Love your work, or work your love?

Call me Gus if you like. If you can do both it's a great life.

What doya think?

Yes, that is why I do not work.

Of course, some days, and parts of days are better than others.

I like what I do, I've been able to do things most people never get a chance to. I'll never get rich but I get to work outdoors in conservation in some of the most beautiful country on the planet

Had a high stress job in an eng dev lab.
Worked w great people too.
Was pretty sweet

We did awesome stuff, too awesome.
Honked off some people.
Shut us down.

Was bad, real bad, working elsewhere in same company.
Got fugged over big time.

Work for diff company, diff facility.
Am a nobody and just do my 8 and GTFO.
Surrounded by democrats. Its a chithole.

But it pays the bills and the insurance is decent, and my kid has a fair amount of medical crap.

So i go in and do my duty.

Job satisfaction is ZERO.

Aint nothin been fun since 1999

I can say I like it. Its a no Brainer job, get paid decently. Boss totally leaves me alone. Pretty good insurance plus with our esop program since we are employee owned.

Management isn't worth a crap but otherwise its a pretty decent gig.

I certainly did when I was working.

I love my work which is to hunt and fish to my hearts content.

Absolutely.

No I do not. In the beginning I worked for a good size company but it was the “family” atmosphere. Throughly enjoyed it. But we have been bought out twice by larger global companies who spread liberalism to the 4 corners of the plant. Hate working there now. I totally expect them to leave the state in 2021-22.

Deed I Do!

Waiting For Direct Deposit is much better than that other thing I did for forty years (and a week).

Retired, so yes I love it.
Before retiring, I worked for a very large corporation, for 39 years. Worked my way up from the bottom to run a large business inside that corporation. Lots of stress at times. Relocated around the USA eight times. Traveled to most corners of the world. I was lucky to find such a corporation. Retired at 61. Not every day was good, over all it was terrific.

I did when I was working. Great people, interesting problems to deal with. Miss the people.

Love both my jobs.
Allergist came out, and informed me that I was "literally allergic to more things, than not" - and showed me the results to prove it.
I asked "What should I do?"
His response "Change your life-style"
"Doc, can you see me sitting behind a desk?"
"Not really!"
"Let's put it this way - there'll be icycles hanging off the hinges to the gates of Hell, before that happens!"

I do, but after 28 years, it’s getting tiring. Be happy when I can afford to retire - which may never happen!

Well I think If I call or compare you to Gus you have the right to rip my head off.

You are 10 times the man Gus is or ever could be.

Same here

Love what I do. Which is what ever I want for the last 8 years.
Retirement the best job ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most days yes but like everyone else bad days come and go.

Long hours, no vacation or paid holidays, no benefits but I’m banging the bosses wife. And she’s hot!

I work in a factory.


Good wages, better insurance than those around us.
Good vacation, sick days.

Pretty much my own boss, I get costumer orders laid on my toolbox do them
as I want. Just so it's quality work, on time if possible. Work my choice of hours,
shorten them if I want. Overtime if I ask.

The freedom is actually a burden. When it was shift work, I did 8 and left.
The next shift could get it. Now, I drive myself to meet the deadlines.

Pretty much have it made.

To answer the question?

No, I sure don't love it.
Don't even really like it.
I don't mind it most days.


I'm good at it, that's probably as close to loving it as I come.

Ironic, the jobs I have loved have been the ones that didn't pay well,
and were hard dirty work.

If you enjoy doing it, it is not work.

Wabigoon: Been retired 23 full years now and did enjoy my profession (law enforcement) greatly, before I pulled the pin.
But my enjoyment of that profession absolutely pales in comparison to my LOVE of retirement!
I simply run about all day with a smile on my face doing "fun", "outdoorsy" and "rewarding" things!
If I had known how wonderful retirement would be I would have retired 4 years sooner.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Was great the first 23 yrs. Great company with good people. Then the owner got sick and he had no family able to run it so he sold it to a much larger company. It won't terrible after the buyout, I got lucky and caught a great manager. He kept the corporate crap from rolling down hill as much as possible. I'm out of it now. House husband, shooting so I can reload etc. Life is good.

I like my poor paying job as much as I could like any job, which is why I stay there..... though I am getting kind of tired of the whole "work" thing...

I worked getting the fire going.......

Loved it.......

Does that count ?

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Ironic, the jobs I have loved have been the ones that didn't pay well,
and were hard dirty work.


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I miss the Army.

But not the BS.

Never had a real job, my son runs the fishing business while I play on the farm.

