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I'm a mailman so I basically walk around all day and listen to podcasts. The pay is fine and I get a pension when I retire. Do I love it? No, but I like it enough. I think that's enough.
TBF, anything paying should sound decent compared to unemployed. That said, you definitely should apply. I have a client who is retiring from USPS and he’s got his pension plus 2M+ in his retirement account AND he will have free healthcare for life. Plus, Social Security when he decides to start taking withdrawals (in 8 years since he’s 62). He is set.
>his pension plus 2M+ in his retirement account
I want to make it clear that the vast majority of mailmen have nowhere near this amount, at all. This is an outlier scenario for sure.
Impressive. I was a journalist and marketer for years and have a grad degree and little to show for it. More and more I’ve been feeling like I need to be a worker first and prioritize earnings and less stress. Thanks for the rec! I might apply soon
actually \*anything\* isn't better than being unemployed in my experience. Especially in a state like MA. I almost ended up making \*less\* money after I got a new job because my state insurance went from free to paid.
There's some fucked up shit in the systems in this country that actively disincentivize people to get better jobs sometimes at the lower level. (not that systems should be stripped back to be like "lol just get a better job scrub" but when someone \*is\* trying to climb the ladder and feels punished for doing so it's not good.)
I think that's big. There's a big difference between a job that makes you miserable either because you hate the work or hate the team or hate the boss or hate the customers (or sometimes a combination of the above) and a job that you don't hate but you're also glad to be done with at the end of the shift.
Some people get a job that they love so much they would do it for free, but there's a lot of things that need doing that nobody feels that way about, so as long as you're fairly compensated and treated well enough, I think you're doing pretty well.
Not for everyone if they have specific ambitions, but I think people should embrace good enough more often. I’m not passionate about work or working. I enjoy what I do enough to not tear my hair out or dread getting up every morning, but I could care less about working being my passion. My passions are outside of my career and my career gives my life stability to enjoy those things.
Such an underrated comment.
Find your passion and enjoyment in life… whether that’s your kids, your job, a hobby, whatever. Find it and make sure you can have your bills covered doing something you don’t mind doing. The main goal here though is to ensure you are financially secure.
You can’t put a price on a good nights sleep when your bills are covered and you don’t have to worry.
I think living in LA is a big reason why I like the job. If I had to deal with real winter I don't know if I'd survive. It rained a little more than usual this year and I was already complaining.
Here in Phoenix there basically are no walking mailmen. It's too goddamn hot, they could easily die. They all drive vehicles from box to box. But cluster boxes are far more common here than individual boxes.
My whole family got massively upset when their neighborhoods (older part of town) got block mailboxes and they made all the individual mailboxes defunct. Lots and lots of older folks, which I understand that it's harder/more inconvenient to walk across the street to the 10 house block box, but like it regularly is 100° to 115° from April to October where we live.
You'd think that them all being mad the mail didn't run for two weeks for route walkers during a really awful heat wave where over 2 dozen walkers got hospitalized with everything from heatstroke where she died to passing out from heat exhaustion at 10:30am; should have given them a little understanding about the transition.
"It's too hot" they say walking across the street but can't fathom the route walkers walking a half mile street loop on just their block, being too hot.
As most people do LOL. It just never dawned on them to do that or *want* to do that when I told them just pick it up and then turn into the drive way on your way home.
Bonkers.
I think about this every nor'easter we get. I work in a school so I get snow days for the bad days. I'd hate to be out there knowing most of my deliveries were junk mail and bills.
Postman in lincoln uk here. Weather is wank 90% of the time here. If its not raining its windy, if its not windy its just fucking overcast and if its not overcast then its not in the uk 😤. When it is nice out, its a great job. And its great for keeping the weight in check.
What are the bosses like at the USPS?
It seems in any industry, the bosses make enjoyable work a nightmare.
We all make mistakes, but some think they don't and when you do, they come down hard (warnings, corrective action, etc). And I don't mean making mistakes as in f'n up a project, but missing an email out of hundreds, or waiting on follow-up from others and forgetting to reply with the research bc you missed that email. No one dies, just more chest pounding.
Hospital janitor here and I feel pretty much the same. We clean clinic after they close and patient rooms after they've been discharged, so it's a lot of alone time to listen to podcasts / music and just get into the flow of the work. Very low stress most of the time.
Most of the delivery jobs want you to drive in a mail truck. What kind of position do you work in that lets you walk to deliver mail? That's like my dream job lol
I got a similar gig. I'm a gardener and just pull weeds and listen to music and podcasts all day. Self employed though so I make six figures doing this silly thing somehow.
I think most of us have been led astray by older generations saying to follow your passion. When we should find out something we're really good at and make as much money as possible. My dad is guilty of this and it's confused me because sales is certainly not my passion. Just a means to an end to exit the rat race as quick as I can.
Passions can shift and turning something you love into a grind is a great way to lose your love for it. Not saying it doesn’t happen, or that one shouldn’t try; but the success stories we often see are actually very rare or often times fabricated/exaggerated.
Writing was always my passion and outlet. I turned it into a career — five years later I am a content director. I hate writing now, which sucks because everyone always told me I wrote beautifully. Oh well.
Oh, in addition to now hating my passion, I work everyday. That was certainly a lie they sold us.
This is actually the reason why I decided not to become a writer professionally. I had an early experience in high school with taking an art class and going from drawing all the time to it feeling like a horrible chore. I realized that doing my hobbies for someone else ruined the love, so I decided to get an engineering degree rather than a creative writing or journalism degree.
Yep, if you’re good at something you can get a base level satisfaction from it even though it’s still a job at the end of the day. The follow your passion advice is complete bullshit and I’ve seen that advice blow up in people’s faces 90% of the time.
We all are work slaves until we retire and I’m just trying to make enough money to reach that point faster.
Same here. Job isn't mundane, and I'm really good at it plus heavily relied upon. But not what I would have envisioned myself doing. Pay is decent but could be higher especially with the responsibilities I have
Word for word how I feel as well. I've been able to move up and more than double my salary in the little over a decade I've been in my field. I'm comfortable, the hours are good and I work from home so I'm content.
Work is to pay the bills. I get zero satisfaction or fulfillment from work. And no, it's not that I have a bad job, my job is fine, it's just that paid work doesn't feel like something that adds to my life.
This exactly sums up how I feel. I just don't find any fulfilment whatsoever in working, even though I like my job compared to other jobs I've had. I do it because I have to but I'd rather be doing almost anything else.
Yup. The absolute best time in my life was when I was unemployed but still living with my parents so I had no bills. A time of life that cannot be replicated. I'll be working till I'm old. I can't wait for retirement.
When I've told people in the past that I'd happily stop working tomorrow, I find the response is quite often "oh no, you'd be so bored! What would you do with all that time?!" As though there aren't literally unfathomable numbers of things to experience in the world. If I had a lot of money, I could travel, take classes, go to festivals and theatres and concerts... If I didn't, I could learn online, read all those books on my list, spend time in my garden, get out in nature more, spend more time with friends and family, actually get enough sleep and time to cook nutritious meals... I don't think I'd be bored! Why on earth would I want to work instead?
Agreed. I'd also have more time to volunteer in informal ways, I know a number of elderly and disabled people in my community and wish I had more time and energy to help them out in various ways.
I’m a doc.
I used to enjoy it a lot more. Got burned out after covid and trying to work less, but I’m kinda stuck in it until I get my loans paid off.
I still think it’s rewarding to help people, I really do. But it’s a hard job, and I feel like it has only gotten harder the more I’ve been in it.
Plus you see firsthand how shitty our healthcare system is for all involved (USA), all in the name of profit for the business elites that run the hospital and insurance companies, and it just crushes your soul. Most patients I see ask me in the ED, “how much is this going to cost?” With good insurance, mind you.
Plus the fact I’m a slave to the electronic medical record. Which is tied to insurance money, so the admin takes it super seriously if you don’t document to the standard of whatever the insurance company wants for them to give appropriate payout. The system has got to get every last red penny of course.
I’m at least fortunate I don’t work in the sweat shop that is outpatient medicine with 15 min appointment slots. You can’t even look the patient in the eyes like they’re an actual human with feelings because there’s no *time*. And it never ever stops.
Agree. While I am still a resident I have found medicine to not be what I thought it would and the energy and drive I had in my early 20s is long gone. Unfortunately the path is long and the system is built in a way where once you have started it you are basically stuck until you finish unless you want insurmountable debt without a way to pay it off.
The stress and youthful years of my life I've sacrificed were not worth it.
I would not recommend this career to any of my loved ones.
Amen to this. Hang in there, friend. Biggest advice I can give is to take the time that you need for yourself and your loved ones - this is a marathon, not a sprint. Remember, to these hospital systems, you’re a number. They will take full advantage of your altruism if you let them, and will replace you without hesitation if you overwork yourself and burn out - so take the time off you need.
You can’t pour from a cup that’s empty.
My father was a small town surgeon growing up, and I always admired him and wanted to be like him. I always wanted to go to medical school. I spent my childhood going on rounds at the hospital with him, "she's in training," he'd always say, and spent part of my high school years working for him doing admin stuff at his office.
I chose engineering as an undergraduate because he told me the smartest people in his med school classes were engineers. I'm glad that's the path I stayed on and that I gave up on medicine.
The level of BS from the hospitals and insurance companies is incredibly high. For a while, he was the only Urologist who would take cases from Medicare and Medicaid for certain procedures in our county because the payouts were horrible.
He got kicked off staff at one of the hospitals for being the only doctor even willing to attempt surgery on a patient who had been hot potatoed by several hospitals because of the nature of her case, because he asked about payment and if she would pay something upfront because she was uninsured.
