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

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Today at the job I love, I got to spend four hours in the basement on my phone while pretending to be watching my modules. The best part is I got to catch up on some side gigs while I was already getting paid to do fuck-all. Then when I got bored of doing fuck-all I told my mouth-breathing PMO I was gonna go upstairs and take the next crown case and she was just like “durrrr okay”.
It can be frustrating to work for a manager who has never even worked in your field before and it’s made for an unforgiving experience in the past, but at this office, the fat lard just signs our paychecks and lets us do what we want. Which is great, because all we want to do is treat patients. And all the current clinicians are so happy with the deal that we will chew up and spit out anyone who takes too much advantage. It’s a good boat to be in right now, even if it’s not where I want to stay forever. Coming from my last job, I’m happy to just be afloat.
 
I like my job well enough and would hate to do anything else. People ask me tons of questions every day, I get around 80 emails daily, about half of which I need to respond to, and the rest I need to at least having passing knowledge of their contents. The worst part is when I need to review resumes, hold interviews, and make hiring decisions because there are not a lot of good resumes/applicants for this kind of job. I do have to occasionally change my Slack notification sound because I'll hear pings that don't exist, even when I'm not on the clock.
 
Amateur Shoelace Tyer dijo:
I like my job well enough and would hate to do anything else. People ask me tons of questions every day, I get around 80 emails daily, about half of which I need to respond to, and the rest I need to at least having passing knowledge of their contents. The worst part is when I need to review resumes, hold interviews, and make hiring decisions because there are not a lot of good resumes/applicants for this kind of job. I do have to occasionally change my Slack notification sound because I'll hear pings that don't exist, even when I'm not on the clock.
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please tell me how to get a useless email job
 
Generic Anime Girl dijo:
please tell me how to get a useless email job
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Learn any office job well enough to have a couple hours of downtime a week, then ask any boss if there's a meeting that you can start running or a weekly/monthly report you can take over and it will snowball from there. If you can write a few meeting agendas a month that cover the progress and needs of multiple departments, learn how to take the terminology and needs of one department and translate them to another department so they stop stepping on each other's toes, and get that done during a handful of 30 minute time blocks shared amongst a couple dozen people fiddling with Zoom, while answering questions on Slack and monitoring your inbox, you will make it far.
 
I've been thinking about this today. I have a document saved somewhere where I listed my criteria for a dream job, and my current one meets at least three points:

1. Remote, but can dress up in business wear and commute on occasion
2a. Am paid to learn about subjects I'm interested in
2b. Could well end up an expert in a field of my choosing
3. No interactation with customers

I am truly blessed to have been handed this job.
 
Used to be a construction manager. Still occasionally work for that company when they need. Help charge them more than they were paying me, which was a lot. Now own my own small growing construction company. I actually build things now. I like building. Like really nice custom docks.
As well as really pretty garden beds. My hands are dirty. And callous but. Beats having to deal with the single dumbest group of people on the face of the planet. Which is upper management in any mid size construction company. Made up of a bunch of. Guys who only have the positions they do is because their dad had connections.
 
I like what I do, I'm good at what I do, and I've helped streamline a few things. There are quiet days and there are busy days, but I never feel like I'm micromanaged or wasting my time. Loyalty and seniority have its perks as well, and I'm grateful that I have coworkers* and management that don't make me want to deepthroat a shotgun.

*At least coworkers I work directly with on a routine basis. There are some people that we all hate dealing with.
 
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