Is work your heaven or your personal hell?

[Simslover92]

For me it's torturous. I hate my job with a passion. I just want to leave it so bad. It's my personal hell.

Or is it just meh. Like you don't feel anything towards it. It's just a job.

Heaven

Hell

Meh, it's just a job

[libsaretards]

Hell.

I am the type of person who likes to be given the list of tasks to be done and then left the hell alone. I cannot stand someone over my shoulder and I am not the type to keep my thoughts on that to myself. Also, if a boss thinks they can say whatever craziness and not be put in check, I am the wrong guy to talk sideways to because I'll match that energy. Bosses often feel like they can cuss you out and then get mad when you do the same. After the military I promised myself that nobody will ever have disproportionate power over my life ever again.

I also will not ask permission to take time off. If I have a family emergency, I am dropping work for it. I do not care what a boss has to say. If I want a vacation, I am TELLING you when I am taking it, NOT ASKING. I will give plenty of notice (typically at least a month in advance) there is ZERO reason for you to try to stop me. YOUR inability to staff should not prevent me from taking time off that I need.

I cannot stand coworkers because they are overly sensitive. Also many work places push this woke shit when it comes to respecting gays and minorities yet bitch when you take a minute to pray.

I cannot stand wasting energy at a place that does not pay me enough to pay my bills. Without VA disability pay, there are few jobs that can support the needs I have. I do not even have wants anymore. I cannot afford to have a coffee or even healthy food.

That is why I am glad I have started working for myself. Once my stuff gets running, I will be living a life worth living.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Heaven when it's really busy and just a job when it's slow. I'm oppositely wired from most of my colleagues.

I love crunch. I'm being serious. Everyone thinks I'm silly or exaggerating but I genuinely love crunch! Some programmers even claim that crunch makes them feel suicidal or that it's like physical torture, but for me it's my favorite time of the year.

My least favorite time is like right now when things are really slow and there are no impending deadlines. I procrastinate a lot and get bored.

When it's crunch though, I enjoy my work so much with all the pressure and risk involved. I end up going to sleep so excited to wake up 3 hours later to get back to work.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I'm one of those types of people tend to rise to the occasion which most people consider a good thing, but it's also bad. It means when people need me the most, I work the hardest. The more they need me to work my hardest, the harder I work. The more responsibilities I have, the more diligent I become. I have never burnt out from working too hard; I actually burn out from not working enough.

So I thrive in high-pressure situations. I rise to the occasion. I feel like people need me and that sense of people needing me to be something makes me become what they need. However, in low-pressure situations, I barely get any work done. I'm imbalanced that way.

I hope my company never discovers this but I actually have a reputation for being the hardest worker on my team despite being the ultimate slacker. It's because I slack off when they least need me to work so they don't notice much. Yet when deadlines are close and they need everyone to work as much as possible, that's when my colleagues start losing their energy and motivation and I go to town, and that's when they most notice who is working the hardest.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

So my favorite is when we have like 2 years of worth we have to do in the next 8 weeks. That's almost impossible, and so challenging and exciting! I love it. I wish it was like that all the time and then I wouldn't be slacking off so much.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

[*] So my favorite is when we have like 2 years [worth of work, sorry] we have to do in the next 8 weeks.

[Simslover92]

That's great. I wish my job was like that but it's pretty boring. I rarely have things to do. It's pretty slow all the time. If I was in a high pressure job where things needed to get done in a timely manner, I might like my job but instead it's always hardly anything to do which sucks.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

That's kind of my struggle with mine. We seem similarly wired that way, preferring higher pressure.

I think in my case, one of my ultimate things I struggle with is boredom. I might have consumed too much fantastical and adventurous fiction when I grew up, expecting life to be as exciting as the movies.

So when I have a deadline coming up, I don't have time to get bored. I have too much I have to do like I needed to do that yesterday! It kicks me in the butt in a nice way and I get all engaged and interested in what I'm doing. I feel like it's important; it becomes most obvious that people are counting on me.

[Simslover92]

Yeah same here. It's rare in my job but when I do have a deadline to meet, I don't have time to get bored either. It's definitely a great feeling to be all engaged and interested in what I'm doing. I just wish it was more times like that.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Absolutely same here as well. Sometimes I daydream about having a job that's more exciting and also makes me feel like it's important every single day, like a fireman in a very densely populated area. I might burn out if I actually had such a job; it's one thing to fantasize about it and another to summon that energy every single day all year around.

I work on VFX software used for primarily entertainment: TV shows, films, video games, things of this nature. So it's not exactly a job where I can say I feel like it's important all that often, but when the deadlines approach, I at least feel like it's important to my colleagues and boss who are counting on me for their livelihoods.

