Who else misses the job they USED to have?

[Haole Girl]

Now is now, and then is then.

Times are different.

It's a different environment.

It is what it is.

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...

[kentauros]

1. I do miss the one from which I was most recently laid off.

Best job I ever had. Great people (for the most part), best wage, best work environment, and overall just a great job. Too bad the bankers had to go and ruin it all for everybody...

[Haole Girl]

3. What kind of work did you do?

:shrug:

[kentauros]

10. Sr. Pipeline Mapping Designer

I designed maps, routes for proposed pipelines, both on and offshore. Tiny little company, less than a dozen of us in that office :)

[MorningGlow]

2. I am nostalgic for when I worked at a TV station

It was TORTURE, the hours were HORRENDOUS, the owners PROFOUNDLY IGNORANT (the last one, Clear Channel--!--vaporized my entire position and me along with it) but... {sigh} the place got under your skin. Plus I really felt like I was providing a service instead of just trying to sell somebody something.

[Haole Girl]

4. It's nice to feel like you can make a difference

I know what you're talking about there. :hi:

[MorningGlow]

8. I was there on Sept. 11

Nuff said, yanno? :hi:

[Haole Girl]

16. Yes,

I know.

[Flaxbee]

5. I worked at a photography gallery in La Jolla, California

not the best wages, but I was in college, so it was OK.

Great photos, very nice owner/photographer, incredible view of the Pacific Ocean out the back windows.

Sigh. I should have parlayed that experience into a full time job managing galleries. Instead, dumbshit that I am, I went to law school and tried to be a corporate lawyer for 6 years. Idiot.

[Haole Girl]

6. Sounds like a great job...and location!

:-)

[Flaxbee]

42. it was. and the solar eclipse yesterday reminded me of the

eclipse I witnessed while working there - right off the southern California coastline in the early 90s. It was spectacular.

Damn, if I had a time machine... :(

[elehhhhna]

7. yeah. bigtime.

[Haole Girl]

17. .

:hug:

[Auggie]

9. I miss the steady paycheck...

(he writes on the way to bankruptcy)

[Haole Girl]

18. You and many others

:-( :hug:

[backwoodsbob]

11. Me VERY much

used to be service manager for a home improvement company.

The owners treated us like gold and we worked our asses off for them in return.

Anyone familiar with Detroit knows lellis restaurant...class all the way...the company rented it for our x-mas party several times..the first time the alcohol bill was over 10,000

They flew all the managers somewhere once a year to unwind..I went to aruba..bahamas...fishing in Key West

Loved that company.They eventually retired

[Haole Girl]

19. Wow... sounds like a great time

I never had all of those perks.. anywhere I worked!

[lukasahero]

12. I do - from several years back

It just seemed that everything came together at this one company - the people were the best, they were smart but fun and friendly and helpful. The pay was awful but it was a family run company of around 1500 ee's and it was great - big holiday parties, people used to hang out together after work. Absolutely insane workkloads but it felt like you 'did' something when you left for the day. I met my husband there and most of my facebook and 'real life' friends are those I met there.

:(

[Haole Girl]

20. Sounds like a pension plan firm I worked for once

I do believe it was a mistake for me to quit that job. Hindsight, you know...

:hug:

[Parche]

13. me me me

made good $$$ and it was not bad
the one 10years ago when i was at adidas doing their contract travel
:woohoo::hi:

[Haole Girl]

22. Those were the days...

things have changed so much. I know.

[MajorChode]

14. I was the oil boy for the Hawaiian Tropic bikini models

There was no future in it so I moved on to other things.

Boy do I miss that job.

[Haole Girl]

23. Somehow I don't believe this

But I've been wrong before. :P

[MajorChode]

36. I did lie. It was actually the Swedish Bikini Team.

[Inchworm]

15. All of them

:)

[Haole Girl]

24. Hi Inchie

:hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

21. I miss the building in which I used to teach

When a new building opened I was asked to go. I was flattered.

I should have known better.....

I know - I have a job. But I now also have issues with anxiety. I don't really want to go back on Xanax.

Right now I'm loving summer even though the weather is the worst I think it's ever been!

[Haole Girl]

25. Hope you don't have to go back on it...

though I often think I need that drug- very much - myself. :hug:

[Raven]

26. 35 years ago...I was a court Advocate for the mentally retarded in Alabama...

best job I ever had...most good I have ever done. I can still see the faces of my clients and remember their names...makes me weep.

[Haole Girl]

27. Sounds like you really made a difference

:hug:

[peacefreak]

28. Funny you should mention this...

I was thinking about it today. I was a bookseller for nearly 20 years. The business tanked last year. I still run into my old customers & they all say how much they miss the store. The pay sucked, retail at Christmas bit the big one, but we were an important part of the community.
You're right. It is what it is.

[Haole Girl]

29. I hate how the big box stores have changed life in our country

I used to love the little book stores... especially in the college town I lived it.

You know... I think I was born in the wrong generation.

[peacefreak]

30. Yeah & oh the irony...

They're beginning to tank also, thanks to Amazon.

[applegrove]

31. I've had lots of jobs over the years. I miss some more than others.

[Blue_Tires]

32. I miss writing for the Providence Journal

fun times, fun city...

[Ohio Joe]

33. being unemployed for a year now... ummm yeah - nt

[Aristus]

34. I miss driving my track:

I sure as hell don't miss all the extraneous bullshit that came with life in the Army, but I miss crewing the beast...

[fizzgig]

35. i miss the pay, the people and some of the work

but i don't miss management or the stress.

[backtoblue]

37. I was a family's personal assistant for a few years.

They were very wealthy and even helped pay for my college. I basically house-sitted and did some house and yard work, but didn't have a way of getting health insurance. So, I did the "grown-up" thing and had to go out and get a "real" job. Damned healthcare!

[bif]

38. I miss having a job. Period.

[Wapsie B]

39. Not me.

There wasn't a job I previously had that I'd go back to. Not a one. Then again I have this nasty habit of staying in environments that are no good for me. When I left my previous employer after nearly 17 years never once did it even feel weird not to go there everyday. I thought when I walked out the door for the last time I'd feel like I left my home, but I never did.

[Kali]

40. not me

waiting tables? ok money - too much time on feets, dickish bosses

pet store? loved that job even though boss was an idiot, but too much money went right back to the store!

other retail? :scared: :thumbsdown: :puke:

[northernlights]

41. I miss the income

I miss (most of) my clients
I miss (most of) my colleagues
I miss my work
I miss belonging someplace
I miss believing I had a future
I miss the income.

[arbusto_baboso]

43. My first post-Army job was in a library, and it was the best job I ever had.

The pay was piss-poor, but I bounded up out of bed every morning eager to get to work, and I had a lot of fun.

I will never enjoy another job the way I did that one.

[ginger14]

44. Hi! Yeah, I had a job I really liked

It didn't pay all that much and there were some negatives attached, but I loved the workplace and actual work. Problem was the people!!! It usually is: either boss, co-boss or co-workers. I quit under duress and now realize I was bullied in the workplace!:grr: I just didn't know that at the time.

[Scout]

45. I miss being a typesetter, when it was still a skilled trade and a craft...

before "desktop publishing" allowed any idiot with a computer to think they were a professional typesetter.

and then worst of all, i had to TEACH them how to do it right, putting myself out of a job!

fucking amateurs :grr:

[guitar man]

46. I do

I'm still working for the "same" company, but it ain't the same :(