Everyone I speak to recently has nothing good to say about where they work … Prove me wrong and tell me that your happy in your work

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  1. I love my job so much, I don’t want to ever leave it.

    I work as a field service engineer for a top end medical equipment company, who specialise in radiography.

    I’m well paid, not over stretched, get to see different people and locations each day.

    Regularly have time off and still get paid.

    The company provide plenty of reward/perks.

    It’s not work when you enjoy your job.

  2. No. I work as customer service for insurance. Its a nightmare dealing with claims and fees. Lol

    I would want to work with children as I am a mum myself. Hopefully once my husband gets a better paying job I can start my career with children (childcare).

    For now I just have to deal with all the cursing and racial abuse.

  3. Currently unemployed, but fully qualified teacher. However, I think I’d rather work at Asda for minimum wage than go into teaching again.

  5. I wouldn’t say I’m very happy in my job, but I’m content. I enjoy what I do, I enjoy most of my colleagues & I get a reasonable paycheck. I work with the airlines and when recruitment picks up, I will be looking to find another (better) employer to try and seek a better work/life balance and, of course, more money.

    If you’re not at least content in your work, you should look for other opportunities.

  6. I answer 999 calls and do dispatch for the coastguard. Overall I’m happy. I just wish I didn’t have to do so many night shifts.

    It’s rewarding. My team are lovely. We rarely get hoax calls or people who completely waste our time. Sometimes things happen at the beach and people don’t know who to call, so they speak to us and we end up passing it onto the council or whoever though. I just wish more people knew our non emergency number! Problem is we don’t have a short one like 101 or 111, it’s a normal landline number. So lots of people call us on 999 because they don’t know anything else. Plus there’s 10 coastal stations plus London and we have somewhat randomly placed boundaries so I guess a lot of people don’t know who their local coastguard is.

    Every day is different. And I rarely have meetings. There’s lots of training.

  7. Yes. I like my job. I work in scientific publishing and am now quite senior. The company offers flexible home working, good salaries, and the work is interesting.

    I’ve had several jobs as I’ve worked my way up the career ladder and often after a few years I’ll get bored and I see that as a sign to move on – changing roles or changing companies.

    I’ve only had one job that I hated and it was 100% due to a really toxic manager. I left after a few months.

    Don’t believe it when people tell you that you have to be in a certain role for X amount of time otherwise it’ll look bad on your CV – as a hiring manager I wouldn’t see this as a red flag unless someone had never been in any role for more than a year. If you’re really unhappy then apply elsewhere, it’s a great time to job hunt and change careers!

  8. I don’t love it but I find it easy, low stress and I don’t need to work weekends. Maybe i’m easily satisfied but when your first few jobs are fast food, retail and constant Saturday 1am finishes, customer drama, wearing demeaning uniforms, then working a nice office job is a treat.

    Theres so many people at my work who complain about the conditions and all I could think is “try being screamed at in a McDonalds by your manager infront of fifty customers while being burned with scalding hot oil”. By comparison our “mental health days”, free snacks, yearly bonus, managers asking constantly “are you ok? Is your home life ok” feels like being in a nursery. If you would have told me at 22 i’d work somewhere that actually asked about my mental health and have mental health first aiders i’d laugh and say you were talking about some utopia.

  9. I’m a doctor, I love the actual job and feeling like I’m doing something worthwhile and making a difference. What I don’t love is the system I work in that constantly underpays and undervalues us, and forces us to uproot our lives and constantly travel around the country in order to train… if you’re lucky enough to get a training post in the first place as there’s a huge bottleneck nowadays.

  11. It’s not the worst job I’ve ever had. I don’t have any major complaints. The people are nice, they’ve been very flexible when my mum was going through major health issues. The work is varied.

    If I won the lottery, though, they’d never see me again.

  12. I like my job.

    It’s hard work and there are parts I don’t like. There are days when I can’t really be bothered, but I’ve never dreaded going in like a have for jobs in the past.

