How much do you like your job?

[R3DS!X]

Whaddaya do? How long have you been doing it? Who is your daddy and what does he do?

 

[wazzuFreddo]

I got my dream job, and then three months later the world shut down and now I do the dream job from my garage. :laughing

Some day I'll be back to it in person.

 

[CDONA]

I love my job,

as I'm an important cog,

in the american industrial complex,

to provide quality beer for the free world.


My personal affirmation I created during my time @ Anheuser Busch.

It helped grind out 18 years of grave shift of my 25.

 

[UDRider]

I got my dream job, and then three months later the world shut down and now I do the dream job from my garage. :laughing

Some day I'll be back to it in person.

Finally stopped killing birds with your evil windmills? :laughing

 

[wazzuFreddo]

Finally stopped killing birds with your evil windmills? :laughing

I haven't been doing that since 2015

But that job was also one of my favorites. Who doesn't want to go to Hawaii for a week a month on the company dime.

 

[TheRobSJ]

I love doing what I do. It’s exactly the thing that I wanted to be doing when asked “what do you want to be when you grow up” besides astronaut of course.

Unfortunately my chosen profession, despite its highly technical nature, does not pay nearly as well as even some simple labor jobs. So I’m glad my side hustle does. Keep buying iPhones people. Just keep buying them. Because if I start really depending on my career for money, I might not like it so much.

 

[ucmgrad]

I'm currently in the process of transitioning careers. I just finished my Masters in Counseling and applying for the various positions in my area for school counseling. Trying to focus on High School and Middle School but with COVID, many school districts put hiring freezes and with some of the interviews I did get, I was passed up either because of my lack of experience or because I didn't have "in" or know someone on the interview panel.

Rather frustrating because my own school passed me up for another intern from the Principal's last school who never stepped foot on this campus. It was a slap to the face and really sent the message that it's really about who you know at my school district.

 

[Mike95060]

I love doing what I do. It’s exactly the thing that I wanted to be doing when asked “what do you want to be when you grow up” besides astronaut of course.

Unfortunately my chosen profession, despite its highly technical nature, does not pay nearly as well as even some simple labor jobs. So I’m glad my side hustle does. Keep buying iPhones people. Just keep buying them. Because if I start really depending on my career for money, I might not like it so much.

Are you fixing broken glass? How lucrative a gig is that?

 

[R3DS!X]

I forgot to share.

I work in a laboratory drawing blood from folks. I am so sick of it but I can't quit because the pay and benefits are better than I can make elsewhere. They got me by the wallet. I don't have the time to go to school or anything so I'm kinda stuck in a rut.

I used to do doordash in my free time on the moto and I liked that a lot but since the Covid hit I quit so I would reduce the chance of catching or spreading the rona.

 

[chrisweir.com]

I love love love my job and am grateful every day for my ability to get paid helping people improve their situation. The calculations compliance and guideline changes can be a grind, but at the end of the day its totally worth it.

 

[CABilly]

I do enjoy my job, for the most part. I'm an ER nurse and there are definitely bad days and shitty situations (and plenty of shitty people) but I love my coworkers and I like a job that lets me use my hands and brain.

I wish the rest of the country paid as well as the Bay Area because I'd like to leave CA, but anywhere I go would likely be a 40-70% pay cut. So I'm sticking it out here because it's a good gig. You also don't see many old ER nurses. As of now there isn't much else I'd rather do with my skillset but it's something to think about.

I considered doing Uber/Lyft because we bought a nice newer car. It qualifies for the highest price tier for both services, except for the fact that it's not black. Who knew rich snobs wouldn't set foot into a premium luxury vehicle because it's navy blue (a color option that actually cost more than plain black)? The price difference is about half, so fuckem. We'll just use the miles to enjoy the car for ourselves.

 

[TylerW]

I'm my own boss, I get to work with cool people, play with fun tools, learn constantly, communicate great ideas, and deal with crippling imposter syndrome.

It's aight.

 

[UDRider]

I haven't been doing that since 2015

But that job was also one of my favorites. Who doesn't want to go to Hawaii for a week a month on the company dime.

:wave

To be fair I don't really like traveling in general out side of certain times of the year, and at that time I rather just do it on my own dime and spent time however I want.

 

[wazzuFreddo]

:wave

To be fair I don't really like traveling in general out side of certain times of the year, and at that time I rather just do it on my own dime and spent time however I want.

I got to do a couple of stretches in Dublin Ireland last year for work. That was pretty cool.

In the space I am in now, almost all the players have big installations in Dublin, Northern VA, and rando spots in Oregon. :laughing

 

[SFSV650]

What I'm good at, was hired for doing well in the past and was hired specifically to do, do better than most people, and do profitably, I greatly enjoy. I get to do it maybe 10%-15% of the time.

All of the work around the work, the commute, the crappy office environment (on hiatus during 'Rona), and trying to make a buck gets me down. What's one to do?

 

[DucatiHoney]

I'm an architect. I guess if I have to work (I'd rather not work), this is a good gig. It's creative, it's challenging, and you get large, physical product at the end of it. Everyone knows generally what an architect does, and we're generally respected. It might sound petty, but all of that adds up for me. Recently I started working on a couple of homeless shelters to get people off the street during Covid. We're also doing some parklets for free to help restaurants in town stay open. I gotta say--that's made my job feel really satisfying. I'm literally changing the course of a over a hundred peoples' lives for the better in just one year, and not in a small way.

 

[budman]

It's pretty good...rather be out riding!!....fixed

...home is overated :laughing

 

[SVsick50]

I've been an insurance agent (life, retirement long term care and disability) and financial planner for 17 years with the same organization. We are a religious organization, and I love it. I've won many, many awards, been a top producing agent in my company for most of my career, been treated well, and very blessed to be doing what I'm doing. I love the people I serve and advise, and I'm an advocate for the planning I recommend.

I also personally deliver death claim checks to the families that need it when it's time. It's pretty raw to deliver a 1 million dollar tax free check to a grieving widow with her children.

 

[rodr]

I am so damn lucky that I can fall out of bed in the morning, make coffee and spend most of the day in my home office. I'm self employed and do software development/maintenance for a handful of overseas clients in the medical field who respect and trust me and pay on time. The work itself is also mostly creative and interesting.

If it weren't for computers I'd probably be homeless.

 

[TheRobSJ]

Are you fixing broken glass? How lucrative a gig is that?

AAPL. That’s lucrative. Don’t know about fixing screens. Would rather you all just buy a new phone than fix screens.