I used the love my job!!! I moved years ago from worked to sr. management and enjoyed mentoring, strategic planning, overseeing work, motivating staff, preserving at all staff meetings. I never liked the actual work I do.

Now home alone one year it is only doing part of job I don’t like

I hope we get back to work at least 50 percent of time

Anonymous wrote:Senior software engineer. I love the work but hate the job. What I mean is that the work is fun, but I hate having to build other’s dreams and watching them make serious money off of me. I’ve had a few startup attempts, but VCs take all the profit away from the founder and just find someone else dumb enough to take their money and do all the work for little payout. I make 220k.

Do you mean founders?

Government civilian in defense acquisition here. I hate my civilian bosses and coworkers. The few military supervisors are good but they have little impact despite being the decision makers.

Everything takes a 10x longer to do than necessary. Whenever you have to collaborate, other govies complain and act like they are being forced to climb Everest.

I can't wait to leave.

Yes, social worker. I know every social worker on DCUM says they crashed and burned from burnout after a couple of years, but I am on year 19 and I still love my job.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I have the kind of personality that would enjoy most jobs. I'm a lawyer. If you paid me my current salary to do something else, I'd probably like that job too.

Same. In house counsel. The pay is good, the stress is low, I can find things that I enjoy daily and I don't think about work after I close my laptop. What's not to like? I gotta do something all day

Senior software engineer. I love the work but hate the job. What I mean is that the work is fun, but I hate having to build other’s dreams and watching them make serious money off of me. I’ve had a few startup attempts, but VCs take all the profit away from the founder and just find someone else dumb enough to take their money and do all the work for little payout. I make 220k.

I like my job enough for the fact that I have to work. If I have to work, this is what I choose to fo, relative to everything else out there and given my education and experience.

If I won the lottery I would choose not to work. So if you say it like that, I don’t like my work enough to choose to do it instead of other things.

I’m a legal secretary. I sort of enjoy my job, but I also have no idea what my bosses are doing. A partner may mention he’s in “closing hell” and I’ll have had no idea that was going on, or what is being closed. I don’t understand any of the transactions happening. Sometimes I’m tempted to ask another legal secretary if/how they know what’s going on, but I don’t want to be found out. I’ve worked at this firm five years. But I really like the people I work with and have made a bunch of great friends. The attorneys I work with think I do a great job.

PP lawyer again. I was thinking about more physically demanding jobs I have had or could have, and while I think I'd be fine with the activities I'd still want my same pay and control over my schedule. So maybe what makes me enjoy a job is security and autonomy.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I have the kind of personality that would enjoy most jobs. I'm a lawyer. If you paid me my current salary to do something else, I'd probably like that job too.

That's great. What do you think that personality is like?

I'm an optimist, I find the world really interesting and generally good, and my job is not my identity.

Most jobs require skill (even "unskilled" work) and serve a purpose, which is enough to make them interesting. Since work is a means to an end, I'm happy to do a variety of things. I became a lawyer because it played to my existing skills and is physically undemanding -- basically, it's easy for me. I care about doing a good job and I like practicing law but I don't particularly care about the label "lawyer."

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I teach high school math. Even this year, the kids made me laugh every day.

That's great.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I have the kind of personality that would enjoy most jobs. I'm a lawyer. If you paid me my current salary to do something else, I'd probably like that job too.

That's great. What do you think that personality is like?

Yes, but I have the kind of personality that would enjoy most jobs. I'm a lawyer. If you paid me my current salary to do something else, I'd probably like that job too.

Yes. I teach high school math. Even this year, the kids made me laugh every day.

And if you feel comfortable sharing, what do you do? Obviously, you can be as vague as possible.