"Work" do you love it or hate

[747mopar]

Curious how many of you have your dream job and how many just hate your job. I for 1 am somewhere in the middle and can't seam to find my "home". Being someone who get's bored easily chose Industrial Maintenance, get to design & build things, weld, machine work, rebuild stuff, and so on "something different everyday". The problem is now I'm in a Sawmill that every piece of equipment has to be running all day meaning if you don't have a project "your doing nothing and bored". Oddly enough my favorite job was weaving baskets for Longaberger "I know it sounds gay" but it was work incentive (if you didn't make a basket you didn't get squat) on the other hand if you busted butt you could make some serious money and go home early. It was nice, A/C, music video's, clean, good money and I only worked about 30 hrs a week. I've been thinking of starting something at home, we have a full woodshop and a full machine shop????????????? So let's hear your story

 

[67 coronet]

by no means my dream job.i manage an automotive repair shop,big one,16 bays and 20 workers.i enjoy it most of the time.bitchy customers are getting a bit out of control lately.not sure how it became common practice that the louder you yell,the bigger the discount.but whatever.trying to start hotrodding cars out of the house.current project almost done(67 coronet)then i get to do a 1994 lambo diablo,tough to do,but should make some great cash on that at auction.maybe enough to get the home shop running full time.:headbang:

 

[BeastlyBirdie]

I'm lucky, I guess. I play and teach guitar and tune pianos for a living. As with any job, there are drawbacks. Self employment combined with fickle clients can leave some fears, but, you get used to it. In the past, I was an automotive machinist by day. I miss the guys I worked with, and a certain balance machine(Meep), but, I love the fact I am in charge of my day.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Oddly enough my favorite job was weaving baskets for Longaberger "I know it sounds gay" but it was work incentive (if you didn't make a basket you didn't get squat)

I found you!

 

[747mopar]

by no means my dream job.i manage an automotive repair shop,big one,16 bays and 20 workers.i enjoy it most of the time.bitchy customers are getting a bit out of control lately.not sure how it became common practice that the louder you yell,the bigger the discount.but whatever.trying to start hotrodding cars out of the house.current project almost done(67 coronet)then i get to do a 1994 lambo diablo,tough to do,but should make some great cash on that at auction.maybe enough to get the home shop running full time.:headbang:

I love restoring cars but I'm way to slow to make any money off of it and fear it would take all the fun out of it. Good luck with your adventure

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I found you!

LMAO, no a little to old and dark but funny anyhow.

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I'm lucky, I guess. I play and teach guitar and tune pianos for a living. As with any job, there are drawbacks. Self employment combined with fickle clients can leave some fears, but, you get used to it. In the past, I was an automotive machinist by day. I miss the guys I worked with, and a certain balance machine(Meep), but, I love the fact I am in charge of my day.

Yeah, your lucky. On a goodnote the best thing about my present job is that I'm home at 3:30 everyday and don't work weekends.

 

[djais1801]

i like the hours of my job, which is a school social worker...summers off (approx 8wks)..but everything else about it sucks! Society/Gov't is making the schools parent kids in addition to educating them...and...i have the pleasure of being the Bullying specialist which takes all my time with no extra pay and reinforces victim behaviors the way the law is written in NJ.
i actually prefer the kids to the faculty...i screen kids that are suicidal, counsel kids..provide outside resources to families, sometimes have to sends kids out to crisis units. AND I bartend on weekends/summers which is part-time and make as much/if not more than my "real" job..

 

[wedge5]

I am an Officer for the Ill. Dept. of Corrections and love what I do. It is hard to explain but it fits my personality.

 

[Redhorse719]

I love my job, I'm retired U.S. Army.

 

[shorty64]

Love my job now that I'm retired from the automotive engineering business.
Tough making those choices like; mow the lawn? - nah, clean the garage? - nah, work on old cars - yup.
Actually, not having a bazillion impossible deadlines has way lowered my stress levels.
Have lost 100# now that I don't need/want the constant "comfort foods" (non-smoker).

 

[Pops1967GTX]

I have wore many hats in my day ....Enjoyed them all.... But getting my hands dirty,stripped down an old engine & completely rebuilding it. To hear it run again......Nothing else like it......

 

[snakeoil24]

I like my job as a Sales Representative in the Chemical Industry, The hard part is so many companies closing, hard to find new customers. I have worked in this business for 28 years, selling to Oil refineries, Pharmaceutical. Food Processors, Breweries and Dairy processors. Every customer finds it difficult to make money, costs are high, regulation, Government Red tape and just a continued poor economy. I hope to work 5 more years and retire at 62. I still enjoy playing with Mopars for years and look to build Hemi car's and more Mopars when I retire.

 

[5.7 hemi]

Any job that pays well, bennies, and can crack skulls....gotta love it!! But, if your in the military, you just "reach out and touch someone", lol!

 

[747mopar]

I have wore many hats in my day ....Enjoyed them all.... But getting my hands dirty,stripped down an old engine & completely rebuilding it. To hear it run again......Nothing else like it......

I'm with ya there, there is few things I enjoy more than building a motor from the ground up to hear it fire again "great feeling". I love trannies as well, hell I enjoy rebuilding everything on a car.

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I am an Officer for the Ill. Dept. of Corrections and love what I do. It is hard to explain but it fits my personality.

What your saying is your a hard a$$, haha. That would be rough I would think.

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I love my job, I'm retired U.S. Army.

Thanks for your service Red, "yeah" retirement would be nice.

 

[Redhorse719]

Quote Originally Posted by wedge5 View Post
I am an Officer for the Ill. Dept. of Corrections and love what I do. It is hard to explain but it fits my personality.

What your saying is your a hard a$$, haha. That would be rough I would think.


Not necessarily, just an Alpha Male personality. LOL

Thanks for your service Red, "yeah" retirement would be nice.

Thank you. I would still be there or do it again if I could.

 

[mopar367]

I like my job, on the road traveling to different places every day. No boss over me shouting hurry up, I locate natural gas pipe lines, and telecommunications cables .

 

[ZR9B]

Like it...Run an injection molding company of about 100 employees ...we do a lot of GM work been there since 89...we are opening a new plant as we speak just bought a 1500 ton press (biggest one we have)....I like getting all the pieces together to make the launch go smooth...I have a guy putting in a 1200 amp service in by end of the week just for the one press....cant wait to see that fire up!!! worst part is the babysitting end of the job.

 

[Meep-Meep]

I have my own gig rebuilding stuff that spins ridiculously fast that no one has heard of and I love it. Usually it's not even like real work. I've been at it for about 15 yrs and I can count on one hand how many people in the US do the same thing. Customers have told me that I'm probably the best shop in the country to fix a turbomolecular pump and they just keep coming in from within the US and everywhere else. I have one employee and he can do no wrong and he's even an old MoPar guy! Prior to this I worked at a national Lab, which exposed me to the world of high and ultra high vacuum.

 

[Dennis H]

Enjoy is a better word. It has rewarding (and other) moments. It is good.

 

['67Satellite]

I enjoy my job. I work on the Airforces F-35's at Edwards AFB. Im in the Marine Corps though, so its a unique situation. Sweet jet!

 

[BIGSHCLUNK]

I've been working for myself since 1983. Some days my boss is a BIG a-hole other days hes the greatest guy I know. Cant say its always easy but its all mine.