Honestly: do you like your job?

[Everlong]

I like it enough to do it every day, and there are some nice benefits that come along with it (setting my own schedule, working from home). I like the fact that I get to write for a living. But the material is generally pretty boring, and I often feel as though I'm not really contributing anything to the world. So I dunno. I have days where it's fine, but it definitely isn't a dream job or anything.

What about ya'll.

[Westcoastvibes]

I love what i do. Sometimes i dont like where i do it and whom i work with.

If the politics and policies of working for a government agency got thrown out the window and some of the people disappeared it would be ideal

[flock u]

I don't love my job(roofing and construction) but I do like it it pays the bills so I can help my wife provide for our daughter and her little sister who should be coming any day now. It's not the ideal Job I want but that's my fault for focusing on drugs and other things in my youth instead of education.

[HardcoreLegend]

I have my ups and downs. Some days I don't mind going into work but there are days I really wish I was doing something else. That's actually a goal of mine this year, to leave my current job and find something more career wise.

[EmperorWu]

I've been at my job for about 3 years and honestly I still enjoy it. The only things that bother me are political and corporate stuff, but the job itself I've never really disliked. I do my best to ignore the bs, no point in feeding into it, you just make yourself more miserable. I love my boss and my lead is pretty cool too though. Every once in a while I even stop and think, "Man, I'm kind of having fun." I'm pretty damn fortunate. I hope everyone else here has a job or will find a job they can enjoy.

I'm a firm believer that you can decide what kind of attitude you have and it will start to turn the way you feel about your life in that direction. I do my best to think positively about situations and people and try to appreciate things. A little off topic but I think it can also affect how you feel about your job to a decent degree.

[AkydefGoldberg]

I don't mind the job I do. It's better than working in a call centre which depressed me but at times, the politics and the jockeying of positions by people you expect more from, is stressful. It's hard not to get sucked into. I tend to take work stresses home with me, making irritable but on the weekends, I tend to ignore it.

I'm content doing the job I do because at 28, I can't afford to do the job I truly would love to do because I know that won't happen so you have to be pragmatic.

[Locke]

I've been cutting hair for 8 years now. I don't mind the actual act of cutting hair, I just really dislike the customers. Not all of them, but a good 90% of them. Only old people go to barbers, and I really don't like old people. "The Greatest Generation" is the most entitled, selfish, uneducated, uncouth, unhappy bunch of mother fuckers I've ever seen. So no, I really don't like what I do. I wish I worked in a quiet little cubicle doing TPS reports like the guy in Office Space. At least then you deal with only one or two assholes, not 50 a day.

[Hanley!]

My job is okay. It's administrative, and mainly based on knowledge of using computer programs like Excel (along with a bit of insurance knowledge). I like that I'm good at it. I get to feel productive and useful. Though these days, I'm far too busy all the time. That almost makes the job more enjoyable as the days go faster and it never gets boring. But it also makes the job more stressful.

[Everlong]

Only old people go to barbers

Old people and Tim, apparently

[Locke]

Around here, the guys in their mid 30's and younger go to the beauty shops. Hard to compete with titties.

[Everlong]

Fuck that I'm not paying 35 bucks for a hair cut.

[Str8Shooter]

Only old people go to barbers

Old people and Tim, apparently

Old people and Tim and Brett

[PorkChop]

Why are we hating on barber shops? I enjoy going to the barbers, especially when they really take pride in what they do - there was an old fashioned barbershop where I went to uni who always did a pretty good job, and they'd often give you a straight razor shave on the back of your neck. It was awesome. I'd much rather prefer that than going to a salon and getting an overpriced cut from a college-dropout beautician.

As for my job, I enjoy some aspects of it. I only started last Tuesday, so there's plenty of time for that to change I work for the city council's travel department, and I liaise with local schools to organise safe and sustainable transport for children. It's a good cause, and I enjoy being a part of it - though today I made about 70 outgoing phonecalls back to back, and I began to seriously consider jumping out the window.

[Hanley!]

Yeah, another old man here apparently. I go to the barber too.

[Locke]

I'm not saying people around here are hating on barbers, just in the town I live, we only get 90 year old crotchety bastards which in turn makes me act like a 90 year old crotchety bastard.. All the young men and young businessmen are too busy getting boob-to-shoulder massages at the "hawtgurlz salon" or some shit, though.

[Str8Shooter]

I've been going to the same barber with my dad since I was a little kid. The dude's literally seen me grow up right in front of him every 6 weeks or so.

There aren't many barbers around anymore which sucks. Mostly salons or stuff like that. I don't know what I'll do when mine retires.

[Westcoastvibes]

I love the barber, nice close cut, straight razor my neck and behind my ears with the hot lather, hunting shows playing on massively oversized televisions, hair all over the floor cause he didn't feel like sweeping all morning. Fucking awesome

[Locke]

Well you guys are true men. If you're ever in Clinton Missouri, look me up, if it's on a Tues-Sat I'll give you a free haircut.

[Everlong]

I love how this turned into a thread specifically about going to the barber

[War Daddy]

When I'm not pumping iron, I'm usually coughing up 35 bucks every 4 weeks for a haircut.

Why? I do it for the titties and bicep squeezes. Fuck wit me.