What do you love about your job?

[OpenYourEyes311]

- I walk out at 4:30 every day
- I haven't worked a weekend in two years
- I get five weeks of vacation per year (25 PTO days)
- Decent salary for a 30 year old
- Matching 401K
- Awesome health insurance
- Ability to work from home if I need to

FTFM

[bout to crash]

Yeah, I forgot about the ability to work from home, which I do on a regular basis for paperwork, etc. It's nice and allows me to avoid rush hour a lot of the time.

[JayOctavarium]

Yeah, I forgot about the ability to work from home, which I do on a regular basis for paperwork, etc. It's nice and allows me to avoid rush hour a lot of the time.

Working from home means being able to work in your underwear.



I so would.

[bout to crash]

Exactly

The only disadvantage is if I suddenly get an urgent work call, I have to rush to get ready because I'm not at all prepared.

[Kotowboy]

That every day - two hours goes by in what feels like 5 mins.

I've had jobs where the opposite was true. 

[bout to crash]

Yeah, that's true. It could be stressful/busy but at least it flies by. Dragging days just SUCK. That was one thing I didn't like about retail. The busy times were great, but then on slow days you'd just stand there drooling at the cash register or doing the same "cleaning" over and over again.

[JayOctavarium]

For me I have days that are busy as fuck and go by in a blink of an eye...

And then I have busy as fuck days that drag on forever.

And then I have slow as shift days that drag on forever.

[King Postwhore]

I can leave when I want since I'm the boss.  I'm meeting Chad Tuesday with the Queen in tow.  That's the cool part about my job.

[Kotowboy]

One of our staff left early today because he wanted to watch TV instead of working

Apparently he's done it before and the chef was *not* happy.

Probably gonna get fired.

It was crazy busy today sure - but it wasn't unbearable.




and no it wasn't me.

[jammindude]

I don't know that I ever get a chance to love anything about being an electrician in general.    In theory, everything I truly enjoy about being an electrician is not allowed because of time constraints.  (Being a bit OCD about my finished product, taking the time to make sure something is going to look perfect even when no one is going to see it, taking the time to think things through before bulldozing ahead and finding out I have to adjust my plans....you just can't do any of that stuff in construction and remain competitive)

But what I love about my *current* job is that it is 15 minutes from my house, and I'm working inside a relatively cool and shady concrete building when it's in the mid to upper 90's outside. 

[JayOctavarium]

Anyone else have a job that gets them into the Playboy Mansion?

I'm going to be working this:

https://www.thevipconcierge.com/VIPEvents/135/Hugh-Hefner-Playboy-Mansion-Midsummer-Night-Dream-Party-VIP-Tickets.aspx

[Kotowboy]

DON'T TAKE ZYDAR !!!!!!!!!!

OH I'VE DONE THIS ALREADY

[KevShmev]

Among other things, the fact that I can take lunch pretty much whenever I want. 

I was on the 6:30-3:30 shift for the last six months, and I would always go to lunch around 12 or so, so I'd get back around 1 or so, and my afternoon was a breeze; 2 1/2 hours at the most!

Now I am back on the 8-5 shift (yay for a promotion), and I am trying my best to go to lunch not until close to 1, that way I get back later and still have a shorter afternoon.  I had to go to lunch at the same time as my trainer for several days, and she always goes at 11 (she is on the 6:30-3:30 schedule), and my afternoons were sooooo long. 

A long morning shift, lunch, and then a short afternoon shift is the way to go.

[bout to crash]

I usually just eat in my car while driving from patient to patient 

Really though, it's cool because I'll often take a "lunch break" to do something like run errands or dick around.

[JayOctavarium]

What's a "Lunch Break"?

[Kotowboy]

Ol Ol Ol Ol

technically I don't really get one either - but if it goes quiet and we have ten minutes - we are allowed to grab some food and sit down.

But 5 hours is a short shift and it goes really quickly. I mostly don't take a break - or I eat something as I go.

[JayOctavarium]

We don't get luck breaks. We eat when we can during the shift. If it's slow... the entire shift is a break. If it's busy... well... you aren't eating.


I wouldn't know what to do with a break.

[KevShmev]

I've been there before in that situation, so I know what you mean.