Yes, I love what I do.

I don't love any work.
But I'm good at what I do, to I'm rewarded handsome and appreciated greatly.

I retired a couple of years ago and now get paid to do what I love.
It's literally right in my backyard.

Loved what I did while working and really loving retirement.

I’m a fortunate man and I know it.

Very nice, Salmonella !!

Some days it is a joy, and some days it is a royal pain in the Ass. Determind only by my inbox contents each day.

Miss Lynn

Loved doing what I did for 43 years and, for the most part, where and who I worked with. Gave it up and retired 3 years ago . . . like this gig better.

Worked thirty years as a biologist with Ky Fish and Wildlife. Fun in the early days but as I moved up the ladder had to deal increasingly with local, county and state politicians. Finally had an Agency Commissioner more interested in using his position to become Governor. (He didn’t make it 🙏) I was able to retire early and for the last nine years have been Bourbon tour guide which is still fun.

I have 2 jobs and love them both. 1 pays very well, the other pays peanuts. I am a night shift supervisor in a factory that make semi parts. Great company, great product, great guys. But its 3 .5 days a week, give or take. I was bored out of my head so I got a PT job at Walmart. That place is so much fun IF you have a sense of humor. I am completely emotionally detached because I dont need the money. I can see myself being in this position, working both places, for 20 years until I hit retirement age.

I did, retired now.

I was a Mechanical Contractor for 34 yrs. My company covered Maine [white], New Hampshire [white]

Vermont [white], I loved what I did, loved traveling all over New England. The last 11 yrs. before I

retired I was a Assoc. Prof. at Maine's largest Community College, one of the few Veterans and

Conservative instructors. My office looked out on Casco Bay in Portland, my wall were covered with pics.

of me with dead animals and guns. I loved it.

Joe

I worked to get where I could do what I wanted. It was sometimes tough, uncomfortable but every now and then it was exhilarating. That to me was the reward. Retirement is pretty cool though.



mike r

I did until I advanced to the point it pays well. Now it sucks. I think I can hold on another year until retirement.
I will retire before I’m 50, so that’s cool.

Army Light Infantry 83 - 08
Then retired from that.

Small arms range operator on FTCKY 9mm to .50
Offshore oil worker GOM and Black Sea.

18 to 52.
Retired for good,now 57 turning 58 in june.

Rock star life back then.
Was a very well known NCO in the 101st
2/ 327th 90 to 95
3/ 187th 96 to 98
1/ 502nd 01 to 04
You can even throw in 1/ 506th 95 to 96 in korea my 2nd time.
Still run into people all the time who remember me.
I feel bad cause I gotta narrow down a unit and time frame with some to remember them.
Sometimes it is hard to remember average soldiers or NCO,s and officers you served with

Others I run into I will never forget.
Spend lot of time talking to em.

Friends , peers, equals.
ALPHA,s.....

I can proudly say I have been in every Infantry Rgt in The 101st in modern times since 1990.
Units that are still active.
502nd / 2nd Bde got MY RPK in their trophy case.
LOL!!!
Not many can say they been in those units let alone all of em.


You come in my house.
Aint no walls of "I love me" schit everywhere.
All that schit is boxed up for kids and grandkids to go thru.
I got a simple picture of a 101 eagle my last combat platoon got me after OIF 1 before I went to korea my 3rd and final time in june 04.


Loved it all thru the schitiest times to the best of times.
Did my job and my part.
Passed down knowledge, experience, and leadership to soldiers I brought up .
Just like my leaders did to me.
I miss being around 39 highly armed young goons, most with alpha personality traits.
Best this nation has, no matter what their hometown background is or what people remember about them back their.

Soldiers are only as good as their leaders
Their is alot in that statement....
If your soldiers know you know your schit and want them to know their schit 100%
And prove to them you can do anything you tell them to do.
Your soldiers will excell.
When you overhear your joes talking schit to other platoons and companies in your Battalion about their leaders to others and saying schit like " hey when you dicks ever gonna be the assualt element"
"Hey when you guys platoon ever gonna get tasked running the Bde mg ranges".
When your joes talk schit boldly like that and can back it all up with deeds
You know you are raising young wolves and future leadership.



Hometown was chapter 1 of life.
When ya leave it starts chapter 2....


Mr Stoner in high school dont work no more.
Mr Stoner in high school been places and done things others can only imagine.

Just waiting on Nov 7 ML opener now here in TN.

Life is good.....

I don't mind the work but am not overly fond of the schedule.

