Most people will never be happy at work

This is true. I love my job so I I'm happy at work. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't mind an extra day off or two but overall I'm happy.
 
I love my current job so far. Firefighter. Probably the best job I have had so far.

Trust me, I have hated some previous jobs. Corrections was terrible, on good days it was okay, but bad days I would have human shit covering me. Awful job dealing with lawless, angry, all the time in the world people who see you as the enemy.
Worked as armed security for a massive airplane company. I liked it, easy although repetitive. Biggest complaint was the pay kinda sucked considering what we were doing and how much we were responsible for guarding.
 
i won't go as far to say i'm happy at work, but i'm content and that works for me.
my manager lets me do my thing with very little intervention and i'm well liked by the people that count. add in taking 5 weeks vacation this year, and that makes for a content employee.
 
I teach developmentally disabled individuals. I get hit, bit, scratched, spit on, kicked, scratched etc all day. I clean up poop and pee and boogers non stop. I'm not paid well. I work with a bunch if gossipy women. The hours arent bad tho, its m through f 8 to 4 I do get 11 paid weeks of vacation plus 19 personal days per year. But I laugh all day and I love my job. I feel bad for people doing regular shit.
 
They are probably miserable because they are bored most of the time and do not feel much satisfaction from sitting around all day.
 
sounds pretty chill

you know what else, surprisingly, is like mad chill? Firemen

if they aren't literally fighting fires, they're essentially working out, chilling, and grilling food together
 
HunterSdVa29 said:
sounds pretty chill

you know what else, surprisingly, is like mad chill? Firemen

if they aren't literally fighting fires, they're essentially working out, chilling, and grilling food together
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We do a lot of medical calls and car accidents as well. But yeah, I workout on shift, grill, watch movies, sleep, shower. You just have to be able to be ready and on the truck in less than a minute from whatever you are doing and be able to put your game face on even if it's 2 in the morning and you were sleeping.
 
BB in Crazy!!!! said:
We do a lot of medical calls and car accidents as well. But yeah, I workout on shift, grill, watch movies, sleep, shower. You just have to be able to be ready and on the truck in less than a minute from whatever you are doing and be able to put your game face on even if it's 2 in the morning and you were sleeping.
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Plus, unlike Cops, nobody dislikes you guys

A) all you do is help people, and B) you aren't pulling people over to earn revenue for the city instead of actually stopping real crime
 
F1980 said:
I'm a union tradesman. My boss is bending over backwards trying to keep us from leaving.

We work 8 hours a day, but 1 hour of that is paid break time. The pay is very good.

We have an empolyee dining room with free food. It's buffet style, different menu every day. We have chefs making the food. They try to make it different every day, like they'd do different ethnic foods around the world often. On Monday, it was Ethiopian food. On Cinco deMayo, it's always Mexican food, etc.. We have staples that we'd have every day, like we always have different types of pizza available every day, if you want a sandwhich or a burger, just ask the cook and he'll make it for you however you want it. Hot dogs, there's an omelette station where he can make you whatever omelette you want. There's a desert station with different cakes, pies, etc... There's a salad area, soft serve ice cream or ice cream sandwhiches/cones. There's also a healthy section with sugar free stuff, and low calorie menu.

We have chef battles on sometimes where the chefs are competing to make the better food and we get to eat the results. Not too often these days, people got tired of it.

The rules are you can't take food home, but people do it anyway.

Out of that 7 hours, we maybe only work 2 hours, the rest of that time is everyone is just hanging out, goofing around. Our boss put wifi so we have internet on our phones without using data.

We get whatever tools we want. We order it, they get it. We also get to take older tools home. For example, we have this contract with Hilti, DeWalt, Milwaukee, where we get new tools/batteries every year. We get to take last year's tools home.

It's a union gig, so there's pension after 5 years, but you have to wait til you're 59 years old in order to start getting the money. Or you work 20 years, and retire after then. If you got in at 21, you can retire from working at 41.

