Your Day

Trollheart · 04-11-2018, 12:04 PM

Yeah I'd have to agree. I worked for almost thirty years in the same job. There were days I really thought it was okay, and many days I hated it. I would doubt I could however point to even one day when I would have said I loved it. I couldn't imagine many people thinking this. Exo's job, now, that's a different story. Gotta be easy to love working in a record store, or in Batty's case, his dream job no doubt, a comic book store. But UPS? Fine if you do love it, but I can't see it. You mean you get up every morning thinking "Oh how great! Another day of work! Can't wait!" ??

Lisnaholic · 04-11-2018, 12:07 PM

If we are lucky, life has many mild satisfactions to offer. If Kiiii has fallen in with an agreeable team of people and can make a contribution that he is pleased with, I'd say, "Good for you, Kiii." What's the alternative? An ineffectual rage that keeps you awake at night?

Key · 04-11-2018, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

And so you love your job...

That's not loving your job, that's delusional, quiet desperation. That's how you become a soul sucked husk at 40. Or just become boring.

Now you're just taking words out of context. I wake up every morning looking forward to the day because of how much I enjoy my job. Is it so bad to be on the other side of the spectrum where working is actually rewarding? If I said I hate my job, would you all feel better?

Ask anybody close to me and they'll tell you how often I praise my employer and express my enjoyment of it.

I do love my job. Obviously it has some stress associated but my current situation is perfect. I literally walk like 15min to get to work from where I live. I'm losing weight and I'm saving a lot. So yeah, I'd say I do love my job, the people, and the work.

And TH, just because you worked 30 years at the same job doesn't mean you couldn't have spent those 30 years doing a job you loved.

**Frownland** · 04-11-2018, 12:25 PM

Do you love your job for any other reason than to avoid hating it?

The Batlord · 04-11-2018, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiiii

Ask anybody close to me and they'll tell you how often I praise my employer and express my enjoyment of it.

Does your smile reach your eyes when you do?

Key · 04-11-2018, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

the annoying part is you frame it like enjoying your job is a choice you can make

"Learn to enjoy"

Well...it is, for me. I don't go to work with the preconceived notion that I'm going to have a bad day. That's not good for anybody.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Do you love your job for any other reason than to avoid hating it?

You want a list?

**Frownland** · 04-11-2018, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiiii

You want a list?

Yup.

WWWP · 04-11-2018, 12:37 PM

I love my job too. I don't wake up excited to go to work in the morning because work is still work and I'd always rather not be working, but it's just the right mix of challenging and fulfilling, and I feel perpetually respected and appreciated by my employer.

**Frownland** · 04-11-2018, 12:51 PM

I like what I do, it's dynamic and interesting enough. I hate my job to cope with how immoral it is.

OccultHawk · 04-11-2018, 01:22 PM

Everyone employed person on here would quit their job if they won the lottery.

If you deny it you’re lying.

Case closed.

04-11-2018, 12:04 PM	#49721 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Yeah I'd have to agree. I worked for almost thirty years in the same job. There were days I really thought it was okay, and many days I hated it. I would doubt I could however point to even one day when I would have said I loved it. I couldn't imagine many people thinking this. Exo's job, now, that's a different story. Gotta be easy to love working in a record store, or in Batty's case, his dream job no doubt, a comic book store. But UPS? Fine if you do love it, but I can't see it. You mean you get up every morning thinking "Oh how great! Another day of work! Can't wait!" ?? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

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Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	If we are lucky, life has many mild satisfactions to offer. If Kiiii has fallen in with an agreeable team of people and can make a contribution that he is pleased with, I'd say, "Good for you, Kiii." What's the alternative? An ineffectual rage that keeps you awake at night? __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Do you love your job for any other reason than to avoid hating it? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I like what I do, it's dynamic and interesting enough. I hate my job to cope with how immoral it is. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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