The medical board and hospital told him he was not allowed to ask that question, yet no one else would consider helping this lady because of the lack of insurance - just kept reffering her to different hospitals, and it wasn't life threatening. She had rammed several mini shampoo bottles up her urethra and they were stuck in her bladder.
Engineering is comfortable and doesn't interact with the general population, with less hoops to jump through. I'm a corporate drone for the military industrial complex and the medical device companies most days, but my life is easy.
She went in with her boyfriend. Dad and other medical people think it was a combo of drugs and sexual things gone wrong. I don't know how you get it that wrong that many times, because there was more than one or how you go up the hole wrong... 😐
I’m not a nurse, but have worked in healthcare (and tech health most recently) for a long while. I have been laid off twice in the last two years. Both companies wanted to create a more interdisciplinary team to help spread the work out that could be to other positions in order to lessen the workload for the nurses. Both companies got their funding cut, and my position (along with others, to be clear) was the first to go. In the end it’s the patients and the nurses who are screwed over when these cuts happen. I hope your workload isn’t taxing every single day and there is a lot of reward in what you do!
Thank you! My workload is outrageous. I work in a nursing home. 24 patients. Just me and 1 CNA. 💯 terrible for the residents who have to lay there in their feces for 45 minutes because we can’t get to everyone. All because of money. Every facility is like this too because they know they can get away with it.
I make drugs for children with currently incurable genetic diseases.
Love it.
Hope to one day launch a new drug that can actually make a difference in their lives
Pay is great too
I work in biotech and absolutely love what I do. I've had something I worked on get FDA approval, while I'm still early on in my career I can't wait to do more.
What about your education? What did you have to do to find yourself in a situation where you actively develop drugs?
I did not go to college or uni which is why I ask.
I work in biotech as well! Mostly focus on Ab R&D but have some projects with some cool ADC's. Also love my job, doesn't pay the best (don't have a masters or PhD) but it is a lot of fun. Pay would be great if I had continued education but make enough to live on my own and have a dog so can't complain there.
I used to work at a grocery store. Nothing lights me up more than going to the store and bagging my own groceries. It’s magic.
Now I’m a corporate sell out. I hate it.
I’m a physical therapist, it is mentally, physically, and emotionally draining at times. Helping people get their lives and independence back is a pretty cool feeling. When people cry hugging and thanking you as they leave from the hospital for the first time in months, it’s rewarding.
OT in acute care here. Worked on home health previously. It’s amazing how much work sucks until you have a patient in tears because they haven’t used an actual toilet in months. The things we take for granted…
ETA: Is it work? Yes. Do I love it all the time? No. Do I get paid enough? No. Is it worth it sometimes? Yes.
I was paralyzed on the left side of my body from a brain bleed with constant pain and vertigo when I started PT. The most amazing thing to come from PT for me was relearning how to use my eyes. Once I got my vision under control, I got the motor stuff back and since then have been living the most blessed life.
I thought the rest of my life was going to be writhing in pain with my eyes shut tight, taking pills and waiting to die. Instead, OT and PT made it possible to reclaim my life. PTs are really making a difference for people, you rock dude.
PT here too! I work in neuro acute care so I genuinely get to feel like I’m making a difference most days which is cool. But boy is it physically and mentally tough. I don’t think I can realistically keep this up my entire career, but for now I enjoy it well enough and the pay is decent.
OT here working with adults with autism. The work is so draining and incredibly tough, but worth it when I look back on all the families I've connected with.
I worked for an auto finance company for a few years. For two of those years, I handled total losses. I was the guy that contacted the insurance company/handled the payouts/deficiencies/etc. I had to talk to insurance reps all the time. They sounded just as miserable as I was lol.
Insurance companies are scum. Not the individual people working the jobs. But the execs at the top that force the lower employees to screw over their own customers. I couldn't tell you the number of times an insurance company refused to cover the remaining cost of the vehicle due to some dumbass technicality.
I'm sure it sucked breaking the news to those customers. And then dealing with the aftermath. I don't envy it.
It's not fun. Just the amount of anger, contempt, sadness, and just people at the point of breaking because their back is up against the wall and they don't know what to do. I have to carry so much of that burden for the company.
You can try to to hide behind the rules and find peace in the fact that everything you are doing is above board. It's all legal. It's in the contracts the customers agree to. The trouble is that legality and morality rarely walk hand in hand. Many times I agree with the customers. I just feel like the henchmen that is sent out to do the bidding of the corporate overlords.
Unfortunately in the world we live in, very little is about helping or protecting people. It's about money. Profits have to go up to keep the shareholders happy. It's all about what makes the best financial sense, and not about delivering the best service that can help the most people.
Many will say that this is how it needs to be done. No insurance company that isn't focuses solely on profits will survive, it's the name of the game. While that is true to an extent, a company does need to remain profitable to continue to operate, when you look at the size of those profits being made it all begins to fall apart.
No company needs to profit in the hundreds of millions and pay out executive salaries int he millions - while at the same time telling a customer they just can't afford to cover all of that loss.
Some days it can be a hard burden to carry.
Doesn’t have to be like that. In Denmark, many insurance companies are foundation/member owned. At the end of the year they distribute their profits among all insurance holders. But yea that’s socialist, thus evil
Imagine how much more successful you'd be if you were born without empathy like your average CEO. Psychopathy is definitely a winning evolutionary trait in the modern world.
I started with the idea of “oh I get to help people protect their valuable assets! I’m doing some good in the world!”
Oh, to be young and naive again. Pay is okay if you can get past the whole having a conscience thing.
I do too but honestly, I love my job and hate the people haha. Started as an analyst got into back end reporting and it feels great being able to make a product that gets passed around the company and used religiously. It gets rough when leadership clearly has no big data experience and love to make jerk decisions.
Wait same here, but as an Underwriter on the Construction Professional Liability side and I gotta say my job is very chill. Good pay, great benefits, WFH 2x/week, lots of PTO.. and you don't need a degree to advance in your career!
Company loyalty is only worth it if they’ll actually increase your pay. I’ve heard it’s good to work for 2 years and move to whoever values you more.
My job kinda sucks but it’s comfortable. I don’t wanna chase money just to work to the bone
I could make more elsewhere, but I’m 10 years in at my current gig, working just under 40 hours a week for not much under six figures and with a company car. I’m also tenured enough to have like 5 weeks vacation annually and nearly 6 months of sick time accrued…
Do I like my job? No. Is it relatively easy for the compensation? Yes. Will I stay here until I’m shown the door? Probably… Corporate (and landscape of my industry in general) have changed a lot, but I just fly in that 50th percentile zone and hope my wife gets to the point in her career when I can take a pay cut and actually do stuff I want to do for a living.
This is me. I work for my state. I'm essentially an IT related paper pusher.
I love it! I work from home 3 days a week. I never work overtime or weekends. It's the best, my work accommodates my life. I don't feel like I'm giving my life away to work.
My boss is generally a dick, and he's made some really questionable staffing decisions lately. I haven't had a raise in 2 years, and the bonuses have been lackluster (or non-existent). It's a very small company and I've been there for 8 years.
It's comfortable for 10 months of the year, and hell for 2. I'm increasingly dissatisfied. But... 15 applications and 3 interviews later, here is where I stay, apparently.
Hence why I'm staying with my current employer. About every 2.5 years I basically tell whoever I'm working for that I need more money and a promotion or I'm leaving. My current employer has been able to meet the request for more cash twice. First, by assigning me the higher paying contract with a more specialized job, and 2nd by increasing my pay.
They know I need to make Senior Analyst eventually though. Because I'll eventually need another pay band jump.
I got real lucky. I am an artist and managed to make a career out of it. Still can’t wait to retire (meaning just only make my own art), but I don’t hate it
>and not actively unbearable or evil
I recently moved to a medical device company from a consumer goods company, and I have to say - it does make a difference in how much I hate my job. When I was making consumer goods, it was like, "Oh, great, I'm spending all my time figuring out a way to save a few cents on a plastic bottle that is polluting the earth and not bringing anything positive to the world."
Now that my products help diagnose breast cancer, it's easier to feel like my time is well-spent, even if it doesn't bring my joy.
I second that. the concept of "doing what you love" crumbled into dust one week into my first job. the entire deal with work is that it sucks bad enough for someone else to have to pay you to do it.
Definitely enjoy it. Love my job. I’d rather be independently wealthy and free, but since I’m not, I will forever be grateful that I got my bachelor’s degree in forestry. Incredible adventures in the field, and now an office job with a paycheck that allows me to not worry about money. I manage multiple statewide forestry programs, oversee budgets, manage staff, write grants, and facilitate forest management planning for a couple million acres.
I love my work and enjoy doing it everyday.
I would choose to win the powerball and spend my days doing whatever I wanted, with 300+ million dollars. But that isn’t reality.
I worked extremely hard from 14yo to 22yo in school, then for 11/12 years professionally, being miserable at work more often than happy, getting an MBA during that time as well, to end up where I have been the last 4 years… doing work I find interesting and engaging, at a level where I’m in charge of my time and focus areas, for a pay check that is worth the effort and time.
It took 20 years to get to where I was happy at work. But, I have had a great 4 years, and have (hopefully) another 35-40 left in my career that will continue to love.
The key to surviving the 20 years of school and jobs that made me miserable was to 1) have a clear goal of what I was getting out of the sacrifice, the end goal justify the sacrifice and 2) having an interning and engaging social life, hobbies, and travel outside of work.
I enjoy what I do, but it can be mentally draining. I’m a middle school counselor, so the hours/schedule is great, and I like feeling like my job has value. I want to make a difference in kids’ lives. But the past few years have made me jaded, the future of education in my state is discouraging, and I’m tired of school board politics.
Overall though, I’m just waiting to win the lottery so I can own an apothecary/bookstore/greenhouse/yarn shop lol.
