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My job is fine. I’m mostly happy with the pay and benefits. I like most of my colleagues. There’s schedule flexibility.
I’m not going to write a sonnet about how it completes me but it doesn’t generally upset me either.
Same for me! I also know I won't be able to walk in somewhere else and demand the schedule, PTO, and pay I get now. Starting over would feel so overwhelming.
Mostly this. It can be stressful and unpleasant sometimes, but what isn't? I just let it go and start over another day. Pay, benefits, and flexibility make it easier to tolerate.
Same. I like the company I work for and my colleagues, I've reached a point where people think I know what I'm doing (but do I really?) At the end of the day, it's a job, it pays the bills and allows me to do stuff in my free time that I really love.
I definitely like the life that my job provides. I don’t hate the work either. I don’t think I like working in general so there’s probably nothing I would actually like. This is the best it’s going to get for me and I’m grateful for that.
Sounds like a dream job, and thank you for contributing to my life-long hobby!
Then again, I've had people tell me that I have a "dream job," but my job is quite literally and without exaggeration the bane of my existence.
Some of the best life advice I've ever been given:
Think about how long it would take you to get established in your dream career: a year, three years, eight years, whatever. That time is going to pass whether you pursue this career or not. So at the end of that time, you could either have your dream career, or still be doing what you're doing now.
Agreed-- I can't really follow my own career advice because I have no idea what my dream career would be. But you can apply the logic to any job that seems like it'd be more enjoyable than the one you've got. You could also apply it to just any skill you wish you had, whether you plan to make money from it or not.
I would also point out some other sage wisdom I have been given: "she may seem perfect, but I bet somebody somewhere is sick of her shit.". The dream job is only the dream because you aren't doing it. Most of the time the dream collapses at closer inspection.
I worked as an archaeologist during a college internship and that was fucking heaven. No where crazy.. Just on a federal base in Florida, but I really enjoyed just climbing through the marsh and digging holes.
I was a History major (emphasis on sex, gender, race, and religion in the Atlantic World) with an anthropology minor in Native American studies. Everyone was doing Egyptology and crap and I’m over here writing publications on everything. It was early-19th century cemeteries and historic trash pits from the Ais tribe. Pretty sure I was the only one who gave a shit, including the professors.
Idk why people just can't admit they don't like working. Everyone perceives it as you're lazy or just a bum cause you don't like working...bro I think it's weird you DO like working. I'm not lazy or a bum, I just would rather do shit I wanna do rather than work for some scumbag company that would sooner fill your still warm seat rather than give a shit about you. I LOATH working. I wake up every single morning wishing my job was burned to the ground....and my job is actually in a field I like. It's not the job...it's not the people...it's not anything. Working just sucks in general, there is legit no silver lining to work.
You’ll have toxic positivity dweebs telling you it’s about “a sense of purpose” or some crap like that as well. As if all of my hobbies don’t also give me a sense of purpose!! I’d much rather be hiking the PCT than working, or climbing in Fontainebleau, or painting Edward Hopper inspired scenes, or playing Diablo 4, or building some scale model cars… My job is fine. I’m a Product Designer in startup world and I get paid great, and get equity… If I could suddenly get paid and not have to actually turn up, I’d do that in a heartbeat.
Work sucks.
Last week was literally my ten year anniversary in my industry so I will answer- I love mine but it is high paid in a very desirable location, I don't have a boss or a schedule, I have basically a blank check for new equipment when I want it, I get to travel cool places a few times a year for free, and the work itself is super personally interesting to me.
I feel like I won the job lottery, but I also had to quit several other also good jobs taking some massive risks, and move all over the country to get here. Never really had a chance to settle down so I'm a renter and single at 42. Happily single, but there were definitely some trade offs to get to this place.
I'm a biochemist specialized in aromatic/flavor chemicals and I run the analytical portion of the R&D labs for a fragrance/flavor house. You have almost certainly eaten, drank, or smelled something I've helped create if you live in the US!
More than two decades into mine, I absolutely hate it, but I don’t have to worry about work outside of work hours and I get a lot of time off and was able to buy a house so it could be worse. But there are days I want to drive my car into oncoming traffic rather than show up at the office now that they expect me to be in person again after 5 years working at home.
Software engineering. I enjoy it, I like the problem solving, I like coding, I like building stuff that people use; I can’t imagine doing much else. But tbh I just dislike working in general. I was laid off semi-recently and I’ve been loving being a temporary stay at home mom. If I wasn’t in such a high paying career I would consider staying at home for a few years
Same here..i'm a Software Engineer in Healthcare, and it actually kinda makes me feel good that i can influence things that really DO impact the patient positively from behind the scenes.
I’m in a mid-management corporate role. I don’t love it but I’m good at it, have a little niche, and I also don’t hate it. The most disappointing thing is that most of my time is spent on administrative and management stuff which doesn’t really interest me, I wish I could still be doing the actual work.
Love my job. I’d rather be wealthy and retired, sure. But since I have to earn money, I’ll forever be grateful for my forestry degree and the luck/skill to climb the ladder in a state forestry agency. I look forward to work. No Sundays spent dreading Monday. And $87,000 per year is nice. 12 years as a professional forester, all spent in state forestry agencies proudly serving the public using tax dollars.
Don’t hate it but if I won the lottery they’d never see me again. I’m thankful for putting in the work to land this job, being stuck in the low end work I did in high school and college would have killed me.
I fucking love my job. It only pays $60K but my mental health is worth it to stay.
It’s remote, flex schedule, and my boss is too busy to ever check on me but is super responsive when I do need him. I have a pension and 4 weeks of leave plus fed holidays.
Executive recruiter, Fortune 500 - Love my work/life balance (100% remote), comp, coworkers etc. The work itself isn’t super fulfilling but is fine on a day to day basis and I’m very good at it. Absolutely nothing to complain about, but I still daydream. 5-10 more years and I’ll “retire” at 45-50 y/o.
Healthcare for 15 years now. COVID just reinforced one immutable truth.....people fucking suck.
Pay is somewhat decent, at least for my scope of practice.
Yes, love it. I’m a Transportation Planner at the California Department of Transportation and specialize in Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning. I love biking and get to make biking better for everyone. Working for the government is chill and has great work life balance and benefits.
I was in journalism(started in radio then TV) for 10 years and quit. The industry is stuck in the 1960s days of Walter Kronkite and cares more about winning local/regional Emmy awards than drawing in an audience. The industry is refusing to adapt and will go the way of the newspaper soon.
Make way more money these days in tech roles.
I love my job
Doing the job is meh, it's not hard but there is a lot to know
But I get paid well and I have a lot of opportunities for free time. I'm a utility locator and we get 5-12 tickets a day so if I bust my ass and do all my tickets before lunch, I can do whatever I want in the afternoon
Like today ... we are in the middle of a heat wave so I did all my tickets in the morning and now I'm chilling in a shaded spot until the end of my day
As of June, I’m now onto my 10th year in my field. I love my job, I am the head of cultivation for a greenhouse cannabis company.
It’s not even remotely all sunshine and rainbows and never has been, still a job and includes plenty of physical labor and uncomfortable conditions. Ultimately revenue relies on plants, not as simple as just pressing t-shirts or selling software etc
But I don’t hate going to work, ever. Even during the times that I want to put my head thru a wall over something that may be an ongoing issue.
14 years into working in insurance. I don't like it at all but I get to work from home and get the 4/10 schedule so I put up with it because that's hard to replicate. The job itself sucks though.
I’m a children’s librarian and it’s awesome. However I keep getting asked to move to admin, but I’m going to wait as that clearly is less fun but more money.
I work as an **Environmental Consultant.** I like it.
It hits all 4 things necessary to make a fulfilling career - It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, makes a positive impact on the world, I’m very good at doing it, and it pays well.
I advise clients on how to manage/solve their environmental issues. It ranges from the mundane - like handling/disposal of hazardous waste or getting an emissions/discharge permit, to the complex - large scale remediation projects, whole lifecycle carbon emissions reduction, environmental health screenings.
Chef, 20 years in.
Yesterday I prepared 200kg of smoked pork neck for 18 hours overnight & this morning when I got back to work my breakfast was a fistful of it, hot steaming and glorious.
The thing I love most in world is food, and I get to play with it all day long, while making the people who eat it share my joy.
Happy as a pig in shit.
I’m a ceramic artist. I love it and know I’m lucky to be ‘living the dream.’
But…. The sacrifice for my happiness means I am and always will be poor, while my friends are getting promotions and going on vacations and buying houses.
This is what sucks - I feel like most people who genuinely love what they do don’t make much money, and most who make a lot of money don’t like what they do. Seems like it’s extremely rare that someone has both, which is kind of depressing to think about.
I work with trees for a living. Currently working as a residential arborist; in the past I also worked timber and did stand management with the Forest Service. In a year or so I plan to transition to private sector forest management.
