' when Ive a thousand posts ... I will work away here post-wise ....
    Yup, work away with the edit function, and the delete button in the meantime, and a dash of wd40 for the o button. Gotta do the work, the works not gettin done.:D


  • #57
    Eden3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Eden3


    syndeyfife wrote: »
    Im so immature, I actually laughed out loud at that :pac:

    Hey, if I make even one person smile - that's great:D


  • #58
    pm1977x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭pm1977x


    Easy to become a games tester? :eek:

    What's the pay like, sign me up! :pac:


  • #59
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    IrishJack89 wrote: »
    Hey folks, I've been having some doubts over myself and work lately. I'm 23 and luckily have always been working, nothing serious but i've always had some form of work. Lately I've been thinking about a career and a job that I might actually enjoy doing but I cant seem to find anything. And thinking about it, I've sort of hated every job I've ever had to date. I've done bar work, security, construction and lately I got myself a job in the kitchen of an award winning restaurant thinking I would enjoy cooking but I hate every second of it. So I'm just wondering am I just not cut out for working or does everyone else hate their jobs aswell or have the jobs I've had so far been just plain s***?

    Yup your jobs sucked.

    Lets see:
    Bar work: High pressure
    Security: boring and monotonous
    Construction: Strenuous physical work
    Kitchen: High pressure

    Try looking for work that doesn't include the negatives above.

    I'm my own boss and loving it. Maybe try setting up your own business?


  • #60
    Eden3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Eden3


    Pottler wrote: »
    Yup, work away with the edit function, and the delete button in the meantime, and a dash of wd40 for the o button. Gotta do the work, the works not gettin done.:D

    Way ahead of you - just kidding to see a reaction ... easy!


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  • #61
    hoochis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭hoochis


    Colmustard wrote: »
    HUH what stigma.

    Farming carries a social stigma with it I guess.


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