Was having a chat with a mate about the percenatage of people happy in their jobs and who isnt.
Who out there LOVES their job and who dislikes their job?

I myself, am restless and unhappy, for many reasons. One main one being, I cant afford to live closer to the city, so it takes 2 hours each way to get to work. Though my job in TV production is the place I want to be, so its more a waiting game for better pay or a better job.

I love my job. Like you Sydney the thing that makes my job crap is the travel to work each day. I also work within TV production in accounts and love the atmosphere and feeling of acceptance as a trans woman. I'm also restless atm but am afraid to move on due to past experiences with discrimination.

Thankfully tho I have other interests that gain money through my band and doing drag king shows. Plus hanging out on Samesame as a contributer I feel is building up a nice little portfolio to perhaps move into a paid journalism job in the future.

I love my job.. It has it's stressful moments (like today! eek!) but overall, I have excellent job satisfaction.

i absolutely love my job. ..apart from the travel time to get there (2hrs public transport or 1hr car)

i spend pretty much all day playing sports with kids and adults.
wen i'm not doing that setting up and packing down equipment makes for interesting work...especially the setting up the inflatables for human fooseball or twister...cos we get to muck around with it until the actual people come to use it.

yep, i'm one of the job lovers i have to say.

i get to write, i get to read, i get to help others get to where they're going, i get to instigate change, i get to explore issues close to my heart... and i've met some of the most amazing people thanks to same same - many of them will be friends for life i'm sure.

Awww Christian that is beautiful... I reckon you're only in it for the free 3M Command hooks.
LOL!!! It's a pretty special feeling to actually like your job when so many people seem to hate what they do for a living

ha - the 3m command hooks live on! too funny...

i am very aware of how lucky i am to enjoy what i do for a living, because a lot of people don't and because in the past i have had jobs that i've definitely loathed!

same same fits me like a glove. i'll probably still be here at retirement age.

Depends on what day you ask me. It's all about how I wake up in the morning. lol

I love my job cause its not hard what so ever and I get paid quiet well for it plus I spend most of my time on the net chatting.

I hate my job cause it's got to a point where I'm not mentally stimulated, which happens to me quiet often. I pride myself on mastering whatever it is I need to master to get the job done................but once I have learnt it I get really, REALLY bored and lose interest.

I find that I have to change jobs every couple of years (within the same organisation), doing somthing completely different from the last job.

I love my job! It is really simple, straightforward, pretty much stress-free and pays really well. As this is my first job I fell I am very lucky to have a job I like.
Downside is that I'm contracted there and the fact that my job along with most other positions at Accounts Payable are to made redundant - though that was supposed to have happen 10 odd months ago...
I just take each day as it comes and taking advantage of every second.

It could be better - it could be worse ! (thats life)

I just left an extremely stressful and bitchy job in finance that I had worked in for about 28 months. It was my first serious full time job after graduating Uni.

It was shit. Low pay, bad hours, horrible management, annoying location, constant bitching.

Well I eventually said stuff this and began a serious look for a new job outside of finance. I had always wanted to get into public service but it is extremely hard.

Eventually after several months and a couple of failed interviews I got my new job at a university. Its bloody fantastic - 35 hr work week, 17% superannuation, 23% pay increase compared to my last job, generous sick leave, an extra week of annual leave(but must be taken a xmas period, which is fine), generous study, personal and compassionate leave.

Also the university recognises gay relationships and gives 20 paid days to gay staff members who have had children( method of having children not important, including adoption).

I wear casual and no strangling ties! serious training and the people are not going to stab you in the back as there is no financial gain like there is in finance. Also the clients are students and have no power to harm you, unlike financial advisers who always threaten to get you fired in lowly paid finance positions.

Oh and its 20 minutes closer to get to, so i only spend about 30min getting there each way.

Its still new to me, but its 1000 times better than anything ive had before! Go Universities!!!

I work in aged care and I both love and loath my job. I love dealing with the residents and interacting with them and caring for them. I loathe having to work with staff who don't care and want to be seen as 'fast' compared to others. Have been subject to racism recently as well.....

It is always a catch 22 I find. The good and the bad in a job. Sometimes its more about weighing up both and whether its worth staying somewhere at times. What is worse... having nothing to do or being so flat out? I would prefer the latter.

