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

I like my job, most of the time. Give me a map, any map and I'll look at it with joy on my face for hours, I get to use my knowledge of maps all day long, and still at least once a week discover somewhere new; American Samoa anyone??

My job requires no qualifications, which is handy as I have none, yet by its nature I have to deal with multi-millionaires from all walks of life and a smattering of billionaires, plus film stars and rock stars and various other 'elevated people', yet for some reason I seem to gain their confidence; always treated as an equal, never as the serf I am. Very often as a confidant, either one party trusting me to arrange their elicit shags, or a partner espousing the cuntishness of the other. And it pays well, I have to nick a quid like a spiv, but that's fine by me, I'm good at it and it brings in the Benjamins. I am 48 now and have been doing this kind of shit since I was was 15. I killed someone when I was 16, probably not as directly as kebabking but I think about her a lot, 21st December 1988.
 
farmerbarleymow said:
I imagine causing the death of someone as a teens must weigh heavily on you throughout your life. :(
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I didn't cause the death, I started out flogging courier seats to the US, on the Pan Am 6pm flight to New York, a body needed to be on the plane or else the stuff goes as cargo and that isn't tied to any one flight, so to guarantee a timed arrival you put someone on the flight and allocate a ton of shit as their baggage, it's all legit and the shit goes through the cargo channels, just a box-ticking thing. But my job was to find the bodies, if I didn't my punishment was to be the body, fun the first couple of times, then not fun...

Anyway a teen and her mum were going to New York for Christmas, they found us so only one could go each day, they drew straws to see who went first, the girl won. Then PA103 exploded over Lockerbie.
 
I'll come back with my own experience(s) in a separate post.

What I've dropped in to say is that everytime this pops up in my new posts, I am reminded of "Down Periscope" ...
The line comes from Lt Cmdr Dodge when he successfully outwits an Admiral that appears to hate his guts.
Down Periscope - Wikipedia

The film gets panned by critics - but I think it has some really hilarious bits and was a good way to waste an hour and a half ...
 
Bahnhof Strasse if you ever want a chat mate, just ping me. Stuff can get you down, and it can just jump on you like a ton of bricks while you're happily getting on with life. Reach out, chat: admitting to yourself that you're on your arse is like coughing up a rock, and having a chat with someone - some random off the internet or a stranger at your local sex dungeon - is like sliding in a car off your chest.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
I didn't cause the death, I started out flogging courier seats to the US, on the Pan Am 6pm flight to New York, a body needed to be on the plane or else the stuff goes as cargo and that isn't tied to any one flight, so to guarantee a timed arrival you put someone on the flight and allocate a ton of shit as their baggage, it's all legit and the shit goes through the cargo channels, just a box-ticking thing. But my job was to find the bodies, if I didn't my punishment was to be the body, fun the first couple of times, then not fun...

Anyway a teen and her mum were going to New York for Christmas, they found us so only one could go each day, they drew straws to see who went first, the girl won. Then PA103 exploded over Lockerbie.
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oh Fuck.
I know someone who lost relatives in Lockerbie.
 
kebabking said:
Bahnhof Strasse if you ever want a chat mate, just ping me. Stuff can get you down, and it can just jump on you like a ton of bricks while you're happily getting on with life. Reach out, chat: admitting to yourself that you're on your arse is like coughing up a rock, and having a chat with someone - some random off the internet or a stranger at your local sex dungeon - is like sliding in a car off your chest.
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Thanks man, I'm good with it, (was trying to take the heat off you with my anecdote) but very much appreciated. All I did was sell the ticket, geo-politics blew up that aircraft (Iran in revenge for the US's actions, as far as I can tell). A couple of years later we started doing the same on American Airlines and as I could drive when I was 17 we made them come to our office and I drove them to the airport, like Banged Up Abroad drug mules, that would probably have been heavier. The station manager for Pan Am though, Ian Walsh, he was a good friend and had to go up to Lockerbie and meet the families who'd been asked not to come over, but of course did. What the fuck could he say to them? They looked to him for answers but obviously he had none. He had humour for the rest of his life, but it was always there, haunting him :(
 
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Oh and just yesterday I had a guy flying to Medellin who’s surname is Perera, he logged on to Air Europa’s website on Wednesday to check in and it brought up his name as BITCH/first name - Seems something in their Spanish software read it as female dog. This is where I get my jollies at work. And is why I keep such a youthful mind...
 
