Do you enjoy your job?

[Gareth]

This is something I'm sure Miss Hellfire will like to comment on....

According to BBC Radio Manchester this morning the people with the most "Job Satisfaction" are hairdressers. The guest hairdresser suggested this was down to meeting people and to get to touch lots of people - and men apparently really like that!

Is job satisfaction important? I'm a teacher, I really enjoy what I do in the classroom, it's a pain at times but I'm sure all jobs have those moments, yet I go in the staffroom and a large number of people moan about their job.

Is it time to change your job if you reach the point where you really hate it or do you carry on with it because the money's good?

[onetrickpony]

If the job is becoming so bad your life is depressed, quit your job and sell up
I'm a part time cleaner so i dont know if im allowed to contribute to this as im not full time - but i go to work, clean.

The only thing is i clean weekends as well which means i can't get drunk as i use too - which is you could say a good thing. Gareth - don't know how long you have been a teacher, but have you seen a change in the way children are brought up nowadays?

[Bail]

I hate my job. Does that count? Only I can't quit because I need the money...

[Spencer For Hire]

I'd like my job a lot more if the management had even the slightest clue what they were doing and how they should treat their staff.

[Pete]

I hate my job as a continuity announcer, luckily I often avoid the script from my boss as I like the credit music...

[Gareth]

....Gareth - don't know how long you have been a teacher, but have you seen a change in the way children are brought up nowadays?

I've not been a teacher long enough to see any "changes" but schools certainly seem to be dealing with discipline in a different way as they did previously. Children are only at school for a very short period of time in the whole year thus if schools are having to change the way they deal with behaviour something must be changing to cause that!

It is interesting to see differences in background and how that effects the pupils. My school is based on two sites, both contrasting areas and those pupils from the more middle class area are far better behaved (but not all) than those from the more working class area.

[Lorns]

This is something I'm sure Miss Hellfire will like to comment on....

According to BBC Radio Manchester this morning the people with the most "Job Satisfaction" are hairdressers. The guest hairdresser suggested this was down to meeting people and to get to touch lots of people - and men apparently really like that!

Is job satisfaction important? I'm a teacher, I really enjoy what I do in the classroom, it's a pain at times but I'm sure all jobs have those moments, yet I go in the staffroom and a large number of people moan about their job.

Is it time to change your job if you reach the point where you really hate it or do you carry on with it because the money's good?

How'd ya guess i'd like this topic?

I absolutely love my job, i must love it i've been wielding scissors for near on 20 years now. I meet new people every day, i get to chat, laugh and banter with clients and staff all day. I get to hear lots of gossip and more importantly i get great satisfaction out of making a bad head of hair look good.
I hated working in a ladies salon. I find ladies hairdressing a thankless job, the moneys crap and the hours long, i hate perming and colouring. So i moved into barbering, cutting hair is and always has been my forte. It's not all good though, like every job it has it's bad points, I itch like mad at the end of the day and suffer from lots of hair splinters and smell of barbershop when i get home, but the moneys good. Mind you that's because i own my own salon. You just have to take the rough with the smooth. Providing the smooth outweighs the rough. I spent 10 years working for someone else before i took the gamble to go it alone and it's paid off. So long as i have a pair of clippers, scissors and comb in my hand and clients walking through the door i'm happy.
You can't put a price on happiness! If you hate your job look for another job even if you have to take a pay cut. So long as it pays enough to put a roof over your head and food on the table and a holiday at home or abroad at least once a year you'll be ok.

[Johnny]

Don't like mine at the moment, there's "structural changes" going on but there will be "no redundancies", yeah right.

But as alot say I my place if it weren't for the people there they would have left ages ago, says alot for the firm where people stay because of the people and not the job itself :roll:

[Stuart*]

You can't put a price on happiness! If you hate your job look for another job even if you have to take a pay cut. So long as it pays enough to put a roof over your head and food on the table and a holiday at home or abroad at least once a year you'll be ok.

I hated my job in MOD after I had loved it at the start. After 15 years I left for a new start last year because it was driving me MAD .

After a year of hunting and trying lots of pointless non-entity jobs for months at a time (and spending all my savings paying the mortgage in the process) I have found one - doing what I was good at before, but somewhere different enough to give me the boost of enthusiasm.

I like the challenge, and that's what I'd lost before!

I need the "edge" of something new and exciting (a poke at your profile location there Miss H - hehe).

[DAS]

I hate my job as a continuity announcer, luckily I often avoid the script from my boss as I like the credit music...

Can you back up that point Your Highness?

[Nick Harvey]

I like the challenge, and that's what I'd lost before!

I need the "edge" of something new and exciting.

Isn't that a direct lift from the example in chapter six of "CV Writing for Beginners"?