Are you generally satisfied with your job, workplace, collegues?
What's the thing you like most, what don't you like about your current job?

What are the benefits that your employer provides?

Or, if you are self employed - how's it going?

Just interested. Don't answer what you deem private. :)

Easy and interesting enough to keep me there. Also I am very well paid for what I do.
Sorry I forgot to answer what I don't like about my job. Not necessarily knowing exactly where I am going to be working in the near future. I go to different locations sometimes with short notice.

My job allows me the freedom to influence certain aspects of what direction the company will go, so I get a kick out of that. Basically, I'm the expert on what everything is going to cost, so if I say something is just too expensive to justify, odds are good that the owners will factor that into what direction they want to go with certain developments.

When the owner asks me "What have we got in Lot 210....", I know it's because he's trying to determine if an offer is worth taking. That gives me a taste of the sales process, so I enjoy being somewhat in that loop.

Having enthusiasm for what I do for a living has definitely been one of the most positive influences in my life. Having done something for many years that I neither enjoyed, or respected, I have lived on both sides of that fence.

No, I'm bored out of my ever-lovin' mind!!
I have been looking for another one.

I work at a local grocery store just as a high-school job. It pays well, flexible hours, and good managing. Can't say it is the most exciting job in the world but I am content with it.

I work at a local grocery store just as a high-school job. It pays well, flexible hours, and good managing. Can't say it is the most exciting job in the world but I am content with it.

The important thing is to do whatever you do at the grocery as well as you can possibly do it. If you do that, you have no worries.

All work is noble, as long as you do the best job you can. And increasingly, in a world of lazy ass people, hard work will get you noticed, and rewarded.

Ask any business owner his biggest challenge. Odds are he/she will say finding and keeping good people.

Are you generally satisfied with your job, workplace, collegues?
What's the thing you like most, what don't you like about your current job?
What are the benefits that your employer provides?
Or, if you are self employed - how's it going?
Just interested. Don't answer what you deem private. :)

Beyond satisfied with everything. It's what I am meant to be doing. I love the freedom, independence, pay. I don't like the ingratitude by some. I help keep people alive and am a spiritual exhorter.

Are you generally satisfied with your job, workplace, collegues?
What's the thing you like most, what don't you like about your current job?

What are the benefits that your employer provides?

I'm pretty satisfied with my job. Not quite enough to go re-up my contract, but I'm enjoying it while I'm in. I like most of what I do. The operating heavy equipment, some of the training, the deployments. But I really dislike a lot of people there. It's the terrible thing about getting mostly people from fresh out of high school and putting them in positions of authority. Not in all cases, but in quite a few they don't know how to conduct themselves in a lot of situations if they are brought up too quickly in the Corps. As far as benefits? Full Medical, Dental, a place to live, places to eat for a pretty cheap price, occasional tax free pay, life insurance, I'd say that's all pretty darn good.

No, I'm bored out of my ever-lovin' mind!!
I have been looking for another one.

Me too. :p

I'm self employed, which has its benefits. i.e. today I'm going surfing after lunch ( couple of hours time).

Disadvantages, the boss is a prick!
If he doesn't lighten up, I'm leaving, if I don't fire my sorry arse first.
He's messy, disorganised and impetuous, he does however know when to have a long lunch and red wine sure beats instant coffee at lunchtime.
Anyway he'll have to pull up my socks or this half baked, one trick pony is going down the gurgler and I'm taking me with him.

.... Disadvantages, the boss is a prick!...

Watch him! I bet he is also sleeping with your woman!! ;)

Watch him! I bet he is also sleeping with your woman!! ;)

Yeah, he did her this morning.
Arsehole.

Once in awhile, when I travel, I find lonely older women that pay my way to be with them. I find this very interesting and rewarding as well. They are OK to be with some of the time which is all they want. Being a gigolo isn't easy for you have to put up with them and their problems. At least I change partners every time so that is interesting.:D

Beyond satisfied with everything. It's what I am meant to be doing. I love the freedom, independence, pay. I don't like the ingratitude by some. I help keep people alive and am a spiritual exhorter.

What is your job?

Beyond satisfied with everything. It's what I am meant to be doing. I love the freedom, independence, pay. I don't like the ingratitude by some. I help keep people alive and am a spiritual exhorter.

I read it as spiritual extorter. So, are you a tv evangelist? :D

Oh, about me, I'm quite satisfied. Working for the gov, so it's a stable job and my employer doesn't have the risk of going out of business in these turbulent times. The colleagues generally are very nice and my work is interesting to do and what's the most important bit - there's no routine and almost every problem is new and unique.

