Can we talk about jobs?

[wannabmama]

And in a cruel turn of fate...my boss just called me into his office to suggest I look for something else. I knew it was coming eventually but I was really hoping I'd be outta here before that.

[notagoddess]

Shit, wannabmama. I hope one of those applications works out! Have some wine tonight.

[wannabmama]

Feb 24, 2016 17:12:06 GMT -5 notagoddess said:

Shit, wannabmama. I hope one of those applications works out! Have some wine tonight.

Thanks. I plan on it!

[jubilantsquirrel]

I'm sorry wannabmama. I hope you find something quickly that is a much better fit for you!

[bex15]

I'm sorry wannabmama, good luck, I hope you find something you love!

[requiressnacks]

He sounds like he really sucks, wannabmama. Hope your apps work out!

[ourcrazynavylife]

I'm a navy nurse, pediatrics to be specific. I'm currently in school to get my masters as a clinical nurse specialist.
I love love loveeeeee my job and literally can't imagine doing anything else.

[wannabmama]

Sorry to derail the thread but thanks for the love, ladies!

[Deleted]

I'm a Crisis Intervention Specialist for children up to age 21. I like the work i'm doing, but not the biggest fan of my bosses or many of my coworkers.

[teachermomtobe]

I'm a 3rd grade teacher and I absolutely love my job. I lucked out and ended up in an amazing school and district. (Out of college I applied for anything and everything and all I could get was an aide position in a behavior program in my school. A year later a 3rd grade position opened and I was hired. Here I am 7 years later!)

I love that every day is completely different. Even when I think I know how the day will go, it doesn't go that way. I love that I am pretty much never sitting down. My day is planned out ahead of time and I never understand how people know what to "do" at their job when it's not planned out ahead like I plan mine. I love the impact that I can have on kids and seeing them grow and develop during the year. I love 3rd grade because they are independent but don't have attitude and still like school for the most part. They also go through a major change in development during the year and are so much older when they leave!

Parts I don't like? The pressure to get all the curriculum taught well and have the students understand it before standardized testing. The paper work I have to do to keep track of all the data we have to collect. The crazy parents you get here and there.

I never imagined myself being anything but a classroom teacher. Last summer I got my elementary math certification so I could potentially be a math specialist if I wanted to. It would mean I go from class to class throughout the school and support struggling math students. I would only do it at my own school and it's still something I'm not sure I'd do. I think I may miss my own classroom but the options are open.

[Hooper88]

I am mostly working from home now but LOVE my job. My husband and I are certified personal trainers and are owners of a outdoor (indoor in the winter) all women's fitness boot camp and we are also both certified wellness coaches. I do all of the camp planning and deal with the books and my husband trains. We run 5 one hour camps a day for a total of almost 140 women. Before we started camp I sold insurance (SOOO BORING) and my husband managed a health club. After two years we were both able to quit our full time jobs and run our business full time. We are lucky because we have a great schedule and ever 4 weeks we have one week off since we only run 10 camps a year. There are certainly some down falls of being self employed though which suck but for the most part we absolutely love what we do and wouldn't have it any other way.

[juliayadda]

I am an executive assistant, but my job for the past two years has involved a lot of project/people management, training, and other extended EA things. I work for a large (LARGE) accounting firm, which I love! I am trying to move up in the company though. They pay for me to attend university part time.

Lately, we changed to a SAP system for internal administration and it has been... interesting. Stressful, slow, painful. Super sharp learning curve. I am one of the few 'experts' in my office so it is a lot of stress and pressure.

I do love my team and boss, but I want to be a boss eventually, so I keep studying. I am doing a Bachelor of Commerce.

[bex15]

@hooper88 that's awesome that you were able to start your own business!

[irish14]

wannabmama good luck with your search. Bad fit firms are the worst, I hope you find something awesome.

I like my job well enough most days. I'm an attorney too. I do civil litigation, so I'm in court a lot. There's always some different problem to deal with, which keeps it interesting, though my profession is conflict, which gets exhausting/stressful sometimes. But the people at my firm are awesome, I have good flexibility and a lot of autonomy, and can work remotely occasionally (hopefully more as our tech resources get better and younger people start running more things).

Sometimes I dream about opening a bookstore or something similarly impractical but awesome...

EDIT not that all young people are tech savvy or vice versa, it's just correlated at my particular firm...

[wildflower810]

I could add... I also volunteer as an editor for a community newspaper. Publication is 4,000 copies 1/x a month. So not huge, but big enough that it's important to have decent grammar and sentence structure. Have a question about how to make something sound a bit better or tighten up wording? I'm your gal.

teachermomtobe I am in awe of all elementary teachers. I worked as an interpreter in a K-2 Deaf ed classroom for one year and in that year I burnt out of working in a school so badly.

[ladytiffany24]

I do not love my job. I don't hate it. But there's a lot more I don't like than what I do like. I'm an HR Manager.

My saving grace is that I love the company I work for. My eyes are out for a different position with the company I work for. Lucky for me, our HR organization is going through a big "reinven.tion" which is going to present lots of options for me. Particularly, options that are much more aligned with my skill set and what I enjoy more.

[bex15]

ladytiffany24 do you deal with a lot of employee drama being in HR? I know ours does! What is it that you would like to do?

[Deleted]

I'm an electrical engineer, and ive gotten to work in lots of different types of jobs between my coop program in school and the two companies ive worked for since graduating 8 yrs ago.

