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Do you like your job?
« on: July 10, 2011, 07:11:09 PM »
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cali  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jul-10-11 07:43 PM
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Do you like your job?
 
I'm curious. What's good about it? What gives you satisfaction?
 


Ok, pretty harmless question.

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panader0  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jul-10-11 07:52 PM
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2. I became a bricklayer 40 years ago
 
I love building things, all kind of things, commercial buildings, houses, walls, fireplaces. Through the years, and because of necessity,I have learned many other trades: concrete, carpentry, drywall, stucco, tile and more. I still love doing a job well, standing back at the end and looking at the work and feeling satisfaction. It's harder now at age 60, but I still work as much as I can (under the table) and start a new stucco job tomorrow. Yeah!
 

What's that you say??  Does it draw criticism?  nay.

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Chan790  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jul-10-11 07:56 PM
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9. No. It's soulsucking and evil. I'm great at it though and I need the money.
 
Honestly, I'm waiting until the next time I find something damning so I can blackmail them with it. I draw great satisfaction from small acts of sabotage in the meanwhile. For my next trick, I'm looking for OFAC violations in our major wealth client-base.

I'm a banker. I earn compound-interest on the investment of my conscience into a withdrawal-restricted monetary instrument.
 

Wow, you just put that right out there didn't you.

Gotta go eat, you'll have to row over and see the rest.  New campfire but I'm sure it'll grow.  DUmmies know so much about work.

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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2011, 07:12:57 PM »
I like my job.  Except for the creepy co-worker of mine who hits on me almost all day.  I have to avoid having the same break and lunch as him.  Other then that, things are good there.  Sorry you DUmmies are miserable.
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2011, 07:21:59 PM »
I love my job, it's by far the best I've ever had. Most of what I like if how flexible it is. But work on you're own is good that way.

The only thing I dislike is the shear amount of driving I do.  :p

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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2011, 07:37:18 PM »
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panader0  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jul-10-11 07:52 PM
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2. I became a bricklayer 40 years ago
 
I love building things, all kind of things, commercial buildings, houses, walls, fireplaces. Through the years, and because of necessity,I have learned many other trades: concrete, carpentry, drywall, stucco, tile and more. I still love doing a job well, standing back at the end and looking at the work and feeling satisfaction. It's harder now at age 60, but I still work as much as I can (under the table) and start a new stucco job tomorrow. Yeah!

Now why would you work under the table?
You don't want to pay your fair share of taxes? Nah that couldn't be it, since you libs love paying taxes.
Maybe you are on disability and don't want to lose that? Nah, no lib would ever scam the system, would they?
There must be some legit and honorable reason you would do this, right?

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14. I do. I don't work for a company. I created my own tiny business   Updated at 4:10 PM
   
with just me as the employee. I write web sites for small businesses. Not little sites, but extensive websites for businesses with dozens or hundreds of employees. I work with a web designer to do this, and our web sites are creating business for these businesses. In doing this job, I get to learn about businesses that are new to me, through research and other means, and then create a complete web environment for that business. I've done everything from an international translation company, a clinical skin care clinic and a major fencing company to a hydroponics gardening company that ships products worldwide and a swimming pool builder. Each site is new. Each site is different, and each site is an opportunity to help an individual business get more customers, hire more employees, and be more successful.

I'm good at it. The designer I work with is good at it. Our sites produce results. I'm not paid as much as I should be, but I work for myself, and that makes up for a lot.

Our latest site was a 300 page behemoth for a real estate broker. I basically wrote a complete real estate guide for the 15th largest metro area in the country, including individual city, community and neighborhood profiles and much more. It's already increased their business considerably, and it's only been online for a couple of weeks.

So, yes, I like my job. It's worthwhile work, and it's challenging. I can't ask for more.


Why should you get paid more? Wouldn't you be an evil rich person if you were?
Funny how they want to make more money, yet want to deny everyone else that chance.