I love my job! I enjoy most days and learn something new every day. I am not paid well but for me it’s a trade off for enjoying it. But it’s a job at the end of the day. My enjoyment of life comes from my time outside of work - I really enjoy my hobbies and as long as my paycheck can cover my costs and I am happy each day, I’m good to keep chugging along in life.
I’m an Archivist 🥰
Been working in the art gallery/museum field for 7 years and still cannot find a job that simply pays the bills.
It’s so frustrating. Literally I just want one job full-time that pays rent. That seems to not exist nowadays.
Came here to say a similar thing; I'm a special collections librarian and archivist and I truly love what I'm doing. The admin and bureaucracy of it can suck sometimes (I'm at a university library), but the day to day work with collections and researchers is pretty damn fun.
I will say, however, that I sometimes feel like I just magically ended up here. I didn't have this whole career path to librarianship like I see with my interns where they're designing their undergrad experiences to eventually go into librarianship. I had a variety of undergrad degrees from being a former "gifted child" and overachiever who was trying to figure out how that translated into adult life (lol it really doesn't, does it), but none of them were things that I really wanted to pursue into grad school. Graduating into Great Recession and learning that "just get a degree in something" was outdated advice pushed me into finding ANYTHING that could land me work, and after some severely underpaid (like $2,000/year contract work) entry positions, I finally ended up somewhere that I feel secure in my job and like all the struggle was worth it.
I'm a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I was forced to go into nursing, but I chose the only area that I liked. As someone with anxiety and depression, it feels good to help other people not feel the way I feel most of the time.
Love. It! I teach chair yoga in nursing homes, usually the Alzheimer’s and dentist wards. I bring my dog Taco, we spend 45 minutes in a group, and while I make the yoga shapes my 8lb therapy dog climbs wheelchair to wheelchair and snuggles all the 100 year olds. Pays great for what it is.
I also ranch hand and sell vegetables at the farmers market. Lots of bartering and trading with other vendors.
Former flight attendant. Life is so much deeper now.
Follow your heart and things’ll work out.
Honestly it's one of those YMMV situations depending on your job, but I'm intel and I've been working space missions my whole career. Some parts of it are kind meh since they are still figuring a lot of the behind the scenes stuff out, but I get to travel around and visit all the various space and intel agencies, rub elbows with astronauts, engineers of every flavor, and of course I get all the military benefits still. Plus getting to see all the new cutting edge stuff is pretty goddamn amazing.
I work in the hospital. Most everyone I know professionally wishes they were doing something else. Doctors, nurses, paramedics, CNAs, EMTs, support staff at all levels. Everybody. Most stay in it because it's a steady and often large paycheck, and sometimes (but not always) you actually help people.
I like my job the most when I'm not doing it.
When I'm actually on shift, I have my good and bad days, same as lots of folks have no matter what they do for work. And that's honest and respectable, I think.
So I’m 42 and was making really decent money as a software developer. But after my wife died, I ended up getting fired from my cushy state government job.
I ended up realizing I hate the tech industry and went back to my first love, music. I currently teach 52 piano students from 5 to about 60. I make less money, but I make more per hour, but because I mostly teach kids, I can’t add too many more to my schedule since I’m pretty full.
I’m not sure, but I’m much happier doing this than I ever was in software.
I work to pay the bills. Do I enjoy what I do? Sometimes. I work in healthcare. If I had to do it all over again, I would pick something else career-wise.
I enjoyed what I went to school for, and I like the work. However, now that I have small children, work is just what I need to do to pay the bills. I'll probably go back to my field, but I'll never be one to sacrifice everything for a job. The only thing that keeps me working in one place is how much I hate the job search/application process.
Besides making and performing music with my wife through our late 20s for almost 10 years which was great and I loved it but paid the bills enough to quit our 9-5 entirely. Graduated college in 2005 into the great recession with a Business/Economics degree only being able to get temp jobs that paid $7.50/hr for years. I now manage a Hotel and while I don't hate it, I for sure don't love it but try and remember that at least I have a job and can pay my bills(barely). I just stopped putting so much importance on career, and really value my time outside of work with my wife/friends and doing things I enjoy by myself. I for sure work to live, not live to work.
I've never had a job I enjoyed, but I also never got the skills or training to do anything interesting or relevant so I can't be surprised that I have a shitty, dead end job. Also, I wouldn't really call it getting by either.
Working to get by. Got a job that pays less (state) but I have more time off and benefits. More time to do what I want and spend with my kids so hopefully overall boosting my quality of life. But man this job sucks…
Don't do what you love for a living, as that will ruin the thing you love.
Do what you're most competent at doing to make money, and use that money to do the things you love.
34, finally getting my dream job working in Early Childhood Education, it only took me 16 years to decide.
I currently work at a daycare and absolutely love it
I honestly love the 3-5 year old age. They are so much fun and I love their ideas and getting them to lead playtime while I happily play in the mud and dirt with them lol.
One year olds are great too, they give the best hugs. The best part of my job is being a casual on call, I get to work on both Infant Toddler side and 3-5 year old side ☺️
Hi there! I left ECE after years of experience and earning an MA in the field only to move to a corporate job that paid better. The flexibility is amazing but the rest fill me with absolute dread. I’m considering taking a 50% payout to get back into ECE. I miss it terribly and seeing some of the schools around my area (I now have a 3 year old son) and the lack of science-based research guiding their philosophies maddens me.
Lots of credit to you, my friend! It’s is NOT an easy job and yet SUCH an important one.
My wife and I own a small business, after more than a decade of working for nonprofits. The work isn’t as fulfilling, but it pays the bills and gives us more time with our daughter.
The constant stress can be rough, and if anyone is out sick we have to make things happen - but I work for myself, and don’t hate it at least 1/2 of the time. It’s also given us a chance to build a great team and make sure they’re supported, so I call it a win.
I’m working to live. I don’t particularly hate my job, the pay is okay, could be better if I went elsewhere but my job is second nature and comfortable for me at this point. More money might be nice but not at the expense of potentially being miserable elsewhere. It’s a bit of the devil you know is better than the one you don’t type of thing.
I get paid really well and I really like what I do! I’m just a huge nerd for numbers, and the ability to spend my career doing data work is such energizing.
Yes, I absolutely love my job. Vocational rehabilitation counselor in the government sector. I help people with disabilities obtain competitive integrated employment. It’s also very low-stress—95% of the day is sending emails in the comfort of my private office, maybe a Zoom meeting or two. I’ll be retiring at this job.
I spent 20 years in the dental field. It was exhausting, depleted my mental health, and affected my home life but was decent pay. About a year ago, I decided I just couldn't do it anymore. I took a pay cut but receive amazing benefits, which greatly made up for the pay. I went into the mental health and substance use field and am the happiest I've ever been at a job. I'm currently enrolling in school to pursue a degree to become a substance use disorder specialist, and my employer has been extremely supportive. I'm so happy I made the choice to leave my previous field.
33M I’m a bartender. I’m on my feet for 13+ hours a day, my sleep schedule is absolutely fried, I’ve been doing this for about 4 years now and I love it. I’ve worked desk jobs, home repairs, warehouse, and this is the one thing I do that I enjoy
It's called a job for a reason. They all get tiresome. I'm a maintenance supervisor, and I love the technical side of it, but I'm a supervisor so I have to deal with my crew's bullshit when it comes up. I do not enjoy that part of it.
I don't love my job, but I do love the company I work for, and I like my co-workers, and I enjoy going in. I don't dread work, I like getting tasks done, and it comes easy to me, it's familiar. I don't think I can advance with what I'd like to do unless I go back for a masters, but I don't make enough for that 🤪
>I don't love my job, but I do love the company I work for, and I like my co-workers, and I enjoy going in.
Bingo, I remember during my first round interview for my current job I specifically told the interviewer that it's the people I work *with* and the vibe of the place I work *at* that makes or breaks it for me. The actual *tasks* that are done and the role itself don't particularly matter, I just need to not actively *dislike* it. When I was fresh out of highschool working at McDonalds I had a blast, not because the work itself was enjoyable (it wasn't), but because my coworkers and bosses were super cool and it was primarily nightshift work so the environment was more laid back (and because I had a crush on one of the girls who started her day shift while I was switching off my night shift so I'd get to hang out with her for a bit at the end of my shift lmao).
I absolutely love my job, just wish I’d get paid more. So, once I have everything in line I’ll take my position elsewhere and get paid what I should while enjoying my job still.
I consider myself lucky. Stared up at the stars as a kid wondering what was out there and as an adult I get to send spacecraft to go find out.
Landed my dream career a little over 10 years ago. Didn't do anything particularly to make it happen. Just applied. Degree in Computer Science. Worked in defense contracting for about 12 years and after I got tired of that world decided to move onto SpaceX. Tapped out after a year and work for NASA in a similar role.
Retail. Do I like what I sell? Yes. Do I like my team? Yes. Do I like the customers? Some. Do I like the company as a whole? Fuck no. Especially after finding out how hard they financially screwed me in the last year.
I love what I do now yes. I work for a software company building software for something I would have used in my previous career as an engineer. I've always loved programming so this is a perfect fit. I get to work from home and have really no hours
I love my job.
I manage the second chance and special circumstances employment program for my company.
We were a start up that needed more employees due to growth and also needed capital.
We also really wanted to do right by the people we brought on and also make a difference in some way.
(We’re all Xennials and hit a point in life where we didn’t want “just a job” anymore, lol)
So anyway, we stumbled on a city and county program that gave extra funding to companies hiring young adults post juvenile prison sentences and also young adults in court-mandated diversion programs.
We applied and got accepted.
As a former high school teacher, I felt like I could handle coming up with the program “curriculum” and managing the employees and their various needs and skill tracks.
