Is loving your job a myth?

[evboat]

You always hear the cliche, "Do something you love and the money won't matter." Who the fuck did this work out for? Does anybody outside of professional sports or entertainment love their job?

[Marc with a c]

me

[STC-Dub]

Same here.

[Whiskeyportal]

I love 97 percent of my job. I'm a cartographer/seismic surveyor and I'm in flight training right now because my boss wants to do our own low altitude aerial photography and radar imaging. Don't like the hours or all the traveling though.

[ChrisTheCop]

I love my job, but would never do it for free.

I definitely dont think of the majority sports or movie stars would do their job for free either.

Loving your job enough to do it for free would be reserved for Peace Corp volunteers and Clergy.

Even homeless people want money for what they do!

[razorboy]

I love my job. I am compensated relatively well (not quite as much as of late, unfortunately) for doing something that I would do as a hobby anyway. It can be infuriating at times and I keep a maniac's hours but I couldn't imagine doing something I enjoyed much more than what I do now.

[epo]

I really do like my job. I would love it if they would lessen my workload.

[KingModem]

I also have to disagree. Im in sales for a wireless telecommunication manufacturer, and having your children look up to you and admire you for playing a part in large scale endeavours and projects, it is absolutely irreplaceable.

I love my job....It would be even better if I didnt have that 2% chance in the back of my head that I might lose it at any minute, but my performance will not accelerate that.

[STC-Dub]

I love my job. I am compensated relatively well (not quite as much as of late, unfortunately) for doing something that I would do as a hobby anyway. It can be infuriating at times and I keep a maniac's hours but I couldn't imagine doing something I enjoyed much more than what I do now.

Bingo. I am getting paid for what I do for fun. I do not make a ton of money and during football season I put in a lot of hours, but I was doing the same thing for free and then $100 a month so making a living at it is great.

[RoseBlood]

You always hear the cliche, "Do something you love and the money won't matter." Who the fuck did this work out for? Does anybody outside of professional sports or entertainment love their job?

I'm not sure, but I'd be willing to bet college athletes enjoy playing their sport more than professional athletes. So to answer you question yes, if you do what you love, money will matter less and less.

Slightly off topic, but related to your question; there has been an impressive body of scientific research showing that the more we reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward. Eventually the person looses sight of their initial interest (ie.. drawing, reading, thinking, creating) and they re-focus on just getting the reward. Sound like any professional athletes you know? In short, performing and playing a sport they initally loved winds up becoming a means to an end. (end = profitable contract).

All that said, I don't love my job, nor do I hate it. I am/will be doing what I want too though.

[Devo37]

i like my job relative to some of the sh!tty or back-breaking things that i could be doing for a living, but other than for the paycheck, i can't imagine i'd ever show up at work.

[A.J.]

You always hear the cliche, "Do something you love and the money won't matter."

More importantly, don't ever take a job just for the money. I wasted a few years doing just that.

I don't love my job: but I do care for it deeply.

[razorboy]

I'm not sure, but I'd be willing to bet college athletes enjoy playing their sport more than professional athletes.

I think it would really depend on the person. I had the opportunity to sign a professional contract coming out of high school and opted to play for a scholarship at the collegiate level instead. Two knee surgeries, an elbow surgery and two shoulder surgeries later my athletic career ended unceremoniously after my junior year. I often wonder if I had different (better?) doctors at the professional level if I would have been able to continue playing. Would my viewpoint have changed had I achieved even minor professional success? Perhaps, but some people, and I'd like to think I would have been one of them, play because they enjoy playing regardless of the stage that they are on.

[GreatAmericanZero]

i gave this a lot of thought


if i won the lottery i would not quit my job

[boosterp]

Before retirement I was loosing love for my job because I was burning out being in the same field of research with the same political bullshit department with high turn over, but I did it for my patients, that was the enjoyable part.

