What do you do for a living and why do you enjoy it or dislike it?
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Advisor for a large mobile telecommunications company...
Likes: The job (generally), the new technology, the customers (when they're not being stupid), 28 days holiday, and they gave me a PC and lappy
Dislikes: The hours (9-5 plus in the region of 23 hours overtime as well p/m), the pay, the customers (when they're being stupid), 30 mile commute
Likes: The job (generally), the new technology, the customers (when they're not being stupid), 28 days holiday, and they gave me a PC and lappy
Dislikes: The hours (9-5 plus in the region of 23 hours overtime as well p/m), the pay, the customers (when they're being stupid), 30 mile commute
Soldato
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- 6 Nov 2002
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- London UK
Senior Systems Analyst (aka TI monkey)
Likes:-
The pay, only real reason I’m doing this
Flexible hours, both in and out of the office
Colleagues, work in a fairly large team with a great bunch of guys
Some interesting projects
Dislikes:-
Company politics
Company red tape
Responsibility where issues can’t be offloaded during holiday/sick time
Having to deal with cheap/useless outsourced staff
Likes:-
The pay, only real reason I’m doing this
Flexible hours, both in and out of the office
Colleagues, work in a fairly large team with a great bunch of guys
Some interesting projects
Dislikes:-
Company politics
Company red tape
Responsibility where issues can’t be offloaded during holiday/sick time
Having to deal with cheap/useless outsourced staff
Admin Assistant in a nursing home
Likes:
Friendly atmosphere
Flexible about hours
Good money for not many hours
Quite easy work
Dislikes:
Lack of friends - I'm always in the office so I don't get to talk to many people
Can be very "clicky" because of above
No chance of promotion (no where to promote me to)
Sometimes feel under-valued for the amount of work I actually do that isn't in my job description
Likes:
Friendly atmosphere
Flexible about hours
Good money for not many hours
Quite easy work
Dislikes:
Lack of friends - I'm always in the office so I don't get to talk to many people
Can be very "clicky" because of above
No chance of promotion (no where to promote me to)
Sometimes feel under-valued for the amount of work I actually do that isn't in my job description
Suspended
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- 3 Nov 2002
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- 3,092
I'm a data entry clerk for the NHS.
Likes: I can listen to my iPod all day and "shut off".
Dislikes: Utterly tedious and mind-numbing, and I'm way too good for this. I feel completely unfulfilled. Which is why I'm working on my university application for visual effects.
Likes: I can listen to my iPod all day and "shut off".
Dislikes: Utterly tedious and mind-numbing, and I'm way too good for this. I feel completely unfulfilled. Which is why I'm working on my university application for visual effects.
Associate
- Joined
- 29 Jun 2004
- Posts
- 2,279
- Location
- Rainham, Kent
Job - BT Technician
Salary - £21k
Hours - 8 - 4 Mon & Tues, 8 - 3.30 Wed to Fri
Good Points - The hours, retire at 60, can do the job with my eyes shut, no-one looking over my shoulder all the time, no commuting.
Bad Points - No promotion prospects as they've done away with all the middle ranking jobs , you're a bog standard field tech or a manager, virtually nothing in between any more.
The pay isn't enough for me to buy anywhere to live in my area, and I'm incredibly bored most of the time as I work on my own all day.
Much of my job involves repairing payphone equipment (what's left of it) and the new multimedia kiosks which no-one ever uses, so I'm dealing with vandalism all the time which gets you down after a while - when I'm not doing that I'm working on the phone systems for the inmates in the local prisons so having to work amongst the detritus of society as they make 'witty' comments.
Determined to find a new job soon before my brain turns to mush.
Salary - £21k
Hours - 8 - 4 Mon & Tues, 8 - 3.30 Wed to Fri
Good Points - The hours, retire at 60, can do the job with my eyes shut, no-one looking over my shoulder all the time, no commuting.
Bad Points - No promotion prospects as they've done away with all the middle ranking jobs , you're a bog standard field tech or a manager, virtually nothing in between any more.
The pay isn't enough for me to buy anywhere to live in my area, and I'm incredibly bored most of the time as I work on my own all day.
Much of my job involves repairing payphone equipment (what's left of it) and the new multimedia kiosks which no-one ever uses, so I'm dealing with vandalism all the time which gets you down after a while - when I'm not doing that I'm working on the phone systems for the inmates in the local prisons so having to work amongst the detritus of society as they make 'witty' comments.