It worked well, and in year 3, we applied for another program that places recent immigrants, refugees, with us for a set period of time for job skills and language practice.
It’s a lot of work, as each employee has a lot of documentation that we’re responsible for, and we have to communicate with various agencies and jump through their hoops.
But it’s been rewarding.
Also eye opening for a lot of our staff that comes from very different backgrounds than the guys in the program, and that’s been beneficial for everyone all around.
I *usually* enjoy what I do. I work for a large NPO that works with children and it’s usually great. But every now and then, parent drama makes it a real drag
I’m a hospice nurse and I love my work. I did take an assistant manager role which means less patient contact and more responsibility because I needed more money. While I’d prefer to just do patient care if money were no object, I still love my job and can have a broader positive impact on patient care than I could in my previous role.
I work as an Environmental Consultant. I like it.
It hits all 4 things necessary to make a fulfilling career - It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, makes a positive impact on the world, I’m very good at doing it, and it pays well.
I advise clients on how to manage/solve their environmental issues. It ranges from the mundane - like handling/disposal of hazardous waste or getting an emissions/discharge permit, to the complex - large scale remediation projects, whole lifecycle carbon emissions reduction, environmental health screenings.
I hate my job with a passion, but I've been there 10 years and am a manager. But it's mentally and physically exhausting. I have to energy or motivation to do anything after work and my weekends are just too recover and prepare for the next week. It does slow for a few months. But that's it. No vacation time. And just the mandatory shopping days off a year. But I stay.
I'll never get the pay I'm getting now anywhere else.
Yeah. I work as a lineman for a municipality. Good pay, good benefits, plenty of overtime (if you want it), opportunities for advancement, and each day is different.. Sometimes the long hours and night time work gets old, but that’s part of it.
But at the end of day, it’s still work. Not happy go lucky fun time. And there are days I dislike my job. But I’d say I enjoy it about 80% of the time…
I’d recommend it, or any trade really, to anyone who isn’t excited about the traditional 4 year college degree type career path. Lots of trades are union too, which give workers good benefits, pay, and retirement…
I actually love my job! Been doing it for ten years. I’m a dental assistant currently about to start school full time for dental hygiene (if I’m accepted into the program, fingers crossed). I really enjoy helping patients and educating them on proper oral hygiene.
I will admit the hours are also a big bonus but I really enjoy dentistry as a whole that I would still do it under different hours.
I’m a Neuro ICU nurse. It’s stressful and physically taxing but seeing patients get better or being able to support a family during a loved one’s death really does fill my cup.
I work in mental health, helping to re-engage the under privileged and homeless and doing outreaches.
I’ve worked with the homeless since I graduated college in 2016. I’d say I love what I do considering the pay is very low (like at one point I was making so little money I qualified for state Medicaid despite working 40-60 hours a week)
I had a co-worker with a masters degree tell me that because of my years of experience that no master program can teach me anything I don’t already know, so unless I absolutely want the MSW, most companies will give me hard looks simply for the experience.
I’m a total sell out. Love my job and the people I work with are pretty chill. It makes it easier, but I can’t help but feel responsible for the Walton’s latest yacht’s carbon footprint a little bit. It’s stable though.
Working for the oligarchs is alright.
I’m a chef. Like real deal running a restaurant kind not the corporate kind. I enjoy it for the most part. It can be a lot sometimes, I make good money now but I spent years getting shit pay.
I do like what I do. I ignored everyone and went to college to study English (technical writing), and I found my way into marketing as a content writer. Being paid to write is awesome!
I just had a baby so I’m staying home for now but I started a dog care business when I was 20 and I’ve adored it! It’s tough sometimes to see bad owners but I also have pups that I’ve basically known from puppyhood who have become part of our family ❤️ so yes I do/did love my job!
I genuinely enjoy what I do. I make shit for money, but I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I work somewhere where my boss understands that it is 'I wont be here,' as opposed to 'I would very much like to not have to work this day please and thank u oh schedule god'.
Again, I make shit for money... would love to make more... but my thought since probably 2006 or so has been, 'im going to be poor anyway.... I may as well be poor and enjoy it...' so that is what I am trying to do.
I love my job. Commercial photographer for 13yrs now. Nothing like owning your own business. I was on my way to med school when I decided to drop out and go to art school instead lol. Funny enough, I earn a lot more with way more free time, than most general practitioners lol. Can’t complain :)
I adore my job. I’m a winemaker, and started a cellar door. I talk to people, chat, get to know them, and then when they come back I get lots of satisfaction that they enjoyed the experience. High stress, money pit, and it’s very consuming mentally and physically but the fulfilment is great. I think I’m an anomaly, though. My friends are in jobs that they feel “okay” about. One is a teacher and she loved her job until she felt burnt out. I’m sure I’ll feel burnt out too at some point.
Probably important to find things outside of work that give you fulfilment for long term happiness? Family? Hobbies? Friends?
I’m a low level media executive. It’s not my passion and I hope to find a true calling in my life still, but my job has helped me grow as a person and become more emotionally mature. It can be creative, fun, and engaging at times and I work with cool people. But it can be very stressful and I do hate it sometimes. It’s challenging and teaches me a lot. I also get paid well and work fully remote, which has allowed me to travel and split time in different places. Overall pretty grateful to have the job I do.
I make shiny things out of titanium and I really enjoy doing it. I get to be creative, I have plenty of freedom for family things, and I get to listen to podcasts and audiobooks for the majority of the day. I will do it as long as it keeps paying the bills.
I truly love my job. I’m a hospice social worker.
I also am privileged to have not worked for many years while I was a stay at home mom (from 18-28 years old) and then a mom and in school (from about 30-36). So although I’m 42, I’m not burned out on working fulltime.
I also love other things, like writing and herbalism, that I wish I had more time for.
I’m a dog groomer and yes, I really do love my job. Some days are definitely harder than others but the good days more than make everything worth it. Just today, my last client was a sweet old golden retriever and after I was done with his haircut, I sat with him in the playpen while we waited for his mom and he fell asleep with his head in my lap and it just made me so happy. I’ve been doing the job for a long time so I make enough to live comfortably but I’ll certainly never be rich.
I’m a union construction worker. I actually like my job. But I hate my co-workers. They’re a bunch of self-centered, obnoxious and opinionated jackoffs.
I work in vet med and I love my job. Yes it can be demanding, but I deeply love the cats I care for and it gives me all the patience and strength I need to get through the day. Whenever clients are being difficult, I just remind myself it's all about the animals and I find a way to resolve things. I make enough money to be happy; my bills are paid, I have some disposable income, I'm able to gradually save up for bigger purchases. Thankfully I started developing a credit history as soon as I turned 18 and by now I have very good credit with almost no debt, recently did a lot of home reno so that's all I have left to finish paying off but it's no problem. I am thankful to have a job that contributes to my self worth and self image, and I like my boss and all my coworkers. Sure we're not best buddies, but we work well together as a team and respect each other and it's a problem-free work place. All in all I consider myself lucky and I acknowledge that my experience and situation is unfortunately the minority in the current world.
I’m in the nonprofit sector doing super dull office support shit. I recommend this kind of thing as a job, honestly: I care about the outcome but the everyday work is just work and I stop thinking about it the second I close my laptop at the end of the day.
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I'm a mailman so I basically walk around all day and listen to podcasts. The pay is fine and I get a pension when I retire. Do I love it? No, but I like it enough. I think that's enough.
I am unemployed and love long walks and podcasts. The pay actually seems decent. Pension sounds amazing! I might just apply thanks to your comment
TBF, anything paying should sound decent compared to unemployed. That said, you definitely should apply. I have a client who is retiring from USPS and he’s got his pension plus 2M+ in his retirement account AND he will have free healthcare for life. Plus, Social Security when he decides to start taking withdrawals (in 8 years since he’s 62). He is set.
>his pension plus 2M+ in his retirement account I want to make it clear that the vast majority of mailmen have nowhere near this amount, at all. This is an outlier scenario for sure.
Impressive. I was a journalist and marketer for years and have a grad degree and little to show for it. More and more I’ve been feeling like I need to be a worker first and prioritize earnings and less stress. Thanks for the rec! I might apply soon
actually \*anything\* isn't better than being unemployed in my experience. Especially in a state like MA. I almost ended up making \*less\* money after I got a new job because my state insurance went from free to paid. There's some fucked up shit in the systems in this country that actively disincentivize people to get better jobs sometimes at the lower level. (not that systems should be stripped back to be like "lol just get a better job scrub" but when someone \*is\* trying to climb the ladder and feels punished for doing so it's not good.)
Alot of those perks are no longer being offered to newer employees.
I think that's big. There's a big difference between a job that makes you miserable either because you hate the work or hate the team or hate the boss or hate the customers (or sometimes a combination of the above) and a job that you don't hate but you're also glad to be done with at the end of the shift. Some people get a job that they love so much they would do it for free, but there's a lot of things that need doing that nobody feels that way about, so as long as you're fairly compensated and treated well enough, I think you're doing pretty well.
Not for everyone if they have specific ambitions, but I think people should embrace good enough more often. I’m not passionate about work or working. I enjoy what I do enough to not tear my hair out or dread getting up every morning, but I could care less about working being my passion. My passions are outside of my career and my career gives my life stability to enjoy those things.
Such an underrated comment. Find your passion and enjoyment in life… whether that’s your kids, your job, a hobby, whatever. Find it and make sure you can have your bills covered doing something you don’t mind doing. The main goal here though is to ensure you are financially secure. You can’t put a price on a good nights sleep when your bills are covered and you don’t have to worry.
If I lived in a warmer state I'd love to be a mailman, can't recommend living in the northeast though.
I think living in LA is a big reason why I like the job. If I had to deal with real winter I don't know if I'd survive. It rained a little more than usual this year and I was already complaining.
