Do you love your job and why

[Lucycantdance]

I am a solicitor (litigation). I have posted before in AIBU about wanting to leave the law. I am still up and down. I just don't think I love it anymore and I think you need the love this job to keep going through the stress. Sadly I know the feeling of loving my job and I want it again.

Please give me some inspiration - do you love your job and if so why? Would you recommend it? It doesn't have to be a job remotely similar to law!

Yes, I love my job but I don't always like it.

I work in the antisocial behaviour and safeguarding team for a large housing association. It can be extremely rewarding but is also extremely stressful. The cases can be awful, and the people I deal with awful too. It isnt unusual to be sworn at or threatened nigh on daily (usually by the people complaining about their neighbours, not the actual perp) and it is just a never ending slog.

But you wont find anything as varied and rewarding as working in social housing. We have our own legal team where we employ solicitors, I believe the local authority does as well so its certainly something you'd be qualified for.

One of our new managers is an ex lawyer as well.

Salary isnt amazing, but isnt shocking either. Above average I would say, but below average for the level of stress we have.

I'm a TA and I love it. Everyday is different, I love the interaction with the kids and there is a real buzz when you know that you have helped them in some way.
I don't like the way people assume they are all experts in education and therefore know my job better than me, or the way some parents treat school staff. The pay is rubbish for what we do - we are far more than 'helpers' these days. Today, I have supported several groups of children in maths, run a phonics group and comforted a child who has home issues which flow over into his school day. This afternoon I will be running several intervention groups in a subject for which I am responsible, after work, I will be planning for my next sessions for tomorrow, writing a safeguarding concern on our school system and liaising with teachers to find out what support they need from me tomorrow. I started at 7:50 am and will probably leave at around 16:30, though my paid hours are 8:40 to 15:15. I have also worked through my unpaid lunch hour, as a colleague is on long-term sick and I am covering a role they normally do.
I know it sounds like I don't love my job, I really do, but I definitely earn my £12000 annual salary!

@Erictheavocado for what it's worth I value TA's so much. They have had such a huge impact on my DS life these last few years. I am shocked you are paid so low for the excellent job you do. I had no idea it was so little

This thread is interesting. I dont like my job and the fact it pays very little leaving us struggling makes me dislike it even more. It's nice to know there are people that do love/enjoy what they do as I feel it is so important.

Hopefully one day it will be me in a job I love

Foreign language translator, and yes I love it. I love foreign languages (apart from hard to understand Asian/Middle Eastern ones) and the job appealed to me.

I like the fact I have flexibility in my current role, WFH and it's a decent salary. That's about it though

I am still in the NHS and even in non-clinical we are understaffed, my Trust is in Extreme Pressures and as I found out today I don't get any kind of professional development (agency employed) while the rest of my team are off on a course next week that will help them advance their careers (even though they are on temp contracts anyway).

I want to get some qualifications and promote into a better role in the private sector.