Do You Love Your Job?

[Ippyroy]

My opinion, the only thing keeping a dream from being reality is you. I went back to college to finish my degree at 36 with a 3.9 GPA (you’d think an accounting professor would understanding how to round). You can do it if it’s important to you.

This is certainly not the job I would have chosen, but at the end of the day I go home happy and have little to no stress. Most days. There are bad days for sure, but I wouldn't want a different job or career. When I retire I am going to be a camp host at remote camp sites. Rake a few leaves, collect some money, and do lots of fly fishing.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Energy conservation specialist.... Aka window and door installer. It's hard work but I had a rough background and never imagined I'd be making the money I make today.

As a self proclaimed wise man once told me "its bad all over" lol

 

[ARAJEA]

Network Security Engineer? Information Assurance Engineer? "Security" is broad.

 

[mariano]

i work for a company that provides services for kids with autism, i think it’s a beautiful job. so i must say i do love my job .

 

[Ippyroy]

Energy conservation specialist.... Aka window and door installer. It's hard work but I had a rough background and never imagined I'd be making the money I make today.

As a self proclaimed wise man once told me "its bad all over" lol

I wish I had a picture of the door frames i have measured out. So far from square all you could do is laugh. Studs and joists all perfect, not an issue. Door frames and window frames, man I can make them circles before square.

 

[FlexingFishSticks]

I love the gas light district in San Diego. The Brazilian BBQ plac is one of my all time favorite places to eat. And the little old lady in the museum in Balboa park who makes the flat bread for you.

Hell yah you been to San Diego woo!! Ahh yesss you must be speaking of Fogo De Chao soo good! Hahaha yes that lady is a legend! Mann you must come back there are so many more places for you to try!

 

[LegendaryCG]

Hell yah you been to San Diego woo!! Ahh yesss you must be speaking of Fogo De Chao soo good! Hahaha yes that lady is a legend! Mann you must come back there are so many more places for you to try!

Balboa park is pretty awesome. i went to a private Foo Fighters concert there a couple years ago.

 

[Hydrored]

I have 500+ employees that report in my org, depends how much stupid stuff they can do in a day that makes me dislike my job..... other than that I love what I do

 

[ARAJEA]

I have 500+ employees that report in my org, depends how much stupid stuff they can do in a day that makes me dislike my job..... other than that I love what I do

500+!!!!????? Can I borrow your patience?

 

[FlexingFishSticks]

Balboa park is pretty awesome. i went to a private Foo Fighters concert there a couple years ago.

Yeah it’s a cool spot for sure! Did you have a chance to explore the museums or anything else in San Diego?

 

[Hydrored]

500+!!!!????? Can I borrow your patience?

They are all construction guys and gals too risking their lives at heights and driving vehicles. Not a day goes by that a truck isn't broken into or some sort of safety incident. Odd part is they are all paid by the hour yet they all try to take some sort of short cut and always get caught (that’s a good thing)

 

[ARAJEA]

You have 500 people under you, every one of them tries to take short cuts, goal is to catch them.... I mean no disrespect. Maybe time to change the strategy?

 

[Ippyroy]

Yeah it’s a cool spot for sure! Did you have a chance to explore the museums or anything else in San Diego?

There was a museum of torture last time I was there. It is my favorite city park ever.

 

[Steph72]

I do love my job although it can be very emotionally taxing since I see a lot of injured and dying animals. I work at a large veterinary hospital as a multi modality imaging tech. I’m a registered X-ray and MRI tech but after getting burned out working in hospitals I made the change to veterinary medicine. It was a great fit from day one since I love animals and helping them is very fulfilling. It pays a lot less than human medicine but the patients are a lot cuter! Lol

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

I love my job but its not my end game by any means. I've worked in the pet industry for as long as I've been able to work (was volunteering before that) and am currently employed at one of my areas LFS and love helping people find success in the hobby. I know it brings others the same joy and relief it brings me and I think its awesome I get to share that with people and just talk to people who are passionate about animals!

Since grade 2 my goal in life was to be a herpetologist and I really thought I could make it as one. My colleagues and regular customers call me an encyclopedia and its quite deserved, I spent most of my childhood researching various animals, reading every book I could get my hand on and participating on forums like this one for whatever group of organism's I was enthralled with at the time. Latin names and information on different species gets stuck in my head often after only seeing it once and I can recall that information nearly indefinitely.

