Job Satisfaction-with Survey

[bradsul]

...I want a job with normal expectations, I'm tired of being Superman that has to save the day whenever all of my co-workers screw things up...

Not sure you're going to find something like that in IT unless you can get one of those sweet gigs in the gaming industry or with one of the super-companies (no pun intended). 'IT' seems to be short for 'I will work every hour of every day for less than I'm worth and for no respect'.

 

[Chriso]

'IT' seems to be short for 'I will work every hour of every day for less than I'm worth and for no respect'.

Don't you mean 'IT' seems to be short for 'I. will work every hour of every day for less than I'm worth and for no respec T.'

And I made my "desires" pretty generic. To be more specific, I want a job where at least my coworkers, the other Tech people who are directly alongside me in my department, to have normal and reasonable expectations of me, and not just pile on the work as high as possible, with no apology. If I don't do something at my job, it doesn't get done period. If they don't do something, it becomes my problem. It's not that I want a cushy no-real-work 8-to-5 facade of a job. I'm just saying that I want at least INTERNAL respect from my teammates, even if people outside of our department and outside of our knowledge base (non-techies,basically) don't respect me/us/our work.

 

[budbo]

The red tape, paperwork, office sitting, pencil pushing, desk driving, keyboard thrashing, crappy bosses, political garbage, additional tasks, and pissy attitudes that come along with having a government job make me hate it sometimes.

Ahh The Joys of being a Contractor.

I love my Job, I travel as much as I did on active duty, I work in my chosen (non-flying) field, and get paid a lot.
I do miss flying but the Airlines were not hiring when I retired

 

[quickerNu]

I voted Love it, for my current career as a Harley-Davidson salesman. I have been with the company for over 10 years, started sweeping floors right outta high school. It was supposed to just pay for college. I worked my way up to technician- very rewarding but stressful, became a parts manager while at A&M, and when I left school became an asst superintendent of a top golf course, using my degree.
Running every square inch of 200 acres can be very rewarding. I knew every tree, animal, golfer, and blade of grass. But it was sunup to sundown, and I had kids. Went back to Harley. Work 6 days a week but only 9-6. I BS about bikes all day, and get people to do something they have always wanted to do!

 

[DUCCCC]

I voted Love it, for my current career as a Harley-Davidson salesman. I have been with the company for over 10 years, started sweeping floors right outta high school. It was supposed to just pay for college. I worked my way up to technician- very rewarding but stressful, became a parts manager while at A&M, and when I left school became an asst superintendent of a top golf course, using my degree.
Running every square inch of 200 acres can be very rewarding. I knew every tree, animal, golfer, and blade of grass. But it was sunup to sundown, and I had kids. Went back to Harley. Work 6 days a week but only 9-6. I BS about bikes all day, and get people to do something they have always wanted to do!

I'm quite jealous of you, but I'd have to be gettin' me a Buell 1125... I assume you're allowed to ride a Buell if you're an HD salesguy?

 

[quickerNu]

haha, rode a '98 S1 White Lightning for years. Have a 06 VRSCR Street Rod now. Crotch Rocket for fat guys. Unfortunately my shop doesn't carry Buell anymore.

 

[DRAGGER]

I LOVE IT!!! What could be better then this????? This is a photo of my re-enlistment in 2002 now I have 19 years and 7 month in.....

DRAGGER.....

 

[budbo]

I LOVE IT!!! What could be better then this????? This is a photo of my re-enlistment in 2002 now I have 19 years and 7 month in.....

DRAGGER.....

Why on the pole?

The most unusual one I was asked to do was re-enlist a guy at the wreck of the USS Butler, It was actually fun we were at 70' and had to remove the regulators to do the oath.

 

[DRAGGER]

That is what I do! I am a high voltage electrician at the time I was an instructor now I just run a shop of 62 linemen maintaining 680 miles of Distribution and 70 miles of transmission lines and the interior of 4001 facilities......

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[DUCCCC]

That is what I do! I am a high voltage electrician at the time I was an instructor now I just run a shop of 62 linemen maintaining 680 miles of Distribution and 70 miles of transmission lines and the interior of 4001 facilities......

D

Sweet, just saw your location. I worked in Bldg. 836 on the South base for 8 years. How are things in Lompoc? I moved out to NC in '03, so it's been a while.

Matt

 

[merc]

I voted love it, but really I need to semi-sorta qualify that. Most of the military members will know exactly what I'm talking about.

I've been Air Force for almost 14 of the last 17 years. Years 1-11 I was a C-130 Crewchief. I loved it when I was single, but as I got married and had a family, the deployments + normal temporary duty load started to wear on me.

I got out at 7 years, and was a Tool Crib manager and Maintenance Repair of Operations coordinator for a forklift manufacturer. I would probably still be with this company but they got bought out and shut down.

I couldn't find a job at the time with comparable pay/benifits, so I came back to active duty. 4 more years on/around the flightline. I finally got to take a Special Duty assignment as a Military Training Leader at Sheppard AFB.

I love the job of helping mold young airmen and transferring skills to make them productive members of the military. I also take a bit of pride in helping weed out the bad apples, before they move to the "real" Air Force and waisting a bunch of time/money. I currently have about 60 airmen assigned to me, and have had as many as 200 assigned to me.

