Who loves their job?

I do. (But don’t tell anyone or else they might not pay me to do it.)

I have always worked in a very technical field. I love the thrill of discovery, picturing an arrangement in my head, and finally proving it. You might notice my answers often come with my urging the poster to try a certain experiment.

I worked for a large corporation for may years but decided to leave the nest and go out on my own. I now work under contract and with the help of a couple of exceptionally capable guys have more work than we can handle. We all feel we are working for the team. It’s great. When we are working on a particularly intense project we get so sucked in we lose track of time. We would do the work for free bu they still pay us.
Stay in school and take technical track if you can.
Last time I checked, they were not opening up any new philosophy factories down the road. (Not that there’s is anything wrong with philosophy)

Welcome to Fluther loves400nm !

My husband loves his job. He is doing the kind of work he likes, computer problem shooting, and he likes his co-workers and his boss. The company he works for is doing well, so his future is not in question, and he has decent benefits.

My current “job” is raising and teaching my children. I love it a lot.

I love my job…..except I work for an asshole…lol

I do, I do. ( I teach 3rd grade).

Third grade, not quite babysitting (say, like 1st grader) and you don’t get the attitude (think, 4th grade mouthiness). They’re eager to learn and have wonderful imagination. It’s fun. :)

I love my job. I’ve been doing this for 11 years now, and I have trouble picturing myself being happy doing anything else. I’m happy because I work for a not-for-profit, so I don’t have “sales goals” to meet. I’m happy because my job is to help people accomplish their goals with my company. So each day, I leave the office knowing that I helped someone today. That is a very satisfying experience to have every day. The folks here pay me well (relative, of course; it’s a not-for-profit, not some Wall St. bank!) so I don’t feel financial stress. The folks who run the company have created a company culture that says, “work hard during the day, but when the day’s up, leave everything on your desk, walk out the door, and don’t think about work again until you get here tomorrow”. This culture allows us to enjoy our lives outside of work, which is key, I think.

Finally, I think it’s important to note that if I were financially well-off, I wouldn’t work at my job. I’d manage the horse racing business I have on the side and spend time doing things I love that don’t involve work. But that’s not realistic for those of us who are solidly stuck in the middle-class. So I’ve gotten lucky, worked hard, and made the best of it in the rat race. And I’m quite happy.

I have a brand new job but it brings together under one umbrella (as it were) the three jobs I have been doing for the last ten years. It is my dream job. I get to work with students (which I love) I get to teach (which I value), I get to improve what we are doing in the specific area I am now working to give the students we teach a much better learning experience (which I have wanted to do for a long time). I also get to research in my own field (which I am passionate about). AND… I get weekends without having to work for the first time in so many years and so I get to spend much more time with my beautiful family.

I am retired, but I work as a volunteer teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). I love it, and I love learning about other cultures. And my students are simply delightful.

I am manufacturer of adhesives and liking my job more and more as in 2 weeks I will finally have unlimited control and responsibility and can finally account for my time as I please!! YEEE HAAAaaaaa!! ;))

I loved my job and actually looked forward to each new day. I enjoyed being with the public and keeping them safe. My time has come to an end and I am retired. That was a really tough day for me to say goodbye to my police officer friends. We had all laughed and cried together on certain calls. They knew I had their back and vice versa. Each day was different. Maybe, this is why I loved the job so much.

I do love my job.. and I thought that was unusual until I read the other posts.
I work for a very big corporation but don’t feel like I work at a cube farm.
It’s very creative, challenging and collaborative. I feel like I learn something new almost every day. I travel a bit—not too much, just right for me (about 25–50% of the time). I work in software and do solution consulting on the pre-sales side. It’s just the right blend of technical (geek speak) and functional (business process) to suit my skills/personality.

In my past experience it seems to me that one of the most important factors in a job is whether you have a good boss or not. I have a wonderful, supportive boss..with so many positive attributes that it could take a whole ‘nother lengthy post. Suffice it to say that I’ve learned that my job-happiness is directly linked to the ethics/attitude/style of my direct supervisor(s), and thankfully I’ve been fortunate enough to work for really great people over the past decade.

I love teaching, which is a part of my job. unfortunately, it’s a very small part (I work in academic management now, which I have developed a great distaste for). I try to make the best of it every day, and can usually find something about the rest of it that I like.

I do Macintosh IT support for a private school. I love my job because it’s something new every day and no one is breathing down my neck telling me what to do. The only thing I really regret about our upcoming move to Portland is leaving my job- I have worked at the same company for 22 years!

