Anybody else love their job?

[Gerald Genta]

I'm a chartered accountant but work in corporate finance. Generally don't mind my job. Def wouldnt say I love it but I think I am a fairly passionless individual! haha. The job can be super interesing although the hours can also be brutal. The last 6 months have been fairly tough and I havent enjoyed the job at all. Could be time for a change.

[smoz]

I qualified as a Train Driver last week after a very hard slog of a year learning (and even many more years applying for the role without success), and have now been allowed to drive trains on my own and I truly do love it. I will even more so once I settle in to solo driving more.

Congratulations Gregory, best of luck and I hope that you carry on enjoying it. I am in a similar line of work, I signal some of your colleague's trains for a living (we deal with everything out of Charing Cross, Cannon Street, London Bridge, much of the Thameslink, most of south east London and more recently most of the services out of Victoria). I have been doing this for about fifteen years and in the industry for nearly twenty.

I enjoy my work, it gives me a great deal of job satisfaction to know that I am doing a job which is useful to the country as opposed to jobs I have done in the past that were only benefitting shareholders.

[Ventura]

I'm genuinely envious of people who enjoy their job, whatever it is. I hated all the jobs that I've had.

[The Doc]

I cannot understand why anyone would study to become a medical practitioner.

You will spend most of your time looking down into someones mouth, looking up their asshole or having to listen to them moaning about something or other.

Soul destroying.

I am a trauma and specialist knee surgeon.
I love my job 85% of the time.
I take people out of pain and I put their broken bones back under the skin and stitch them up.
I love operating, it's a huge buzz and massively satisfying to do something creative and technical with my hands. No mouths, no bums, no bad smells in orthopaedics.

I make good money, I have total, and I mean total job security. All of my school mates went from Cambridge Uni into "the city" and make more money than me and most of them hate their jobs or are utterly bored.

Medicine is a wonderful career, with a slow start and amazing possibilities and career opportunities for anyone with an IQ of 120 to 200.

The NHS is, however, very broken.

I've just finished two operations this morning, one on the femur with a huge plate and screws, the other on a mangled fingertip when a car fell off the jack onto it. Both equally rewarding for everyone.

If I won £186 million on the Euro lottery, I'd still work as a surgeon in the Uk, just on better timetables for me.

Like, 10 days a month, flying in from Gstaad/Corfu/Paris/Singapore.

:)

[gregory]

Congratulations Gregory, best of luck and I hope that you carry on enjoying it. I am in a similar line of work, I signal some of your colleague's trains for a living (we deal with everything out of Charing Cross, Cannon Street, London Bridge, much of the Thameslink, most of south east London and more recently most of the services out of Victoria). I have been doing this for about fifteen years and in the industry for nearly twenty.

I enjoy my work, it gives me a great deal of job satisfaction to know that I am doing a job which is useful to the country as opposed to jobs I have done in the past that were only benefitting shareholders.

Thank you very much Bobby! ;)

You guys do a great job with a lot of responsibility on your heads, keep up the good work sir and keep enjoying it. :)

[ODP]

I am a trauma and specialist knee surgeon.
I love my job 85% of the time.
I take people out of pain and I put their broken bones back under the skin and stitch them up.
I love operating, it's a huge buzz and massively satisfying to do something creative and technical with my hands. No mouths, no bums, no bad smells in orthopaedics.

I make good money, I have total, and I mean total job security. All of my school mates went from Cambridge Uni into "the city" and make more money than me and most of them hate their jobs or are utterly bored.

Medicine is a wonderful career, with a slow start and amazing possibilities and career opportunities for anyone with an IQ of 120 to 200.

The NHS is, however, very broken.

I've just finished two operations this morning, one on the femur with a huge plate and screws, the other on a mangled fingertip when a car fell off the jack onto it. Both equally rewarding for everyone.

If I won £186 million on the Euro lottery, I'd still work as a surgeon in the Uk, just on better timetables for me.

Like, 10 days a month, flying in from Gstaad/Corfu/Paris/Singapore.

:)

Good reply. Don’t pay any attention to MickP. I’m increasingly of the opinion he is a troll and playing the part of an opinionated elderly gammon to wind us all up!

[trident-7]

I am a trauma and specialist knee surgeon.
I love my job 85% of the time.
I take people out of pain and I put their broken bones back under the skin and stitch them up.
I love operating, it's a huge buzz and massively satisfying to do something creative and technical with my hands. No mouths, no bums, no bad smells in orthopaedics.

I make good money, I have total, and I mean total job security. All of my school mates went from Cambridge Uni into "the city" and make more money than me and most of them hate their jobs or are utterly bored.

Medicine is a wonderful career, with a slow start and amazing possibilities and career opportunities for anyone with an IQ of 120 to 200.

The NHS is, however, very broken.

I've just finished two operations this morning, one on the femur with a huge plate and screws, the other on a mangled fingertip when a car fell off the jack onto it. Both equally rewarding for everyone.

If I won £186 million on the Euro lottery, I'd still work as a surgeon in the Uk, just on better timetables for me.

Like, 10 days a month, flying in from Gstaad/Corfu/Paris/Singapore.

:)

Inspirational reply, the job is primary & the compensation aka pay is secondary. There's a whole load of NHS 'hoops to jump through" which get in the way of the real job....the job that benefits the patient rather than cover the operator's medicolegal obligations. You can have the first....or the second....but you can't have both.

