do u enjoy your job? wat wud ur ideal job be?

[MrsC]

just out of interest!

[kernowyon]

i already have my ideal job. I work in a blood transfusion lab crossmatching blood for peoples operations or trauma cases. great feeling when something you do can help save a life.

[kirsty b]

I work as a nursing assistant on a busy emergency surgery ward and I can honestly say that I really love what I do.
Some days its bloody hard work but i never got the sense of satisfaction I do now when I worked in factories.
Doing my NVQ 2 now and plan to train as a nurse in a couple of years.

Kirsty

[debsducks]

Bit of a theme going here me thinks.
I (having now escaped the nhs) work from home for a mailing company but previously worked for nhs for 17yrs in the pathology labs.
I really enjoy working from home especially this time of year as unless we are really busy i can just say s*d it i'm going to garden for the day.

Debbie

[sewer rat]

I have the best job in the world - I grow veg !!!!

[BayViewPlot]

Also work in NHS, assessments of mental health problems...

Advise them to get a lottie, a dog and grow veg!

[nick the grief]

Mines not bad. I get to go to loads of our construction projects and there are loads of nursaries to visit

My Ideal job would be propagating ..... no not mucky movies, taking cuttings or planting seeds, I find this fascinating .....although come to think of it grief the stud .....

[Peter]

I'm in IT, Problem Manager, just starting in that role, so it is, I guess, what I make it.

Ideal job, national lottery winner and allotment gardener.

[beefy]

Sorry folks - you work to pay the bills wether you like it or not.

If as Peter would like to - you won the lottery the first thing 99% of us would do would be to tell them to stick it. You would ,you know you would and dont tell me different.
Ideal job - to be paid to travel round the world fishing (hey its my thing OK ). Failing that I'd be LJ's personal slave

[Grandpadragon]

My job? Looking after Granny Dragon, 3 old dogs, New Bungalow and garden
My ideal job? See above Retirement is wonderful!

[User Removed]

Ideal job... No work, sunny beach and something cool to drink. Is that counted as a job

But I really enjoy my job at the moment

[Alice]

There was a time when I just loved my work. (Nurse) . Everything changed in the system, job became impossible to do with any kind of satisfation. Moved into other management type jobs and hated them.
Retired ! Wonderful ! Couldn't even think about that world of madness now. Life's too short to spend all that time on things you don't enjoy.

[muckdiva]

I have worked for myself for about 15 years, so probably totally incapable of getting another 'job' now. I love my work (publishing), but the pay could be better! Heck, I think my staff get paid more than me... A few less hours a week wouldn't go amiss, but still, there's nobody to tell me off for visiting the vine during working hours, so it has its compensations.

[vertangie]

If as Peter would like to - you won the lottery the first thing 99% of us would do would be to tell them to stick it. You would ,you know you would and dont tell me different.

Actually I wouldn't tell them to stick it. Mainly because the only people I could tell is myself and my partner. We're self employed and city escapees.

We build websites for film, tv, software and music companies and do quite a few charity jobs and general good causes, a few political sites too when they were trying to do something we felt the same way about. I couldn't give that up for the world. I love my job and I love most of my clients.

One thing I'll concede to you is there's some clients I'd tell to stick it and the be honest I've already done that without winning the lottery. Ah I see why I'm not rich yet... DOH.

I would like to have more time to spend gardening but I'm working on that and we both stopped work at 6pm on the dot and went and built a frame for my tomato growhouse. I don't mind the commute from the living room to the garden at all.

Ideal job would be exactly what I'm doing right now just being a bit better at it and making a bit more money, but then I'd probably feel guilty about how much I charge or something. I saw evening jobs in the local somerfield at over £7 an hour and suddenly felt very guilty about how much I can and sometimes do make, but then I did spend 10 years training so I guess that's kinda fair.

Besides money isn't everything. I worked out that if I owned land and my own home, and used solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy I really wouldn't have to work that hard to exist in the way that I want.

So now I don't think about how much money I want, or what my perfect job is. Rather who I want to be around and what I want to be and be doing.

Try asking yourself that I was really surprised to find that I'm 50% there now whereas 3 years ago I was living in city hell.

So if money didn't matter what would you do? That's something that intrigues me as if money didn't matter people couldn't buy power or control etc.

So maybe I should be an anarchist, But I like order too much (that'll be the engineer in me

Angie

[Alice]

What a great post Vertangie. You've said it all. So many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Sounds as if you've got it all worked out for yourself.