Yes, I do. I have been able to translate my 25+ years of experience in medical imaging and my post graduate qualifications into my dream job- teaching tertiary students the profession. With a mix of research and teaching, and getting out into the field and visiting my students and their supervisors, I am very satisfied at the moment.

My paid job is part time nannying… I LOVE it. I get to laugh and be hugged on even my worst work day, and I love being a positive influence in my kiddos’ lives.

My unpaid job is student teaching… I love that too! I am loving learning how to get through to all sorts of different kids and differentiate my lessons so that everyone understands. I love reading to them, seeing ideas click, and seeing improvements in even the short time I’ve been in the classroom. I especially love realizing that after countless hours and dollars spent on grad school, I made the right choice!

I work for the phone company as a maintainence worker on complicated communications equipment.
I love my job, since it envolves trying to figure out puzzles, driving around the East Bay, and has a variety of duties.
I also hate being under floresent lights all day.

I do! I spent many years in a field I basically fell into: administration/office management, with a side of accounting. During most of my career, I functioned as a kind of ‘right-hand-girl’ to every boss I’ve ever had. After taking a long break (14 years as a stay at home mom – with one brief job in there), I was looking to get back into the work force.

Meantime, I joined Fluther as a new member. Asking and answering questions, getting to know people, learning new things… and this led to a volunteer moderator position. In less than three years, being your community manager became my actual full-time job! I love my bosses, my co-workers (shout out to the mods!), and – most of all – the people I really work for… this community. What’s not to like about that?

My job as a partner in my marriage is to make life easier for the working partner of our union. I love it.

I love my job! (this is starting to feel like a Job-lovers anonymous meeting! My name is Harple, and I love my job!)

Teaching the harp one-to-one and in small groups is sheer bliss! There’s no bad part about it, and the rewards are endless! I’ve said this before, but I don’t work in this job, I just enjoy myself!

(On a different note, as I’ve only just got back to doing this job, I’m also doing some other work while I build up the teaching again, and that is picture framing. Goodness, it’s great fun! This is going to sound stupid, but it really feels very artistic! A very hands on job where at the end you feel like you’ve completed the work of art… it really transforms even the most unassuming piece into something special!)

Isn’t it interesting how many of us work in jobs where we either work with people (police officers, nannies, teachers, partners) or we are working in some creative capacity (and I include people in this category who are technical in that you have to critically work out problems and design and find solutions). There seem to be some themes here. Not to mention how important the people we work with are.

I am now a stay-at-home mommy to the sweetest little 5 month old boy on the planet (I’m not biased or anything)! I love it!
Before he was born, I was a graduate teaching assistant. Before that, I was a graduate research assistant. I LOVED both of those, as well.
I am about to enter the paid job market. I will most likely be working for a non-profit. I’m pretty sure I will be happy then, as well.

You know, I’ve worked in a lot of jobs over the years, and I was pretty happy in most of them. It makes me wonder if it’s not so much about the job as it is the person holding the job that results in making us happy in our work. Maybe it’s a different mind-set?

I believe I do!

I work in a milk bar. It’s just for while I’m studying at university, and I haven’t been here for very long, but I don’t think I could do much better than this. My boss isn’t an asshole, my co-workers are wonderful, and most of our customers are lovely. This shop has been here for over 80 years: we get a lot of elderly people mentioning how they used to come here and buy lollies every day after school, and we still get that 3:45 rush every school day.

Sure, the sweet ‘70s decor is in need of some TLC. There’s a statewide (worldwide?) retail slump and we’re not as busy as we should be. But I feel like part of a team, somebody others see as trustworthy and responsible. School children, disabled people, parents, grandparents: people come here for a good time, and we have a solid base of regulars who seem to depend on this place as much as I do.

In short: I get a discount on ice cream and chocolates, why wouldn’t I love my job?

@iphigeneia

What is a milk bar? Is that like a soda fountain? What country is this in (I figure not the US or you wouldn’t say “lollies”!)?

I like my job but I wouldn’t be able to say that I love it.

I love my job. I am an analyst working with banks. Lot of numbers and report writing. Very intellectually challenging. Been doing it 18 years and still having to learn new things every day.

@crisw I just looked it up on Wikipedia, I didn’t know milk bars were an Australian thing! I suppose they are a little bit like soda fountains. The wiki article gave a rather broad description, but our shop is just like a simple cafe with an ice cream parlour and lolly/candy shop tacked on the front.

I do. I’m a manager in IT.