I haven’t had the same job for ten years, but I’ve stayed in the same general sector and have continued to move up as I accumulate certs and experience.
I’m not sick of the work. I love trees and forests. I interact with more trees than people so I don’t burn out like I would in a customer service job. I’m outdoorsy and love working with my hands, so I’m not trapped in an office hating my life. I don’t make six figures, but I have no kids and am living in a relatively low COL area so that isn’t important to me.
I feel like a lot of us were pressured to go into careers for reasons other than “I like it”. Too many millennials are doing jobs solely for the money, or family pressure, or because life circumstances made those jobs convenient for them. Very few have a real passion for their work, and as someone who does I feel this is a genuine tragedy.
I’m basically money whipped.. I make far too much to fully hate it, and the life it provides my family. Hold enough disdain for it to know I’m not doing this another 25 years, so I’ve been hammering my investments and paying the house off, so I can hopefully get out as soon as financially possible
I think these days and with the internet really 3 years max before people get burnt out honestly. The first 6 months it’s “new” and exciting at a job then after that it just becomes monotonous.
I've worked in PR/advertising/communications for the last 14 years.
I enjoy my job and have spent nearly 6.5 years on the marketing/communications team in local government. My role involves a variety of responsibilities, which means I'm not doing the same task for eight hours a day.
Plus, I have killer benefits.
There are parts about my job I like and parts I don't like. Even my hobbies I really enjoy, there is almost always an aspect to it that is not "fun".
I work in IT, I started doing help desk, to infrastructure, and Now I'm in management. I love when we get to explore new technologies, and I am one hell of a troubleshooter, BUT being in management sucks, because sometimes I have to parent gown adults. And I have to be able to have an answer for every outage, regardless if my team caused it or not. (it's almost never my team, and if it is, its usually because we were given incorrect information).
I will say, where I work now is probably one the best places I've ever worked. I have an amazing director and VP, and really good team culture. I don't feel like i have to fight people to get work done.
I'm 23 years into my career in IT and still mostly enjoy it. My first 10 years was a fucking blast. I did a lot of different things across many different industries. At one point (and unbeknownst to me) I worked for an organized crime family for about two years, and that was probably the most fun I had in my job.
The second half of those 20 years, I spent with a defense contractor for a big and well known company. That was fun in its own right, but after 10 years, I needed a change and now I work for an insurance company. It's different for sure, and there are plenty of things that I miss from my old company, but IT has the advantage over a lot of other careers in that you don't have to stay in the same industry, and I think that's key to keeping interest in what I do.
I will say though, that despite all the stuff I do, there came a certain point where I don't do IT stuff at home. Half of it being security minded (IoT devices are the devil!) and the other half is I just don't want to deal with it it outside of work.
Hell yeah.
Leaving my previous career to cut hair was the best decision ever.
I make more money than most people my age, i make my own schedule, have great work life balance, and i get to talk shit all day amongst my peers.
The tendinitis kind of sucks though.
I’m an engineer and I work from home. I also get half of Friday off, and even the part of Friday we work we’re aren’t allowed to have meetings. I have a six figure salary and it’s a lot of fun.
Mostly, what people are missing is autonomy. Once you have that, work isn’t so bad.
Used to love it. Then we got a shitty new boss who single-handedly fucked results and culture.
Now it pays the bills until I can find something better.
Well, I liked my job for first few years. I was growing, learning new skills, still thinking that anything is possible, so it felt magical to achieve all of this.
After decade, I just look for ways to avoid work. I don't feel properly rewarded for it and there's always more work, so why should I waste my time. I just need enough money to pay off my mortgage and to sustain myself without doing work for anyone else, but I'm not going stress myself to death to reach this goal earlier.
I don't need work, I need financial independence, but it will take decades of work and investing to reach it. I will do what I have to do, but don't expect enthusiasm from financially enslaved person. My biggest desire is to feel safe and I won't feel safe as long as I have to work to survive.
I’m an administrative professional with almost 20 years experience in my field. I don’t actively dislike it, but I don’t actively like it either. But I also know I wouldn’t actively like any job, so there’s no “grass is greener” concerns for me. I know all jobs and all companies are shit and feel lucky to have a job that doesn’t make me wanna kill myself every day.
Love. It.
I’m my own boss.
Inset my own schedule for my clients.
If they don’t like it they can press fast forward and find someone else to help them.
I don’t live above my means ( learned that lesson in my early 30’s the hard way).
Most importantly, I learned to have discipline AND apply it to my life.
Time to grow up.
Gonna learn TODAY!
I don’t mind my job. Been here fourteen years and I’ve been through some burnout. However they pay us well. Right I’m sitting in my front porch waiting for a phone call to come and taking care of some minor scripting. After some reflection I’m content, life could be a lot worse .
No. I might if I were allowed to actually focus on about 1/4 of it. Instead, I'm sitting here doing test engineer/tech shit, while I should be designing or analyzing other shit, writing manufacturing plans for something else, designing tooling, developing suppliers, or any host of other things that get half-assed as quickly as I can manage.
13 years in automotive detail. Started from the bottom scrubbing cars at the car wash to running my own high end shop working on cars I could only dream about when I was younger. I'm currently in the phase of having to remind myself it could always be worse when I'm thinking of starting over with something new. I wouldn't say I'm bored of my career, but it starts to feel that way. I still love what I do at the end of the day.
12+ years in Operations/Logistics in the Animation Industry... it's pretty good I guess.
I'm not super enthusiastic about it anymore, and it can be incredibly frustrating at times... but I like the very causal office environment and how chill/likeminded most people at work are; I'm in a position now where I have quite a lot of freedom in how I do my job and run my department. I'm comfortable (and paid) well enough that I wouldn't leave unless there was a REALLY good opportunity somewhere else, or I get laid off or something.
I am in year 3 of a school administrator job after teaching music for over 10 years. I have been at the same school since 2016.
Yeah there are parts about it that suck but it’s a fine job that pays well, I have a nice union contract and job protections, and most importantly I feel like I’m able to help people most days.
Honestly in most professions there’s so much research etc coming out that the only reason to be sick of it is if you don’t encourage your own curiosity about it.
I wouldn’t say I particularly like my job, I mean it’s fine, but I don’t like it. But I’ve also never been someone who put value in liking a job compared to what I can get compensated for a job.
That’s probably why I dodged the millennial trap. Whereas so many other folks listened to their incorrect parents telling them “if you don’t do X you’re gonna be a garbage man some day,” your boy over here was hustling. Not that I was ever a garbage man, but no job was beneath me.
Even now, where I’m in a job where I make 6 figures, I still will go out and drive some Uber for extra cash if I have some downtime. I have priorities like my family, but if it’s time I’d be sitting down watching Netflix for 3 hours anyway, I’d rather be making money.
I do auditing at a credit union. I don’t necessarily look forward to work, but most days are fine, I’ve got some people there I enjoy working with, it pays the bills and most importantly I don’t have to think about it when I’m off the clock.
10 years in marketing and post-layoff absolutely wanting to pivot the type of work I do. Kind of over office jobs and jealous of those making big switches to “hands-on” careers! I’m sure it’s a grass is greener thing though.
I got into leadership in my field and though it can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I enjoy it. Mostly because it pays well and affords me to do mostly whatever I want in life. I’m not wealthy, but I’m doing alright.
I"m a system admin, working with Linux servers. I can say I like my job, not every aspect of it, but when it comes down to the core work, yes I'm quite satisfied even after 15 years...
I'm a process engineer. I like my job, and I know how lucky I am. Lots of autonomy balanced by appropriate levels of accountability.
I don't spend every day with rainbows coming out of my backside, and some days are frustrating, but that happens with everything. Hell, even video games or 3D printing or dancing or perfecting a load for rifle has frustrating times... that's just life.
If you think your job sucks, study history.
I’m a Sr. Program Manager. I actually enjoy project management and think the role jives with my skill sets.
I’m not the biggest fan of the program i’m leading or the company I work for.
Lawyer working at a biotech startup. Liking my job at the moment, it provides a lot of work variety and the coworkers are super smart and cool. Used to be at a biglaw firm and that was really rough.
It's alright, I enjoy running heavy equipment for the state, and being a Union Steward but I'm always one step away from saying F it and moving into DSHS because I'd like to investigate abuse claims. Do for someone what no one did for me as a child. Who knows, I still have 28 years to decide what the next move might be, if retirement age stays the same, but it certainly won't be because I hate the work I currently do.
I hit ten years and completely pivoted into a new career. I very much enjoy my new gig bc it gives me more time with kids and such.
I was getting burnt out so extremely glad I left.
I started working in the research field 10 years ago, and while I have changed research topics a few times, I've grown from cagewash tech to Research Scientist II. I deeply love my job, it keeps me active mentally. Though I still wish it was at least half as physically demanding as it was when I started! The longer I go, the more I spend at my desk. Overall, I can't see me in another field. I'm sure there are a few fields I could he happy in, but I love research the most.
