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The “I really love my job” thread. Post here you happy bastards!

Tbh my main job is crazy, all my jobs are random and crazy but my main job is very machelevien. I see gaps, holes in the safety net. I see people falling over the edge or people getting stuck behind the sofa. I've always been with these people, and for some time now I've actually had some power to do good stuff to stop these gaps as permenantly as possible. :) annnnnd on reflection I can totally see why I've got no work life balance in my head atm :D The powers gone to it! Maybe, but I am very driven because of my lived experience.
 
Covid and my employer are doing their best to bollocks it up, but under normal circumstances I absolutely fucking adore my job; ridiculously much.

I teach English literacy/life skills to adults, many of whom were booted out of school at an early age and/or have specific learning difficulties.

I get to watch them discover that they're not stupid; that they can learn; and that they enjoy it. I get to see them literally wide-eyed as new possibilities open up. I get them and they get me.

We spend lots of time laughing, listening to music and cheering each other on. Every day is different. There are crises, but I'm usually good at calming them. I can use all my skills. I get immediate feedback on how I'm doing. I can tell really rubbish jokes and jump around the room. I'm never bored, but if I'm boring them they know they can tell me and we'll change what we're doing or how we're doing it.

It's fucking brilliant. Hurry up, vaccine!!
 
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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Have you ever killed anyone?
 
So I’ve been trying to find a pattern or at least some common factor in the jobs people are loving doing. Would it be too far off to say that it’s those jobs where people have an element of control or independence that are the most satisfying?
 
MrCurry said:
So I’ve been trying to find a pattern or at least some common factor in the jobs people are loving doing. Would it be too far off to say that it’s those jobs where people have an element of control or independence that are the most satisfying?
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I think that is definitely an important part of it.

But the most important thing is, I think, that if what we do for a living has some kind of meaning for us - either because we feel part of an enterprise whose goals we share, or because we are individually doing something that matters to us - then we are more likely to derive satisfaction from it.
 
My jobs great, I work for the ambulance service, out on the road. I've only been doing it a year, and sure there's an element of micromanagement, but other than that we're cruising about, helping people out. Sure I have to deal with some grim stuff, but once you've seen it a couple of times, you're used to it, and generally speaking I get to help people out when they're at their most vulnerable, and I've even helped deliver a baby. Learning and self improvement is encouraged, and despite working long shifts I get 3/4 days off a week, and about 2 or 3 times a year get 6 days off without taking any leave.
 
One reason why I moved to Berlin was to downsize, so I could take a less well paid but also a less stressful job than the freelancing in the media industry, which I'd been doing for 25 years. I now have been working at the reception of the Berlin LGBTQ+ center for 1.5 years. We are a team of four receptionists who work in shifts and we are the first contact for those seeking our help, be that by email, phone or in person. It's our job to get them to the help they need within our organisation. The center offers psychological and addiction counselling, we help trans- and intersex clients, LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and there are around 20 clients with learning difficulties and mental health issues in permanent day care. There also is an old people's home for gay men and women which is part of the center and they come down to chat or when they need help with something. Sometimes I get bribed with chocolate to do them a favour. :D

Because I am the first one behind the door, I get to talk to everybody. It can be stressful, not everybody in a crisis is pleasant to deal with but it's a more rewarding type of stress than working in advertising or on some rubbish tv series. On a good day it can be great.

In the pandemic its much quieter than it used to be and I find it hard to communicate with people through face masks and a plexiglass window. It's one reason can't wait for things go back to normal.
 
MrCurry said:
So I’ve been trying to find a pattern or at least some common factor in the jobs people are loving doing. Would it be too far off to say that it’s those jobs where people have an element of control or independence that are the most satisfying?
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I'd say it's (some degree of) autonomy + seeing a positive outcome from things you've done with it.
 
Mation said:
Covid and my employer are doing their best to bollocks it up, but under normal circumstances I absolutely fucking adore my job; ridiculously much.

I teach English literacy/life skills to adults, many of whom were booted out of school at an early age and/or have specific learning difficulties.

I get to watch them discover that they're not stupid; that they can learn; and that they enjoy it. I get to see them literally wide-eyed as new possibilities open up. I get them and they get me.

We spend lots of time laughing, listening to music and cheering each other on. Every day is different. There are crises, but I'm usually good at calming them. I can use all my skills. I get immediate feedback on how I'm doing. I can tell really rubbish jokes and jump around the room. I'm never bored, but if I'm boring them they know they can tell me and we'll change what we're doing or how we're doing it.

It's fucking brilliant. Hurry up, vaccine!!
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I envy you, and your pupils are lucky to have you 😍
 
Spymaster said:
I suspect there are plenty of posters who like their work but don’t want to say what they do.

<posted from Donald Trump’s campaign HQ>
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You might well be right Spy. I certainly hope so - we spend such a high proportion of our time at work that's it terrible to think of people not enjoying it.
 
Another reason this thread might not have a lot of responders in this particular year is because there will be people who had a very cool and interesting and personally fulfilling job they adored last year who now have got fuck all.
Like the events and theatre and music and arts bods.
 
Spymaster said:
I suspect there are plenty of posters who like their work but don’t want to say what they do.

<posted from Donald Trump’s campaign HQ>
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There may be some ‘moral ‘ objections to me selling bibles to very elderly people but it provides them with great satisfaction in their final days and any financial instalments unfulfilled are picked up by their family so providing piece of mind .
 
Sue said:
Paper Moon (film) - Wikipedia :hmm:
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I had a mate who used to use that story when we were out in a Friday or Sat night talking to women and it always made me crack up. That and his story about his favourite restaurant the Endangered Species which apparently served panda and bamboo shoots . Didn’t see him for about ten years then bumped into him when he surfaced at the council on a short term contract. By then he’d transformed into an utterly humourless Blairite working in IT. I’m thankful for his early years.
 
I have been a mental health nurse for 20 years, worked in all sorts of jobs, spent ten years at the really sharp end in A&E liaison psychiatry, but when we moved and had a family I ended up training as a CBT therapist and now have a half management/half clinical job in a large team.

I love the clinical side of the job just enough that I tolerate the rest of it :D. Actually, that's not entirely true. I enjoy supervising and managing the team, I enjoy managing in a way which as much as possible sticks to the values I have for clinical care, I really enjoy setting up new interventions and service development. Unfortunately I try to do that within a system that on both a local and wider level is.......challenging. Too often services are inadequate. Colleagues are callous or burnt out. Too often there's no possibility to help. Too often mental health services are poorly picking up the pieces left by this shitty superstructure we have.

But I hold on to the fact I also work with some genuinely amazing colleagues and bottom line I love the clinical work. I've slowly specialised towards working with people experiencing PTSD and honestly, it's almost magical sometimes the change that can be made in people's lives. I can't see me ever doing anything else, despite the challenges.
 
MrCurry said:
So I’ve been trying to find a pattern or at least some common factor in the jobs people are loving doing. Would it be too far off to say that it’s those jobs where people have an element of control or independence that are the most satisfying?
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Yeah, I think this is key. I have a lot of autonomy in my role and have a lot of influence over how things are done - and have the respect of my managers because they know I know what I'm doing. The nature of the work is varied and we have significant impact from what we do. My team is great so all in all I'm in a very lucky position.
 
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