[Simslover92]

Wow your job sounds way more exciting than my job. I'm a librarian but I wish I had went for accounting. There definitely would have been no slow days doing that job.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Do you enjoy reading a lot? Mine has its moments here and there but most of the time, it's sifting through bug reports and trying to fix bugs in code I didn't even write and writing automated tests for them because the damned developer who wrote the original code didn't bother to write any proper tests. 😅 It's exciting to me when I get to write a lot of my own code and come up with my own designs.

[Simslover92]

I do actually though I don't get to read as much as I used to. I'm often bringing projects from work home and spend a lot of time doing that instead of reading.

But that does sound exciting to be able to write your own code and come up with your own designs. I wish I knew how to do that.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

My wife is a nonfiction book publisher and editor by trade. She tends to read manuscripts and books non-stop both leisurely and as part of her work. I always loved that quality since all her reading generates a lot of interesting conversation material.

I've been meaning to do more leisurely reading. I do a lot of it for my work but it's all very dry technical papers and books.

On coding, it's kind of a weird thing but I didn't get into it out of an interest to write code. I'm a bit of an oddball from my colleagues that way.

I got into it as a child out of a desire to design my own video games. If I had the resources, I would have just hired someone to write the code for me based on my designs along with people to do the pixel art and musicians to do the music and so forth.

I ended up doing all of it simply because I had no one else to do it for me. The programming ended up being the most time-consuming part and where I ended up focusing the most until it ended up inadvertently becoming my career and what I excelled at most in uni, if only because a lot of people don't start programming at childhood. Many people start drawing starting from childhood, making music, etc, but programming starting from childhood was a bit odd and gave me a major advantage over my peers.

Still, my idea of a good time was never writing code. It's a means to an end. It's making things I imagine play out on a computer screen that always excited me.

[Simslover92]

You were certainly lucky to get into it as a child. A lot of kids don't really get into anything as children that will become their career. I know I didn't until I was around a teenager. I really wanted to be a writer but have had no time to write my novels due to work. I wish I could take time off to work on my writing.

It's also neat that your wife is a nonfiction book publisher and editor. I thought about getting into the publishing field at one point just to be able to read manuscripts and edit them. My undergrad major is in English and I have some MA in writing degree credits.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

It was largely thanks to my grandfather. I had this weird obsession where I started purchasing cheap notepads and filling them up with sketches and diagrams and notes which would read like video game manuals back then like so:



I just did it out of wishful thinking like, "Wouldn't it be cool if a video game like this existed?" Yet I took it to an obsessive level and filled an entire bookshelf with hundreds of cheap notebooks with such things.


So my grandfather noticed my obsession one time while visiting me in Japan and he immediately bought me an Intel 80286 computer along with programming books and a compiler (Borland Turbo C). He didn't know much about computers but he asked around and got all these things for me. My entire life would have almost certainly gone a different course without his aid.

I hope you get to do something you really enjoy in the near future. My wife really enjoys publishing except for having to deal with unreliable authors all the time.

[Simslover92]

Well thank goodness for your grandfather! That was very nice of him to do.

And thank you! I hope so too.

[D_Bone_Steak]

At least you're enjoying it... right? That's what matters.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

@D_Bone_Steak On the good days (the busy ones), for sure. 🤝

[DizzyDesii]

Its honestly the 2nd most chill job i ever had. It was getting out of hand a week or two ago because of the busy work they were giving us since we’re not in peak season so there's not much to do. But I've found a way around that busy work and im chillin again for now

[Simslover92]

Oh ok. So you like your job then?

[DizzyDesii]

I wouldn't say like. Im just content

[Simslover92]

Oh ok. Better than me then. I freaking can't stand my job. So ready to leave it.

[IslaTheWitch]

definitely heaven :D

great people, wide range of technologies, an AI, a lot of freedom and management mostly open to negotiations :D

[Simslover92]

That's awesome! 😀

[IslaTheWitch]

yeah... decided they will have to deal with me for some longer time :D I'm definitely staying here :D

[Simslover92]

That's great. If only I could find a job like that...

[IslaTheWitch]

I needed over 20 years for that... fingers crossed you find it faster 🤞

[Simslover92]

*fingers crossed* 🤞

[IslaTheWitch]

thanks for MHO @Simslover92 :D

[Simslover92]

You're welcome! :)

[D_Bone_Steak]

You need to skip that job if you're not enjoying it.

I was stuck in the military and sort of just had to deal with it. I got out and started slinging my purple headed yogurt slinger around and slapping people in the eye with it... and now I'm... something you're probably not unless we already chat.

Me... hate all you want... my basement is bigger than your house.

If you enjoy what you're doing you'll move up real fast. If it's meh, you'll stay there forever like the rest that hate it except you'll look like a pussy that won't even leave as fast as the people that left as soon as they could.

Oh... and I bang way hotter chicks than somebody that has to work for a living... I usually bang their chicks too.

[Simslover92]

I would gladly skip it if I wasn't stuck there because of all the debt I have to pay each month. Once I get this money though I will gladly leave it.

