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Location: I can see the end of the world from here! | To Thine Own Self Be True (sorry I had to quote Shakespeare...just cuz!). I own a motel/steak house and I love my job...it's basically making sure everyone else has the tools to make it all work...I feel like I work for the employees & let me just say...they do stuff I cannot do. I'm a 'creative' soul. A musician, singer, songwriter...an EMT, a waitress, dishwasher, housekeeper, designer, bookkeeper, website builder...boss. I don't know anyone who really wants to do what I do, though...not because it's so hard, but, rather it's that I sometimes have to look in the mirror to see what the h*** hat I'm wearing! How do I act? It requires an appropriate response to varying situations.
I have the utmost respect for people who can organize things 'daily'! I'm terribly scattered...maybe I wouldn't be that way if I just had one job to do?
I didn't 'plan' my life...and I don't think I'd have been happy committing to one 'thing' for my entire life! Nope. I like the diversity, the opportunity...the dreams, the potential, risk...the ups & downs.
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | Right now I'm a nanny. Pretty much a glorified baby sitter. 5 days a week...a set of 4 yr old twin girls and a 1 yr old girl. A lot of fun but a lot of work! I absolutely LOVE the family I work for and I will probably stay until they no longer need me.
But, my SO has a very very good job that he loves and is our primary income. We are hoping that in a few years we will be in a good situation for me to stop working and stay home and I want to start riding for other people again. He knows that's the only thing will ever truly make me happy to do everyday and wants for me to be able to do what I love.
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Location: Pacific Northwest | I work retail....not my dream job. I work at Ross and Cabela's. I've only been at Cabela's a few months but I've been at Ross almost two years. Believe it or not, as cool of a store as Cabela's is, I like working at Ross better. Might just be because I've been there a longer and I've developed life-long friendships, or it could be because Cabela's is just way more exhausting (almost every transaction takes forever...could just be our store but I swear nothing ever rings up the way it's suppose to).
Either way, retail is not what I intend on my career being. Customer service is not my thing, it's mentally exhausting for me to have to be nice to so many people for 8 hours a day LOL
It's okay for now though. I think at Cabela's the managers get paid a fairly good amount and they get neat discounts and stuff, but I have no desire to ever be a manager of any store ever.
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Location: Pa | I am also an EMT. I went to an excellerated class, which maybe most of them are, so I had my certification in just under 5 months. I actually got a national certification, which would have allowed me to move to any state and still get a job. It was a pretty inexpensive education for the learning I went through. Luckily, I landed a job in a hospital ER pretty quickly. Thank goodness, because if I had to work on an ambulance, which unless you are lucky enough to land the 911 squads, are basically transport for things like diallysis, Dr. appts, or nonsenscical stuff like stubbed toes or coughs or such, my brain would have turned to mush. I am the type of person who likes to be busy and exercise my brain. Also, at least where I am in CA, the pay is double what the ambulances get paid. So not too bad. I work in a cardiac/stroke center. It's not bad. You get to use your CPR skills at least once a week. Not that that's a good thing, but it's good to keep up your skills. I would really like to transfer to a trauma center, as I think there is a lot more action going on in those. And I am just amazed at the human body and how it works. My job priorities are EKGs, urine dips, vitals, splints, wound care and dressings, stocking, helping to answer phones, making beds, patient transport within the hospital, and anything else to help the nurses or Drs. I am per diem and work 12 hr shifts, which I love, because I can have my hrs in 3 days, or pick up another day or two or more if I want for extra hrs. We have 3 different shifts here. 8am - 8pm, 12pm - 12am, or 3pm - 3am, so I get to work a variety of hrs. I am fortunate also that we fill in our own schedule, and since I am not full time, I do not have an obligation to work weekends. So I really rarely ever do. I will schedule myself for a saturday maybe once or twice in a 6 wk period. One of the downsides of per diem is that I do not have benefits. I rarely go to the doctors though, so that does not bother me. As with most jobs, it sucks to deal with lazy people, ie: other EMTs who never seem to be around, or nurses who think you are there for their every beck and call. Our ER has 14 critical beds and 10 fast track beds, so there are a lot of nurses that need help. Don't get me wrong, there are some great nurses who are pretty efficient, and they outnumber the not so efficient ones, thankfully. I guess that's pretty much it, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask. =] | |
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Elite Veteran
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| I teach high school and I am an X- ray technologist. I love both. I have been in radiology for 29 years teaching for 11 if I had known how much fun teaching was I would have been doing it for 29 years. I LOVE, LOVE ,LOVE the kids. I love the good, the bad and the unrully alike. It is a great job.
