To think it's impossible to love your job? If you do love going to work, what job do you do?

It it really rewarding and something I enjoy :) we have the 2nd bedroom set up in the house as an office/ bedroom so can do all the paperwork for the day when it's quiet and then at 11pm we go to bed until 7 am and still get paid. If our young person needs us for any reason we are there but this rarely happens x

I do think it’s possible to really love your job but in my experience, the people most likely to love their jobs are either (a) in a rewarding field such as healthcare or teaching, but aren’t paid anything like what they deserve or (b) in creative areas that are really difficult to access and come with insecurity and low pay.

I like my job. I don’t love it, but I like it. I wouldn’t continue to do it if I won the lottery - but I don’t feel anxious and sad on Sunday nights, I don’t feel depressed about going back tomorrow, I’m paid very fairly, l do enjoy a lot of the work l, and I mostly like my colleagues.

I have done jobs where I truly hated it - never again.

Solicitor (in-house).

God, not for me. I get to do what I love and find fun and earn a lot of money for it.

I loved my job as an infant feeding peer support worker.

All of it. I loved helping new mothers safely and effectively feed their babies, however they chose and comforting them when plans change due to medical necessity. I loved home visits, it felt like an honour to be trusted and respected enough to be invited in to homes at a truly vulnerable moment for women, and I loved running my group sessions at family centres and reading, singing and engaging with mums and babies and seeing the true peer support of women being connected through a shared goal.

Sadly had to give it up due to my own disability, but if the role can become adapted to be more accessible going forward I'd love to return to it.

I absolutely loved my previous job. I was an aircraft mechanic in a very small firm. Sadly investors pulled out and everyone was laid off, during the two week warning period we were told that there was no money to pay us so we were under no obligation to work but half of us still came in every day because we loved the work and cared about the company's future, even knowing we weren't getting paid for it (if/when the company gets new investors we will of course get paid our owed wages)

I really like my current job too (composite factory), I wouldn't work it for free but I am happy going into work and I enjoy what I do. Big part of that though is the other people working there, get on well with them and we have a laugh - company atmosphere makes a big difference I think.

I love my job now - I retrained as a primary teacher. I am genuinely looking forward to going back tomorrow. Like all jobs there are bits I dislike (paperwork, ofsted).I used to have a different career that I hated, literally had to drag myself in in the end and used every excuse I could think of to be off sick. Spent all Sunday dreading Monday. Yes the pay was double what I’m on now, but I hated every second of it.

I love my job. I am a talent agent running my own agency. The work is varied although can be quite emotionally draining due to the personal connections.i work mostly from home though am in London a few times a month and also do some freelance work for a drama school.

For a long time I worked in a larger talent agency but not with "agent status" and although I loved a lot of the work then, now calling the shots and working with the people I want to is great.

However I don't love every day or every aspect of it! But overall this is what I want to do

only in the office once a week otherwise no way could I do it!

I’m a primary school teacher and absolutely love my job, am genuinely looking forward to going back tomorrow after 2 weeks off. I’m very lucky as I’ve found a school with excellent SLT who really value their teachers and prioritise our wellbeing. I’ve been here 2 years now and don’t ever want to leave. I previously worked for a school that was part of a huge MAT and I certainly didn’t love it then, the workload was unmanageable and their was no support from management at all, I was so relieved to get out and find my love of teaching again.

I absolutely love my job - I run my own dog walking business 🥰 I’ve just been off for two weeks for Christmas break - back to it tomorrow and I can’t wait!

There is a lot of politics in my line of work, so that can be hard to navigate.

It pays well, and the crux of what I do is drafting paperwork, which I now find serene, like doing a crossword. It calms me, when I need to switch my brain off from ruminating on personal thoughts. I don't necessarily love it, but it pays well, provides security and I ve grown to enjoy the focus time.

Hobby jobs must be enjoyable, but usually are not careers as such. A luxury to be in a position to turn a hobby into a job.

