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MrCurry

MrCurry

right after this urgent rest
So I thought it would be interesting to hear from those of you who not only tolerate your work, not just find it fun once in a while, but from people who wake up happy that a new work day has arrived and go to work with a smile on their faces!

What is it you do?
Why do you enjoy it so much?
Is it something about your skills / personality / whatever that makes this job such a great fit, or do you think it’s just such a great job, anyone would love to do it?

I’m fascinated to understand better what kind of work really fulfills, motivates and rewards people, without it being something you tolerate just because you have to, so please educate me!
 
I'm an army officer. I love my job - at the moment I'm working on future doctrine and capability in an area that's been my passion for 20+ years. I work for a General I really like and admire, and working for/with him has given me a massive kick up the arse and restored my mojo.

I've always loved it overall, with a mish-mash of stuff that I love and bits that get on my tits, but this is a really enjoyable bit.
 
I'm a software engineer. I currently work on something that goes directly to a couple of million people.

As long as you have some basic aptitude and taste for it, software is mostly fun. It's fundamentally problem solving. Usually this is something new, whether in terms of a whole new problem or the specific nature of the problem in front of you. It's quite tangible and responsive work, at least what I do - you can make changes and have them manifest in front of you within seconds or minutes. It's got a craft element to it, you're making things, but it's also formal engineering - what patterns can we use to make something maintainable, readable, reliable, etc.

Increasingly the software industry is getting rid of its hardcore nerd history - the place I work is particularly good at this - as well as some of its classical organisational failings, and has become a pretty decent place to work overall. There's usually a lot of opportunity to collaborate, teach and grow more junior people, although I'm having some issues with this at the minute, so it's not all plain sailing.

At various times I have considered doing something else but I enjoy this, I'm alright at it, it pays OK and I would probably choose to do something fairly similar if employment was no longer required to live.
 
I love the fact that what i do is very important to absolutely everyone of all backgrounds and i know i am making a difference with my knowledge and actions. I hate the fact that because of the political set-up of this country i am also helping rich people and undeserving people and entitled people to get richer off the back of what is a basic human right. But pretty much everything is like that these days and at least the work is varied and interesting.
 
I'm a networking consultant and generally love it. Customers are a pain sometimes but, pre-covid, I got out to see customers in some interesting places. I've installed networks at places like the tower of london, various football grounds and theatres and the like.

It can be shit sometimes. I have to do a lot of documentation which I hate but the majority of the job is interesting and can be fun.
 
kebabking said:
I'm an army officer. I love my job - at the moment I'm working on future doctrine and capability in an area that's been my passion for 20+ years. I work for a General I really like and admire, and working for/with him has given me a massive kick up the arse and restored my mojo.

I've always loved it overall, with a mish-mash of stuff that I love and bits that get on my tits, but this is a really enjoyable bit.
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Some of my best times were Army. Wish I'd not cocked things up, but there you go.

I absolutely love teaching English, especially to young adults and adults. You can keep kids, they're not interesting much. I love the challenge of higher levels too. It makes me think more and means I have to know my stuff.

Sadly I don't do it now. Thank you covid.
 
Occasionally I love my job , for example when I sign someone up to a tenancy for a new home & they finally have a secure home , after a previous insecure housing history . Those are good days. But trying to referee between 2 neighbours who have had a beef for 30 plus years , not enjoyable. Although I do enjoy not being involved with that case anymore (which is no doubt about to enter its 4th decade) .

I enjoy the job when we can resolve a housing issue and make someone happier or safer. Not so much when there is no obvious resolution or people are ringing up to complain about something there is no resolution .
 
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I'm a systems engineer, if you live in London then you'll have encountered some of my work since I was heavily involved in the first generation Oyster Card system, so you're welcome or apologies depending on how you feel about it.
Also the earliest iteration of the NHS 'not joined up' IT system which I don't talk about much since I am the father of a nurse who reckons NHS IT is shit.
I used to do this for Evil American Megacorp a very large American company which has its grubby fingers in all sorts of pies but since they made me redundant in 2015, I freelance including quite a lot for them.
The work is interesting and paid well, There are times when I feel guilty sat indoors with a cup of tea to hand and I realise there are people working much harder than me under all sorts of conditions for a lot less.
 
