How do you feel about your job?

[skygazer]

Poll question: How do you feel about your job?

Feel free to elaborate. For the record, I guess I fit in the "I usually like my job but sometimes it's a drag" category.

[Richardo]

1. You wanna field this one, devilgrrl?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3923515

[skygazer]

2. I figured that was her vote in the last category. n/t

[jane_pippin]

4. that was me.

[jane_pippin]

3. I FUCKING HATE my job.

Sorry. I try not to swear here but in this case, it's just how it is.

On the plus side, I'm home now so I don't have to think about it for a few days.

[skygazer]

5. Well, I'm sorry. That sucks.

Here, have a hug. :hug: And a drink. :beer:

[jane_pippin]

7. Aw, thank you. Both hit the spot.

It will be ok--I'll have a different job some day. At this point I'm just there until I have enough money to move far far away.

[lpbk2713]

6. Other ....

.... don't have one.

[eyepaddle]

8. Other, I'm in grad school,

while I still have my old job (plus another one) they are both on an "as my schedule fits" basis. That really takes the sting out.

[Divameow77]

9. Perfect time for me to take this poll

I just received an e-mail where "most" of my office has to fill out a form on what we do with our time, every minute of evry damn day. I do so much misc crap, I even back up the receptionist, so on her lunch break I am going to log every single phone call I answer.

[skygazer]

10. You should write "fill out this form - 4 hours 37 minutes"

Don't you just love all the make-work bullshit employers come up with? At my job, they're always adding on stupid shit they want us to do and if you complain about it, they tell you, "It only takes five minutes".

Well, yeah, but you've added twenty-two of these five minute things on in the last six months, given me no more time to do them and besides, they make take five minutes, but it takes 10 minutes of preparation. :grr:

[lpbk2713]

11. Next step in the process ......

you go to an interview with "the Bobs".

[usedtobesick]

12. I really love my job

too much travel, long hours, most rewarding fun thing I've ever done.

[LynzM]

34. What do you do for work?

Inquiring minds want to know! :)

[Deja Q]

13. I know mine will end soon. How does that make me feel?

Just so long as it goes before the economy, I have a chance - ironically - of paying off the sharky credit card bills.

[Not_Giving_Up]

14. I don't have a job

I wish I did...Even if it was one that I hated.

[skygazer]

15. Awwww....

:hug:

[Not_Giving_Up]

20. I hated the last job

Lovely compassionate conservatives...But it beat unemployment!

[BuelahWitch]

16. Me either

That's why I picked "other"

[justabob]

29. Me either

I can't even get a job waiting tables with 9 years of experience. :banghead:

And that's a job I swore I would never do again....

[RebelOne]

17. I love my job. I have great benefits, 3 weeks vacation,

10 days sick leave, 4 days personal time and many other perks. The only disadvantage is that the pay sucks. But I can't complain because I am working in publishing, which has been my lifelong ambition.

[skygazer]

18. That's so nice to be able to say that

I've had jobs in the past that I loved, jobs that caused me to wake up in the morning thinking, "oh, boy, it's time to go to work!" That's a great feeling. :toast:

[SouthernDem2004]

19. I love my job. BUT I hate getting up for work. Alarm clocks are the

tool of the devil!

[Nikia]

21. I don't like my job

I believe that it is unhealthy for me to be there for several reasons which I don't want to go into. It pays more than any other job that I could around here that doesn't involve heavy labor and rotating shifts, which I'd probably be promptly laid off from as soon as I was about to receive benefits. I also have health insurance. If I needed it, I could also take medical leave and collect disability.

[existentialist]

22. Job?

Does being self-employed count as a job?

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

23. I am lucky; I really like mine and the people I work with.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. I love my job...

I work at home transcribing juicy criminal trials and child-in-need-of-aid/termination of parental rights cases. It's like Law & Order, in my ears and out my fingers.

[bridgit]

25. I love my job!!!!!!!

:woohoo: i'd like to get paid more for doing it :cry:

[Wcross]

26. My job, other than the pay, sucks.

I work in a tire factory. 12 hour shifts starting at 5am. I am on my feet the whole time except a 10 minute break every two hours and 20 minutes for lunch. My job consists of fixing problems with the tire building machines- most caused/made worse by the tire builders. In the summer the temps are about 80 degrees and the humidity is around 60% (we have a monitor). I sweat like a pig sometimes while the tire builder (who has a couple of fans to keep cool) watches me unscrew what they screwed up.
In the tire room-when in doubt- blame me!
My supervisor is a stress junky- he loves to inflict it on other people. I have never heard him say thankyou or please. If I can't fix something he gets mad, he talks down to people and likes to piss people off.
I would say 50% of the guys in my job are walking wounded. Strains, pulled muscles, bad backs. I work with three other guys so its up to the healthy ones to do the hard work. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't get either a cut or a bruise- usually both. I am dog tired when I get home at night and I only have 9 hours of "me" time before I have to get up and do it again. I am also expected to work on my days off to cover other crews.

On the plus side- I work a rotating workweek with 3 day weekends every other week. The pay is 23/hr plus a sizable bonus once a year.( It may not seem like much but its pretty good for Tennessee) I have a pension plan and matching 401k which I am able to max out. I will be able to leave at age 54. (if I survive)

Thank you for allowing me to vent here although I am sure few, if any, will read my tale of misery.

[skygazer]

27. Well, I read it

And I commisserate. I've worked all my life at heavy, physical jobs. At 44, I have arthritis in my back, carpal tunnel in both wrists, chronic tendonitis in my left knee and I had a disc replaced in my neck last year. There's not much else out there for me, though - it's what I know and have experience in and no one is going to offer me a sit-down office job.

I don't mind working hard but it's very tough on the body. When our union contract was up and we were threatening a strike, some customers bitched that as grocery workers, we make plenty of money - my point of view is that we are compensated (and not enough) for the damage the job does to our bodies. We are all walking wounded - our bakery manager is 26 years old and just blew out his back. :hug:

[Wcross]

33. Thanks for reading my rant Skygazer!!!!

Can you tell this is one of my work weekends? I just hope I can make it to retirement. (BTW, I am 41 and starting to feel it!)

[Moondog]

28. Work

is the scourge of the drinking class.

I'm retired.

30. job

I do typing to make ends meet, and then I do artwork wherever I can make the time. I sometimes feel I am my worst enemy, and need a grown-up to save me from myself, but if I had it to do over again, I probably would still want to do art. Art is the first thing they cut in the school system and is undervalued.

[skygazer]

31. I agree that art is undervalued

And sports are overvalued. Mind you, I have nothing really against sports per se but to learn teamwork, discipline, the lesson of improving with practice, there's nothing like a good music program which of course is also cut promptly.

32. music

Yes music is undervalued too. I heard some Mozart a while back, and actually felt different chords in my chest being played on.