To ask you, are you happy with your job and home?

[SummerSix]

Little tipsy, very emotional and tired.

Was just thinking about my own job/field and the area I live in and wondering about others too.

I work in care, elderly care to be specific. I utterly love my job, I adore the people i care for and treat them like family. Several times over the years Ive lost people and had to take time off work due to grief but i wouldnt change my job/field for anything.

In regards to my home, i put up with it, ive no pride in my home as i cant stand it, dont have people round and i could move to somewhere bigger with a garden for less money but living here is only great as both parents have been ill over the last few years and its extremely handy being so close, also my childs school is even closer.

What about you? Are you happy with your job and your home?

I'm looking to retrain into a new career, and getting the house ready to put on the market ASAP.

So, not happy to either job or house but I'm still happy, if that makes sense!

Very much so!

Moved last year to our perfect family home and 10 months ago moved job where I love what I do, with a massive payrise to boot.

Makes me sound smug, but it's just genuine!

I have just got a new job teaching children with severe and complex needs, it’s very challenging and I’m learning every day but after 12 years of being a SAHM I’m enjoying having a job again.

I really like my house it’s not in the best area, the street is lovely but the area isn’t the best I maybe would like to move it but that would cost loads and loads probably could afford it but it would be a stretch abc would mean less space so happy to just settle here.

I wasn’t happy with either, and after dithering for several years, changed jobs and moved house. Obviously it’s not always as easy as if sounds! But I’m so glad I did, I have a more frugal but better lifestyle, and DH says I’m back to my “old” self.

Love my job, I work for myself, and as I work from home, the house we bought had to be fantastic, because I spend so much time in it! We were very fortunate to get the house we have.

Generally I love my job but it can be (unnecessarily) very stressful.

House is OK. Needs a new roof. Probably needs all sorts of work done. It was all I could afford that was big enough for me and the kids after the divorce. My main issue is that exh seems to think I have more money than him but he fails to take into account the difference in housing - me in a 3 bed back to back terrace with on street parking, him in a 5 bed detached house with garage and double driveway

My work, not so much. I work as a waitress and feel I could be doing something much more fulfilling with my time (and brain). I think I do it well, but I would love to be doing something I have a passion for.

I'm happy with my life at home, I have a toddler and DP who I adore. At the moment our house is fairly mundane and cluttered, but I've put some savings together and next week I'm going to be doing some serious de-cluttering, re-organising and interior design. I'm excited for that.

Got so much to do to our house so I don’t love it as it is but I do love it and it’s where I want to be.

Job - I thought it was what I wanted to do but it probably isn’t.

I can’t imagine ever loving my job

Job- no
House- getting there decor-wise, but still wish it was bigger, but that requires a change on the job front.

Generally yes, my job can be a bit frantic at times but overall it’s good - and decent money/benefits.

Home - I rent with my DP, no kids yet as we’d like to own first but we can’t afford to buy. If we had our own place I think I’d be happier, but we rent a nice little house in a quiet street and our landlords generally leave us to it so I can’t complain too much. Life is good, it would just be better if we had 4 walls of our own.

Yes. I work minimum wage full time but the job is good and I like the people I work with. I love my house. I'm just about there decoration wise and it's looking good. Also have my mortgage paid off so right now, I'm very happy with my lot. Sounds smug but it's the truth

Just got a new job to go to after maternity leave so I'm excited about that, hopefully this will translate into happiness

House..... Brilliant area, lovely house, but still some crap furniture, scuffed walls from the buggy etc. It was a fixer upper and we ran out of money towards the end, I wish we'd saved that bit longer and finished it properly so I was completely happy rather than budgeting in new bedside tables etc every 5 minutes

Job...no! I do not feel fulfilled there, although I love working with children. I recently tried to retrain but didn't get onto the course so feeling a bit deflated.

House...yes. We are currently going through the mortgage application to buy our house from the HA. We've been saving so hard for the past 5 years and I'm praying we get on the ladder this year!

Love my house. Am now friends with previous owner after buying it and she would buy it back in a heartbeat I think - it has lovely views, it's quiet and I've never slept as well as I do here. Including as a child.