As a coop student i worked for 2 different consulting firm. consulting engineering can be fun because there is lots of design work and new projects, but it can also suck because of long hours and unpredictable jobs.

As both a coop student and a new grad i worked for a local power utility helping to design, plan and implement energy efficiency and demand side management (dsm) programs. DSM is when the electric utility works with their customers to teach and incentivise them to use less power. By the customer saving power the utility has to produce less, and the utility saves more than what the customr would've used since they also dont have to worry about the inherent losses in transmitting the power.

At the power company i also worked to create safe switching procedures so that the linesmen could vomplete their work safely without having to tutn off as msnh people's power.

I now work for a design and manufacturing company, which has been a big switch from the 4 yrs i spent at an electric utility. I work with other engineers, technologists, and assemblers to create products that our customers need and to test new designs for future sales opportunities.

[Deleted]

I am a television journalist and I love it. I have worked some more difficult places and other easier places but the work remains rewarding and fulfilling.

[littlelion]

Feb 24, 2016 18:30:45 GMT -5 ladytiffany24 said:

I do not love my job. I don't hate it. But there's a lot more I don't like than what I do like. I'm an HR Manager.

My saving grace is that I love the company I work for. My eyes are out for a different position with the company I work for. Lucky for me, our HR organization is going through a big "reinven.tion" which is going to present lots of options for me. Particularly, options that are much more aligned with my skill set and what I enjoy more.

What kind of positions are you looking out for? I've always thought HR sounded like an interesting field.

[littlelion]

wannabmama good riddance, you're too good for them anyway! That actually happened to my sister too...she was asked to leave. Mostly office politics. Hope you find something better soon!

[lilsneezy]

I own a small business. I wouldn't say it's my passion, it's more of my husband's passion that I support. I did go to school for business but I don't feel like what I learned in school really applies to my job, especially on a day to day level. There are definitely a lot of pros and cons to owning a business.

Pros: I can come and go as I please. I don't have to listen to anyone. I can fuck around on the internet all day if I want (and I do). I'm the boss.

Cons: Stress. So much stress. We get no sick time, no vacation time, no health benefits. There's no one to blame but myself if things go wrong. Oh and PAYING TAXES!!

I thought the easy part was going to be telling people what to do, but that's probably the hardest part of my job. When you work closely with a couple people every single day, you (hopefully) become friends. And sometimes it's super hard to balance being friends with someone AND being their boss at the same time. In a perfect world, everyone does their job exactly how you want them to, but at the end of the day no one cares about your business as much as you do. That was a hard pill for me to swallow because I tend to take things personally. But how can you not when you put your whole life into something? It's definitely something I still struggle with and we're going on our fourth year of being open.

[cjchio]

I'm a paralegal in a Probate and real Estate firm. I love my job. It's always interesting, and my boss is fantastic.
When I'm done with school, I'm going to have to leave to get a full time job in the field.

I'm planning on law school so maybe I can squeeze another couple years out of this job if it's not too much alongside law school.

Eta: I used to be a manager at Pier 1. I loved it at the location I started at, but after the move I hated the boss, so I ended up leaving as soon as I found a job I the field I actually love.

[ladytiffany24]

bex15 so much employee drama. Stupid, petty, unnecessary drama. One of the things I hate the most!

littlelion I want to get back to managing a team of my own people and helping them grow. In my position prior to this one, I was more operationally focused and served as a manager for one of our recruiting teams. I'd love to get back into something like that. Also wouldn't mind becoming a manager to a team of associates who administer benefits for the company.

ETA my job now is very isolating. I'm the big bad HR lady and I don't have many work friends. I hate that.

[aprilz81]

Feb 24, 2016 14:58:51 GMT -5 bex15 said:

aprilz81 , that's actually something I'm interested in doing! I've been in hotel sales for a long time so I feel like meeting planning would be a somewhat easy transition. Do you have to travel a lot?

In my current role I don't travel much (maybe 3-4 times a year?) but the meeting planners on our team travel a lot more because they have to be on site for most of their meetings.

My AMA next week is going to be on my job, but if you have specific questions PM me.

The company I work for is almost always hiring different positions and most of them are virtual. We hire sourcing managers (responsible for finding suitable properties for meetings and negotiate the contract), meeting planners (deals with the logistics related to the meeting) registration managers (my job, I deal with the room block and communicating changes to the hotel room coordinator, working with the meeting planner and client about attrition, room upgrades and other concessions relating to the room block.  I also cross check the air manifest to make sure the attendees booked their flights to match their hotel).

[bex15]

Feb 24, 2016 18:54:54 GMT -5 @saiven said:

I am a television journalist and I love it. I have worked some more difficult places and other easier places but the work remains rewarding and fulfilling.

Like on a local news channel? Sounds exciting either way!

[bex15]

lilsneezy, can I ask what kind of business it is?

[bex15]

Thank you aprilz81!!

[Deleted]

bex15 kind of! I'm not on the air, I'm a behind the scenes kind of gal, though I'd love to be a correspondent. I work for an international news organization.

[bex15]

Feb 24, 2016 20:24:55 GMT -5 @saiven said:

bex15 kind of! I'm not on the air, I'm a behind the scenes kind of gal, though I'd love to be a correspondent. I work for an international news organization.

This makes me think of Michelle Pfeiffer (sp?) in up close and personal so now I think you're fancy!