Being a student, yes and no, well having to work shit low paid jobs until i graduate really makes me wanna hurry up and finish the only downside being all the fantastic friends i see everyday who I will definitely miss the company of once I graduate. Well, at least next year I will still be studying for my Diploma of Education and at least that guarantees landing a job as a high school teacher no matter what once I'm finished

I'll say it, I hate my job.. Its shit, I work for my parents cause they guilted me into it, I cant quit, cant have a sick day, cant have a day off.. Oh, and I had to sell my baby as the pay couldnt even pay for him.. So i now have a second hand car which i hate, oh and im bored shitless. since working here (sept 07) i have put on about 25kgs... fabulous!!

I'm definately on the love/hate bandwagon with my job - what I love is the feeling of being part of something larger than the norm, being a member of a Service rather than just being an employee. Also my pay is good and I never get stuck in the one job as the posting cycle always ensures that there's a new place and new role within a couple of years time.

On the flipslide, getting jacked around, having to put up with arseholes or the brain dead, and not always getting a say in where I go and who I work for, and occassionally having to do pointless jobs can really suck any joy out of the room.

Oh well, something about cake and all that...

I have a good job that pays well, good working conditions (casual dress, flexitime etc), good colleagues, and i'm good at it too. On that level i'm happy with my job. But on the other hand i don't feel happy working in the career i'm in and i wish i was doing something more creative. I'd say i'm happy in my job but not really in my career.

Ha well I just got made redundant today so.. I am happy because I was unhappy in my job. Anyone know any tv production jobs going??

Well im not liking my job today (read the I think I will take the stairs next time… thread) and you will find out why !

Geesh buddy, that sucks!! Ha ha but glad you can laugh about it now.

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Originally Posted by sydney84

Ha well I just got made redundant today so.. I am happy because I was unhappy in my job. Anyone know any tv production jobs going??

Im sorry to hear you been made redundant - I hope you got a massive pay out !

Jesus, redundant, that sucks dude! Good luck with the hunting!! I think there's one at channel 7 down here... But guessing the move will be bad

Oh all good fellas. I need the change, i was so bored I spent most the day on samesame.com.au (not saying thats a bad thing!) So it is exciting in a way.

And hey its Friday. So Happy Friday everyone!

OH MY GOSH - I work in the building next to Channel 7 at Martin Place ! - we could all go for coffee if you worked here !

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Originally Posted by Jae81m

OH MY GOSH - I work in the building next to Channel 7 at Martin Place ! - we could all go for coffee if you worked here !

I believe natejd87 is down in Melbourne, not sydney...

just started a new job last november - so im kinda still deciding! i love th work (im lecturing at uni - mainly social work/social policy - that kinda field) and its a great new challenge, but im finding im really missing being on the 'frontline'. i worked in youth work, mainly with street kids, for the last too many years, and i miss that coal face interaction. one of my current students asked me earlier today what the highlights were for working in that field. th answer was easy - and i always remember th same incident

id been working with this guy (il call him luke) for about 15 months or so. he was 15, and typical of all th stereotypes that go with the label 'street kid'. we were chatting 1 afternoon and for th first time, i noticed a lone tear trickle down his face. i asked him what th tear was about, and he just dissolved into full on tears, looked at me and said: "you're the first adult who has never hurt me"

i will never forget that as long as a live

it was/is always such an honor and privilege to be invited into the lives of young people and to share some of th journey with them - and moments liek that were just gold and made everything worthwhile

i miss those times

and while i do get a new and different chance to share different journeys (this time with students), iv only been at it a few months and so im still kinda finding my feet

cognitively, i know, too, that im now in a position to have more influence in affecting research and policy outcomes and perhaps i can still have that level involvement

th bottom line is, iv been very blessed to have been given th chance to work with people like luke, and i now get th chance to share some of that experience with new workers - so i guess im pretty lucky

pete

Hated my job until Wednesday when i started my new one now i totally love IT!

It kinda goes without saying that I adore my job. I don't really consider running this place and putting on parties for me and my friends work. But hey!

I'm interested to hear what type of job everyone has as well? ie. What do you do?

1. Education Project Administration
2. Events Design and Concept management
3. promotions management

I'm a busy boy!

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Originally Posted by sydney84

I believe natejd87 is down in Melbourne, not sydney...

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