Do you hate your job?
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
Naw, some of us love Ernie, even if he does straddle that line between Blue Oval and Bowtie!
As for MY job, I don't hate it...I find I dislike it a bit at times, but I'm very fond of that paycheck and I've got a great boss, who is also a friend.
My biggest problem with it is at times like this, when we're well over 100 degrees every day (108 today) working outdoors. I'm getting too old for this ca-ca! On the other hand, I'm not into a desk job. There must be a happy medium.
Dream job? Professional Bluegrass musician, traveling about the country, doing shows, seeing the land and meeting the folks. Pickin' till my fingers bleed...that's the life! -TD
As for MY job, I don't hate it...I find I dislike it a bit at times, but I'm very fond of that paycheck and I've got a great boss, who is also a friend.
My biggest problem with it is at times like this, when we're well over 100 degrees every day (108 today) working outdoors. I'm getting too old for this ca-ca! On the other hand, I'm not into a desk job. There must be a happy medium.
Dream job? Professional Bluegrass musician, traveling about the country, doing shows, seeing the land and meeting the folks. Pickin' till my fingers bleed...that's the life! -TD
Last edited by TigerDan; Jul 18, 2005 at 07:50 PM.
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From: Western Pa
I love my job. It has great hours, only open from 8-6 on weekdays, 8-4 on saturday, and closed on sunday. I only make min. wage, but I'm only 17 and work's close, so it's a lot more than I was making before.
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From: Damascus-Boring, Ore
Guys, there are benefits to straddling that line. Saturday, customer shows up that I've been emailing for months up in Alaska. "I can't decide whether I want an Automatic or a 6-speed 'Vette," sez he. Fortunately, we've got two used '05's (demo rides in new ones are verboten), so we take both for a quick spin. On the way back to the store in the 2nd car (the Automatic), kids pull up at a stoplight in an older 'Stang. "Dude, you have got to buy that car- that's sooo cool!" one kid yells out of the window. (Vette's got a dealer-plate in the back). Customer's grinning ear to ear. "You know," he sez, "I've wanted a car like this ever since I was that age. Now that I can finally afford one, I've decided it's time to go ahead. Hope those kids are as lucky some day." We ordered him up a Red one... (heckuva nice guy, BTW- oil worker on the north slope)
Stuff like that just makes my day. Week even.
Stuff like that just makes my day. Week even.
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I love my job although it can really bore me at times. I'm a Swing Trader and sitting at a computer watching stocks move is like watching the Ocean evaporate. Some days I make nothing and some days I make 40 or 50% profits in just a few hours. It sure beat's anything I've done in the past. The money is out of this world so I'm not complaining. It gives me more time for the important things in life like exercise, music, friends and chatting with you guys and gals. 
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"The book of life is brief, and once a page is read, all but love is dead."
-1bigsteve (o:
"The book of life is brief, and once a page is read, all but love is dead."
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It's not my job I hate. It's the people. The older I get, the harder it is to get along with people. Look folks, it's not rocket science - EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN. That way when they grow up and I have to work with them, I don't kill them.
I am an applications support analyst. The job is pretty cool - the people pretty lame.
My dream job... I would be a professional bass fisherman. Does it get any better than pro sponsorship - somehow, I just don't think so.
I am an applications support analyst. The job is pretty cool - the people pretty lame.
My dream job... I would be a professional bass fisherman. Does it get any better than pro sponsorship - somehow, I just don't think so.
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From: Denver, CO
My job is great its the dumb people that ruin it. I work a 72hr shift and getting up in the middle of the night for drunks, and people who decide they needed to beat the crap outta each other really takes a lot outta a person and makes the job suck.
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From: Grapeview, WA
Well, I have to say that I fall into the category of hating my job. I'm a Navy Recruiter too, and I literally hate everything about my job. I mean, I'm sure that if I was recruiting somewhere that actually had ANY amount of patriotism, I might not hate my job so much.....but in the two months that I've been doing this, I've been called a baby-killer, been told to F-off because they don't support the military, etc. Also, I work the longest hours of any job I've ever had. I would be happier on SEA DUTY, I think. Also, and the worst part, is that this is the job that caused the heartache that is being single...again. It sucks.
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From: NW burbs of chicago
everyone wants something for nothing and yesterday.
We try our dammdest to accomidate people, but some things are just impossible.
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Originally Posted by Stroker_Deezel
i love ernie too...
I love my job. Certainly there are things I would like to be different, and I will make changes that bring the reality of my job closer in line with my vision of my job. I'm a project manger in construction, very hands-on having come completely through the ranks over the course of my young life. I love being challenged daily, problem solving and managing multiple problem projects. But mostly I like the satisfaction of seeing something finished by my group, and being able to take my kids to a building/bridge/theme park and saying "I helped build this." Those things are testaments to my ability to be good at my job. Very satisfying.
While I know some people can't, my advice to anyone is "If you hate your job, quit." Period. Do something else that you can enjoy, even if you have to try a few different things to find it. There is no excuse for spending 30-40 years being miserable for the biggest part of the day. That is truly a waste of a person's soul. (P.S., I know that the enlisted folk can't just up and quit.)
And for the record, I love you too, Dusten.
Ernie
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Well, I find it's never usually the task of doing the job that I end up hating. That's the problem. It's the state I live in, or the idiots I have to work with. It is rarely the job itself. Take my current position for example. I slack off half the day, hang out with coworkers, talk to you guys and I get paid DAMN WELL for what little I do. But I live in a blast furnace known as Las Vegas. The people ALL SUCK. The traffic is horrible and we are something like 10 days into a streak of temperatures over 115°. Now, it's not my job I hate. There are maybe 4 people in the building I can't stand at all - out of 3 - 5000, that isn't bad - but this city sucks out loud. There is nothing about it that I enjoy. So I will eventually quit and move somewhere else where I have to work my *** off for peanuts, but I get to live somewhere I enjoy.
There is no enjoyment in being surrounded on 4 sides by desert mountains with no freaking foliage and being stuck in the middle with nothing but sand and $*!T. It's like living in a cat box, that's been left inside a metal storage shed and set in the sun 24 hours a day. It stinks, it's dry, and if you don't drink or gamble - there ain't anything here for you.
Anybody needing a skilled graphic designer in a cold climate?
There is no enjoyment in being surrounded on 4 sides by desert mountains with no freaking foliage and being stuck in the middle with nothing but sand and $*!T. It's like living in a cat box, that's been left inside a metal storage shed and set in the sun 24 hours a day. It stinks, it's dry, and if you don't drink or gamble - there ain't anything here for you.
Anybody needing a skilled graphic designer in a cold climate?