Determined to find a new job soon before my brain turns to mush.
Soldato
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Day 2 Exceptions Processing at EDS.
Cheques come in, we check them to see if they're filled out right and so on, check for fraud, I'm sure you can imagine.
- Boring
- No variety
- Slightly odd hours
+ Boring = easy
+ It's the least stressful job I've ever had
+ I get a lie in
+ I like the people I work with
Overall, I'm pretty happy there for now. It's not going anywhere career wise, but at this point, I can't be arsed to make more of myself! I'm just gonna chill in this job for a while, then move on and hopefully a bit up.
Cheques come in, we check them to see if they're filled out right and so on, check for fraud, I'm sure you can imagine.
- Boring
- No variety
- Slightly odd hours
+ Boring = easy
+ It's the least stressful job I've ever had
+ I get a lie in
+ I like the people I work with
Overall, I'm pretty happy there for now. It's not going anywhere career wise, but at this point, I can't be arsed to make more of myself! I'm just gonna chill in this job for a while, then move on and hopefully a bit up.
'Cover Engineer' for an IT company
+Easy work
+Get to work in different places
+Little responsibility because 'I'm just covering'
-Salary
-Travel - at least 50 miles worth of driving every day, would prefer to be able to cycle
-Not enough to challenge me
+Easy work
+Get to work in different places
+Little responsibility because 'I'm just covering'
-Salary
-Travel - at least 50 miles worth of driving every day, would prefer to be able to cycle
-Not enough to challenge me
Soldato
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- 13 Aug 2004
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- Location
- England
stewc said:
Slap them until you get the answer you want? Could make it a plus!
Why is it that I imagine you holding one of those lights in someones face and their tied in their chair?
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I'm a Software Developer in the new media industry.
basically write stuff designed for mobile devices (java, websites, etc) I'm the resident porter of apps
+ the people
+ i help write games!
+ the place
+ gaining experience in java / tomcat / sql and the like
- often have to hang around after hours before the car park becomes free
- radio 2
our boss is cool, for the company's birthday he shut the office and took us all to belgium on the eurostar!
basically write stuff designed for mobile devices (java, websites, etc) I'm the resident porter of apps
+ the people
+ i help write games!
+ the place
+ gaining experience in java / tomcat / sql and the like
- often have to hang around after hours before the car park becomes free
- radio 2
our boss is cool, for the company's birthday he shut the office and took us all to belgium on the eurostar!
Hate said:I'm a Software Developer in the new media industry.
basically write stuff designed for mobile devices (java, websites, etc) I'm the resident porter of apps
+ the people
+ i help write games!
+ the place
+ gaining experience in java / tomcat / sql and the like
- often have to hang around after hours before the car park becomes free
- radio 2
our boss is cool, for the company's birthday he shut the office and took us all to belgium on the eurostar!
sounds like a cool job, whats your pay like? Career development prospects?
Sounds cool and like something I'd like to get into in the future, how did you get there?Hate said:I'm a Software Developer in the new media industry.
basically write stuff designed for mobile devices (java, websites, etc) I'm the resident porter of apps
+ the people
+ i help write games!
+ the place
+ gaining experience in java / tomcat / sql and the like
- often have to hang around after hours before the car park becomes free
- radio 2
our boss is cool, for the company's birthday he shut the office and took us all to belgium on the eurostar!
Aerospace Inpector.
+ Decent wage.
+ Good group of workmates.
+ Flexible hours.
+ Accommodating management (self directed teams, we manage our own issues)
+ Easy work and work load.
+ I get to read books, papers and magazines, listen to music and chat as long as the machines I operate are all running.
- Job "may" become boring after a few years, due to repetitiveness but the high wage makes me doubt it.
- No skill is involved in the work, which I know is a waste of my 4 years apprenticeship and 6 years futher experiance of "Proper" engineering.
+ Decent wage.
+ Good group of workmates.
+ Flexible hours.
+ Accommodating management (self directed teams, we manage our own issues)
+ Easy work and work load.
+ I get to read books, papers and magazines, listen to music and chat as long as the machines I operate are all running.
- Job "may" become boring after a few years, due to repetitiveness but the high wage makes me doubt it.
- No skill is involved in the work, which I know is a waste of my 4 years apprenticeship and 6 years futher experiance of "Proper" engineering.