How many of you love your job

I think there are 3 key things to loving your job….

1. the job itself has to be something you enjoy doing/find interesting,

2. the company you work for has to have the right culture and treat its staff well (I include pay and conditions in this), and

3. you have to have colleagues who you enjoy being around on a personal level because you spend roughly 25% of your life with them!

if you can tick those three boxes you’ve cracked it.

Teacher
I love my job so much. But I hate my workplace.
Love the kids, can't stand the politics.

Psychotherapist (private). Love it!

I’ve been qualified since the 90’s and don’t enjoy medicine at all anymore - sad really 🙁

I do two jobs. I call one my money job as it pays alright but it’s for a dull and staid corporate organisation with all the boring politics and focus on making money.

I also have my love job which pays less well but is in an entertainment venue with brilliant colleagues, lots of laughs, fun and appreciative customers and an amazing variety of jobs that they’ll always let you have a go at trying out.

I love my love job and would go out of my way to help out there and go the extra mile and they also have helped me when I’ve needed extra income.

My corporate ‘money’ job doesn’t care about me and I don’t particularly care about it.

I feel lucky that I have my ‘love’ job.

I love my job.

I'm a senior nurse running a pilot in providing mental health care differently to children in care.

It's a slog some days, but I believe in it.

I love my job, (analytical chemistry) but struggle with my coworker (technically my superior, but you'd never know it from a work ethic stance). We've worked as a team of 2 for 13 years, and as a part of a larger team for 10 years before that. He's a single, older man child, probably with complex MH problems, but would never admit that, and questionable hygiene. Everyone else knows, management have tried to curb his nonsense over the years but never get very far, and he always manages to just about stay within the boundary that would get him sacked. One day he'll leave or drop dead, then my job will be perfect.
Now that I read that back it's far from perfect. I need a new job.

Me!

I work as a self employed post natal doula and maternity night nurse

I've done it for 20 years and absolutely love it

Love it. If I won the lottery I'd still work

Same here. I used to love it and now it’s awful.

I’m the Chief Financial Officer for an organisation which turns over £150m per year, and I love it for the variety and the difference that I can make in delivering my role.

I absolutely love my job. Employment coach within a housing association, such rewarding work and no 2 days are the same.

Secondary teacher in a private school, I love it (most of the time 🤣)

I get holidays off with my own kids so no childcare stresses.

Best of luck in your new career venture, you won't be disappointed! 🌷🍀🌻🌳🌺

Content writer. Yes I do love it. I work from home, do 30 hours a week with total flexibility on when and where. I like the research, and creating a piece of writing for a blog or newsletter is far more satisfying in the age of ai slop.

I love my job, I love the company I work for and I really like my colleagues. I have masses of respect and affection for my boss and I am greatful for the opportunities I have been given to progress and complete my professional qualifications.

I consider myself very lucky. I am a financial controller with a global company.

I do. I’m a purchasing director for a large corporation. Fully remote

I always post on these threads, because I do genuinely love my job. I support children with disabilities in a residential care home. No day is the same, I need to use a wide range of skills - some of which I already have & others which I have to learn. It is incredibly rewarding when the young people make progress.

That said, the raising of the minimum wage will mean that, despite all the qualifications I’ve worked for in able to do my job and despite the huge amount of responsibility it entails, my current salary is below the new minimum wage when it starts next year. Obviously, my employers will have to increase salaries, but they are a charity & this means expenditure in other areas will have to be reduced.

I love my job, I’m a video editor, I get to do a lot of creative work most days, fast paced which I like and good work benefits in current role.

My role used to be more operational and reactionary. However after I'd left after not returning from maternity leave I got contacted out of the blue a year later and was offered a slightly more admin heavy version of the old role. Whilst it's tedious it allows a great deal of flexibility. I WFH PT during school hours and my bosses are happy for me to move days around when the kids are sick to get the work done.

I work in sea and road freight

Me! I love my job. I can’t wait to get back to work. I work in public policy.

Thank you for that, I've never heard of them and will look into that. I've actually fallen into outdoor volunteering in a nearby national park this year and really enjoyed being outside doing hands on practical work. So I'm now looking for my next steps into how I can possibly move into some sort of related career. I agree with the happy and relaxed feeling! Thanks again

Kind of..? Well. I used to 😬

I've run a beauty business for nearly 10 years. It's the only job I've ever really cared about and the only thing I'm good at.

But I'm so, SO burnt out with it. Having to navigate self-employment through the pandemic and the subsequent cost of living crisis has killed my enjoyment for it. I'm 34 and I genuinely don't know what else I would want to retrain in. Argh!

I'm a job coach at a jobcenter in another country. I work with the public sector so if you're a teacher, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, sw etc and you don't have a job you come and see me. Very reasonable group of people. Fairly high success rate. Lots of structure in my day. Manageable workload. My own office.