Do you like your job? What do you do?

Artistic director of theatre company. Also playwright and director. I love it. Will probably be doing it forever.

 

I'm in finance. Like it okay, but it's pretty mundane. Started out by just happening into a job, then went and got an MBA. I'd do something exciting, but don't want to take the risk while I've got the wife and kids to worry about.

 

I'm an accountant. Love my profession and will do it until the day I die, though I plan to only do it part-time when I'm older and start teaching. I specialize in tax, so I kind of hope the fair tax never happens.

 

It's the same deal for me. The only thing I like about my job is the pay and the benefits. Other than that I think my skills are being wasted. I really need to go to graduate school and my company encourages that. But it'll be tough since there is so much travel involved with my current assignment.

 

I hate my job. I want to get into advertising but don't know where to start

 

im a professional poker player...

 

I'm a professional gold commodities trader. I like my work, while rewarding is still sometimes too stressful. I have been thinking of leaving though and going back and getting reinstated at medical school, in which I finished my first semester and then quit. I really want to go into Psychiatry.

 

I totally feel your pain. I spent 10+ yrs contracting in the private sector where most every task was revenue based(either adding value to a product or directly producing revenue.) Working a reg job now, I have to wade through tons of inane crap just so the managers can preen and touch themselves and justify their existence by saying "lookie what I did".

 

Videographer/editor. I enjoy the field in general, though I could see myself doing something else full-time in the future. I'm currently at a small, private University where the work comes in waves (I can get pretty backed up some weeks where others I'm bored most of the day). The editing here is fairly repetitive, so I have to find ways to keep up my creativity aside from work.

I'll be here a few years at least, partly because the pay, though not a lot, is more than I'd be making anywhere else around Houston with equivalent experience, and partly because I get free tuition so I'm going for my MBA part time. It also allows me to do some freelancing on the side because the hours are pretty regular. I haven't had to work an hour of overtime since I started 8 months ago, and it's a pretty relaxed environment (no major deadlines).

If the right job or opportunities for advancement in the field aren't there in the future, I've thought a little about teaching it on the college level and/or starting my own business.

 

I'm 17 and I work at Chuck E Cheese game room attendant, all I literally have to do is watch for behavior, test the game if they are working (very fun), refill tickets and token. As a teenager, that's all I need, able to pay for my Gas, Gym membership, and ect.

And so far I love it

 

Outside of my calling, which is a 24/7 on-call thing and a Sunday and Wednesday (at minimum) scheduled out thing (pastor)...


I am an Aflac agent. Been doing it now since February of this year.

The only downside is the time I used to spend on the bbs is waaaaaayyyyy down. But the rewarding feeling of helping people, which ties into my calling as well... is priceless. Plus it doesn't hurt the pocketbook to make some money.

 

I'm a Linux Administrator / Linux Systems Engineer. Been doing LAMP stuff since I got out of college and love this stuff. I'm also a partner in a managed services company,specializing in high-availaibility and disaster recovery for small companies on a budget. Its funny i started out wanting to go into optometry, and now I'm obsessed with computers. Thanks Baylor. Brooks Hall 2nd Floor! Those guys opened up the nerd world for me.

At night, I work as a sushi chef, and it's the best compliment to my IT life. I get to create rolls and make sushi nightly and it's an awesome contrast to IT. Something about just making food out of normal ingredients and seeing how it turns out is rewarding to me. Also when you get to see people's enjoying something you made, and that always is a good feeling.

 

I'm a community college chemistry instructor and also teach at some small local branches of four-year universities. I'm part-time these days, since I am also going back to school full-time in music. I love college teaching (or any teaching) and the schedule and rhythm of it; I don't even mind doing labs and chemistry, it's all good, but it wasn't allowing me enough time to pursue music as seriously as I wanted to.

The downside to college teaching, especially if you're full-time (and at a four-year university), is the pressure to do research and the idea that you're supposed to live and breathe your subject area of expertise. I do not feel like a scientist or science person at heart, but like someone who knows how to teach it. When I finish music school, I may try to teach full-time at a community college (and hope for a few music duties) or I may try some combination of both subjects at a middle or high school instead. I prefer to be an enthusiastic teacher who knows a variety of subjects at the level her students need, not a person who is a top expert in one little thing and pursues further knowledge in it.

I'd always rather be a teacher - or musician though it's hard to get much money from that - than some office job. I don't know how you guys do it.

 

Job: Systems Administrator
I work for a family planning clinic, we get alot of new toys to play with plus my best friend works with me so thats nice. Ive only taken 13 hours of college and started working at an ISP when i was 18 and have been in IT ever since. I did helpdesk for 8 years and am in my second as an administrator, so far im still learning new technologies all the time so I enjoy it. The pay could be better, they lowballed me since i moved from helpdesk to sys admin, then due to the economy ill have to wait for a good raise. But its the best paying job ive had besides doing pc repairs on the side.

 

yeah i already used that company opp and got my masters while working. Wasn't as bored during that time period...did homework at work a lot (and they knew it). If I go to school again, I think I'd rather leave the job

 

Are any of you working for a company that is hiring? I finished up school last week (MBA w/ Business Management Undergrad) and have been having a tough time landing a job. Worked at Symantec for about a year and half as a project coordinator.

 

Well, I figured out a way. I'm a music teacher! I teach elementary music (K-5) and I have the best job in the world. True, the pay isn't great, but I get to make a difference in kids lives every day, and pass on my love of music to future generations. I't a lot of fun, too.

My first week of teaching, I have a group of Kindergarten kids in my classroom. As we're playing a rhythm game, one of the kids walks up to the top step of the risers. I stop the game and ask him to come back down. Then, I ask the class "Do we stand at the top of the risers?"

"NO!" they all reply.

"What else don't we do in class?" I ask.

"We don't run!" says one little girl.

"Yes," I say. "And what else?"

"We play nice with others!" says one little boy.

"Yes," I say. "And what else?"

Little Ashley raises her hand and says "We don't say motherf&*%er."

I died laughing. True story. Love my job.

 

wow im getting depressed LOL everyone has good jobs!!!! I work a lame office job. I went to school for graphic design but at that time they were not teaching web design which is pretty essential for a graphic designer to know. So i never landed any good jobs. I decided to leave it and now work as admin asst that pays better than my graphics job. I was the idiot who never pursued what i really wanted to do cause i got married young and everything i did was devoted to the husband.

Oh well, still working on the dream

 

Account Manager for a synthetic turf manufacturer. I love it...most of the time. We're in our absolutely crazy ass season. Everyone's trying to get their fields in before football season. I love it the most when I get to dabble in product development. I've actually created some pretty cool products that are now used on many fields and in landscaping.