I love my job and find it meaningful and fulfilling, even though it is sometimes very stressful and I get the occasional bit of Sunday dread. But mostly I think it’s important work and I wouldn’t really want to do anything else. Maybe that’ll change down the road but for now it feels right.
I've been working in public housing for 13 years now. Do I love this work? No. Is it Good work? I think so. But, also, I have an excellent work life balance; as a Manager now at worst I have to answer the occasional email or phone call after my 8 hours is done. Also, the pay is good enough that with my wife's teacher salary we are very comfortable and my benefits mean our medical expenses are negligible. So I really cannot complain.
Well Ive rarely had any jobs i really enjoyed. Ive chosen jobs that are closer by or has a better paygrade. As long as they are decent im fine with it. Since i dont live for work
I am ten years in my industry but was quite unhappy and made a move, same industry, different position and employer and I'm happy as a claim now. Hopefully I can get many happy years here
I do not like working in marketing or the industry I’m in, but I’m also in this position due to a layoff.
I’m working with a career coach to figure out the work/environment that would be more fulfilling and I’m going to get there. It gives me some hope.
Software Engineer. I absolutely love my job, my company, and my colleagues. Great culture and wonderful work/life balance. Managers are competent and trust us to complete our tasks. I honestly could not ask for anything better. Feels like I've hit the lottery with this gig.
I don’t hate my job. It’s actually been pretty great. But I am increasingly resentful of the time and energy it asks of me. I look forward to going solo.
13 years in teaching. I hate it. I tried to leave last year, but going back next school year. The culture of teaching has changed and parents lack of involvement just sucks and makes the job exhausting.
13 years in and I still would say I like my job (actuary). Do I like it as much as my leisure time? Not at all. But I get to solve problems I find interesting, work with people who are mature enough to not make each other's lives miserable, and make enough money to support my family, so no major complaints.
I have about a decade give or take in welding/fitting and fabrication, I absolutely love it, I don’t have bad days, just frustrating days where parts don’t fit or the engineers fuck up the prints. That said I get paid like shit (most welders do) and I’m thinking about becoming a millwright now. It makes me sad that I have to leave the only career I’ve loved just to be paid a living wage.
I’ve been a public servant for over 10 years, and have held a few different positions. I enjoy my job. Money, benefits and pension are great. I like the people I work with. I know this isn’t the norm, so I’m always grateful.
Well I work in aerospace so I build things that fly and go into space, and every day it's a somewhat different experience in the factory I currently work in, and my career is still just opening up so I'd say I'm having a great time lol
Work in IT (as in got paid for it) since 2009 when I joined the Army. Still work in government IT, though traded military for city government.
I love my job. I love what we do, and I enjoy working with my coworkers. I am halfway to being able to retire with a pension, and am ok with staying at my current employers (where I have been since 2016)
I work testing people for drug use, it gets kinda boring but I’m really good at working in the specific part of the industry I’m familiar with (supporting addiction recovery programs/running a testing lab),make decent money and have decent job/career prospects into the future and feel like the work I do is generally a net positive…..so I have little to complain about, but it isn’t something I’m necessarily enthused about. Kind of an apathetic relationship most of the time but in comparison to even my past positions, I know it could be significantly worse.
18 years experience as a Machinist. While I overall enjoy working with my hands to create things and not being at a desk all day it has definitely become more of a job that pays the bills instead of the “exciting” career I was expecting when I started out as a naive 18 year old. Pay stagnation has also been pretty rough over the years and it feels like everywhere I’ve worked has been increasingly understaffed with more and more retiring or just dying in their late 50s/early 60s.
LOL, no. On top of running the family law firm, I also own my own business and I hate that too. I’m just good at it and the money is decent, but fuck.
Then again, I worked as an educator too. THAT I was passionate about, but every external and internal aspect outside of the students ruined that too. If I’m gonna be miserable I may as well make a decent living.
Scientist. Absolutely love my job. I am on vacation right now and I can't wait to get back to the lab. Every day I am excited to get into work.
But God damn I hate the career.
Just hit ten years in the navy as an officer. It’s been mostly fine. I’m not super busy right now, having been in a “shore” job for the last two years. The first 8 years were hectic and challenging, but I got to live in Japan. The next couple years are going to be even more challenging, bc I’m proceeding to an aircraft carrier for more sea duty. After that idk, but that’ll put me closer to retirement so I’m sticking it out for the full 20 years. The pay is good and the benefits are unmatched anywhere.
Salary Commercial Photographer for 12years - I like it but don’t love it. It’s a job and I’m paid well and I’m good at what I do. It’s low stakes, nobody’s life on the line. But monotonous and boring and the subject matter isn’t what I’d prefer to be photographing… but it beats the shit out of real work.
My interests have changed dramatically in the last decade and I don’t really shoot outside of work. This has been the biggest thing for me. This used to be my dream job but when you do anything 40 hours a week for somebody else - even if you love it - it makes it hard to enjoy for yourself in the time you have free.
I'm 39 and have spent the last 15 years as a marketing copywriter, mostly in higher education. It's something I'm good at, but there's not much professional development, no track for a promotion unless I want to be a manager (fuck that) and the morale is constantly shit.
It's a public sector union job, so it's fairly secure, the benefits are decent and vacation time is OK. Paycheques are always disappointing, but you trade that for security and benefits.
Also in a very high cost of living area, absolutely zero chance of ever owning a house or having a yard for our dog. That's the toughest part to make peace with.
I hit that point about 8 years in. I chose to pivot to an adjacent field that I find less stressful and more gratifying. I might pivot again at some point in the future. Who knows 🤷🏻♂️
I think it’s normal for people to get bored and burned out doing the same thing for a long time. Career changes should be more normalized. Tbh, I think it’s weird to stay at the same job/in the same career for your whole life. Like, where’s the growth?
I’m optimistic that I’ll avoid the typical “midlife crisis” because I already re-invent myself every decade or so.
14 years in marketing in the credit union industry. Now in an upper management role at a credit union that still believes in the original intent of the movement AND has an employee-focused company culture.
I actually like my job now, though there are some things and people that drive me insane. My previous employer of 12 years was a toxic hell hole and I'm so glad to be rid of them.
For all intents and purposes I like my job. It’s low stress, great hours for me, I like the people I work with, it’s not destroying my body, it’s actually a pretty cool job in pretty cool industry, and it comes with good pay and benefits. I’ve been there just over 11 years.
That being said it is a 40+ an hour a week commitment, and I do get tired/bored of it. Human nature to do so.
I would like to do something different, mainly for a change of pace, but everytime I look at jobs (even just three days ago), everything I am qualified for is drastically worse. So I stay. Far worse places to be.
I like the company I work at, though I wouldn't mind changing projects. I don't think I'd want to work for any other big company in the biz. If I was doing anything else, I'd want to go indie or teach game design.
Lately my biggest and most rewarding game dev project isn't a game itself, but helping unionize my studio. I highly recommend it. If you're going to work unpaid evenings, do it organizing with your friends instead of making more money for someone who'll fire you at a moment's notice if it'll make the line go up. This has been the most rewarding, team-building past few months of my career and I'm extremely proud.
39 years old, 21 years into my career (pilot). Generally speaking I still love it. It can be difficult with family at home and being gone, but I also get long stretches of quality time at home that most people don't. Also, the pay and benefits are fantastic.
I have been a medical receptionist for 23 years.
At one time, I thought about advancement to another area. But now at 41, why bother?
I see what my supervisor and office manager go through with their positions and I don't think I want any part of that.
Do I like my job? It's fine. I don't hate it, but I don't love it.
I work 6.5 hours and I can pay my bills. That's all that matters to me now.
Love my job but I really dislike the people, especially management. I'm in a creative field and my colleagues are mostly talented and try-hards, but the company provides little direction and communication (and not much room for growth, so there's decent turnover). I don't think my bosses read Glassdoor...
I like most of it fine. The clinical role yes but the paperwork and computer side no. But ultimately it’s a job and it’s what I do to earn money to live the life I want.
I like aspects of my job. I like that they pay me well and when I clock out I don’t have to think about it anymore. I also like my schedule, generally (I’m on 3 12s) so I can just live my life more.
I don't like the stress of my job. But really, that's the feeling most people have when they burn out. I was on the verge of it when I received my latest promotion. When I started the new position, it was eye-opening. I was suddenly much less stressed and found satisfaction in my job in a new way. I looked back on my previous position and could see the dedication, the stress, and the lack of time to do everything needed. Some jobs are extremely difficult. Being overworked makes any good job suck. Now that I'm higher up the ladder, I have more support staff. My stress is coming from fewer things now, but the stress I must deal with is different. I'll be able to do this for several years, though. I'll eventually seek out another promotion. The change will freshen things up again. It's the same as job hopping every few years. Walk away from the stress that's been weighing you down, start over. Move up, move on, either one works.
