Do you find your job fulfilling? Is this a realistic expectation ?

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Need to make some changes in my life

never really enjoyed my job
the management the stress the responsibility the customers
a lot of the other staff

I am lucky in that I get paid to do something I love.
I advise SMEs on strategy and planning

Emotionally my job is very fulfilling. It means I can spend my days being available to help people at a difficult time in their lives.

Yanbu for its not unrealistic to expect a job to be fulfilling

Sme’s what are they ?

I love my job and company. I work for a charity. Everyone is great. It’s a supportive environment. Sure there are the usual office gripes but it’s low level.

I worked in commercial companies before and the difference is marked. I couldn’t go back.

Is what you do transferrable to a different industry?

Small to Medium Enterprises- Businesses that are not large basically

I like my job but there's still petty issues that grind most people there down. The job is good but the office politics are awful, and it stops it being as fulfilling as it should be. It's been like that everywhere I've ever worked though.

Yes I do,. But no job is perfect. I love what I do day to day - the atcual tasks involved. But I am freelance, so never know how much money is coming in, or how to plan. If a heavy workload appears I just have to accept it. Also for the majority of time I work alone at home and have for decades. It's lonely and boring. No interaction.

I think it's reasonable to want to find a job fulfilling in a general sense, but not every element of it has to be fulfilling for the job overall to be. Example: I worked in various pubs and restaurants in my student years and enjoyed providing a good service to customers, serving lovely food, seeing them have a nice birthday meal or whatever. I could have pride in what i did even though some days were very very busy and a bit stressful. It doesn't mean I found cleaning ashtrays (back in the day!) fulfilling, but overall the job was.

Now I'm in the corporate world and love my job and feel privileged to be able to do the work I do. It's very fulfilling. But of course I still have days when I'd rather just read a book on a beach somewhere alone.

A lot of it is about motivation I guess, much of which is cultural in a company or team. I can imagine there are some jobs that might be on the face of it very dull and repetitive, but with a good atmosphere and a feeling of being valued, you still have a sense of purpose and therefore fulfilment.

Yes I do…as regards the manner in which I spend my working day.
The pay is terrible. I will have to move on eventually but it will be a sad day when I do.

Yes I do, on the whole. Go through stressful periods where I want to change jobs of course, but on the whole find my job very fulfilling. I'm paid well but I could earn a lot more in a different sector but love the context I work in.

I’ve had more fulfilling jobs than I do now. But mine is relatively low stress, like my colleagues and it’s v well paid. I sometimes think I should be doing something more fulfilling but I think for a lot of people a job pays the bills and they get their fulfilling bits from elsewhere.

but I wouldn’t stay if it was stressful and I hated my colleagues.

To add to my point about motivation...I saw a documentary on TV a few years ago and there was a middle aged man in Germany who worked in a pencil factory. He had worked there his while adult life, and his job looked dull and repetitive, but he felt valued for his work, and he felt responsibility for ensuring his part of the line performed well and delivered quality. The company was the very well known German pencil brand that has been in business for a long time, and they had instilled across the workforce the responsibility for maintaining the expected quality standards and reputation of the brand. So the man was motivated, was proud to work for the company, and appeared to feel fulfilled. From the outside, you could think.... how could it be fulfilling, to work on the production line in a pencil factory, but it turns out that it was.

I used to but now I just spend all day getting moaned at by patients, like it’s my fault that it takes so long to get through on the phone/book an appointment/for the referral to result in an appointment.

It’s severely damaged my MH and I dread each day of being berated for things that are nothing to do with me and are out of my control.

Yes and yes.

I worked for a legal secretary for over 20 years. It had its ups and downs but I wouldn't say it was very rewarding, financially or otherwise.

I'm a writer now, and find that rewarding in every way. I do regret spending so long in a job that was pretty unfulfilling, although the last guy I worked for was pretty nice (most of the time) and generous, so I was reluctant to make the leap to fulltime writing when I should have.

I absolutely love my job and find it very rewarding and fulfilling.

I run my own dog-walking and pet-sitting business.

Yep, I work in ICU and I enjoy it. It's what I always wanted to do and what I trained long and hard for. That said, a career in nursing or medicine in general isn't for everybody. IMO, it's something you really want to do and if you see it as just a "job of work" then you won't enjoy it, in fact you'll probably hate it and leave.

Until two years ago I have always found work ok but although in a vocational area I didn't know what people meant by 'fulfilled', it was just ok. I took my career in a deliberate direction suited to the parts of the job I am best at and enjoy most and now I am one of those people who would work for free or continue working if I won the lottery. What a blessing it is.

I adore my job. But it’s taken a lot of work over a long period of time to get there. I realise I am lucky and probably relatively unusual.