I have a love of my job.. the contact with people, the ability to help, to be there in life’s highs and lows, to form relationships with people that last many years, to be trusted.. I am a GP and it’s what I was born to do, it’s a calling.
I have been doing 30 years now and the job has changed imaginable .. I hate -not being able to get access secondary care services or investigations needed, the absolutely grinding paperwork .. often unti 7 or 8 at night, difficulty having lunch, or a cup of tea or even a toilet break.
I would still do it though.. it’s my calling.

I love my job as far as loving jobs go.
But I’d still rather not work!!

I can’t imagine ever leaving my organisation. I’ve been there for a bit over a year. I came from a very regimented role with no flexibility and shift work. I now have a very flexible role, full time wfh and good pay. The flexibility makes a HUGE difference to my quality of life.

It’s in a sector that fascinates me, it’s (occasionally) one of the most rewarding, worthwhile things I could do with my life to make an incredibly massive difference to people so I’m proud to contribute to society by doing the role.

But still, if I won the lottery, I’d resign immediately.

Fashion design - set up my own consultancy, work remotely mainly but lots of travel, and now earn 6 figures. Been a long slog to get here but it's my dream job

I absolutely adore my job and genuinely look fwd to going in. I’m an AHP manager with a clinical role in a cancer service in the NHS.

The service has been stripped back, it’s on its knees. It’s killing me to stay but I love the job. The moments with my patients & their families fills my heart. Going above & beyond for them gives me such a high. It’s getting harder to do due to all the demands on me. I’m expected to do other things now such as clean the kitchen, buy cleaning products out of my own pocket and check the crash trolley. In my 20 years of working I’ve never seen it so bad. We have to take our own paper to the photocopier each time. It’ll be loo roll next. Back in 2004 we had a stationery cupboard, diaries and staff. It was luxury!

I must say, I have always looked for the positives in any job -when I was waitressing as a student I loved that. I think I love meeting new people and seeing what they’re about.

I work in ecommerce for a brand with good products. Specifically I help us show up in search when people are looking for something to help with a problem.

I absolutely love what I do. I love figuring out new tactics, the evolving tech, the psychology of marketing and the analytics. Most of all I love to see the reviews when our products have really helped someone.

I am lucky that the team around me is largely supportive - that can make or break a
job.

I work in a library, I love books and enjoy helping people find the right books, I don’t mind shelving and tidying . I don’t enjoy running the toddler group or some of the admin, there’s also a few customers and colleagues who annoy me. But overall I love my job, it’s part time though I think if it was 40 hours I’d get bored. It’s also well paid for what it is.

I enjoy my job. I’d rather not have to work, but I do enjoy what I do when I’m doing it. I’m self-employed though so that helps!

Same, but mine is music- get paid to do the one thing I love the most, that I would do more if there were more hours in the day!

I live mine. I’m a therapeutic farmer-work on a working farm where people with LD and MH issues come and work along side us and we deliver the therapy as we go. Outside all day, lovely colleagues, lovely animals, interesting clients. The pay is awful. That’s the only down side. Even when it’s minus 1 all day as it will be this week i absolutely adore it.

I’m a primary school teacher. I’ve never done anything else. 26th year this year. I love actually teaching children. But.. there are many of aspects of my job that certainly don’t enjoy, far less love. I think teaching is my purpose though. It is professionally rewarding.

I’m not sure anyone loves every aspect of any job.

I love my job. Wealth management.

I am in urban planning, I mostly enjoy interacting with the public/customers and no day is ever the same as every permit is different. However the moaners (a very small percebtage) and politics of the game can be tiresome but I mostly enjoy my job. The pay and working conditions are a big incentive too.

I don’t love my job, I love my pay and my team are brilliant. Without the team I have I would t stay.

I work on events but a permanent role with government.

I do love it. There are some shit bits but I have started reminding myself this is the job that I wanted. I don't get to do fire works, and Santa and memorial services if I don't do lifting logs and picking up dog shit.