Personally I hate my job, I have more responsibility than I think one person should have, and every time I go to do one task I find ten more that need attention. My pay sucks and after deductions I see almost half of my check gone before I get a single dime. Yet I go to work everyday and don't expect the govt to take money from someone else and hand it to me, instead I do my best at my job and am trying like hell to find something better. I do work that would be beneath the dignity of any DUmmy. I don't try to sabotage my employer or try to figure out ways to steal from them.

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28. I'd probably like it more if I were working for a different company.
   
I won't disclose who employs me but its one of the most loathed corporations in the country.

Must be Haliburton or Diebold.  :rotf:



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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2011, 07:41:56 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on July 10, 2011, 07:21:59 PM
I love my job, it's by far the best I've ever had. Most of what I like if how flexible it is. But work on you're own is good that way.

The only thing I dislike is the shear amount of driving I do.  :p


I drove a truck for about 20 years, averaging 80,000 miles a year, 6,000-7,000 miles a month, 1,500-1,700 miles a week.  My weeks were 3-4 days, so on one week, I worked 3 days and drove 1,500 miles, the next week, I worked 4 days and drove 1,700 miles.  I worked 40-50 hours in those 3 days, 50-60 in 4 days.

All total, I figured I've driven 2.5 million miles in the 36 years I've had a license, more than that if you count what I covered driving farm tractors and trucks, motorcycles, loaders, dozers, combines, etc.  I've got over 100,000 miles just on motorcycles in off-road competition.

Now THAT'S driving, but it doesn't come close to what a friend of mine that's a long-haul trucker covers.  1,000 miles/day for him is loafing.

I currently drive 100-140 miles a day, six days a week, working 60+ hours a week, AND I LOVE IT!
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2011, 07:45:13 PM »
I love my job, it's the idiots I work with that I don't like.  :-)
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2011, 07:54:37 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on July 10, 2011, 07:37:18 PM

Personally I hate my job, I have more responsibility than I think one person should have, and every time I go to do one task I find ten more that need attention. My pay sucks and after deductions I see almost half of my check gone before I get a single dime. Yet I go to work everyday and don't expect the govt to take money from someone else and hand it to me, instead I do my best at my job and am trying like hell to find something better. I do work that would be beneath the dignity of any DUmmy. I don't try to sabotage my employer or try to figure out ways to steal from them.


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Well, that sums up my job in a nutshell as well.  I wish I had more focus when I was younger, and  didn't just get a degree in the first thing I could, as opposed to what I wanted to.  But, I didn't even know what I wanted at 20 years of age. 
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2011, 07:58:44 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on July 10, 2011, 07:45:13 PM
I love my job, it's the idiots I work with that I don't like.  :-)

It's the "idiots" I work with that make each day an adventure at my workplace.

I wouldn't call them "idiots", per se.  We are more like "one big family."

One, big, very disfunctional family!   :rotf:
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2011, 08:11:23 PM »
Quote from: diesel driver on July 10, 2011, 07:58:44 PM
It's the "idiots" I work with that make each day an adventure at my workplace.

I wouldn't call them "idiots", per se.  We are more like "one big family."

One, big, very disfunctional family!   :rotf:

I once asked if I could work the third shift and the boss said that we didn't have a third shift.  I kew that, but I just wanted to work without the distractions.
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2011, 08:38:13 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on July 10, 2011, 07:54:37 PM
:cheersmate: 

Well, that sums up my job in a nutshell as well.  I wish I had more focus when I was younger, and  didn't just get a degree in the first thing I could, as opposed to what I wanted to.  But, I didn't even know what I wanted at 20 years of age. 

