How many of you love your job

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I am genuinely interested having been weighing up my options and going round in frustrating circles.
I would like to know how many people feel fulfilled by and enjoy their work and if you do, what work do you do?

I do. Accounts manager and reception for a local paper. But I can't say I'd recommend it as a career choice because it doesn't pay well and there are probably about 3 of us left!

i do. programmer. just really like writing code. it's like solving crossoword puzzles for a living.

Museum assistant and I absolutely love it to bits.

I get to work in a beautiful listed building, handle and look after old interesting objects and indulge my love of local history. I love my colleagues too!

If I still feel the same way in 10 years, I certainly won't be retiring.

And it's within walking distance to my house.

I work in an admin role for a cathedral. My colleagues are lovely, and there is a real sense of vocation and that we are carrying on a job that he has been done here for centuries, and the building itself is stunning. There's always something interesting going on, and I feel that my job helps make the world a little bit better.

I do.
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I like my boss and everyone I work with.

I did, less so now. What I’ve learned is that it’s not actually about the job but the management. Mine is poor so my enjoyment and output lower than when I had a manager who encouraged me and made me feel excited to be in my position.

I do. Primary teacher 20 years +. I've never minded going back to school in September/January/on a Monday! Hug job satisfaction.

Retired school Secretary here and regretting it. Lovely small village school, great staff, great kids. I was there 15 years and only retired because we had a new head who, though a nice man, was a bloody useless head and went through the school like a dose of salts and changed everything. Couldn’t stand it so I retired. He left a year later and we got a new head who is amazing and doing such good things for the school. If only I’d known I only had to stick it out for a year!

I work in HE. Used to enjoy it but there have been so drastic cuts and workload has really increased. I still enjoy it but it's a little too full on at times now...

I do - I’m an apprentice secondary school teacher

Interpreting. Love it

Me. I took early retirement and volunteer for a charity two days per week and love it.

Me! I run my own dog-walking business.

Love. I’m a TA so paid pennies, I also have a second job in wraparound.
The TA role is extremely complicated but I love that it makes a difference

Wow that sounds very very different from my experience of newspapers, how lovely. Usually I was just abused when I was a journalist.

I love my job. It is two closely connected/overlapping jobs. One is as a PT uni lecturer and the other is in a related research field as a private consultant WFH. The pay is reasonable. I love my students and colleagues and boss at uni. I enjoy the consultacy work immensely - working with clients from all over the world - sometimes with meetings at 6am or midnight which suits my ADHD routine-hating disposition. But most of it is WFH which gets very lonely and very sedentary, so much as I adore the work, I am trying to get more teaching work to get me out in the world a bit more.

I love my job. I’m a mental health occupational therapist and I work for a community mental health team. No minute is the same and people let you into their lives during their lowest moments, which is genuinely a privilege. I work with adults of working age so 18-65 which means I work with a huge range of people.

As an aside, I went back to work today after Christmas leave and even though I love my job, I really wouldn’t have minded staying cosy at home for one more day.

I work for a very small children’s charity. The whole team is lovely. I have a disabled young adult child and need a lot of flexibility - and I get it. I’ve been there 10 years and am very lucky to work in such a lovely environment.

I work with adults with moderate to severe learning disabilities. I love enriching their daily lives, because disability inclusion is something I've always felt very deeply about. It's a vocational albeit poorly paid choice for me, but one drawback is that the pay means few of my colleagues are there for the same reason. That bit is soul-destroying.

I love my job for the most part. I’m admin in a primary school and like that most of the time I switch off and am done when the day is finished. Won’t ever go back to full time9-5 office work, I like the school holidays and it works for my family

Almost love it (would love it more if I did not have to work at all). Distance lecturer in subjects I love. Work from home, get the chance to be creative, fantastic students. Compared to other jobs that I have done, this is bliss!

DH and I ran a high street art and framing business for 30 years, and can honestly say I never had a single day where I dreaded going in to work. It was interesting, had good customers, our staff were very supportive. It was good.

Yes I do. I inspect care homes, domiciliary care agencies and the like. Being part of improving standards and conditions for vulnerable people is really important to me. Also as it's civil service, the pay and conditions are good.

Me! I’m a school business manager. I love the variety, but the hours are very long and it can be stressful. I have great colleagues, and the pupils are (mostly) wonderful, so I’m happy.

I love my job! Im a CBT practitioner and love it.