    The money is decent, I like my colleagues, I like my boss and it’s fulfilling.

    I’d rather not have to work, but seeing as I do it’s better than every other job I’ve had.

  13. Yeah I’m pretty happy. I am attending meetings today whilst playing runescape and posting on reddit. its pretty chill I won’t lie.

  14. I mean, I don’t *hate* it. To say I like it isn’t quite accurate, but short of winning a lottery or becoming a trophy husband it’s not like I have any other options I’d be happy with, so you have to make the best with what you have.

  15. Yeah I’m pretty happy.

    I have two jobs – both software engineering.

    One permie, one contract.

    Don’t get me wrong – there’s all sorts of stuff wrong with each company but I don’t really care. Also I’ve definitely worked in worse places. My permie company is super friendly.

    I start at 7, code like a boss until 3, clock off both jobs, and forget about the nonsense. You’re paying me £hundreds a day. If you want to spend that time requiring me to attend silly meetings about naming software, that’s cool by me. You want me to spend a day at an off site all day planning session? No problem, still £600 please.

    I have a mantra. If I suggest someone twice, I stop suggesting it. If you ignore my expertise and do something different and it goes wrong, so be it. I’m not gonna care really, as long as you pay my invoice.

    Life’s too short to get worked up by dysfunctional employers. I appreciate there are jobs where this can really get to you because it’s unavoidable (like when I worked retail), but otherwise I fully encourage people to just leave work stuff at the door if they can.

  17. I like my job.

    I design Data Networks and these days work from home almost entirely.

    The job is technically interesting. I see my kids loads. I never have to work outside of office hours. The pay is very good. I get to visit very interesting places. I can travel if I want to. Or not travel if I don’t want to. I have very little oversight and just do my thing throughout the day.

    All in all; it’s a pretty good deal.

  18. I enjoy mine. It’s third sector so not very well paid, but I’m comfortable and feel like I’m contributing to something more than a CEO’s pocket. I love my team and my other colleagues and it’s 9-5 weekdays with a good annual leave allowance, and some home working. There’s stresses and niggles, but nothing that impact on my quality of life.

  19. I do like my job quite a lot and up to today I looked forward to coming into the office. In fact I was so happy that I wanted to keep this job forever. However just today it’s taken a turn for the worse. Used to be I went to the office at 2am, was there alone overnight for 5+ hours and had the office kitchen to myself, big private toilet, turn up the music and do very easy office work. Today I found out they have now got people coming in on the far other side of my office at 3am. They’re making noise, sharing all the stuff I used to have all to myself and I can’t have the music on anymore. Worse off they sit right next to the nice private toilet that used to be all mine. They also have to walk right by my desk to get to the kitchen. At least my actual job is still very easy and enjoyable. We’ll see how long that lasts. As I work here it seems slowly to get more and more difficult, more curveballs thrown at me as the months go on. It’s still a very good job.

    This has been such a step up from my previous job which was awful. I ended up getting all this wonderful stuff like the privacy and working alone, which is something 99% of office workers such as myself would never have an opportunity to have. Yet when it starts getting taken away from me I feel like the world is falling apart even though my situation is still 100 times better than my previous job.

  20. Love my job. Healthcare support worker in ICU. My trust are also paying for my foundation degree ( nearly finished!) and then hopefully my top up to nursing.
    It’s an absolute privilege to do what I do.
    Money is shite though.

  21. If I didn’t have to do it I wouldn’t, but for a job it’s fine. It’s a role within tech/software but isn’t a technical role.

    Good pay and benefits, not stressful, good manager who leaves me to get on with things, good colleagues who I am happy to work with, good work/life balance.

    Could make a bit more by moving job but I don’t think it would be worth it to risk losing the working environment.

  22. Yes, I like my job. I don’t love all of it and I am not champing at the bit to get started in the morning but I dont mind it at all. I get quite a bit of job satisfaction and I find it rewarding. I work in data analysis within a department of social workers. The money is crap and you get statutory minimum for holidays and very few perks but my collegues are respectful and appreciative and I feel that the work matters.

