Really like your job?

Anonymous-0 · Jul 21, 2011

Saw the down below asking what people do for a living. Got me to thinking, how many people actually love there job? By this I mean do very many people really hate the end of the day when you have to clock out. I am a full time farmer/rancher and I do enjoy it MOST days, but I do enjoy shutting the tractor down at the end of the day. I also enjoy the occasional day off, but you sometimes hear about people that love "Mondays".

dhermesc · Jul 21, 2011

Its called a job for a reason. Otherwise they wouldn't pay you.

RLA · Jul 21, 2011

I posted to the other topic & I guess it's only
right to post to yours too..

Yes I love my Job, I enjoy our customers. I like
the fact I can be inside & outside at work. I
don't hafta wear a suit. I can leave work if I
have to, but that rarely happens.. As a Smaller
Ford Car Dealer, it getting harder to make a
living. Ford has create new road blocks & hoops
to jump through, Smaller stores can't keep
pace in Rurual America anymore. Ford didn't
Borrow money from the goverment, they just used
the dealers back to stay afloat.

Chester5731 · Jul 21, 2011

I work at a small GM dealer and they are doing the same thing. I would rather be home farming full time. Dealing with the public gets real old after 20+ years. Most are ok, but there are a few you wish you never seen.

thurlow · Jul 21, 2011

Never really had a 'job', but I REALLY like what I'm doing 'now'. Played low stakes poker last night with some friends; leaving in about 10 minutes to play 2 or 3 sets of tennis (heat index will be above 100°). Will mow the yard this afternoon. Retirement...........I highly recommend it.

twostepn2001 · Jul 21, 2011

Most days my job ain"t too bad. I get to park the truck here at home and get my dispatch via computer. Long as I get my loads hauled, I can leave as early or late as I want. And unless I have a problem of some sort, I don"t have to deal with my supervisor except to just call in and let"em know I"m out and about doing my thang. And generally, I don"t see nobody all day long except for an pumper every once in a while.
One thing I don"t like is during the summer is those dang rattlers around the tank battery and in the winter, ice on the ladders.

DeltaRed · Jul 21, 2011

Some days-"YES!".Some days-"HELL NO!"

Lloyd In South Carolina · Jul 21, 2011

Worse job I've ever had. 24x7x365.... non stop. They always need more, always expect to get it. State of frenzy most of the time. If I were not so close to retirement I would find something else.

L.

Goose · Jul 21, 2011

I like it. I'm an independent contractor doing insurance inspections for several inspection companies. The one I do the most work for is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, my Field Manager is in Mesa, Arizona, and I'm up here in Nebraska doing what my computer tells me to.

My inspections are posted on a secure page on my computer with all the details specific to that inspection. I do the inspection, upload the report, photos, etc. on my computr, and submit it online. Once an inspection is posted, I have 14 days to do it, so I set my own schedule and as long as my inpsections are done properly and on time I have no one looking over my shoulder.

Plus, I get windshield time within about a 100 mile area. It doesn't get much better than this.

dej(Jed) · Jul 21, 2011

(quoted from post at 05:33:33 07/21/11) Saw the down below asking what people do for a living. Got me to thinking, how many people actually love there job? By this I mean do very many people really hate the end of the day when you have to clock out. I am a full time farmer/rancher and I do enjoy it MOST days, but I do enjoy shutting the tractor down at the end of the day. I also enjoy the occasional day off, but you sometimes hear about people that love "Mondays".

Jobs are a waste of my time, but a necessary evil. Some days are good , while others are simply awful. It is a state of mind, if you don't mind it don't matter. I really don't need the money, but my wife seems to need a lot.

tiresntracks · Jul 21, 2011

I used to love my job. I would have almost worked there for free. Then we got a new boss. Not my immediate supervisor, but two above him. He's a micro-manager and you don't do anything with out his OK. Half the time he doesn't understand what's going on, but he's in charge anyway. There's a few good days, but most of the time, I just can't wait for the clock to get to quitting time. He can't understand why everyone has a bad attitude now.

Having said all that, it doesn't pay too bad and I'm thankful that I have a job, when a lot of people don't.

John M · Jul 21, 2011

90% of the time I do! Seems when people lay out, it gets the worse, but when everyone is here, I enjoy it! (Nothing like doing the job of 4 or 5 people!)

Vernon in Ks · Jul 21, 2011

Truth be known, yea I probly like my job.
Was told once that this is exactly where I want to be or I"d be somewhere else.
I think it"s the drive that I"m tired of after 39 years. I drive 15,000 a year just to and from work.
As far as bosses go I have one who likes to micro manage but I"m not managable at all so there you go. Drives him crazy.LOL
When someone asks I tell them this is my part time job because I just spend 8 hours a day at it. I farm the rest.

