Who hates their job?

[Todd Black 88]

I don't hate my job, it's just I have been doing it for too long. I'm 20 yrs here come July. Its time for a change, but my wife's career is taking the lead right now so I am waiting.

The money is pretty good, I take as much time off as I want(hourly not salary though).

[FL318is]

My answer is two fold. I hate the moron administrators who are so out of touch with our side of the business. All about making a dollar. Even at the expense of staffing and equipment. We are so short of both. As soon as staff members find options they leave. We have more openings than we can keep filled. Equipment shortage is so pathetic we have to go look for it. If we find it, most likely it came from am isolation room. So now it needs to be cleaned, disinfected, used by another patient and returned to the original patient. Benefits are shit. Employees must now get their scripts filled at one pharmacy. Theirs. M-F 9a-6p. Closed weekends. Bottom line is we know the company doesn't care about employees and hence we don't care about the company.

That said, I love my job because I can help patients. That is the pot of gold I am fortunate enough to have.

[jalopi]

wow... maybe this is just the liquor talking, but my derb doesn't sound too horrible (subjectively) compared to what some of you are dealing with

i might hate mine, but at least i've got decent hours

at least i've finally (i think) figured out what the background of nothern's avatar is (i assume you fix planes for a living, that's a hangar in the background, yeah?)

[Northern]

Sometimes I really like my job. Sometimes I wonder if I'm at a dead end due to politics & favoritism.

^ This 100%

As new/different tasks started to become fewer and fewer, I started to get bored with being a tech. Nowhere else is hiring right now (plus I don't want to move and I like the 7:30-4 M-F life) so I started looking at internal job postings...

This company resists change like nothing I have ever seen (my actual trade is still labelled by a term that hasn't been used since the trade split into 3 separate trades 10 years or more ago) That ends up killing me, because all the postings that interest me require qualifications they won't give me, because it isn't actually my trade.

I also forgot to mention that upper management is comprised mostly of british ex-pats who almost exclusively hire their "Old Boys" that they served with. It gets a little frustrating when a new guy comes in, then gets promoted 3 months later to some manager position and has no sweet clue what's going on with their job or the company in general. They're nice guys, don't get me wrong, but there are people so much more qualified and deserving.

So I'm pretty much at a dead end. If we went back up to two aircraft at a time, I could be up for Crew Chief. The money works out to be like $3/hr more, but the good part is actually that the day passes much faster. Then I'm at a dead end.

This job wasn't nearly as bad when there were 4 hour optional OT shifts every day, plus weekends. Now we haven't had a shift in a year and that just makes everything harder. Part of the reason I opted to work here vs other places, was the supposedly guaranteed OT that made up for the lower base pay and other downsides. So much for that.

There's also the fact that far beyond half the people I work with are complete burnouts, hillbillies, blatant racists, or just don't give a flying fuck about the quality of work they turn out.

[Smelser]

I never work, cause when you enjoy your job, you are never truly at work.
and the pay is fantastic

[mrsleeve]

money definitely isn't everything. I pretty much made double last year what I did a few years ago (thanks to hundreds of hours of OT), but I can't honestly say I was more happy. Instead of having plenty of time and no money, I had plenty of money and no time..

I am the definition of too much money and no time to enjoy it. In the last 5 years other than last year I have averaged 3000 hours a year....... 1 year pushing 3500 other than 2014, in which I was suffering from burn out badly so I took much of the year off and coupled with choppy work with cheap ass gas companies I only had 1800 hours last year...... The trade off was I fianaly got some time to enjoy some time at home with the wife and spend some money....

That said yes there is more to life than money thats for sure and the older I get the more I see that. I think its partially the nature of my job, since when I am at work thats all there is, and when I am home thats all there is....... To me its far more black and white than 98% of the population that work with 20 mins of where they live... I would not know what to do with all the free time I would have if I only worked 40 hours a week anymore.....


You have to go where your going to get the best deal for your skill set and the amount of risk you might be willing to take.... Consulting will likely be far more lucrative, BUT far less stable (especially until you get your reputation built up) also far more travel and NO security/benefits as a day/job rate outside contractor.... You should shop around with what you have shared about your primary project as lead, you have an impressive feather in your cap, and would at least give you more leverage with your current employer with other firms attempting to woo you away.... I used to have a simialr situation as you, smaller firm, and being a go to guy for them, and that is great but like you say it can limit you as well.... Well due to some "friction" with other hired "manager" ( I use that term loosely) and not being one of "his guys" I jumped ship to a smallish branch of a LARGE muliti national, and in my 1st week with them I was using cutting edge equipment that has been in the field for less than 2 years at that point, (was getting and placing calls to R&D in the UK for trouble shooting and input on the next generation equipment they were putting together) so essentially the ground floor of the 1st major technological upgrade in my industry in 30 years that I never would have had a chance at even seeing for another decade or longer if I had stayed where I had been. Yes I have been back working with old school tech for the most part, but new tech is expensive and many of our customers just dont see the benefit yet..

