Love: teaching life skills

Hate: fucking insurance

Love: I can drink on the job

Hate: I drink on the job

I got laid off almost 18 months ago. I hate relying on the food bank and borrowed money to survive. I love… setting my own schedule?

unemployed and I find looking for work the worst job. Its infinite work with no pay.

Software job.

Good: this place is so dysfunctional I can fuck off most of the day.

Bad: the place is extremely dysfunctional. Pays crap. No benefits.

Full time parent to 5 sons. Love the privilege of being able to do it. Love my coworker 😂. The products have mostly turned out awesome, development is coming along nicely. Versions 1, 2 and 3 have matured with v1 having been released into the wild. Versions 4 and 5 are entering their feral grunting phase, hopefully a couple more years of research will yield good results. Lack of pay is annoying.

It’s 100% WFH and it’s as awesome as it sounds.

I’ve done work like this job for a very long time so I can get things done very quickly, because I’ve done it all many times before. That gives me a lot of free time at home.

My company is a real manufacturer that is one of the few and best in the world at what it builds. The product is something that peoples’ lives depend upon. So much so that profit motive is not the #1 consideration in regards to our products. Safety is absolute and profit takes a distant back seat. Contrast that with my last employer that makes household goods destined for a land fill and there were entire teams dedicated to making products cheaper, but be able to charge more for them. Absolutely hated my last employer.

Corporate culture is an interesting mix of old school, stay with the company till you retire and bringing on new ideas and integrating them. Always keeping an actual eye on the important things, such as the aforementioned product safety.

Needless to say, I love my job.

Some cons: The main one is that I’m not really learning anything new, but I’ve been in this business for 30 years. While I do try to learn, a lot of the things that are being pushed these days are the same as I’ve seen before, just with new labels. That actually has been true for my last two employers, so I think it’s a symptom of my age and experience rather than an issue with the companies.

My boss, who is fantastic, is wanting me to step up and take over his position. Which would raise my importance level in the corporate structure quite a bit. The problem with that is I took this position, which was a major downgrade for me, just to avoid being important. Fortunately, this is not an UP or OUT type of company. I just need to be careful to remain relevant.

I love most things about my job and hate very little.

You’re lucky, very lucky person

I’m a lab rat, and probably the best part of the job is being left the fuck alone. I do my job and I do it well. No one fucks with me, micromanages me, follows me around, talks to me…it’s bliss. Yeah the job itself is rewarding (materials testing for aerospace), and my coworkers are pretty chill. But I’m a guy who likes his solitude, and I get plenty of it.

Hate? The hours. I do a 55-hour work week which is grueling as hell. Doesn’t leave a whole lot of time or energy to do fun things in my free time. But the OT is where the money’s at and I’m not quite ready to give that up yet.

I love my team and the people I work with; they’re awesome and why I’ve stayed at my current company (and yes my manager and ever his manager are included in this).

I hate that they’re shoving AI down our throats and is the primary reason I will be searching for a new job once I finish my degree.

I love that I get to be creative and do artistic things for a living. But, I hate that I have to do art for stuff I don’t care about.

I fix computers at a local shop for a living. I like the hours and the work, but hate commuting. Unfortunately there’s no public transit around me so I have to drive :(

Not a fan of the pay but it’s not terrible either. Definitely more consistent than freelance operations but private clients tend to pay way better so I miss that, lol.

I’m an intern for local gov

I love that I just sit in a decent office with amicable coworkers and a good boss. The commute is a good distance and I could even bike. I make decent money around 18 usd/hr after taxes. I don’t ever have to think about work after 5pm.

I hate using Microsoft / windows / Adobe but it’s tolerable. The real problem is not using my bachelor’s that I just got and a lack of room for advancement.

I work 24 hour shifts. It’s great! I love it, because I only have to work 2 days a week and have off the rest of the time. On the other hand, that shitty feeling you have when you start your shift and go “well, I just gotta get through X more hours then I can go home”? I gotta get through 24 more hours before I get to go home. It sucks.

I loved that they used to let us work remote whenever we weren’t needed at the labs or manufacturing floor. I hate that they now have RTO mandates that I rarely adhere to anyway.