Are You Happy in Your Job?

[William33 110]

You know, I find it amazing that a useful poll has over 201 views, and only 14 votes.

Are the members of VJ not concerned about the employment climate out there?

Is someone’s smell more valuable to your life, than the sustenance of it?

Simply amazing apathy to life critical issues!!

Rock on VJ'ers...

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

I enjoy my job (well most of the time lol.) It's often quite challenging, it sometimes involves very long hours, and it requires me to be intensively creative at lightning speed. But there's never a dull moment, and I also get to have a LOT of fun doing my work. It's actually quite rewarding when I complete a project that I feel I did well.

My boss is great, my co-workers are great, and the company is very good to us. The money is pretty good, the job has a lot of side perks, and the benefits are excellent.

Sometimes the challenge gets the best of me. But mostly I enjoy it.

Still.... I'm always open to considering new opportunities B)

-MK

[William33 110]

wife_of_mahmoud,

That is good stuff, thanks for your insight.

To that end, thanks to all that contributed to a useful poll; one that may help others considering a career change in an uncertain job market!!!

Anyone else?

I enjoy my job (well most of the time lol.) It's often quite challenging, it sometimes involves very long hours, and it requires me to be intensively creative at lightning speed. But there's never a dull moment, and I also get to have a LOT of fun doing my work. It's actually quite rewarding when I complete a project that I feel I did well.

My boss is great, my co-workers are great, and the company is very good to us. The money is pretty good, the job has a lot of side perks, and the benefits are excellent.

Sometimes the challenge gets the best of me. But mostly I enjoy it.

Still.... I'm always open to considering new opportunities B)

-MK

[sarah and hicham 3]

I just graduated from college in June and I started my job in October. I plan on getting my CPA license this year (fingers crossed). My job is ok but it's hard for me to really love it because it's not really what I want to be doing. I think this fall I will start culinary school in San Francisco. I will always have accounting to fall back on though.

I like not being a starving student and having benefits for myself and Hicham.

[LaL 418]

You know, I find it amazing that a useful poll has over 201 views, and only 14 votes.

Are the members of VJ not concerned about the employment climate out there?

Is someone's smell more valuable to your life, than the sustenance of it?

Simply amazing apathy to life critical issues!!

Rock on VJ'ers...

if you look at the ratio for other polls, i would say the responses in this thread to views is average! i already stated that i am unable to vote, so i have clicked a few times to read some responses.

[featherB 1]

I can't really answer due to the lack of a "I'll be moving across the Atlantic relatively soon, so looking for a new job at this stage is out of the question, but a change is inevitable" option. Oh, and I'm in the wrong country so my answers are of no use anyway.

But for what it's worth... I'm not especially happy in my current job, but it has a lot to recommend it. Right now it's exactly what I need - I work shifts, including nights, which means I can keep some very strange hours indeed and can spend much more time talking to Mr. 5-hours-behind than I could if I had a regular 9 - 5 job. I can also earn extra money by doing as much overtime and as many extra night shifts as I can handle - no fun at all, but I'm telling myself that it's only for a few months and every pound I can save now will come in very, very handy in the not too distant future.

I've worked at the same place ever since I graduated - I've been there just over eight and a half years (in the same position for about five of those). It's actually a great place to work, with pretty good benefits, a good working atmosphere for the most part, lovely colleagues (again, for the most part), and the kind of laid-back and relaxed attitude where we have a lot of leeway that you don't get in a lot of jobs. I have some great colleagues who I adore, and who I count among my best friends.

