How does your job change you ?

[Pegasus_77]

Does it change the way you perceive the world?
Do you get rid of bad habits because of it ?
Or anything else.
Feel free to post the impacts of your job on your life.

 

[IAM]

Currently I'm a landlord so my opinion of people in general is lower than it was.

edit: I don't make my tenants call me 'landlord'; I'm easy going they can just call me Lord.

 

[Pegasus_77]

Currently I'm a landlord so my opinion of people in general is lower than it was.

You mean you kind of look down upon the renters who delay their payment?or something else ?

 

[Perfection]

I sit a lot it makes me chunkier

 

[Pegasus_77]

haha, I also sit a lot. My butt is loose

 

[Zelig]

Currently I'm a landlord so my opinion of people in general is lower than it was.

In the past three years I've had jobs involving close work with doctors, venture capitalists and financial/IT auditors, and my opinion of all of the professions is much lower than before I had to work with them.

I sit a lot it makes me chunkier

I have a standing desk!

 

[GenMarshall]

I sit a lot it makes me chunkier

The opposite happened to me...

...lifting things that were heavy to me before I started working.

 

[Perfection]

Whatcha doing these days, CivG?

I have a standing desk!

I don't get pencils at work.

 

[ywhtptgtfo]

My best friend changed the most by his job, I'd say. He used to be kiddy, innocent, and relatively honest.

After working from a teller to a sales manager over the course of 5-6 years, he's sinister, calculating, and honey-tongued. I can still tell what he's thinking based on the subtle shifts in his body language, but he's no longer the same person I grew up with over 20 years of my life.

As for me, I learned to be much more careful in dealing with people. About a year ago, I almost let a conflict escalate to the manager level and now I just keep a policy of being fake-nice to even people I don't like and that worked out well.

 

[downtown]

I'm a sportswriter.

The biggest thing I've noticed already is that it's very hard for me to "stop working". I am constantly checking my phone to make sure nobody has gotten arrested, or checking my work email, or refreshing twitter, since there is pretty much always something to write about. If I'm not careful, I could pretty easily work 90+ hours, and with a pregnant wife, that's not sustainable, or advisable.

This is also the first job where I have had to fire people. It is not a pleasant experience. I guess I'm not cut out to be Mitt Romney.

I've also gained a little weight since I've been doing this, given the long hours, and my propensity to stress eat.

However, I am passionate about my subject matter, and really love what I do, and what my company does. This has been, by far, the most interesting work I've ever done.

 

[Pegasus_77]

I'm a sportswriter.

The biggest thing I've noticed already is that it's very hard for me to "stop working". I am constantly checking my phone to make sure nobody has gotten arrested, or checking my work email, or refreshing twitter, since there is pretty much always something to write about. If I'm not careful, I could pretty easily work 90+ hours, and with a pregnant wife, that's not sustainable, or advisable.

Do you write about the NBA ?I would like to see something related to it.

 

[Smellincoffee]

When I started working a factory I was young, submissive, and eager to please. When I left I was a Marxist.

Working as a public librarian has made me more responsible, largely because I'm being groomed for management and more despairing of humanity in general. It's also eroded any regard I had whatsoever for public education and welfare.

 

[Narz]

Working at a restaurant made me acutely aware of how much food gets wasted. Doing retail jobs made me feel so sorry for retail workers to the point that whenever I shop somewhere (mostly I shop just for food) I try to be extra nice to the cashiers.

 

[Zelig]

Working at a restaurant made me acutely aware of how much food gets wasted. Doing retail jobs made me feel so sorry for retail workers to the point that whenever I shop somewhere (mostly I shop just for food) I try to be extra nice to the cashiers.

I feel sorry for retail workers so I try to shop at places which support automating away retail jobs.

 

[Pegasus_77]

Working at a restaurant made me acutely aware of how much food gets wasted. Doing retail jobs made me feel so sorry for retail workers to the point that whenever I shop somewhere (mostly I shop just for food) I try to be extra nice to the cashiers.

My cousin used to be a cashier and i definitely know How she felt. The customers were queuing up and, she was handling the cash all day long and could respond slowly sometimes and people would probably complain about it.
This job is bored.

 

[Pegasus_77]

When I started working a factory I was young, submissive, and eager to please. When I left I was a Marxist.

Working as a public librarian has made me more responsible, largely because I'm being groomed for management and more despairing of humanity in general. It's also eroded any regard I had whatsoever for public education and welfare.

1.A real Marxist ?in what way ?
2.are you very disappointed about the public education ?

 

[Josu]

I work on IT, this means:
-I spend almost all my workday in a chair. If I do not go to the gym I can take an overweight of 10kg (about 22 lb) each year. I do not want to break this habit because if I gain too much weight I ussually breath worts and my liver tends to get fatty.
-I analyze everything before I act. In the company I work for there is an analysis period before we start building the software. I do it in real life. I do not like acting if I have no considered all the options and covered all the flanks. I have always been insecure, so it helps as well. In any case before I started on IT I used to get nervous if everything was not under control, now subconsciously I think that there is a backup or a maintenance team, so I do not project this self-distrust to others, which makes me feel more self-confident, not too much however.

 

[downtown]

Do you write about the NBA ?I would like to see something related to it.

My company does (I'd say we do really good NBA coverage actually), but I don't. I write almost entirely about college sports, typically college football, and college basketball.

 

[Smellincoffee]

1.A real Marxist ?in what way ?
2.are you very disappointed about the public education ?

I still find some Marxist critique to be applicable, but for the most part have left it behind me.

The state of public education is execrable, at least where I live. Every teacher seems to be sending their children to do powerpoint displays, presumably in the view that it makes their class more STEM-friendly. All children do is dump Wikipedia entries into a slide, pretty it up with backgrounds and animations, and call it a day. They learn nothing, and it's just a waste of everyone's time. The same is true for the reports across the board. There are other criticisms, too, but essentially I think the bureaucratic morass that is the school system is obsessed with forcing children to listen to or do things that they won't retain and can't use. We'd be better off with apprenticeships, I think. At least then all the children who graduate will have skills that apply to the job market instead of just becoming welfare dependents who have to settle for looking for work in McDonalds. I'm to the point where learning that someone is going into the armed services cheers me up, because it means they'l learn actual skills and competencies.

 

[IAM]

You mean you kind of look down upon the renters who delay their payment?or something else ?

Yea it's stuff that people could do but are just too lazy/stupid/self-destructive. Like someone just piles up bags of garbage in a house because they are too lazy to put the garbage in a trash can right outside the door. Or people that have the money but are too idle brain to pay rent and then remember at 11:45 pm and call to say they want to pay then so they won't get a late fee. etc.