[estoguy]

I don't mind my derbs, but there are certain things I hate:

Sub teaching: No permanence, out of work up to 4 months a year, no one really cares about us.

Security: crap wages relative to what we do/are responsible for (large government facility, lots of high value equipment, responsibility for guests after hours, etc).

But the above derbs also have perks, so it evens out, mostly.

Dream derbs? Right now I'm trying to get into the Canadian military, hopefully as a pilot. That was a dream derb as a kid.

[nando]

Sometimes I really like my job. Sometimes I wonder if I'm at a dead end due to politics & favoritism.

I got 2 significant raises last year and somehow I'm still bringing home the same amount of money as I was before (taxes?). But it's not the money. I keep thinking more and more maybe it's time to move on to somewhere new. I have a few possibilities but most of them aren't near home, which is no good. One opportunity is across the border in Canada, which would appeal to my wife. Decisions decisions..

Or, maybe there's opportunity to move further up within my company. I want to stick it out until the end of this project - one of the problems I've had is I've been lead on one of our biggest projects (it's taken 8 years and made our company a lot of money). I haven't really had any new projects because they don't want to take me off this one.

But the way this company is run sometimes, I don't know if we're going to have anything equivalent in size/scope, which is one of the reasons I might just move on. I don't want to go back to doing T supports and small bore crap, although I guess it pays the bills.

The opportunity in Canada is a smaller company where I have a buddy that's high up. They're still drawing everything by hand.. I could see myself having some sort of consulting role where I bring them up to the cutting edge of the industry. I like working with smaller teams, the nice thing about a small company is you can make changes faster. We aren't huge, but there's just too many people that have been around forever who just can't (or won't) learn new stuff anymore (which is sad). So we're always stuck about 10 years behind where we should be, and competitively, it hurts us.

money definitely isn't everything. I pretty much made double last year what I did a few years ago (thanks to hundreds of hours of OT), but I can't honestly say I was more happy. Instead of having plenty of time and no money, I had plenty of money and no time..

[mrsleeve]

like what I do but hate some aspects of it. Mostly the duration of some hitches.... with out any home time. most of my jobs are bid on 6 / 10's but normally end up actually at 12-14 a day 7 days a week with every 3rd sunday off if your lucky.....

Would love to work for operations for a major pipeline operator, even as out of town travel would be much shorter stints, but at a major cut in pay.... that said only one option like this where I live and impossible to get on with

[Vincent Brick]

Like my job, don't like the pay.

[shameson]

I'm the assistant manager of grocery store. It's ok, but considering I'm only 21 and working on starting my BA in business I would say I'm doing pretty good for myself so far. Already have my AA degree and this gives me good experience managing. I'm happy with it for now but I have bigger plans and it's really an okay job as there's certainly a lot worse things

[e30onBBSs]

I like my job as a sound tech. I'm very very close to finishing "training" which is basically me doing everything and my boss helping which is good because he's chill but the pay is absolute trash right now until I can go alone. $50 for a night of usually 5:30-2:30 am. Sometimes we have to move the entire "show" which is 4 PA speakers, huge amps, the console, and mad other stuff which is brutal and those nights go until almost four. The pros of the job are quite good pay for my age once I am fully trained, free food at the venues, free drinks (non-alcoholic because I'm 18), and lots of down time to chill and dance or whatever once the show is started. Walmart is laid back and chill but minimum wage is also trash so I may leave soon if I can land a job as a waiter or bus boy or something that gives tips! May apply at many many auto shops even to just do oil changes or something, I wouldn't mind minimum wage at all if I was around cars all day gaining experience! Watering plants tho haha

[flyboyx]

i love my yob. just started a new one and am in training right now. training sux. i don't get along very well with my instructor. he is a grumpy old bastard! can't wait to finish sim and check rides and fly normal trips again.

we have duty and flight time limits also. sometimes government intervention in the transportation industry is a good thing.

[Exodus_2pt0]

I have similar on the railroad. Can't work more than a 12 hour shift and must be off for 10 hours. Also, there's a limit on days in a row, can't remember off the top of my head.

Honestly though, sometimes I love that 12 hour limit when we are swamped and I can't legally stay. Gives me a nice out.

[M-technik-3]

Love my job just hate dealing wit TACC and other control factors like min crew rest. 24 hour day and I get 12 hours off gee thanks.

But traveling the globe has been a good gig.