I am fortunate now in that not only do I get a 1-hour lunch whenever I want to take it (so long as we aren't all gone at the same time, which never happens), but I am about 6 miles/12 minutes from home, so on days I don't do lunch with co-worker friends, I can drive home, eat lunch, still have time to kick back and relax for 15, and then drive back to work.  If nothing else, it gets me out of the office for an hour.

[gmillerdrake]

Among other things, the fact that I can take lunch pretty much whenever I want. 

Same here...and it is nice. I can meet up with friends, run errands....do whatever. Also, being a procurer of equipment there are a LOT of vendors that want me to buy things from them. So, on any given week in our office there are two, three...sometimes even four "Lunch and Learns" where these vendors will cater a lunch to get us all in the same room and listen to them pitch their product. So I often have the option of not spending any $$ on lunch if I can sit and listen for an hour.

[Jamesman42]

The new school I'm going to, I won't have a planning period but it starts later and ends earlier than my previous school. I think that's worth it, and I get a half hour lunch as well.

[Orbert]

I'm a programmer, so Benefit Number One is that my job requires me to sit at a computer.  I can sit and play around on the Internet all day if I so choose.  I have done so in the past.  As I type this, right now, I'm on a 1.5-hour web meeting which is required training.  That's happening on my other screen, and the presenter is blabbing away on my cell phone, since I'm sitting in my basement, in my pajamas, officially on the clock.  What a country!

Okay, that's kinda flippant, but it's pretty much the truth.  I'm salaried obviously, so basically if my work is getting done, they don't give a shit how many hours I put in on any given day.  Driven by a weird combination of laziness and a ruthless sense of efficiency, I've automated almost every process I'm responsible for.  Right now, in addition to getting credit for "being at work" and participating in the required training, one of my PCs at work is cranking away on my regular Wednesday processing.  I got up at 7:00, downloaded some data, and started the process.  Some time this afternoon, the jobs will be done, and I will have generated over 10 gigabytes of data, with a few clicks of the mouse over about ten minutes time.  Again, they don't care how much time it actually takes me, what matters is they look and see the shitloads of data that Bob produces, and isn't he fucking amazing?

Sure, there are days when I'm coding for ten or twelve hours straight.  But when that happens, it's usually because someone built a timeline that's basically impossible to meet, so the higher-ups actually pay some attention, and then when I come through, I'm a fucking hero.  Also, I've been doing this for over 20 years.  Even as I'm pulling code directly out of my ass and typing it in, it's structured, organized, and efficient.  Tomorrow there might be questions, or they might ask me to re-run certain pieces of it because that was test data before and now we have the production data.  Sure, a couple of mouse-clicks, I go get some lunch, and later I say "Here's that production data you wanted."  And it's all perfect and again I'm a hero.

What I love about my job is that I'm good at it, and everyone else seems think so, too.  I'm lazy as hell, but I've got them all fooled.

[cramx3]

My job has great benefits:

Ridiculously good and cheap health insurance including dental and vision
Matching 401k
They stock us up with a macbook pro, samsung s5, bose noise cancelling headphones and a mifi
Free life insurance equivalent to 1 year of pay
Stock options (too many granted that I can't even afford them)
I am allowed to expense my tolls for my commute (over $200 a month for me)
I keep all my credit card rewards for my company expenses (over 25k a year I spend for work)
and a $60 monthly budget Im allowed to spend on snacks for myself at work (half of which usually ends up in my house).

[King Postwhore]

Handing out ice cream sandwiches on hot muggy days.  They all smile.

[KevShmev]

Handing out ice cream sandwiches on hot muggy days.  They all smile.

You have ice cream sandwiches that smile?  Holy shit.

[King Postwhore]

Yes when their in the employees mouths.

Some had 2 and 3 of them.  Happy, happy.

Gatorade for the second shift tonight.

