Do you feel your job is worthwhile?

No. I can no longer fix things faster than other people break them. Of course they won't stop breaking them while I keep fixing them. I need a change.
 
My job involves encouraging benefit scroungers to gamble their money away in the hope they will win big.

Its crap, I hate it, but it pays the bills while I get my photography thing off the ground.
 
I send Ambulances out to sometimes critically ill people.. I like to think so :)

I also get sent out by the same people on a voluntary basis to those same people - having done the whole CPR thing, I know i'm making a difference and it's a nice feeling :)
 
I do security. I stop poor people robbing from rich people. I hate my job.
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I do security too, only I sit in a hut operating the gates near a dock. It get's boring as not a lot goes on most of the time :( I am typing this right now from within my hut... only another 10 hours and 45 mins to go roughly :)
Still I get to surf the web and watch films/series when nothing is going on but even that gets boring after a while lol.
But the answer to the question being asked... No I feel a bit useless and silly at times. I wish I could do more to be helpful sometimes.

Can't complain though as the money is pretty good considering what I am doing.
 
Yes, I work in engineering supporting all of our armed forces. Since I wasn't able to join the forces myself, it's the next best thing, and I'm really proud of it.

It's an interesting question from the OP, pretty subjective tbh. You could argue that everyone who has a job is actually a benefit to society, since you're not on benefits, you're paying taxes, and you're supporting some form of business. Depends what level you look at it I guess.
 
My day is spent on the receiving end of completely unrealistic demands of the public sector - "we want it at rock bottom product prices AND we want it completely bespoke for each department". Obviously they then scream when you politely tell them they're not getting it..

The private sector could do 90% of public sector activities with about 40% of the budget. The government have not understood how to play private sector off on each other either.

However that's enough venom targeted this morning.
 
Payroll & Invoicing for a Civil Engineering company. Currently on the M25 project. Basically paying all the subcontractors and passing invoices. It didn't initially seem very important but without it there'd be no workmen or materials to cause pointless delays on massive sections of the M25 :p

It'd be nice to do something where I can see the difference I'm making. I fell into this straight after Uni via some temping that went full time, it's only got about another year to run. I'm a qualified PT too but am planning on kicking that off in the new year. I've helped people before and I get a bit of a kick from seeing people feel good about themselves :)
 
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I'm a project manager for a company that makes parts for nuclear powerstations (both the comissioning and decomissioning of)/submarines/aircraft carriers. I like to think that in the long run this makes a difference in a few ways, but it's a very long tedious link to get to that lol.
 
I (and others) spent 10 years moving a government's IT system out of the dark ages. That bit was worth it.

Nowadays, with a fairly modern IT system in place, it's huge demands, over-stressed systems, and no budget/forward planning despite repeated calls/proof for it. Still worthwhile, but much more of a battle.
 
To my company yes, to society...not really. My job basically involves checking that my company is paying the right amount for the oil/gas supplied to it from the North Sea. If I didn't do my job I'd only really be effecting how much profit/loss my company made.
 
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