AH Careers Day! What's your job, and what do you love/hate about it?

whirlpool · 06-12-2013 02:42PM #1

(NB: Not an actual careers day. There will be no pamphlets.)

What is your job?
What do you love about it?
What do you hate about it?

I work in customer service in a call centre.
I enjoy the daily social buzz that goes along with working in such a large call centre.
I dislike talking all day because my throat gets sore every few weeks, voice starts to go, and I dislike listening to moaning/complaining for half the day.

You?

barry181091 · 06-12-2013 03:16PM

Still in college, but I worked in a large MNC relating to Hardware/Software engineering.
I enjoyed the freedom the job gave, no clocking in BS. Could go for a break, have coffee, anything like that whenever you wanted.
I disliked the monotony of sitting in front of a computer for 9 hours. Unlike the poster above, there was no real daily social buzz either, people just sort of kept to themselves.

Dravokivich · 06-12-2013 03:18PM

I'm a bean counter. The kind of beans I count are phone calls and emails.

bear1 · 06-12-2013 03:19PM

I'm in Administration, SAP mostly.
What I like is that I've made some good friends and sometimes the work is rewarding.
What I don't like is the why managers act, some probably not even qualified to manage.

RayM · 06-12-2013 03:22PM

whirlpool wrote: »

What is your job?

What do you love about it?

What do you hate about it?

1. Unemployed.
2. The hours are great.
3. The pay isn't.

brevity · 06-12-2013 03:25PM

What is your job?

I'm a software engineer.

What do you love about it?

I like the problem solving aspect of it.

What do you hate about it?

The workload and constantly shifting priorities by people who don't fully understand what I do.

Captain Farrell · 06-12-2013 03:26PM

CEO of a company I started myself 22 years ago.
Love the fact that realistically I now only work for about four hours per week, delegating the rest to the directors.
Hate the fact that as much as i want to retire early, I can never see myself selling off a company that feels a part of me. And also that I've had to lay people off at times in the recession. Unavoidable, maybe, painful definitely.

The Backwards Man · 06-12-2013 03:27PM

I'm self-employed.

I love my co-workers.

I hate the boss.

Sunnyisland · 06-12-2013 03:36PM

whirlpool wrote: »

[*]What is your job?
[*]What do you love about it?
[*]What do you hate about it?

Run my own business.

It only works 9 months of the year in sunny climates.

Nothing.

Mint Aero · 06-12-2013 03:38PM

Civil service
Doss on boards all day & great pay

General General · 06-12-2013 03:38PM

James Bond type (although NOT for the UK).

Love: Travel, Interesting People, Good Pay, Nice Gadgets, Cracking Heads, Riding.

Hate: Getting Shot, Getting Tortured, Occasional Work-related Accidents.

RikkFlair · 06-12-2013 03:45PM

What is your job? Boner - removing bones from meat.

What do you love about it? Nothing

What do you hate about it? I'm surrounded by boners.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 06-12-2013 03:48PM

Beauty Therapist.

I love how going to work doesn't feel like work, it's fun and you can really get to know people so much that you can look forward to some people coming in. It breaks up the day. It's a good feeling when someone comes in, has stuff done and leaves so happy with how they look or feel.

The pay is crap, the hours can be long and people can treat you like you're an absolute thick.

General General · 06-12-2013 03:49PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Civil service
Doss on boards all day & great pay

FFS, duck!

Foxhound38 · 06-12-2013 03:50PM

Rental management for flats

What do I love: there's a lot of autonomy with the job, and while the hours can be long (don't really mind that) the pay is decent

What do I hate: the constant moaning, the occasional aggro, the junkies I have to deal with and the fact that rent day can be a little dangerous given the amount of cash you end up carrying around

tobsey · 06-12-2013 03:51PM

brevity wrote: »

What is your job?

I'm a software engineer.

What do you love about it?

I like the problem solving aspect of it.

What do you hate about it?

The workload and constantly shifting priorities by people who don't fully understand what I do.

Same for me, and probably the same for every other software developer.

Though the money is pretty good too.

General General · 06-12-2013 03:53PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Rental management for flats

What do I love: there's a lot of autonomy with the job, and while the hours can be long (don't really mind that) the pay is decent

What do I hate: the constant moaning, the occasional aggro, the junkies I have to deal with and the fact that rent day can be a little dangerous given the amount of cash you end up carrying around

Where are ya based, luv? If ya want I could give ya a hand carri-en dat cash for ye. Secure, like, y'know? Ya can't be too careful, luv.

Jarrod · 06-12-2013 03:56PM

General General wrote: »

Where are ya based, luv? If ya want I could give ya a hand carri-en dat cash for ye. Secure, like, y'know? Ya can't be too careful, luv.

I thought they got you once the Gardai stopped the 24 hour surveillance...

