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Question: For all of you who work, do you like your job? Do you like getting up to go to work? Is there another job you would like to be doing? What makes you stay committed to your current job? Do you ever wake up in the morning and go " I'm not feeling it" and call in just because you want to stay at home?

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It took me years to evolve my professional life to where it is now... I'm on retainer as an attorney for a child advocacy group and only work as needed. I really like this arrangement because I don't have to get bogged down in going to the same place day in and day out and getting involved in the politics and personalities. (been there and done that)
I also work as a voice over artist for television, radio and film. I only work about 24 weeks a year and put my free time to very good use.

This is the journey I took to get where I am now...


Starting with first job...
Model
Dancer
Lifeguard
Actor
Ski Instructor
Teacher
Bartender
Dancer
Flight Attendant
Actor
Catering Chef
Lawyer
Scuba Instructor
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Voice OverActor, Part Time Lawyer
 
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After receiving my degree at university, I was approached by the Dean regarding the posibility of staying and teaching instead. I joined the faculty and did just that for almost 3 years. I enjoyed teaching very much, the campus life was still available to me,
and thought I would make my life's work and have a long career.

Then, I had the opportunity to go into another field and after much thought jumped at the chance. It was completely different and had nothing to do with my education, so it was indeed an uncertain and very scary thing to do, with no guarantee it would work or that I would be able to make a good living or have a future in the field.

I will always be thankful that I took that Leap of Faith, for thereafter, there was never a day that I was not eager to rise and shine and get to work. I may have not become wealthy, but the happiness and joy of doing something I love is worth it's weight in gold.

I wish to all, the good fortune of finding a job and career that they will also love each and every minute of every day as I have....
 
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Question: For all of you who work, do you like your job? Do you like getting up to go to work? Is there another job you would like to be doing? What makes you stay committed to your current job? Do you ever wake up in the morning and go " I'm not feeling it" and call in just because you want to stay at home?

Please only serious answers.

I can't think of any job on the planet that I would enjoy doing. Maybe if I got paid to watch TV or have sex with attractive women, perhaps I would enjoy that. But that's not really an available job.

I pretty much wake up 5 days a week and say "I'm not feeling it", but I go anyways. Unfortunately, our society has established this norm where people need to work 40 hours a week for decades until they are eligible for retirement. And as bad as that sounds, it's still better than the alternative of being poor having no way to financially support myself.
 

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I work in a corporate office setting. Over two years, I don't think there was a time when I thought I didn't want to go to work. Getting up in the morning is a different story - I'm not sure if that's a sign of anything.

I guess at the end of the day I just want to get paid, and paid well.
 
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Ktf40 you are more along the lines of what I'm getting at here. I work in a call center just gt the job. I'm happy to have a job but I really wish I could sit at home and not have to get up and work. It sounds like I'm being lazy and stupid 1st world problems. It's not that I'm lazy but I really wish I could stay at home. I wake up and I'm like I don't want to go to work. I want to stay in bed. I don't understand why I feel this way.
 

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Ktf40 you are more along the lines of what I'm getting at here. I work in a call center just gt the job. I'm happy to have a job but I really wish I could sit at home and not have to get up and work. It sounds like I'm being lazy and stupid 1st world problems. It's not that I'm lazy but I really wish I could stay at home. I wake up and I'm like I don't want to go to work. I want to stay in bed. I don't understand why I feel this way.
Because you probably would rather do things that are fun or enjoyable to you, instead of working at your job all day which probably isn't fun or enjoyable. Seems like a normal enough feeling to me.
 
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Well, I think most people think that way Ktf40. I'm not any different. That feeling for me is so strong its so hard to see the positive of anything. I can't see all the things a job can provide for me. I have such a deep feeling of just in general job hatred. And I shouldn't have it becaude I was out of a job for a year. I should know how it feels to not have anything.
 

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I do computer tech support and networking. It's what I have always done as a hobby, and over time it evolved into my own company. It is my last thought at night, and my first thought in the morning.

I love what I do.
 

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Nope, i'm really hating my job now...I have several days (starting to be everyday as of late) that I wake up with the "I'm not feeling it" thought. I'm committed to going because I have to make some sort of living. I absolutely refuse to not work and poor. The other job I wold like to be doing would pay a lot more than I'm currently getting paid.
 

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Well, I think most people think that way Ktf40. I'm not any different. That feeling for me is so strong its so hard to see the positive of anything. I can't see all the things a job can provide for me. I have such a deep feeling of just in general job hatred. And I shouldn't have it becaude I was out of a job for a year. I should know how it feels to not have anything.

Wow... what a couple of dullards.

you guys are gonna have a very long and very sucky life when you can't muster enthusiasm for much more than a nap or playing videogames.

I really truly feel sorry for you.

Hope you guys can someday pull your heads out of your patoots and see DOING something as engaging.
 

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I love what I do. I use all my skills, I feel challenged on a regular basis and I feel like I make a contribution to the world. I cannot imagine just working at a "job". I could make more money elsewhere, but as long as I'm making enough, I will stay where I feel the most needed.

