Tagging along from one of the previous posts about people’s jobs, what are your favorite things about your job. If you can’t think of anything, then what are your least favorite things about it or what do you think you’d like to do instead if you could?
My favorite thing is the appreciation we get from passerby. I’ve never had a job where people are genuinely appreciative of what we are doing, and it’s nice to get that feedback from people even though the work itself can be pretty difficult. If there wasn’t that for my job, it would certainly be less rewarding.
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I work in IT. My favorite part is focusing on a difficult problem that no one else can solve, and fixing it. My nickname at work is “the tank” because they can point me at any issue and I’ll fix it. I’ll also toss in the paycheck. I had a recruiter tell me 2 years ago that my skill set isn’t even worth $65k and now I’m making more than double that.
My least favorite part is the occasional late nights. Worked a 20 hour shift the other day for a particularly difficult major issue. This happens maybe twice a year. I’m at an age where it takes a toll.
We do renovations and build new homes. I’m a superintendent/project manager/babysitter. I love making people’s homes exactly the way they want them to be. Making custom one off shit for a single family that no one else has is absolutely the best. I love the idea thatbim making a house into a home.
The worst part is the fucking clients. Bunch of rich ‘have to have it now’ spoiled brat, lama people.
I’ve been doing this for about 35 years and still have zero way to reconcile these two things.
General contractor or subcontractor ?
General. Finish carpentry is in-house, just about everything else is subbed out. We have some fantastic subs too. My plumber has worked with me for close to 30 years. We sort of came up together. And my electrician is the most particular electrician I’ve ever worked with.
I’m in academia. I like how many vibrant and wonderful people I meet. I love asking PhD students to tell me about their research areas, which are often so absurdly niche that I have no idea what it means, but I love being made aware of my own relative smallness. And I love being challenged to think about my own privilege in being here, how the ivory tower of research has been and is still a force of oppression in the world, especially in the context of colonialism. I like being challenged in this way because it prevents me from becoming comfortable in my ideology and challenges me to think of what science would look like in a fair and just world, and indeed, whether it would exist at all. These might seem like odd things for me to count as my favourite aspects but it’s because I love science, and I firmly believe that if you have to lie about something in order to love it, that love is no true love.
I think a lot about how to reach other people, to share the love that I feel for my subject, and though I haven’t done much teaching yet, I look forward to being able to learn from my students as they learn from me.
I’m a truck driver and I deliver fuel to gas stations.
I really enjoy driving around all night listening to podcasts or audiobooks when nobody is on the road and when I do my deliveries sometimes I get to witness 3am gas station drama.
The worst parts for me are the long shifts and sometimes having to stand out in the rain.
I really like my job and it pays well.
IT & Activities at retirement community.
Best - feeling valued and appreciated every single day by boss and people who live there. Knowing everyone by name being able to feel like I made a difference daily.
Company has a very very competent it dept that handles infrastructure so I’m essentially there for the end user.
Worst - staff and general fuckery of new construction. Some days are groundhog day.
Could be miles and miles worse. in a unique position where if it’s not working escalate, and get to be everyone’s best friend who fixes their tech.
I won’t say exactly where I work, because it is a sensitive topic. But the best part of my job is that I get to facilitate access to help for people after they have suffered some of the worst and most horrible experiences that humans can go through. The worse part of my work, interestingly, is not having to listen to the most disheartening stories and life experiences that usually really challenge my faith in humanity. Although that is heavy on the soul and tiring on my emotions, the actually worst part of my job is that I also have to inform to a lot of people, asking for help but who don’t fit the selection criteria for the help programs, that they will not be receiving help from my organization. I do try to get them in touch with others who sometimes can help them, but in general, it is always more people being turned down than accepted. There’s too much need in the world and too little people helping, but we are here helping.
Sounds kind of similar to the medical industry really
Client feedback.
They’re wrong, but because they’re paying, they’re right.
Best: at this point, i can often phone it in and i get paid pretty well. Worst: annoying, self-important assholes.
Best part: Not much work.
Worst part: Not much pay.
