On a scale of 1 to 9, how much do you like your job?

[Pale Blue Dot]

"1" being absolute loathing and "9" being complete joy. I only did 1-9 so that I could include an "out of work" option.

I am putting myself at the lower end of the scale.

[LynneSin]

1. I would have given it an 8 but this morning sucked

:mad:

[Pale Blue Dot]

3. Sorry to hear that

I'm off today (my only day off this week) so my job actually seems better than usual.

Here: :hug:

[GOPisEvil]

2. Not too bad, but I'd like more out of my job.

I have great working conditions, and I'm paid an ok wage, but I rarely feel challenged. I need near-constant challenge or I get bored easily. That's where I am now, so I am looking around for a new position.

:-)

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. May I suggest:

NOT going into retail?

[GOPisEvil]

7. Unless I lose my current gig, that's not happening.

I'm looking for another state job. I just can't toss my almost 12 years of tenure...I SHOULD but not at the moment (ABB).

[SmileyBoy]

4. My job is the best one I've had so far in my life.

Being an equipment guy for a Division I college football team is probably the greatest experience someone who is a football fan (but not very athletic) would ever go through. I get paid good money to do most of my work before and after practice, and in between, I mostly get to hang around with the players and loaf around. Made some great friends, too.

Gawd, I love it.

[Pale Blue Dot]

6. That sounds cool! nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. Working for myself has been the best job.

It allows me the illusion of working when I want. The downside is that I don't relly get a vacation. I can go away but it is as if you are on call the whole time.

[demnan]

9. I have it about perfect right now

so why did I pick 7? Because I don't have a new project to build. I am sitting here on my ass in my nice private office with a window, a Bose and a Haligen lamp bored out of my mind.

But I don't have a deadline or a module to build. I don't have a database to design. I am working for a small company going down and they don't even know why. I'll tell you why. They let an asset like me sit around rather than using me to market for new business. The federal contracts are flying out the window elsewhere because we don't keep in touch with those who have the money to build systems. I try to smooze the clients but I've never been a good salesman. I program, goddamit! My new supervisor doesn't give a damn about anything except my signed timesheet.

I have over two thousand clients currently using a system that I built all by myself, so they would panic to give me up. So I remain employed just so I can make a minor fix every couple of months or so.

I want to build another system. I want to build it in XML. I want my walls covered with database schemas again.

[RebelOne]

10. I gave my job a 9.

I really love my job. Wonderful working conditions, great benefits and lots of vacation, sick time, holidays and personal days. The only problem is that the pay is not so great, but the benefits sort of make up for that.

[SOteric]

11. Job numbers 2 and 3 are a 9. Job number 1 is maybe a 7, swinging

down as low as a 3 last summer when my boss was being a weasel.

[Pale Blue Dot]

17. Gak! Your avatar!

Don't you know you're just encouraging him? :evilgrin:

[afraid_of_the_dark]

12. Considering the current employment climate...

And the fact that working for the university covers my tuition, I would have to say that my job is about an 8. My boss is terrific, the work is interesting and the pay isn't too bad. No benefits though (I'm just a measly student after all!), which is why it didn't get a 9. I'm just dreading having to actually find a job when I get out of school... I doubt I'll be into as good of a situation as I am presently!

EDIT: My SO was in a job that he hated, but that problem was solved when he was laid off. He's still looking... and it's been almost 2 years. If he was online right now, he'd be putting one in the ABB column!

[Bertha Venation]

13. Grateful to have a job. Enjoy the work I do. But I work for a complete

Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde psycho bitch from hell.

Dr. Jekyll is wonderful, thoughtful, appreciative, funny.

Mrs. Hyde is -- well. Suffice to say :scared:

The latter far outweighs the former.

So I chose 1.

[kiahzero]

14. I have two jobs

One is flex hours, great since I have classes and such to deal with.
The other is watching a computing site - I sit around and either do homework or play video games.

I voted a 7... would have been higher, except my hours for the second job suck this semester.

[Minstrel Boy]

15. I have it good,

and sometimes I forget how good it is.

I'm a full-time writer with a regular paycheque, working at home, setting my own hours. Pretty sweet deal, really.

[Pale Blue Dot]

16. I'm happy for you

In a seethingly jealous sort of way. What do you write?

[Minstrel Boy]

18. satire for a Canadian magazine called Frank, and fiction.

Had my first novel published a couple of years ago. Now working - with a horrible work ethic - on my second.

[Pale Blue Dot]

19. Is there an online link for Frank?

I love satire. Congrats on the great job.

[Minstrel Boy]

21. here it is, and thanks.

Though the online version is, sadly, extremely abbreviated. Less satire online, and more gossipy news.

http://www.frankmagazine.ca/

[readmylips]

20. Took early retirement...I Luv it!

Not much money in hand but I don't have to deal with the insults of big management.

[Superfly]

22. 5...Job is boring as hell, pay is wonderful

I do maybe 15 minutes of work a day, but that's OK because they are paying me handsomely for those 15 minutes.

[skippysmom]

23. Sounds just like my job

I have nowhere near enough work to last 40 hours. But I get paid well, have good benefits, and work flexible hours. I can work at home whenever I want.

But when this position ends in 18 months (grant funded) I can't wait to find something more challenging and in my field (museum education).

I just love this Bush economy -- ABB!

[mopinko]

24. i cannot even answer this poll

i have 2 jobs- mom, and artist. i love and hate them BOTH. that is why i am in therapy now.

[commander bunnypants]

25. I am really despising my job right now

ggggrrrrr


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