To find it a bit performative when people say “I love my job?”

[MyQuaintQuoter]

I’m not saying people can’t enjoy their work but when someone says “I love my job!” with a kind of breathless enthusiasm (usually on social media or in a work meeting), it often feels more like branding than truth. Maybe I’m jaded but most jobs come with stress, bureaucracy, and annoying people. Loving the mission or being grateful for the flexibility makes sense but loving the actual job? Day in, day out? Really?

AIBU to think it’s more about appearing passionate and impressive than anything else?

Me, actually. I love work. But we're all different.

It is absolutely okay to dislike public displays of enthusiasm. It’s okay to be irritated by it.

But you’re also judging everyone who publicly gushes about their job as “performative”, as only “branding” themselves, and that means you think they’re shallow.

Judging others like that is a cruddy thing to do.

Other people saying “I love my job!” in a public/social media setting has absolutely no effect on your life. It doesn’t cause you actual harm. It doesn’t physically hurt you. Whatever emotional effect it is having on you is real and valid… but you’re allowing it to affect you emotionally and mentally. As we say here in the US, you’re letting it live rent-free in your head. You absolutely do not need to let it live rent-free in your head. You could just let it go and not care at all when someone gushes about their job on LinkedIn.

Also, not everyone is the same. We’re not all clones. A few people who shout “I love my job!” on LinkedIn might be faking it and phoning it in for the optics, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is, or that even the majority are faking it. Some people are truly, genuinely passionate about what they do, and they have the ebullient personalities that make them want to share their feelings and emotions with others.

Some people (lunatics!) love their jobs.. I like mine but I love my holidays! I've never felt the need to shoe horn this into a conversation

I like my job. I'd never say I love it because I'd give it up in a heartbeat if I could afford not to have to work anymore. But I do so I consider myself lucky that I do actually like it and I do love the people I work with. I've hated one or two of the previous jobs I've done but looking back I worked under shit managers and shit co workers. Isn't there a saying "Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life" or something like that?

There's a works site on Facebook we're we can all post and in the past there's been a lot of "Love my job" posts. 🙄it IS performative cos the managers can see it. It comes across as sucking up to me.

I love my job. I've been very fortunate in being very happy in most of my jobs, certainly the ones I've done for the last 21 years! That's possibly because my first post-uni job was hell on wheels and I vowed that I would rather sell lipstick than work a job I hated (selling makeup paid for me to get through uni)! I've chosen very carefully where I've worked and what I've done since, and mostly that strategy has been effective.
I don't make a big song and dance about it because I know what it's like to hate your job. If someone asks, I wax lyrical about how fabulous it is, but otherwise, I count my blessings very quietly.

I usually roll my eyes a bit. It's often people I've heard moaning day to day or people who definitely want the right people to hear it, and it can feel a bit smug and a bit of a put down if i dont feel the same or am having a difficult time. . But we are all different and other people are much more annoying than this.

I 100% adore my job. I don’t know what I would do if ever it came to an end. I wake up happy every day , I love my time there, I never want to take a day off for sickness etc , Sundays are finally a day I can enjoy rather than being “ the day before work” . I break up for half terms / holidays and whilst I’m happy to have that time I’m not desperate for it and I’m happy to go back . I work hard and yes I’m tired , but I do my best to not take any time off because I love it so much and I do miss it when I’m not there. I say I love my job because it’s 100% true. I’m completely satisfied .

Prior to this job though I would have said the same, I hated my job before , Sundays were depressing and I never wanted to go. I would pray to win the lottery so I didn’t have to work again ( yet , now I could win millions and I would still work because it is now a big part of my life and who I am ) so I think you won’t understand unless you do actually love your it job

i love my job. More than the rest of some of my personal life. I don't say it on social media but if asked I'd say in a possibly annoying tone.

I do love my job, but it's taken me more than twenty years to get to this point. I don't gush about it on social media, but it is on my mind most of the time really.

I run my own business and genuinely love what I do.

YABU.

I do like my job most days! I've had other jobs that made me unwell with stress and depression. There is a marked difference.

Social media is inherently performative. Some people do love their job so YABU about that.

YABU

I do love my job. I did it on a voluntary basis for many years before getting a paid role. I am absolutely passionate about it.

Sorry if that pisses you off…

Usually said at my work when someone is going through a disciplinary- like it’s a magic wand.
If you loved your job you wouldn’t have done what you did repeatedly.

I fucking hate my job

I genuinely love my job. I feel very lucky to do it. But I'm self employed so I don't know if that's different.