Do you enjoy your job? (job offers, employees, percentage, interviews)

[statisticsnerd]

It pays the bills and allows me to invest quite a bit for retirement. I'm glad I have it, especially in this job market. I don't particularly love or hate the job. It just gets me where I want to be financially.

[Miss Crabcakes]

When it was busier, I loved it.

Now that is dead, its killing my spirit.

[maus]

I really like my job about 80% of the time. There are drawbacks, but that's the case anywhere. There is stress and long hours time to time.

After you have some significant experience (roughly 5+ years [in my case anyway]), you usually have choices unless there are some huge obstacles in your way.

And liking my job beats many alternatives I have had in the past that were just awful before:

being unemployed
low paying entry-level jobs
extreme office politics
crazy boss
etc ...

[karen_in_nh_2012]

Absolutely love it ... which is a good thing since I will be doing it for probably another 18-20 years 'til I retire.

I worked in the corporate world many years ago and would NEVER want to go back (even though for awhile I really liked my corporate job).

[313Weather]

It pays.

[AGG1659]

I have been lucky to enjoy all my jobs. My newest job is great, I am teaching young kids about Nature and adding something great to my resume! It can get boring but overall, I enjoy it.

[redroses777]

I HATE my job so much that I dread waking up in the morning. The pay is too low and I don't receive the training I need to be successful. I can barely afford to buy groceries. Thankfully, I have an interview soon.

[the_contrary]

Originally Posted by Tekkie

Essentially, it boils down to poor management. They do not hesitate to throw you under the bus, lecture you, fire you, or let you drown.

Same thing at my job. I've fixed or avoided so many errors at my job and no one says anything, yet the handful of times I've slipped I get lectured. I hate making mistakes and learn from them, but it's hard to stay motivated with so little appreciation.

I haven't had a full night's sleep for weeks because I'm so stressed about my job. Which is why I'm up at 4:26am writing this...

[2nd trick op]

The poll should have been set on a 0-to-10 scale with 10 equalling maximum satisfaction.

I would have given my job about a 6.5; it's physically demanding, but not so much that things aren't adjusted individually. Still, there is a growing obsession with standards that will not be kind to those who have trouble fitting in, and that includes me, due to age physical-handicap issues. The "spread" between the top managment out on the West Coast and the people on the floor is quite broad, but it seems to work well at separating the serious issues from the transitory.

I'm an older employee in a "young" shop, but I've never before worked in a place with as much commitment to -- and pride in -- diversity. There is a sincere recognition here that ethnicity and related characteristics have nothing to do with finding a way to deliver the goods, literally. And tthe suipes are both well-trained in recognizingf and defusing the "bumps in the road" as they turn up.

Challenging, occasionally frustrating, but the most honest about it as any place I've ever worked.

[Hemlock140]

Yes, great work environment, challenging, plenty to always keep busy, annual performance based raises and two promotions in 4 years. As a manager now my boss pretty much leaves me alone, and after the last 2 hires I have a great crew.