Life How's your job satisfaction? - Page 5

**Rain Man** · 03-20-2018, 12:30 PM

Poll coming as soon as I get my red stapler back.

**Easy 6** · 03-21-2018, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Is there a company on your porch?

I live in a town of roughly 25,000 so nothing is more than 10 minutes away, but my job is now literally 2 miles down the road

Rasputin · 03-21-2018, 10:22 AM

It's hard to explain. I both like and hate my job at the same time. When I try to like my job they give me plenty of reason to hate it but for the most part it's easy but it gets difficult at any moment just got to keep your wits about you and not let the bull shit get you down.

**Rain Man** · 03-21-2018, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

For the last couple of years I had been exploring different job opportunities because I’ve been burned out from working in the mortgage industry for ten years. I accepted an offer to work in Shenzhen, China for a year last August. In September I moved out of my apartment, sold my car and threw my shit into storage. I started working here in southern China in mid September. I love my job here. I get my own monthly stipend for my apartment and the cost of living is so cheap, I barely spend a quarter of my check. I paid off my debts and now my only bill from home is my monthly storage fee. I love being right next door to Hong Kong and for Chinese New Year I spent a week in Cebu, Philippines. I get the normal homesickness and it sucks having to watch the Chiefs at 5am but this has been an amazing experience.

Wow. That's pretty cool.

carcosa · 03-21-2018, 10:34 AM

I'm fine, thanks for asking. I get to write for a living, which is nice, even if I'm not particularly interested in what I'm writing about. THanks!

Dayze · 03-21-2018, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

For the last couple of years I had been exploring different job opportunities because I’ve been burned out from working in the mortgage industry for ten years. I accepted an offer to work in Shenzhen, China for a year last August. In September I moved out of my apartment, sold my car and threw my shit into storage. I started working here in southern China in mid September. I love my job here. I get my own monthly stipend for my apartment and the cost of living is so cheap, I barely spend a quarter of my check. I paid off my debts and now my only bill from home is my monthly storage fee. I love being right next door to Hong Kong and for Chinese New Year I spent a week in Cebu, Philippines. I get the normal homesickness and it sucks having to watch the Chiefs at 5am but this has been an amazing experience.

I bet the Panda Express' there, are outstanding.

**ChiTown** · 03-21-2018, 11:03 AM

No complaints. Sold my largest business last August. I could comfortably retire today at 51, but wtf am I going to do? I enjoy working and having the financial comfort of taking off when I want to. I love my little Company I have right now - myself and my biz partner. We do deals that interest us, and take on a fun project now and then. It’s all good.

PunkinDrublic · 03-21-2018, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Dayze

I bet the Panda Express' there, are outstanding.

I love Chinese food but when you eat it every ****ing day it it gets old quick lol. Luckily there’s enough western food joints here to keep me from going crazy.

seclark · 03-21-2018, 11:34 AM

35years at the same job this month. don't hate it, but i'm sure tired of it. things sure change over all those years. all the people that were here when i started have retired. just a bunch of damn kids. their music sucks. they park in my parking place. they never put a new roll of toilet paper on when they use the last of it....yeah, **** this place...i'm out of here as soon as i can get out.

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ghak99 · 03-21-2018, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Claysexual

Do tell?

It's mostly financial risk that is out of my hands.

I can mitigate it enough to not lose everything, but I can't really keep from occasionally working all year for free.

chinaski · 03-21-2018, 12:45 PM

A person I used to work with, whom I looked up to, told me this about a year before he retired:

"When I started doing this, it was a career. Then it turned into a job. Now I go to work."

**Buehler445** · 03-21-2018, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ghak99

It's mostly financial risk that is out of my hands.

I can mitigate it enough to not lose everything, but I can't really keep from occasionally working all year for free.

Yep. I’m probably going to work for free this year. Yay!

tooge · 03-21-2018, 12:48 PM

I'm generally happy. However, the success of my job often depends on my patients doing what I tell them to do, and often times, they don't. That is frustrating. Fixing someone up, only to have them come in 6 months later with their teeth covered in fur/cheese, is very much a bummer.

