I know it sounds like an easy answer, but I was wondering how many PP guys really can honestly say they like their job.
I'm sure we could all do something we like more, but I'm asking if you're happy with what you make in salary and your day to day routine at work.
Is it time to reasses the career or stay right where you are?

JD

I'm good with mine.

at age 45 sh!t! i am sure every job has it's repetitive crap. there is only one job that i feel could be great. the repetitive drudgeries would be welcomed. hugh hefner has the job of jobs.

Dear Mr. GayBar-

You are not only the president of the oregon twenty club, you are probably just 20. Put in a few more years on the wheel of life and then ask again.

As for me, I'm a figurehead with no spending limit, I have a prune for a wife, and a secret romance with AuntyM. I'm good here.

love mine you can't beat retirement

Which one?

As I [censored] canned work and joined the ranks of the retired, I can say I like my present job, hours required, and overall job environment.

Retired is a really good occupation!!!!

Banker job is a bit of a bummer at the moment, and will likely be that way for a few years. Sad seeing folks I know take a turn for the worse.

The contracting job I have on the side is interesting, rehabbing foreclosed properties. Cleaning out people's crap can be mind numbing, but it can also be rewarding. I found a trombone last night! The day before I found some vintage porn.

Loving my life, beit making a dollar or two... I pay my bills and play a-lot...

That's what it's all about isn't it?

Keith

Here's a post that'd get me fired if my boss ever read it... maybe I'll delete it in a day or three...

I dislike my job but I'm stuck there for the time being. I enjoy the subject matter and responsibilities I have. It's mainly due to the quality of people I am forced to work with and for. I'll just say every once in a while you have to pull some weeds to keep the garden looking pretty......and my workplace seems to have no one close to a gardener.

My Boss is a spineless Indian(from India) man who doesnt stand up for himself or anyone else on his staff.
He's way too gullible and passive(clammy & limp handshake kinda guy)
He'll publicly berate someone for making a common or honest mistake, which in front of his staff and peers, he loses much respect.
He's the classic techie who had no management skills or training, got promoted due to someone making a knee-jerk decision, and now supervises 65 people. /rant

On a positive note, I probably wont be working for him by the end of 2011. I've done pretty good for myself at my present company and have a good life. We have newer cars and a good piece of property, all stuff I can can afford with a decent salary and a wife who graduated from U.W. majoring in business/finance, she keeps our books clean/bills paid. 35 vacation days a year, decent benefits, free cell-phone use, etc.


Many times I've either been offered a job or about applied for one, and in retrospect I'm really glad I didn't pursue or accept. Many of my old co-worked said F! this place and bailed, only to find the company they left for to make a 10% raise is now closed, or they got laid off 6 months later (Cough-Clearwire) and are now unemployed for the last year.

It could be worse, right?

yeah..I know it could.

There are a hundred things I'd rather do, but this job pays the bills better than all hundred of those things right now...and it's stable.

Dogfish, I appraise quite a few REO properties and I cannot believe the amount of trash, etc. that there is in alot of these homes. Sometimes it is just flat out gross.

To answer the question: I have two jobs. I am a full time residential real estate appraiser and I also drive a school bus part time. The school bus gig became necessary 4 years ago when the sub prime bomb went off and appraising came to a stand still. As I started to did out of the hole, the HVCC regulations went into effect and I lost all my clients so I got to start over again.

Today, my appraisal business is doing quite well and I still drive a bus for the University Place school district. The appraisal industry is pretty much the same as being in sales, some months are great others less so. However, on the whole it was a good choice for me. The job has allowed me to work from home and therefore we have not needed to use day care as I can work my schedule around our 2 kids. Some days I definitely wish I had an office somewhere else to go hide in but overall I have a good career , good wife, good kids, house, nice truck and a restored 1987 Olympic Hardtop that is the love of my life. I can honestly say that I have been blessed.

i loved my old job printing newspapers. good paying honest work, and couldn't beat the hours for fishing(wednesday - sunday, 6pm-1:30am). unfortunately that business is in the crapper now, along with all other commercial printing, so my training isn't doing me any good now.

now i'm a small engine mechanic, it's not a bad job but i hate small business BS even more than dealing with the red tape working for a big company. i get to meet a lot of interesting people and my job gives me a new challenge every day.

the thing that tortures me though is living within 20 miles of about 7 different fishable rivers and being stuck working banker's hours with weekends off now. gonna look into one of those pontoon building jobs once they start hiring i think...

That depends on what day you ask and sometimes what time of day you ask.
I am not looking for something else. Sometimes I am proud of that and sometimes its just plain stupid. I guess the good out weighs the bad but it can get hard to remember the good.



sometimes

I love my job, have just over 20 years with them. Although all the time away from home can get old, you cant beat the benefits.

Lets see if I can even get into this without getting too pissed, and deleting everything.

Do I like my job?

Short answer: No.


