Your Work...what do you love/hate most

[Flygurl 0]

I love the dogs and the traveling.

I'm not so big on the dog poop part and the politics... which is basically the same thing.

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"One out of every four American's are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

[Nightingale 0]

Right now, I'm working as a tutor.

I love:

working with kids

seeing the lightbulb go on the first time an algebra student understands the quadratic formula

being able to choose who I work with

being able to choose what hours I will work

being able to choose where I will work

making $25 an hour.

pretty much being my own boss.

I hate:

parents who send their straight A honors student to me for "enrichment." Usually the kid doesn't want to be there and would rather be out with his friends or playing soccer and getting some exercise, because he already works his tail off in school. What kid wants extra homework?!

Students who don't want to learn. They're wasting my time and their time and their parents' money. You can't force a kid to learn, and I'd much rather devote my time to a kid who wants help than waste it on someone who refuses to help themself. (students who are frustrated because they don't get it are different and not the ones I'm talking about here).

I love:

being able to walk away from students like that and have new students filling those slots within a day or so. It's wonderful to have that kind of freedom.

[Viking 0]

I love my job b/c i get to see all kinds of people see alot of interesting stuff. For the most part I work with smart people. I love working with the CT scanner b/c I'v learned how to do everything except actually do the scan. I love the look on peoples faces when i show up at there door with a wheelchair to discharge them.

I hate my job b/c I on many occasions have transfered someone to another floor to pass away. It sucks being in the elavator with someone who has a non-rebreather mask with 15 liters of O2 running and they are still gasping. I hate lazy nurses that call the lift team for every little thing they don't want to do. I HATE when a nurse tries to complain when i don't bring them back a "good" bed after a patient transfers off the floor. They want me to put the patient through a bed to bed transfer just so they can keep there bed with a scale and a bed alarm. I hate hearing "Code Blue room...." over the intercom that means i have to run from were ever i am to that location and help to save someone. Thankfully i'v only had to do CPR on one person so far. I HATE the sound of ribs seperating from the sternam during CPR. Oh did i mention i hate lazy ass nurses?

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[ltdiver 3]

Love: The work. The Happy Hours.

Hate: Work. The sad hours.

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[rhys 0]

i love meeting new people, i love getting nice customers, i love experiencing the joy of a first jump everyday, i love my workmates. i love payday, i love travelling, i love not going to work on rainy days.

I hate stiffass hungover customers, i hate fuckwit customers, i hate being thrown up on, i hate 100+ kg women that are 5'0". i hate linetwists. i hate marginal conditions.

all in all i love my job.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

[sunshine 2]

Gee do i really need to answer this? Ya'll know i love my job!!
I still can't believe the awesome scenery i get every freakin day!!

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meow

I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug!

[popsjumper 2]

Screw work and all the corporate politics associated. I paid my dues.

I LOVE retirement! I work and play at it all day!
WoooooHooooo!

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[d_squared431 0]

I love the variety of people that come in. I love going and making house calls when it is slow in the office. Ya, we still do that for some of the older patients who just can't make it in do to the weather or illness.
What I don't love about my job would be that people expect a over night cure for being sick and or the patients who think that they are the only ones that matter. Oh, and the patient that just won't stop talking on the phone or reading a magazine when you are rooming them.

TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1
I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH
You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly

[LisaM 0]

I love getting to do what I love all day long.... I hate that the senior programmer is resistant to change if it means I know more than she does.

She wants us to code the same way all the time... apparently she never gets bored.....

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[niolosoiale 0]

I like the schedule (7:30a - 4:30p) but I hate having a late night (7:30a - 7:00p). Specifically when I work two because my boss wants me to work his and I have no justification to say no, plus I don't want to say no as it makes me look like I'm trying to shed responsibility. I also hate late nights since I have to do a job that I'm not comfortable with doing (writing up customer vehicles for service).

I hate late nights. Period.

I hate filing and the fact that I have to do it 2-3 hours a day to stay caught up since no one else will do it. I want to spend more time advancing my knowledge/skills in warranty administration.

I like the 1 hour lunches.

