Is everybody just phoning it in for a boss that just needs you to do busy work?

  • @Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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    211 months ago

    I get paid well doing something I enjoy while also helping millions of people. The hardest part is really the stress. It can cause big issues if I misplaced a single character on a line of code that can have real consequences and it’s with small amounts of oversight.

  • Rhynoplaz
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    211 months ago

    Little bit of both here. When there’s something important going on, I bring it. Other times, we’re just waiting for something important to happen.

  • Bob
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    311 months ago

    I’m a freelance chef.

    • Fairly well paid (I can work parttime and still pay the bills).
    • I’m ridiculously self-disciplined and stress-resistant so I find it quite easy.
    • I get to see behind the curtain at a lot of restaurants.
    • I’ve built something of a local reputation and a circle of friends in the industry.
    • Being good at cooking, organising, and leading people is in itself very satisfying.
    • People find me more attractive because of it, haha.

    I’m just sick of making money for other people and sort of sick of working evenings. Oh, and people are always asking me to cook for them. Otherwise, I’m fulfilled. It’ll be time for me to look at setting up my own place soon enough.

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    Thankfully, yes. I grew to hate my previous job because of shitty leadership. I was cut when there were two rounds of downsizing because I was the best-paid on my team. They did me a favor. I was only half-heartedly looking for a new job because doing so is challenging when your morale is blasted from working a shit job.

    The new job is far higher stakes, but also far easier 95% of the time. I’m reading books during my downtime between putting out fires. I’m uniquely qualified for the role. I can also walk to work in ten minutes. And I absolutely love my boss. It’ll be six months tomorrow. Wooooha!

    They killed my job and gave me a huge win.

    Edit: OP, how about you?

    • lilpatchy2eyesOP
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      211 months ago

      Sort of? I’m on Peace Corps service for now and in some ways it’s really awesome, but at the end of the day the actual work is with the government and it feels like actually doing anything out here is like trying to run with a ball and chain.

        • lilpatchy2eyesOP
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          111 months ago

          Eh, I’m trying to travel. Don’t get me wrong I give my best effort to PC’s missions but we’re not really set up to do that which the general public might imagine we do.

          Meanwhile I have about 7 months before I return to the US and the idea of finding a real job is so terrifying I thought to turn to askLemmy for inspiration lol

  • @neidu2@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago
    • I like what I do
    • I get to travel and see the world
    • I’m paid handsomely
    • It’s a niche skill set that is hard to find
    • plenty of job security
    • I like my coworkers

    …so yeah, I’d say it’s fulfilling

    EDIT: To give a vague privacy friendly answer as to what I do, it’s a particular kind of IT, and it involves highly specialized purpose-built server clusters that spend most of their time on the backdeck of ships.

  • HobbitFoot
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    611 months ago

    My work is important and is sometimes in the news. And if I really screw up, it will definitely be in the news!

  • rudyharrelson
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    511 months ago

    I’m between jobs for the first time in my adult life at the moment. My last gig lasted nearly 10 years and it was a wild ride. I found it fulfilling for a time, but I eventually got promoted to a position I wasn’t wholly satisfied with.

    I started off at the very bottom rung, doing tech support for customers on the phone/chat/email. I was great at it and got promoted quickly to higher ranks of support, and eventually wound up managing the floor of tech support agents. Those were some of the best days of my life. Halcyon days.

    Every day was like a really low-stakes episode of House, where in the course of helping agents solve technical issues for customers, eventually we’d encounter one really inexplicable, difficult, borderline impossible problem that nobody had ever seen before, so me and my team’s brightest would walk and talk while hypothesizing and figuring out our next move.

    After a year or two of managing the floor, I got promoted to a position where I was ultimately a code monkey. Then Covid happened, and my job became fully remote for 4 years straight. Which was great! It allowed me to do my work and also spend way, way more time with my infant son during his early formative years. I got incredibly lucky in spite of the pandemic. But over time, the burnout grew to the point where I knew I needed to find something else to do with my career.

    I’m lucky enough to have enough in savings that I can take a bit of time to reflect and think about what I might want to do going forward with my admittedly limited credentials.

  • Bizzle
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    311 months ago

    Not really but my life outside of work is, plus I get free health insurance and they pay me enough money to have a reasonably comfortable life.

  • @einkorn@feddit.de
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    No, I don’t feel like my job is full filling. Would I switch though? No. Why?

    • The people I work with are awesome
    • The companies culture is overall great
    • I feel valued and supported

    So why is the job not full filling? Because I dislike and borderline hate the industry we are in: Marketing/Ads. Probably only next to fossil fuels the reason why the world we live in today sucks.

    Could I go elsewhere with my skillset? Certainly. But having had terrible employers with whos’ products I could somewhat identify with before, I came to the conclusion that it’s not necessarily most important what you do but with who.

    • lilpatchy2eyesOP
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      411 months ago

      I really appreciate this take. Sounds like you’ve found a good situation. I’m sure there’s not really a perfect job so you’ll always have to compromise on something.

  • @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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    611 months ago

    Yes! Self-employed, four-day work weeks, 4-6 hours a day. Enough money to be comfortable and to put some away for later. I have to clean the place by myself on that weekday off, but that’s fine. Cathartic even.

      • @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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        311 months ago

        I’m an ESL instructor in South Korea. My situation did not happen overnight. I’d worked in quite a few different private and public schools before this opportunity presented itself.

        • Victor
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          111 months ago

          Ah, cool. Thank you for sharing. I hope your situation continues for as long as you like/need it to. 🙂👍

          • @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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            111 months ago

            Teaching is very rewarding, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that some days I really want to never see a child again.

            • Victor
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              211 months ago

              Same thing being a parent, in all honesty.