In the military I loved 80% of my job but hated the preparation for deployments and the bullshit after deployments. Some of the repetitive activities such as not knowing when our day will end, waiting for mechanics, counting and recounting supplies, etc wore on me. But again I loved taking care of patients in the field and in the clinic.

[evboat]

I don't hate the work I do but there are days I feel like I'm selling my soul. I'm a CPA and a lot of the time its not so much helping people save on taxes as much as it is helping wealthy people get wealthier. Sometimes at the expense of their employees.

[Misteriosa]

i kinda like what i do, but the bullshit that goes on in management and the treatment i get from the teen clients really wears on me. working in foster care makes me really despair sometimes at the levels of wrecklessness and irresposibilty there is in the world. ive seen drug addicted babies and children who have been beaten and abused in ways that make your stomach turn. the only thing that keeps me going is seeing a client make a turn for the better, like making a breakthru in therapy or seeing the childs health improve.

other than that, between getting cursed out by the MICA(crazy drug using) teens, arguing with birth parents who dont want the kids to get any care, and seeing girls who were on the right path end up pregnant and getting their kids back in the system, it feels like im fighting an uphill battle.

[furie]

i love my job, though i don't particularly care for the agency that i'm a part of.
I find the work interesting and on the rare occasion; rewarding.

[SatCam]

i gave this a lot of thought


if i won the lottery i would not quit my job

if I had a job I would not play the lottery

[Furtherman]

I hate this thread.

[Tenbatsuzen]

This thread is a quandary for me.

I don't love my job, but I don't hate my job. I don't spend all waking hours at my job. I'm in at 8:45, I'm out around 5:05. I don't have issues with my boss or most of my employees, I don't feel overworked.

When I worked in radio, I did feel very overworked and very underpaid. But there was a comraderie and other perks there that can't be replicated anywhere else. But I was getting burned out towards the end, mainly because of the lack of financial compensation.

Now I'm in a job where I feel like I'm getting paid well, and it's opened the door to other dreams I've had. (Home ownership, starting a family, etc.) I couldn't even think about buying a house on the salary I made in radio.

If radio could compensate me as well as my current job does, I would go back in a second. But I know it won't. So I don't even bother.

The only thing I would like to do with my life is event coordination, so I'm looking into that, maybe starting my own business.

Either that, or running my own restaurant.

[Kublakhan61]

This thread is a quandary for me.

I don't love my job, but I don't hate my job. I don't spend all waking hours at my job. I'm in at 8:45, I'm out around 5:05. I don't have issues with my boss or most of my employees, I don't feel overworked.

When I worked in radio, I did feel very overworked and very underpaid. But there was a comraderie and other perks there that can't be replicated anywhere else. But I was getting burned out towards the end, mainly because of the lack of financial compensation.

Now I'm in a job where I feel like I'm getting paid well, and it's opened the door to other dreams I've had. (Home ownership, starting a family, etc.) I couldn't even think about buying a house on the salary I made in radio.

If radio could compensate me as well as my current job does, I would go back in a second. But I know it won't. So I don't even bother.

The only thing I would like to do with my life is event coordination, so I'm looking into that, maybe starting my own business.

Either that, or running my own restaurant.


You worked in radio?

[britneypablo]

<font color="deeppink"> I love givin blow jobs, doesnt mean id do it for free

[One Dead Fred]

I find myself complaining about my jobs, but when I step back and look at what I do next to what other people do for a living, I'm pretty happy to do what I do.

[Drunky McBetidont]

<font color="deeppink"> I love givin blow jobs, doesnt mean id do it for free

nice girl from a nice family

[midwestjeff]

The notion of loving one's job is a relatively new phenomenon (last 60 years or so).

People used to know and accept that work was work and play was play.

Just sayin'.

[Tenbatsuzen]

You worked in radio?

Enough, jesus christ, I was making a point.

[RoseBlood]

The notion of loving one's job is a relatively new phenomenon (last 60 years or so).

People used to know and accept that work was work and play was play.

