Are you happy going to work?

[sherri_chickie]

I love the school I work at, I have a cush job as the Resource Teacher and the pay is not half bad. I am pretty happy here. Now if I won a couple million I would quit and be a stay at home mom ( until I got bored and went back part time)

[marko138]

I went to college and majored in Communications. I thought it would be fun to work in media. I originally wanted to be a sports anchor. I wanted to do something I would enjoy. I knew going in that the pay would SUCK...and it does. And I knew it would be tough to actually find a job. Comm is a cake walk through college and a lot of people major in Comm. So there are a ton of peeps looking for work.

I got a job in at a major market (top 50) TV station a month after I graduated as a tape editor for the morning show. Pay was 22k. SUCKED. Tought me a lot about the biz.

After a year a moved up to a Photojournalist slot. I loved it. I gave on being on air, I enjoyed working behind the camera much more than being in front. I won a few awards. Then the business got shitty. Lay offs, pay cuts, run and gun style of ENG. SUCKED DONKEY BALLS.

So I got out. Moved on to state government. I enjoy this work. It's boring at times, the subject matter sucks a lot. But for a TV gig it's as easy as it gets. Hardly ever a daily deadline. EXCELLENT government benefits. Pay is not great, but WAY better than news. 21% pay INCREASE when I took this job. A lot of days, like today, are spent cruising the internet. I dont dread going to work every day.




Cliff notes: Yes I'm happy going to work.

[Krabill]

Originally Posted by marko138

I went to college and majored in Communications. I thought it would be fun to work in media. I originally wanted to be a sports anchor.

Probably a good thing that didn't work out for you. I've got a friend here in Tulsa who is a sports anchor and while he likes his job well enough, he absolutely hates the hours.

He rides, and really likes competing in trials events, but he HAS to be at the station to do the evening news. If we have a big, two-day event, he's screwed. He can get to most of the local events just fine, but he usually has to leave either immediately when it's finished or sometimes even before he gets to finish the event just so he can hightail it back to the station because he has to be on the air. You can tell he'd much rather be riding.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Krabill

Probably a good thing that didn't work out for you. I've got a friend here in Tulsa who is a sports anchor and while he likes his job well enough, he absolutely hates the hours.

He rides, and really likes competing in trials events, but he HAS to be at the station to do the evening news. If we have a big, two-day event, he's screwed. He can get to most of the local events just fine, but he usually has to leave either immediately when it's finished or sometimes even before he gets to finish the event just so he can hightail it back to the station because he has to be on the air. You can tell he'd much rather be riding.

Yeah, sports in general suck. It's always gonna be nights and weekend work. F that.

I always loved sports. But it's tough to be creative shooting sports highlights. News was much better suited for that.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Krabill

Probably a good thing that didn't work out for you. I've got a friend here in Tulsa who is a sports anchor and while he likes his job well enough, he absolutely hates the hours.

He rides, and really likes competing in trials events, but he HAS to be at the station to do the evening news. If we have a big, two-day event, he's screwed. He can get to most of the local events just fine, but he usually has to leave either immediately when it's finished or sometimes even before he gets to finish the event just so he can hightail it back to the station because he has to be on the air. You can tell he'd much rather be riding.

Time for him to do a remote from the competition and support the sport.

[Krabill]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Time for him to do a remote from the competition and support the sport.

He does when he can. He always does a highlight of our local big 2-day event and a few others. But again, he has to film in the morning, then hightail it back to the station to edit it and get it on the air that evening while the rest of us are out riding.

I didn't even mention football season. That poor guy is tied up pretty much every night for months during that.

[Tmall]

Pro of my job? Making as much money as 101lifts2 for being an "oil dipper" and having no student debt.

[racedoll]

Lee said it best with having mixed feelings. Ever since Erik was let go last year I care less about going to work. I go because I need to. He doesn't work and one of us to be the insurance and stable income.
We are getting more policy changes from our parent company and the changes suck. More people are going to leave. It is a given. We are numbers instead of people anymore. Since our owner decided to get more greedy.
I'm in the automotive industry so if it tanks again, which wouldn't surprise me, more people will be let go.
I've very much looking forward to the 2 week shut down we have in a couple weeks. Then I can start the new year dreading that I have to wait an entire year for another 2 week shutdown.

[dReWpY]

So true, so true

[MikeSP1]

This is a weird question for me to answer. I very much enjoy what I do, if the only thing I had to do was what I got hired in the first place to do, fix airplanes. The rest of my job is annoying, especially how my career field is undermanned and I have to do so much extracurricular bs in order to fix jets. And doing every one else's job is annoying too.

In general I neither like nor dislike going to work, but that usually changes when I get there and take turn over, sometimes for the better, sometimes not.