**Rain Man** · 03-21-2018, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Dayze

I bet the Panda Express' there, are outstanding.

I bet in China they sell hamburgers there.

BucEyedPea · 03-21-2018, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Easy 6

I live in a town of roughly 25,000 so nothing is more than 10 minutes away, but my job is now literally 2 miles down the road

My job is a 30 feet away! Nah! Nah!

BucEyedPea · 03-21-2018, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

I know an art school that would have all the students screaming and running for the exits if I showed up nude.

Which one is that?

For us artists, anatomy is still just anatomy to learn from.

View Poll Results: How's your job satisfaction at the moment?
I'm exuberant. I hate having days off because I love my job so much.	13	10.00%
I'm generally pleased. I'm cruising along like a non-Malaysian airliner, happy and making progress.	42	32.31%
I'm okay. My job is not necessarily my raison d'etre, but it's not like they make me speak French or anything.	20	15.38%
I'm neutral. Solid, stoic, neutral. I neither like nor hate, neither rejoice nor loathe.	8	6.15%
I have a slight frown. I wish I was somewhere else, but I'm here and I'm going to soldier on.	13	10.00%
I'm displeased now that you mention it. What am I doing with my life? Why am I here? I've never been to Mongolia, and I'm doing this?	8	6.15%
My job is eating my soul. I must escape this unrelenting yoke that grinds me into the earth.	8	6.15%
I don't work. I'm retired, in school, rich, chronically unemployed, and/or have a sugar daddy/mama.	13	10.00%
I have no idea if I'm satisfied or not. Ever since Corporate Lobotomy Day last July, I've just come in and worked.	5	3.85%
Voters: 130. You may not vote on this poll

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Rasputin Tip of the hat LIV Champs Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: ks Casino cash: $3485421	It's hard to explain. I both like and hate my job at the same time. When I try to like my job they give me plenty of reason to hate it but for the most part it's easy but it gets difficult at any moment just got to keep your wits about you and not let the bull shit get you down. __________________ A Brave Man Once Requested Me To Answer Questions That Are Key 'Is It To Be Or Not To Be' And I Replied Oh Why Ask Me
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carcosa Thank you Join Date: May 2014 Casino cash: $2833695	I'm fine, thanks for asking. I get to write for a living, which is nice, even if I'm not particularly interested in what I'm writing about. THanks!
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ChiTown Stroking to the SB Champs! Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Flatlands of Kansas Casino cash: $3303962	No complaints. Sold my largest business last August. I could comfortably retire today at 51, but wtf am I going to do? I enjoy working and having the financial comfort of taking off when I want to. I love my little Company I have right now - myself and my biz partner. We do deals that interest us, and take on a fun project now and then. It’s all good. __________________
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03-21-2018, 11:34 AM	#68
seclark MVP Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: nemo Casino cash: $1699900	35years at the same job this month. don't hate it, but i'm sure tired of it. things sure change over all those years. all the people that were here when i started have retired. just a bunch of damn kids. their music sucks. they park in my parking place. they never put a new roll of toilet paper on when they use the last of it....yeah, **** this place...i'm out of here as soon as i can get out. sec __________________ "Mr. seclark. Wrong for gravy, wrong for jelly, wrong for biscuits." -rj "If every Planeteer who was disliked by another Planeteer stopped being a Planeteer we wouldn't have any Planeteers." -rj
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03-21-2018, 12:45 PM	#70
chinaski Veteran Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: He/Him Casino cash: $8739922	A person I used to work with, whom I looked up to, told me this about a year before he retired: "When I started doing this, it was a career. Then it turned into a job. Now I go to work."
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03-21-2018, 12:48 PM	#72
tooge MVP Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Liberty, MO Casino cash: $3964112	I'm generally happy. However, the success of my job often depends on my patients doing what I tell them to do, and often times, they don't. That is frustrating. Fixing someone up, only to have them come in 6 months later with their teeth covered in fur/cheese, is very much a bummer.
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