Before starting where I am now, I spent about 5 years chasing med. calls, car accidents and fire. I was fun, felt like I was doing something good, blah blah. BUT, there was always a call here and there to bring me back to the reality of what I doing; emergency response. Emergencies don't always end well. Trying to cut the top of a car off as fast as you can, while the occupant is screaming, "CUT MY f"ING LEGS OFF!!!", his bilateral femur fractures easily diagnosed by the bones sticking out of his pant legs. Or the car accident where five of the people I grew up with were killed. Or breaking the back window out of a sinking car in a canal, so I could sit in the back seat, stabilizing the broken neck of a pregnant woman, while the rest of the guys worked to pull the car out...Or, or, or... $hit that sticks with you, steals your sleep at night.

*Career change*

Next, I spent 9 years chasing forest fires around the country. Exciting, different, no car accidents or med calls! Instead, I spend three weeks in one state, get a day or two r&r, and be in some other state for three weeks, r&r...., repeat. My two week time sheets, 212 hrs. Flying around in helicopters, taking expensive fire trucks into holes they don't belong... great stuff for a single, young dude. I felt like I was making more money than God. I paid my way through four years of college, and paid it off before graduating. I bought a new diesel pickup, and paid cash. Then a drift boat, and another car...all while still being able to squirrel money away in the bank. But then I found out $hit happens in that career choice as well. Family life suffers, free time is non-existant, and then there are bad fires. Cramer Fire This one blew up in our face. I had stayed with these two guys at their helibase the night before, and less than 24 hrs later, sat looking through the smoke wondering where in the hell they were at up the hill from us. We heard them call time after time for a pick up. Our helispot had burned over as well, so we made the call to hike down to Cache Bar, on the Salmon River. Hiking out through that fire, we heard one last call, "We're buggin out"... and nothing more.

*Current*

I graduated with a B.S. in Fisheries Science, hoping to work with what I loved most; fish. I intended to be in a Bio position somewhere, working to correct the errors of our past. Alas, Bio. positions are more rare than leprechaun gold. After 4 years of looking, I finally decided a job, is better than no job, and began working at, choke, a hatchery. Now, before you burn me at the stake, the majority of what we do, is make planter trout for lakes/ponds, with no native populations, no outfalls, just a bunch of people and happy kids with bobbers and worms. I drive the 'fish truck'. I have to have a CDL, and if I ever blow over .04, be it on a road stop, or even a random 7:30 a.m. workday screen test, I lose my job. I had to pay for the license, and future renewals, and get no added pay for having it. I am required to live on station (in a 79 year old house, with no insulation), and rotate duty shifts with a couple co-workers. Run out of milk, or t.p.? Next week when I'm off duty I can drive 20 miles to get some. Someone has to be here 24hrs a day, every day of the year. Thanksgiving, I'll be cleaning raceways (no holiday pay, but I do get an extra day off next week!) The pay is beyond horrible... Last month, my check was $1,547.20 "But you have benefits" I always hear. True...but I don't utilize them. Can't afford to add the co-pay to my other expenses. I suppose if I had a family, it would be more beneficial...but can I afford a family? With one child, I literally qualify for low income assistance; food stamps. My annual income is less than what I paid each year for the damn degree that got me here. "But you get to live on a river!" True... but how many of you would really like to live on the hatchery stretch of a river? Countless shifties rummaging around your home before dark, making campfires they burn garbage in, rocking out to pre-dawn masterpieces such as Eminem. Not to mention dealing with the public, many of whom are extremely anti-govt. Last year, while planting trout into a fishing pond, I was cornered by two drunk dudes, and spit on, because ODFW is raising fees. Guess I missed the memo that I had something to do with that. Then there was the guy on another popular fishing forum, who made a post, complete with the contact info for the higher powers to be in Salem, urging people to write in for me to lose my job because I didn't stock a location for Free Fishing Weekend. A location that was not scheduled to even get a plant.

Thank God, I have a few side gigs which, combined with my pay, almost covers my monthly expenses...almost. Thank God also for that squirreled away fire money.

My boss asked me just last week, "How long are you going to be here?"
I answered, "I look for something new everyday."

So, to answer JDarr's question... No, with things the way they currently are, I do not like my job. It wouldn't take much to train a monkey to do what I do, and that pisses me off. I didn't bust my ass in school (only getting 4 C's in 4 years of college) to do this. I feel like I'm selling myself short, and it frustrates the hell out of me daily.


whew... I'm out. Gonna go walk the dog down the river.

If jobs didn't suck, they wouldn't pay you for being there.

On my third career now...this one pays the least, by far, but I enjoy it the most, by far...I'm my own boss, which means I get to have free time while others have to work, and it also means sometimes I work til well past midnight several nights in a row, no matter what day of the week it is...

Fish on...

Todd

Wow, great question. I ask myself this daily..and have been for several years...

Do I like my current job? No!
Do I need my current job? Yes!
Big, Big difference in these two questions...
Everyone have a great Thanksgiving, I know what I'll be thankful for this year!!

See ya, RJ

Oh Oh... I pick this one!!!
Are there any important skills or classes I need to take to sign up as the fishing bum husband of a wealthy wife?

JD

I'm a Cooger hunter...lotsa divorced women on the Eastside that took their Exs to the cleaners. Wont go over 60 though...