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 The Famous Hot Wing Chicken Girl
Posts: 2964
| I'm a cosmetolgist and I love it! I work full time and the times I work vary on the day. Normally it stays pretty steady, but sometimes it's dead and sometimes its crazy. It's the kind of job that is what you make it. You can talk people into anything and really boost your sales/tips.
I didn't go back to school until I was 25 so don't worry about ever being "too old" to do anything. | |
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Cat Collector
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| emm - 2013-12-18 5:01 PM
I'm trying to research different careers. Who here loves their job and what do you do for a living? Can you describe what your typical work day is like? I'd appreciate any and all input on how you got started and what the pros and cons are. Thanks in advance!
I love my job, I am a QC manager at a fabrication shop in the Oil Field. I got this job by fluke and I am one of the youngest managers in the city. I started out as a welders helper, i got really sick of the -40 winters and having to be outside so I took a weld inspection course and started building the turnover binders. I worked for a terrible italian owned company got into a huge fight with my woman hating boss and told him to fly a kite and got fired... best thing that has ever happened to me, i took three months off and found the perfect job.
In a days work, I come in and babysit welders all day. I am the only woman in the company besides my bosses wife who is our secretary. I love only having to deal with male drama, there are no cat fights and my bosses and everyone i work with are absolutely amazing. My horse got really sick the day of my birthday they sent me home when they heard me on the phone with my mom, then a week later my mom called and he died of colic, again they heard me crying from my office and sent me home for the rest of the week with pay, the day i came back there was a picture of my horse on my desk with flowers and a beautiful card that everyone had written in for me. I love it here, mostly because the employees are not a number, they treat us like family and in the oil field that is so hard to find. | |
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  The Fabulous Hippie
Location: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams... | Good grief...the question was, Who loves their job? I do, I don't. Simple. | |
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| I'm an accountant. Went back to college after my kids were born and completed a BS degree in accounting. Thought I wanted to work in public accounting, but only jobs were in manufacturing. I LOVE it. I love the process of taking raw material and turning it into something useful. I love checking the costs, inventory control, operating results, coming up with solutions, etc. Along the way, I've passed the CPA exam (at the 1st sitting 17 years after college) and gotten an MBA. Those didn't make me smarter or even more knowledgeable, but did give me more credentials. Now I am Plant Controller of a manufacturing plant and making over $80k a year with good benefits. If I wanted to live in a large town/city, I could make more but like the small town life. LOVE my job! | |
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| I am a receptionist at a John Deere Dealership, and I absolutely love it. I wear a lot of hats as I answer phones, Im in charge of inventory for our GPS systems throughout the province, Im introducing a new computer program to our store, I do follow up calls on all service done in our shop, and every piece of equipment we sell, as well as a lot of in-store customer service. 90% of the people I work with are men which is right up my alley, and I really dont have to deal with the women all that much, so it all works out. Our customers are generally super poilte, friendly, and are more like my friends than customers. I dont make quite as much as I'd like, but I love the people here, and there is some room for advancement... honestly, I really cant imagine working anywhere else. I will be going on maternity leave in April, and it makes me sad to think about not coming here every day!
Before this, I was a ranch hand, and I loved that too, but it was pretty hard on my body, and my back pain was becoming too much of a problem. In my mid-20's, I figured maybe it would be wise to start being nicer to my body as apparently Im stuck with it.
