The I Love My Job Thread - it’s not work when you love what you do

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Snusmumriken

Snusmumriken

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Welcome to the thread where we laugh at wage slaves and pat ourselves on the back for our very good career choices. You don’t have to make a lot of money to love your job. If you love getting baked at McDonalds and serving up some succulent nuggies, you belong here.

Everybody has to work to live. Not all work is pleasant. It’s a very precious and fortunate thing to love your job and I think we should say it. For me, I made the mistake of going back to education and absolutely despised my last job of two years. Now that I’m finally back in dentistry and every day is such bliss. And while I would rather work for private practice than a DSO, this one is offering to pay for me to expand my functions, rather than me having to pay for it. I love being on my feet and breaking a sweat. I love that I get to do a million different things and no one day is the same. I love getting the option to work or stay home on Fridays. I love interesting cases and patients. I love watching the relief when we extract the tooth that’s been bugging them. And I love not being miserable and making enough money to live.

What do you love about your job? What makes your job super cool and therefore makes you super cool by proxy? Let’s count our blessings together—they could be gone by tomorrow.
 
Big fan of my job tbh. They take good care of us and that's all I need to be happy. The fact I get paid? Whew.
 
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Being a fresh grad in 2026 is brutal (:_(
 
I really, really miss my job as a PI. I started working privately as a contractor for the lawyers I worked for while I was in the military after I retired, and then they both fully retired. So I got my license (don't need one when you are working for lawyers), and set up my own shop, but literally never did anything with it since surveillance and private shit is boring and gay.

I do long range survey work now, at the intersection of hiking and math, and it's cool because you go someplace new every couple weeks and it makes you LOVE winter. But I really miss the mil-adjacent investigation stuff.
 
I hit the jackpot in terms of cool jobs, I work in an anime/card shop in an area that doesn't have a lot of stores like that AND it's within cycling distance of my house. It's the exact scenario I would have dreamed about when younger only to be told it would never happen. Like, what the fuck do you mean having Dragonball Z Autism is actually a marketable skill?!

When I'm really lucky I'll get some art commission work on the side and I have been paid very well for it, that's where I want my career growth to happen but the job market for artists is shit right now. I'm thankful that my regular job is fun and bringing in money.
 
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I hate you all.

My wife loves her job, and it makes me realize that people who love their work make poor life and financial decisions.
 
I couldn't be happier with my job, so I'm going to have to carefully PL. Early last year I was promoted into senior management after working at the company for 8 years. In that time I worked my way up from the most basic role possible to where I am now and in that promotion I skipped from non management to where I am now. What makes me love the job is that the other senior manager and I have become absolute bros and together we are a lethal combination. We both answer to the Managing Director who in turn answers to the company owner. We're in our mid 30s and the MD is in his late 40s and we're all ambitious as fuck which the company owner is happy to encourage. As long as he gets to continue living the life of Riley he's a happy man. If someone had told me 10 years ago when I was completely broke and stuck in a paki cash in hand debt trap what was in store for me I wouldn't have believed them for a second. It is stressful? Fuck yes it is, but the satisfaction I get from the work I do makes it all worth it.
 
My manager doesn’t give a shit if we talk back to boomers anymore. She upped my hours so at least I’m doing something right
 
While my current line of work is… tolerable, my one true love of employment will always be Five Guys Burgers and Fries. The ideal behind it really clicked with me: the conceit of being the best in town, high standards of product quality and cleanliness, reliance only on word-of-mouth as advertising, and, most importantly, positive reinforcement (i.e. cash bonuses) for achieving all the above. That last part was the most important, because an earnest effort driven by a sense of self-respect can only carry one so far, and Five Guys figured out real quick that distance is a week max.

It’s a job I’m good at, the best in the state still even after a seven-year absence. The issue arose with my boss who didn’t like, in my greater experience with the company, I would insist on performing by the book, rather than attempt shortcuts intended to hedge our bets against the oversight that should be rewarding us. I knew I was better, he knew I was better, he knew I knew I was better, and he held me back because of it despite directly benefiting from my performance.
 
I used to be a crewman on an M1A1 Abrams. Driving a 70 ton turbine powered main battle tank was one of the funnest jobs I ever had. Loved it.

I'm fortunate in that my career in civilian life after was pretty damn cool as well.
 
I really love working with industrial controls, before I started my business, I was on record for having 37 fourteen hour days in a row. Being really good in this line of work has given me a lot of bottles of wine and free dinners. On top of that, running my business has really doubled my joy and I love being the "guy" you call to fly to a different country for a line not running.

I think a lot of kiwis would enjoy working more if they owned the company ; I do know its pretty frustrating to find a clean cut 0 to 1 business guide and maybe a business-start-megathread is in order :optimistic::)
 
I really like my current job - it's technical enough to pay well but still pretty easy. Becoming a manager has zero appeal - way more stress for negligibly more pay is just moronic.
 
CoolNitroFire dijo:
maybe a business-start-megathread is in order
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Its not super active, but we have this thread:
mister fireworks

Tema 'Kiwis bosses who started their own business'

I started this thread because I’m finally done being a corporate coward (I was fired) and I’m opening my own retail shop for custom motorbikes. I’m using LegalZoom and it’s insane how expensive every thing is. Anybody else here got a new small business they just started, or any interesting stories and advice for business kiwis?
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Working in your hobby field is fantastic. They pay might not be great, but I sure make up for it with freebies and staff discounts. Also everyone at the company is just genuinely lovely people. One of the few places where "feel free to ask someone for help if you don't understand" is actually true. Moved from a more "prestigious" scientific academia role full of people with their heads up their ass to a bunch of down to earth regular people who are so pleasant to be around. Never looked back.
 
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