I like my boss being flexible about my time (I think all the overtime compensates for coming in 10 minutes late every day.)

I like the people, except for a few of the salesmen.

I hate the fact that my boss seems to have a knack for hiring people who are little more than short-term liability.

I hate that my boss raised the price of oil changes by 9 cents. It was 28.05 which made the combination of oil change and any other pure labor operation (tire rotations, alignments, balancing, etc) come out to an even dollar amount. So now instead of a oil change and rotate costing $44.00, they cost $44.09. His logic in doing it? "I wanted to help us get a little more fromt he oil changes." The result -- more hassle in making change for cash customers, I'm almost sure that there are some people that view that extra 9 cents as a little prick in the side, oh, and we increased our sales by $27 for all the trouble. $27 out of an average $120,000 monthly gross profit.

I hate Thursdays. No reason other than I find it more difficult to get out of bed on thursday than any other day of the week.

I like the idea of doing what I was hired to do, but I do not like doing the work that other people should have no trouble doing. Unfortunately, I end up feeling like mortar in the cracks.

[GogglesnTeeth 6]

Once upon a time.... I enjoyed working in television. The stress of only getting one shot to get a newscast out right the first time. The thrill of knowing what is going on in the world first and then being a part of the team that told the masses the news. The excitement of working with all the modern technology and computers, making them do what they are not designed to do.... etc. Now the thrill is gone. I'm sick of the news business, the politics in the office, the corporate backstabing that goes on, and frankly, the mindless philosophy of "if it bleeds, it leads." And of course, the "we'll get it on the air first, and if the info is incorrect, we'll blame someone else or correct it later.
Needless to say, I need out of the TV business.
I know all jobs have their downsides.... but I no longer find it fun.

Oh well, I need to get a job in computers or something, till then, I jump till the credit cards say no!!!

Goggles and Teeth

"You fall like a greased safe!!!"

[Shotgun 1]

I hate that I don't get enough work to earn a living with this job (but it's ok while I'm going to school), and that my work schedule is rather erratic. And I hate having to drive up and down steep muddy hills with my little stick-shift pickup (though I do get a nice vertigo/adrenaline rush from it sometimes ).

But I love getting to see lots of neat homes and land, meeting interesting people, and spending a lot of time outside - mostly in Fallbrook, CA, which is such a beautiful place.

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[niolosoiale 0]

Oh yeah, I don't like wearing an uncomfortable white shirt and tie. I'm pretty sure there is a middle ground that needs to be met in comfort and presentability. And 65% polyester shirts with buttons that are too big for the holes are not the way to do that.

[RandomLemming 0]

I love my work, but I hate my job :)

I love solving problems, turning messes into things that can easily be managed by random joe's off the street, resurrecting dead things. I love the pressure when things go pear and pulling it all together. I love walking into an office 5000 kilometers from home and seeing people smiling at me because I've helped them in some way. I love it when my team gels and gets on with things. I love the productive streak we have when management takes their annual vacation.

But I hate the bully's - the people who think that it's alright to walk up to someone's desk and start yelling at them. I hate when my manager flat out tells me I'm not good enough to do something, despite the fact that I've never failed on a single task I've been given (except for one people issue :D) or missed a single deadline.

[riggerrob 643]

Sounds like the FAA is catching up with all the progress made by Nav Canada in recent years.
... Not that management/staff relations were any better when Transport Canada managed ATC ...

[jeiber 0]

I spend my day trying to come up with solutions for impossible problems, that were created by other friggin' people.

It's a good thing my window doesn't open here, 20 stories up. I've already tried twice today....

I like the paycheck.....

Tomorrow I'll probably be back to loving my job... Just having a rough day today...

Shhh... you hear that sound? That's the sound of nobody caring!

[brierebecca 0]

I love not having a lot to do.

I hate not having enough to do.


Brie

"Ive seen you hump air, hump the floor of the plane, and hump legs. You now have a new nickname: "Black Humper of Death"--yardhippie

[riggerrob 643]

I love being strapped to pretty girls, jumping out of airplanes and getting paid to do it.

I hate packing reserves in the evenings when everyone else is drinking beer, working 12 hour days for a month straight during the summer.