If you were runnin sheep at least your work would love you back.

Holy schit!!!
LMFAO!!!

Hookeye...................I'm giving you the prize for the most WP answer yet. A lot of runners up though. BTW...WP=White Privileged

They call it getting up and going to work, not getting up and going to fun. I love my wife and I love my family. I do my job to provide for them.

I do after selling the dairy herd.

For me, there is great satisfaction in a good day's work well done.

That's baaaaaaddddddd...

Haha friggin dairy men, insane they are. I eat plenty of dairy to keep those guys in business because I'd hate for them to be crazy and bankrupt and me not trying to help.

That's what she said...................

Ewe would know.

I remember a coworker that was married with 3 kids and how he howled about how hard work was...
I told him it's not so bad, it's just what a man is willing to do to feed his family.
A softer job would have him whining about low wages so pick your poison I suppose.

I do feel satisfied with the work I do.

JC got himself a buncha fuzzy bunny sheep recently....

Hmmmmmm?????

LOL!!!

Yes for the most part.

Just going off what Jim told me.

One of my jobs pays well - the other (ranching) - satisfies my soul.

I tried staring a music thread, I'll plug this in for all the workin' men.

I am an absolutely also ..

I love my jobs. My full time job we have fun and make the best of it. I get to run adult tonka toys. My part time job I turn wrenches for a construction company. Make my own hours soon to have my own shop and no skimping on the repairs. Then there my little farm. I enjoy it mostly. Hauling square bales isn’t a lot of fun though. I have to work 2 jobs to help support my agricultural habit.

I do know... I’m gunsmithing

My Corporate “JOB” was fun, but some of the people I worked with were definitely NOT fun.

Love it, I am retired...

50 years at the plumbing trade. I hate it, even hate the word plumbing. It has been good to me, just tired of it.

now that is called living. what a great life

In the great State of California, too.

most people only remember good times. bad times not so much. it is human nature

Love, no. Enjoy, yes.

Dunno if I love it I have only been doing it for 54 years. Give me some time to think about it!!

No. I do what I do because I am good at it, and it makes me able to have and take care of what I love. As I used to tell the kids, you don’t have to like it, you just have to do it. Give me a crew of guys any day who work to live over a crew who work because they like the job. A job is only needed to fund my life. If I did not have to worry about funding, I would have no use for the job.

Man,aint that the truth. not 50 yrs,36 +,
Enjoy solving problems,but have lost patience,

It is a life of service now. Being a retired engineer keeps me in demand. Too busy most of the time.

Managing the construction of 11 4000+ tonne modules did it for me. Off to Africa... Gotta love the 416 Rem....

Pretty cool...!

I love my job. I don't like the political correct BS,sensitive pu$$ies and all the stupid safety. But in about 4 more years they can all kma and I will get to enjoy all that I have missed.

Gotta love the shorts and the 'stache. But where's the pith helmet?

Ed,
He getcha’ on the wrist?

If I could have figured out how to make it pay a mortgage, health insurance, car payments, and feed the kids, I would still be harnessing a team every winter morning to feed cattle, riding range, irrigating, and stacking hay all summer. Because that was the love of my life.

But I have loved the paychecks and bennies at the factory for the last 40 years. And in 28 months, I will begin enjoying the pension checks.

I enjoy my work.

I the beginning I was OK with it. In the beginning a corrections officer ran his house, it was his house and only his Lt. and Capt had much say. He ran it his way and mostly they had your back. You could be aggressive if you needed to and nobody was really going to persecute you for it. Custody ran the joint, everyone else was secondary.


Now we have cameras looking up our arse 24/7. People who have never done it calling the shots. Gotta walk on egg shells, don't do anything other than by the exact book and expect close examination by those who never have. We don't even call them inmates anymore, they are "Incarcerated Adults".

I liked old corrections, this new way not so much. I get it that some reform was needed, but like everything else it went way too far.

Great pics.

No. As a young attorney I loved litigating cases especially prosecuting criminals. Currently I represent people going through divorce, custody or child support cases. I do like the man I work for and the other staff in our small law office. I am left to handIe case as I wish and am only urged to meet monthly billable hours. I am well paid and have plenty of vacation time to travel and hunt. However, the cases, clients , opposing counsel and judges I must deal with are not fun. I do it so I can afford to do what I enjoy. I am counting the months (105) until I can retire and do what I want rather than what I must.

My Dad was so concerned about going above and beyond in his job he got physically and mentally sick - ended up doing a week or two in the hospital (medical) to recover and recuperate. He did and worked another 20-25 years before retiring. That was when I swore I would work to live, not live to work.

