DO you like your job?

Other than that, I am biding my time.

40-hours a week is nothing!!!
50 hours and more is a good reason to be fearful and lots of people do it (depends where u live)

I don't understand this mentality at all. Time >>>> Money.

i'm very afraid and quite sure that this will change all too soon :( :( :( :(

which means i'll inevitably get laid off, i'm sure.

-I have a 20-minute commute (I got up at 8.30 this morning and was at my desk at 9.10!)
-I get out of the office a lot (in the first three months I've had trips to London, Durham and India)
-The people I work with are friendly, motivated and generally like what they do
-I work right in the city centre, so there is plenty of variety in what I eat and do at lunchtime
-I like most of what the job involves - meeting people, researching a bit, writing some things, coming up with my own ideas for what to do next
-I am trusted and relied on by my bosses
-Lack of competition with other people working in the same field which means we all get to be vomit-inducingly friendly to each other and share ideas
-Occasionally I get to meet MPs, pop stars and sporting heroes. I find this quite exciting!

No job is perfect, but this one is quite alright.

-busy enough not to be bored; enough time to look at ilx now and again

it will be much worse once my boss (who is my favourite person in the entire world (besides maybe harry kewell and mario from the super mario bros games) leaves in two months. plus the pay is shit.

I like my job for all the wrong reasons - I have loads of time to sit and read ILE and blog and otherwise slack; and I don't have very much responsibility. Of course, I dislike it for these reasons (and the attendant low pay) too. I like most of my coworkers and the students I work with, but after 4.5 years spending 40 hours a week together, even your best friend would start to get on your nerves I imagine. So, I am probably leaving soon.

so, when our lease is up in September, there will be a change of venue. Or, possibly sooner, since the piddly project I've currently got ends in April.

Fuck.

Sometime while I was waiting for my life to start, I turned old, fat and bald. How did that happen?

If you find out who was responsible, I'll help you give them a kicking.

My pc at home self destructed two years ago and I lost everything, including my fabulous c.v.

My memory is shit, and without my c.v I can't remember my ten year job history which includes two years worth of temping roles which were pertinent to getting this job. And no I had no hard copy of it because I'm a bit of a buffoon and never thought my pc would dump.

If I rewrite my c.v I KNOW there will be differences in dates (maybe only a month or so at a time but still)

Would it look totally dodgy if I asked H.R for my c.v?

Also, check your sent items in case you emailed it to somebody.

I don't know anybody at all at head office.

For some reason my c.v isn't attached to the contract of employment I have (hard copy and on personal drive. Odd)

If it doesn't seem like a weird request to make then I feel it's my only option. It took me AGES to sweat out that c.v though and make everything I've done before look like a big lead up to this job. I was so proud of myself making all my temp jobs look like job experience for here. I think I've lost that knack now!

-- Markelby (boyincorduro...)

Between that and reading the entire run of Preacher in two days this week, I totally want to shank God in the neck with a rusty screwdriver.

But I don't really care because I AM TYPING MY RESIGNATION LETTER NOW! Yay!

I like this idea.

-I work right in the city centre, so there is plenty of variety in what I eat and do at lunchtime

Me too! Let's do lunch! I forgot I liked working in Glasgow until I got back there.

I get out and about (only round Lanarkshire, mind, no swanky trips to India for me), it's relaxed, I'm making a difference to people's lives (cliched, but true), and the people I work with are mostly bearable.

but then there's that horrible feeling of knowing you have to go to work hanging over you all day--I have that right now, start work at 5 today

It gets quite difficult when I'm constantly having to deal with STUPID INCOMPETENT CO-WORKERS all the time and a 1.5hr commute. Luckily I have enough holiday left (with the help of the lovely bank holidays coming up) to take at least 1 day off a week every week til I leave.

and P.S - I think working 30 hours a week would be perfect. Too bad I don't!

Cushty as my employment is right now (close to home, good boss, nice wage, hours), I still wonder why the hell I'm spending half my life in something I have litle knoweledge on and zero interest in.

That sounds exactly like me.

I think I'm projecting my envy of my father, who has been working his trade all his life and of course loves his job more than anything. It would be nice to be skillfully comfortable in a job, reacting to problem moments would be hella easier as opposed to now - ie i become a stuttering fuck to customers on the phone.

but then i think, who the hell would aspire to do this job and someones got to do it I spose.

sigh

I know no other job or work. I've always done this. Fuck, I'm 35 years old and have been doing the same job since I was about 20 years old. I love being in a shop and my boss (parents!) are in Japan so I can pretty much do what I want to do (which sometimes freaks me out). I love this. If I could do this till I retire, I will be a VERY happy woman. :-)

i really like my job, but i am getting pretty sick of the long hours... don't think i can do it forever. as jobs go, it's definitely one of my favourites. and certainly by far the best-paid one i've had during my working life so far. money isn't everything of course but it's the main reason i work so i'm pleased it's a satisfactory amount.

i just went for a Pro Evolution Soccer break. so can't really complain eh?

when it's good i feel like i am genuinely helping people that genuinely need it.

when it's bad i feel like a puppet on a string for the incredibly cynical and lazy people.

in between the wages are poor, the expenses are good, the hours are dreamy and the pressure is manageable 90% of the time. the commute is 1/2 hour, and they are paying me to take a relevant degree.

it's also public sector so if i can last another year i have pension & permanency to add to all of the above.

Nathalie is living my job fantasy

I've been stuck for years in a situation where I'm always going for jobs I think I should be doing, which seem in practice to have very little to do with what I'm genuinely interested in. Blame the parents blablabla

I used to love it because I could do it practically in my sleep, it paid pretty well, I could work from home and slack off except for a couple of weeks of concentrated effort six times a year. Now the pay is declining as advertisers tighten belts, I'm bored out of my mind, and I'm realizing how lazy and unmotivated I am. Given my family's longevity, I'm going to be the world's oldest trustafarian.

Ant attack, if I were you I would be planning how to use the advantages of your present job to put you in a position to get beyond it and into something you like better.

That sense of having little ability and zero interest is not likely to improve, and eventually it will overwhelm your gratitude for the good parts of your job. You'll feel a whole lot better about staying there if you are actively using it to build toward something you want, rather than just taking things as they fall, day to day.