What kind of job do you do and are you happy?

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I just got a part-time job!

I'm assisting with the writing and development of a course for young adults with AS who have just graduated secondary school and need to navigate further education, jobs, and other issues. This is my major special interest right now: having this makes me unbelievably happy.

My "boss" of sorts is an amazing autism consultant that supported me as a child. I have been volunteering/collaborating with her as a colleague for about a year now: it goes to show that who you are connected to does matter.

Surviving is my job.

Could be better, could be worst. Not complaining.

I work as a portrait photographer and sales specialist for Lifetouch. The sales part can be stressful, but now that I've been doing it for about 2.5 years I've pretty much encountered every situation and formulated a plan/reply for it. I do enjoy my job, but I think I enjoyed it a little more when I was making hourly at it instead of commission, that just adds to the stress...

I am a writer and editor for a technology publication. It's not too bad overall, provided I am allowed to go about my business and edit and publish stuff and all day. Dealing with PR people who want us to cover their products and such is a pain, and I've gotten criticized for the fact that I ignore them for the most part. My job is a special interest for me...except for when it isn't. And when it isn't, it's extremely difficult for me to get anything done.

Professional translator. And I like it because I am very good at it (got several commendations from my boss already).

Being a computer geek, I have also become the unofficial tech support guy of the office - I don't mind that, I like fixing software problems

Thank you every one for your replies, it's been great!

Just adding to the list. I had a science degree and started out as a research assistant but could not hack applying for jobs evety time a contract was finished. Spent 8 yrs as a policy analyst in government. Spent the last two years unemployed (yay!). I hope to enrol in a masters next year and find a part-time job.

I am a Uni student about to graduate as a geologist. I'm 45 and just been told I probably have aspergers or something and planning to get properly tested in February. I did food processing work, farm work, and ran my own business for 10 years growing plants, selling at the Sunday markets. I can handle a lot if I get the chance to prepare, but like simple repetitive work that shows progress. If my feet didn't kill me with the steel cap gum boots, I could handle the food processing well. But part of me wants to let my imagination go and create something amazing. I get dissatisfied 'wasting my time' on menial tasks. Don't care about money, but unfortunately have to pay bills. Plus I have a psychotic husband and 2 kids whom I would kill for (I do try to not do that though Doing paperwork makes me want to kill myself.
I now wonder whether I have any realistic chance of being a successful geologist. I'll be very careful in my job hunting approach.
This really is not my planet.

I do cleaning at a care home. It is quite convenient, it's not too much to remember or to stress about, but it's not really boring either, like one of those jobs where you're bored out of your head and you're just sitting there waiting for time to pass. There's always bathrooms and bedrooms to be cleaned and hoovered every day, so there's never nothing to do. Even if a room is pretty clean, the toilets still need to be cleaned every just to freshen up and kill away any bacteria, and if I do finish early then there are always other rooms that might need hoovering in other parts of the home (where I work it is a big place).

I only do 8am to 2.30pm, 3 days a week, so it's not that bad. Time goes quick, I am on my feet all day, and the people there are nice. All except one bossy line manager, but she's bossy to everyone so she's OK.

I teach special education, "emotionally disturbed." The kids seem to like me a lot, but I am not very good at being a disciplinarian.

Closed caption editor at a religious TV station. Unfortunately, I've been at it too long and am totally burned out. When I started, it was ideal, as it incorporated my special interest in history, my ability to hyperfocus, my broadcasting degree and my English skills. There was little contact with others, no phone-answering at all and minimal supervision. But there's not much variety in religious TV programming, so it's getting a bit stale.

When I was in my mid-teens I worked for my Uncle's painting company doing all the 'newb' work: bringing all the paint brushes and paint cans to everyone, laying down the canvas and taping the molding. It was terrible and I hated every second of it. At sixteen, I did freelance art and graphic design for a smaller local company, drawing their products for brochures and designing their logo. By seventeen I was doing web design and designed three or four webpages for different companies. I thought I was rich at that point, ha, but I despised the work because I had such a hard time comprehending what customers wanted. I'd always ask for more explanation and sometimes it'd take a dozen emails before I'd create the page or art. They always ended up overjoyed with the final product, but it was stressful. At eighteen, my family and girlfriend's parents pressured me into getting a 'real' job so I worked the summer after senior year and the summer after freshman year in college at a local car parts warehouse, 45hrs a week. Though I appreciated the fact that it rarely required socialization, my OCD nearly drove me nuts...so many boxes! The danger factor was also very high and I made a number of dumb mistakes (despite obsessiveness towards safety) that led to breaking each of my big toes and driving a forklift into the upper office's floor. Overall, the absolute worst job I've ever had. By my second year of college, I decided to get a part time job as a dishwasher at a campus-run cafe. One of my sensory issues is that I can't stand touching glass or having dry hands so this was a nightmare. In retrospect, I have no idea what compelled me to apply there...no bueno and I quit by spring quarter. A few years later, I was hired by the Montessori my Mom teaches at to landscape. This, unlike all the other jobs, was fantastic! I absolutely loved working outdoors, completely alone and having a very clear and beautifying impact on the school grounds. The teachers and school owner loved my work ethic and found my attention to detail superb BUT, despite their high praise, by the next summer, the owner had hired her son (recently unemployed and older than me by a few years). If I were to work with a legitimate landscaping company, I don't think I would have enjoyed it at all...it was the lack of authority and self-reliance that was so liberating. Anyway, there's my long and mostly negative work history, woot.

I worked in various IT roles for 13 years - Network admin & helpdesk, call center support, sales engineer, and systems engineer. I was really good at it, and especially enjoyed solving problems and documenting everything. But it was also very stressful. I hated being interrupted, and I especially hated when I had the perfect solution to a problem but no one wanted to implement it.

Now I'm an indie author writing sci-fi and fantasy type novels from home, and I love the isolation and creativity, and feeling like my destiny is entirely up to me. I struggle more with the fact that my schedule is not fixed and projects seem to take forever with no clear markers to show my progress. I've been doing this for a couple of years and my life is a lot more peaceful.

I work as a library page......my co-workers are great, but the job duties are a bit repetitive and not very intellectually stimulating, so I sometimes get bored.