What do you like about your job?

[Spiderman]

I'm currently in a mental institution, but when I get out I'm considering finding my friend who sells boats and working for him again. He sells yachts, so working for him means I get to live on a yacht on the Mississippi river . I thoroughly enjoyed it. The only downside is He's gay and is attracted to me and I'm straight. I'll let you know how it goes...

What do you like about your job? If your job causes you a lot of suffering, I admire you for carrying that cross. So does God.

 

[YmirGF]

I like that I'm retired.

 

[Onyx]

I would wait for the gay issue to become a problem and not worry about it until then. If it does comes up, then I'm sure you both can set the appropriate boundaries and still be friends.

My job is a mixed bag, but that's normal.

 

[Revoltingest]

I like that I'm retired.

That's my part time job.

 

[Deathbydefault]

What do you like about your job?

My full-time job is relaxed and quiet, as expected when working in a library.
My part-time job at UPS is rather loud and physically demanding, but it's simplicity is nice.

I'm currently in a mental institution, but when I get out I'm considering finding my friend who sells boats and working for him again. He sells yachts, so working for him means I get to live on a yacht on the Mississippi river . I thoroughly enjoyed it. The only downside is He's gay and is attracted to me and I'm straight. I'll let you know how it goes...

The old boss and secretary scenario...

 

[Twilight Hue]

What I like about my job?

Being own supervisor for the most part.

My boss dosent care when I start or finish my day as long as I get the job done.

I do enjoy the outdoors and open road and of course payday is always nice.

 

[1137]

I help investigate allegations of child abuse in both homes and foster homes/group homes. It's extremely hard at times, because it revolves around varying degrees of never ending child abuse, plus I'm a pretty nervous guy so doing unannounced drop ins and stuff is always intense. But in the end, how can helping to bring such disgusting people to justice not be amazing?

 

[David1967]

What do you like about your job?

I like the boss.....I'm the boss.

 

[Jainarayan]

What do you like about your job? If your job causes you a lot of suffering, I admire you for carrying that cross. So does God.

What do I like about my job? Very little; only that I have a paycheck and benefits. In all honesty, it runs hot and cold for me. I'm an IT systems administrator for an IBM i (aka AS/400) network. It has its perks and its drawbacks, it's a love/hate relationship. I don't think I get points with God, it's just the duty I have to do, which he says never be afraid of doing.

Perks:

• I'm the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. Really. I am the only person who does what I do, and nobody really knows what I do or how I do it (smoke and mirrors... move over James Franco ). There is a collective holding of the company breath when I am out. If this system so much as burps (it usually doesn't, but it did go down hard last weekend - a little voltage regulator... "for want of a nail the kingdom was lost") all warehouse operations: picking, packing, sorting, distribution, even calculating box sizes, ceases. I mean, drop-dead stops.
• I get to be creative in writing operational code to make things run more efficiently. And then I get to go around like a peacock fanning out its tail.
• I get a feeling of satisfaction when I save someone's neck, they know it and are grateful to me... until they're not.
• I'm pretty close to irreplaceable. Unless and until the company hires a service to back me up or replace me, they're stuck with me (or until I tell them to pound salt).
• It's good to be the king.

Drawbacks:

• I am always on-call. I mean always.
• My e-mail comes to my phone;
• I can and do get called 24/7;
• When I take time off, I have to reassure my boss I can be reached;
• I often have to log in to the systems from home, at the most inconvenient times... like on my way out the door to go somewhere;
• I get bombarded with questions and problems that I have to solve, that really are not in my purview. "But you're the system administrator!" I always hear. "Yeah, and you're ugly, so what?" I always say (no, I really don't say that ).

 

[Luciferi Baphomet]

I don't really work. I am a stay at home mom and a house wife.
My husband is the one that works and make the money for the family.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I am another retiree.
However in general I preferred working.
Every time I took a new job the thing I liked about it most, was the period that it took to sort things out. And get things and people working as I liked it.
I was never happy unless the changes I made saved at least a minimum of my salary each year.