  24. I’m happy enough. I work in charity retail in a small town where there are still people that have lived there all their lives. People are friendly, crime/theft is pretty non-existant, there’s always new unusual stuff being donated, you can switch tasks around all through the day, you’re kind of your own boss a lot of the time, can break whenever you want as long as you get the work done. Also different volunteers come and go over time and they include school kids through to retired 80+ so you mix with all kinds of people.

    Low pay is the main downside though but the actual job/environment etc is kind of therapeutic.

  25. Love my job – I’m the IT manager at a secondary school.

    I not only get to use my knowledge from 20 years working in the industry to make sure the school spends its budget properly, but I can directly affect children’s learning outcomes with our IT strategy.

    They also let me volunteer to be a Duke of Edinburgh leader, which is great fun. Taking the kids from our inner city comprehensive (in probably the most deprived area of the city) out into the countryside is so rewarding.

    I do wish the job paid about £10k a year more though. I could literally jump ship back into a random private company for £10-15k more than I’m on. Probably more if I really pushed for it. But I like that my job actually makes a difference, rather than just making sure we can make an extra few quid on the balance sheet at the end of the year.

  26. Sure, I’m a software developer working for a fairly large car-finance company.

    I get interesting and complex technical challenges on a daily basis that keep me engaged.
    I’m well paid.
    The team are nice people who I like working with. Under better circumstances I’d probably socialise with them out of work.
    My boss is a great guy who genuinely cares about the people who work for him.
    The job-perks are stellar too, with things like free tickets to gigs at the AO Arena in manchester, and a solid pension and healthcare plan.

    The only Con is that it’s about a 90 minute commute by bus, but I’m allowed WFH three days a week, so it’s not a big deal.

  27. Yep, I enjoy mine. I’m well paid by a company that genuinely cares about its people, I work with smart colleagues, I learn something most days and the work I do is at that right level of challenging but not brain melting.

  28. Paramedic here and love my job, I can travel and see the world and I drive around at high speed with flashy lights and sirens.

  30. I like my colleagues. Sadly with WFH I don’t see them anymore, I’m just stuck in my spare room all week.

    WFH took away the only good thing about work.

  33. Yeah but I work for myself and I generally give myself good time off, a decent salary and all the perks of working from home… like working in my pyjamas if I want or just playing the PS5.

    When I’m not in the house I’m out filming and photographing one of the most beautiful parts of the UK – The Highlands. Usually find me up a hill, in a kayak, in the forest, on a tour boat, taking photos of the night sky or at a castle.

  34. 100% happy in my job.

    Work for a local council as an engineering officer. Basically a contracts manager, technical engineer, and compliance officer all rolled into one so I’m always busy but that helps most days to fly in. And I never feel busy as I know what real graft is having been on the tools for years and doing two day installs in one day, and other bits and pieces of prices work. I always feel cheeky af when I tell people I’ve been busy now.

  35. I work in sewage treatment, I’m left alone all day every day, only work til 3pm daily.

    I also get to see some gorgeous countryside as most places are out in the sticks on purpose. (Covering the Cotswolds area helps with that I guess)

  36. I like my job. I wouldn’t say I *love* it per se, but it’s great.

    Excellent pay, absolute freedom, work from home. It’s great.

    The problem with it is, that there is far too much work. Long hours equates to stress no matter how casually I approach work. Which is a real bummer. I don’t think it’s killing me or anything, but it’s certainly affecting my quality of life outside of work.

  37. Love my job. I am over qualified for what I do but am happy being able to excel with ease. Like the people I work with and the environment in which I work.

  38. I’m a DevOps guy, the company I work for does good work, I’m well paid, and it’s not super-stressful. Sure some of my colleagues are a bit annoying and I worry I’m atrophying (I’ve been here nearly 10 years) but it’s decent enough, it’s not a source of depression or anxiety.

