Do you have an emotional attachment to your job?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yes. I have a calling, not a job. And it's one that I view as being incredibly important, even if the public at large is at times fairly skeptical. (I once got mocked by a stripper. )

If your job isn't clicking for you, keep looking. You spend too much of your life working to just be going through the motions and getting nothing for it but some money.

 

[GlassJaw]

Great post Rage. I know I could never be a vet but I've talked to people about how hard it is and how much schooling is required. Stay strong.

ANYhow, I've had dead-end grunt work jobs in the past (while in school), but I can't say I've ever hated any of them, perhaps because I knew it was only for a while.

Well I definitely don't have a dead-end job and I certainly don't hate it. The pay and benes are good and the people are nice (although a little boring). It's just that I don't really care. I marvel at people that get excited about being at work. I definitely have the "Office Space" syndrome (no, I'm not going to set the building on fire).

Having 'gone for it' and now doing what I always wanted to do, I say go for it.

Indeed. I keep telling myself I have a decision to make but honestly, I think I already know the answer.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I do not love my current job. I work for a pharmaceutical company in the Quality group. It can be exciting and very interesting at times, but I certainly would not say I love it. For the most part I hit my 8 hours and head home to the family.

My previous job I loved. Similar job, small company, amazing people I worked with. It sounds cliche, but we really were like family and we still get together. The company ran out of money two years ago and we sold the technology. But even though I loved it, I still didn't "live" my job. It could be because most people there understood the need for balance and kicked you out.

I had one job I truly hated. Sick to my stomach Sunday nights kind of hate. When you know the owner of the company is literally lying, cheating and stealing, but cannot really do much about it (I did speak with a lawyer), it is hard to get up and go to work.

 

[Raging Epistaxis]

...the public at large is at times fairly skeptical. (I once got mocked by a stripper. )

Oh, come on now, you can't tease us like that and not say what you do!

Inquiring minds want to know!

I work for a pharmaceutical company in the Quality group.

Cool That's what my mom did for years. She tried to retire, but they kept asking her back to do the FDA reports, etc.

Small world.

R E

 

[Alan Shutko]

My girlfriend is amazed that the people at my workplace are so dedicated. She always comments about how most people she knows hate their jobs or are just indifferent about them.

Indeed, researchers are very dedicated... my wife is divorcing me so that she can start her own lab without distractions or other impositions on her schedule.

Me, I like my job well enough as a software developer, and often do software development on my own time, but work is not the sole defining factor of my life. I'm happy to take a job which may be slightly less desirable if it allows a better home life.

 

[Mr. Lobo]

Yes. I have a calling, not a job. And it's one that I view as being incredibly important, even if the public at large is at times fairly skeptical. (I once got mocked by a stripper. )

Yeah, but that's because her name was Candi (with an "i") and she was going to med school and studying for her PhD while trying to save all the homeless puppies and kittens while eating organic foods and working out in her new Corvette wearing a leather trenchcoat and cool shades and being really cool and stuff.

Stripping was just a side job to pay for college, right?



Do I sound bitter?

 

[Mr. Lobo]

Indeed, researchers are very dedicated... my wife is divorcing me so that she can start her own lab without distractions or other impositions on her schedule.

Dang. I'm not that dedicated.

Good luck to you.

Maybe you can get in on some of that Nobel money later on. 'Cause that's what she's got to be shooting for.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Stripping was just a side job to pay for college, right??

You means it isn't??

 

[WayneLigon]

Dang. Everyone seems to love their jobs.

I have no attachment whatsoever. If something else offered me the same paycheck for less stress, I'd walk out the door right this second and never look back.

I do computer work. Networking, programming, pc maintenance, all a myriad of tiny stupid proiblems that never get fixed no matter what I do. The tech is so complicated now that it's passed me by. I have no idea what I'm doing. If this wasn't government work, I'd probably have been fired long ago. As it is, I can do just enough to keep my head above water but that's not going to work for much longer. Going back to college is not an option. I barely made it through last time and they gave me a lot of theory that I've never used since then.

I loathe and despise what I do. I've never been interested in it, but I need the money and have no idea what other career I could do. It's all I can do some days to keep from just breaking down at my desk.

 

[Mr. Lobo]

You means it isn't??

That's interesting.

Hey, all you strippers over here on ENworld...

Do you love your job or have an emotional attachment to it or are you just doing it for college money?