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Do you like your job?

I love my job! It complements my Downsizer lifestyle perfectly

15%

[ 10 ]

I love my job, but it is at odds with my Downsizer aspirations

[ 6 ]

I mostly like my work, but it leaves me too tired to live the life I want

[ 5 ]

Totally indifferent about it, but it pays the bills

19%

[ 12 ]

I hate my job, but can't afford to change it

19%

[ 12 ]

I gave up a job to Downsize/have kids or work for myself

14%

[ 9 ]

I've never had a job of any description

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Other (discuss!)

14%

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Total Votes : 63

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sally_in_wales
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 9:54 am Post subject: Do you like your job?
Having a slight crisis of 'can I keep doing this job and still sleep/garden/interact with family' at the moment and just curious as to how those of you who have full time jobs feel about yours.

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28235
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 9:57 am Post subject:
As I work from home, I can only be in the "I love my job" category. When we move in a downsizery direction I can take the job with me

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 9:58 am Post subject:
Gone for 'other' as at times I like my job, other times I hate it. Now if I could think of anything that paid aswell, that I enjoyed doing...

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:02 am Post subject:

My 'career' (cos we women are all suppose to have one - yeah right!) consisted of a series of jobs in the customer service industry, before it was all changed to call centres.

I've not really worked since the boys were born other than a year or so as a part time postal worker for extra money and 6months as a full time office worker when I was a single mum for a bit.

I don't work now and am for the most part really happy being at home, although now the boys are getting older I'm just starting to wonder if I should think of something again to challenge self and to get out of a very safe and comfortable zone. I've really decided I don't want to go from being a mum to being retired without having done something else. Still musing as to what that will be!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:05 am Post subject:
Yep. Love my job, lots. Great people, great environment, huge amount of freedom, based in science, great company, and currently, no line management above me. And it allows me to live in the middle of nowhere and keep a few pigs. Does it get much better? (Can you tell my bonus cheque arrived this morning!? ) Last edited by Nick on Fri Jan 27, 06 10:07 am; edited 1 time in total

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:06 am Post subject:

I've gone for other. I don't particulalry like the job, it's dull and sometimes very boring but other times can be intersting and even bordering on exciting (at which point we all calm down and have a cup of tea).

I've tried jumping the fence a couple of times and found that in most office based jobs the grass isn't realy greener. However, it pays well which allows us to do lots of stuff, it's relaxed most of the time, the corporate rubbish is counteracted by the flexiblity in time keeping and the other benefits aren't too bad. Also having just had a chat with the financial advisor, it's got a bloody good pension.

But.........I have this nagging feeling that hanging around in a dull but seductively comfortable job is not really what I want. OH is in a new career and enjoying it, she may become the main breadwinner in future and if we can afford to I'd like to go part time and develop another interest/business doing something totally different.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:07 am Post subject:
I've gone for "I hate my job, but can't afford to change it" which is the nearest to "I hate my job, but it will pay for what I want to do when I've saved enough - I hope!"

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:17 am Post subject:
Similar to TD, I pretty much hate my job but's it's supporting the downsizer lifestyle we have always wanted to achieve. Sorting out the job is a future plan but not until the missus has finished her Nursing degree.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:21 am Post subject:

I fall somewhere between 1 and 3.
I love my job, I can do it from home, I can do other stuff like growing stuff, feeding critters and making bread alongside it, but at times the volume just gets overwhelming. Then I feel like you do, Sally - the work/life balance just gets totally out of kilter. There are so many other things I want to do, but can't because I'm working into the wee small hours.
Not sure what the answer is. I used to think it was just because I was useless at scheduling, but now I believe that being useless at scheduling + stuff happening is more like the truth!

Rï¿½isï¿½n

Joined: 30 Jul 2005
Posts: 578

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:25 am Post subject:
I like-ish my job. If I got myself sorted out, I could work from home and be much happier; but it's the kind of job where I get pulled in ten diff directions and end up not getting to make my own choices, do things my own way etc, even though in theory this is poss

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:30 am Post subject:

Like Judith somewhere between 1 and 3 - but it's mainly about lack of time to do the other things I want to do for me and my children. I give it so much of my energy that I get home feeling done in and then get cross and fed up at niot doing enough with the children and doing enough for me and OH. Really all imposed on me by me so I should try and sort it out. Ideas anyone?

Should own up as well and say I workpart time so that I can pick children up and come home to do all those things - I wish

Last edited by Cathryn on Fri Jan 27, 06 10:33 am; edited 1 time in total

RoryD

Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Posts: 692
Location: West Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:32 am Post subject:

As someone who has given up "work" and started working for myself in the last 8 months...

If you are the sort of person who believes in getting closer to food, its provenance, and living more ethically and consciously.... then there is a good chance that you may well feel happier and more fulfilled working for yourself.

I know its hard and scary and financially impossible for some/all of us. But trust me, if you like the idea of seeing your allotment grow and develop over the summer, then you'll find a similar connection in seeing your sales grow, or receiving good feedback from a customer.
Its yours. You made it. Its a good thing.

wah wah wah.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:37 am Post subject:
You might be amzed at how little money you can live on as well - although will you all be around next month as both our ancient cars fail their MOT's?!! There can be a sense of impending crisis a lot of the time. Our joint incomes have only just taken us above the "poverty" threshold. (course it's not really such a simple equation - took out the mortgage years ago when OH worked in the City...)

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:38 am Post subject:

I've gone for Other aswell. I really like what I do most of the time, and I work from home for the majority of time, but still work for a very large Corporation, so the cack that goes along with that is annoying, plus they don't pay as much as they should...but it's comfortable most of the time...

Behemoth wrote:

I have this nagging feeling that hanging around in a dull but seductively comfortable job is not really what I want.

Couldn't agree more, I have a nagging feeling even at the thought of what I'd actually like to be doing, which isn't working for a bluechip company in Surrey...though I do have it go as far as working conditions/flexibility goes, and I'm pretty much my own boss regards the day to day stuff these days.

If OH could get a job elsewhere (i.e. a bit less 'Suburbia'), then we'd move in a Flash, I can work from anywhere, (as long as it has Broadband!)...but he actually enjoys what he does and where he works...bummer.

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 06 10:50 am Post subject:
I honestly expected to be in the minority when I voted for the first option. But at the moment we are slightly ahead ... How brilliant!

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