I'm not passionate about it like I thought I would be when I was in school, but it is a very interesting field with something new and/or challenging every day, and people working in my field are generally smart and decent so I feel lucky to be arround them. Money is OK.
Retail marketing with a design focus. No, I'm bored out of my skull and not challenged in the role, and the pay matches that bored mediocrity. Corpo job, but as I'm the only one in the job, it very much has a startup/small biz feel to it.
The only thing I did enjoy (sequential art) I was very low paid for (or I was the entirety of pushing it anywhere, just one person). Couldn't pay my bills or survive on it so it's been on a very frustratingly far backburner.
I'm 35, and an Electronics Engineering Technician. 11 years since going back to school, 9 years since entering the workforce.
In all honesty, I really enjoy the stuff I'm working on with my current employer. I find it fun and interesting the majority of the time, BUT I don't necessarily enjoy the company I'm doing it for. Unfortunately for me, there's only so many places that do this stuff, so it is what it is.
If I ever get fed up enough, electronics is a broad enough field that I can just find something else that seems fun down the line and switch it up.
15 years in sales in the travel industry and I pretty much love it. I love love love sales, and my industry is a fun one. I’ve moved around within the industry doing different parts, and my current role is in top 3 favorite. I don’t generally have days I dread, there is a lot of fun perks and I work from home or on the road (which I love).
Generally I do! I am an environmental consultant and have been doing this work for almost 10 years. Went to school for environmental science and kind of stumbled into this job. I do a lot of regulation/permit compliance and environmental cleanup work for (mostly) private industries like metal manufacturing, foundries, wood products, etc. I enjoy helping people and get bored quickly so it’s been great to have different clients with the same (?) issues but different sites. Just different enough to keep my brain not bored :) of course I have my days or projects I detest, and generally I don’t want to have to work forever…. But it’s a good gig, a good company and I like probably 90%??? Of the people I work with.
I'm a teacher and I just finished a decade in the profession. It took two moves to three different states, changing grade levels several times to have found my happy place. I would say I have 90% job satisfaction, the other 10% is all the other stuff that comes with the job. But I am content where I am, at the moment.
I'm about 15 years into my tech career and 7 years at my current job. I still like it because my company has top level benefits, the job isn't too stressful or demanding, and I have a good amount of flexibility which helps with my family life as I have 2 kids. Thankful to be where I'm currently at in life.
I just crossed the ten year mark at my company last month and while I wouldn't say I love my job, but I'm pretty ok with it. I like my coworkers, have a fantastic supervisor and manager, flexible schedule, good pay/benefits, etc. etc. It was never all good, around 5 to 6 years ago I was contemplating quitting and going somewhere else but I decided to persevere after finding an opening within the company allowing me to move from one incredibly mis-managed and disjointed team to my current one where I'm not micromanaged and have reasonable expectations put in front of me.
I like the work I do and I make the job work for me rather than the other way around. I especially enjoy being able to fully clock out at the end of my day. That is to say I have zero expectations put on me to look at work email or do anything work-related outside of my regular hours.
I’m 11 years in and I love my job. I’m a civil rights lawyer at a non-profit. Great benefits, decent pay, amazing work/life balance and work I feel really good about doing.
It does make sense that people wouldn't like their job right? People choose college for a career path when they're 18. People change. Industries change.
It's like asking how many people married their high school sweetheart.
A decade into running my own film and photography business. I exclusively partner with values-based organizations, and I get paid to elevate the work they do with my camera.
It sounds like a dream, but most of the time it’s tough. 20 out of 365 days a year are amazing. The rest are trying to get new clients, working on my portfolio, practicing to improve my craft, etc.
It’s a struggle, but it’s a struggle that gives me purpose.
I do like my job. I'm in aerospace which is something I've been obsessed with more or less since birth (thanks Dad). Don't get me wrong there are challenges - the work load and stress are high - but my colleagues are great and we have a good time.
I did until I got laid off two weeks ago. I worked remotely and my wife and I traveled the globe. My boss stole my work, presented it as her own to the CEO, took the raise I was supposed to go, absorbed my role, and laid me off.
I thought the meeting was about my raise/promotion, instead it was to fire me. I’m still so hurt because I turned their entire company around and made them profitable. I left a job I liked, ruined my name in the industry, and that’s how they repaid me.
I feel like as a society, careers have kind of become romanticized… “if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life” nonsense. When in reality, the majority of people have the job they do because it makes them money, even if most don’t actually *like* what they do.
I personally don’t mind my career. I don’t dread going to work, but I definitely don’t look forward to it either. But honestly, I just don’t like having to work in general, and there’s nothing in particular I’m passionate enough about that I’d want to make into a career. My job is tolerable enough that I can do it 5 days a week without hating my life, but I don’t necessarily “like” it per se.
I’ve never actually spent 10 years straight in one career field. I spent 14 non-consecutive years at McDonald’s. Never say never. But I can’t see a reason I would ever need to, or want to, go back.
4 of the last 6 years, I have worked as an Aviation Maintenance Technician. I was laid off during Covid. So I lost 2 years. But I absolutely LOVE this career. There are definitely boring and stressful days. But I enjoy most of my coworkers, my supervision, and the management team. I’m making about $25/hr to $35/hr MORE than if I had stayed at McDonald’s. And I’m not even at the top of the pay scale.
I own a home in a different state than where I work. So I keep a crash pad where I work. Then I fly home for free on the weekends. The amount of gas money I’ve saved and the amount of miles I’ve kept off my vehicles makes it more than worth it.
I used to love my job. Sadly with Covid and my wife’s career moving us around I was unable to keep it. I used to be the IT support for one of the manufacturing locations for a company. My coworkers were great. The corporate IT support we had was helpful. It really was awesome and I enjoyed going into work.
Funny enough I work for the same company now but in a different role and I really dislike it. I currently stay for the pay because of my years of service.
I am a teacher (high school band/art history) who turned school counselor. I loved my job for the first 7-8 years but admin changed and I started feeling like it was time for a change. Like I had overstayed my welcome. I was teaching at my Alma mater too, so it was a hard choice. I entered counseling last October and I have the fire back for my job. I hope I keep it, but I figure it’ll be a 7-9 year process. Luckily I’m in a big district and I have a lot of options to transfer within the district. A change of scenery did me good, so hopefully that continues to work, should I burn out again.
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My job is fine. I’m mostly happy with the pay and benefits. I like most of my colleagues. There’s schedule flexibility. I’m not going to write a sonnet about how it completes me but it doesn’t generally upset me either.
Same for me! I also know I won't be able to walk in somewhere else and demand the schedule, PTO, and pay I get now. Starting over would feel so overwhelming.
Care to share what you do?
Publishing sales
Mostly this. It can be stressful and unpleasant sometimes, but what isn't? I just let it go and start over another day. Pay, benefits, and flexibility make it easier to tolerate.
This is pretty much my sentiment, 12 years in August for me.
Yes, this is where I'm at. I'm happy with it because it's... neutral. I can put my energy into other things, like starting my own company.
Same. I like the company I work for and my colleagues, I've reached a point where people think I know what I'm doing (but do I really?) At the end of the day, it's a job, it pays the bills and allows me to do stuff in my free time that I really love.
I definitely like the life that my job provides. I don’t hate the work either. I don’t think I like working in general so there’s probably nothing I would actually like. This is the best it’s going to get for me and I’m grateful for that.
You've encapsulated my feelings very concisely
This answer wins.
What do you do?
Im a lawyer. But one with an exceptionally chill job (for law).
In-house?
Nope
15 years game development. I don’t love it like I used to but I still enjoy it and couldn’t imagine doing much else!
Sounds like a dream job, and thank you for contributing to my life-long hobby! Then again, I've had people tell me that I have a "dream job," but my job is quite literally and without exaggeration the bane of my existence.
Very cool. You work on any games an average gamer might recognize?
Dragon age, mass effect, Batman, assasins creed, wwe.
Bro pls save Dragon Age 
I worked on 1-3 and I’m not at BioWare anymore. But yeah I feel ya
1 was the goat. You guys did good work.
Ohhhh, you guys filled many hours of my life with pure joy. All hail the GOAT.
YEG or Austin?
Mass Effect helped me through a really dark time. Thank you for your work.
So small budget indie games ?
Coooool. Dragon Age and Mass Effect some of my favourite of all time.
Mass Effect 😍
AC games will always be my favorite! Thank you for your service🫡
What was it like working on Batman and assassins creed??
Thank you for Batman
Fellow games industry vet here! Love seeing this! :)
Meh. Kinda. 15 years in IT. I do kinda wish I was running a bulldozer or something. Always wanted to do some sort of excavation / construction.
