Do you enjoy your job?

Noctu

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

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.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

DCFC79

Wish I could get an idea of what I could do if I decided to go self employed.

Still haven't found a job I can say I would love, although demolition of buildings sounds cool.

DCFC79

vegangirl1983 wrote: »

Ok how many of you genuinely enjoy your job and have a real passion for it. I don't like my job and would love to retrain in a different area I have a genuine interest in, the problem is it will cost thousands to do this. I have a reasonably well paid job, just above the national average, fab flexible working but I don't have that passion for what i do.

You need to decide what you value more, is it being happy in a job or the benefits of the job eg flexible working.

xapprenticex

I work in a fancyish job that I enjoy but I wouldn't mind being a dustbin man, they make darn good wage and get exercise for free.

TELLIT01 wrote: »

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)

usefulmale

I hate every second of my job and I can't wait until I retire, get fired or made redundant. Any option would suit me.

The hours are OK, no weekend work but it is mind-numbingly boring.

I would look for something else but there is precious little out there for someone in my situation.

sortofwinning

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

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.

I've got the "Bad Science" book and all I can say is that for every paper published saying X, someone else will come along and say Not X ie nearly ALL science can be subjected to manipulations and machinations depending on who funded it and what they want the results to show.


So I therefore go by personal experience whenever possible, and I used some of Patrick Holford's suggestions and cured myself of a debilitating health problem that may have one day cost me my job. I'd rather not go into details but on a bad day I was unable to walk even with six brufen and eight paracetamol in me, and now I can get by with only a couple of brufen a week. Once I come off the supplements that I'm on, it all starts up again. Experiences like that don't lie, and neither does my previously annihilated but now fully recovered stomach lining.:j

Tigsteroonie

I have days, sometimes weeks, where I dislike my job and hate some of the idiots people that I have to deal with. But, overall, i still love my job. I work with some brilliant colleagues and enjoy what I do.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

sortofwinning wrote: »

I've got the "Bad Science" book and all I can say is that for every paper published saying X, someone else will come along and say Not X ie nearly ALL science can be subjected to manipulations and machinations depending on who funded it and what they want the results to show.


So I therefore go by personal experience whenever possible, and I used some of Patrick Holford's suggestions and cured myself of a debilitating health problem that may have one day cost me my job. I'd rather not go into details but on a bad day I was unable to walk even with six brufen and eight paracetamol in me, and now I can get by with only a couple of brufen a week. Once I come off the supplements that I'm on, it all starts up again. Experiences like that don't lie, and neither does my previously annihilated but now fully recovered stomach lining.:j

That's not how science works. I don't care if you believe nonsense, but I will try and dissuade you when you talk about seeking out a career endangering the health of others and charging them for the privilege.

I dismiss your anecdotal subjective stories of course because again, that is not how science works. Things need to be predictable and repeatable.

xapprenticex

Good job, you tried it and it worked for you. You have your experience that nobody can take away from you.

IMO dont argue, you dont have to prove anything to anyone, you are a grown adult who doesn't need to justify your actions to people you dont know, will never meet and whos opinion means nothing at all in the grand scheme of things.

Live your life and let them live theirs.

sortofwinning wrote: »

I've got the "Bad Science" book and all I can say is that for every paper published saying X, someone else will come along and say Not X ie nearly ALL science can be subjected to manipulations and machinations depending on who funded it and what they want the results to show.


So I therefore go by personal experience whenever possible, and I used some of Patrick Holford's suggestions and cured myself of a debilitating health problem that may have one day cost me my job. I'd rather not go into details but on a bad day I was unable to walk even with six brufen and eight paracetamol in me, and now I can get by with only a couple of brufen a week. Once I come off the supplements that I'm on, it all starts up again. Experiences like that don't lie, and neither does my previously annihilated but now fully recovered stomach lining.:j

split_second

I enjoy what I do, much more than anything I have done before.

Last role I had was awful, worst job I have worked in within the last 15+ years