To think it's impossible to love your job? If you do love going to work, what job do you do?

[PuddingLane]

I'm thinking of retraining to try to find a job I love, but wondering if maybe the grass is always greener and most people don't love their jobs and settling for something that's 'ok' and pays the bills is how it is for most people?

I love mine. I’m a swimming teacher. Swimming is my absolute passion, hobby, life - so it’s easy to like. One of the companies I work for is so badly organised that they pay us anyway even if we have no swimmers, which is most of the time for various reasons, so I spend half my time in the gym getting paid. Love it.

so for me, it isn’t the actual job, more doing the job that is my own lifelong passion.

I think people that genuinely love their job won't love every single thing about it. I would say I love my job but there are some tasks I don't love and there are some aspects that I don't love. I have my own small business and make a product, it's the making I love but as you can imagine there is a lot more to it. I don't love having to use social media or doing my taxes.

Yes, love my job and wouldn’t want to do anything else. I’m a sign language interpreter. Well paid, work freelance so completely flexible and in control, freedom to work in any domain I want to, and enjoy what I do.

I mostly love my job. I work from home in a Healthcare management role and like 80% of what I do daily. My team is great, my deliverable are manageable and I spend a lot of time creating documents which I love.

I'd probably like it less if I worked in an office.

I love my job but I’ve done the same job elsewhere and hated it. For me it’s less so about the job and more about the people and culture of your team (if you have one).

I love my job. It's stressful as hell but it's what I firmly believe I was put on this earth to do. It is the most incredibly rewarding thing when all goes well.

Secondary School Science Teacher and Deputy Head of Year.

I love the rewards of my job and the lifestyle that it facilitates and this is what I keep saying to the children. Do the hard work while you’re young get paid the absolute most you possibly can up to the age of 40 and then revisit if necessary.

I work in a corporate organisation, and detest it. It pays well but every working day is a massive mental effort to get through. It’s like forcing yourself to eat something that you hate. At age 47, I can’t think of anything else I can retrain for that would come close financially, so I suck it up and live for the weekends and holidays.

Having read a few similar posts here, it is people that make a difference to someone’s life that seem to feel most fulfilled, even if paid less than they deserve.

I genuinely love my job and am so grateful for it but also I recognise from the outside it’s nothing special! I manage a statutory service for a local authority. Sounds so boring but it absolutely fills me up - the service makes a difference to peoples lives in such a meaningful way. It was never my career aspiration, I fell into it, but I was made for it and it was made for me. Won’t be forever but right now it’s perfect despite a monstrous commute (2.5hrs drive each way). I am so motivated in it.

I do love my job - secondary teacher and Head of a core department.

It is absolutely manic and can be incredibly stressful at times! However, I absolutely love being in the classroom, seeing students progress, helping them through the exam years, supporting those with tough home lives etc.

I enjoy working with people and having a job that is varied and interesting.

I do think being in the right school makes a difference though!

I love my job. I work from home 100% of the time. I have a boss, who is lovely, and other than that i 'work' with volunteers, all locally. It gives me community and an immense amount of job satisfaction. And it is using the skills i am very good at, without all the corporate bullshit and cross selling i used to have to put up with. I am valued and the job is very varied. Pay is terrible though!

I am an administrator for 3 churches and a deanery (as well as a volunteer in the church that is my local one of the 3).

I work in a hospice and I love my job 😊 I was a GP before and fell out of love with that. My colleagues are mostly fabulous and I have huge job satisfaction

For the most part I love my job, but I don’t like the extra responsibilities I now hold, and I always dread going back after the holidays. I’m a primary school teacher, phase leader and SENCO. I was much happier as just a classroom teacher but I couldn’t afford to live on the salary if I stepped down.

I love my job (freelance consultant)- I choose my hours, my clients, it pays incredibly well.

However, despite all that, would I rather not work at all? Obviously. A job is still a job at the end of the day.

This post made me feel a bit sad as I really used to love my job.

I started teaching in the 90s and taught mainly Year 1 and 2. I adored it and honestly used to say that I would carry on doing it (part time!) if we won the lottery! It felt like we were doing amazing things and making a real difference.

After 25 years though, it has changed beyond belief and I really now hate it-I have left now.

It annoys me a bit when people say you shouldn't go into teaching if you were going to hate it as it was obvious what you were getting yourself into, or that if you don't like it, then leave, because I DID know exactly what I was getting myself into, but the job itself then completely changed. I am actually really sad that the job I loved doesn't now exist.

As to people who love their jobs-I can think of one in admin who does, one midwife and two counsellors (though both of them do liken it to a very expensive hobby rather than a job that actually makes them a living wage 😂).

I'm an operational manager within a prison and I love my job (most of the time!!)

I enjoy my job, and I am good at what I do - I suspect those things are related!

I don't think everyone should/does LOVE their job, and certainly unlikely that anyone loves 100% of every aspect of it, but equally, you shouldn't hate it or be made miserable by it either.

I don't understand people who bang on and on about actively hating what they do or the people they work with, but making no moves to change any part of it.

Not impossible at all. I have loved several jobs. Not enamoured of my current one now because they are being cunts to everyone but for a long period I loved it and I adored my previous career.

The tricky part is finding a job that fits you and pays enough to live on. But its absolutely possible.

I love my job. I wfh as legal advisor within a charity.

I'm a social worker. I used to love my job but moved to a different service last Jan and I hate my current job and am planning to leave this year. I left my last role because the commute was crap and I felt I was missing out on my son's childhood but I loved everything else about the role. I'm planning on leaving my current role because I dislike the team culture, management style, and many of the people.

I would love my job if I were part time. I'm a teacher in a really lovely school. Great kids, fab colleagues and it's a job that's never boring. The only thing wrong with my job is that there's much too much of it - the workload is unmanageable. I teach 11 classes. I reckon if I taught 7 or 8 it would be totally fine.

I love aspects of my job . Although its quite fast paced and stressful at times, rhe hours are long, and the remuneration certainly does not match the level of responsibility, its actually the politics and senior management that are the parts I dislike.
I also don't love going to work. But when i'm actually there it's fine.

I'm a film editor. It's great, but the deadlines can be incredibly stressful.

I teach Economics. I don't love it every day, and I do get sick of working weekends, but I find teenagers entertaining and I like using my brain and solving problems.

I’m the same. I like that my job facilitates a nice lifestyle and enabled me to move overseas to my dream city. The day to day? Not so much. But I think it’s a fair compromise to be able to afford practically anything I want. I’m not quite 40 but I do plan to reassess in middle-age when I may not have the energy to continue in a high-stress job.