The part of the job I have a love/hate relationship with is all the extra duties. I have the flight Purchase Card. I am the Client Support Admin. I'm responsible for all the Computer hardware as well. I'm the flight Safety Rep, Hazmat monitor, and I run the Charge of Quarters program. I can't let these other duties take away from my primary job (taking care of/dealing with the airmen). So if I need 8 hours to take care of the airmen, and I have to put in 4 or 5 hours pushing patches/fixing or setting up hardware/running to the Supply centers/planning budget/etc. so be it. Atleast I get to tuck my kids in most nights.

Now I just need to figure out what I want to do when this tour is up, with about 5 years left until I hit 20 years. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

 

[buckrogers71]

Love my job (teach 1st grade) hate the people I work with. Its not a real friendly place

 

[skinfiddler]

I respnded "pays the bills."

Had I been asked the question a year or two ago, I would have been in the "Love it" category. I have watched my company downsize (Home building ) for two years. It is a very uncertain situation. It seems like people have been fired all around me for a couple of years.

My primary job (Field Inspector) I really DID love. I have since been "reassigned" to multi-family property management (one of our companies is property management) and inspections part time.


I'm just hanging around to see if homebuilding starts to pick up this next quarter. If not, I'll be re-inventing myself all over again. Not crazy about doing that at 55.

JW

 

[DRAGGER]

Sweet, just saw your location. I worked in Bldg. 836 on the South base for 8 years. How are things in Lompoc? I moved out to NC in '03, so it's been a while.

Matt

Everything is the same here. I got here in 2004 hope to leave soon for the east coast.....

Russ

 

[hagen505]

I voted that it is o.k. I drive a liquid nitrogen tanker truck around Chicago, night shift, for a compressed gas company. It can be fun at times, but it can get kind of routine at times also. I do get some good stories to tell at home about some of the characters I see at that time of night. One of the perks though is I get free beer gas.

 

[Bedlam]

I love what I do and wish it would pay the bills.

Bet you never expected to hear that from a physician, did ya?

The issue is that I got very soured by "corporate" medicine and decided to have a go at running my own private practice. So I've been doing that for the past year and a half. I love the work, and feel like I'm FINALLY practicing medicine in a way that is fulfilling and useful.

Trouble is that I brought home about $45K this past year. It may not sound bad, but then add in six-figure med-student loans in repayment. Yikes! Add to that that I have no life or disabilility insurance. Or retirement.

So I interviewed for an academic job a couple of weeks ago and hope to get an offer. The private practice? I gave it my best, did all I could, but I need more...and more SECURITY.

That's where I am.

 

[Sluggo]

One of the perks though is I get free beer gas.

I'm jealous. Been looking for a western Chicago burb supplier for a while now with no luck.



I voted "Hate". I'm an electrical engineer in the auto industry and it's horrible. Doesn't help that my company is an industry giant and bankrupt. Pay is below market, management is, well...management and the Big 3 customers are a total PITA. Add to it that our location is being closed in a few months and we'll all be out of a job and it's just icing on the cake.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

I love my job, but I love going home from my job more.

 

[brauhaus]

Voted "I love it" but should have voted "Other"

Right now I'm still new here, basically we are construction managers and not a construction company... we design lighting, fire and security for OSPD (off site data protection) facilities for the US Government and the top Fortune 500 companies... in fact most nationwide companies are now utilizing this service...

Our main client is Iron Mountain, we do all of the designing for the lighting, fire and security systems and manage the projects from start to finish...

Right now, being new I'm only a designer, I have the most AutoCAD experience here and run our CAD Department, altho I don't have I title, I don't mind... I'd rather keep it that way... I handle all of our drawings for our company, when we create, receive, ship and approve drawings, etc., etc. I'm the guy doing it.

Right now I enjoy my job and hope to be a Project Manager, I basically handle all of the drawings and prep each job for the PMs here (in a nutshell I do everything to get the project running and the PM just oversees it).

I'm working on Fire Inspection I Certification and then FI II and then Plans Examiner, altho I'm not 100% confident that the company I work for supports this decision.

I'm happy here, but sometimes I wonder.... I enjoy being able to work from home and enjoy the traveling this job offers... I hope one day I'll make this a career and not a job, right now I feel like I'm disposable I just want to secure my position here.

 

[hagen505]

I'm jealous. Been looking for a western Chicago burb supplier for a while now with no luck.

http://www.airgas.com/

I kind of messed up the quote feature, but try that link and go to store locator. there should be a place near you.

 

[Zul'jin]

"Not ideal, but OK"

I really, really like my career, as that's what I've decided to make it. My dream job was forest ranger or game warden, but I didn't want to go to school. Oh but I should have cause it looks like I'm going to anyway. I take lots of classes now as it is.

I'm a wastewater plant operator. As we say, "It's a crappy job". Y'all just keep drinking beer. The end result keeps me employed.

 

[Corey_James]

After 18+ years in the Navy, doing the same thing that McKbrew does and not seeming to really know what I want to do when I really grow up and have to get a REAL job. It has been fun and exciting but the kids are getting older and would really like to spend more time with them and the brew (can't really take the brew underway with me; Uncle Sam doesn't allow it )! Just buying a new house and really have no clue what I am even qualified for to do on the outside.

 

[Germey]

"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria." - Ben Franklin

Hey Corey, I really gotta question the authenticity of your signature. Although Van Leuvenhoek had already observed tiny things under a microscope lens, the word bacteria, to describe a specific class of the little things, would not be used for some time after Ben had checked out.
Remember guys, the Rheinheitsgebot originally made no mention of yeast, because no one knew that they were there for another couple hundred years!
A google search attributes that quote to someone named David Auerbach, but I won't completely rule out the possibility that Franklin was a time traveling member of the Knights Templar.