To ask... how many of you honestly care about your work

[karmacoma1]

... and see it as a career. Or at least a stepping stone to where you want to be.

And how many of you just see it as a nessicary evil - to get paid, at the end of the day.

I ask because I’m in a fairly new job. Something happened today meaning our day to day roles were impacted. All of my colleagues were up in arms, even ones I had considered pretty passive.

I however just feel ‘meh’ towards it... I was so engaged in my last job. This can’t be a good sign for my new role, can it?

No, I do not care about my work. It is just a way of earning the money I need to live on.

Four years ago, I would never have said this. I was totally engrossed in my career. My job was my identity; my colleagues were my 'friends'; my status as a 'professional' would protect me and ensure respect ... so I thought.

Then there was a crisis at home. A bad one. I tried to continue working, but it was impossible and I took prolonged leave and eventually resigned. There was no goodbye from colleagues, no card, nothing. I just disappeared.

My work was an obstacle and my commitment to it and some misguided notion of a 'work ethic' meant I put my work before my family and my family suffered for this. I have vowed never to do this again.

I now could not give a flying F about work. I will do my best, but I never let it stress me. I work in the 'gig' economy and know the company for which I work care as little about me as I do about them.

My priority is now to rebuild my family.

I love my job. I hate my job. I care passionately about my job. My job is killing me.

(Yes, NHS)

Blob same here, I worked for a company for nearly eight years in a branch on my own, 8 out ten shifts I did 12 hours straight with no chance of a sit down even. On two occasions I asked for help in all that time and didn't get it. I got ill last year and was treated like dirt despite my being very particular about how I did my job and by being alone I saved them a fortune. I am now in the gig economy but have a slightly different attitude to it and I am not particularly proud of what I have become. All I wanted shown was a tiny bit of kindness but instead got a massive 'fuck you'. I will still work with pride and be particular about how I do things because that is part of me as a person but a kick in the la la's like that really makes you think, sadly. It seems the total piss takers at the main company are highly thought of though.