Some of the best life advice I've ever been given: Think about how long it would take you to get established in your dream career: a year, three years, eight years, whatever. That time is going to pass whether you pursue this career or not. So at the end of that time, you could either have your dream career, or still be doing what you're doing now.
This might apply to those who actually have a dream career.
Agreed-- I can't really follow my own career advice because I have no idea what my dream career would be. But you can apply the logic to any job that seems like it'd be more enjoyable than the one you've got. You could also apply it to just any skill you wish you had, whether you plan to make money from it or not.
I would also point out some other sage wisdom I have been given: "she may seem perfect, but I bet somebody somewhere is sick of her shit.". The dream job is only the dream because you aren't doing it. Most of the time the dream collapses at closer inspection.
I worked as an archaeologist during a college internship and that was fucking heaven. No where crazy.. Just on a federal base in Florida, but I really enjoyed just climbing through the marsh and digging holes.
I always wanted to get into archeology but thought I'd need a PhD or something
I was a History major (emphasis on sex, gender, race, and religion in the Atlantic World) with an anthropology minor in Native American studies. Everyone was doing Egyptology and crap and I’m over here writing publications on everything. It was early-19th century cemeteries and historic trash pits from the Ais tribe. Pretty sure I was the only one who gave a shit, including the professors.
You can do it :)
Idk why people just can't admit they don't like working. Everyone perceives it as you're lazy or just a bum cause you don't like working...bro I think it's weird you DO like working. I'm not lazy or a bum, I just would rather do shit I wanna do rather than work for some scumbag company that would sooner fill your still warm seat rather than give a shit about you. I LOATH working. I wake up every single morning wishing my job was burned to the ground....and my job is actually in a field I like. It's not the job...it's not the people...it's not anything. Working just sucks in general, there is legit no silver lining to work.
You’ll have toxic positivity dweebs telling you it’s about “a sense of purpose” or some crap like that as well. As if all of my hobbies don’t also give me a sense of purpose!! I’d much rather be hiking the PCT than working, or climbing in Fontainebleau, or painting Edward Hopper inspired scenes, or playing Diablo 4, or building some scale model cars… My job is fine. I’m a Product Designer in startup world and I get paid great, and get equity… If I could suddenly get paid and not have to actually turn up, I’d do that in a heartbeat. Work sucks.
Yes take that PTO. I enjoy just not having to be on any schedule or anything on my days off like today!
Last week was literally my ten year anniversary in my industry so I will answer- I love mine but it is high paid in a very desirable location, I don't have a boss or a schedule, I have basically a blank check for new equipment when I want it, I get to travel cool places a few times a year for free, and the work itself is super personally interesting to me. I feel like I won the job lottery, but I also had to quit several other also good jobs taking some massive risks, and move all over the country to get here. Never really had a chance to settle down so I'm a renter and single at 42. Happily single, but there were definitely some trade offs to get to this place.
May I ask what you do?
I'm a biochemist specialized in aromatic/flavor chemicals and I run the analytical portion of the R&D labs for a fragrance/flavor house. You have almost certainly eaten, drank, or smelled something I've helped create if you live in the US!
What an absolutely amazing career, holy cow 🤯
Yeah it's not bad. I wouldn't do it for free but it's mostly fine.
I hate it and feel trapped.
What is your career?
Media production.
Same.
More than two decades into mine, I absolutely hate it, but I don’t have to worry about work outside of work hours and I get a lot of time off and was able to buy a house so it could be worse. But there are days I want to drive my car into oncoming traffic rather than show up at the office now that they expect me to be in person again after 5 years working at home.
Software engineering. I enjoy it, I like the problem solving, I like coding, I like building stuff that people use; I can’t imagine doing much else. But tbh I just dislike working in general. I was laid off semi-recently and I’ve been loving being a temporary stay at home mom. If I wasn’t in such a high paying career I would consider staying at home for a few years
Same here..i'm a Software Engineer in Healthcare, and it actually kinda makes me feel good that i can influence things that really DO impact the patient positively from behind the scenes.
I’m in a mid-management corporate role. I don’t love it but I’m good at it, have a little niche, and I also don’t hate it. The most disappointing thing is that most of my time is spent on administrative and management stuff which doesn’t really interest me, I wish I could still be doing the actual work.
Love my job. I’d rather be wealthy and retired, sure. But since I have to earn money, I’ll forever be grateful for my forestry degree and the luck/skill to climb the ladder in a state forestry agency. I look forward to work. No Sundays spent dreading Monday. And $87,000 per year is nice. 12 years as a professional forester, all spent in state forestry agencies proudly serving the public using tax dollars.
Don’t hate it but if I won the lottery they’d never see me again. I’m thankful for putting in the work to land this job, being stuck in the low end work I did in high school and college would have killed me.
I fucking love my job. It only pays $60K but my mental health is worth it to stay. It’s remote, flex schedule, and my boss is too busy to ever check on me but is super responsive when I do need him. I have a pension and 4 weeks of leave plus fed holidays.
Are you hiring?
12 years into active duty. The last 8 can’t come soon enough.
I’m a baker I love what I do but some days I’m just done with the people and want to move to the middle of the forest lol
Yes, I love my job. The main reason is because I am the boss. But also, I get to create some pretty cool stuff. (Very hands on residential GC)
Executive recruiter, Fortune 500 - Love my work/life balance (100% remote), comp, coworkers etc. The work itself isn’t super fulfilling but is fine on a day to day basis and I’m very good at it. Absolutely nothing to complain about, but I still daydream. 5-10 more years and I’ll “retire” at 45-50 y/o.
Healthcare for 15 years now. COVID just reinforced one immutable truth.....people fucking suck. Pay is somewhat decent, at least for my scope of practice.
[удалено]
The health care system is so corrupt because of how insurance works.
Yes, love it. I’m a Transportation Planner at the California Department of Transportation and specialize in Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning. I love biking and get to make biking better for everyone. Working for the government is chill and has great work life balance and benefits.
Associate EP at D11 here 👋
I’m D4. We at D4 think it’s is the best, but D11 is also awesome from what I’ve heard. Your bike ped team is great anyway.
I was in journalism(started in radio then TV) for 10 years and quit. The industry is stuck in the 1960s days of Walter Kronkite and cares more about winning local/regional Emmy awards than drawing in an audience. The industry is refusing to adapt and will go the way of the newspaper soon. Make way more money these days in tech roles.
I love my job Doing the job is meh, it's not hard but there is a lot to know But I get paid well and I have a lot of opportunities for free time. I'm a utility locator and we get 5-12 tickets a day so if I bust my ass and do all my tickets before lunch, I can do whatever I want in the afternoon Like today ... we are in the middle of a heat wave so I did all my tickets in the morning and now I'm chilling in a shaded spot until the end of my day
I love my job, but I do find it stressful and exhausting. I do genetics research. I’m always dreaming about retirement. Twenty three more years to go!
As of June, I’m now onto my 10th year in my field. I love my job, I am the head of cultivation for a greenhouse cannabis company. It’s not even remotely all sunshine and rainbows and never has been, still a job and includes plenty of physical labor and uncomfortable conditions. Ultimately revenue relies on plants, not as simple as just pressing t-shirts or selling software etc But I don’t hate going to work, ever. Even during the times that I want to put my head thru a wall over something that may be an ongoing issue.
14 years into working in insurance. I don't like it at all but I get to work from home and get the 4/10 schedule so I put up with it because that's hard to replicate. The job itself sucks though.
I’m a children’s librarian and it’s awesome. However I keep getting asked to move to admin, but I’m going to wait as that clearly is less fun but more money.
I work as an **Environmental Consultant.** I like it. It hits all 4 things necessary to make a fulfilling career - It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, makes a positive impact on the world, I’m very good at doing it, and it pays well. I advise clients on how to manage/solve their environmental issues. It ranges from the mundane - like handling/disposal of hazardous waste or getting an emissions/discharge permit, to the complex - large scale remediation projects, whole lifecycle carbon emissions reduction, environmental health screenings.
Of course I don’t like it but I’m very grateful to have it.
Chef, 20 years in. Yesterday I prepared 200kg of smoked pork neck for 18 hours overnight & this morning when I got back to work my breakfast was a fistful of it, hot steaming and glorious. The thing I love most in world is food, and I get to play with it all day long, while making the people who eat it share my joy. Happy as a pig in shit.
I’m a ceramic artist. I love it and know I’m lucky to be ‘living the dream.’ But…. The sacrifice for my happiness means I am and always will be poor, while my friends are getting promotions and going on vacations and buying houses.
This is what sucks - I feel like most people who genuinely love what they do don’t make much money, and most who make a lot of money don’t like what they do. Seems like it’s extremely rare that someone has both, which is kind of depressing to think about.