However as impressive as my mind seems to be in that way its is proportionately dumb in math. As hard as it was I grinded through every math I had to take in school because I knew it would be worth it in the end. Pre call 11-12 was where I started to really struggle. Even in the most supportive environment you can imagine I could barely keep up. A lot of those classes ended with me in tears just from the amount of mental strain I was going through trying to understand the concepts. I eventually passed but once I got to Uni I realized if I continued down this path my mental health would deteriorate to unsafe levels.

It sucks because a few years ago I went to Thailand to do some volunteer work with Asian Elephant conservation and I blew everyone there away. They had never seen someone so driven to learn and explore. I was only there for two months but in that time I made such an impression that I became the first volunteer to ever receive an award for my contributions to the project and a letter of recommendation. From that experience alone I know I have what it takes to do the work and make a difference in conservation. It just really sucks I'll never have the mental capacity to get through the academics I need to (at least in North America) actually become a true Herpetologist.

 

[ARAJEA]

I love my job but its not my end game by any means. I've worked in the pet industry for as long as I've been able to work (was volunteering before that) and am currently employed at one of my areas LFS and love helping people find success in the hobby. I know it brings others the same joy and relief it brings me and I think its awesome I get to share that with people and just talk to people who are passionate about animals!

Since grade 2 my goal in life was to be a herpetologist and I really thought I could make it as one. My colleagues and regular customers call me an encyclopedia and its quite deserved, I spent most of my childhood researching various animals, reading every book I could get my hand on and participating on forums like this one for whatever group of organism's I was enthralled with at the time. Latin names and information on different species gets stuck in my head often after only seeing it once and I can recall that information nearly indefinitely.

However as impressive as my mind seems to be in that way its is proportionately dumb in math. As hard as it was I grinded through every math I had to take in school because I knew it would be worth it in the end. Pre call 11-12 was where I started to really struggle. Even in the most supportive environment you can imagine I could barely keep up. A lot of those classes ended with me in tears just from the amount of mental strain I was going through trying to understand the concepts. I eventually passed but once I got to Uni I realized if I continued down this path my mental health would deteriorate to unsafe levels.

It sucks because a few years ago I went to Thailand to do some volunteer work with Asian Elephant conservation and I blew everyone there away. They had never seen someone so driven to learn and explore. I was only there for two months but in that time I made such an impression that I became the first volunteer to ever receive an award for my contributions to the project and a letter of recommendation. From that experience alone I know I have what it takes to do the work and make a difference in conservation. It just really sucks I'll never have the mental capacity to get through the academics I need to (at least in North America) actually become a true Herpetologist.

Call my wife. I don't math, not even a tiny bit. She got me through a masters by tutoring me in math. Math is evil. She just has a way of explaining it......even if she does make you feel small during the explanation.

 

[BlennyTime]

I’m a senior engineer for a large telecom, and it’s very rewarding helping connect people with what matters to them, especially in times like this!!

 

[BackToTheReef]

My opinion, the only thing keeping a dream from being reality is you. I went back to college to finish my degree at 36 with a 3.9 GPA (you’d think an accounting professor would understanding how to round). You can do it if it’s important to you.

Actually it's the return on investment. The types of jobs that comes with these degrees while enjoyable, don't pay great unless you get your PHD and I have no desire to do that. So for the amount of debt I would be taking on and the significant pay cut I would be digging a pretty deep financial hole.

 

[LegendaryCG]

Actually it's the return on investment. The types of jobs that comes with these degrees while enjoyable, don't pay great unless you get your PHD and I have no desire to do that. So for the amount of debt I would be taking on and the significant pay cut I would be digging a pretty deep financial hole.

Yes it’s true it can be expensive, a lot of businesses do have education reimbursement programs. I completed my degree entirely funded by employer although if I quit in the next year I’d have to pay back some of the cost.

 

[paul01609]

I’m a plasterer but retrained as a electrican a couple of years ago because of the damage to my arms, still do a bit of plastering now and then.
retraining best thing I ever did I love going to my job but sadly things are a bit uncertain at the moment with this Covid