I like being retired *much* more than the best job I ever had.

Um

Praise the Lord

Retirement has to suck?

It's probably best that you think so.

Yes.

I get to work with some pretty cutting edge companies and technology, the work I do has a positive influence and save lives, and I am very well compensated.

I have been gainfully employed every single day since I left college in 1998 despite the economic downturns, dot-com bust, etc, etc., and not by accident.

47 years in the theater . Rock and Roll, Opera, Ballet , film and television production. As an onstage carpenter, electrician, rigger , props and sound . Still love it and expect to retire around March or April of next year. The Covid has killed our industry for the time being. Until 3200 people are willing to sit next to each other and city gov allows my brother and sisters will be idle at all live performance venues. SF Opera has been keeping some of us busy doing busy work , finishing a couple of shows being built, equipment updates also. Starting next week SF Ballet will start prepping to begin filming several productions we will share with our patrons online. Been employed by The Opera and Ballet most of my working life , each uses the War Memorial Opera House . Ballet Dec thru 1 st week of May and the Opera 2nd week of May thru 1st week of Dec.

As much as working "in the trades" sucked -
Not working was MUCH worse !!!
Especially when young, broke, and with family to support.
I remember.

Mark,

not working wasn't always so much fun when single, broke, and no family to support. But I get where you're coming from, much worse with those darn "responsibilities".

I'm glad my "not working" periods were short. Seems I was always able to find a job when I really needed it.

Sounds like you guys who dont eat food that you are paying interest on live kinda rough....

I'm retired now but I loved what I did. I was an electrical Lineman for nearly 35 years and I probably could not have handled the hours or conditions if I hadn't enjoyed it. There was a certain feeling of accomplishment of being out on a dark country road in the rain or cold and closing in a switch and seeing lights come on across the field.

Technically Jim, if you are paying interest on anything you are paying interest on everything.

I pay 6 percent on everything I do.


Eat beef you sonofabitch!

Keep talkin' like that and I might just have to make a drive up with some big coolers and the cargo trailer.

I'll take a lamb and some rabbit too.

If you hurry....we are fixing to butcher rabbits this weekend.

Not likely,

gotta ge a shower and hit the rack. 3.5 hr drive to another specialist tomorrow. And maybe the Costco too, if there's not a line around the block. I hate the idea of going where the sick people are, but the gastro guy ain't coming out here I guess.

If you've got any skins left that you're not going to use, I'll buy a few from you.

c'ya here tomorrow night perhaps.

I did 21 years in the Air Force and saw lots of places and did lots of things. Retired in 2018, miss the people, but not the BS! My old unit tried to hire me back as a civilian doing what I did while AD, the job fell through, but that was a blessing. Worked a year in the desert as a contractor with some great people, but only seeing the family 2-3 weeks every 6 mo the sucked. Got a GS job on base DOING something totally different, great people, but hated the job. Now I work for the DOI, and love it. The job is pretty easy as well, you just have to know how to handle people. I laugh at how much some of my co-worked complain, I’m not stressed at all, but some times they sure seem to be.

I loved diving,had a career ending injury 2010,been disability retired ever since,i would have prefered to keep working ,but am enjoying my retirement.

I started 3rd world contracting after the military, mostly warzones, remote sites, mining doing logistics, security and operations management. Its love/hate for most of us. I dont mind the environments, main stress for me is always having to look for new jobs. Its an unstable industry, a lot of your downtime is spent requalifying certificates or getting new ones in different countries to be attractive to the next employer. We say its like being a 'B-list actor'- okay pay, travel, but you never know whether you get the next gig. Covid has really slowed everything down anyway. Not sure how much of our job type will exist in this 'new normal' they are rolling out..

I love the job I've had since July 1,2019, the day I retired. Best job I ever had!

Not much satisfaction or fulfillment any more in what I do. I do love the work, but it's how much of it I have to do that ruins it for me.

Do I love my work? No. Does it serve the world, yes. I've had a hand in feeding more humans than a lot of people

I loved pouring concrete for so many years. Loved the workout, loved not being too long on any one project, loved working outdoors in the high country. I augmented my summer job with working for outfitters, ski patrol, and volunteering on SAR. These days, my mind tells me I can still work the trenches with the youngsters, my body tells me otherwise. Old injuries do not go away, they get better with age! Am now looking for something to survive on while I stay on the farm looking after Ma and family next door......I miss the high country and am blessed I did many things at a young age!

