Do you like your job?

[jpd]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

So, do you like your job? If you're retired, do you enjoy retirement (stupid question, of course you do). Any jobs you've had that you hated? Loved?

I've been in IT the past 20 years and I enjoy it. Great career.

Well, yeah ya do! Every year you get a promotion and move up the food chain
Best job I've ever had is my current job....8 years retired

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by jpd

Well, yeah ya do! Every year you get a promotion and move up the food chain
Best job I've ever had is my current job....8 years retired

Yep, I'm a director now.

I aspire to one day have the same job you have, JPD.

[Looburst]

Yep, I have been a professional background singer for 30 years. It's the best job in the world because you meet the artist but you don't have to live with them, like if you were in their band. Anyway, I have worked with literally everybody except for maybe the big three in my book. Paul McCartney, Elton John and Eric Clapton. I'm semi retired now but still work whenever anyone calls.

[Earwitness]

I like what I do. I work for myself! I started out so many years ago in a law firm with more than 600 lawyers, but now, I'm just a solo practitioner.

[gjd100]

I'm an IT manager for a fortune 100 company for 37 years...
Last of a dying breed (to have that many years in a non civil job). Love my job for the most part. I have dodged many a layoff bullets. However, if I had to give advice to a college freshman, i would not recommend my profession with all the outsourcing etc.... Get into healthcare.... to take care of us old farts...

[Acousticado]

I always enjoyed my professional career. I equally enjoy being retired for the past 6 years. Freedom, volunteerism is great.

[Gmountain]

No. I hate it. Figure I'll be at it until I die, but it sucks.

[unimogbert]

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[AmericanEagle]

To be honest, no, I do not like my job.
I do it to pay the bills.
I get no enjoyment out of it, and I find it stressful.
I can't switch careers this late in the game.
I wish I could retire, but I am still too young,
and still have debt to pay off.

[Scootch]

I've been a network administrator at a Federal agency for 26 years. Or I was... about five years ago they began to realign local specialists into vertical regional service lines.

I did not apply because my wife was dying during the hiring period and I did not want to do anything that might distract me from her, plus there were times when I had to take her to a doctor every single day of the week. My boss was perfectly OK with it.

I did not want to risk getting hired by some person that had never met me, then tell me they didn't care what my problems were. I've worked for persons like at before and didn't want to risk it at that point in time.

So last summer all us local staff got realigned. I'm now a Customer Support specialist, same pay, roughly same job but most of my system rights are removed. What used to be fifteen minutes now takes three days of dealing with service tickets, working with some idiot service contractor. And I've been a network admin since windows NT5.0.

I hate my job now, am retiring May 25, and as long as I make it until then, don't care what happens. And I used to wake up in the AM, and think "oh boy I get to go to work".

I've got about 20 acoustic guitars, a dozen electrics, amp, ukuleles, harmonicas, a mandolin, banjos, a steel guitar, percussion, several cameras (my old hobby that I plan to revitalize) and a collection of lenses, and a 20 foot pontoon boat that I dock at nearby reservoir all summer. Retirement cant get here too soon.

[tbeltrans]

My current "job" is retirement, though I might still take the occasional contract engineering job as I have for the last few years that I have been retired. It has taken me a surprising (to me) amount of time to get used to, and adjusted to, retirement. I have settled into it, and am thinking that going back to any kind of work might be a bit difficult now.

My wife and I do volunteer work teaching ESL a few days a week at the local library, since they have several programs of this type for immigrants. Doing this work, I have come to appreciate just how difficult English really is, and I have to respect anybody who tries to tackle it as an adult. Despite what some folks seem to think, I find many immigrants who are sincerely interested in learning English and becoming productive members of society (just as most of our (US) grandparents did as they came to the US). All they need is a chance, and my wife and I want to be a part of their success. For me personally, this is much more rewarding in a personal way, then my career.

Engineering work is enjoyable, so it isn't that I didn't like what I did. However, I really didn't have personal connection to the products I helped develop until I retired and started to do contract engineering with medical electronics companies. At least there, the products are intended to help either save lives or improve the quality of life rather than just make somebody rich.

Now, I find myself staying up later and getting up later (7:30 AM instead of 4:30 AM). I find myself much better rested and my memory seems to be improving too. There must be something to the connection we read about between memory and getting enough rest. The main personal item on my bucket list is teaching myself to play piano. I have been making good progress on that. So I have a nice balance between doing things for others and other things for myself. Retirement is good.

Tony

[Zissou Intern]

I like my job, but if I came into enough money that I wouldn't have to work any longer, I wouldn't work any longer.

[ahorsewithnonam]

Well, I’ll be 63 next month. I have been working since I was 14. Graduated college and got married in 1978 and landed my first sales position. Absolutely loved it. Moved up and became the youngest sales manager in my company at 26.

So many things have changed in my industry. Honestly I really do not enjoy anything about my job anymore. Nothing, zero. Luckily, thankfully, I have been blessed throughout my career and the good Lord has put me in a position financially that I could quit anytime. For that I am beyond grateful and thankful, and humbled. Yet, I let the pressure weigh on me through countless meetings, quotas, deadlines...and I have to remind myself daily that I can walk away.

So why stay? Well I have 2years until Medicare or I am at the mercy of our healthcare providers which can drain you. I’ll probably work 18 months and beat the cost myself for 6 months.

I have a lot of outside interests. Tennis, guitars, would like to start an internet Sunday church service for those who can’t get out..elderly, sick,etc.

Most of all these two that I just love!!!!!

[catdaddy]

I like retirement. When I worked I thought it was rewarding, but I haven't missed it for even a minute since I've been retired.

[Pitar]

Always have liked my job(s).