[Orbert]

[Cable]

Just started in my position, so some of these are surface as I'm doing stock training;

-Pension plus 401k
-Pretty good health insurance, free vision and dental in one year
-Gift cards for wellness milestones
-Relatively insane amount of combined time off
-8 to 4, done, 40 hours a week. I love straight 8 shifts. May have the ability to do four 10s eventually.
-An office. A long term career goal that I hit sooner than I expected
-A fantastic boss who will turn into a mentor, as he has a doctorate in the subject area, so I can pick a bit of his brain when I go for a PhD
-Work group seems mostly very friendly, the ones that I have met
-Job security. Will be hard for my job to be retracted if cuts ever came, which is also unlikely due to the field and expanding population
-HUGE training funding if used at the right time, which is rare I feel in my field. It will allow me to attend a training conference that I thought would always be too pricey
-And a significant pay raise vs. my last job

[Phoenix87x]

    ICE CREAM PARTIES!!!!!!!!   

[Jarlaxle]

Currently I am in New Zealand travelling for the past 6 months, but before that I worked as a labourer/installer of housing exteriors (siding, soffit, fascia, that kinda stuff). The boss was my brothers friend, and he's a pot head with hardly any work ethic, same goes for his brother, and all of his staff besides myself are either potheads, borderline alcoholics, or both, so when I began I worked my ass off, and by the time I left for vacation (just over 2 years) I had basically become the foreman of the crew and had been for about a year, and was making nearly double what I did when I started.

The thing I loved about it are his flexibility (if I wanted to take an afternooon off to golf I could, and would always more than make up for it), the feeling of seeing a finished product, the ability to work on my own with headphones and zone out, working outdoors in the summer, and getting along with my boss since we are very tight now.

Last week he emailed me and asked if I would come back to work with him because the crew has turned to shit since I left, but I am moving about an hour and a half away. He offered me a significant raise, and said I could work 4 days a week so I could spend weekends at my place, and if I was interested he would let me stay at his place with his family during the week for free or else he woiuld pay my gas to drive back and forth every day. It's a tough offer to pass up, and not often does one get a raise for not working for 6 months  .

[cramx3]

So yesterday my company had our annual Field Day.  Essentially everyone who comes (the NYC and Philly offices, and then the few remote workers like myself who live in the area) is divided into four teams and you compete in various events to determines who wins.  Games such as volleyball, dodgeball, pie eating, tug-o-war... plus tons of amazing food and an open bar (with liqueur too!).  You are allowed to bring your family as well.  The NYC office took a chartered boat from Manhatten to Liberty State Park in Jersey City, the Philly office got bussed in.  I drove  anyway, it was beautiful yesterday... and I got paid too!  Definitely a cool perk.

Here are some pics:

[Kotowboy]

• I only work 4 days a week ( with the odd cover day )

• I only work 5 hours a day

• Shifts go by stupidly fast

• I get fed on my shift for free

• I get free coffee all day

• I work Fri - Mon. Start early and finish early afternoon - meaning that from 2:30pm on Monday to 10am Friday Morning i'm off work

[SeventhDegree]

I get a paycheck every two weeks.  That's it.

[Kotowboy]

I get paid every week. It's nice to have a top up every 7 days.

I feel like waiting 4 weeks for your next payment is too long.



I'm currently doing way more hours because of the summer and it should definitely help with the rent - but man I can't wait to go back to having 3 days off in a row.

[cramx3]

I wouldnt like getting paid monthly.  Makes managing your money during the month a bit more difficult I would think, but never had a job like that. 

I like my bi-weeky payments.  First paycheck of the month goes to my credit cards and my savings account.  Second paycheck goes to my mortgage and housing expenses as well as credit cards, I usually don't have money to put into savings from this check.  And then there are a couple months a year where you get a third paycheck in that month. That goes to my credit cards and savings or maybe something specific if I was looking to purchase something.

[Chino]

I wouldnt like getting paid monthly.  Makes managing your money during the month a bit more difficult I would think, but never had a job like that. 

I like my bi-weeky payments.  First paycheck of the month goes to my credit cards and my savings account.  Second paycheck goes to my mortgage and housing expenses as well as credit cards, I usually don't have money to put into savings from this check.  And then there are a couple months a year where you get a third paycheck in that month. That goes to my credit cards and savings or maybe something specific if I was looking to purchase something.

I do the exact same thing. First check is always car payment, oil, electric, and cable. The second check is always mortgage and credit cards. The second check is more or less spent the second I get it, I usually only have $150 or so left from it.