re: What job do you have? Hate it or love it?

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Have a Masters from LSU in unrelated field (sprt management - was pursuing sport business at one point). I'm a young guy with his whole life ahead of him.

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That sports management degree is probably what half the football, baseball and basketball players are majoring in. Every time I see that major I think of the LSU athletes. Now granted you have a masters and most just have a bachelors. I have no idea what the job market is for that field, but they have a ton of graduates in that field now.

Currently in Public Accounting -- Audit.

I like the idea of it more than the reality. The general idea is you comb over the financial statements of public companies and find where the company has deficiencies and/or fraud to serve the shareholders (the general public). You find errors, you tell the client, they are thankful that your engagement team has helped them.

The reality is that you look at what the prior audit team did last year, see a clean work paper and think everything will be gravy. You then get a bunch of hob-gobbled support from a client and wonder how the hell they managed to have such a clean prior year workpaper. Realize that the engagement partner is more worried about the hours your spending on what is supposed to be your job, realize your manager is just trying to make the partner happy, so then unless you see something that compromises integrity, just do whatever the hell your manager says.

And even if you do find a misstatement of the financials that needs to be communicated either the client doesn't care at all, or they push back to the point that there is tension. Then the audit is wrapped up, your prior 3 months of work gets archived to never be seen again unless it gets called for inspection.

As far as WLB it varies. A lot of young professionals in their early to mid 20s think they're working in a sweat shop. I worked in warehouses for close to a decade making $12 an hour to get boxes thrown at my head so my perspective is a little different. You work a good number of hours during busy season (Jan-Apr), but then you're cooling for most of the rest of the year.

I work from home which is awesome, but also a career hindrance.

Salary progression has been:

2022 (private company) - $45k
2023 (public) - $63k
2024 (public) - $72k
2025 (public) - Should be around $84k in a "promotion" year

I would say I tolerate my job, understand that it's work, and try to count my blessings even when I realize that it's meaningless.

Director of Data Center Services for a telecom/electronic security installation company.

I love it. I get to build the data center division of the company from the ground up using the connections I've gotten from 25 years in the industry.

Was a police officer for 30yrs. Recently retired--January--and do not regret it for the most part. Politics and the new climate we live in makes it a tough profession.

So many know-it-all's that arent smart enough to pour piss out of a boot.

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Other than my commute I don't have anything to bitch about.

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How long is your commute?

I did 32 years owning/operating bread routes. I sold the last one in January and currently in the RV traveling the country. At some point I will probably go back to some type of work, but if I don’t want to… I don’t have to.

The bread biz has changed so much in just the last 10 years, independent operators will be gone in the next 10. I would not recommend, it’s an after hours soul sucking grind.

Not yet. Been dragging on exams. Got 1 passed. Hard to find motivation to study.

Can you tell us The Story again?

Please?

OTR Trucker. Love the job, hate the industry. I've seen more of this country than 95% of Americans will ever see and I got paid handsomely to do it. I just absolutely loathe what corporates are doing to us now - making us pay to park for the night, no bathroom access at warehouses, no pay raises through this inflation, not to mention what nonsense these trucking companies are putting in the trucks because they're hiring total morons and braindead foreigners on work visas to drive the trucks which punishes the good drivers (now they're taking off physical mirrors in favor of cameras so they can monitor the sides of the trucks). My time driving OTR is coming to an end soon and I'll be looking for either an office job or just a simple local delivery job - its quite apparent that good drivers are not valued for cross country driving anymore.

I don’t think it’s jealousy. Just fricking strange to post a shirtless pic of yourself flexing for an internet message board.