Do you enjoy your job?

bugslet

Mostly.

There isn't a single one of my staff that aren't flipping good. Most of my customers are nice to deal with, those that aren't we choose not to do much with. Although my main customerers are all very corporate, they seem to cope with me being the polar opposite.

The bits I don't like are the admin stuff, ENTPs don't do detail and the stress of keeping 20 people in work, in a very tough sector.

sortofwinning

Hate my job, hate the people, been bullied since Feb 2015, management says it doesn't exist. Have tried for a very long time to get another job but can't.


Like you, I am very interested in nutrition and went across to Patrick Holford's ION and got offered a place. What put me off was the thought of paying for twenty six flights per year to and fro for three years, plus accommodation for 13 weekends a year for three years, plus the realisation that it can be almost impossible to make people change what they're eating.


I didn't take up the place on the course and have not regretted it. I think Patrick Holford is fantastic, but even very obese people have a good idea of what they're not supposed to be eating, and they keep on eating it anyway.

[Deleted User]

What if HR told you tomorrow it was over?

No I'm not sure I enjoy my job (but I like being able to be come and go as I please) and so keep telling myself perhaps this will make detach next time a helliver lot easier - Ironically I'm at a place I once loved when I was a Christmas temp some years ago when it was a very different operation then and I was under agency with everyone else hating it!!. Please don't get blinkered by the wrong fondness.

El_Torro

I enjoy going to work and what I do. The people are fun to be around as well.

However if I suddenly had enough money to retire on (gotta start buying lottery tickets!) I'd quit without hesitation, even though I'm only in my thirties. So even though I enjoy it I guess I'm still only there for the money.

FredG

I really enjoy my job which is refreshing after doing stuff I hated for many years due to the constant cycle of redundancies I went through.


Pay is really good and it challenges me every day. 20 minute walk to the office, 35 hours weekly, can't complain with that.

LKRDN_Morgan

I love my job however it took me few years to get where I am. I spent 3 years training then another 3 years in a job I absolutely hated but gave me the experience I needed for my current role.

DeborahBrooks

Love is a strong word, but yeaa, I like my job.

vegasvisitor

I hated my job until recently. I left, with no job to go to as it was just so so bad. It was 'politics'. Well I call it politics but it was worse than just a bit of politics. It was certainly people issues rather than issues with the actual job.

Now I've started somewhere else, after temping for a short while and getting a transfer to a permanent role. I'm really liking it. There are issues, but they are nothing like in my last place, but it's a straighforward role, great holidays, stress free, 35 hours and a short commute.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

sortofwinning wrote: »

Hate my job, hate the people, been bullied since Feb 2015, management says it doesn't exist. Have tried for a very long time to get another job but can't.


Like you, I am very interested in nutrition and went across to Patrick Holford's ION and got offered a place. What put me off was the thought of paying for twenty six flights per year to and fro for three years, plus accommodation for 13 weekends a year for three years, plus the realisation that it can be almost impossible to make people change what they're eating.


I didn't take up the place on the course and have not regretted it. I think Patrick Holford is fantastic, but even very obese people have a good idea of what they're not supposed to be eating, and they keep on eating it anyway.

He's not fantastic, he's a charlatan. You are lucky you didn't give him your money.

Read Ben Goldacre's opinions on him. If you know all this about him and choose to believe him anyway, then heaven help you.

TELLIT01

Recently retired so Yes I love my current job. :-)
I hated my last job which was in the public sector. It was only the people I worked with who made the day to day grind bearable, and the team I had worked in for several years was disbanded about 12 months before I retired. That was the longest, most miserable 12 months of my entire working life.
A world where the only thing which mattered was hitting targets. Accuracy of work wasn't even close to being important. Try to do the job properly and you were told you weren't processing enough claims in the day. Try to explain that you were trying to do the job properly and you were told "The only stat being checked is how many you process" and any motivation, job satisfaction etc is straight out the window. Any wonder fraud and error in DWP is up 50% in the past couple of years? (Sorry, rant over)