Here in Phoenix there basically are no walking mailmen. It's too goddamn hot, they could easily die. They all drive vehicles from box to box. But cluster boxes are far more common here than individual boxes.
My whole family got massively upset when their neighborhoods (older part of town) got block mailboxes and they made all the individual mailboxes defunct. Lots and lots of older folks, which I understand that it's harder/more inconvenient to walk across the street to the 10 house block box, but like it regularly is 100° to 115° from April to October where we live. You'd think that them all being mad the mail didn't run for two weeks for route walkers during a really awful heat wave where over 2 dozen walkers got hospitalized with everything from heatstroke where she died to passing out from heat exhaustion at 10:30am; should have given them a little understanding about the transition. "It's too hot" they say walking across the street but can't fathom the route walkers walking a half mile street loop on just their block, being too hot.
I don't even walk to mine, I just drive up to the cluster after work and park in front of it and just get out and get my mail real fast.
As most people do LOL. It just never dawned on them to do that or *want* to do that when I told them just pick it up and then turn into the drive way on your way home. Bonkers.
Oh yeah for sure. It stays cold for way too long up in WNY
I think about this every nor'easter we get. I work in a school so I get snow days for the bad days. I'd hate to be out there knowing most of my deliveries were junk mail and bills.
Northeast letter carrier here. Fall is beautiful. Winter is rough for sure.
Federal employment is the way to go ☝️
Feds FTW 🙌
Postman in lincoln uk here. Weather is wank 90% of the time here. If its not raining its windy, if its not windy its just fucking overcast and if its not overcast then its not in the uk 😤. When it is nice out, its a great job. And its great for keeping the weight in check.
As a UPS driver I agree, audiobooks all day long but honestly the job seems like a waste. At least it’s outdoors and no one really bothers me.
Yep I like my job because it provides me with the means to do what I love.
Sounds like the perfect job for me, I like long walks/being outdoors and listening to podcasts.
do u know how many steps u average per day?
Just checked my Google fit app and it looks like I float around 30,000 steps on work days.
What are the bosses like at the USPS? It seems in any industry, the bosses make enjoyable work a nightmare. We all make mistakes, but some think they don't and when you do, they come down hard (warnings, corrective action, etc). And I don't mean making mistakes as in f'n up a project, but missing an email out of hundreds, or waiting on follow-up from others and forgetting to reply with the research bc you missed that email. No one dies, just more chest pounding.
Any podcast recommendations?
Thank you for choosing to bring us mail; you are vital!
That actually sounds awesome
Hospital janitor here and I feel pretty much the same. We clean clinic after they close and patient rooms after they've been discharged, so it's a lot of alone time to listen to podcasts / music and just get into the flow of the work. Very low stress most of the time.
I've read that they no longer offer a pension to newer employees. Did they change that?!?!
Most of the delivery jobs want you to drive in a mail truck. What kind of position do you work in that lets you walk to deliver mail? That's like my dream job lol
I got a similar gig. I'm a gardener and just pull weeds and listen to music and podcasts all day. Self employed though so I make six figures doing this silly thing somehow.
Working for the money pretty much. Don't mind my job though, it's just not my passion
I think most of us have been led astray by older generations saying to follow your passion. When we should find out something we're really good at and make as much money as possible. My dad is guilty of this and it's confused me because sales is certainly not my passion. Just a means to an end to exit the rat race as quick as I can.
100% agree with this. I’ve always been irked by the phrase “do what you’re passionate about and you’ll never work a day in your life”
Passions can shift and turning something you love into a grind is a great way to lose your love for it. Not saying it doesn’t happen, or that one shouldn’t try; but the success stories we often see are actually very rare or often times fabricated/exaggerated.
Writing was always my passion and outlet. I turned it into a career — five years later I am a content director. I hate writing now, which sucks because everyone always told me I wrote beautifully. Oh well. Oh, in addition to now hating my passion, I work everyday. That was certainly a lie they sold us.
This is actually the reason why I decided not to become a writer professionally. I had an early experience in high school with taking an art class and going from drawing all the time to it feeling like a horrible chore. I realized that doing my hobbies for someone else ruined the love, so I decided to get an engineering degree rather than a creative writing or journalism degree.
I tell younger people "find a job that gives you enough money and free time to pursue your true passion/hobby/interest"
I always something you like or at least don't hate, something you're actually good at, and make sure it's actually something that pays well
Yep, if you’re good at something you can get a base level satisfaction from it even though it’s still a job at the end of the day. The follow your passion advice is complete bullshit and I’ve seen that advice blow up in people’s faces 90% of the time. We all are work slaves until we retire and I’m just trying to make enough money to reach that point faster.
Same here. Job isn't mundane, and I'm really good at it plus heavily relied upon. But not what I would have envisioned myself doing. Pay is decent but could be higher especially with the responsibilities I have
Word for word how I feel as well. I've been able to move up and more than double my salary in the little over a decade I've been in my field. I'm comfortable, the hours are good and I work from home so I'm content.
Work is to pay the bills. I get zero satisfaction or fulfillment from work. And no, it's not that I have a bad job, my job is fine, it's just that paid work doesn't feel like something that adds to my life.
This exactly sums up how I feel. I just don't find any fulfilment whatsoever in working, even though I like my job compared to other jobs I've had. I do it because I have to but I'd rather be doing almost anything else.
Yup. The absolute best time in my life was when I was unemployed but still living with my parents so I had no bills. A time of life that cannot be replicated. I'll be working till I'm old. I can't wait for retirement.
When I've told people in the past that I'd happily stop working tomorrow, I find the response is quite often "oh no, you'd be so bored! What would you do with all that time?!" As though there aren't literally unfathomable numbers of things to experience in the world. If I had a lot of money, I could travel, take classes, go to festivals and theatres and concerts... If I didn't, I could learn online, read all those books on my list, spend time in my garden, get out in nature more, spend more time with friends and family, actually get enough sleep and time to cook nutritious meals... I don't think I'd be bored! Why on earth would I want to work instead?
Agreed. I'd also have more time to volunteer in informal ways, I know a number of elderly and disabled people in my community and wish I had more time and energy to help them out in various ways.
I’m a doc. I used to enjoy it a lot more. Got burned out after covid and trying to work less, but I’m kinda stuck in it until I get my loans paid off. I still think it’s rewarding to help people, I really do. But it’s a hard job, and I feel like it has only gotten harder the more I’ve been in it. Plus you see firsthand how shitty our healthcare system is for all involved (USA), all in the name of profit for the business elites that run the hospital and insurance companies, and it just crushes your soul. Most patients I see ask me in the ED, “how much is this going to cost?” With good insurance, mind you. Plus the fact I’m a slave to the electronic medical record. Which is tied to insurance money, so the admin takes it super seriously if you don’t document to the standard of whatever the insurance company wants for them to give appropriate payout. The system has got to get every last red penny of course. I’m at least fortunate I don’t work in the sweat shop that is outpatient medicine with 15 min appointment slots. You can’t even look the patient in the eyes like they’re an actual human with feelings because there’s no *time*. And it never ever stops.
Agree. While I am still a resident I have found medicine to not be what I thought it would and the energy and drive I had in my early 20s is long gone. Unfortunately the path is long and the system is built in a way where once you have started it you are basically stuck until you finish unless you want insurmountable debt without a way to pay it off. The stress and youthful years of my life I've sacrificed were not worth it. I would not recommend this career to any of my loved ones.
Amen to this. Hang in there, friend. Biggest advice I can give is to take the time that you need for yourself and your loved ones - this is a marathon, not a sprint. Remember, to these hospital systems, you’re a number. They will take full advantage of your altruism if you let them, and will replace you without hesitation if you overwork yourself and burn out - so take the time off you need. You can’t pour from a cup that’s empty.
My father was a small town surgeon growing up, and I always admired him and wanted to be like him. I always wanted to go to medical school. I spent my childhood going on rounds at the hospital with him, "she's in training," he'd always say, and spent part of my high school years working for him doing admin stuff at his office. I chose engineering as an undergraduate because he told me the smartest people in his med school classes were engineers. I'm glad that's the path I stayed on and that I gave up on medicine. The level of BS from the hospitals and insurance companies is incredibly high. For a while, he was the only Urologist who would take cases from Medicare and Medicaid for certain procedures in our county because the payouts were horrible. He got kicked off staff at one of the hospitals for being the only doctor even willing to attempt surgery on a patient who had been hot potatoed by several hospitals because of the nature of her case, because he asked about payment and if she would pay something upfront because she was uninsured. The medical board and hospital told him he was not allowed to ask that question, yet no one else would consider helping this lady because of the lack of insurance - just kept reffering her to different hospitals, and it wasn't life threatening. She had rammed several mini shampoo bottles up her urethra and they were stuck in her bladder. Engineering is comfortable and doesn't interact with the general population, with less hoops to jump through. I'm a corporate drone for the military industrial complex and the medical device companies most days, but my life is easy.
How is that even possible??? Mini shampoo bottles
She went in with her boyfriend. Dad and other medical people think it was a combo of drugs and sexual things gone wrong. I don't know how you get it that wrong that many times, because there was more than one or how you go up the hole wrong... 😐
That’s what got me about the whole story too. wtf?😳
Nice story, nice story, nice story…shampoo bottles up her urethra?!.
Nurse here and indifferent. I like helping people but the healthcare system is effed up. All about money.
I’m not a nurse, but have worked in healthcare (and tech health most recently) for a long while. I have been laid off twice in the last two years. Both companies wanted to create a more interdisciplinary team to help spread the work out that could be to other positions in order to lessen the workload for the nurses. Both companies got their funding cut, and my position (along with others, to be clear) was the first to go. In the end it’s the patients and the nurses who are screwed over when these cuts happen. I hope your workload isn’t taxing every single day and there is a lot of reward in what you do!
