Do you look forward to going to work?

My best job (enjoyment and socially) was technical support for Apple.

I worked with like minded people, got to browse the internet/play games in between calls, and have a good laugh. However the pay was terrible, it was about 36 miles round trip in busy traffic, and the working hours were horrible.

This current role is probably the worst (enjoyment and socially) IT Manager at GP surgery.

The job is easy and mundane, the people are uninteresting and have terrible crack. I have my own small office, with a window that overlooks the patient waiting area, so my blinds are constantly closed.
The positives are the pay is very good, the working hours are decent (apart from an hour for lunch which drags the day out too long), and I only live 5 miles away, so takes no more than 10 minutes and there is never any traffic.

I'm just finding it terribly difficult to get up in the morning, and most of my daily jobs take me about 10-20 minutes (they used to take all day for the person who used to do this job). So the rest of the time I'm sat twiddling my thumbs, as most of the work I do I have to generate myself, and there is rarely any tasks to be done when I ask.

I want a new challenge, and I'm looking for ideas I guess. I've looked into teaching, but I'm not sure I could go back to studying!!! And as that saying goes "Those who can't, teach". I tend to think of myself as more ambitious than that as well.
 
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Not really. Like a lot of people, I work to pay the bills. Nothing more, nothing less. I've never yet found a job that I can't wait to get to. Usually quite the opposite.

I've had various temp jobs over the last six years since I left IT. Some of them I haven't minded, others were pretty naff and I looked forward to the end of the contract.

The only time I really look forward to work is when I've been unemployed (like now). The only thing worse than being employed in a job you don't like is being unemployed and having to deal with the jobcentre (or pretty much any government run entity). They generally treat you like crap and are about as helpful as a chocolate teapot (YMMV of course).
 
I used to love my job and look forward to going into work. But 25 years later not so much. I guess that mostly it's due to familiarity with the job and having more responsibility now. I try to find the good things each day and really it's the people that I work with that make it an enjoyable day. But with a family now I prefer to be at home.

I think Steve Jobs hit the nail on the head in his 2005 Stanford speech:

"...When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you will most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that Iill be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that your are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart...No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven donit want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Lifeis change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so donit waste it living someone elseis life. Donit be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other peopleis thinking. Donit let the noise of otheris opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary..."
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I definitely hate my job nowadays.... i disliked it 11 years ago when i started it.. and when you can bearly managed to get yourself to work before 9.30 you know that you have had enough.:(

With me its not so much the job its the industry.... and it is difficult to change industry without taking a huge pay cut that im sure my family would not allow:o

I wish i could get a nice job working outdoors all weathers that paid half decent.
something like :

forester
sports trainer for xtreme sports
game keeper or estates manager
or even an overheads cable fitter for the power board.

i really just need to be outside in the fresh air and not in an office. One day when the other half gets a job i might be able..
 
I'd love to work from home, avoiding office talk about gardening and tennis when I'm there to work, and if I did want to exchange pleasantries and start a conversation it'd be about gaming or women, general pub talk.

I've only ever had one job I enjoyed, a night porter, I basically sat at a desk and did my own thing for the entire shift. Alone, except for the odd chinese student.
Quite often feet up watching films, or reading, gaming or relaxing. Hours sucked but I loved the job.
 
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Nope. Currently doing 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support for an investment house in Picadilly Circus. The pay is good but my employers definitely get their moneys worth out of me. 2 people supporting 180+ with no sign of our team expanding despite forecasts for the business indicating more growth. Still... I manage to drag myself out of bed at 5am everyday to do my routine and be at my desk for 8am.

I actually really want to be the next Cesar Milan :)
 
im 5 months into a new job so yes i do, i work as an laboratory analytical rota technician and have always had an interest in chemistry from school so as far as earning money im very happy.

this time last year it was a no even though it was a similar role as laboratory technician at a different company and i enjoyed the work, but far too many office politics and terrible area management ruined what had at times been an excellent job... last years resolution was to get a new job and i was successful, this years is to perform as well as possible in my new job.

also money doesnt buy happiness but £15k more a year definatly makes doing the less interesting tasks easier
 
Not really anymore.

I used to but the old more and more responsobilities and having to put in more and more hours is happening.

That and there has been a restructure since June last year and my job role is next in line. Fully expecting a e-mail containing "new job roles" if I want to apply or a straight out the door. Should hear this month sick of waiting tbh.
 
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I enjoy work, but mainly because the people I work with are a good laugh and the office is very relaxed. The job itself is repetitive and boring.
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Same. I don't look forward to getting up in the morning knowing I have work in an hour or two, but the actual being at work is fine because the people are nice and the environment is fairly relaxed. Saying that, I definitely want to find something more interesting and varied, but it's kind of tough when I've not long been out of education and have limited experience.
 
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Depends where you work, you gotta be very careful with small business as more often than not they are populated by ******* who couldn't get a job anywhere else.
 
I wouldn't say I enjoy it but I don't dislike it. I mostly enjoy the commute to work as it means I get to play on my bike :) After 9 days off it over christmas I actually laughed with enjoyment when I opened the bike up (to street legal speeds of course)

As for my job, Yes on the whole I do enjoy it but It's bloody hard work, long hours and the pay really needs to be looked at... especially considering I'm level 2 and am paid as much as Level 1 with easily double the work load and responsibilities...

I work in Application support for a Finance Brokerage.
 
I'm one of Her Majesty's postmen and there was enjoyment, after a fashion in the early days, but 'modernisation' has changed all that. I stick at it because it pays reasonably well and I know how the 'system' works and what I can get away with. I drag myself in, just on time each day to pay the bills, nothing more.

I'm lucky that I work with a good bunch of people, but the only sliver of enjoyment I get now is lusting after one of the girls I work with.
 
Hate it and so do most of the people who work there! Its not been so bad for the past 12 months as I have been on nights. Getting paid just to sit around watching top gear hasn't been so bad but dreading going back to days and getting up at half 5.

Only thing that keeps me there is the fact its only 5 mins from home and the pay is ok.
 
Not really - but I get on with it and focus on getting the job done as well as I can, and try and build up as many skills as I can. I hope to find another job this year.
 
I very much enjoy my job. So much so that I get in early and when 5 o'clock rolls round and others leave, I keep working.

I am a Joiner. I get to build a variety of things week to week with varying types of timber and the use of a nice range of tools.

I find my job very satisfying.
 
Absolutely, i think its important to enjoy what you do and like working where you do. Seeing as you work most of your life (second this is sleep, buy a decent bed) i think its something that you should look forward to doing.

Being this way has certainly helped me through my career, my commitment, dedication and positive attitude towards my work shows to my managers which has led to me being promoted up the ladder, that leads to better money, better perks and a change to what i do so good things! I work in IT as a System Administrator (Operations)

Even if i won the lottery i think I'd stay doing what i did, i would just have an agreement to work the hours i wanted =]
 
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