[ManOnFire]

It has a hellish aspect to it, but some perks. I work in corporate so there are a ton of politics to look out for and get around. I love what the actual job is, and you learn great stuff, but when you're in corporate your biggest hell is the culture. Everyone gossips, everyone tries to screw each other over, you have to walk on eggshells because you never know what you might say to someone - that could be totally innocent - will be what they take offense to.

And I can't stand the office rats who are all chatting when you walk in, but as soon as they hear you talking to a colleague, everybody goes dead silent so they can listen in. People in corporate have just about no life or personal talents, so living at work is their only focus.

[Simslover92]

Sounds like my job.

[ManOnFire]

@Simslover92 I kinda figured that's what you were talking about. The corporate life is void of human touch, friends, or honesty.

[Simslover92]

Yes it certainly is.

[Pinay_ako]

It’s neither. If you were to ask about my former job. Yes that was a personal hell with demons running around all day long torturing my sanity.

[Simslover92]

That's what I'm going through right now. Demons running around all day long torturing my sanity. So ready to get tf out of there.

[Pinay_ako]

Then get out asap

[Simslover92]

As soon as I am able to, I certainly will!

[Pinay_ako]

Good! You’ll find something better 💕

[Anonymous]

It's just a job, but it is pretty hellish right now. I'm pregnant and they are making everything SO difficult! They gave me the number to call to confirm my pregnancy and set up my future maternity leave. Yeah. They are next to impossible to get ahold of. And SO MUCH PAPERWORK! Omg! They also want me to file a separate claim every single time I miss work for any reason. It has been freaking ridiculous!

[Simslover92]

Wow that sounds like a nightmare. I'm sorry.

[ohsheeT]

Well no matter what you're doing everyday in life at your job you need to be happy so create something that makes you happy either in real life or at your job either take on more work but you know what it is down deep with the reason why you're not happy and create that happy spot that happy place for you either take on more work to prove yourself so they give you more responsibility raise you up the ladder give you a raise create it or start something else that makes you happy

[KittygosMeoWW]

Welp I’m unemployed now soooo…. lol we’ll see what my next job is like.

[Simslover92]

What do you want to do?

[KittygosMeoWW]

I have no idea tbh lol but I know I need to get something asap

[Simslover92]

And you will! I'm going to be unemployed pretty soon if all goes well. I will have the money to be unemployed for a while.

[Babygirl_S]

It's good because now I work for upto 3 hours and it is not stressful at all. The money is good.

[Simslover92]

Wow I would love that! To work only 3 hours and get paid a lot of money is awesome!

[Unit1]

Meh, it's just a job. Although a pretty comfortable one.

Still looking to quit this job market circus altogether and turn to swing trading for a living and getting rich.

[Simslover92]

Same here as far as the quitting the job market circus and getting rich goes. I'm hopefully supposed to come into money soon and I will then be able to quit. Can't freaking wait!

[Unit1]

Yeah. There's this situation all about "personnel shortage" being spread left and right, yet almost nobody hired me as soon as I found myself jobless earlier this year.

Sometimes I wish I was an Anarchistic Iranian transgirl with spiky hair and punkish looks just to see who would still hire me. I suppose it would make no difference anyway.

[electromagnetic]

A bit of both. some days, I love my job and I love what I do. I get productive and become the model employee. Other days, people have pissed me off so much, i fall behind on my own work.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I enjoy working, especially when I'm earning a ton of money.

[Jupiter1]

For the time being, I can only wish I’d earn even just a fraction of that ‘ton of money’ you easily generate regularly but I also appreciate the rewards of productivity.

[AviatorTom]

I've almost always enjoyed my job. Sure, occasionally, it's a pain, but overall, it's good.

[Astarlessnightsky]

I like my job, something could be better but overall its more heaven

[Anonymous]

Heaven! I'm one of the few people that can't wait for the weekend to end. I love mondays.👍

[Simslover92]

I wish I could find a job like that where I can't wait for Monday to come but instead I loathe when Mondays come.

[Still-alive]

Its alright. Not terrible for me but not outstanding either

[Simslover92]

That's good that it's at least alright for you. I would want to stay if it wasn't a terrible place to work in.

[sheenagwapa]

i dream to have a job... it is better than to rely on some people who will then force you to do things you don't want to do

[Rangers]

I hate working, but yet again, I don't enjoy anything

[Simslover92]

Same here! Well that is except for my boyfriend. I do enjoy spending time with him.

[BobbieBoy666]

Heaven is being at home. 😇 Hell is when at work. 😈

[Simslover92]

So true which is why I'd rather work from home.

[BobbieBoy666]

I work at a Kroger fuel station.

[tzdc21]

To be honest it has times where it's one or the other... which I am sure every job does.

[exitseven]

Its a good job and I am happy there but I am really not as excited with it as I was 20 years ago.

[msc545]

Sometimes it's very rewarding that mostly it's just a job.