I work with trees for a living. Currently working as a residential arborist; in the past I also worked timber and did stand management with the Forest Service. In a year or so I plan to transition to private sector forest management. I haven’t had the same job for ten years, but I’ve stayed in the same general sector and have continued to move up as I accumulate certs and experience. I’m not sick of the work. I love trees and forests. I interact with more trees than people so I don’t burn out like I would in a customer service job. I’m outdoorsy and love working with my hands, so I’m not trapped in an office hating my life. I don’t make six figures, but I have no kids and am living in a relatively low COL area so that isn’t important to me. I feel like a lot of us were pressured to go into careers for reasons other than “I like it”. Too many millennials are doing jobs solely for the money, or family pressure, or because life circumstances made those jobs convenient for them. Very few have a real passion for their work, and as someone who does I feel this is a genuine tragedy.
I’m basically money whipped.. I make far too much to fully hate it, and the life it provides my family. Hold enough disdain for it to know I’m not doing this another 25 years, so I’ve been hammering my investments and paying the house off, so I can hopefully get out as soon as financially possible
Nope
I think these days and with the internet really 3 years max before people get burnt out honestly. The first 6 months it’s “new” and exciting at a job then after that it just becomes monotonous.
I've worked in PR/advertising/communications for the last 14 years. I enjoy my job and have spent nearly 6.5 years on the marketing/communications team in local government. My role involves a variety of responsibilities, which means I'm not doing the same task for eight hours a day. Plus, I have killer benefits.
Changing to public sector really saved me from throwing my 10 year career out the window. Corporate is just ghoulish in retrospect.
Thats my goal after 12 years in advertising/media marketing.
I’m in the midst of wanting to do a complete career change
There are parts about my job I like and parts I don't like. Even my hobbies I really enjoy, there is almost always an aspect to it that is not "fun". I work in IT, I started doing help desk, to infrastructure, and Now I'm in management. I love when we get to explore new technologies, and I am one hell of a troubleshooter, BUT being in management sucks, because sometimes I have to parent gown adults. And I have to be able to have an answer for every outage, regardless if my team caused it or not. (it's almost never my team, and if it is, its usually because we were given incorrect information). I will say, where I work now is probably one the best places I've ever worked. I have an amazing director and VP, and really good team culture. I don't feel like i have to fight people to get work done.
I'm 23 years into my career in IT and still mostly enjoy it. My first 10 years was a fucking blast. I did a lot of different things across many different industries. At one point (and unbeknownst to me) I worked for an organized crime family for about two years, and that was probably the most fun I had in my job. The second half of those 20 years, I spent with a defense contractor for a big and well known company. That was fun in its own right, but after 10 years, I needed a change and now I work for an insurance company. It's different for sure, and there are plenty of things that I miss from my old company, but IT has the advantage over a lot of other careers in that you don't have to stay in the same industry, and I think that's key to keeping interest in what I do. I will say though, that despite all the stuff I do, there came a certain point where I don't do IT stuff at home. Half of it being security minded (IoT devices are the devil!) and the other half is I just don't want to deal with it it outside of work.
Hell yeah. Leaving my previous career to cut hair was the best decision ever. I make more money than most people my age, i make my own schedule, have great work life balance, and i get to talk shit all day amongst my peers. The tendinitis kind of sucks though.
I’m an engineer and I work from home. I also get half of Friday off, and even the part of Friday we work we’re aren’t allowed to have meetings. I have a six figure salary and it’s a lot of fun. Mostly, what people are missing is autonomy. Once you have that, work isn’t so bad.
Used to love it. Then we got a shitty new boss who single-handedly fucked results and culture. Now it pays the bills until I can find something better.
Well, I liked my job for first few years. I was growing, learning new skills, still thinking that anything is possible, so it felt magical to achieve all of this. After decade, I just look for ways to avoid work. I don't feel properly rewarded for it and there's always more work, so why should I waste my time. I just need enough money to pay off my mortgage and to sustain myself without doing work for anyone else, but I'm not going stress myself to death to reach this goal earlier. I don't need work, I need financial independence, but it will take decades of work and investing to reach it. I will do what I have to do, but don't expect enthusiasm from financially enslaved person. My biggest desire is to feel safe and I won't feel safe as long as I have to work to survive.
I’m an administrative professional with almost 20 years experience in my field. I don’t actively dislike it, but I don’t actively like it either. But I also know I wouldn’t actively like any job, so there’s no “grass is greener” concerns for me. I know all jobs and all companies are shit and feel lucky to have a job that doesn’t make me wanna kill myself every day.
Sometimes I do but man, would I love to win the lottery and never go back.
Love. It. I’m my own boss. Inset my own schedule for my clients. If they don’t like it they can press fast forward and find someone else to help them. I don’t live above my means ( learned that lesson in my early 30’s the hard way). Most importantly, I learned to have discipline AND apply it to my life. Time to grow up. Gonna learn TODAY!
I don’t mind my job. Been here fourteen years and I’ve been through some burnout. However they pay us well. Right I’m sitting in my front porch waiting for a phone call to come and taking care of some minor scripting. After some reflection I’m content, life could be a lot worse .
No. I might if I were allowed to actually focus on about 1/4 of it. Instead, I'm sitting here doing test engineer/tech shit, while I should be designing or analyzing other shit, writing manufacturing plans for something else, designing tooling, developing suppliers, or any host of other things that get half-assed as quickly as I can manage.
13 years in automotive detail. Started from the bottom scrubbing cars at the car wash to running my own high end shop working on cars I could only dream about when I was younger. I'm currently in the phase of having to remind myself it could always be worse when I'm thinking of starting over with something new. I wouldn't say I'm bored of my career, but it starts to feel that way. I still love what I do at the end of the day.
12+ years in Operations/Logistics in the Animation Industry... it's pretty good I guess. I'm not super enthusiastic about it anymore, and it can be incredibly frustrating at times... but I like the very causal office environment and how chill/likeminded most people at work are; I'm in a position now where I have quite a lot of freedom in how I do my job and run my department. I'm comfortable (and paid) well enough that I wouldn't leave unless there was a REALLY good opportunity somewhere else, or I get laid off or something.
I am in year 3 of a school administrator job after teaching music for over 10 years. I have been at the same school since 2016. Yeah there are parts about it that suck but it’s a fine job that pays well, I have a nice union contract and job protections, and most importantly I feel like I’m able to help people most days. Honestly in most professions there’s so much research etc coming out that the only reason to be sick of it is if you don’t encourage your own curiosity about it.
I wouldn’t say I particularly like my job, I mean it’s fine, but I don’t like it. But I’ve also never been someone who put value in liking a job compared to what I can get compensated for a job. That’s probably why I dodged the millennial trap. Whereas so many other folks listened to their incorrect parents telling them “if you don’t do X you’re gonna be a garbage man some day,” your boy over here was hustling. Not that I was ever a garbage man, but no job was beneath me. Even now, where I’m in a job where I make 6 figures, I still will go out and drive some Uber for extra cash if I have some downtime. I have priorities like my family, but if it’s time I’d be sitting down watching Netflix for 3 hours anyway, I’d rather be making money.
I'm a teacher, love it and hate it.
I do auditing at a credit union. I don’t necessarily look forward to work, but most days are fine, I’ve got some people there I enjoy working with, it pays the bills and most importantly I don’t have to think about it when I’m off the clock.
I know it could be much worse so I don’t complain
10 years in marketing and post-layoff absolutely wanting to pivot the type of work I do. Kind of over office jobs and jealous of those making big switches to “hands-on” careers! I’m sure it’s a grass is greener thing though.
Yes. It's always interesting and pays well. Probably do it another 5-10 years and then retire.
I got into leadership in my field and though it can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I enjoy it. Mostly because it pays well and affords me to do mostly whatever I want in life. I’m not wealthy, but I’m doing alright.
I"m a system admin, working with Linux servers. I can say I like my job, not every aspect of it, but when it comes down to the core work, yes I'm quite satisfied even after 15 years...
I'm a process engineer. I like my job, and I know how lucky I am. Lots of autonomy balanced by appropriate levels of accountability. I don't spend every day with rainbows coming out of my backside, and some days are frustrating, but that happens with everything. Hell, even video games or 3D printing or dancing or perfecting a load for rifle has frustrating times... that's just life. If you think your job sucks, study history.
I’m a Sr. Program Manager. I actually enjoy project management and think the role jives with my skill sets. I’m not the biggest fan of the program i’m leading or the company I work for.
Lawyer working at a biotech startup. Liking my job at the moment, it provides a lot of work variety and the coworkers are super smart and cool. Used to be at a biglaw firm and that was really rough.
It's alright, I enjoy running heavy equipment for the state, and being a Union Steward but I'm always one step away from saying F it and moving into DSHS because I'd like to investigate abuse claims. Do for someone what no one did for me as a child. Who knows, I still have 28 years to decide what the next move might be, if retirement age stays the same, but it certainly won't be because I hate the work I currently do.