Before that, I ran heavy equipment in the oil patch... awesome money, easy job (as far as 12 hour days go), but at the end of the day I wasn't really happy so it wasn't worth it to stay. If you're not happy, every day drags by, and you're cranky when you get home... nothing ever seems like enough. If you ARE happy, you wake up looking forward to the day ahead, and you come home in a good mood. | |
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Elite Veteran
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| bracersmom - 2013-12-19 8:17 AM
Good grief...the question was, Who loves their job? I do, I don't. Simple.
Read the rest of the question. | |
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 Desert Diva
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Location: The birthplace of Honest Abe | I love my job 99% of the time. I work with veterans and soldiers everyday. My degree is in accounting although that isnt what I do. I work for Dept of Veterans Affairs. (please dont message me telling me how the VA is waiting for you to die before doing your claim LOL) and honestly I do get those phone calls, those and how I want to take away your guns. I work at small office on Ft Knox, I dont work at the large cubicle farm in Louisville which is great because my supervisor works there and myself and one other employee work here.
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 The One
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Location: South Georgia | I am a high school English teacher at an alternative school. I LOVE MY JOB! I look forward to going to work every single day. | |
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 Three in a Bikini
Posts: 2035
| I love the company I work for.
I am a Corporate Quality Representative in the food industry.
I work 8-5 Monday through Friday. It is a relaxed atmosphere and I work to maintain congruence between all of our site locations through auditing the systems.
It takes a lot of background knowledge and training to be at the level I am currently at, and I did not start out here for sure!
I graduated with my BS in Animal Science and worked in a Chemistry Lab for a year. Then I was promoted to a Food Safety Supervisor (which I loved) for 2 years. Honestly I cant wait to see where I go from here! My ultimate goal is to wind up back in Food Safety at a director level.  | |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | I'm a recruiter and I never thought i'd do well in this profession but I really like it!
and it's really satisfying to be able to help employ someone who needs it. Granted I do more researching and business development (which I also really like!)
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| I work up estimates on Airline customers' hardware when it gets damaged or needs updating. I work directly with customers such as United, American, Southwest. I LOVE my job - NOT SO MUCH the company I work for. They walked people out the door starting last July for no reasons at all other than corporate greed - I wish I could work for a Mom and Pop company that really cared for it's workers - but that's neither here nor there. - Oh and my degree is in Journalism - go figure - nothing to do with my career. | |
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Expert
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | Tys-ol-lady - 2013-12-19 10:54 AM bracersmom - 2013-12-19 8:17 AM Good grief...the question was, Who loves their job? I do, I don't. Simple. Read the rest of the question.
That's what I was thinking, tys-ol-lady!
If you don't like the post then don't read it!
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 MEOW!
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Location: High heels in the air... | Sorry but I love my job...I am an international flight attendant...not big money but good insurance and travel benefits...I would rather be home riding a lot of times but I enjoy the people....it will make you tired and it won't make you rich but I have seen the world!!! | |
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Location: lexington KY | I have worked all my life and always enjoyed it. I majored in Ag Business and for my full time job, I work for a Cattle Broker, we ship cattle to feedlots and I manage all of our inventory and the office. I also own my own business (with my sister), which is a online publshing company. I absolutely love this, we own 2 websites under our company and do online advertising, social media, etc. I love having the extra income and eventually we may need to make the decision to go full time with our business, but honestly I love having the extra money to do other things and like my full time job.
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Idahome | I work for a company that manufactures supplements for horses and dogs. I LOVE my job. I oversee the Quality Control as well as all of the endorsees/sponsorships. I also manage the social media sites and help with website. It is a smaller, family owned company (which can come with some drama), but overall it is so much better than working for corporate america. Before this, I worked at a large camping resort and I loved that as well. I quite working there when we moved out of state and never could find a resort that I liked after that.
I grew up in a vet clinic. My mom was a tech, and I thought that was what I wanted to do. Started college in the vet tech program and realized how much I didn't like it, so I got my degree in management. I love my job now because I can take part in still helping with animals but don't have the long hours with no pay like a clinic. I remember growing up waiting up to an hour for my mom to pick me up from school because she had an emergency come in and couldn't leave. I am so thankful my daughter won't have to know what that is like.
Edited by KylaKris 2013-12-19 11:39 AM
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