[ SECRET POST #3133 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3133 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Guild]


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03.
[Harvest Moon: (More) Friends of Mineral Town]


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04.
[Gump, from Legend]


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05.
(Agent Carter)


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06.
[Jeeves and Wooster]


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07.
[Lupin III]


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08.
[Courtney Love & Kurt Cobain]


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09.
(SPN)


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10.
[Kasumi Goto, Mass Effect]











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Comments

Do you love your job? Why?

[replicantangel]

I don't like my job and want to change careers, but I'm lost as to what to do next.

Who here loves their job (or at least doesn't mind when it's Monday)? What do you do? How did you get there (training, schooling, etc)?

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[ketita]

Well atm I freaking adore my job because I'm a mangaka, and that's basically all the dreams come true at once.
(not like I'm doing my own series, but I am drawing a small serialized comic for a Japanese magazine). On the other hand, it's freaking difficult, and I was very much Not Trained for this - I'm a self-taught artist, but they liked my style and decided to go with me anyway.
I got introduced to them through nepotism, but I assume that if they weren't happy they wouldn't pay me, so.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[replicantangel]

That does sound awesome. My creative skills are definitely not in the fine art arena, but I envy you!

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[kallanda_lee]

Omg, that IS awesome.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

My job is OK. I like the people I work with, and it's occasionally interesting, and I think I might get promoted soon to a position that's more frequently interesting.

I got it mostly through nepotism, and kept it mostly through being grotesquely overqualified & only being in a position this low-level as a result of crippling anxiety. So, that's probably my advice to you

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[replicantangel]

Nepotism seems like the way to get a job! I wish I knew more people in high places. A friend gave me a potential opening, but she's not the boss, so HR and the boss have to like me and interview me first.

I definitely need to network more.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not fussed by my job. My bf loves his though. He got there completely by accident though.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[replicantangel]

Getting to places by accident (or through nepotism) seems to be the theme these days! Lucky guy! What does your bf do?

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[kaijinscendre]

I like my job, hate most of my coworkers.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

DItto

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[replicantangel]

See, my hesitance in quitting comes from the fact that I love my coworkers. My bosses suck though, and the work itself is either very interesting (5% of the time) or awful (95%). I've come to the conclusion that I can't stay just because I like the people. I'll just keep their phone numbers and go have drinks with them sometime.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[comma_chameleon]

Seconding this. I love my work. Especially right now because we're working on transformative stuff for our department/the hospital involving automation equipment etc.

But dear christ on a cheesecake could I do without a lot of my co-workers. So many negative nancies and laziness and excuses of why things don't get done. ¬.¬

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[belladonna_took]

Hm. Not me, but the few people I know who really love their jobs do things that they're passionate about, and they have a fair bit of freedom to do what they like and be creative, they're also constantly challenged in new ways.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[replicantangel]

That'd be my dream job description - getting to be creative with freedom and intellectual challenges. What do they do? I'm so envious of people who get to 'work' with their passions!

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

Like the job, hate the clients

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[replicantangel]

I feel that 100%.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

I love what we do, but not my role. I'm tired of being the office manager. Especially when it comes to coworkers who I know mean well, but really couldn't make it less clear they're in it for the money. Why don't you just run around the office holding your paycheck singing Hallelujah? Also, some of them have said really stupid things in front of clients. Michael Scott level stupid. And then we have to explain why that's a bad idea.

Also, I have issues with corporate. But I think that's true of everyone.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[replicantangel]

Oh man. And you know the Michael Scott types are always the ones that end up being promoted too. And while it's fine to like money, being obvious about it being your only motivation is just obnoxious. My sympathies on that one.

Upper level management is definitely a large part of my issues at work too.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[ill_omened]

Yes. Aside from the huge workload and stress involved it's got everything I love. Helps gives me a sense of purpose and that I'm helping people, has basically an infinite range of different roles and specialties I could go into, huge opportunity for training, let's me do things few people ever have the opportunity to experience, is intellectually challenging, and occasionally gives me the hugest adrenalin rushes. And as a bonus I'm very fucking good at parts, and certain specialties can make you really good money if you choose to pursue them and then go private.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[kallanda_lee]

No. I sort of hope it's just temporary. But...It's not bad in terms of jobs, it's just so far removed from what I wanted to be doing.


I currently work in ground handling in the aviation industry. I just got there through a temp agency, because I know several languages, am willing to work weekend and nights, and I have a blank criminal record. Which makes me qualify.

I'm actually a film school graduate.

So, I guess the message is you CAN switch careers if you have skills people need. Though those skills might not necessarily align with what you want to do.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

1. Me!
2. Internal customer service, basically. All the fun work, none of the "dealing with the public" stress.
3. Some post-secondary certs, but mostly I got where I am by working hard on several contract positions for the same shop, which gave me the goods to interview for a permanent position. Then there was an opportunity that came up for a better F/T position, and I got it, since management knew I was actively looking outside for other positions at the time, and they didn't want to lose me. Tho' it was like pulling hens' teeth to get on in the first place, it's definitely been worth it.

TL;DR: Hard work and good customer service will win you all.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[diet_poison]

I like my job, but I don't know if I want to be in the field I'm in indefinitely. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, so to speak.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

I work in an animal shelter, and it's my dream job. I volunteered regularly for a few years, while studying animal care at college. Then I was like 'hey I just got this diploma and tbh you guys already know that I know what I'm doing, please can I stay forever', and they were like 'sounds good', and now I'm paid to be a crazy cat lady.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

I love my job (page design/editing/headlines at a newspaper). It's not at all where I thought I'd end up though.

When I was in high school, I wanted desperately to work in TV and movies (behind the scenes), but I couldn't get right to the school I wanted in California, so I settled at an affordable Midwest school that had a associates degree in TV production. It was geared to news and, like, promotional videos, but I figured it'd serve well to get my gen-ed stuff out of the way. But I burned through all the TV classes and a news internship long before my other stuff and got bored. That's when I realized just how shitty my student newspaper was and with nothing else to do, I started writing and editing for it.

Fell in love with the work, and once I got my AA, I moved to a nearby university with a J-School. It didn't take long to realize reporting held little interest for me, but I love what I do, even if it is thankless work in a shaky industry.

Re: Do you love your job? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

Public service. Corporate area. I write internal (progress) and external (research didcovery) reports, administrate the reporting systems, develop training systems and write speaking notes.

I don't hate it. I'm low on the ranking but have some essential skills so they won't get rid of me (cheap and one of 5 admins?! Safe!). My team has its bumps but it's pretty nice, I have rights, leave, sick leave, yeah is understanding with disasters. They give me training, there's an honest expectation that I move up ranks.

I'll be quite content in middle management tbh. There's quite a bit of challenge but I'm not under the pump for months on end.

Got it through an internship. A degree of any kind was mandatory. I have a science degree. I do plan to move into areas more relevant to my degree but this is the "science department" so everything touches on it.