How many of you love your job

I love my job. I work in a technical role for an industry representation body.
My role is fairly autonomous, well-paid and interesting - there are many aspects to my role including member support, software development, subject matters expert stuff, and writing guideline.
The best thing is that I have great colleagues and when I finish work, i can leave it 100% behind me at the end of the day.

It can be annoying and frustrating at times though!

Me! I'm a Union Convenor for Local Authority, I get to work with Council Leaders on policy changes and restructures and support members of Staff through issues they have....I'm hoping to start my employment law qualifications too....I am encouraged to strive in my very new career change, but also encouraged that being a Mum is a priority too and that I can do both with the right people around me....I am crazy busy though

I do! I’m cabin crew, my job allows me to see the world and get paid to do it! Of course, it’s not perfect and we do love a moan now and again, but watching the sun rise over Sydney opera house or seeing elephants on safari in Africa makes up for the not so nice aspects of the job!

As the saying goes “choose a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life”

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I work in Local Government and love knowing that I'm helping residents. But, I hate the dick-swinging that goes on between political parties just for point-scoring.

I don't. I work in tech. I very much feel like I'm selling my time to the highest bidder because I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up (I graduated 15 years ago). I work in something pretty moral, which gets me through, but doesn't give me enough of a sense of fulfilment to compensate for the grind. Fortunately I love the people I work with but, again, not enough to actively enjoy it

I work in retail and I love it. I can pretty much pick my hours to suit me and my colleagues are fabulous. Pays pennies mind.

I dunno if I love my job, but I do like it a lot. I'm a bid writer, putting together content for a large business that does contracts for government, businesses, education etc. It's not world changing or that meaningful, but it's good pay and challenging in an interesting way, and there's a quite a good online community of people who do it sharing problems and jokes about it. Plus for the first time in my life I'm being paid a lot (not by some people's standards, but it's more than I thought I would ever earn in the sorts of roles I did for the last 20 years) and it's quite in demand, for the time being at least, so I know that I can easily move jobs if I want to or have to, and can earn more money if I need to.

I do. I've been a primary school teacher for nearly 20 years, which I loved. Switched to secondary at the start of this academic year and I'm enjoying that as well. I work with an amazing team and it's great fun. Stressful at times (I'm a single mum and my youngest is 18 months, and getting divorced at the moment). The kids are bonkers, but I think they are great and I care about them doing well.
However, I teach at an independent school abroad, so not only are my working conditions much better than they were back in the UK, I also earn way more.

I have retired now, but yes I did enjoy my second career and found it very fulfilling. I worked freelance in arts outreach and photography, specifically working as picture editor on a magazine (whose design and content I managed), art photography for exhibition, freelance photography (mainly stills for film shoots), and running singing workshops and community choir projects.

This was all possible because we downsized when the children were still young so that I was able to leave my social work career which was becoming so hedged round with bureaucracy that I felt like nothing more than the LA's financial gatekeeper.

I know that I have been lucky, but the contrast between the dead hand of red tape and being free to work imaginatively was like being let out of prison.

I love it when I don't hate it - the work is great, but the clients are lunatics and budgets are too small.

I do hate the fact it's a shrinking industry and I probably need a new challenge at this point

Media /creative industries

Teaching Assistant. Absolutely love it. Low wages but love working with children.

I’m in school admin and I like the flexibility of my job and how I can wfh, mostly around school hours - but I don’t love the job itself or the low term-time only pay. I’m always on the lookout for something else.
I had a 20 year career prior to this which was in something I’d wanted to do since a child, and I loved years of that, but as I grew older and my life and priorities changed I lost interest and wanted a change.

I do! Dr (anaesthetist). Absolutely love the day job it's so rewarding and an absolute privilege to save/change lives daily

The stuff that comes with it such as having zero say where you work, long commutes, pennies in reimbursement towards £30/day train tickets when rotated to work in London, the 10 tax codes a Yr, hundreds of underpayments when it's screwed up, the no control over where you live until your mid 30s, working 8/10 Xmas since graduating, the paperwork the admin, the assessments, the redoing mandatory training every 6m when move hospitals, being addresses in induction emails as "dear dr x" cos they dont even check the mail merge worked, living out a carrier bag (where your socks get stolen from the changing rooms) as rotational trainees don't deserve a locker, losing friends, missing family events blah de dah not so much

I'm an accountant. (CFO) loved my job until I got sacked.. working again now and trying to learn to like work again

I’m an Occupational Therapist. I work in the community with vulnerable adults. Every day brings a different challenge. And yes, I love it.

Retail and love the actual job but the hours and work are braking my body and the last year I’ve missed out on occasions and events left right and centre so going to have to leave:(

I write bids

I don't actually mind the job itself.

I don't like the team I'm in, or the workplace culture. It's very insular, professional development isn't encouraged, even though they pretend it is.

I like the WFH and I like the benefits

Me! Finally at the age of 45.
Im a Pastoral manager in a secondary.I do behavioural interventions amongst other things.

I’m a financial services regulator, I love my job, consider it to be socially useful and it’s varied and interesting. I’ve been in regulation in a variety of roles since 1994. My employer gave me flexible hours long before this became a common practice which has allowed me to spend a lot of time with my DC when they were young and still have an interesting job. The pay is OK, I’d love a bit more, but given the flexibility it’s fine.

I’m a ‘Head of’ in marketing for a financial services company and enjoy my job. I have autonomy and work from home and a team that supports me. I have a good work/life balance and my job is challenging and interesting. I did massively hate my last job though - so very much up and down. At the moment I’m in an up phase.

I do. I teach outdoor education to kids with SEND

Registered scrub nurse. Love it, when not being micromanaged

I don't, I don't enjoy being sat in front of a laptop all day, but I love that it pays for my holidays and all the other activities and social events I enjoy doing.

However, I only work 3 days, with flexible hours and the annual leave allowance is decent so I can't really complain.

I work for a small children’s charity too. In my experience, charities can’t compete with corporate salaries so focus on creating a wonderful workplace that’s flexible and supportive.