Do you like/hate your job?

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I've both hated and loved my jobs over the past couple of years. When I left university I was BITTERLY angry that while they'd been actively promising students that their degree was like a magic pass to fame and fortune, they concluded our time there with a careers convention. The best job there was selling tea on a train. That's fine - but they could've told us that before, I mean you don't need an arts degree to do that - you could've just gone and got on with it and got a head start.

Sooooo I found myself working in a call centre when all I really wanted to do was write music and do a few radio shows. I fell into a deep depression. But in hindsight, what pulled me out was just doing some work experience when I could. I worked for nothing for about three months in the local radio station and was later employed and then later moved to London for a proper radio job. Even when it wasn't apparent that the free work was leading anywhere, I just felt better - like at least I was trying.

But I do still realise that with radio you could be fired the very next day so I could find myself back there and will always strive to remember how down I was when I was doing something, not really me, but how you CAN get out of it if you believe in yourself and try really hard.

I enjoy my job even though it involve a good deal of interactiion with costumers. I mostly work as a cashier in a local gas station. It forces me to interact with people yet the nature of the business means unless they are like the customer I had last week who bought $176 in scratch off lottery tickets before I had to go help a co-worker people almost can't stay at the register for longer than it takes for me to hit the buttons to ring up the sale. What I can't stand is the idiots who come in as if we are actually making large profit of their tank of gas. Most stations including mine only make 1-3 cents per gallon. So the customer who comes in after buying about 4 gallons for almost $10 and spends 2 minutes complaining made my company a grand total of 4-12 cents.

My last formal job was working in a Pub that also serves food. It is one of a vast chain of pubs of exactly the same type. Rather like McDonalds, except they serve beer too.

I don't like the service sector and although I improved, it was not a happy experience, dealing with members of the public.

I was also unpopular there, got singled out for the unpopular (ie most demanding and tedious), jobs and it can be seen that my break with the place was one of the better days of my life. I was not liked by anyone there and even though my brother worked there, I was very unpopular.

You're really lucky then. What do you do?

I really like what I do, I'm not too thrilled about having to work with other people.

I hate my job, especially lately. I'm an assistant mgr. in retail. Someone called in on me today and had to work a double shift. My manager sucks but I hate dealing with schedules etc. which is why I tried to be an assistant instead. No matter what it sucks!

Well, I basically work at a food security organization called foodshare, and I gotta tell you, the place is very friendly there, very supportive, no judgement, no punishment, just a laid-back environment. But I work in the kitchen, and the two things I hate the most 'bout it is waking up early in the morning and having to work fast to meet the deadlines, those two are a very bad combination to me, the pressure is known to cause me to feel depressed, to feel really low, and make me feel really angry deep inside because it's so demanding and I can only take so much of it until it affects my mental state. I started to lose intrest in working in the kitchen because of the pressure and because it was starting to piss me off, but it's gone now because I play music in my head to calm my nerves. But nonetheless, I do have supportive bosses and my job is basically okay, to tell you the truth, culinary arts does not appeal to me one bit as a career, so when my internship is over come December, i'll have to look for another job, another one that doesn't involve me making food every single day for like 40 or more people because that really stresses me out to the max. I'm thinking, Painter, maybe work in retail (i.e. loblaws, rona, home depot), pet shop because i'm good with animals, or working at the toronto zoo maybe (well travel would certainly be hectic), anywhere where I won't have to make food for a dozen of people. Well I would much rather make food for myself, family or friends. Also whenever I feel like i'm under pressure and when I'm told to speed it up when i'm working with the food, I feel like I want to kill myself because it's so overwhelming and plus I feel the urge to quit but I can't because I worked hard to find a job and I don't want to throw it away. So i'll have to wait until December, and when it comes i'll be happy yet sad because even though the pressure is crazy, the people are extremely supportive and nice.