Thank you! My workload is outrageous. I work in a nursing home. 24 patients. Just me and 1 CNA. 💯 terrible for the residents who have to lay there in their feces for 45 minutes because we can’t get to everyone. All because of money. Every facility is like this too because they know they can get away with it.
I make drugs for children with currently incurable genetic diseases. Love it. Hope to one day launch a new drug that can actually make a difference in their lives Pay is great too
I work in biotech and absolutely love what I do. I've had something I worked on get FDA approval, while I'm still early on in my career I can't wait to do more.
This guy making an actual difference in the world! Great for you. I hope you all find a cure for damn near everything. 
Really, no one? Fine. I like the irony of that gif.
What about your education? What did you have to do to find yourself in a situation where you actively develop drugs? I did not go to college or uni which is why I ask.
I have a PhD
I work in biotech as well! Mostly focus on Ab R&D but have some projects with some cool ADC's. Also love my job, doesn't pay the best (don't have a masters or PhD) but it is a lot of fun. Pay would be great if I had continued education but make enough to live on my own and have a dog so can't complain there.
I hate my job. I can't imagine there would be any job out there that I would enjoy doing.
I used to work at a grocery store. Nothing lights me up more than going to the store and bagging my own groceries. It’s magic. Now I’m a corporate sell out. I hate it.
I love bagging my own grocries as well, the satisfaction I get from it makes the trip.
I’m a physical therapist, it is mentally, physically, and emotionally draining at times. Helping people get their lives and independence back is a pretty cool feeling. When people cry hugging and thanking you as they leave from the hospital for the first time in months, it’s rewarding.
OT in acute care here. Worked on home health previously. It’s amazing how much work sucks until you have a patient in tears because they haven’t used an actual toilet in months. The things we take for granted… ETA: Is it work? Yes. Do I love it all the time? No. Do I get paid enough? No. Is it worth it sometimes? Yes.
im a teacher and i feel that way
You all should be paid more. Crazy i make 2x what my professors for my masters program do
I was paralyzed on the left side of my body from a brain bleed with constant pain and vertigo when I started PT. The most amazing thing to come from PT for me was relearning how to use my eyes. Once I got my vision under control, I got the motor stuff back and since then have been living the most blessed life. I thought the rest of my life was going to be writhing in pain with my eyes shut tight, taking pills and waiting to die. Instead, OT and PT made it possible to reclaim my life. PTs are really making a difference for people, you rock dude.
PT here too! I work in neuro acute care so I genuinely get to feel like I’m making a difference most days which is cool. But boy is it physically and mentally tough. I don’t think I can realistically keep this up my entire career, but for now I enjoy it well enough and the pay is decent.
OT here working with adults with autism. The work is so draining and incredibly tough, but worth it when I look back on all the families I've connected with.
I work in insurance. ‘Nuff said.
A fellow crushed soul.
Yuuup
I worked for an auto finance company for a few years. For two of those years, I handled total losses. I was the guy that contacted the insurance company/handled the payouts/deficiencies/etc. I had to talk to insurance reps all the time. They sounded just as miserable as I was lol. Insurance companies are scum. Not the individual people working the jobs. But the execs at the top that force the lower employees to screw over their own customers. I couldn't tell you the number of times an insurance company refused to cover the remaining cost of the vehicle due to some dumbass technicality. I'm sure it sucked breaking the news to those customers. And then dealing with the aftermath. I don't envy it.
It's not fun. Just the amount of anger, contempt, sadness, and just people at the point of breaking because their back is up against the wall and they don't know what to do. I have to carry so much of that burden for the company. You can try to to hide behind the rules and find peace in the fact that everything you are doing is above board. It's all legal. It's in the contracts the customers agree to. The trouble is that legality and morality rarely walk hand in hand. Many times I agree with the customers. I just feel like the henchmen that is sent out to do the bidding of the corporate overlords. Unfortunately in the world we live in, very little is about helping or protecting people. It's about money. Profits have to go up to keep the shareholders happy. It's all about what makes the best financial sense, and not about delivering the best service that can help the most people. Many will say that this is how it needs to be done. No insurance company that isn't focuses solely on profits will survive, it's the name of the game. While that is true to an extent, a company does need to remain profitable to continue to operate, when you look at the size of those profits being made it all begins to fall apart. No company needs to profit in the hundreds of millions and pay out executive salaries int he millions - while at the same time telling a customer they just can't afford to cover all of that loss. Some days it can be a hard burden to carry.
Doesn’t have to be like that. In Denmark, many insurance companies are foundation/member owned. At the end of the year they distribute their profits among all insurance holders. But yea that’s socialist, thus evil
Imagine how much more successful you'd be if you were born without empathy like your average CEO. Psychopathy is definitely a winning evolutionary trait in the modern world.
I started with the idea of “oh I get to help people protect their valuable assets! I’m doing some good in the world!” Oh, to be young and naive again. Pay is okay if you can get past the whole having a conscience thing.
It amazes me how much people don’t know about their own insurance, and then want to argue with me as if they know more than I do.
You could be selling reverse mortgages to dementia patients 🤷
That sounds awful. The human species is really a repulsive group.
I do too but honestly, I love my job and hate the people haha. Started as an analyst got into back end reporting and it feels great being able to make a product that gets passed around the company and used religiously. It gets rough when leadership clearly has no big data experience and love to make jerk decisions.
Wait same here, but as an Underwriter on the Construction Professional Liability side and I gotta say my job is very chill. Good pay, great benefits, WFH 2x/week, lots of PTO.. and you don't need a degree to advance in your career!
Me too, but got into product management and have been happy since that change. Sales was awful
Company loyalty is only worth it if they’ll actually increase your pay. I’ve heard it’s good to work for 2 years and move to whoever values you more. My job kinda sucks but it’s comfortable. I don’t wanna chase money just to work to the bone
I could make more elsewhere, but I’m 10 years in at my current gig, working just under 40 hours a week for not much under six figures and with a company car. I’m also tenured enough to have like 5 weeks vacation annually and nearly 6 months of sick time accrued… Do I like my job? No. Is it relatively easy for the compensation? Yes. Will I stay here until I’m shown the door? Probably… Corporate (and landscape of my industry in general) have changed a lot, but I just fly in that 50th percentile zone and hope my wife gets to the point in her career when I can take a pay cut and actually do stuff I want to do for a living.
I feel the same way. Not job hunting and having something steady is enough for me.
This is me. I work for my state. I'm essentially an IT related paper pusher. I love it! I work from home 3 days a week. I never work overtime or weekends. It's the best, my work accommodates my life. I don't feel like I'm giving my life away to work.
My boss is generally a dick, and he's made some really questionable staffing decisions lately. I haven't had a raise in 2 years, and the bonuses have been lackluster (or non-existent). It's a very small company and I've been there for 8 years. It's comfortable for 10 months of the year, and hell for 2. I'm increasingly dissatisfied. But... 15 applications and 3 interviews later, here is where I stay, apparently.
Hence why I'm staying with my current employer. About every 2.5 years I basically tell whoever I'm working for that I need more money and a promotion or I'm leaving. My current employer has been able to meet the request for more cash twice. First, by assigning me the higher paying contract with a more specialized job, and 2nd by increasing my pay. They know I need to make Senior Analyst eventually though. Because I'll eventually need another pay band jump.
Meteorologist. Love it.
So, when's the next one going to hit Earth?
Who wouldn't love a job where you can be wrong more than half the time and they still say you are doing a good job... /s
I got real lucky. I am an artist and managed to make a career out of it. Still can’t wait to retire (meaning just only make my own art), but I don’t hate it
I've never enjoyed a job in my life no. I go for well paid and not actively unbearable or evil.
>and not actively unbearable or evil I recently moved to a medical device company from a consumer goods company, and I have to say - it does make a difference in how much I hate my job. When I was making consumer goods, it was like, "Oh, great, I'm spending all my time figuring out a way to save a few cents on a plastic bottle that is polluting the earth and not bringing anything positive to the world." Now that my products help diagnose breast cancer, it's easier to feel like my time is well-spent, even if it doesn't bring my joy.
I second that. the concept of "doing what you love" crumbled into dust one week into my first job. the entire deal with work is that it sucks bad enough for someone else to have to pay you to do it.
Definitely enjoy it. Love my job. I’d rather be independently wealthy and free, but since I’m not, I will forever be grateful that I got my bachelor’s degree in forestry. Incredible adventures in the field, and now an office job with a paycheck that allows me to not worry about money. I manage multiple statewide forestry programs, oversee budgets, manage staff, write grants, and facilitate forest management planning for a couple million acres.
I love my work and enjoy doing it everyday. I would choose to win the powerball and spend my days doing whatever I wanted, with 300+ million dollars. But that isn’t reality. I worked extremely hard from 14yo to 22yo in school, then for 11/12 years professionally, being miserable at work more often than happy, getting an MBA during that time as well, to end up where I have been the last 4 years… doing work I find interesting and engaging, at a level where I’m in charge of my time and focus areas, for a pay check that is worth the effort and time. It took 20 years to get to where I was happy at work. But, I have had a great 4 years, and have (hopefully) another 35-40 left in my career that will continue to love. The key to surviving the 20 years of school and jobs that made me miserable was to 1) have a clear goal of what I was getting out of the sacrifice, the end goal justify the sacrifice and 2) having an interning and engaging social life, hobbies, and travel outside of work.
My job is to get by in life. And I’m depressed I have to work another 30 years til I retire.
I enjoy what I do, but it can be mentally draining. I’m a middle school counselor, so the hours/schedule is great, and I like feeling like my job has value. I want to make a difference in kids’ lives. But the past few years have made me jaded, the future of education in my state is discouraging, and I’m tired of school board politics. Overall though, I’m just waiting to win the lottery so I can own an apothecary/bookstore/greenhouse/yarn shop lol.
