Work

[cjsmith]

How many people here look forward to going to work in the morning? How many people say to themselves "That was a wonderful weekend, and I'm glad I get to go to work on Monday" or "Wow, I can't believe they pay me to [fitb]; I'd do it just for the fun of it" or "The people at my company are great and I'm glad I get to see them every day"?

I know there are people who are glad to have their jobs, or who feel grateful that their skillset happens to be lucrative, or who enjoy some aspects of their jobs but not others. I also know that there are people who basically hate their job, their coworkers, the activity, the salary, the hours, every bit of it. What I haven't seen is anyone who loves every bit of it.

I know my friends list. Y'all can be a contrary bunch. If I say I haven't seen FOO, several people will respond that they personify FOO. I wanna know who you are. Then I'll ask you how you got that happy.

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[wordripples.livejournal.com]

No, not every bit of it. I can say I love my work, but not necessarily the job. From the time I learned to program, I wanted to be allowed to get paid for doing it, so I took classes and worked and worked and proved myself until I was. Almost 20 years later, I'm still kind of excited that they let me program for money. If the fairy goddess of career retraining decended upon me and said, I will grant you the schooling and time and money to change careers and end up making the same income, I would just take the money and stick with programming.

Job is the environment and the people and the stupid management tricks, so I don't always love that.

Now, I don't now nor have I ever loved getting out of bed. That is a completely different story.