AIBU to enjoy going to work and everything it involves?

I do too! After a lot of turbulent years in the workplace ive finally found my place. I actually look forward to Mondays, i get given complete freedom to make decisions and use my creativity. I work with very nice people and I feel very lucky to be there every day.

I love my job, it’s a bit seasonal so we have crazy mad times and then normal times. I can go from a run of 72hr weeks to months of 25hr weeks but I wouldn’t change what I do.

I work with a great team and our clients are generally pretty good. Obviously you get the occasional arsehole but upper management are very supportive.

I enjoy going to work too. I love routine and if I didnt work I think i would be depressed. I have children to get up and out everyday but ive got us into a nice wee routine. I set everything out the night before. I enjoy going into work and I work with a great team. We have such a laugh together and we go out regularly on nights out.

I like going to work too, even look forward to it sometimes. For a long time I hated every job I had and thought I was doomed to just go through life hating work and being miserable about it. Now it’s so different, I like the people I work with, it’s given me a ‘life’ outside of the home, I have fun at work sometimes, it’s restored some of my confidence and brings some money in. I feel very lucky considering how much hating my job affected me in the past, work is now a positive addition to my life (most of the time, there’s still bad days) rather than something that almost made me unwell.

I spent a few years as a SAHM, it gave me a different perspective and made me appreciate going to work in a weird way.

I always say if I won the lotto there is no way I’d stop working. My husband would happily never work again if he didn’t need to.

You are very lucky OP! I think it’s quite rare to be so energised about work/paid employment.

I’m like this too, I’m a Teaching Assistant and I love my job.

I love my job. But I have no excitement picking an outfit and I don't wear makeup. I just have a bunch of work clothes which I cycle through. However the actual job itself is fab. I'm a TA

I'm retired now but i enjoyed working. Different place to be so a different atmosphere, industrious. Colleagues, using my brain, using my skills etc. Wasnt a high pay job but like you enjoyed the routine of it all.

That's a nice thread OP. Long may it continue for you.

I don’t like the morning routine (two small children) or getting dressed up. In fact I love the fact I can go to work in trackies if I want to. But I LOVE being in my office and doing my job. It’s quiet and peaceful and I am my own person there - competent and in control .. most of the time anyway

Yes I like getting up and out. Enjoy my train ride in, lunch with colleagues and I like my job!

I do take the positives from getting up and sorted and leaving the house for work purposes. I enjoy my job, like everyone in the team I work with.
Wish the commute was slightly shorter but it’s really not too bad considering what other people do and I’m hybrid so in 2/3 days a week.

Yes me! I love my job and I love my work colleagues . I have fun like nowhere else in work. I am a primary teacher in Dublin and work in special education now . I have none of the stress of class teaching but get to do subjects I love with mainstream classes - like music.

Finish at 2.20 so there is lots of day left afterwards . I dread retriring .......

Plus the 'buzz' of a school . All the kids , the laughter and happiness , the nice relationships you form with them . It's lovely . Inerestingly I never wanted to be a teacher !!!

I’m a bit like that, OP. Maybe not as excited as you, but I do like working, and resonate with a lot of the things you posted.

I work on a hybrid basis so, on the two days I’m in the office, I do tend to have it a bit more effort into my outfits compared to how I dressed when I was fully office-based.

I do have a long commute and on the days I’m in in person, I make a point of taking myself for a coffee shop breakfast for half an hour before I go to the office with a book or podcast. I really like it.

Lovely team, interesting work, and lucky in terms of salary and benefits etc so generally feel valued.

This is key really. My best friends are in my work .

I don’t enjoy getting ready for work or getting up early but I love my job.

OP, I am going to take a wild guess that you don't work full time...

I love my job too. I think lots of people do, so it's not that unusual. Of course, lots don't like work so this is also common.

For me, we spend most of our lives at work, so it seems sensible to choose to do something that you love, that you find interesting, that challenges and excites you, that makes a meaningful difference to people's lives and makes the world a better place (or is line with a person's values, which might be different to mine listed here). Obviously one that pays reasonably well also helps!

I love being 'me my work identity' for 7/8 hours a day and pe kids I worked 6/7 day weeks a lot. I grew up poor and the ability to make money was amazing and feels like freedom.

Since having kids I find being a working mum very hard because of the conflicts, I want to be 100% committed to both but with kids with health conditions and additional needs something is always being juggled too much.

Still though, yep, I love work.

I’m loving this thread, thank you. I’m really not happy in work at the moment, nor are many of my friends (different workplaces), but it’s made me realise that being happy (enough) at work is possible and something to strive for ❤️

I think a HUGE amount of this comes down to luck .