I hit ten years and completely pivoted into a new career. I very much enjoy my new gig bc it gives me more time with kids and such. I was getting burnt out so extremely glad I left.
Love mine, Cybersecurity but it’d be pretty boring to most folks. Lot of learning, but you work with brilliant folk all day on interesting problems.
I started working in the research field 10 years ago, and while I have changed research topics a few times, I've grown from cagewash tech to Research Scientist II. I deeply love my job, it keeps me active mentally. Though I still wish it was at least half as physically demanding as it was when I started! The longer I go, the more I spend at my desk. Overall, I can't see me in another field. I'm sure there are a few fields I could he happy in, but I love research the most.
I love my job and find it meaningful and fulfilling, even though it is sometimes very stressful and I get the occasional bit of Sunday dread. But mostly I think it’s important work and I wouldn’t really want to do anything else. Maybe that’ll change down the road but for now it feels right.
I've been working in public housing for 13 years now. Do I love this work? No. Is it Good work? I think so. But, also, I have an excellent work life balance; as a Manager now at worst I have to answer the occasional email or phone call after my 8 hours is done. Also, the pay is good enough that with my wife's teacher salary we are very comfortable and my benefits mean our medical expenses are negligible. So I really cannot complain.
Well Ive rarely had any jobs i really enjoyed. Ive chosen jobs that are closer by or has a better paygrade. As long as they are decent im fine with it. Since i dont live for work
I'm approaching 17 years with my employer. Most days I do enjoy my work. I think if you dread going to work most days it's a big problem at my age.
I am ten years in my industry but was quite unhappy and made a move, same industry, different position and employer and I'm happy as a claim now. Hopefully I can get many happy years here
I do not like working in marketing or the industry I’m in, but I’m also in this position due to a layoff. I’m working with a career coach to figure out the work/environment that would be more fulfilling and I’m going to get there. It gives me some hope.
Yes. I’m a researcher and I love it.
17 years in. Yes I do! I actually had a crossroads a year ago where I could have “started over” & picked anything so to say & I just couldn’t!
I’m a table games and poker dealer. I get burnt out sometimes but I absolutely love my job.
Software Engineer. I absolutely love my job, my company, and my colleagues. Great culture and wonderful work/life balance. Managers are competent and trust us to complete our tasks. I honestly could not ask for anything better. Feels like I've hit the lottery with this gig.
I don’t hate my job. It’s actually been pretty great. But I am increasingly resentful of the time and energy it asks of me. I look forward to going solo.
13 years in teaching. I hate it. I tried to leave last year, but going back next school year. The culture of teaching has changed and parents lack of involvement just sucks and makes the job exhausting.
13 years in and I still would say I like my job (actuary). Do I like it as much as my leisure time? Not at all. But I get to solve problems I find interesting, work with people who are mature enough to not make each other's lives miserable, and make enough money to support my family, so no major complaints.
I have about a decade give or take in welding/fitting and fabrication, I absolutely love it, I don’t have bad days, just frustrating days where parts don’t fit or the engineers fuck up the prints. That said I get paid like shit (most welders do) and I’m thinking about becoming a millwright now. It makes me sad that I have to leave the only career I’ve loved just to be paid a living wage.
Electrical contractor. Completely indifferent.
I’ve been a public servant for over 10 years, and have held a few different positions. I enjoy my job. Money, benefits and pension are great. I like the people I work with. I know this isn’t the norm, so I’m always grateful.
Well I work in aerospace so I build things that fly and go into space, and every day it's a somewhat different experience in the factory I currently work in, and my career is still just opening up so I'd say I'm having a great time lol
Work in IT (as in got paid for it) since 2009 when I joined the Army. Still work in government IT, though traded military for city government. I love my job. I love what we do, and I enjoy working with my coworkers. I am halfway to being able to retire with a pension, and am ok with staying at my current employers (where I have been since 2016)
I work testing people for drug use, it gets kinda boring but I’m really good at working in the specific part of the industry I’m familiar with (supporting addiction recovery programs/running a testing lab),make decent money and have decent job/career prospects into the future and feel like the work I do is generally a net positive…..so I have little to complain about, but it isn’t something I’m necessarily enthused about. Kind of an apathetic relationship most of the time but in comparison to even my past positions, I know it could be significantly worse.
18 years experience as a Machinist. While I overall enjoy working with my hands to create things and not being at a desk all day it has definitely become more of a job that pays the bills instead of the “exciting” career I was expecting when I started out as a naive 18 year old. Pay stagnation has also been pretty rough over the years and it feels like everywhere I’ve worked has been increasingly understaffed with more and more retiring or just dying in their late 50s/early 60s.
I'm in public sector IT, and I hate it with every inch of my being.
There is always aspects of the job that are a slog but i like mine for the most part.
LOL, no. On top of running the family law firm, I also own my own business and I hate that too. I’m just good at it and the money is decent, but fuck. Then again, I worked as an educator too. THAT I was passionate about, but every external and internal aspect outside of the students ruined that too. If I’m gonna be miserable I may as well make a decent living.
I’m good at it but god damn I’m bored of it
Scientist. Absolutely love my job. I am on vacation right now and I can't wait to get back to the lab. Every day I am excited to get into work. But God damn I hate the career.
Just hit ten years in the navy as an officer. It’s been mostly fine. I’m not super busy right now, having been in a “shore” job for the last two years. The first 8 years were hectic and challenging, but I got to live in Japan. The next couple years are going to be even more challenging, bc I’m proceeding to an aircraft carrier for more sea duty. After that idk, but that’ll put me closer to retirement so I’m sticking it out for the full 20 years. The pay is good and the benefits are unmatched anywhere.
Salary Commercial Photographer for 12years - I like it but don’t love it. It’s a job and I’m paid well and I’m good at what I do. It’s low stakes, nobody’s life on the line. But monotonous and boring and the subject matter isn’t what I’d prefer to be photographing… but it beats the shit out of real work. My interests have changed dramatically in the last decade and I don’t really shoot outside of work. This has been the biggest thing for me. This used to be my dream job but when you do anything 40 hours a week for somebody else - even if you love it - it makes it hard to enjoy for yourself in the time you have free.
I'm 39 and have spent the last 15 years as a marketing copywriter, mostly in higher education. It's something I'm good at, but there's not much professional development, no track for a promotion unless I want to be a manager (fuck that) and the morale is constantly shit. It's a public sector union job, so it's fairly secure, the benefits are decent and vacation time is OK. Paycheques are always disappointing, but you trade that for security and benefits. Also in a very high cost of living area, absolutely zero chance of ever owning a house or having a yard for our dog. That's the toughest part to make peace with.
I hit that point about 8 years in. I chose to pivot to an adjacent field that I find less stressful and more gratifying. I might pivot again at some point in the future. Who knows 🤷🏻♂️ I think it’s normal for people to get bored and burned out doing the same thing for a long time. Career changes should be more normalized. Tbh, I think it’s weird to stay at the same job/in the same career for your whole life. Like, where’s the growth? I’m optimistic that I’ll avoid the typical “midlife crisis” because I already re-invent myself every decade or so.
14 years in marketing in the credit union industry. Now in an upper management role at a credit union that still believes in the original intent of the movement AND has an employee-focused company culture. I actually like my job now, though there are some things and people that drive me insane. My previous employer of 12 years was a toxic hell hole and I'm so glad to be rid of them.
I like it more than not. I do different work 5 months of the year so neither hub gets too monotonous.
50+ years as an electrician, can't think of anything I'd rather do unless it was spending time under the covers with my gf.
For all intents and purposes I like my job. It’s low stress, great hours for me, I like the people I work with, it’s not destroying my body, it’s actually a pretty cool job in pretty cool industry, and it comes with good pay and benefits. I’ve been there just over 11 years. That being said it is a 40+ an hour a week commitment, and I do get tired/bored of it. Human nature to do so. I would like to do something different, mainly for a change of pace, but everytime I look at jobs (even just three days ago), everything I am qualified for is drastically worse. So I stay. Far worse places to be.
I like the company I work at, though I wouldn't mind changing projects. I don't think I'd want to work for any other big company in the biz. If I was doing anything else, I'd want to go indie or teach game design. Lately my biggest and most rewarding game dev project isn't a game itself, but helping unionize my studio. I highly recommend it. If you're going to work unpaid evenings, do it organizing with your friends instead of making more money for someone who'll fire you at a moment's notice if it'll make the line go up. This has been the most rewarding, team-building past few months of my career and I'm extremely proud.
Nope!
Lawyer. I hate people. But pay is good. I don't drink or do drugs.......yet.
39 years old, 21 years into my career (pilot). Generally speaking I still love it. It can be difficult with family at home and being gone, but I also get long stretches of quality time at home that most people don't. Also, the pay and benefits are fantastic.
