What do you love the most about your job?

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

Answers

I can surf as much as I want as long as I don't neglect my other stuff, and there's a gym I can go to at work during lunch.

Al of Nova Notes.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I can surf the net and all, but my job is boring and today, I hate my bosses.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I work in my pajamas. I can take breaks to watch bad 80's television, like Different World, and Who's the Boss. The dog sleeps on my feet while I work. I can eat and drink at my desk, come in late, and leave early, all without some little office spy keeping a secret file on me. The pay is good, and I never have to toady up to some corporate type who wants to micromanage my whole life. Being a freelance writer rules the world.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I love that I get to play games, surf the Web and talk to people a lot and get paid for it. I get to travel on occasion. I love that my job involves writing.
Unfortunately, physically writing is only about 10 percent of what I do and I wish it was more. There's a huge staff here and because it's a newsroom, every little thing you do opens you up to gossip. Most of the people I work with are great, but others openly resent that I get paid to review games and look at Web sites. I used to write for the business section, which was pretty respected, but now that I write for Technopolis and so now I get a lot of "Oh, you just sit on your ass and play games all day." That kinda sucks.
Cheap coffee. Nice G4 computers. I'm pretty happy here.

O.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I get to surf the web, go home for lunch everyday and my coworkers are good friends. I'm in marketing, doing promotions for major clients. Everyday is different and challenging. I love my job.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I live on the Net at work (are we seeing a trend in answers here?) and I work with friends. I get to be as creative as I want to be, and every site I build adds to my portfolio. Laid back atmosphere and a cute new receptionist.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

the part where i get to go home.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I write and edit all day for the Internet so, I spend all day on it. I like my co-workers a lot although I am now the only member of our staff that is unmarried. That is a little strange. I am also the youngest and get constantly harrassed because of it! But, I do like my job. My boss is a big hippie, strangely enough for this very corporate job, and she's really into everyone being "at peace" and all that.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I don't love my job, but I have frequent bouts of contentment. I like the responsibility and that nobody cares that I'm on the internet if I'm doing my job too.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I second what Stee said. Oh, yeah, and I don't have to wear a suit, and I like the money, and they don't care if I'm late. I hate all the other parts, though.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I've got to agree with Kristin, having done the freelance thing until I needed steadier money and had to give it up. Freelancing rules the world.

At present, I'm just another cog in a groaning corporate tin machine which is rattling apart while people are brought in to find solutions (most of which involve micromanaging and having everyone write projections on a weekly basis).

So no, I don't like my job. I've had jobs I liked and even loved. I've had some that suck. I guess right now I just like that I'm pretty much left alone to do my work and not bothered if everything is being handled.

But, as with all jobs these days, it's only a short-term thing. I'll be back to freelancing before I know it.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I love being able to be a business owner without having to make any financial contribution whatsoever. Currently I can set my own hours and take vacations whenever I please, though this will become somewhat curtailed as my business picks up.

And let me just say now that I love my cable modem. They will have *rewired* the Internet before I become impatient with the bandwidth.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

i work for myself in a profession that i would do for free anyway (i'm a veterinarian), i help people and their pets AND i get to bring my dogs to work whenever i want! :-)

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1999

I'm going to get hate mail for this one, I'm sure!

What do I love about my job? The fact that I don't HAVE one! And, better yet, the fact that at the moment, I don't NEED one. I've been sleeping late and surfing the web and screwing off for a year now.

My life rocks.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 1999

Although... I have been thinking about going back to work. I'd love to do freelance writing. Anyone have any ideas of how one goes about this? Feel free to e-mail me.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 1999

I love my work as a researcher and lecturer at a large university. I particularly enjoy being able to help university students understand their studies and learn about life. The flexible hours are tops. I have an office with a fantastic, wall to wall window view of a beautiful racecourse with a charming little lake in the centre, and the bay on the distant horizon. It's a serene and inspiring backdrop to my working days. The students are fantastic, and fill my workplace with good cheer.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 1999

I like my job because the pay is good and the people I work with are lots of fun. I wish the job was as creative as I had hoped it would be but there's hope for the future. My job feels stable which is a luxury after a few years of temporary work and freelancing.