These educated and often rich people at graduations always like that trite
advice for the kids.

"Do what you love, and you will never work a day in your life."
Boy that sounds profound.

My Dad, a hard worker did 35 years at the same factory I work in.
It treated him well, he knew it and appreciated it.


That said, he had an original piece of advice that came from his observations
throughout a working blue collar life.

"Anything you do for a living, becomes a job."

He never graduated HS. Or got a GED.
Noone ever ask him to speak publicly.

But he was smart enough to know that no matter how much you enjoy
what you do, when you have to do it day after day, it will lose it's appeal.
Not that you have to hate it, but...It becomes a job.

I also enjoy what I do.

At age 42 I quit a job I hated and payed poorly and went back to school for another trade. Not an easy task with two young girls and a wife that stayed home but I stuck with it and it worked out.

Just turned 60 and can retire if I want to but have a job that pays well and that I enjoy doing. Maybe 2 more years so I can pay for another moose hunt in NL. This move has been a huge blessing to our family.

Like most I like parts of it. I've been with a really good company for 21 years and we've done well by each other. I shifted customer sets a year and a half ago from an intel agency to cyber defense with fed health care and it's sucked a lot of fun from the job.

I work with highly qualified (and pleasant) people in the company who are trying to do the right thing. The frustrating part is the gov customer that is simply incompetent. Not only incompetent but I have never seen more petty, backstabbing and incompetent federal grade 15 employees. At the past customer there were issues, since if there weren't they wouldn't have hired us to help, but there was a teamwork and common vision that really built great teams and accomplished some amazing stuff for the country. The fed team I work with now is simply going to ignore us, screw it up and blame us.

Looking back on my careers, the Navy was great but when I shifted to the reserves (98-07) it was hard. Same squadron, same jet but having a full time job and flying in the reserves left zero time for anything else. 5 recalls to active duty and deployments and two drill weekends a month plus lots of other 3-6 day dets over 9 years left me spent. I was glad I spent the 20 but I don't think I could have done more.

So at age 56 there are a couple more years in me until retirement. Moving north will give us a whole new world to explore and set a firm line between the world I've worked for so long and the rest of our lives. I visited my parents in Fl last week. In their 80's, and retired for almost 25 years, they are busy and happy. I hope we can follow them in that path, at least we're going to try!

Yes, I love my work.

Worked in the timber and tree removal industry until I got married at 30 years old. Loved the work but wanted to start a family and put down some roots. Working in the woods was kind of a gypsy life, plus had a good friend killed doing it. Had a kid on a climbing crew I was running get electrocuted as well. Been a structural fireman for the last 25 years, eligible to retire soon. Loved the fire service, but I feel it is my time to go. Got a good crew that I work with, but the politics are unbearable. Going to miss some of the guys, love the fires, the teamwork, training hard, developing and trying new ideas. Being there for the public. Unfortunately those of us who share those values no longer fit in within the department. I feel bad for the guys that I will leave behind on the job. Retirement spooks me but I got a small forestry business doing removals, thinning and fuels abatement. Love doing it! Got a great wife that works hard with me, house is paid off, and a decent retirement if I decide to go.

no. these days its tolerable. in the past it has been dreadful. but the pay and bennies are great. i will not miss it when i retire and will most likely do something totally different on a part time basis. i wish i had a job i liked.

My boss is a good guy. I like and enjoy my trades, but the [bleep] kid I'm stuck with for a "helper" is damned near worthless.

I love my work, and work my love as a project sales manager in the sustainable solutions business unit of a Fortune 100 company. Some days are better than others, of course. But all-in-all, it's a hoot!

Started a new journey in IT at age 37 with a wife and a new daughter. Never looked back. Love my job and until recently the company I work for. Diversity BS has made this position untenable as of late. Retirement can't get here fast enough and I will p!ss on my HR Director's desk the day I leave.

I like what I do, but do not like who I work for. Great pay and benefits, but my supervisor is out of touch with reality.

I did for years. Been working in the public eye almost all of my life. My father was in local politics so I’ve had to hold my tongue to keep from offending someone since H.S. I learned a long time ago I’m not a politician. The restaurant business may not be the highest paying career but it has been enjoyable. I have helped many employees make it through college and move on to great careers. My greatest satisfaction is having parents of my employees tell me “thanks for giving my child a job and teaching them good work ethic”. Now with all of the snowflakes and political rhetoric it’s not as satisfying as it used to be.
I’m seriously looking to change careers and get out of the public eye.