Do you have an emotional attachment to your job?

[DungeonmasterCal]

I like my job a lot. Am I "married" to it? Probably not. I do data entry for Heifer International, a not-for-profit hunger relief agency. I believe in Heifer's mission whole heartedly, and while I don't make a lot of money, I have excellent benefits and I'm doing my part to help families in the world's poorest nations become self-sufficient and not making some corporate fat-head rich.

Shameless plug: www.heifer.org

 

[spatha]

I realy like my job but work still stays at work.
I do tech suport in a small project. I take on average 10 calls in a day most under 10 minutes. I surf the web for the rest of my day how can I not like my job.

 

[Rel]

I like my job and I love my boss! Of course, I'm self-employed.

I'm a legal-videographer. I videotape depositions to be shown to juries in court when the witness cannot personally appear. Mostly it's doctors.

The work itself is sometimes very dry and boring to listen to but I usually learn something at each deposition and that keeps it somewhat interesting. Sometimes the lawyers really fight with each other and that's always fun. And even when the work is boring I'm getting paid great for it so I don't mind so much.

The other side of the coin is that running your own business can be incredibly stressful. I'm always worried about getting in enough work (the last few weeks have been a little slow :\ ) and it is annoying having to call delinquent customers to get them to pay their bills.

But the nice thing is that even when I'm busy, it isn't "all day every day" and I get to spend extra time with my family (and posting here on ENWorld). And it isn't the same thing every day. I travel all over the state and work with different people so there is no rut.

All in all, if I could just get a bit more work coming steadily in the door, I'd say I've got a pretty damn good job on my hands.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I vary between loathing and liking my job. I work in an optical lab for a major eyeglass manufacturing company. Recently I found that several employees with far less time on the job than I were making almost .40 an hour more than me. That pissed me off. After a mild bit of sqwaking, however, I got a .42 raise and 2 months back pay on it. Not much but it felt pretty good. That has mostly worn off now and I just keep putting in my time and trying to keep my head down. The worst feeling is that of being trapped. I don't think I can leave. I have a serious medical condition that requires about $13,000 a year in drug therapy. My current medical coverage takes care of 90% of that and a national foundation gives me another $900/year. If I didn't have that kind of coverage I would lose everything. And I can't see any other company taking me on with an instant $13,000 hit to thier medical coverage.

 

[MaxKaladin]

It's generally just a job. It's one I generally like doing, but I don't have any emotional attachment to it. I say "generally" because I work as an IT contractor and, aside from the usual ups and downs in any job, it really depends on the client. Some clients are great and some are horrible. The best place I've worked for is an insurance company, believe it or not. The worst was when I was working for a company that was trying to develop software for realtors. The company itself was great but I quickly learned to loathe realtors, to hate them with a burning passion stronger than a thousand suns, to believe them to be a far lower form of life than lawyers, spammers and even politicians.

 

[MonsterMash]

Sometimes the lawyers really fight with each other and that's always fun.

Real fights or just verbally - that'd be fun - Lawyer deathmatch

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Love and hate at the same time....

Programming for a small company. It was great for the first 5 years, but getting stagnant now. Same old, same old almost everyday. Think I'm overdue for a change. But, I've done a good job and been recognised for it... It's going to be difficult finding something that pays as well.

Oh yeah. That and it's in the marketing sector. Which, as far as I can tell, enhances no-ones life in a good way. Coming up with new ways to get people to buy crap they don't need - Wooo! More correctly it's finding out why people are/aren't/will/won't buy it, which is the same, but with added maths.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I'm a legal-videographer. I videotape depositions to be shown to juries in court when the witness cannot personally appear. Mostly it's doctors.

I've done that! Legal depositions were a sideline business for me back when I was freelancing in corporate video. Decent money, but I couldn't stand being self-employed. The depositions themselves could be very interesting - as you say, many doctors. I know more about back injuries than I have any need to. The occasional fun depositions - deposing strippers in a indecency case was fun - and the occasional important ones - one person I taped was a witness to the crash that ended up revealing the whole licenses-for-bribes scandal in Illinois that has ended up with the governor being charged with criminal conduct. The occasional ridiculous one: a lawyer insisted on deposing a woman with severe brain damage because he thought whe was faking it. That was a complete waste of four hours.

 

[Rel]

Real fights or just verbally - that'd be fun - Lawyer deathmatch

I've seen plenty of the latter and heard tell of a few of the former.

Kid Charlemagne, that's pretty neat! Small world I guess.

I just got back from a deposition of a woman who is suing a ladder manufacturer and Home Depot because she fell when she was trying to get down off her roof while powerwashing.

 

[thalmin]

I am attached to my job, but then I am the co-owner of my own game store. But I am an owner because I became attached, not the other way around.
I work at something I enjoy. I sell something I have an interest in. And I get to meet some very wonderful people. Money isn't the greatest, but it is sufficient.
There is a downside, though. I play less than I used to, which really hurts because I see so much great stuff. So many games, so little time.