Foo - Anyone Love Their Job?

I'm currently not loving mine. Have you ever changed your attitude and figured out how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?

If you love your job, why? And how do you make things better when things are bad?

buy some stock in your company. you'll be less inclined to slack off if you have a personal stake in it. try to get a controlling share if you can. :p

That's a great idea, but it's a non-profit museum. No stock to buy. What I'd really love is a seat on the board of directors. Then I'd show 'em all how cool I am. :D

I'm currently not loving mine. Have you ever changed your attitude and figured out how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?

If you love your job, why? And how do you make things better when things are bad?

I use to love it. USED TOO!!!

I tried to change my attitude at my workplace. It worked for oh about a year. Now I'm actively looking for a new job and I mean actively. The thing is someone great said not sure who "You can't change a person, you can only change how you react to them." Well I really tried to accomplish this in my current workplace, but when you get beat down so many times its hard to keep getting up. I've been here in May 5 years, its time to move on!!

Sometime things won't change the way you would like thats when you got to decide if its time to look for something new. :)

I teach...
Fabulous kids, stimulating conversations, feel valued, great vacations, not in the rat race, the people I work with aren't after my job, essentially my own boss.... the list goes on. 30 years, and I have another 30 left. Love it.

Most days I would say yes, left alone to get on with my work and no stress.

I have two jobs, an old one that I despise (been there 14 years), and a new one (less than a month) that I love. I'm thinking I'll slowly transition out of the old one, and pick up more time at the new one. A new atmosphere goes a long way towards improving one's attitude.

I'm currently not loving mine. Have you ever changed your attitude and figured out how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?

If you love your job, why? And how do you make things better when things are bad?I love my job! When things get bad, I just drink more!

However, it's typically much, much less work, agony, sweat, blood & tears to just find a new job rather than trying to change an existing work environment. Complex systems have a way of evolving to the way they are implicitly through the characters involved and unless you chop at least 50% of the heads, the hydra will self-repair and perpetuate its existence as-is...

Do I love my job? What kind of sicko are you?

Today.............Not no, but HELL NO!

How timely a topic....just decided to pull the ejector seat lever this afternoon. The search is SO ON....

Sure.

Work is fun, people are nice, pay is good.

Insurance is crappy, so I use my wife's. It's much better.

I'll probably retire from this place!

yeah, sure! beats working for a living!

I'm currently not loving mine. Have you ever changed your attitude and figured out how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?

If you love your job, why? And how do you make things better when things are bad?

I hate my job. Things changed when i got tired of watching my employees and several members of management be lazy or stupid.

i... 80% love mine. very relaxing, good people, totally low-stress. sometimes, i could use a challenge, though.

i... 80% love mine. very relaxing, good people, totally low-stress. sometimes, i could use a challenge, though.

I'm challenged alright.

Have you ever changed your attitude and figured out how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?
yep, quit my government job, and got a job in private consulting. love it.

>>> how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?

I've made several careers based on the concept. Some points –

#1 Priority: Get your eyes on the prize. Determine what a good work situation "looks like" in the context of your current employer. Make a plan, keep it to yourself. Coupla' things I'll guarantee you, if you have no vision it'll never happen and nobody else gonna' make it happen 'cause they're languishing too, including especially the boss. [It could very well be that the reality of the organization means you're contoured out at the git-go. If your outfit’s mission is to gut fish. . .and you hate the smell of fish guts, well. . .look elsewhere or get used to fish guts.] What you’re doing is crafting a self-fulfilling prophesy, powerful stuff.

Drop the office "in crowd". No problem here, 'cause having made a plan and decided to act, you're suddenly lit up and therefore non-grata to those who quickly determine you're not gonna' sit and let things drift around you.

Don't slack off the stuff you gotta' do. Remember, a better situation is your personal reward for doing your current job better than those around you. This lulls the boss into lookin’ t’other way. You'll never get the slack to create your own situation until you earn some organizational scars.

Don’t telegraph what you’re up to. . .ever; before, during, after. If the outfit catches on, all hands will be turned against you.

As soon as you’ve molded your job into what you want, work to codify it into your position description.

Remember that nobody owes you nuthin'. This is actually a liberating notion. . .you don't owe them nuthin' either and you're free to make your own future.

Cynical? Yes. Machievellian? Yes.

Coyote, That's awesome. I have done this in my position, but never actually wrote it down.

>>> how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?

I've made several careers based on the concept. Some points – . . .
Brilliant synopsis. Simply brilliant. Thanks. I needed that.

Said it here before, I love my job!!!!
Teach at a private school and they like me. As for making your job more permanant, they found out that I could teach music and I am a handyman. I may not be indespensible, but I am the go to guy for things needing repair.
Steven

I'm currently not loving mine. Have you ever changed your attitude and figured out how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?

If you love your job, why? And how do you make things better when things are bad?

