Do you like your job?

[an anarchist]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

 

[JustGeorge]

I love my job! I'm a domestic engineer(homemaker/housewife/say-at-home-mom, pick your label).

I did work at a group home for over a decade. I hated it.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

If you want to write, you just got to write. Persistence and discipline is key. I rarely read, maybe a few books a year, and that's been enough to help me write my novel (it's not mediocre at least! reading more wouldn't change much). I encourage you, writing is a great hobby!

My job is at an assembly-line factory. It's alright, depends who I'm working with and how the day's going. Just like any job. I work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 12 hours then have 4 days off so I really dig the four day weekends every week.

 

[Debater Slayer]

I'm quite passionate about mathematics and computer tech, so yes, I like my current job as a math instructor for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

My next step is to transition to a position as a programmer/software engineer. I think I would also like that, since much of the thought process and problem solving involved is similar to what one typically encounters in math and more abstract programming concepts.

 

[amorphous_constellation]

Well for the past five or six years, already, I have been a forklift driver / material handler at the local factory, 3rd shift, which got me off the production line. I like it better in that I don't have to ask anyone to take over my press if I need to go the bathroom, and can I take my own breaks, and I don't have to stand in one spot the whole time. Although, that can sometimes be better than my job, depending on how much I have to do.

The only times where it's stressful, is every now and then I have to get a pallet that is really heavy, and high up on the rack. And I will have to do that at 5 a.m., where I am tired and don't feel like doing it. So then you have to really concentrate, and I just go really slow, because you having to look at how many inches of clearance you have in different places.

And the other thing about it is, what do I do now, on my weekend? I mean, it is 1 a.m., and nothing much is going on. I guess I don't mind dropping here to write, or just laying here watching youtube, but there really isn't much to do. I guess I like to go out at dawn sometimes, and watch the sun come up from a hill, but I still have five or six hours before that happens

I always thought if I could go back to age 20, I would have liked to see if I could become a chef. Then again, I have a developed an unrealistic/perhaps romantic idea of what that means, by watching all these programs by cooking stars.

 

[Heyo]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I'm early retired/disabled but I have small side job working for an organiser of medieval fairs, mostly organising the storage and making repairs to the equipment. It has it peeves and perks but most importantly the people are friendly.
I also liked my job as a software engineer but that got ugly at times when the boss wasn't supportive.

 

[ChristineM]

I loved my job, i created it when windows NT and 3.1 were brand new we (my hubby and i) were designing 3D mimic diagrams for industrial control systems. I got to travel the world. Wrote programs to make objects move rather than hand coding thousands of equations (which are now, highly modified, included in some of the top 3D graphics program around). We had input into the design of university courses on the subject. And it allowed us to sell the company in 2015 and live the dream for the rest of our lives.
What's not to love?

 

[Sedim Haba]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I was an Electronic Engineer. Think GPS. Plus other things I can't mention.
(Top Secret Clearance). Loved it, but it changed so much in my lifetime.
Now I understand my dad, he grew up with vacuum tubes.

Now I'm retired, a 'hobby' farmer.

 

[sayak83]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I am a professor at a university in India. Along with teaching undergrads, I also do research and guide PhD scholars. I am doing what I have wanted to do since when I was 10 years old...being a scientist and a teacher. So I love it and am humbled that I have gotten this opportunity of pursuing what I have always wanted. Not many get such opportunities in life.

My suggestion would be that if you wish to be a writer you should start writing now and not wait to read books. But maybe taking online writing courses will also help.

 

[Hermit Philosopher]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

It’s lovely to hear that you like your job, Xavier! We spend much time working, so a good attitude towards what we do, always helps.

When I speak with younger generations, I notice that many seem to have a much sounder view on work than previous ones.

The pressure to realise oneself through one’s job, seems not as present. Instead, many younger people aim to do this in their spare time and “working” is about paying one’s bills. They work to live and not viceversa - it’s healthy, I think!


Humbly,
Hermit

 

[mangalavara]

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I teach English classes (elementary and middle school students, mostly the former) at a couple of cram schools in the same building in Korea. I love my job and my employer. My apartment is provided to me by my employer, and my utilities and the like are deducted from my salary. My students are wonderful individuals who always make me smile.

Jai Lakṣmī Devī! Jai jai Śrī!

 

[PureX]

My work is necessary and useful to a lot of people. I maintain a large, busy dental facility. But it's not so large that it's no longer 'face to face'. When businesses get too big, they become stupid and mean-spirited. The deciders are no longer personally accountable to the people they decide over. And they get stupid and selfish. So I stick with smaller companies where everyone has to face everyone they effect. It keeps them honest.

I also like it because I am support staff. I am not "production". I am not the horse that's pulling the whole cart, so to speak. Which is also a bad position to be in, in most businesses. And then, too, I have responsibilities, but no one is looking over my shoulder. They trust me to do what needs done, usually before they even know it needed done. And I do that, so everyone is happy.

Work is work. If I won the lotto I would stop working and work at living life more fully. But given that I have to work, I consider myself very fortunate to have the job that I do. It fits me. So I'm good with it.

 

[VoidCat]

I work at a daycare. It's exhausting but I think I like working there

 

[SalixIncendium]

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I'm a general manager of a logistics company. I oversee a team of about 50 drivers and maintain 25 delivery vans.

If I didn't like it, I wouldn't be there anymore.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

What specifically do you enjoy writing? What books do you have to read to accomplish this?

 

[Vee]

Do you / did you like your job?

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I'm a sales and reservation manager in a wine museum. It has some perks and I mostly like it. Most of my experience has been in the travel industry.
If I could chose to do anything I wanted, my current job wouldn't have been my first choice, but it could be much worse.

 

[Psalm23]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I like my job. I work in the Produce department at a grocery store.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I'm a transportation engineer. I do stuff with road safety and bike infrastructure, among other things.

I like to say that on a good day, my job is like a math puzzle where I get to save lives if I solve it really well.

I also get to make a (small) contribution against climate change and help improve opportunities for people who can't or don't drive by building bike connections between the places where people work or go to school and their home or transit.

Every job has downsides, but overall, I'd say my job is pretty good.

 

[Orbit]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

My husband started as a dishwasher. He taught himself programming and is now a programmer. If you ever want to leave dishwashing it is possible to learn a new skill. I know you said you were happy with your job, but I just thought I'd throw that out there.

 

[Orbit]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I'm a university professor. I teach, do research, and serve on committees. I like it fine.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Do you / did you like your job?

I'm just a dishwasher, miss being a baker, but I love my job. I'm just happy to be working and finally stable enough to hold down a job. The restaurant industry is all I know and I'm comfortable.

Half the people if not more hate their jobs at my place of employment.

I get that service minimum wage jobs aren't ideal. But I'm happy with my job.

My dream job is to be a writer. In order to do that, I got to read a lot of books and I'll be old by the time my writing is perhaps satisfactory. So for now I'll be a dishwasher/cook(?).

Tell me about the job you work(ed). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it?

I had a job I loved, trucking, but the Democrats in my state regulated me out of that job by making it so difficult that it just wasn't worth it anymore.

Now I'm in a manufacturing setting and I'm OK with it but it's not what I want to do.

I'm only biding my time till retirement now within 10 years. In the countdown.