I've been working in hospitals for most of my adult life, mostly in surgery, round the clock, front line er, second line or and wards and nowadays even some third line, if that makes sense..

I've loved and lived my work to an unhealthy degree. still do. had failures, made mistakes, had people die under my hands, saved a few young lives too.
most day's aint like that, sometimes you make do with just getting up in the morning

always been a fanatic, and my work has filled that need for me when my political activism and other passions (music, football, alcohol . ) faded.
i'm back in my home town, and until the red revolution comes i can't think of a greater privilege than to earn my living caring for the elderly, the sick and the dying in the place where i grew up,

but this pandemic shite is wearing me out, and im getting a liitle bit impatient -
ain't it about time we got up and started that revolution?

a world to win.
 
Is there a correlation between highs and lows at work I wonder? In my main career I experienced some of the ‘best things’ of my life ( this is for stuff I was paid to do, not people I met at work of stuff I was able to do because of my pay IYSWIM) but it also brought some of the ‘worst things’ , again for stuff that was what I was being paid for - of course much of it was just a job.


Now in my retirement gig I can’t see how the role ( not stuff that might happen on the way to work or to the office) would ever provide experiences that would be ‘best’ or ‘worst’ life events. Many colleagues are younger at sort of mid points of their careers, as that’s where I entered the organisation, and I do feel a bit sorry for them - though perhaps that’s because even though younger they actually succeeded in growing up more than me...
 
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I am a teacher and I love it. There is nothing else I'd choose to do. I get loads of holiday, enough cash to be comfortable, I teach small classes (18 maximum, 15-18 year olds), almost no behaviour issues, a boss I like, and I rarely have to do any admin outside normal work hours. For the vast majority of the time, I am left alone to do my job the way I want to do it. The downside is that I have little job security, and could never return to the UK and get a similar position; I can live with that.
 
I love my job. I make films, mostly for museums. It's often creative, stretches me to my limits, and takes me behind closed doors to some of the most interesting places imaginable.

The only real downside is that I'm a freelancer, with all the pros and cons that brings. If I could guarantee an unerupted flow of work whenever I needed it, I'd be very satisfied. But for the time being that part of it remains a hustle and a grind.
 
I do a mix of gardening and farm work these days and I love it. I love working with plants and animals and they both make more sense to me than other people. I love being outside, even in the pissing rain or scorching sun or freezing hailstorms. I get to do cool stuff like feeding pet lambs and watching plants grow from seed I sowed, but I'm also really happy just carting wheelbarrows of woodchip across a field for hours and being able to stand back at the end of the day and actually see the result of what I've been doing. And sometimes I get paid just for standing around chucking stuff on bonfires :cool:
 
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I go through ups and downs with mine. The last few weeks have been a bit of a down thanks to a hefty workload and a few tasks to which I didn't feel fully equal, one of which was more of a problem than it needed to be because of my bad habit of procrastinating over things I'm not fully comfortable about doing. However, that passed off successfully this week, and I can now focus on the bits of the job I enjoy more - and when it's all going well there's still nothing I'd rather do.
 
iona said:
I do a mix of gardening and farm work these days and I love it. I love working with plants and animals and they both make more sense to me than other people. I love being outside, even in the pissing rain or scorching sun or freezing hailstorms. I get to do cool stuff like feeding pet lambs and watching plants grow from seed I sowed, but I'm also really happy just carting wheelbarrows of woodchip across a field for hours and being able to stand back at the end of the day and actually see the result of what I've been doing. And sometimes I get paid just for standing around chucking stuff on bonfires :cool:
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That sounds amazing! :)
 
I really love my job and I think if I won the lottery I'd still do it. I'm a secondary school teacher, inner city school in London. It's so incredibly rewarding, insanely varied, never, ever boring (apart from INSET and even that beats a good day in the City (my previous job)). I get to work with the funniest, smartest, best and brightest every day (and that's all of them - I'm not just talking about academic ability). Teenagers are just brilliant.