I'm not mad about my job. But I work 32 hours over four days, two of which are from home, for a very good salary for where we live and have relatively little decision making or exposure to worry about. Boss is also fab.

Life is good. I never take it for granted and hope if I hit hard times I can remember this feeling.

I’ve been in my current job for two years. I can’t say I’m happy as the job can be monotonous, the people are meh (except one lady in the office with me, the other is up people’s arses), the pay is obviously crap as it’s term time only which is the only real bonus with this job.
I was happier in my longest serving job of 15 years so know how it feels, but dh wanted to move to Oz 🙄

My home is ok. It’s a strange one, as apart from moving to Oz for two years we’ve made several attempts to move on from there. It’s in an unusual area for the type of property it is, but it’s never been on the market. We got a valuation and now my dh is being twatty about moving again when he’s the one being keen 🤦🏼‍♀️ Kill. Me. Now!

Job is fine, am happy in my house it requires tarting up but that will happen.

I hate my job atm. Loved it before I went on maternity leave just over 2 years ago but feel truly screwed over since I returned last year (basically replaced while I was on maternity leave) managers are ridiculously unprofessional, one manager told me while I was on my own with him that he had a dream about me where I gave him sexual favours in return for flexible working.
I was just like this 😬 then didn’t say anything or report it as I don’t feel in the headspace. Lots of other unprofessional things have gone on. I’m sitting here on a Sunday night feeling anxious and nervous for work tomorrow. I’m 34 and worked since 16 and never felt like this before.
Paying for childcare so don’t feel in a financial place to look for something else I actually get paid ok for what I do, wouldn’t get anywhere near it elsewhere.
Home we are getting there, we own an ex council house. Been here since 2015 and we bought it off someone who bought it at auction and the house featured on homes under the hammer. they put new bathroom and kitchen in but it really was the very basic and cheapest they could get I think. Kitchen has been re done on the cheap by us but a lot better than it was before. Bathroom is being extended in September and completely re done. Weird house, bedrooms are big but bathroom is ridiculously small! Garden was done last year and we decorated throughout. Roof needs doing though and it’s an ugly house from outside.
But I’m happy here!

Started a new job in Jan. After having my first child fairly young and working a load of waitressing jobs I hated, then taking some shitty office jobs to get experience and spending all my money on child care, I have got a managerial role that's right by the children's school and I work flexible hours. It's interesting and I like the people I work with/for and it looks good on my CV.

We bought our first house a couple of years ago. Lived in some pretty stressful circumstances while DH and I saved for a deposit. It's the first place I lived were we bought things and furniture we liked. I'm really happy. We may outgrow it and it's not huge but I love it and love coming home.

Im happy in my job. I actually work with nice people, my managers treat me like an adult and the hours are good. The actual work is my kind of thing too. Could get paid more, but couldn't a lot of people?

My house. Well not really. It has great potential, but we need to make a lot of improvements that we just can't afford, both time and money.

Job, I really don’t enjoy any more. Feel completely unvalued, and my manager is utterly disorganised which I find really stressful. I am looking for something else.

Love my home, though.

House - We moved here just over a year ago. I am so happy here, when we were looking this pretty much ticked nothing on my list but it is everything I want. I was so unsettled in my old house, and despite living there 16 years never really happy. I am so pleased that I wore DH down. Nothing is really to our taste, but I really don't care.

Job - I am happy enough. Wish it was closer to home and I got paid more (as in the going rate for my role) but I take the rough with the smooth.

Just started new job. I'm massively over qualified but it's my first job in quite a few years after being SAHM and it's a foot in the door and as my DC get older I hope to progress in the industry so I'm quite happy although not overly ecstatic (also having shift, childcare and transport issues so I'm actually quite stressed overall)
I love my home interior. It feels homely and is stylish at the same time. Not so keen on the exterior. Area is ok if a little run-down.
Not what I'd have dreamed of but perfectly ok.

I love my job because it means I can drop DS off to nursery and pick him up and also get the holidays with him. I also love my house, it just feels like it’s my own and I’ve never felt that anywhere else

Yes, to both. Although just at the moment, work is very stressful and my home needs a deep clean and some redecorating, but I don't want to change either of them.