Avatar, what sort of work do you perform for the government?

IRS, he's an extorter as well. :)

Avatar, what sort of work do you perform for the government?

Legal work.

Had an interview today. Hope I get it. Its in the Engineering dept of an aluminum company.

Good luck! :)

Thank you! I'll know Monday

Thank you! I'll know Monday

So....?

I got it. :D
Apparently they quit interviewing after me. They said they 'just knew'. I even got the extra money I asked for.

I got it. :D
Apparently they quit interviewing after me. They said they 'just knew'. I even got the extra money I asked for.

Way to go. I guess you'll make your "mark" in that company now. What does your family think?

Not at all, its boring but it allows me to go to college.

I refused a joboffer that would have placed me up way higher in the hierarchy and would have given me a nearly 300€ extra a month and possibly a compagny car. So I'm a little pissed abouth that.

I got it. :D
Apparently they quit interviewing after me. They said they 'just knew'. I even got the extra money I asked for.

Congrats! :bravo:

I get into work at 10 AM, sit in a coffee shop and read physics papers for two hours, go to lunch, go to my office, take off my shoes and put on slippers, make some tea, derive something, go to a talk, talk about astrophysics with the guys down the hall, write something down, maybe grade a few papers...

How could life get any better than this, I ask you?

Satisfied for the moment. Right mix of deadly acid, hot flames, and high tech (to me, anyway). On the other hand it is a bit repetitive, and it is all inorganic, which isn't my preference. I'm trying to transfer to the part of the organic side of the company when possible :o

I am self employed. Or rather, I seem to have "transcended" self employment. Romantic way to look at it. My life is my work, my work my life...it's in everything I do and am and I love it. I couldn't really ask for more...except possibly more cash flow. That would be nice.

Perks or benefits my job provides. On one side I get to be the analytical problem solver, troubleshooting and designing. And the other I get to sit in my underwears all day and write something fancy that one day might make it to an offical press. Creative and philosophical really. It's nice.

I get to work with my best friend, lover and partner. Will be even nicer when we are again in the same country.

What I do not like about my job. Long hours, crappy pay. Having to solve other people's problems all day long only to come home and have to do more there. It becomes tedious and repetitious. Which is why I tend to now spend more time in my underwear writing. :D

Today I learned that in two weeks I would be going to work in Finland for a week, but as I have my exams now, I got it postponed to 4 weeks. I got lucky that it's a postponable assignment this time.
At my workplace we can get sent to almost any part of the world with relatively short notice.
A guy from my division a couple of months ago went to work for a week in Portugal, then a week in Spain and then a week in Egypt without going home in between. Another one is now in Moscow for a month. That sometimes gets in the way of personal life, but that's what we signed on for.


Oh, and congrats, Orleander!

Thanks all!:shy:

Previous job was ok, but then I continue to study. I am going to graduate this year and
have to decided what to do further. I have already some options, but being in the
intersection has been always makes me feel insecure.

Are you generally satisfied with your job, workplace, collegues?

I'm very satisfied. Of course I wish I could do my own things with my time, but my job is stimulating and it pays very well, so it keeps me motivated.

I don't really care form my colleagues, except for the guy sitting next to me, who is like a brother to me.

Workplace is lame. It's a room full of desks.

What's the thing you like most,

the money

what don't you like about your current job?

high responsability, stressful, deadlines... keeps me sharp though

What are the benefits that your employer provides?

30 days paid vacation and 13th salary (christmas bonus)

Or, if you are self employed - how's it going?

I'm partly that too as I do a lot of freelance... it's the same thing except I'm in pijamas.

Software developer, btw... I work for a bank developing systems in COBOL, CICS, IMS, ASSEMBLER... DB2/SQL... mainframe stuffs

I work in a field I no longer enjoy, in an industry I absolutely loate and my boss is a moron who is proof-positive of the Peter Principle.
That said, yeah, my job's OK.
A job's a job.
It pays well.
It covers the bills and will pay for my wife's education.
Her PhD is my retirement plan.

I work at a local grocery store just as a high-school job. It pays well, flexible hours, and good managing. Can't say it is the most exciting job in the world but I am content with it.

Hi Sandy.

You are a very good dirty theif.
:D

The job I got the most satisfaction from was working for the State Government in the Department of Insurance.
I worked for the group that shut corrupt and insoluable insurance companies and agencies down.

It was a beautiful thing.

Plus I liked and respected my bosses, I enjoyed the people I worked with and I lived directly across the stree from work.
The only real downside was the fact that I would have to scrounge quarters together by the end of the month to buy mac and cheese, ramen noodles and bologna for food.
That wasn't enough to make me leave, though.
Being poor is not all that difficult if you enjoy your life and have respect for the work you do.