Okay, actually, i'm starting to hate my job because now that winter is closing in, the workload gets more intense and it's beginning to become detrimental to my psychological state, I figure I should tell my parents sooner or later, but I don't know what they'll think, i'm sure they won't flip out on me if I tell them that I want to change jobs because cooking food in commercial kitchens simply isn't my ambition nor is it my passion and also I don't have the patience, plus the recipes are so hard to figure out and i'm f****n' tired of being rushed constantly and having to go fast to meet the goddamn f****n' deadlines, which is BS. So i'm thinkin' of workin' at a music store, prolly HMV, Sunrise Records, or any other music store, I want to work in a place that I feel comfortable and I have a passion 'bout. Also, I should talk to the main job coach that works at Hawkins Institute that I want to change jobs.

My job is a dream come true. I thought I blew the interview, but apparently there was a quality there that the Boss liked. I've been with this Contract Research Organization (CRO) for 2.5 years now, dealing with regulatory documents for clinical trials.

It's great, self-directed work, and due to my ability to soak up rules, facts and a sharp attention to details (catching errors), I've received 2 promotions in this short period of time. Unfortunately, those promotions were intradepartmental "title changes" that came with merit increases and a bit of recognition, but still essentially doing the same job (with a few extra responsibilities).

See, I'm making $$$ dollars. Which is great, because most of my other friends in admin type positions are only making $$ dollars. However, there will come a point where my worth will cap out. In order to advance my career, I have to move over to our co-department to become a Clinical Studies Associate (CSA). I could probably handle the job as well as any of them from a technical standpoint, as I'm proficient with computers, have a knowledge of the documents involved with their position, and am well organized with my tasks. Here's the problem: The social aspects.

In my current position, no one else touches my desk or my files. Everything is set out so that I know where it is, and can do things on kind of an "auto-pilot". In the CSA position, you're assigned studies to which you're responsible. If you're out sick, someone takes over for you, meaning, you might have no clue when you come back what was done, where your files are, and hate the way they were handled.

Also, I'm currently hourly and this is salary. The difference in pay for the move isn't what I'd consider to be "worth it" for a Hell of a lot more work. I'd be gaining the experience I need to move on, but I'd drive myself batty in the process.

Management is also a problem. My current Boss is great, fair, and understanding of my Aspie traits (she has a "touch of the juice" herself, I think). She respects what I can do and my ability to mentor others effectively. CSAs have 2 Bosses and a VP. Boss #1 is nice and knows of my work. Boss #2 knows of my work but is moody and inflexible. VP is a tyrant from what I've been told. If I end up assigned to Boss #1, I'd have one less thing to worry about, but if I get assigned to Boss #2, I don't know how she'd treat me. Plus, the specialty over in the CSA group that I'm considering (Informed Consent Review) are all assigned to CSA Boss #2.

So, do I stay where I'm at because I'm comfortable, making just enough to get by, but never going anywhere? Should I move out of my comfort zone into the "revolving doors" of the CSA group, only wanting to shoot myself for making the move as others have expressed when they made the move, with a chance of gaining experience that will transfer to a position paying $$$$$ instead of $$$?

This, my friends, is the pickle I'm in.

I hate my job, I'm a bagger at Kroger's. It's incredibly dull physical labor and I have to interact with many stupid people. The pay sucks too. I can't wait to graduate college and I hope I ifnd another job quickly.

I hate my job so much. Washing dishes, pots and pans, and all the many other things until past midnight, at minimum wage, is probably one of the worst jobs in the world, sometimes bordering on slave labor.

I don't like having to wear a tie to work and the fact that "carbon dating" is required to calculate the average age here, but I have worked in far worse environments.

i hate my job, but for one reason and one reason only - i work in the evenings, the only time i get to socialise with anyone!!

Interesting thread to revisit for me. All these years later (from my other contribution to this thread), I ended up being laid off in a huge restructuring from that job that (in retrospect) was really something special. I spent 9 difficult months trying to find another one. I don't really like my new job, but it sure beats being unemployed.