The reason why I'm not so happy in my job is mostly because I've been doing it for so long, and it really is time to move on. There was a complete recruitment freeze for ages, so (despite having spent two years doing a postgrad course that would otherwise have opened up more positions for me) virtually no new jobs were advertised there for a long time, so I was pretty much stuck in the one I've got (which is no great hardship, I know I have it good). If I hadn't met a guy who lives in the US, and if our plans didn't involve me moving there to be with him, I'd almost certainly stay where I am now and go for different jobs within the organisation. As it is now, though, they're looking for volunteers for redundancy... I've had my name down for quite some time and am just hoping I get it - the redundancy pay would be very, very useful to us indeed! That's another reason why I'm not altogether happy in my job right now - if I wasn't planning on leaving anyway, the uncertainty about the future of our role would be very stressful to live with.

Ironically (well, I think it's ironic, after I've been waiting so long for it to come up) what I consider my perfect job within the organisation, a job which was last advertised four years ago, and which I had no hope of getting due to lack of experience... just came up again this week. Too late for me, though!

As for getting a job in the States... I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm quite terrified about that! Putting together my CV, filling in application forms, going to interviews... ugh, I really do have The Fear about that. But I'll happily take any job that anyone's prepared to give me (so long as the pay isn't TOO ridiculous) for as long as it takes... after that, I have noooo idea.

(Hah, bet nobody's read all the way through my ramblings - but it felt good to ramble nonetheless!)

[ceriserose 1]

I voted.

Another thing, tacked on to my comments in your other thread in off topic, is that if no one puts in a comment, it doesn't move the poll up on the 'view new posts' search. If I want to keep my poll moving I leave some of the choices with an "Other" which usually prompts more comments.

[Alex+R 0]

I'm moving this month so I'm "between jobs." I couldn't vote. (Where's the "unemployed" answer?)

[PlatyPius 5]

I'd trade my job for a bagel with cream cheese.

I work for Chinese Communist bastards, the pay is #######, the hours are #######, the work environment is #######, the company is #######, the bosses are #######.

As soon as something better presents itself, I'm gone. Or, as soon as they remember that I'm the highest paid computer repair tech and fire me, I'll be gone. (They've fired all of the computer repair techs who made more than $12/hour... I was somehow overlooked.)

[luvaLimey 0]

Pateince grasshopper... you only put the freakin poll up t-t-t-today, jr!.

The one about smells has been going for a while.

As to the poll question: I actually love my job; but hate my company. If I wasn't going to be leaving it in a couple months to go live overseas, I'd be breaking away from my company and doing this job as a contractor: I'd make more, and I wouldn't have to deal with the BS of working for tight-arsed idiots.

[William33 110]

Alex+R,

Very good point, I thought the poll was comprehensive, but then again.........It could be improved...

I'm moving this month so I'm "between jobs." I couldn't vote. (Where's the "unemployed" answer?)

[William33 110]

luvaLimey,

Wow, where have you been? Your input has been missed. I know married life is good, but you can spend a few minutes with the VJ bud's, no? I know I am impatient.... This will improve over time...

Pateince grasshopper... you only put the freakin poll up t-t-t-today, jr!.

The one about smells has been going for a while.

As to the poll question: I actually love my job; but hate my company. If I wasn't going to be leaving it in a couple months to go live overseas, I'd be breaking away from my company and doing this job as a contractor: I'd make more, and I wouldn't have to deal with the BS of working for tight-arsed idiots.

[ELW 5]

It is nice to hear that some people at least, are happy with their jobs! Good points: I work in a good place with good people and commute is only 10 minutes. Bad points: the work is somewhat repetitive & boring, zero benefits, low salary, only 5 days a year paid holidays and no other vacation time, and no chances for salary increase or bonuses. I also want to live in a small, warm town where I do not need a car, but I am in a big, cold city. I have been looking for a year but no one wants me! (Though I have a lot of skilled work experience working in India, no college degree and not much USA work experience I guess play a part of me not getting a more ideal job.)

[babybunny 2]

I currently **&^%$##@@$%hate my job.. I am Quiting soon as something better comes along. TURNING THE PAGE.....

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I currently **&^%$##@@$%hate my job.. I am Quiting soon as something better comes along. TURNING THE PAGE.....

What happened, shon? You used to love it.