I had to leave because I was moving out of state.

Damn. I need to get a job. Pronto!.

I'm juggling 2 careers:

Self-employed Flight Instructor- Love it, but it's not so lucrative in my area and specialty

Sustainable Energy (solar, hydro, geothermal, wind) Contractor- (2nd year training for self-employment next year) Like it; more earning potential; saving the planet- but I'd rather spend all my time practicing my flying, like my brother Jonathan (http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/RBACH/seagullengl.txt).

Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt35zPiDqqo)

I'm juggling 2 careers:

Self-employed Flight Instructor- Love it, but it's not so lucrative in my area and specialty

Sustainable Energy (solar, hydro, geothermal, wind) Contractor- (2nd year training for self-employment next year) Like it; more earning potential; saving the planet- but I'd rather spend all my time practicing my flying, like my brother Jonathan (http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/RBACH/seagullengl.txt).

Flying is fun. Gliding is better as a recreational sport.

It's all good- I love flying gliders too. Fortunately, we don't have to choose between these:http://www.pacificaerosport.com/Gallery/DSC_5107.JPGhttp://www.alisport.com/photo/silentclub_4.jpg

I enjoy both. Soaring is a group activity, requiring a dedicated community of aviators- and that's increasingly tenuous in the USA. People here are increasingly pressed for time and money, and many have become completely burned-out on collective effort in stressful jobs. It's impossible to keep a soaring club functioning when too many members are in a mad hurry to have their fun- they come rushing to the airport, want to be the next to fly, and right after they do, they hurriedly leave. The other challenge is the increasing number of USAmericans who have status hangups. That doesn't work in a club. But we're giving it another go this Spring. We've struggled to keep a glider club alive, and I'm never giving up on that dream- someday, we'll have enough students, friends, and $$ in the club to send any arseholes packing. I really don't think the problem is so much financial as cultural, and I'm hoping for a cultural change before I'm through living, when more people learn to take their time sharing in things they love doing. Competitive living, and egotistically-competitive playing is just stupid. /rant

Among the shared toys I enjoy with my friends at the local airstrip now (don't get me wrong, those who are sticking it out are great people)- we just acquired a Pawnee (http://www.aviator.nl/types/piper_pa-25_pawnee.htm) towplane (they're getting impatient with my 7KCAB (http://www.backcountrypilot.org/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=57) restoration). We fly a K-7 (http://www.wingsandwheels.com/wantads3.htm) and K-8 (http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/117900.html) over beautiful hill country in Upstate NY USA.

I've been towed by a pawnee, stable craft, I think I've flown a K 8 or a K 7, but mostly stick to Blaniks and Puchacz.

:eek: You mean tin cans (just kidding)- I got my Private and Commercial/CFIG Ratings in Blaníks, and I love them: Sturdy birdies, even though they make some interesting sounds. I've never flown a Puchacz- looks very niiice, I'm jealous.

The Pawnee's like flying an old pickup truck- but with a vivid imagination, you become a Stuka Pilot: After release (towing) I typically tuck right over and attack the aerodrome, diving down on the next "victim" to yank into the sky. Another example of less-than-lucrative work that is obscenely fun:D :D

Interesting indeed, Try landing one with the undercarraige up. (thats what my friend did anyway), I once misread the altitude, forgetting it was AMSL, while flying near a mountain...

"I once misread the altitude, forgetting it was AMSL, while flying near a mountain..."

:[ I hope you could SEE the mountain (and "see" the rotor in your mind's eye, if the mountain was wearing one).

A friend of mine wound up landing out, in the wrong valley doing something like that. I towed him out of the field, but I made him strip down to his underwear first. Then I dragged him back to the airport never climbing above tree-top height, with lots of sporty turns along the way.

the benefits are pretty much the same I can get from any decent company, salary is above average for a relatively small company with less than 100 workers probably because i also do sys/network admin stuff.

we have foreign workers from different countries here: dutch, canadian and american as well as locals. it's nice to have people from various cultures and religions (there's one jw priest 12 feet from my desk :D ) as co-workers.

what i like the most is that i'm the only high school graduate that got a prestigious (at least i think it is) job: project engineer in this multi-national company, and as a sys/network admin i can give any manager a hard time with their pc/inet connections just to get back at them when they're being a jerk. :mufc:

Give 'em Hell-

Mindsifter: "I believe you have my stapler. (http://pop.youtube.com/watch?v=o1fDoxq-axg&feature=related)"