There's just so many perks. It's next to impossible to get fired. Nobody ever gets in trouble for anything, but people still complain. The complaints mostly are about other people. Since it's impossible to get fired, people complain about lazy people all the time.
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This is very true. I have a union job similar to you, I would love this job if it wasn't for management being retards. They make the place so much more complicated than it has to be. Everyone just let us do our job, step off my nuts and stop micro managing and everything would be great for all.
 
F1980 said:
If there's no jobs to do, there's no work to be done. It's just how it is in our industry. Time to finger fuck the phone until it's time to go home. We're also allowed up to 4 hours a day of overtime, even if there's no work. It's very hard to find qualified tradesmen these days. When there's one available, companies snatch them up and don't let go. But I guess where you live plays a part.
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what trade?
 
TS I would like to work with you

Will fight other applicants for the job, PM me
 
F1980 said:
I'm a union tradesman. My boss is bending over backwards trying to keep us from leaving.

We work 8 hours a day, but 1 hour of that is paid break time. The pay is very good.

We have an empolyee dining room with free food. It's buffet style, different menu every day. We have chefs making the food. They try to make it different every day, like they'd do different ethnic foods around the world often. On Monday, it was Ethiopian food. On Cinco deMayo, it's always Mexican food, etc.. We have staples that we'd have every day, like we always have different types of pizza available every day, if you want a sandwhich or a burger, just ask the cook and he'll make it for you however you want it. Hot dogs, there's an omelette station where he can make you whatever omelette you want. There's a desert station with different cakes, pies, etc... There's a salad area, soft serve ice cream or ice cream sandwhiches/cones. There's also a healthy section with sugar free stuff, and low calorie menu.

We have chef battles on sometimes where the chefs are competing to make the better food and we get to eat the results. Not too often these days, people got tired of it.

The rules are you can't take food home, but people do it anyway.

Out of that 7 hours, we maybe only work 2 hours, the rest of that time is everyone is just hanging out, goofing around. Our boss put wifi so we have internet on our phones without using data.

We get whatever tools we want. We order it, they get it. We also get to take older tools home. For example, we have this contract with Hilti, DeWalt, Milwaukee, where we get new tools/batteries every year. We get to take last year's tools home.

It's a union gig, so there's pension after 5 years, but you have to wait til you're 59 years old in order to start getting the money. Or you work 20 years, and retire after then. If you got in at 21, you can retire from working at 41.

There's just so many perks. It's next to impossible to get fired. Nobody ever gets in trouble for anything, but people still complain. The complaints mostly are about other people. Since it's impossible to get fired, people complain about lazy people all the time.
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Whats your trade?
 
Merlotte's said:
Work itself is fine, people at work are fucking retards.
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I always laugh when people say this because everyone says that, and everyone is "people at work". But don't worry, I'm sure you're the smart one ;)
 
I've had a few easy jobs that paid well. I got sick of them eventually.

You gotta be challenged by your work to find long term satisfaction, but in a way that makes you feel like you're accomplishing something that matters.

People in shitty work cultures, especially on the bottom rungs, just feel like they get bullshit dumped in their plate all the time and tackling it all doesn't actually get them anywhere. Been in that situation too.
 
Simian Raticus said:
I've had a few easy jobs that paid well. I got sick of them eventually.

You gotta be challenged by your work to find long term satisfaction, but in a way that makes you feel like you're accomplishing something that matters.

People in shitty work cultures, especially on the bottom rungs, just feel like they get bullshit dumped in their plate all the time and tackling it all doesn't actually get them anywhere. Been in that situation too.
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This is true, but instead of finding a new job working for the man it's easy to take advantage of the time you have and invest in other things like rental homes to make extra $$ and let your regular job just be there for the pension.
 
F1980 said:
I work for a large hotel/casino in las vegas. Maintenance or "Engineering" department. I do the plumbing.
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i've done a little plumbing in my day, if you smell what i'm cooking
 
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