I LOVE/HATE MY JOB

[sephson]

I work with stage lighting and effects. I go to work to play!

 

[ZoNiE]

I hear you on the corporate bs Compassrose, I hear ya!

I wouldn't call the HD Crap she went through "Corporate" I would call it "unprofessional behavior typical of unqualified managers in a retail setting who know they are unqualified, but have to use such tactics to keep everyone under and around them down so their secret doesn't get out." Yeah, that's what I call it.

Corporate behavior is much more calculated and subtle, usually, and perpetrated by OVER educated douchebags... :dodgy:

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Theadyn]

Did hair years ago, for nine years. Love/hate with that. Late customers, some you could never please, the gossiping, family taking advantage, and always having to be 'on'. I did like some of my clients, but the rest of it got too old after that long, so I changed to something different. Went to work at a circuit board manufacturer, that job was kind of neat. We had our own little stations, listened to earphones, and the work was interesting. Moved, went back into hair for a while, then had a disagreement with the owner and I had to leave. So then it was working two jobs at anyplace I could find, which was food and hotel. Yeah.. didn't really like those much. Then I was an older college student for a while, went into xray. I LOVED working with the patients, hated all the bs with the coworkers. Add in the useless meetings, HIPPA laws, multitude of mandatory shots, CPR training yearly, JCAHO (which inspects) showing up without warning, and again.. always having to be 'on'. Not working now, but still youngish. Can't figure out what's next for me, just yet. If I just didn't have to put up with the bs that comes with most of them, I'd probably be pretty happy.

 

[compassrose]

The biggest thing is this... I have been self-employed. I do not like working for other people. I do not like a single person (or small group of people) telling me what to to, when to do it, how to do it and how long it should take to do it. I don't like other people dictating how I am to live my life. And that is what happens when you work for others. Big or small you do what they say. Want to take a few days off? Nope. Got to ask permission. Basically you are treated like a child. And get paid for it.


Now I'm supposed to work today (10am-7pm) but I scratched my eye at work somehow yesterday and today I can't keep the thing open and it's tearing like mad. So I'm calling in. If they don't like it, tough.

 

[eDJ_]

I've liked most of my Jobs.  Some of my Corporate jobs weren't so good however.  A lot of BS that I couldn't even believed I'd experience there.  I found in Corporate work that being in a medium sized Corporate situation was probably best.  It was more secure there without layoffs at every economic ripple. Semi annual employee evaluations allowed you to know where you stood.  My last Corporate job was with a German owned company and they ran a tight ship which was 180 opposite of some of the Large outfits I worked with which were more like a circus.

I started working in grade 6 selling Grit Newspapers on the week end days.  Enjoyed it especially when I sold enough to get my first canvas bag.

Later I passed a paper route and did well with it.  But by14  the owner of a
gas station in my neighborhood offered me a job doing custodial work and
beginning to pump gas. Did well and worked for him till I was around 18.
A customer who worked at a Supply company offered me a job driving a
night shift delivery truck around the town so I took it.  Loved that job.

After a couple of years I found a job as a Steel Worker at a larger fabrication
company and worked there during the summers when I was in University.

I later rented a house that had a two stall garage where I ran a simple running
repair shop and my old boss at the gas station would send business my way
when he didn't want those small jobs which weren't so valuable to him.

I had worked a number of jobs before finishing my education and getting on
with a Corporation where I could work in a Lab and do what I was wanting to do.
This is when I began to realize how much politics and slacking older employees
could do and find ways to shift it onto the young single guys. 

That's when I began to use my Van to be able to move between divisions of the
Company in short order to take the jobs the "married with children" set didn't want
to do and I found I could get raises and promotions for doing it.  Before that my Van
was rather much for recreation and moving stuff for the family.

When I saw the internet coming I got training such that I could work from home
and be self employed.  Probably the first "ground floor" opportunity ever to come my
way and do I love it.

If I were to do anything different,  I'd move to a state like Florida or Texas (no state income tax)
and file to go out of the country and work as an Expat.    Some place I could live well, beautiful
view, in an Off Grid home.  Or perhaps find an older 48 ft Yacht for cheap to live on and have my
Van in the parking lot of the Marina for weekend touring.   I'm thinking of Panama or Costa Rica.
But I could like my job a lot more living like this.

 

[ilovemyvan]

eDJ_

You sound like my kind of character. It's nice to see people who build a pleasant life for themselves. Good for you. Somehow I think you'll get that boat one day.

-Nicole