  39. Definitely not. I mean, the money is pretty good and it pays the bills but i feel like i’m just sat killing time until the end of the day when i can actually begin to wind down and do what i want to do.

    i’m totally have an existential crisis tbh and really need to decide what i want to do when i grow up

  40. I’m a musician and enjoy my job. There are moments it’s kinda exhausting (late nights, long gigs, lugging heavy gear about, long journeys for nights in a row) and the money’s not good, but it’s really interesting and creative.
    I been playing guitar and writing music for 28 years so I’m glad I now get to do this for a living. Hoping to make a bit more money from it some day, that would be great.

  41. I tutor young people with complex needs and I love the work I do. It can be challenging and the pay isn’t great but it’s an interesting and rewarding job. I’m also an SEN worker on a play scheme and that job is so much fun!

  42. Happy is probably a bit of an overstatement but it does leave me content.

    I’m an accountant so most days aren’t amazing but you do get excellent job security, promotion opportunities and the pay is enough to live comfortably.

    I get to pick and choose the days I WFH as well so there is tonnes of flexibility (although I nearly always work more than my contractual hours)

  43. I’m happy in mine! I work for Citizens Advice and it’s pretty rewarding to help and advocate for people who can’t do it for themselves. I’m a big believer in the phrase “leave the world a better place than you found it” and working here makes me feel like I’m doing my bit towards that and making a difference.

    They’re also really flexible and supportive. Need to finish early one day for any given reason? Not a problem, just make up for it another day. Need to take an afternoon off with no notice because you’ve had a call from your kids school saying he needs picking up? Go do it, he’s more important than work. I’ve never been questioned or guilt tripped when I’ve had to take a sick day. People don’t feel ashamed to take time off with mental health, or pressured to come back before they’re ready because “they’re needed” like at other companies I’ve worked for.

    I’m also out of the house every day of the week again (which I much prefer to WFH, I hasten to add!) but as long as their job role allows it (mine doesn’t), people are being given the option to come into the office as often or as little as they feel comfortable doing. One of my colleagues has been in once, maybe twice so far this year. Others are in almost daily.

    I’m sure I could think of plenty more reasons I like my job, but I’ll stop going on now. But all in all, I find it to be a pretty great job and I’m very happy doing it.

  44. I’m a scaffolder on a construction site.
    It’s hard graft don’t get me wrong.
    But everything other than that is great.
    House music blasting all day
    Everyone has a laugh
    Fresh air, nice views, low stress
    7:30-5 just flys by and the pay is nice.
    10/10 imo

  45. My job is a YouTuber now so yes I’m happy with that. Hated my full time office job before and most of my friends hate their jobs apart from a couple who are doing pretty well in corporate stuff.

    A variety of reasons really – horrible bosses, feeling like the actual job is pointless, the work being unfulfilling and people wanting to do something they’d like to do. Others hate the work hours and power imbalance in a work hierarchy.

    For me I just hated how it both took so much of your time and made you wish away every single day of the week. I hated getting older when I worked in an office because I literally felt like my life was wasted away sitting at a desk at a job I didn’t like. Obviously not a new perspective on that type of work plenty of 1990s films criticised the same thing

  46. I love my job. Work as a quality technician for a mozzarella company. Our cheese supplies Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa John’s ect in UK and EU.

    Literally eat pizza all day.

    WIN

  47. I recently moved company and I do almost the exact same job as before but lower workload and 30% higher pay, I can’t complain too much.

  48. I run drama projects in prisons. There’s a lot of boring admin in between projects, but when I’m actually in there delivering a project, it’s wild… and awesome. I mean it’s tough and emotionally draining, but at the end of two/three months, when guys who’ve been addicts the whole of their adult lives get up on stage and perform a play we’ve all written together, and feel proud of themselves for once… man, it moves me to tears every time. Can’t not a love a job like that!

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