[smiles 0]

I love my job smoke testing the sewer systems. Ya go to work, do your job, come home and leave everything behind you. Absolutely no stress, work is a blast- I wear steel toe boots----get good exercise and pay.

The company I work for contracts out to the city so we get paid what is called "fair wage" by the city ($25.00 hr. cnd.)

(Smoke testing of sanitary sewer systems is done to find places where ground water and storm runoff can enter the sewer system. A large downdraft fan with a gasoline engine, is placed on top of open manholes at the section to be tested. Smoke is created using liquid smoke. The fan creates a pressure differential that forces the artificial smoke into the sewer at a pressure just above atmospheric. With properly installed plumbing the traps prevent the smoke from entering the buildings/homes and redirected it out the plumbing vents.)

I am employed as a "smoke tester" checking the area around each building/home in the section being tested and check for smoke plumes. Plumes coming from plumbing vents are normal but smoke plumes outside of the manhole rim are not. (smoke coming from cracks in sidewalks/ driveways/ storm drains/ around power poles/ …(tons of sewer systems are crossed with storm drains) I carry binoculars, and a video camera to record defects, also record on my map the address etc. The best part of my day is getting access to the roof tops of high-rises (awesome views!) and checking out beauty gardens in peoples back yards. Many grow ops direct smell into sewer lines- so when manhole is lifted ya can sure tell there is a grow op in that block!! (halarious!)
At the end of each section I edit video and mapping for city reports. The company has kewl cameras that run inside sewer line to detect defects like roots from trees, re: city line problems/ or building/home owners property. Next week we start testing the city of White Rock (beauty, right on the beach) and will work there for a few months. Then back to finish James Bay (Vancouver Island) for 2 weeks where we get paid for travelling time, ferry cost, motel, food.



I am a certified graphic designer and dental assistant, a very proud Mom (raised 2 sons)
On the side I run my own business- re: i.d. skydiving graphics, designing and maintaining websites, animation, logos, boogie adverts, banners, t-shirts, tattoos, video editing…

skydive in the spring/summer on weekends, and gardening to balance everthing to the "t." Also having a gas renovating my home-
"I thoroughly enjoy my life!"


SMiles

eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

[JohnMitchell 16]

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Sounds like the FAA is catching up with all the progress made by Nav Canada in recent years.
... Not that management/staff relations were any better when Transport Canada managed ATC ...

That's the FAA's new business model. Russell Chew is getting it ready to be taken over by Lockheed-Martin or maybe Halliburton. Bush isn't running a government, he's holding an auction.

[bob.dino 1]

I love developing code that does stuff people say can't be done. I love the challenge. I like broadening my skills by helping out the Sales guys. I like learning to manage people.

I dislike the fact that I have to ask my boss five times to get anything done, and that I don't have a budget to buy the small stuff without asking permission. I dislike working for a small startup with few customers, because I don't get immediate feedback on just how good or bad my work is.

[Duckwater 0]

I love the paycheck/unreal job security and the time off.

I hate dealing with not so bright employees.....a lot.

[Silverchic 0]

I love the fact that I work in an office yet I go to work in steel cap boots, jeans and a man's shirt and if I get dirty then it actually looks like I've been doing something. I love the people I work with, I love the flexible working hours, the 1 hour lunch breaks, the millions of joke emails I send and receive each week.

I hate....very very little. Maybe the fact that people always nick my pens and notebooks and anything else that is on my desk.

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

[LyraM45 0]

I'm an undergrad in a Meteorology major, so being a student is my work as well as a full time server at a resturaunt and part time at the computer lab on campus. It's a lot, but it's really OK....I guess there could be worse things, but there are a few things I do hate: I hate the managers in the resturaunt business-- why do they all have to be pricks?? I hate people who don't know how to tip, and I hate the customer that no matter what you do, they are never happy. Other than that, the job is OK, I guess.

As for my future job in the Meteorology field-- I'm sure I'll LOVE it.

Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :)

[Conundrum 1]

I love a very select few people I work with, I hate everything else. Which is why my last day is on Tuesday the 11th.