I love my job.

I've just set up self employed and I'm definitely getting the cream on the milk at the moment... landscaping. Best job ever. Physical. You can have tunes on. Piss in bushes. Build stuff. Drive Tonka toys. Smoke doobies. Every day is different.... It's bloody hard work but I've got been at it for 20 years so you find a few secrets to make it easier.... finding it heavy going on my own but the pace is great and I don't have to talk to idiots all day.

Just laid nearly 200m2 of turf and seeding another 1000m2. Putting in a golf hole in a new garden just for kicks.

The thing that makes landscaping special for me is, it's not an essential household service. It's pure pleasure (for the client) and as long as the workmanship is tip top they're usually really happy at the end of the job.
 

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I decide when to wake up and what to do. No targets or anyone on my back

in terms of it being a Graeber classified bullshit job I’m not sure what category it’s in

it’s basically a floating 3 month monastic retreat/health farm for me

I can tough out the next year of it and hopefully retire to do even less or approach something more rewarding
 
I've just come off the phone with a client who has utterly turned her life and relationships around in the space of the six sessions we have had. That doesn't always (or even often) happen, but since my original reason for choosing this line of work was because I wanted to "make a difference", that kind of thing makes it all worthwhile. The pay's not great, but I am able to work and shield, I have a great collection of lovely colleagues (even if we only meet online at the moment), and just about as much responsibility as I can handle.

The other job - teaching - is gratifying in a different way, and I love it...though it is a terrible time thief, and I don't get paid for the work I have to do outside face-to-face teaching, which creates a bit of a dilemma - love it as I do, is it the best and most profitable use of my time? It'll do for now.
 
MickiQ said:
I know which one you mean, I've crossed paths with his drones many times but no not them
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I can think of a few others but I ask because at the start of my career I thought that's what I wanted, pursued it for a bit but it didn't work out and I followed a different path. It would have been quite a different life. I think in retrospect I'm much happier to have gone with the engineering-focused, 35 hour week end of the spectrum.
 
felixthecat said:
I love my job (physio)

In fact, I love it so much now I've started a second doing the same as the first one but in the evenings. Well if I cant have a social life...
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My work-life balance is a bit fucked atm too.

I think it's where I'm older, and have got to that stage in my career where I can really make a difference in areas I'm passionate about. So while I can, Im taking every opportunity I get given and say yes. Plus for a few years now I've considered that I work for the town I live in, and that I've just been lucky enough to be provided with some great platforms and pay for doing so.

I've got four jobs right now

Community capacity builder, which is like community development but focused on community services and human rights. This is at a federal, state and local level.

Mental health peer worker for a national start up bussiness I'm part of.

Suicide post-vention crisis response team member.

And I work at an exec level for a large, peer led drug and alcohol service.

I think having been such a wrong 'un for such a long time, I've got a large iou that I'm just paying back to life in general :oops:
 
I don't really know how to describe my work as it's so varied - but that's one of the things I enjoy about it.

I work for a TV network and do mostly programming/IT related stuff. If you're in the field I might describe it as DevOps, but it's not that really, either.

Stats, database stuff, video encoding - anything that needs automating, that's my job.

I like it for similar reasons to what mauvais said, except I'm more about "take this easy but boring job and do it faster or make it so someone else can do it easier" rather than building new things.

I work from home and have a lot of input into how we do things, which is a nice feeling.
 
I'm a CBT therapist, after lots of years being a drugs worker that was a job I loved but the system sucked the life out of me, I'm finally in a place where I don't get sucked dry by managers with no concept of evidence base telling me how to to my job with fuck all knowledge or idea about it.

As existentialist said, it doesn't always work/make a difference but when it does it is the best feeling and people are just so worth investing in to help so trying is always the only way.

I was in therapy in my early 20s after id done a little counselling skills course... I sat there and thought...im in the wrong chair. It's taken a lot of years and a lot of therapy for myself, and now I'm this job I'm finally in a place that I want to get up and work everyday because I love it
 
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