I do enjoy my job, but unfortunately it looks like the future is cloudy for us. We’ve been hit hard by cost increases and consolidation in the industry. With a family depending on you it’s a hard position to be in. Things are tough in the economy regardless of what you hear on tv in my opinion.
Who Has a Job He Actually Loves?
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Yeah. Your "opinion" is based on real world experience, whilst what's on TV is pure propaganda. Like you, I trust my observations to guide my actions for future security of self and family.
I’m an in-house corporate attorney. As a career, I certainly don’t love it. I do it to make money, but I have no passion for it.
However, it’s not something that bothers me. My current position is great in many ways. I’m a contractor solely dedicated to the legal department of a very large multi-national corporation. I work entirely remotely, I’m paid reasonably well, and I do interesting and challenging work. I produce, and consequently I have little oversight or corporate BS to deal with, and I have great professional relationships with people on multiple continents. I could make more in another position, but my current gig allows me an excellent work-life balance, and that’s very valuable to me. When I shut down the laptop at the end of the day, I’m done and that’s that.
In comparison to my former life of nearly 20 years in private practice at a firm, I’m in paradise. The firm was a salt mine, and that world required 60 hour weeks and little control over day to day time. Being at the beck and call of clients at basically all times is just what’s expected. Some people love that pace and excitement, but not me. I value my time in private practice because it paid well and gave me the experience and knowledge base to be able to have a lot of choice in jobs now, but I would never go back to it. I left that life 9 years ago, and I often say that I’m 5 years younger than I was 10 years ago.
However, it’s not something that bothers me. My current position is great in many ways. I’m a contractor solely dedicated to the legal department of a very large multi-national corporation. I work entirely remotely, I’m paid reasonably well, and I do interesting and challenging work. I produce, and consequently I have little oversight or corporate BS to deal with, and I have great professional relationships with people on multiple continents. I could make more in another position, but my current gig allows me an excellent work-life balance, and that’s very valuable to me. When I shut down the laptop at the end of the day, I’m done and that’s that.
In comparison to my former life of nearly 20 years in private practice at a firm, I’m in paradise. The firm was a salt mine, and that world required 60 hour weeks and little control over day to day time. Being at the beck and call of clients at basically all times is just what’s expected. Some people love that pace and excitement, but not me. I value my time in private practice because it paid well and gave me the experience and knowledge base to be able to have a lot of choice in jobs now, but I would never go back to it. I left that life 9 years ago, and I often say that I’m 5 years younger than I was 10 years ago.
I absolutely love my job. I am a union organizer for custodians, para-educators, assistants, craftsman and construction, and food service school employees.
It's 50-70 hours a week, but fairly compensated. I do get a lot of freedom to set most of my hours and do the'office' side from home - all of which allows me to maximize family time. And I work with the hardworking men and women who ensure kids have clean and safe schools and are fed. Defending them, ensuring they have a real retirement, and that they are treated properly and with respect as the blue collar and overlooked school workers.
Sometimes I have to help a bad apple, but that's only to make sure the district follows due process for everyone and if they are really bad, I tell them quitting is their best option. As it usually is.
It's 50-70 hours a week, but fairly compensated. I do get a lot of freedom to set most of my hours and do the'office' side from home - all of which allows me to maximize family time. And I work with the hardworking men and women who ensure kids have clean and safe schools and are fed. Defending them, ensuring they have a real retirement, and that they are treated properly and with respect as the blue collar and overlooked school workers.
Sometimes I have to help a bad apple, but that's only to make sure the district follows due process for everyone and if they are really bad, I tell them quitting is their best option. As it usually is.
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That's really interesting and something I've never really thought about. Cool beans.
I gave up those six figures to sell pipes, and I love it. It is not always easy, but it is fun.
Hello everyone, during working hours I am an ordinary laborer who performs various tasks that I am ordered to do, I don’t particularly like it but I need money, but in my free time from work my personality likes to play online games, I consider this to be an ideal time for relaxation and I can also earn money there, I have experience in games for more than 4 years and I roughly understand the whole structure of how everything works and we must understand when the financial sector is experiencing difficulties in the global market, the gaming business is growing rapidly and covers a significant part of the total market .Therefore, now the gaming business is becoming profitable and I, together with my friend, wondered how to get a gambling license !!!! there we purchased a license that helps us work officially, now I’m trying to attract as many as possible people in the gaming business
Retired now. I started out in railway engineering, left that and fell sideways into audio tech / live sound, crashed (literally) out of that and had little option but to go into IT, fell sideways into InfoSec for 18 years. Loved the music years at least, it was my entire life and passion.
IT Sec was the most financially rewarding and occasionally entertaining, especially when users phoned to complain that they had a message "Access is denied" - my usual response was "That's what I like to hear!", much to their discombobulation.
IT Sec was the most financially rewarding and occasionally entertaining, especially when users phoned to complain that they had a message "Access is denied" - my usual response was "That's what I like to hear!", much to their discombobulation.