Do you like your job? What do you do?

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I offer "Life Therapies" - Counselling, Hypnotherapy and Life Coaching (in alphabetical order) and I am the master of my own time! Couldn't be happier

 

[John VN]

I enjoy my job sooooo much I put in triple overtime for no extra compensation.

Job Title - retired geezer

 

[HappyGal]

Yes, I still enjoy it (going on 30 years).

Flight Attendant.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Yes, I’m a librarian and also do project management at my company. I really enjoy both and that my company lets me keep trying new things and growing.

 

[kuhltiffany]

Love my job. I’m a Mental Health Worker for the school board. I teach kids about how to manage and maintain their mental health and wellbeing, through presentations, small groups and 1-1 counseling.

 

[leebee]

I am the Organic Chemistry Lab Supervisor/Manager and a teaching associate at the University of Maine. We teach 14 lab sections each semester and two accelerated courses during May and June. It's my job to make sure the proper chemicals are in the lab for each lab session. I set up the chemicals, keep them stocked, swap out the chemical boxes for each week's labs, manage the waste, keep records, ordering, keep the labs clean and running, maintain equipment, etc. During the academic year I also teach two lab sections, so that's 8 face-to-face hours every week, plus writing pre-lab lectures and quizzes, office hours, email consultation, and grading lab reports... endless, endless grading, about 16-20 hours a week of grading.
Summer session is different. Same responsibilities, different structure. We teach o-chem 1 in 4 weeks in May, followed by o-chem 2 in June. I teach one lab section of up to 12 students, with 3 different experiments a week... and still all the other responsibilities and grading.

I like my job. I am not a chemist so the first few years were challenging. However... I have a lot of flexibility in my time. I have to be on campus when I teach, obviously, and also in the chem building when the other labs are in session (in case of emergency, replacing/refilling something, etc.) and for meetings, but other than that, my time is my own, so I can grade and work from home, over the weekends and evenings if I need a day free, and even remotely (so on vacation or when I visit my sister, for example, and if I work while away I don't have to mark out the vacation hours). Summer is especially nice, as once summer session is over (July 2nd this year) there isn't much for me to do until mid-August, and nobody is ever looking over my shoulder. The grading is monumental and mostly frustrating, but the flexibility in the job makes up for the challenges of the position.

 

[easyas123]

I'm the co-owner of, and Director of Risk Management at a mid-sized construction/ design-build company with operations on Delmarva down south to NC. I'm 51 and I've been in construction - specifically wastewater & water treatment since I was a kid. We bid both public & private work, and do a lot of work for Big Chicken as well as public entities.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Wow! Some really epic jobs here guys!

 

[kimmar067]

I'm retiring this June after 25 years - Grade 6 Pre-algebra teacher.

 

[bjscheel]

Paralegal. Spent 26 years at a law office in town, then the last remaining attorney retired last year. I now work for another firm, 100% from home. I like it, it's enough the same that I feel confident, but a bit of a switch-up in type of work so it's new that way. Staying home is great. I took a big pay cut, but I work less hours so converting to hourly pay it's similar. At this stage I think I'll deal with the salary in order to have the greater freedom. Kids are through college, weddings are paid for/saved up, and starting next month won't have any kids on health insurance so our expenses will be dropping

 

[Meriweather]

love it.....retired
But always seem to be busy still.....and that is what vacations are for,.....get away and relax

 

[nene0182]

I know it’s not for everyone and a lot would find it boring but I love my job. I think it’s more of the company and people I work with than the actual work though. I’ve been at this company for almost 11 years and in this position for 3. I manage an accounts payable department for a Fortune 500 company. My teams supports 3 different business units and operates in 7 different payment systems so there is always something to learn and something going on. Never a dull day. The benefits are also great: up to a 20% bonus every year, profit sharing, health/dental/vision insurance for the family for less than $200/month, 6 weeks of PTO, Flex Time, flexible hybrid schedule, 401k and pension. I plan on staying here for as long as I can.

 

[tvguy]

Retired 4 years now. Not sure how I ever found time to work. Pandemic kind of eased me into retirement. I was working from home for 15 of the last 16 months I worked. Went back into the building for four weeks before retiring.

 

[disneyseniors]

I'm a retired RN. My last job before retiring was with Home Care and Hospice. It was my favorite nursing position. I have worked ICU, med/surg floor, Recovery, and office nurse for internal medicine. Home care and Hospice was my absolute favorite position. We live in a rural area and covered other very rural areas with lots of unique situations arising at times. I would still be working but had to retire due to a medical condition. Otherwise, I would not have retired so soon.

 

[citruscurtis]

Mental health therapist working with children 5-18 who were schizophrenia, bi-polar, or exhibiting behavior dangerous to society or themselves and legally required to be in the Oregon State hospital. That model was dismantled 2021 and I went back into the public education system as a teacher. Prior to that a journalist for the US army and upon discharge a Renaissance man growing peaches and antique shows and estate appraisals