But with me it meant ditching being an independent contractor working thru essentially what is a broker and just starting my own business and taking on the clients directly. From a per job stance it was an instant 35% pay raise, the downside was I went from having 125 clients to 3. But after 3 years of sticking with it and working a second job for about a year Im now making more than ever and have a guy working for me part time now and I get a cut of his action :) Best move and gutsiest thing Ive ever done. Most people that take on the biz im in seem to not do so well, the pay can really suck and the work can be relentless. Ive seen more than a hundred "come and go's" in just a few years. But about 8 of us are still here, still doing what we do, and more independents than ever.

It solved all the problems. The business is tough enough as it is, doesnt take much to make things bad, and constant effort and relentless work ethic to do it day in and day out. Removing the incompetent middleman(read mass frustration) makes a huge difference. What the courier companies have yet to figure out is as a group of people go, the messengers for the most part do stick together and cover each others backs. Need a vacation, have one of the others cover your business while your gone. Need some help cause your slammed with runs, grab someone and pay them double what they get normally for their work. Its been working quite well for years. We dont care who you work for, on the street you are a messenger, and we all want the same thing, to ride our bikes, sling some packages, and make enough to get by on. Most importantly, do not interfere with our freedom or rights to do what we do, something else big_courier_co still hasnt learned.

yes, I love what I do, to this day I still cant get over the fact that people pay me to ride my bike, but im not gonna stop them from doing it !!

As far as the actual environment, well, my office has issues with climate control, but now that im my own boss, I control who I work for and the kind of work I do, and what I get paid to do it, thats as good as it gets.

I like my staff very much. They are the ones who shaped our store to be consistently placing the top 10 in the Eastern Region. Over 200 stores. I go to work because of them. In the past the company never did pay our staff the mimium wages. As soon as the company gotten bigger (mergers), every sales assosciate paid the mimium wages. When the guys asked me how the company was like 5 years ago, they couldn't believe that supervisors could receive benefits as well as paid vacation/holiday/sick days. Now, no one receive any except the management staff. Fortunately, my staff sees me as on their sides, not someone trying to use them for my own gain and interest. This past holiday season was our best one and the store made a lot of money and ranked very high in the region. After all said and done, we all got a canned thank you message from your vice president of stores via email about how wonderful we have been. There was no bonus. No "let's take you all to lunch" gesture. Even my customers treated me and my staff a lot nicer than my DM. There are so much BS about this company. Something happened couple of days ago really opened my eyes. I am really happy I have finally convinced myself I need to look another job. :D

I loved my job when I worked in radio. Current job, not so much even though I'm pretty darned good at it I must say. Some day I hope to get back in radio. Maybe when I retire from the current stuff. That'll be a while though.

I don't "love" my job, but I do like it. Sometimes is a pain in the butt, sometimes I get a lot of personal satisfaction.

I hate my job with a passion. But there are a few employees that make me stay, they're almost family.

Hell, I even call one guy, Dwayne fake dad :p.

>>> how to turn a frustrating work environment into a great one?

I've made several careers based on the concept. Some points –

#1 Priority: Get your eyes on the prize. Determine what a good work situation "looks like" in the context of your current employer. Make a plan, keep it to yourself. Coupla' things I'll guarantee you, if you have no vision it'll never happen and nobody else gonna' make it happen 'cause they're languishing too, including especially the boss. [It could very well be that the reality of the organization means you're contoured out at the git-go. If your outfit’s mission is to gut fish. . .and you hate the smell of fish guts, well. . .look elsewhere or get used to fish guts.] What you’re doing is crafting a self-fulfilling prophesy, powerful stuff.

Drop the office "in crowd". No problem here, 'cause having made a plan and decided to act, you're suddenly lit up and therefore non-grata to those who quickly determine you're not gonna' sit and let things drift around you.

Don't slack off the stuff you gotta' do. Remember, a better situation is your personal reward for doing your current job better than those around you. This lulls the boss into lookin’ t’other way. You'll never get the slack to create your own situation until you earn some organizational scars.

Don’t telegraph what you’re up to. . .ever; before, during, after. If the outfit catches on, all hands will be turned against you.

As soon as you’ve molded your job into what you want, work to codify it into your position description.

Remember that nobody owes you nuthin'. This is actually a liberating notion. . .you don't owe them nuthin' either and you're free to make your own future.

Cynical? Yes. Machievellian? Yes.


Awesome. Thank you.

And thanks to the rest of you as well.

I guess you could say if I don't love my job, it is my fault since I own the companies. I find people to do the parts I don't like and I am very good at running the companies with their help.

But, when I worked for others, I would NEVER let myself think about the bad things in the job, but look for the enjoyable parts. I would leave when the job no longer suited me. As one person said, I fire companies.

I watch people chop grass for 8 hours a day with a smile on their face because they have a job. It helps put things in perspective. I have always been grateful for the jobs I have been given, worked hard at them, and left when it no longer was a good fit.

Worked for me.

I did have a friend warn me that if I ever started my own businesses, that I couldn't quit. He was right. ;)

I love the fact that it is an easy job and i don't have to work very hard, but I don't know that I would say i LOVE it.