To think most jobs are boring and do not give people fulfilment ?

[HavefunGomadLivingInTheCity]

Perhaps day 80percent maybe even 90 ?

it’s just a way to get money and pay bills and live and maybe have a few holidays and treats etc Along the way

I just find it fake how younger generations are told they need to find something that going to make them feel so good

I enjoy my job and I find it personally fulfilling. It involves working with a lot of extremely wealthy people, and doesn’t really have a “do good” element but it’s intellectually challenging, fast paced, involves thinking on my feet and I get to meet a lot of interesting people. And it pays 6 figures. I believed the story that was fed to me as a child that I can do whatever I want and I can find something I enjoy doing, and so I went out and found something that met the bill.

I don’t love it in the sense that I’d keep doing it forever if I won the lottery (although I think I would probably do something similar on a freelance/consultancy basis where I’d be more free to travel and not quite as chained to working every day) but I do like it.

Different jobs suit different people.

And at different times of their lives.

And some people do some jobs as a means to an end[a better job].

So not at all clear cut.

I am older, buying my first house just now, no husband, no family wealth. Still love my job.
And the house I am buying is nowhere near 375k and nowhere near basic. We don't all have to live in London in order to have fulfilling jobs.

And some people can't make their passion pay, or not enough to live on, or they don't want to make the compromises with their passion that would be needed to make it pay, so they arrange their working life around facilitating doing what they really love.

I know a writer who makes most of his money from being a postman, for example. He enjoys the exercise and starting and finishing early, so he has the bulk of the day to write. He probably won't do it all his life, but it suits him now. He's chosen that over writing more commercial novels.

I’ve taught for a long time and my day flies by which is great. It exhausts and stresses me too though which is the flip side. I think finding things you enjoy outside of work is crucial though. My children work and I massively encourage hobbies to go alongside their jobs.

I’m doing the job I’m qualified to do. After 30 odd years, I’m in it for the money at the end of the month, nothing more.

To be honest, years ago I was only in it for the money, far better things I could be doing.

This isn't a new idea though. I went to university in the 90s and everyone was hoping for a "dream job". In reality, most people I know have ended up in jobs that they don't enjoy but pay the bills. I graduated at a time when at least there was a plentiful supply of jobs now. I think the hardest thing for young people now is that far from concentrating on a job they might enjoy, they need to find a job that even exists. Even then it might be replaced by AI in the near future.

I have done a wide variety of jobs & I have enjoyed them.

I believe in doing a job well.

I have had short times with no work or doing zero hours work, so I was grateful for the better jobs.

I was reading about one of the factors about living well into very old age. A study has found that old people need a purpose.

I enjoy my career and find it fulfilling. My son enjoys his career and find it fulfilling. My daughter is currently at university training for a career she has wanted to do since she was a child! It will be fulfilling.

Would any of us do them if we didn't need to work? Probably not but we'd probably all do something voluntary in related fields.

Does it mean we're never frustrated at work? No.

I love my job. I don’t ‘need’ to work, in terms of finances. I do it because I enjoy it.

Most people I know at least like their careers. Some of them are quite passionate about what they do. I don’t think I know anyone who actively dislikes what they do - they might dislike a specific workplace, but they just go work somewhere else.

The most enjoyable work I ever had I didn't actually get paid for other than the opportunity to actually do the thing. If I tried to do that job on my own the outlay would be prohibitive, and the thought of running a business is more stressful than I want to consider.

Most of my other jobs I've had have been underpaid, often with poor morale (one notable one was graduate level full-time skilled work where I was refused a payrise to bring me up to £20k/year - and they were surprised when I left). My current job is the best I've ever had in terms of pay and working conditions. Still not a passion project, but satisfying in its own way enough of the time, and pays the bills.

I did have a dream career as a teenager, but that crashed and burned when I tried training for it and realised I was utterly shit at it. Not every passion is realistic.

DH on the other hand works in an industry that pays him well to do the same sort of thing that he enjoys doing as a hobby. Some people are lucky that the stars align like that.

Well yeah they're necessary from a business or societal perspective rather than fun. And from a financial perspective for the employee.

Jobs are often created because someone else is now unwilling or unable to do the job personally if they are now managing people rather than actually making something.

If they were fun they probably wouldn't need to pay us to do them!

I hate my job and can’t wait to retire.

Most of the people I work with look sick as pigs

Agree completely. One of my closest friends does a vocation type job. It’s a career that many young people dream of doing, and the only thing she ever wanted to do, but even she finds it exhausting, stressful & emotionally draining.

I do a ‘tolerable’ job. It’s never going to be fun or rewarding or even enjoyable, but it’s relatively low stress (if you know what you’re doing), the people are fine, the hours are reasonable & so is the pay. If this is what I will be doing until I can afford to retire, fine.

Has anyone else ever had a job where you just cry in your car every morning, and cry every night before work? I did. It was in a call centre and I was 20. That probably wasn't healthy

If you love what you do, it doesn’t feel like a grind. My job makes a difference, maximises my talents and although it has moments, ultimately I find it fulfilling. And there’s nothing wrong with aiming for a job like that

Absolutely. I self harmed for years as a direct result.

That's why I run my own business. Basically people pay to come and do one of my hobbies with me. It's very niche, I'm not going to out myself by saying what it is though.

I could have written this post and feel exactly the same way!

I work to get paid. That's it. If I win the lottery, I'd stop working without a backwards glance.

In theory, my job SHOULD be something I enjoy, and there are aspects I like, but most of the time, that just gets ruined by other people. If I could work entirely alone, it would be much better, but I can't see that happening anytime soon.

This isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about dropping out of every job, refusing trying most and constantly complaining because it's not your passion in life. If you've worked in retail, done some grim jobs then I think that's great (I did the same) it really showed me what I don't want to do but did them anyway and gave me drive to do something else.

I think even if I found a job I loved I’d lose the passion for it having to do it day in and day out. Luckily for me when I went for the job interview for my current job they started with ‘we know no-one dreamed of doing x when they were growing up, so you don’t have to pretend you’ve got a passion for it’ and I knew it was the job for me!

Call centres are brutal, it’s not natural to be talking to so many different people for 8 hours, it wear you out and wears you down.

Yeah, it has its off days and is very stressful but I love my work, not sure I’d want to do anything else.