Just sayin'.

Thank you BlowHard.

[midwestjeff]

The notion of a female mocking a male is also relatively new.

Women used to know and accept that their thoughts were worthless.

Just sayin'.

[weekapaugjz]

The notion of a female mocking a male is also relatively new.

Women used to know and accept that their thoughts were worthless.

Just sayin'.

this idea is still practiced in my household.

[RoseBlood]

And men went out and hunted and provided for their women. No such thing as unemployment or sleeping till noon.

Just sayin'.

[hammersavage]

I'm mocked by a female 5 times a day. I miss the olden days.

[RoseBlood]

I'm mocked by a female 5 times a day. I miss the olden days.

Your mother doesn't count.

[hammersavage]

She's good for one. You for 3, then some random woman at a grocery store or bar.

[Gvac]

And men went out and hunted and provided for their women. No such thing as unemployment or sleeping till noon.

Just sayin'.

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[grlNIN]

...then some random woman at a grocery store or bar.

Usually happens in the "Meats" section, doesn't it?

[RoseBlood]

You're lucky I'm in a good mood or else I'd post that picture of you holding your Certificate of Promotion as opposed to the pink slip you received some 4 months ago. I'm way to nice to further emasculate you like that.

[hammersavage]

Usually happens in the "Meats" section, doesn't it?

Alright, that makes it an even 6 today.

[Bob Impact]

Love my job, love working in general but really love my job now.

[Sarge]

I also love my job, can't imagine doing anything else.

[hammersavage]

You're lucky I'm in a good mood or else I'd post that picture of you holding your Certificate of Promotion as opposed to the pink slip you received some 4 months ago. I'm way to nice to further emasculate you like that.

That's 7.


I guess were going for a new record tonight. If GVac counted, I'd be over a dozen.

[boosterp]

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My GF, a good Texas lady thinks I am too nice because I open doors, to include the car door even if she drives, I made her chicken soup when she was sick, and I offered to babysit so she could have a break.

Really, do guys not treat ladies like ladies anymore?

[Tenbatsuzen]

That's 7.


I just called my sister-in-law.

"Hey, remember HammerSa--"


"BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH"

[hammersavage]

I just called my sister-in-law.

"Hey, remember HammerSa--"


"BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH"

You wouldn't dare. And all I have to do is show her me as a lad, it'll melt any girls heart.

[Gvac]

Really, do guys not treat ladies like ladies anymore?

No. They're too busy playing video games, reading comic books, and watching movies around the clock to care about women. It's a generation of overgrown boys who prefer living in a fantasy world rather than reality.

Men are a dying breed.

[weekapaugjz]

No. They're too busy playing video games, reading comic books, and watching movies around the clock to care about women. It's a generation of overgrown boys who prefer living in a fantasy world rather than reality.

Men are a dying breed.

i do all those things and still take care of my girl.

[hammersavage]

No. They're too busy playing video games, reading comic books, and watching movies around the clock to care about women. It's a generation of overgrown boys who prefer living in a fantasy world rather than reality.

Men are a dying breed.

Alright, thats a shot at me now.


And that fuckin sig is hauting.

[boosterp]

No. They're too busy playing video games, reading comic books, and watching movies around the clock to care about women. It's a generation of overgrown boys who prefer living in a fantasy world rather than reality.

Men are a dying breed.

It's sad.

[Kublakhan61]

Enough, Jesus Christ, I was making a point.

The name's Abe. Old Testament.

[Coach]

I used to love my Job..until my last employer..I was treated like shit..and had headaches that I shouldn't have had to deal with.

[Kublakhan61]

It's sad.

It's also a broad generalization.

[TripleSkeet]

The actual saying is "Do something you love, and youll never work a day in your life."

For the record, I enjoy my work. But If I won the lottery for big bucks Id never work again. Id just have lots and lots of hobbies. Basically keeping myself busy while still being able to wake up whenever I want and coming and going as I please.