I spend most of my life working. How horrible if I spent that time watching the clock or waiting for a paycheque. My life is more important to me than that. I'm a woman of passion and that extends to work.
 

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Nope, i'm really hating my job now...I have several days (starting to be everyday as of late) that I wake up with the "I'm not feeling it" thought. I'm committed to going because I have to make some sort of living. I absolutely refuse to not work and poor. The other job I wold like to be doing would pay a lot more than I'm currently getting paid.

Get busy living, or stay busy dieing.

If you know what you want to do, then the next step is to ask yourself, each and every monday... "What can I DO, THIS WEEK, to get myself One Step Closer toward the job I want?"

If education is desired and that's saving for school... then that's what you do...Ask yourself, every time you spend money unnecessarily... "do I need this? or would the money do me more good saved for school "

If it means making contacts that you don't have, then quit the Joe Job you have now even if it means taking a lower paying job that's even one degree closer to your goal.
The smartest thing I ever did was 30 years ago... I quit a $10/hr job in a field nowhere near what I wanted to be doing to take $3/hr job as an apprentice in a field that was RELATED to the field I wanted to be in.

That sacrifice of ready cash ( plus 4 hours of commuting every day ) set me up for a lifetime of being self employed in the career I dreamed of.

Stop making excuses, and don't allow yourself to piss away years because you get comfy with the circumstances with which you are currently familiar.


People postpone and procrastinate themselves into being too old and too dependent on the income they have to make the changes that would have made their lives far more wonderful and fulfilling.

One good trick is to sit yourself down and write out, on paper, your 5 year goals. Don't be too specific, like, don't write a dollar figure you want in the bank, or an address at which you want to live...
Think in broad strokes...

At 25 I wrote that within 5 years I wanted to be living in California, and self employed.

By 27 I had accomplished both those goals... and y'know what? It happened almost effortlessly.

Here's the thing... once you have very clearly and very succinctly verbalized your objectives... that can not help but influence every single decision you make thereafter.
Even the smallest of decisions still contribute to the overall direction of your life. They all add up to a momentum that carries you into new choices.
And in the light of real clarity about what you want in life... each choice becomes that much easier to decide upon... because knowing where you are going makes it clear which choice takes you even 1 mm closer to that goal, and which takes you 1mm further away.

The two slugabed posters above will nap their lives away.

True happiness, adventure, and accomplishment is reserved for those who can see that there is plenty of rest in the grave, and that Life is the only time of Action that is available.

DO something.

-or Be nothing.
 
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Phil I would respond with a much more detailed response but I won't. Your responses have been so far off the mark its unreal. I can't believe you would even respond like that not knowing anything about me except for what I wrote here. I will say this not everything is as easy as you make it seem. The job I have now is bot what I want to do but it pays me well enough to pay the bills. That's it. Nothing else. Even then its barely enough. These are bills I can't cut off or get rid of. Don't make it seem as easy as me just quitting my job and going to volunteer or be an apprentice with a field I like. Anything below what I make bow and I'm on the streets with no vehicle or place to stay. Should walk to work, hitch a ride everyday, fly my magical balloon?

Get real. Your responses are insulting and offensive.
 

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I've had somewhere around 50 jobs in my life. A lot of them I didn't want to get out of bed to go to, so I found another, better job, or the boss realized that I hated my job and fired me. I kept finding better jobs and 20 years ago, I started my own business. I couldn't be happier. I'm up at 6:30 every morning and haven't missed a day of work since. I take plenty of vacation time off, but never because I don't want to go to work.
So, I guess my advice is, keep working, but keep looking. It'll get a lot better if you 'work' at it.
 
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Thank red. I appreciate your comments. I really would like to be a meteorologist. It just cost too much to go to college. It's not an option. I would not mind working any number of hours for a job I like, love, or find interesting.
I am going to work at it because there are positions within the company I'm with now that I want and that would make me happy.
 

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I worked in the corporate world for 20 years sometimes it was exciting other times it was an 8 - 5 job. Towards the end of that period I didn't enjoy going through those doors. The "think outside the box" attitude was frowned upon and I am not a follower. Things changed and I had the opportunity to stay in my field but work for a small company as an outside salesman working with electrical contractors, engineers, architects and end user. No day is the same and the rules change constantly depending on the cast of characters and the project at hand.
FSU step outside your comfort zone and take a chance. You never know what might happen. Good luck.
 

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Wow... what a couple of dullards.

The two slugabed posters above will nap their lives away.

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By making the above insulting comments towards the preceding posters you essentially negate whatever good was in your posts.





To the OP, I worked in the trash business for several years, it was somewhat dignified by being called 'sanitation'. A good job, actually a great job it was labor intensive, had many good moments and was on most days something of an adventure. There was never a day I didn't want to go in and head out on the route. After several years, I was coaxed into taking a retirement package which has proven beneficial to me.

The main thing to do is find what you want, and go for it. If money is an issue towards higher education, perhaps a job in a place which helps pay for furthering your education which would then move you towards your goals. Best of luck to you.