Someday, I'll freelance again because nothing beats being your own boss but for right now it's nice to be taken care of a bit.

By the way, Pamie, what *is* your job? What kind of company do you work for?

-- Anonymous, November 06, 1999

I'm a corporate chef - some days I spend all day doing research on the Net, other days I'm in meetings, and others, I'm up to my elbows in spinach and carrots. I like my coworkers, get european-style time off and health benefits, and am slowly being turned into a wine snob (I'm already a committed beer snob). I work bizarre hours and am rarely home anymore, but I'm the happiest and least stressed I've ever been in my life. Definitely find work doing something you love - healthiest thing I've ever done. And oddly enough, now that I'm around food all day every day, I'm losing the weight I put on at my previous desk jobs. Carrying around 30 lbs. of carrots - the next workout craze.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 1999

well. i don't have a job. i am a full time student. art major. art is my life. if you can't find me in my room, i am in the studio. it's like a full time job, i spend 40 hours plus per week on my art projects. but in the summers, i work all the time, so i don't haave to work while at school. 70 plus hours per week, i went a month and a half with noooooo days off whatsoever. that sucked. i became burnt out carrying three jobs, even though i loved what i did. (i was the kennel girl at a vet's office, i worked in an orthodontic laboratory and i was a nanny). anyway. someday i hope to make money doing what i love, namely my art and my writing. we shall see...

-- Anonymous, November 06, 1999

I love my job because it's very interesting and multi-faceted. Always changing tecnology, always learning. I use a variety of tools; including hammer drills and bandsaws; and soldering iron, wirewrap guns; to name a few.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 1999

I forgot the 7's.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 1999

I love that they're giving me $1,000 towards my trip to France this summer!

-- Anonymous, November 08, 1999

I work 60 to 70 hours a week. The only time I have an 8 to 6 day is on Sat. I have had a total 3 weeks off in the last 3 years. What do I like about my job? Oddly enough just about everything. I was born to be a corporate lackey. Who knew?

-- Anonymous, November 10, 1999

My job's pretty cool...I get to listen to my CDs while working and dress code is pretty laid back in my office...jeans, t-shirt and sneaks!! :) Favorite CDs that I listen to while working: Matchbox 20, Asia, Uriah Heep, John Wetton(formerly of Asia and Uriah Heep), Queen, plus too many other artists to list here.

-- Anonymous, November 23, 1999

Yes, I love my job! I am in software education -- research and design and write courses, teach courses, train new instructors, etc. This isn't shrink-wrapped stuff you buy at CompUSA; it's software that big companies (like banks, insurance companies, etc.) buy with six digit price tags and then need to have their programmers trained in how to use it. Over the past four years I have been the author or co-author of half a dozen books (but we are talking about a few hundred copies, not thousands or millions) to be used in these courses. I get to work with our R&D and technical support and marketing people. I get to learn about the inner workings of various systems. Yeah, yeah, computer geek stuff, but I enjoy it and it pays well. Spending a week in a room with bright technically oriented people talking about interesting technical subjects... and getting paid to do it. I used to be a programmer/analyst and I enjoyed that work but I enjoy this even more -- and I no longer get three a.m. phone calls from third shift computer operators about system crashes. I've got a great manager. Although I'm not on the road constantly, sometimes I have to travel to do training or to supervise a new instructor... so my job has taken me to London (every year!) and Vienna and Honolulu (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/9443/onbeach.html) and Sydney and Mexico City and... oh yeah, Minneapolis... When I am in the classroom I wear business dress (not because I have to, but because I think my students are entitled to the courtesy of having an instructor in jacket and necktie) but otherwise our version of "business casual" dress has been defined down to plain old casual so I usually go to work in jeans and sneakers. And if I don't have meetings scheduled, any time I feel like working from home all I have to do is send my manager an email or voice mail message to let her know where I am if she needs to call me.

It was good to see how many people responding to this forum item really enjoyed their work.

-- Anonymous, November 25, 1999