Your Job

QUOTE(Focker @ Feb 3 2004, 11:03 AM)Everyone I work with is great, income is great, many incentives to do better (higher commission %), paid for all inclusive vacation when you reach a certain # of sales, for the most part I work out of my home, set my own schedule, wake up when I want.

Probably the only negative thing is that I have to take care of my own benefits, which really isn't a big deal. Instigator (Steve) hooked me up with insurance and I have my own retirement plan (investment properties) along with my 401k from previous job.
I'm w/ Jere on this one....
I really like working w/ people, making my own hours etc-
STILL haven't adjusted to working on commission.....especially now that I'm single-
When I was married my income was supplemental...now it pays the bills-

I hate having to pay for my own benefits- first time ever

w/o insurance currently because I can't afford it yet...........also working w/ Instigator on that.

Although I am unemployed, I have a couple jobs.

As a child, I never in a million years expected to be a teacher or even go to college, let alone teach at a college. I love it, it is exactly where I would like my career to be. We'll see how staffing goes there though. Hourly rate is higher than I would ever imagine. It's just that 2.8 hours a week isn't enough.

Owning my own company is what I eventually expected. Not having to do with boats though. That's great too. People pay me to crawl around and look at boats. How cool is that?? I used to do it for free all the time just to do it. Pay is also very well during the boating season.

Unfortunately, I don't either one of those two are enough to support myself and Cassie at this time so I still need to find a decent paying job outside of those things.

I HATE MY F****** JOB!

I work for a boss that is usually good to me, but ony in attitude. When it comes to $$$ I think he still has his communion money! Although he has no problem with giving me more responsibility at the drop of a hat and assigning blame to me when things go wrong in the shop, it has been 2 years since my last raise. Wait, make that 1 year; last year when he increased my health insurance bennefit deduction from my check at a rate of .50 per hour, he gave me a .25 raise. This year that deduction went up another .25 per hour with no increase to my wage. I have two employees that can never get along with each other and once in a while they like to take their frustrations out on me.

If I could do sprinklers year round, I would quit tomorrow! I've been looking for something else for the last 6 months now. I'd like to find something like working for a DPW in a county or munincipality. Or better yet, some kind of handy-man job; property management for an old folks condo complex or something like that.

Don't like what I do or where I do it. For years I told people if they didn't like their jobs they should quit and find something else to do, and I did that alot. But when retirement approaches and you are making decent money (no decent raises, though) it's tough to start over again.

If you are working at a job you really love, enjoy it while it lasts. I have had some but they generally disappear when management changes, the company is sold, and so forth. One thing is constant - Nothing Stays the Same! Of course, bad times can turn around, too. If my current boss would quit, my situation might improve greatly.

But I'm definitely not doing what I dreamed of. I wanted to be an artist of some kind, illustrator, animator, cartoonist. But I am a damn computer programmer, staring at a PC all day and sitting in a little cube. Man wasn't made to live like this.