To find it a bit performative when people say “I love my job?”

I genuinely love my job. I feel very lucky to do it. But I'm self employed so I don't know if that's different.

I fucking hate my job

Usually said at my work when someone is going through a disciplinary- like it’s a magic wand.
If you loved your job you wouldn’t have done what you did repeatedly.

YABU

I do love my job. I did it on a voluntary basis for many years before getting a paid role. I am absolutely passionate about it.

Sorry if that pisses you off…

Social media is inherently performative. Some people do love their job so YABU about that.

I do like my job most days! I've had other jobs that made me unwell with stress and depression. There is a marked difference.

I run my own business and genuinely love what I do.

YABU.

I do love my job, but it's taken me more than twenty years to get to this point. I don't gush about it on social media, but it is on my mind most of the time really.

i love my job. More than the rest of some of my personal life. I don't say it on social media but if asked I'd say in a possibly annoying tone.

I 100% adore my job. I don’t know what I would do if ever it came to an end. I wake up happy every day , I love my time there, I never want to take a day off for sickness etc , Sundays are finally a day I can enjoy rather than being “ the day before work” . I break up for half terms / holidays and whilst I’m happy to have that time I’m not desperate for it and I’m happy to go back . I work hard and yes I’m tired , but I do my best to not take any time off because I love it so much and I do miss it when I’m not there. I say I love my job because it’s 100% true. I’m completely satisfied .

Prior to this job though I would have said the same, I hated my job before , Sundays were depressing and I never wanted to go. I would pray to win the lottery so I didn’t have to work again ( yet , now I could win millions and I would still work because it is now a big part of my life and who I am ) so I think you won’t understand unless you do actually love your it job

I usually roll my eyes a bit. It's often people I've heard moaning day to day or people who definitely want the right people to hear it, and it can feel a bit smug and a bit of a put down if i dont feel the same or am having a difficult time. . But we are all different and other people are much more annoying than this.

I love my job. I've been very fortunate in being very happy in most of my jobs, certainly the ones I've done for the last 21 years! That's possibly because my first post-uni job was hell on wheels and I vowed that I would rather sell lipstick than work a job I hated (selling makeup paid for me to get through uni)! I've chosen very carefully where I've worked and what I've done since, and mostly that strategy has been effective.
I don't make a big song and dance about it because I know what it's like to hate your job. If someone asks, I wax lyrical about how fabulous it is, but otherwise, I count my blessings very quietly.

I like my job. I'd never say I love it because I'd give it up in a heartbeat if I could afford not to have to work anymore. But I do so I consider myself lucky that I do actually like it and I do love the people I work with. I've hated one or two of the previous jobs I've done but looking back I worked under shit managers and shit co workers. Isn't there a saying "Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life" or something like that?

There's a works site on Facebook we're we can all post and in the past there's been a lot of "Love my job" posts. 🙄it IS performative cos the managers can see it. It comes across as sucking up to me.

Some people (lunatics!) love their jobs.. I like mine but I love my holidays! I've never felt the need to shoe horn this into a conversation

It is absolutely okay to dislike public displays of enthusiasm. It’s okay to be irritated by it.

But you’re also judging everyone who publicly gushes about their job as “performative”, as only “branding” themselves, and that means you think they’re shallow.

Judging others like that is a cruddy thing to do.

Other people saying “I love my job!” in a public/social media setting has absolutely no effect on your life. It doesn’t cause you actual harm. It doesn’t physically hurt you. Whatever emotional effect it is having on you is real and valid… but you’re allowing it to affect you emotionally and mentally. As we say here in the US, you’re letting it live rent-free in your head. You absolutely do not need to let it live rent-free in your head. You could just let it go and not care at all when someone gushes about their job on LinkedIn.

Also, not everyone is the same. We’re not all clones. A few people who shout “I love my job!” on LinkedIn might be faking it and phoning it in for the optics, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is, or that even the majority are faking it. Some people are truly, genuinely passionate about what they do, and they have the ebullient personalities that make them want to share their feelings and emotions with others.

Me, actually. I love work. But we're all different.

I love mine, although its strictly speaking a business as I am SE.
I don't care if you think thats performative, its just true

I agree. I'm a mental health nurse. I'm truly passionate about my job and I absolutely give my all for patients, but I don't love my job. Who loves work? You have to be there everyday and have no choice in it. I'd much rather be travelling and learning languages.

I love the patient side of my job, but I still hate the concept of work generally 😂 and I obvs hate the damn paperwork!

Normally the preserve of kiss arse fuckers particularly in the Oil and Gas industry.

There are people who love their job and derive a huge amount of their identity from it so I don’t think it’s usually performative when people say they love their job. But I think for the majority (including myself and my dp and pretty much all of my close friends) it’s a way to pay the bills. Even though I actually find my job interesting and get some sense of achievement from it, it’s not what gets me going and is not a big part of my life (apart from in hours spent).

There’s a difference between quietly appreciating your role and using “I love my job!” as a kind of self-branding or status signal. That’s what I’m questioning.

Well it could be both, they could genuinely love their job and be highlighting that fact for perceived career benefits.

But even if it’s disingenuous- so what? People guild professional lillies all the time.

Announcing anything on social media is performative. Making a Facebook post all about how much you love your “hubby” is definitely performative, but that doesn’t mean nobody actually loves their husbands/children/pets.

I agree with you. And I note that the people disagreeing with you and getting offended say they don’t post it on social media so you are not even talking about them. It irritates me when people say they love their job but admittedly I think a big part of that is envy and bitterness as I have never found something I’m passionate about or even particularly enjoy at all. I do have friends who actively love their jobs. I’m ND and my job doesn’t fit me at all.

Maybe there is a difference between enjoying your job, & seeming quite desperate to tell everyone about your job (& how good at it you are etc)

Within my team at work, we have 5-6 people, all reasonably high skilled professionals, all about the same level of good in what they do. One seems to spend a huge amount of his time on LinkedIn bigging himself up by posting about his job, noone else really does that. I find it nauseating, but I feel no personal drive to talk about my job in the same way, even though I probably enjoy my job as much as he does. He gets plenty of 'likes' & comments, he gets attention- & maybe some people need & crave that kind of attention more than others.

If I can see someone spends a lot of time online, I'm probably going to question the quality of their actual work output more. Are they more hot air than results? Is all the talk a cover for weakness, to distract, just a personal marketing ploy? It makes me suspicious, but I'm quite a sceptical person!

And how is it harmful to the workplace?