Ask Lemmy

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?

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 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'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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

Getting paid

The job

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.

I install, service, and repair industrial equipment. I enjoy the problem solving, mechanical and electric aspects of it, and some of the places I travel to are pretty cool. It's a very niche field though, so I hate when something odd is happening and nobody has any clue what's going on. I'm also a skinny guy so when I've got to do heavy lifting I feel my body deteriorating.

Licensed professional counselor. LOVE my job. Love my clients. It's fulfilling. Specific to the place I work, I set my own schedule and they're extremely supportive. I can also wear basically whatever I want.

I hate working. I'm over it. Wouldn't matter where I worked, I'm just done HAVING to work. I don't like the pay but also don't want to go into private practice. I could go for another practice that gives me a higher percentage of my earnings but that will absolutely come with some caveats. Hate taking insurance but you typically get the most people that way.

Software developer. I love creating stuff and solving puzzles. I hate having to deal with customers and their sometimes schizophrenic specifications (by lack of a better term). I built software that made me feel about as useless as the poor sap who does the quality check on the blinkers in the Audi factory.

I am getting too old for this shit.

I'm lucky to have a good job that supports my life (mostly) and ethical leadership in the law firm I work for.

The only things I don't like about it are the expectation to be in the office on weather alert days (and I live in a place that gets zero degree temperatures in the winter and 100-degree temperatures in the summer) and I have to go in physically one day a week. I'd rather be fully remote.

I'm self-employed and doing the kind of work I'd pick if I could freely choose anything, so I can't really say there's much about my job I don't like. After all, I have the luxury to refuse any job I don't feel like doing. Like I did with applying wallpaper - fuck that.

I love that I can set my own working hours. I can take a day - or a whole month - off whenever I want. My running costs are so low that not working doesn't bankrupt me. I get genuine gratitude for what I do. I manipulate the physical world, so at the end of the day I can see and touch what I've produced. I love that my customers are unreasonably reasonable. I love constantly learning new things and sharpening my existing skills. I love that no two days are the same. I get to work both outdoors and indoors. I love that I don't have to touch a computer. I love that I get to do things the way I think they should be done instead of how someone tells me.

Yeah, I could go on forever.

The people

I'm a physician associate in the UK. I love helping people and making a difference. It's great when my actions make someone's life better, be that patient or colleagues. The team I work with are really good people. I love medicine: it's problem solving, the interpersonal aspects, the continuous learning, the kindness and dedication of the people I work with.

I hate basically everything else. The PA role has had loads of bad press recently and there's a legal case ongoing about the national review that was done so there's huge amounts of uncertainty as to what the role will look like in future if it keeps existing at all. So no idea if I'm going to get to keep doing what I love long term. The NHS is basically on its knees after a generation of underfunding and poor management at the highest levels, what with the previous conservative basically trying to sell it off for profit so we don't have enough resources to do things properly.
The system is set up to basically abuse its staff, the culture in the NHS is one of going above and beyond and putting yourself out to help others. Which is how the whole thing is still running to be honest, but that means that it's really easy/ expected to stay late or to pick up too much work. If someone retires or leaves it's even odds that they get replaced these days so there's more work for less people.

I love that I get to help people as best I can, but I hate the work itself unfortunately. It's very mentally taxing and sometimes really depressing.

Printing machine operator for medium runs, specializing in label.

Actually having a physical representation of the work I've done and that i can do it on muscle memory by now. The routine and pay is kinda good as well and that at the end of my shift, i will raise my hands up and just walk out and for the next 16h it's not my problem.

Though the worst part about it, is kinda bad. It's in 3 shifts that rotate weekly. After 13 years, i no longer have any circadian rhythm or natural hormonal cycle left. I've been regulating that manually for years.