GlenninPa · Jul 21, 2011

I retired early at 58 in 2005. I really enjoyed installing business phone systems and doing CAD (computer aided design) work. The only problem was that I worked for the state, which had too much BS to deal with at the top management. I really like doing what retired people do now.

mark in boonville ny · Jul 21, 2011

i do enjoy my job most of the time and when you come inside for the night nowing you got something done today.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 21, 2011

I'm with you there. My job is a means to an end. I hope to be farming full time by the time I'm 40. That means I've got elevan years to get it done. Dealing with people all day long gets old really fast. I think it's great how people have built up an entitlement complex and carry it with them wherever they go.

rrlund · Jul 21, 2011

Been farmin better'n 40 years. I don't think you can do anything that long and not be sick of it. I'm just numb and tolerate it as the way life is anymore. Can't say I'm WANTING to get older,but as soon as I can draw my full social security (I think that's 67 now),I'm quitting. Been thinking maybe I'll be a flea market vendor in my old age or something. Chasin' the dream!

Chester5731 · Jul 21, 2011

Exactly jenkbe. These people buy a $150,000. house as is, but there $5,000 used car should have a lifetime warranty.

guido · Jul 21, 2011

Hello c-man,
Here is my definiton of like-love your job.
I told my boss this: I love my job! If I didn't need the money, I would do it for nothing.

Guido.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 21, 2011

A job is a job is a job. I enjoy my work, but can't honestly say I look forward to doing every aspect of it. I like where it's taken me in life. Or rather, where it's afforded me to take myself.

John Harmon · Jul 21, 2011

Well as a Carpenter the first 20 years it was nip and tuck a lot of times if I was going to continue doing that.The last 12 years I worked in a Nuclear Power Station and looked forward to going to work every day.The last three years I worked 6/11 hour days with every other sunday off, That got tiresome some times but on Nov.9,1999 I applied for my Pension and never looked back for the next year. After about a year of retirement I started to miss going to work.I got over it tho.

Bartt · Jul 21, 2011

Last 20 years was US Postal Service dealing with people every day. Absolutely sucked. Stuck it out and retired two years ago. Absloutely love it, pension and all. Have a goodun.

Spook · Jul 21, 2011

I'm retired now. I used to really like my job, but the last couple of years were under micromanagement. Retirement is nice.

RLA · Jul 21, 2011

I'll hafta agree with Chester...

Just like all your parts too being on just
about every shelf of any parts store & the
one you have cost about 20% more....

Getting harder to compete

NCWayne · Jul 21, 2011

Other than the occasional 'logistical' headache like I posted about the other day I love what I do. I think what I like the best is the satisfication of figuring out what's wrong with a machine and fixing it and watching it back out on the job doing what is's supposed to do. Top that off with the fact that I'm self employeed so I pretty much set my own schedule...around my customers breakdowns of course...and it just doesn't get much better than this.

redtom · Jul 21, 2011

Working for a living is penance for all ones sins in life. At least thats what I think. A daily session spent with the devil in he!! (thats my job). Think about it, the best part of the day, the best part of your life, spent on someone else!

Anonymous-0 · Jul 21, 2011

Love my work. If I didn't, I would definitely do something different!

steve terplak · Jul 21, 2011

i do...can't imagine doing another one...pleased with my paycheck, hours and i don't get bored all day.

jose bagge · Jul 21, 2011

REALLY like my NEW -er job. Last one (after 30 years on board) not so much towards the end

jose bagge · Jul 21, 2011

Pitch · Jul 21, 2011

Work for the Postal Service. Liked it up until about 5 years ago.. Now it absolutely sucks. Drive drive drive push push push every day. Forced overtime 2 or 3 days a week. Forced to work most of my days off for the last couple of years. 10 months to go and I have my thirty and done. Can"t come to soon.

muleboss · Jul 21, 2011

Worked for the Post Office for 28 years. Great job when I started, Too much BS when I retired at 58. Love what I do now.

John A. · Jul 21, 2011

Final Expense Life Insurance Agent for 18 yrs now!
Later,
John A.

Tony Vidlak · Jul 21, 2011

Can't say I love my job,but then again I don't hate it.Just counting down the years till I can retire.Ever since I got my first job I've always believed that if you're unhappy quit and find something that's makes you happy.Everybody has the opportunity to better themselves and do what makes them happy.

kruser · Jul 21, 2011

Nope. Not after 35 years of dropping augers/crushing rocks/walking in mud (Geotech Engineer) but it gives me "play" money and keeps the wife/kid happy!

