Do you just *love* your job?
I hear that if you love your job you will never work a day in your life. How did you get to the place where you are today? How did you find what it was that you were good at and enjoyed and had an opening for you?!? Very curious. TIA!
I have a great job. I am a career counselor (I love it so much, I am on this site answering questions in my free time). I work at a college and I get to help people figure out what they want out of life and then help them make those dreams come true!
I am in a part time job-share that they created to retain me when I had kids. I arrange my whole schedule and I have the option of getting paid to – counsel students and alumni one on one, teach classes, run workshops, go out a network with employers, attend conferences, help the college review curriculum issues, etc.
I have tons of autonomy, fun, interesting work and I like my co-workers! However honestly, I would never have though of it. I was struggling to find my way, living with mom and working as a nanny. I got diagnosed with cancer and jumped back into school for the medical insurance. While there I visited the career center and "flash" inspiration.
It is a perfect fit for me as I have the the ability to help other think critically, and analyze and integrate information. I can also very personally relate to the feeling of being lost as to a career direction.
My cancer is gone, and I have a dream job. The money is not good, but my husband makes okay money. Cancer helped me to get some perspective and I appreciate my job, my family and the balance I have found in life.
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
I am very interested in learning the answer to this question myself. I have a high paying job…that bores me to tears…
References :
I won a ‘fishing adventure’ at my old job playing the football pool. I went on the trip and I met this doctor who looked he could of been my long lost twin. We didn’t really get along very well but everyone kept mixing us up. On the last day of the trip he drowned, I switched his wallet with mine and no one was the wiser. I stepped right into his life. That is how I got my doctorate and private practice.
Dr. Cain
References :
I have a great job. I am a career counselor (I love it so much, I am on this site answering questions in my free time). I work at a college and I get to help people figure out what they want out of life and then help them make those dreams come true!
I am in a part time job-share that they created to retain me when I had kids. I arrange my whole schedule and I have the option of getting paid to – counsel students and alumni one on one, teach classes, run workshops, go out a network with employers, attend conferences, help the college review curriculum issues, etc.
I have tons of autonomy, fun, interesting work and I like my co-workers! However honestly, I would never have though of it. I was struggling to find my way, living with mom and working as a nanny. I got diagnosed with cancer and jumped back into school for the medical insurance. While there I visited the career center and "flash" inspiration.
It is a perfect fit for me as I have the the ability to help other think critically, and analyze and integrate information. I can also very personally relate to the feeling of being lost as to a career direction.
My cancer is gone, and I have a dream job. The money is not good, but my husband makes okay money. Cancer helped me to get some perspective and I appreciate my job, my family and the balance I have found in life.
References :
i don’t love my job one little bit. i’m not a janitor though, so it’s all good.
References :
no offense to those hard working janitors out there, i just couldn’t do it.
I left school at 17 with the attitude I couldnt be bothered to work. But after my dad gave me headache after headache I applied for loads of different jobs. Out of the 8 jobs i applied for only one replied which was a care home for elderly people. I ended up working their for 4 years. After that i got bord and left. I didnt know any other type of work so i applied to work as a carer in the community. That was ok for the following 2 years, then i found it was alot of ware and tear on my car, plus not having much of a social life. I then thought about doing a different type of care work and went into working with Learning Disabilities. I only lasted 4 months there as didnt like it. So i thought that care work wasn’t for me. I have always ridden horses in my spare time so decided to work with them. I worked for a year at an army barracks in their stables as a groom. This was excellent but the pay wasn’t good and it involved alot of traveling from my job to my home and it just wasn’t what i wanted to do full time. I then went into cleaning at a small airport, one were they build the techknowledgy and computers for planes. This was different and after a year I realised that i missed care work. However i wanted a job that would be challenging, so I ended up going to a home for adults with Mental Health issues. This was definatly challeging, but i worked my way up afte just a year there to senior position and now im head senior and still there. Ive completed my NVQ’s 2 and 3 in care and thinking about NVQ4. I do not want to stay there forever but at the moment im very happy there and have been there now just over 4 years. I want to sometime next year train in the field of Abnormal Psychology to better my career even more.
References :
My life
yes i work for the red cross because of what clara barton did so long ago to help in disasters and war torn countries but i am not a civil rights person for people who torment people
References :
I sort of have two jobs… one is a biz my wife and i own.. the other is the military…
sort of just stumbled into both of them.. understand these are just portions of my life that i am away from my family… i can surf the Internet help people and all that but i cant play with my son while i am at work… and that gets me SO angry… so i figured this if i want to do that; anything that gets me closer to that goal, no matter what that is i will love… so as far as do you love your job?.. if they stopped paying i wouldn’t show up… what i am excited about is that i now have a vehicle for my goals… along the way i found out that i was good at not getting people angry and could sometimes make them laugh.. that’s all you really need some ambition persistence and a reason to do more…
References :