Weekend Open Forum: Do you like your job?

Infrastructure manager for the Belgian part of a big European corporation. Have to say i love my job, tinkering around with SAN's, servers, now in a big consolidation project, loads of overtime, but can't say i don't enjoy it

True that, I hate the "not enough experience" people ... Sure they try to get best for their jobs to minimize costs and maximize profit but you aren't helping the society. Shame money is driving this world, not progression.

Hate it.

No reason to worry in my opinion. Although the fact that you do worry just shows that you care about your future job - which is good, of course. Anyways, it's better to expect your first job to be something 'not as good' as you'd like it to be - everyone has to start somewhere. There are exceptions, I admit, e.g., many programmers land a great job pretty soon - often during studies. Just keep looking, something will pop up eventually. + It's always good to start working, even if only part-time, during your studies.

Also, don't rely on college/university to teach you everything. From my experience, these institutions mainly just shape the way you think and the way you go on about solving things. The rest often has to be self-taught.

unemployed here, ~40yo, still living with my parents

if i could roll back 12 years of my life, i would have preferred working in a hospital as a medical technologist, or laboratory technician, or doctor.

I'm 27, i graduated 4 years ago as an economist in the faculty of IT and Eco. Since then I worked in a Bank in Eastern Europe (subsidiary of one of the biggest companies in the world). I started in IT development as a develepoer, then as a system analyst. I loved it.
Currently I'm in the Information Security department which love even more, though i struggle some extreme hard projects.
Salary is very good compared to local conditions, but are bad compared to western europe and US.
Expectations are high, i am overwhelmed with tasks, but I still love it as I'm developing rapidly and learning a lot from it.
Planning on going to the US soon for a couple of years to work in the field of Information Security.

My only advice to starters is to find the company that you want to work for and apply for any kind of position there. If you are already in it will be much easier to get better positions of your taste!!! ;-) And till you get your desired position you are still developing a better CV and gaining a lot of work experience.
Never be afraid, always be initiative and stick to your idealism!!!

Best luck for everyone,
Peter

I work for a civil engineering consulting house which works in ME + Africa + SEA + ASEAN countries mostly in water resources, infrastructure development, and transportation engineering fields and like my job, well being in the management have its own advantages . But I have a feeling that what I could I have achieved with this job, but the problem is, I don't want another job with some other employer, so lately, I've been checking 'feasibility' of various business options, and if something interesting turns up, I will certainly look in to starting my own business

I was working as a receptionist at a super 8 while going to college full time to earn my networking degree along with a associates in science. But the owner wouldn't pay me time and a half for overtime and cut my hours to one a day a week for asking so now I just go to college.

I plan to get a job repairing and maintaining computers for a office. That should be easy, in the mean time I will work on getting a higher paying job networking for a company. I may or may not go on to get my bachelors.

I am a police agent in Romania , i used to love doing my job ... then the laws changed and law breakers received more right's and benefit's then the police ever had ... now i hate my job. Just thinking about the fact that my training costed the state 200 dollars month and my salary is now 600 dollars a month and on an inmate at a medium level penitentiary the state spends over 1000 dollars a month . And while i spend over 6 month to convict a felon and gather sufficient evidence , a prosecutor let's him go in a week for either being his first crime or by commuting his incarceration to a measly 100 dollar fine.
Yes i HATE my job now.

I repair fitness equipment for a living so I travel quite a bit. The job itself isn't too bad but having gone to school for electronics repair it doesn't really challenge me. Having to pay for all my expenses out of pocket isn't great either.

I hate what i am learning at college.Pretty sure finding job difficult enough won't have a choice of choosing the one i like.

What job?!

I'm a manic depressive and I hate work anyway........................

I like my Job. The people I work with make the difference.

Slot Technician for Ceaser's Entertainment... not what I want to do, hopefully an opening in the IT Dept. will open up soon. I have my Associates in Cybercrime and Networking.

I'm an engineer at Samsung Telecom. I like the work, but the job sucks, it's not at all rewarding or satisfying, it's all about cliques and kissing up, not the job.
But it's a paycheck, so we stick around.

I am video game programmer for a small game company but we are doing good now and we are going to expand so I love my job!

It means I can buy new upgrades for my computer so yes, I do like my job
Glad I graduated just before the financial crisis though.

Hated my job, then lost it, was out of work for a year, and went back to school.

A bit tough at my age, but never too late...

Second-year doctoral student in History (of science, technology, and medicine, woot woot), making 12k a year, taking out 5k a year in loans. School work, teaching, and grading add up to around fifty hours a week, and the only advice every professor seems to know how to give is that there are no jobs in academia anymore. So I research, write papers, go to conferences, and write articles to get just so one day I can tell them to suck it. Wouldn't trade this for anything else right now (except the grading; kids are just getting dumber and dumber).

In fact, reading a 729-page book this very moment on WWII, by someone who convinced a publisher that his book, despite being the ten thousandth volume on WWII, is different and worth it. Keep on keepin' on...