When I retire, I want to:
1) Drive Wrigley around and take a picture of billonthefarm.
2) Haul my tractor to Toolz to put the Matco finish on.
3) Help the glennster rock chuck, pick berries and whatever else he does.
4) Visit James Howell in Texas and see if he has internet service at the farm.
5) Bounce through Ind"Uknow"Anna,oHIo and all the way to Pennsyltucky.
6) Hit the Northeast part of the USA to see if they have tractors.
7) Rest and then head West, young man, to see if they have tractors on the other side of them mountains.
8) Rest some more and then go to Floridia Fly/Wheelerdealers
Whelp, that's my bucket list for now - Kinda hope we take a "1" week vacation in August!

PS: Sorry if I left anybody out.

Jim

fightfire · Jul 21, 2011

20 years Firefighter/Paramedic- full time City Department. Do I love my job? I absolutely love that I can have a positive impact in peoples lives, care for the sick and injured and save/protect their property...can't say that I'm too thrilled with the users/takers that demand that I fulfill their every wish and kiss their butts with a smile on my face "I pay your salary"- even though most of them have never paid a cent.
Still, there are those that really appreciate us.
Except for the City administration types that only see us as a drain of the coffers that they would prefer to use on their 'pet projects- not as the City's insurance policy. Everybody hates to pay for their insurance- but you're sure glad to have it when the 'fit hits the shan'.
The folks I work with are the absolute best-(closer to some of them than my own siblings) will miss them, miss helping others- but won't miss the politics or adminstration.

billonthefarm · Jul 21, 2011

Yea, yea I do.

When I walk out the door in the morning I feel like the luckiest man in the world and I love everyday!

bill

kruser · Jul 21, 2011

Kinda One Thing Off My Bucket List!
Meetin billonthefarm on his birthday last year.

Course I got to talk to Wrigley and Bill this winter coming back home from?

kruser · Jul 21, 2011

OK OK, here's a hint.

Like where the Oliver 80 went to fight the fires!

Paul from MI · Jul 21, 2011

I worked for the same company for 45 years, through 3 different ownerships. I can't think of how many bosses I had, some good, some terrible, most pretty much left me alone. They knew they couldn't do my job and let me handle it. I loved the job, designing and building special machines. Never a dull day, always a challenge. Too busy now in retirement to think about it much.

billonthefarm · Jul 21, 2011

Oh I hear about that darn oliver ALL the time!!!!! I dont think we will be a picking corn on my birthday this year but we will probably have donughts at the shop that day anyhow! Yer all invited! Stick around till noon and maybe nick will cook some home grown hamburgers off the grill.
FYI. I just let wrigley back in from outside...ummm did someone leave their oven on, seriously!
bill

Rich'sToys · Jul 21, 2011

As mentioned in the other thread, I was a rural mail carrier for over 21 years. It was the best job I ever had. But, as the other Postal people have mentioned, a lot has changed there in the last several years, and I think I got out at a good time. But it was a good job and I had a lot of great customers. I miss them the most!

fixerupper · Jul 21, 2011

Well, C-man, I'm a born Iowa farmer, but the joy of operating a farm is fading. The crops and prices have been good the past three years and I've made enough money to pay off the bank, but after 36 years I'm looking forward to turning it over to my son and just be a tractor driver. Maybe in four or five more years it might happen. Where has the time gone? Jim

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2011

Let me think a little............ I work 12 hr shifts 7-7, one week day, the next night 7 days a week. Translates to working 14 days out of a month. Think I like it OK..............

The Dukester · Jul 22, 2011

Retired now...for 11 years....it's a good job...but pay is a little low. I worked 30 years as a plant maintenance man....CNC machine tool repairman the last 16 years. Liked the job of repairing things good, even after the invasion of foreign built machines, but the last 5 years just sucked. The employer was mis-managing the shop badly and had million dollar ideas with a ten dollar budget. Offered management position many times, always declined because I didn't like the management ideas...and I was right...company went belly up and is now defunct, bought out by another firm that didn't want the machine shop. "Expert, pragmatic, high vision" management people all lost their jobs..or "positions" as they like to call it.

TriTownTB · Jul 22, 2011

you bet i love my jobs! getting up in the morning to go do exactly what you want to do is a great thing that not everyone gets to experience. and yes kruser having an oliver 80 in the shed to ride around on is a big bonus on top of it all!

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