If you love your job tell me more please!

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This is off the back of another thread, got me thinking, wondering, intrigued…to all this who genuinely love their job, please share more. What do you do? Why do you love it?

Have a great day 🥰

Love this one too! Go you!

Do people not abuse the take as much holiday as you want? Or are forever going home early? I know in my work people would take the piss.

I work in a niche mechanical engineering role for a small company that has a strong culture of employee well-being. I am fully remote (which suits me perfectly due to my personal circumstances), can flexi my hours, am able to take time off for appointments and school events whenever I like, I work in a strong team of amazing people, and have a hands-off boss who measures output and results not micromanaging how I produce them. I usually speak to my boss on Teams about once a fortnight, I am just allowed to get on with it.
It has taken me many years to find a role that plays to my strengths, and most days are challenging but thorougly enjoyable and I can honestly say I have zero work stress.
The pay isn't amazing but also isn't awful, and I doubt I would go to another company for more money given the chance, because I have never worked in a job that provided me with so much in other ways. I will hopefully stay until I retire.

I work as a community engagement manager at my local museum and I absolutely love it and my colleagues.

I get to tour people around, organise trips from local schools, paranormal nights and big community events, as well as looking after the museum collections within a beautiful ancient listed building.

To top it all, it's just a 15 minute walk from where I live.

ETA: And I manage an amazing group of volunteers.

I'm a PA, the people make the job worthwhile. I have a great relationship with two of my execs. Our personalities compliment each other and there's a genuine fondness and friendship on both sides.

I'm a born worrier so when they're travelling I constantly worry that I've not done something but I'm also a born organiser and perfectionist so in fairness nothing does go wrong.

I take on extra bits here and there, I'm a staff rep(have recently been involved in redundancy processes), get involved in events and conferences, office moves etc so my job is never dull.

I didn't have any of that in my old job, which was the most boring PA role.

I work 4 days a week at home, 1 day in the office (some weeks if I do 2 I don't go in the following week), it's a pretty great set up as I can do things like go to the gym in my lunch hour, and the cats aren't confined to the house 5 days a week(I don't have a cat flap).

Manager in Social housing. Have my own office when I go in. Can also work from home and have quite a lot of autonomy over my hours.
My colleagues are lovely people and my own manager is fantastic. Having a safe secure home is fundamental to the happiness, security and welfare of people. I see people at their lowest often following homelessness or surviving domestic abuse and its great to see people getting back on their feet. We are often the first agency to raise an alert when people need support or protection. So, there is quite a lot of job satisfaction. The least pleasant part of my job is dealing with ASB or having to escalate safeguarding concerns to the over stretched LA who increasingly don't feel that anything meets their thresholds. 20 years ago I would have loved this job, and although I do now I'd ideally like to work far fewer hours.

Honestly? No! I think if one of us was to take the piss then the rest would have a lot to say about it and no one wants to spoil the status quo for anyone else. We have it very good and we’re all aware that we do!

How do you get into this?

I get £10 lunch allowance daily and free gym access.

I’m a dog walker, and I love my job. The doggies are so lovely, and their owners very appreciative. I currently walk six five days a week. It’s lush.

How much do you earn roughly doing that please? If you dont mind me asking.

I don’t mind at all. I’m a bit cheaper than other walkers in the area, I live near Sandringham, North Norfolk coast. £12 p.h., walk four dogs separately, for a hour. Two are siblings, walk them together, charge £15 p.h. If they don’t want to walk for the hour, then I do half an hour, and play with them indoors for the rest of the hour. Top up water bowls and feed them if owners ask me too. The two I walk together are quite lively and need a lot of exercise, but are very well behaved, they go off lead on the beach, catch frisbee, go for a paddle! I am self employed, insured. I always meet owners and dogs before I take them on, we have to all be happy. One of the owners is a lovely older lady, who is housebound, she loves her dog, but is unable to exercise him, beyond letting him out in the garden. I walk him mid afternoon, and he sits by the door waiting for me, it’s very heartwarming.

I am a psychosexual and relationship therapist. Love my job, especially when i get good feedback from clients.

I also go into secondary students in schools and teach them about healthy/unhealthy/abusive relationships which is great fun. Teenagers are amazing and they really engage with the workshops. I have a lot of fun wuth that.