re: Do you enjoy your job/career?

Absolutely

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Do you enjoy what you do for a living? Or is it a drag to wake up each morning and go to work? What factors are most important to you to determine happiness at work?

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I am a network & security engineer, and used to really love my job. We got bought out a couple years ago and although I have alot of new opportunities, I went from a 30 person small business to a 400 person public corporation. The corporate world can a real grind (on top of an industry that is very easy to burn out in), and I find myself not nearly as enthusiastic to hop out of bed every day.

To be clear though, I do love my career/field. I just wish I could do more of it and not as much as the BS you have to do as part of a public company.

Love my job and career....

I used to enjoy my job immensely. Over the last 10 years, insurance companies have slowly taken the enjoyment and profit out of it. It causes me to lose focus on the importance of my customers, so much so, that I rarely answer the phone, because I know I have to explain, yet again, what kind of shite their insurance companies are pulling.

I genuinely, just want to go to work, repair peoples’ vehicles and get paid fairly. The last part is what causes me anguish.

I had to get in Benzos starting 2 years ago just to go to work. Been a paramedic over 20 years and about 3-4 years ago started having issues. Just got moved to a supervisor role a couple months ago and I’m much happier. I never want to step foot in an ambulance again

I love the people I work with and have a very good work/life balance. I'm treated well and trusted. The work is tolerable. I have had opportunities to leave for 20% more money and didn't. I'm pretty content. Not rich by any stretch but can do what I want within reason and still save.

I enjoy working with the people I work with.

Oddly enough, I just started a new job/career. A little background, I’m a high school dropout that worked my arse off to get to where I am. Earned a BS then an MBA while raising 5 kids. I am now a VP of sales making more money than my mother, who was a teacher, that raised 3 kids on her own would earn in a decade. I just finished dinner at a fantastic steakhouse in Ohio with the president of the company I joined and am sitting in my suite waiting for the LSU game. I liked my previous job, but I’m loving this new venture. Go grab that brass ring.

I am only mid 40s but i love my career so much that i am counting down every single day until i can retire early to Southeast Asia- where the living is cheaper and the women are friendlier … My career itself isnt so bad, it’s just that I started working on my father’s construction sites when i was 9, so that’s almost 40 yrs of being at least somewhat in the work force.. i dont care what anyone thinks, to me that’s enough dues-paying, and im ready to get out… The main thing im looking forward to is the ability to set my own schedule, which to me would be absolutely priceless.