[smoz]

Thank you very much Bobby! ;)

You guys do a great job with a lot of responsibility on your heads, keep up the good work sir and keep enjoying it. :)

Ha-ha, I think it's about ten years since a driver last referred to me as "bobby", in fact I doubt if many of my colleagues would even get the reference these days.

[Madness]

Just approaching 30 years of being a pilot in the RAF, love the actual flying side of the job other bits are harder work. I've been flying helicopters since 97 non stop, no ground tours, in fact longest I've not flown is about 3 months with a damaged neck. When I was younger I flew on ops in Kosovo, Northern Ireland and Iraq. Had some brilliant times doing the sort of flying that makes you grin one moment, laugh with the rest of the crew the next and then nearly shit yourself as someone decides to try and take you out and it all gets way more serious.

Now I'm older I've been instructing people to fly both early on and on the front line and its really rewarding to do both. Still enjoy the flying and also in a lucky position that whilst I have no senior rank, my knowledge (at that age where you've accumulated lots of knowledge but not too old that you start forgetting it!) means I can gob off to way more senior officers about flying related stuff.

The pay is good, my job is very secure, apart from students occasionally trying to kill both of us and the crewroom banter is still very enjoyable and way more inclusive than it used to be.

Bad side, been to way too many funerals of friends but thankfully this job is getting safer, flying training no longer starts with the course photo and then someone saying "Statistically, one of you will die during your flying career"

Its been a bit of a generational thing, my great grandfather was a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, my grandfather flew Hurricanes, Spitfires and Mosquitos and I've done over 30 years of flying. My eldest is on officer training now and will start his flying career early next year so I haven't put him off.

Much like the surgeon said about the NHS is the same with the RAF, we have some great kit, just not enough of it and we do not care properly for our people. Way too much pointless repetitive non military training and not good enough housing or heating.

I would however stop with a Euromillion lottery win and fly something very modern and well kitted out with another pilot to fly it back for me so I can enjoy a very good glass of wine or beer.

Also living up to the cliche - how do you know I'm a pilot, I just told you!!

[Speedyexplorer]

Work in a specialist part of the dredging industry, have done for over 30 years. Been all over the world, some really good places and some right shitholes.
I could probably give it up tomorrow and as long as I found something part time my life style wouldn’t change, that probably tells you whether you love you job or not, you keep doing it even though you don’t need to.
I am however meant to be going to Australia next year, where I will be travelling back and forth more regular than I am used to, all that travelling might mean the end for me, will need to see how I cope now I’m getting on a bit. The wife might have other ideas about that though.

[Sharky]

I was enjoying my role in Finance (P&L / BS reporting etc) for a major telecoms company, but the last 2 years have been awful.

I was made redundant from my role back in Aug last year as it was being offshored (typical large company) so went internally for a role in a Data team which started when my old role ceased back in March this year.

This was great as I have gained greater knowledge and understanding of VBA/VBS, SQL, Microsoft Access etc that I never had before and is a good addition to my CV.

I was always given the impression that this role would go permanent.

Fast-forward to Aug this year and was told that the whole of the Data team that I am in is to also be offshored. Gutted to say the least.

Had a chat with a friend of mine last week and he has offered me a job in his engineering business. Completely different role, much more hands on than computer based although I will be doing some of the office work.

Really looking forward to the challenge. Plenty of opportunity for travel as well as picking up new skills etc.

I am lucky in that I have a very good redundancy package which will be useful if I don't get on with this new role etc.

Wish me luck!

Mark

[robcuk]

I had to think about this, but yes, 27yrs with the same employer, going from the office temp to , this year, being solely responsible for an annual budget of over €25m of EU taxpayers money

As a civil servant we gave a good pension package and, due to a recent tribunal ruling my retirement age has come down from 65 to 52 & 2 yrs And, as I’ve already banked my full pension contribution I can go at any time after 60 (Currently 58.5), mortgage pays off by 63, so I’m now in that position that I don’t have to stay past 60, mortgage isn’t huge, so I’m no longer living to work

In the back of my mind is the fact that my brother told everyone he’d retire at 60 and go off in his camper van round Oz, but Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma took him at 59 x

Married 26 yrs and really want to spend some quality time in retirement with ‘Er Indoors’ before dementia etc takes its toll.

[Mj2k]

Mark, sorry to hear you’ve been through it again; we are due some soon, god knows what it means for me.

Rob, lovely place to be! Live the retirement your brother unfortunately never got to & enjoy it for you both.

(Bloody civil servant packages lol, my sister is one!)


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[Sharky]

Mark, sorry to hear you’ve been through it again; we are due some soon, god knows what it means for me.

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Thank you. I hope your role is safe.

Mark

[adigra]

Really fascinating thread. Enjoyed reading all of the replies. Our time is so short and so many of us spend it doing unfulfilling things. Whenever I feel things are stagnating I think of the Arnold Schwarzenegger quote "Be useful." and it really does move me forward.

I am particularly surprised about the dentists loving their job, but quite glad to read it. I say that because I know a few dentists, and my wife's grandfather was one as well, and none of them seem very happy with the job and instead are quite obsessive about their hobbies.

I am an artist/illustrator/designer and I love all of the creative aspects of that.