Chucken · 06-12-2013 04:05PM

realies wrote: »

whirlpool wrote: »

[*]What is your job?
[*]What do you love about it?
[*]What do you hate about it?

Run my own business.

It only works 9 months of the year in sunny climates.

Nothing.

Banana boats? It's banana boats!!

Myself? I make soup.

I like making soup.

Nothing bad about making soup.

diomed · 06-12-2013 04:18PM

whirlpool wrote: »

What is your job?

What do you love about it?

What do you hate about it?

What is your job? Accountant
What do you love about it? All the lovely number to add up.
What do you hate about it? When the lovely numbers don't add up. :mad:

Retired, actually. Love it.

General General · 06-12-2013 04:24PM

Jarrod wrote: »

I thought they got you once the Gardai stopped the 24 hour surveillance...

Wha'? Wha' arr yooo on?

Spacehr.

ZzubZzub · 06-12-2013 04:27PM

I'm a nurse.

I love going into work every day, even for 15 hour shifts! I love helping someone who desperately needs it, being there for someone in their last hours so they're not alone and knowing you've made even a little difference to someones life.

I hate that I can't help everyone.
And the stereotype that I sit around eating chocolates all day while the health care assistants do all the work. An unfortunately common stereotype.

rainbow kirby · 06-12-2013 04:35PM

brevity wrote: »

What is your job?

I'm a software engineer.

What do you love about it?

I like the problem solving aspect of it.

What do you hate about it?

The workload and constantly shifting priorities by people who don't fully understand what I do.

Literally everything said here is true for me too.

homemadecider · 06-12-2013 04:37PM

What is your job?

I'm an aid worker. I work fulltime for one of the big international NGOs.

What do you love about it?

Working with super smart, compassionate and passionate people. I get to travel to Africa a lot so I get to see a lot of bonkers places. I sometimes meet people who have never seen a white person before; sometimes they are terrified of my very pale skin and roaring red hair. I love the feeling of contributing to helping people who need it, though I know that sounds so bloody cliched.

What do you hate about it?

Sometimes people I've just met in the pub will ask what I do for a living, then spend the next 30 minutes going on about how aid is a waste of money and how we should 'help our own' instead of sending money to 'the brown babies' (yes, people do this say). FFS, I'm in the pub after a long and stressful week of work, let's just talk about the weather or tell terrible jokes.

It's also very difficult to come back from trips to certain countries after seeing the conditions that people live in, it makes you feel more motivated to keep working and doing your job well.

Lastly I always come back very jumpy if I've been staying in a place where there has been gunfire. Or tarantulas. Or both.

Gongoozler · 06-12-2013 04:37PM

I don't have a career really.
What I'm doing is basically office management, but I'm on an entry level grade.

What I like, I'm quite good at a number of parts of it, and I like when I'm well prepared and ahead of everyone in terms of knowing their needs etc.

What I hate, every ****ing thing. The people, but mostly the way the place is run. It's awful. Poor communication, managers that can't and shouldn't be doing their jobs, getting paid way too much for it too. Everyone does their best, they really do but some just shouldn't be at it.
I realised today that I'm getting paid less than what I was getting paid in college on work experience. My brother in law manages a bar and gets paid much more than me. I'm doing an office manager job but getting paid ****e.

Red Pepper · 06-12-2013 04:39PM

What is your job? PR Manager

What do you love about it? The money is good (could be better)

What do you hate about it? Long hours.

ghogie91 · 06-12-2013 04:44PM

What is your job?

Im work as a patient advisor

What do you love about it?

Very rewarding job when things go good, seeing people get out of hospitals to go home and all for christmas for example

What do you hate about it?

Its very stressful dealing with terminally ill people. Dealing with grieving families daily. Terminally ill children. Monotonous days sitting in front of a computer taking their toll on me

ShadyLane · 06-12-2013 04:54PM

I'm a physician.

What do I love? Just about everything to be honest! I love the hands-on nature of the job, performing procedures and solving problems for people. Getting to be there for massive moments in people's life is a privilege that doesn't get old.

What do I hate? The 24+ hours shifts do take their toll, but are still bearable. The worst is how paper thin the whole system is stretched. If only I could clone myself and be three places at once!

GLaDOS · 06-12-2013 05:07PM

Doing a PhD in Biology

Love when I get some interesting data and get to meet a lot of nice and interesting people.

Hate having to troubleshoot when things refuse to work.

Galwayguy35 · 06-12-2013 05:27PM

Work in a cold storage warehouse, love nothing about it, hate the cold and low pay.

But it's a job and they're hard to find these days.

smurfjed · 06-12-2013 05:42PM

1: Corporate Pilot
2: Watching the sun rise, the sense of personal satisfaction at the end of a challenging flight, getting well paid and getting to see the world.
3: Jetlag

AH Careers Day! What's your job, and what do you love/hate about it?

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