However, it has also been responsible for the absolute lowest I've ever been too - pretty much had a breakdown after a severe case of management bullying. It does take over your life. The politics of it can be very depressing - stay away from the Daily Mail for a start. It gets very personal.

I have no regrets and I can't really imagine myself doing anything else. I don't suppose I'll always be at the sharp end of it - I worry about how I'll manage when I'm older. Already it's getting harder and I'm just staring down the barrel of 50 - the thought of being 65 and doing this is daunting. However, if there's one thing these lockdowns have shown, it's that online/remote teaching can't ever replace face to face teaching and I think there will always be work doing some form of that - whether it's tutoring/classroom/agency etc.
 
the assistant buildings manager at a university. 9 buildings in total, it's mayhem but it's very rewarding getting projects over the line. the construction game, even on my side of it, is full of characters and no one really takes it too seriously. as long as the health and safety is covered and the deadlines are met, no one is really stressed out. i love working alongside all sorts of different trades and experts.
 
Mainly nowadays, I train people new to care and support work, also sometimes do the C&S work myself. Single-parenting responsibilities make a lot of C&S shifts unavailable so I do them less than I used to, which I miss .. many is the time I've been picnicking in the park or paddling in the sea or gardening or singing and dancing or just watching a film and eating my free dinner, amazed that I'm getting paid for this...

However, I like that training is basically 9-5 work (having been doing 12-hour earlies, lates and nights for quite a while it's a relief) and importantly, a lot of the people I train have been unemployed or recently made redundant, and I love the fact that I'm helping them in to a new way to make a living. The office team are lovely too.

It feels worthwhile because I can see the good I'm doing every day.

Plus I was able to work through every lockdown (April last year every commute felt like being on holiday, lovely weather and empty roads...) and I'm at the top of the list for Covid vaccine.
 
iona said:
I do a mix of gardening and farm work these days and I love it. I love working with plants and animals and they both make more sense to me than other people. I love being outside, even in the pissing rain or scorching sun or freezing hailstorms. I get to do cool stuff like feeding pet lambs and watching plants grow from seed I sowed, but I'm also really happy just carting wheelbarrows of woodchip across a field for hours and being able to stand back at the end of the day and actually see the result of what I've been doing. And sometimes I get paid just for standing around chucking stuff on bonfires :cool:
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That sounds absolutely amazing - I'd love to do that sort of thing. I'm not so great with plants at the moment (would love to learn though), but I would love to work with animals and have some experience working with horses in my youth, I grew up around farms and stables. I live in London now but I'd really like to volunteer at a city farm, and maybe end up getting a paid job doing something like that. I don't even know where to start these days to get that sort of job.
 
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Well it's just a short contract I'm doing at the moment, but it's graphic design for a charity campaign and I'm really enjoying it. Very creative, and an issue I'm passionate about. With fab people too. I've been moving (back) into a more creative direction over the past couple of years and it feels good. Almost not like work really.
 
I rescue fallen women, and men as a careline responder and I loved it, until recently.
It's a 24/7 job which was starting to get me down, that was until management got hold of it
and totally screwed everything up. To this end, I might try and take a sideways move into sheltered housing.
 
iona said:
I do a mix of gardening and farm work these days and I love it. I love working with plants and animals and they both make more sense to me than other people. I love being outside, even in the pissing rain or scorching sun or freezing hailstorms. I get to do cool stuff like feeding pet lambs and watching plants grow from seed I sowed, but I'm also really happy just carting wheelbarrows of woodchip across a field for hours and being able to stand back at the end of the day and actually see the result of what I've been doing. And sometimes I get paid just for standing around chucking stuff on bonfires :cool:
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View from my lunch break today :thumbs: There were some sheep chatting to me from the shade under the tree earlier but they fucked off over the hill once the sun moved round.
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