After about five years there was usually nothing new to do, and i could hold down the the job while coasting. Fortunately things always change and circumstances and jobs change. Adding interest.
If that seemed unlikely, I would look for pastures new.
I made my last move only ten years before I retired.. And that involved a total restructuring of my department, including training and redeploying, the staff, and totally reequipping with modern machines, and digital systems.

 

[Islington]

What do I like about my job? Very little; only that I have a paycheck and benefits. In all honesty, it runs hot and cold for me. I'm an IT systems administrator for an IBM i (aka AS/400) network. It has its perks and its drawbacks, it's a love/hate relationship. I don't think I get points with God, it's just the duty I have to do, which he says never be afraid of doing.

Would you like to come over and work in France? I could use an admin that doesn't get the network down for hours each time he/she shows up at work

I'm an user experience designer. The main perk is that I have my own office where I write on whatever I want, boards, windows, you name it, get to explore human-machine interactions and joke with my co-workers.

The main downside is that I have to sit during too-long meetings with boards of clients who then report and wait for the decision of other boards and so on.

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

Semi retired, but still work as i seem to be the only competent Bio-mechanical engineer (fix life support equipment) available ..

I enjoy my work ... not so much the being on call 24/7

 

[suncowiam]

My boss is in Austin, TX and i'm in Santa Clara, CA.

Pretty much, no one looks over my shoulder. Loving it!

Our culture is laid back concerning many typical codes like dress attire and scheduling. It's a bit loose. It works as long as we get the job done.

I get to play soccer during lunch. Its very easy to schedule around my kids appointments and such.

 

[Scuba Pete]

Semi retired here as well... I was in the automotive field for thirty years, left that to be a Network consultant and then I found ScubaBoard. After I became the owner, I turned it into the world's largest web site for Scuba. I have people selling ads for me.

Perks? Well, I'm not famous but rather infamous. The notoriety has been fun to say the least. Many, many more people know me than I know. I get to travel a lot. Spent last week on Cayman Brac with 58 of my closest friends celebrating my sixtieth birthday. Man, that was fun. I'll be going to Anthony's Key in Roatan in June and I'm sure I'll be sent elsewhere as the year progresses. Usually, I get four or five weeks of travel in a year to exotic dive locations. On top of that, I get given lots of gear to write about. Some of it is crap, but there's a lot of good stuff that comes my way. Lights, regulators, BCs, rebreathers and more. Even with all that, it's the community that's the best. I am blessed beyond my wildest imaginations.

The only drawback is the commute. It's almost ten feet from my bedroom to my office and almost 2 minutes to the nearest dive boat. I consider living in the Keys as my tropical prison. I guess someone's got to do it. The other downside is the strict dresscode. I have to wear shorts and flippy floppies or a bathing suit day in and day out. It's brutal keeping up with these appearances.

 

[Flankerl]

I guess the best thing about it is that its in research.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

One job, working at a library, it's very low stress, no rude customers, and I get to alternate between sitting at a desk for an hour and getting up and moving around for an hour, which is great for my knees, and having no actual productivity to meet or anyone following me around to see where I am and what I'm doing, it also works out for my IBS if I'm having to go a bunch of times. Plus it's inside, climate controlled, comfy and cushy, clean and tidy, and just enough of a taste of the privileges of working in a white collar environment to get very, very used to and comfortable with them.
My other job, doing my own business, I like because it's entirely on my own time, doing my own thing, and make a good chunk of change when I make a sale.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

I would wait for the gay issue to become a problem and not worry about it until then. If it does comes up, then I'm sure you both can set the appropriate boundaries and still be friends.

My job is a mixed bag, but that's normal.

I agree, there is no need to get worked up over the gay thing until something pops up; and when it does boundaries can be discussed to ensure the friendship remains mutually beneficial.