I wish I had more focus when I was younger too, I would have finished my degree instead of taking other paths.
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2011, 11:38:24 PM »
yes i love my job, i am a proffessional spelunker who at this time is under contract for a obgyn in the denver colorado area, at the moment i am in the process of exploring an older model Buick for a client of the obgyn, though i am not having much luck.  Luckily i have an iphone with me and i get a fantastic signal or i would have to use one of the local libraries in order to give updates.  My only concern is that if i find the patient then i hope im not expected to further explore any cavities or other orifices in the name of science.   
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2011, 04:26:34 AM »
Quote from: vadawg on July 10, 2011, 11:38:24 PM
yes i love my job, i am a proffessional spelunker who at this time is under contract for a obgyn in the denver colorado area, at the moment i am in the process of exploring an older model Buick for a client of the obgyn, though i am not having much luck.  Luckily i have an iphone with me and i get a fantastic signal or i would have to use one of the local libraries in order to give updates.  My only concern is that if i find the patient then i hope im not expected to further explore any cavities or other orifices in the name of science.   

Dawg, those conditions would pretty much guarantee that I lived on the top floors of whatever building housed me . . .

I don't mind my job.  It gives me some satisfaction of actually leaving Albany and going somewhere else if I want.  I do have to return to Albany, but I can get away for short periods.  Now, if they wouldn't lay me off in a week from this Friday, I'd be set for the time being.
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2011, 08:36:37 AM »
Quote from: diesel driver on July 10, 2011, 07:58:44 PM
It's the "idiots" I work with that make each day an adventure at my workplace.

I wouldn't call them "idiots", per se.  We are more like "one big family."

One, big, very disfunctional family!   :rotf:

I'm not that nuts about what I do, though I'm damn' good at it, but I do like the people I work with.  The work friends are the only thing I'll miss about the place when I retire next year. 
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2011, 08:43:49 AM »
Every day is something new.  Keeps it fresh.  And the pay ain't bad at all. 
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2011, 08:47:02 AM »
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20. No, you can't ask for more.
 I love my job. First of all, it's only 4 months or so a year. Secondly, I work for my closest friends Thirdly, what I do makes people happy. Fourthly, the place I work is incredibly beautiful- and quirky. The pay isn't great, but it's not bad either. the work is creative and funny and the atmosphere is positive.

http://perennialpleasures.net /

 
Four months a year?  Is that just long enough to collect UI for the rest of the year in Vermont?
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2011, 10:24:00 AM »
Quote from: Karin on July 11, 2011, 08:47:02 AM
Four months a year?  Is that just long enough to collect UI for the rest of the year in Vermont?

Apparently so. According to the linked website, DUmmy cali, the bitter, hateful 58-year-old old DUmpmonkette, is Eva Gage, who brings in "scones" and other hippywife-ish stuff way too sophisticated and expensive for any democrat except for refugee Massholes. This place is not at all like DUmmy grasswire's imaginary pie shop. DUmmy cali's friend charges everyone an exorbitant price, so the clientele is all Massholes and Republicans. No DUmp riffraff. After fetching $25 pots of tea for four months, DUmmy cali can live off the taxpayers for the rest of the year. Her dependence on the taxpayers of Vermont for most of the year is solely the fault of George W. Bush.
 
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2011, 12:49:55 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on July 10, 2011, 07:45:13 PM
I love my job, it's the idiots I work with that I don't like.  :-)


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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2011, 01:59:24 PM »
The pay sucks, the hours suck, I get no vacation...but on the other hand, I do have insurance and my room and board are paid for. Luckily for me, my bosses are (mostly) benevolent.  :-)
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2011, 06:44:37 PM »
I like my job... it's the work I hate.   :-)

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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2011, 06:55:30 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2011, 07:12:20 PM »
OK Chris... that was good!!! I'm gonna print that out and hang it on my wall at the office.
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2011, 07:13:58 PM »
I like my job.  It's trying to fit 50 hours of work into a 40 hour week that drives me crazy. :p
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« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2011, 07:15:27 PM »
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I like my job.  It's trying to fit 50 hours of work into a 40 hour week that drives me crazy. :p

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« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2011, 07:22:29 PM »
Check out my last post in the shoutbox.  I wasted at least an hour, probably more, fixing a problem caused by one of the helpdesk monkeys who took it upon himself to screw with something he had no business messing with. :thatsright:

I could have done something productive for that hour and a half.  But no... someone else had other plans.
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Re: Do you like your job?
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2011, 07:37:12 PM »
I like my paycheck.
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