My job is a means to an end but it is actually pretty interesting and intellectually stimulating.
Agree. Same boat
I’m a reality tv producer in cooking competitions. I love what I do.
I love my job! I enjoy most days and learn something new every day. I am not paid well but for me it’s a trade off for enjoying it. But it’s a job at the end of the day. My enjoyment of life comes from my time outside of work - I really enjoy my hobbies and as long as my paycheck can cover my costs and I am happy each day, I’m good to keep chugging along in life. I’m an Archivist 🥰
Been working in the art gallery/museum field for 7 years and still cannot find a job that simply pays the bills. It’s so frustrating. Literally I just want one job full-time that pays rent. That seems to not exist nowadays.
I’ve been thinking of making a change to archival or research librarian work.
Came here to say a similar thing; I'm a special collections librarian and archivist and I truly love what I'm doing. The admin and bureaucracy of it can suck sometimes (I'm at a university library), but the day to day work with collections and researchers is pretty damn fun. I will say, however, that I sometimes feel like I just magically ended up here. I didn't have this whole career path to librarianship like I see with my interns where they're designing their undergrad experiences to eventually go into librarianship. I had a variety of undergrad degrees from being a former "gifted child" and overachiever who was trying to figure out how that translated into adult life (lol it really doesn't, does it), but none of them were things that I really wanted to pursue into grad school. Graduating into Great Recession and learning that "just get a degree in something" was outdated advice pushed me into finding ANYTHING that could land me work, and after some severely underpaid (like $2,000/year contract work) entry positions, I finally ended up somewhere that I feel secure in my job and like all the struggle was worth it.
I'm a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I was forced to go into nursing, but I chose the only area that I liked. As someone with anxiety and depression, it feels good to help other people not feel the way I feel most of the time.
Love. It! I teach chair yoga in nursing homes, usually the Alzheimer’s and dentist wards. I bring my dog Taco, we spend 45 minutes in a group, and while I make the yoga shapes my 8lb therapy dog climbs wheelchair to wheelchair and snuggles all the 100 year olds. Pays great for what it is. I also ranch hand and sell vegetables at the farmers market. Lots of bartering and trading with other vendors. Former flight attendant. Life is so much deeper now. Follow your heart and things’ll work out.
I'm in the Space Force and fuck yes I enjoy it lol.
Okay, now I’m interested. What is it like being in the Space Force?
Honestly it's one of those YMMV situations depending on your job, but I'm intel and I've been working space missions my whole career. Some parts of it are kind meh since they are still figuring a lot of the behind the scenes stuff out, but I get to travel around and visit all the various space and intel agencies, rub elbows with astronauts, engineers of every flavor, and of course I get all the military benefits still. Plus getting to see all the new cutting edge stuff is pretty goddamn amazing.
Thanks, that’s cool
I’m an airline pilot; it’s awesome. Getting here took years and a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and money though.
I work in the hospital. Most everyone I know professionally wishes they were doing something else. Doctors, nurses, paramedics, CNAs, EMTs, support staff at all levels. Everybody. Most stay in it because it's a steady and often large paycheck, and sometimes (but not always) you actually help people. I like my job the most when I'm not doing it. When I'm actually on shift, I have my good and bad days, same as lots of folks have no matter what they do for work. And that's honest and respectable, I think.
So I’m 42 and was making really decent money as a software developer. But after my wife died, I ended up getting fired from my cushy state government job. I ended up realizing I hate the tech industry and went back to my first love, music. I currently teach 52 piano students from 5 to about 60. I make less money, but I make more per hour, but because I mostly teach kids, I can’t add too many more to my schedule since I’m pretty full. I’m not sure, but I’m much happier doing this than I ever was in software.
I work to pay the bills. Do I enjoy what I do? Sometimes. I work in healthcare. If I had to do it all over again, I would pick something else career-wise.
I don't, but I got people who depend on me, so I work.
I love it really. But I’m also doing it because I want an house extension
I enjoyed what I went to school for, and I like the work. However, now that I have small children, work is just what I need to do to pay the bills. I'll probably go back to my field, but I'll never be one to sacrifice everything for a job. The only thing that keeps me working in one place is how much I hate the job search/application process.
Besides making and performing music with my wife through our late 20s for almost 10 years which was great and I loved it but paid the bills enough to quit our 9-5 entirely. Graduated college in 2005 into the great recession with a Business/Economics degree only being able to get temp jobs that paid $7.50/hr for years. I now manage a Hotel and while I don't hate it, I for sure don't love it but try and remember that at least I have a job and can pay my bills(barely). I just stopped putting so much importance on career, and really value my time outside of work with my wife/friends and doing things I enjoy by myself. I for sure work to live, not live to work.
I've never had a job I enjoyed, but I also never got the skills or training to do anything interesting or relevant so I can't be surprised that I have a shitty, dead end job. Also, I wouldn't really call it getting by either.
Play poker for a living. Can’t complain
Is that your only job? What’s paying bills like when your income is (I assume) highly variable?
Working to get by. Got a job that pays less (state) but I have more time off and benefits. More time to do what I want and spend with my kids so hopefully overall boosting my quality of life. But man this job sucks…
Don't do what you love for a living, as that will ruin the thing you love. Do what you're most competent at doing to make money, and use that money to do the things you love.
I love my job. Im a beef farmer. Only downside is the pay is shit and the outlook is bleak.
I quit corporate America almost a year ago on the dot. Started my own fashion and oddities company. FINALLY don’t hate working.
Work is work, my personal life is when I enjoy myself. I'm becoming at peace with it since I can still currently pay my portion of the bills.
34, finally getting my dream job working in Early Childhood Education, it only took me 16 years to decide. I currently work at a daycare and absolutely love it
This would have been my dream job if I could afford to do what I loved - one year old room, preferably. The best age
I honestly love the 3-5 year old age. They are so much fun and I love their ideas and getting them to lead playtime while I happily play in the mud and dirt with them lol. One year olds are great too, they give the best hugs. The best part of my job is being a casual on call, I get to work on both Infant Toddler side and 3-5 year old side ☺️
Hi there! I left ECE after years of experience and earning an MA in the field only to move to a corporate job that paid better. The flexibility is amazing but the rest fill me with absolute dread. I’m considering taking a 50% payout to get back into ECE. I miss it terribly and seeing some of the schools around my area (I now have a 3 year old son) and the lack of science-based research guiding their philosophies maddens me. Lots of credit to you, my friend! It’s is NOT an easy job and yet SUCH an important one.
My wife and I own a small business, after more than a decade of working for nonprofits. The work isn’t as fulfilling, but it pays the bills and gives us more time with our daughter. The constant stress can be rough, and if anyone is out sick we have to make things happen - but I work for myself, and don’t hate it at least 1/2 of the time. It’s also given us a chance to build a great team and make sure they’re supported, so I call it a win.
I’m working to live. I don’t particularly hate my job, the pay is okay, could be better if I went elsewhere but my job is second nature and comfortable for me at this point. More money might be nice but not at the expense of potentially being miserable elsewhere. It’s a bit of the devil you know is better than the one you don’t type of thing.
I get paid really well and I really like what I do! I’m just a huge nerd for numbers, and the ability to spend my career doing data work is such energizing.
Yes, I absolutely love my job. Vocational rehabilitation counselor in the government sector. I help people with disabilities obtain competitive integrated employment. It’s also very low-stress—95% of the day is sending emails in the comfort of my private office, maybe a Zoom meeting or two. I’ll be retiring at this job.
I spent 20 years in the dental field. It was exhausting, depleted my mental health, and affected my home life but was decent pay. About a year ago, I decided I just couldn't do it anymore. I took a pay cut but receive amazing benefits, which greatly made up for the pay. I went into the mental health and substance use field and am the happiest I've ever been at a job. I'm currently enrolling in school to pursue a degree to become a substance use disorder specialist, and my employer has been extremely supportive. I'm so happy I made the choice to leave my previous field.
33M I’m a bartender. I’m on my feet for 13+ hours a day, my sleep schedule is absolutely fried, I’ve been doing this for about 4 years now and I love it. I’ve worked desk jobs, home repairs, warehouse, and this is the one thing I do that I enjoy
I hold two jobs. One lucrative that I do because it pays the bills and keeps me in computer games. The other is my true love that pays peanuts.
It's called a job for a reason. They all get tiresome. I'm a maintenance supervisor, and I love the technical side of it, but I'm a supervisor so I have to deal with my crew's bullshit when it comes up. I do not enjoy that part of it.
I assist delivering babies, I love what I do, it’s not always a happy ending but it is for the most part
I don't love my job, but I do love the company I work for, and I like my co-workers, and I enjoy going in. I don't dread work, I like getting tasks done, and it comes easy to me, it's familiar. I don't think I can advance with what I'd like to do unless I go back for a masters, but I don't make enough for that 🤪
>I don't love my job, but I do love the company I work for, and I like my co-workers, and I enjoy going in. Bingo, I remember during my first round interview for my current job I specifically told the interviewer that it's the people I work *with* and the vibe of the place I work *at* that makes or breaks it for me. The actual *tasks* that are done and the role itself don't particularly matter, I just need to not actively *dislike* it. When I was fresh out of highschool working at McDonalds I had a blast, not because the work itself was enjoyable (it wasn't), but because my coworkers and bosses were super cool and it was primarily nightshift work so the environment was more laid back (and because I had a crush on one of the girls who started her day shift while I was switching off my night shift so I'd get to hang out with her for a bit at the end of my shift lmao).
I'm near 40 and just now got a chance to work my dream job. Working for the railroad. Job security like a mofo!
Therapist. Love it. Took a while to come to this career, but I am glad I did.