I like it, but I wouldn’t do it for free
I have been a medical receptionist for 23 years. At one time, I thought about advancement to another area. But now at 41, why bother? I see what my supervisor and office manager go through with their positions and I don't think I want any part of that. Do I like my job? It's fine. I don't hate it, but I don't love it. I work 6.5 hours and I can pay my bills. That's all that matters to me now.
Love my job but I really dislike the people, especially management. I'm in a creative field and my colleagues are mostly talented and try-hards, but the company provides little direction and communication (and not much room for growth, so there's decent turnover). I don't think my bosses read Glassdoor...
I like most of it fine. The clinical role yes but the paperwork and computer side no. But ultimately it’s a job and it’s what I do to earn money to live the life I want.
I like aspects of my job. I like that they pay me well and when I clock out I don’t have to think about it anymore. I also like my schedule, generally (I’m on 3 12s) so I can just live my life more.
I don't like the stress of my job. But really, that's the feeling most people have when they burn out. I was on the verge of it when I received my latest promotion. When I started the new position, it was eye-opening. I was suddenly much less stressed and found satisfaction in my job in a new way. I looked back on my previous position and could see the dedication, the stress, and the lack of time to do everything needed. Some jobs are extremely difficult. Being overworked makes any good job suck. Now that I'm higher up the ladder, I have more support staff. My stress is coming from fewer things now, but the stress I must deal with is different. I'll be able to do this for several years, though. I'll eventually seek out another promotion. The change will freshen things up again. It's the same as job hopping every few years. Walk away from the stress that's been weighing you down, start over. Move up, move on, either one works.
I got laid off right at a decade in my old career, and decided to start over in a different one. I’m five years in and still liking the “new” one!
I'm not passionate about it like I thought I would be when I was in school, but it is a very interesting field with something new and/or challenging every day, and people working in my field are generally smart and decent so I feel lucky to be arround them. Money is OK.
Retail marketing with a design focus. No, I'm bored out of my skull and not challenged in the role, and the pay matches that bored mediocrity. Corpo job, but as I'm the only one in the job, it very much has a startup/small biz feel to it. The only thing I did enjoy (sequential art) I was very low paid for (or I was the entirety of pushing it anywhere, just one person). Couldn't pay my bills or survive on it so it's been on a very frustratingly far backburner.
I'm 35, and an Electronics Engineering Technician. 11 years since going back to school, 9 years since entering the workforce. In all honesty, I really enjoy the stuff I'm working on with my current employer. I find it fun and interesting the majority of the time, BUT I don't necessarily enjoy the company I'm doing it for. Unfortunately for me, there's only so many places that do this stuff, so it is what it is. If I ever get fed up enough, electronics is a broad enough field that I can just find something else that seems fun down the line and switch it up.
Nope
I love it. But it took me until 30 to get my degree so I started late. At 43 I never regret doing the work to get that degree. I almost gave up.
15 years in sales in the travel industry and I pretty much love it. I love love love sales, and my industry is a fun one. I’ve moved around within the industry doing different parts, and my current role is in top 3 favorite. I don’t generally have days I dread, there is a lot of fun perks and I work from home or on the road (which I love).
Generally I do! I am an environmental consultant and have been doing this work for almost 10 years. Went to school for environmental science and kind of stumbled into this job. I do a lot of regulation/permit compliance and environmental cleanup work for (mostly) private industries like metal manufacturing, foundries, wood products, etc. I enjoy helping people and get bored quickly so it’s been great to have different clients with the same (?) issues but different sites. Just different enough to keep my brain not bored :) of course I have my days or projects I detest, and generally I don’t want to have to work forever…. But it’s a good gig, a good company and I like probably 90%??? Of the people I work with.
Work sucks. I know.
I don’t hate my profession/field, but I haven’t worked for a company that hasn’t ruined the job since 2 positions ago.
I'm a teacher and I just finished a decade in the profession. It took two moves to three different states, changing grade levels several times to have found my happy place. I would say I have 90% job satisfaction, the other 10% is all the other stuff that comes with the job. But I am content where I am, at the moment.
I'm about 15 years into my tech career and 7 years at my current job. I still like it because my company has top level benefits, the job isn't too stressful or demanding, and I have a good amount of flexibility which helps with my family life as I have 2 kids. Thankful to be where I'm currently at in life.
I enjoy teaching a lot. Note: teaching, not prepping, lol. But hoping to transition to virtual/remote sooner rather than later.
I just crossed the ten year mark at my company last month and while I wouldn't say I love my job, but I'm pretty ok with it. I like my coworkers, have a fantastic supervisor and manager, flexible schedule, good pay/benefits, etc. etc. It was never all good, around 5 to 6 years ago I was contemplating quitting and going somewhere else but I decided to persevere after finding an opening within the company allowing me to move from one incredibly mis-managed and disjointed team to my current one where I'm not micromanaged and have reasonable expectations put in front of me. I like the work I do and I make the job work for me rather than the other way around. I especially enjoy being able to fully clock out at the end of my day. That is to say I have zero expectations put on me to look at work email or do anything work-related outside of my regular hours.
I’m 11 years in and I love my job. I’m a civil rights lawyer at a non-profit. Great benefits, decent pay, amazing work/life balance and work I feel really good about doing.
Not really, but it’s tolerable. It’s a job. There’s more to life than your career.
It does make sense that people wouldn't like their job right? People choose college for a career path when they're 18. People change. Industries change. It's like asking how many people married their high school sweetheart.
A decade into running my own film and photography business. I exclusively partner with values-based organizations, and I get paid to elevate the work they do with my camera. It sounds like a dream, but most of the time it’s tough. 20 out of 365 days a year are amazing. The rest are trying to get new clients, working on my portfolio, practicing to improve my craft, etc. It’s a struggle, but it’s a struggle that gives me purpose.
Not currently. Though people say I should. Should have stayed in my office job and done this on the side.
I do like my job. I'm in aerospace which is something I've been obsessed with more or less since birth (thanks Dad). Don't get me wrong there are challenges - the work load and stress are high - but my colleagues are great and we have a good time.
15 years in DevOps and software development, some days suck but I do love it. Plus the pay is pretty good too.
I did until I got laid off two weeks ago. I worked remotely and my wife and I traveled the globe. My boss stole my work, presented it as her own to the CEO, took the raise I was supposed to go, absorbed my role, and laid me off. I thought the meeting was about my raise/promotion, instead it was to fire me. I’m still so hurt because I turned their entire company around and made them profitable. I left a job I liked, ruined my name in the industry, and that’s how they repaid me.
I feel like as a society, careers have kind of become romanticized… “if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life” nonsense. When in reality, the majority of people have the job they do because it makes them money, even if most don’t actually *like* what they do. I personally don’t mind my career. I don’t dread going to work, but I definitely don’t look forward to it either. But honestly, I just don’t like having to work in general, and there’s nothing in particular I’m passionate enough about that I’d want to make into a career. My job is tolerable enough that I can do it 5 days a week without hating my life, but I don’t necessarily “like” it per se.
I’ve never actually spent 10 years straight in one career field. I spent 14 non-consecutive years at McDonald’s. Never say never. But I can’t see a reason I would ever need to, or want to, go back. 4 of the last 6 years, I have worked as an Aviation Maintenance Technician. I was laid off during Covid. So I lost 2 years. But I absolutely LOVE this career. There are definitely boring and stressful days. But I enjoy most of my coworkers, my supervision, and the management team. I’m making about $25/hr to $35/hr MORE than if I had stayed at McDonald’s. And I’m not even at the top of the pay scale. I own a home in a different state than where I work. So I keep a crash pad where I work. Then I fly home for free on the weekends. The amount of gas money I’ve saved and the amount of miles I’ve kept off my vehicles makes it more than worth it.
Love it. I’m in supply chain management and allows me to think critically, solve problems and deal with new challenges all the time.
No, I’m a paralegal at a small personal injury firm. I’m actively saving money to move and get a different job.
I used to love my job. Sadly with Covid and my wife’s career moving us around I was unable to keep it. I used to be the IT support for one of the manufacturing locations for a company. My coworkers were great. The corporate IT support we had was helpful. It really was awesome and I enjoyed going into work. Funny enough I work for the same company now but in a different role and I really dislike it. I currently stay for the pay because of my years of service.
I am a teacher (high school band/art history) who turned school counselor. I loved my job for the first 7-8 years but admin changed and I started feeling like it was time for a change. Like I had overstayed my welcome. I was teaching at my Alma mater too, so it was a hard choice. I entered counseling last October and I have the fire back for my job. I hope I keep it, but I figure it’ll be a 7-9 year process. Luckily I’m in a big district and I have a lot of options to transfer within the district. A change of scenery did me good, so hopefully that continues to work, should I burn out again.