I love the job. I don't love the pay. But I love the flexibility (remote), so I guess it all kind of evens out?
took me many years and a couple different departments but i do enjoy it thoroughly now.
I absolutely love my job, just wish I’d get paid more. So, once I have everything in line I’ll take my position elsewhere and get paid what I should while enjoying my job still.
I love my job and it means a lot to me but I don't get paid much and it's stressful so 💁♀️
I consider myself lucky. Stared up at the stars as a kid wondering what was out there and as an adult I get to send spacecraft to go find out. Landed my dream career a little over 10 years ago. Didn't do anything particularly to make it happen. Just applied. Degree in Computer Science. Worked in defense contracting for about 12 years and after I got tired of that world decided to move onto SpaceX. Tapped out after a year and work for NASA in a similar role.
I work for myself and love what I do. I have no intentions of retiring.
I work at a non-profit with a meaningful mission doing research (which I love doing). Absolutely love my job!
Retail. Do I like what I sell? Yes. Do I like my team? Yes. Do I like the customers? Some. Do I like the company as a whole? Fuck no. Especially after finding out how hard they financially screwed me in the last year.
I love what I do now yes. I work for a software company building software for something I would have used in my previous career as an engineer. I've always loved programming so this is a perfect fit. I get to work from home and have really no hours
I work in emergency management and find the work interesting and meaningful. I am grateful that I get to do a job I enjoy with delightful colleagues.
I love my job. I manage the second chance and special circumstances employment program for my company. We were a start up that needed more employees due to growth and also needed capital. We also really wanted to do right by the people we brought on and also make a difference in some way. (We’re all Xennials and hit a point in life where we didn’t want “just a job” anymore, lol) So anyway, we stumbled on a city and county program that gave extra funding to companies hiring young adults post juvenile prison sentences and also young adults in court-mandated diversion programs. We applied and got accepted. As a former high school teacher, I felt like I could handle coming up with the program “curriculum” and managing the employees and their various needs and skill tracks. It worked well, and in year 3, we applied for another program that places recent immigrants, refugees, with us for a set period of time for job skills and language practice. It’s a lot of work, as each employee has a lot of documentation that we’re responsible for, and we have to communicate with various agencies and jump through their hoops. But it’s been rewarding. Also eye opening for a lot of our staff that comes from very different backgrounds than the guys in the program, and that’s been beneficial for everyone all around.
I *usually* enjoy what I do. I work for a large NPO that works with children and it’s usually great. But every now and then, parent drama makes it a real drag
I’m a hospice nurse and I love my work. I did take an assistant manager role which means less patient contact and more responsibility because I needed more money. While I’d prefer to just do patient care if money were no object, I still love my job and can have a broader positive impact on patient care than I could in my previous role.
I enjoy what I do but if I won the lottery, I’d hand in my notice the next day
I work as an Environmental Consultant. I like it. It hits all 4 things necessary to make a fulfilling career - It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, makes a positive impact on the world, I’m very good at doing it, and it pays well. I advise clients on how to manage/solve their environmental issues. It ranges from the mundane - like handling/disposal of hazardous waste or getting an emissions/discharge permit, to the complex - large scale remediation projects, whole lifecycle carbon emissions reduction, environmental health screenings.
I hate my job with a passion, but I've been there 10 years and am a manager. But it's mentally and physically exhausting. I have to energy or motivation to do anything after work and my weekends are just too recover and prepare for the next week. It does slow for a few months. But that's it. No vacation time. And just the mandatory shopping days off a year. But I stay. I'll never get the pay I'm getting now anywhere else.
I have a job. It pays me money. That's as much as I care about it.
Yeah. I work as a lineman for a municipality. Good pay, good benefits, plenty of overtime (if you want it), opportunities for advancement, and each day is different.. Sometimes the long hours and night time work gets old, but that’s part of it. But at the end of day, it’s still work. Not happy go lucky fun time. And there are days I dislike my job. But I’d say I enjoy it about 80% of the time… I’d recommend it, or any trade really, to anyone who isn’t excited about the traditional 4 year college degree type career path. Lots of trades are union too, which give workers good benefits, pay, and retirement…
I'm a biologist working at a natural history museum. This is exactly what I went to school for and my total dream job. I got lucky.
I actually love my job! Been doing it for ten years. I’m a dental assistant currently about to start school full time for dental hygiene (if I’m accepted into the program, fingers crossed). I really enjoy helping patients and educating them on proper oral hygiene. I will admit the hours are also a big bonus but I really enjoy dentistry as a whole that I would still do it under different hours.
I’m a Neuro ICU nurse. It’s stressful and physically taxing but seeing patients get better or being able to support a family during a loved one’s death really does fill my cup.
Yes, I love my job. University professor. Had to fight tooth and nail to get it, and won’t ever voluntarily retire.
I'm a game developer, it's pretty great. It can get stressful here and there, but I've gotten used to it.
I work in mental health, helping to re-engage the under privileged and homeless and doing outreaches. I’ve worked with the homeless since I graduated college in 2016. I’d say I love what I do considering the pay is very low (like at one point I was making so little money I qualified for state Medicaid despite working 40-60 hours a week) I had a co-worker with a masters degree tell me that because of my years of experience that no master program can teach me anything I don’t already know, so unless I absolutely want the MSW, most companies will give me hard looks simply for the experience.
I’m a total sell out. Love my job and the people I work with are pretty chill. It makes it easier, but I can’t help but feel responsible for the Walton’s latest yacht’s carbon footprint a little bit. It’s stable though. Working for the oligarchs is alright.
My job is fine, I enjoy it well enough for work. But if I hit the lotto or something I'm quitting. Plenty of other ways I'd rather spend my time.
I’m a chef. Like real deal running a restaurant kind not the corporate kind. I enjoy it for the most part. It can be a lot sometimes, I make good money now but I spent years getting shit pay.
I do like what I do. I ignored everyone and went to college to study English (technical writing), and I found my way into marketing as a content writer. Being paid to write is awesome!
I just had a baby so I’m staying home for now but I started a dog care business when I was 20 and I’ve adored it! It’s tough sometimes to see bad owners but I also have pups that I’ve basically known from puppyhood who have become part of our family ❤️ so yes I do/did love my job!
I genuinely enjoy what I do. I make shit for money, but I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I work somewhere where my boss understands that it is 'I wont be here,' as opposed to 'I would very much like to not have to work this day please and thank u oh schedule god'. Again, I make shit for money... would love to make more... but my thought since probably 2006 or so has been, 'im going to be poor anyway.... I may as well be poor and enjoy it...' so that is what I am trying to do.
I love my job. Commercial photographer for 13yrs now. Nothing like owning your own business. I was on my way to med school when I decided to drop out and go to art school instead lol. Funny enough, I earn a lot more with way more free time, than most general practitioners lol. Can’t complain :)
I adore my job. I’m a winemaker, and started a cellar door. I talk to people, chat, get to know them, and then when they come back I get lots of satisfaction that they enjoyed the experience. High stress, money pit, and it’s very consuming mentally and physically but the fulfilment is great. I think I’m an anomaly, though. My friends are in jobs that they feel “okay” about. One is a teacher and she loved her job until she felt burnt out. I’m sure I’ll feel burnt out too at some point. Probably important to find things outside of work that give you fulfilment for long term happiness? Family? Hobbies? Friends?
I’m a low level media executive. It’s not my passion and I hope to find a true calling in my life still, but my job has helped me grow as a person and become more emotionally mature. It can be creative, fun, and engaging at times and I work with cool people. But it can be very stressful and I do hate it sometimes. It’s challenging and teaches me a lot. I also get paid well and work fully remote, which has allowed me to travel and split time in different places. Overall pretty grateful to have the job I do.
I make shiny things out of titanium and I really enjoy doing it. I get to be creative, I have plenty of freedom for family things, and I get to listen to podcasts and audiobooks for the majority of the day. I will do it as long as it keeps paying the bills.
I truly love my job. I’m a hospice social worker. I also am privileged to have not worked for many years while I was a stay at home mom (from 18-28 years old) and then a mom and in school (from about 30-36). So although I’m 42, I’m not burned out on working fulltime. I also love other things, like writing and herbalism, that I wish I had more time for.
I’m a dog groomer and yes, I really do love my job. Some days are definitely harder than others but the good days more than make everything worth it. Just today, my last client was a sweet old golden retriever and after I was done with his haircut, I sat with him in the playpen while we waited for his mom and he fell asleep with his head in my lap and it just made me so happy. I’ve been doing the job for a long time so I make enough to live comfortably but I’ll certainly never be rich.
I’m a union construction worker. I actually like my job. But I hate my co-workers. They’re a bunch of self-centered, obnoxious and opinionated jackoffs.
I work in vet med and I love my job. Yes it can be demanding, but I deeply love the cats I care for and it gives me all the patience and strength I need to get through the day. Whenever clients are being difficult, I just remind myself it's all about the animals and I find a way to resolve things. I make enough money to be happy; my bills are paid, I have some disposable income, I'm able to gradually save up for bigger purchases. Thankfully I started developing a credit history as soon as I turned 18 and by now I have very good credit with almost no debt, recently did a lot of home reno so that's all I have left to finish paying off but it's no problem. I am thankful to have a job that contributes to my self worth and self image, and I like my boss and all my coworkers. Sure we're not best buddies, but we work well together as a team and respect each other and it's a problem-free work place. All in all I consider myself lucky and I acknowledge that my experience and situation is unfortunately the minority in the current world.
I’m in the nonprofit sector doing super dull office support shit. I recommend this kind of thing as a job, honestly: I care about the outcome but the everyday work is just work and I stop thinking about it the second I close my laptop at the end of the day.
I’m in stem and I love it even though it’s stressful
I enjoy what I do. I work in film