How Interesting is your Job?

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Junior high sucks

 

[Phlegmak]

In the Netherlands we have a very succesfull novel, containing ~7.000 pages, about a guy working at a (scientific) bureau who really hates his work and his collegueas. It's a sort of diary and it longs ~30 years and its based on reality.

What's the name of this book and is there an English translation?

 

[angeleyes]

Stop that! I'm not complaining about my Dutch coworkers. I only said two of them seemed like they were talking down to me, but I couldn't be sure.[....]

Come on! You did start a whole thread cause one of your dutch coworkers appeared to be ill instead of working and immediately you thought Holland was a sick country.....

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

My job is varied:
- Programming
- Team management
- Technical solutions to find
- Demonstration to customers
- Installation of the software
- Training

There are lots of travel to discover new people and countries.

So it's quite interesting.

But is interesting similar to enjoyable?

For instance, travel are interesting, but I don't enjoy being cramped in an airplane for 12 hours, I don't enjoy the jetlag, or being away from my familly

This is a tad OT but what did you study/do to get the job?

 

[angeleyes]

What's the name of this book and is there an English translation?

'Het Bureau', (7 books), by J.J.Voskuil, and i only know a german publisher was interested in a translation but has a lot of doubt cause it's a typical dutch novel (and very extensive). I don't think there will ever be an english translation.

 

[Phlegmak]

Come on! You did start a whole thread cause one of your dutch coworkers appeared to be ill instead of working and immediately you thought Holland was a sick country.....

No, I thought there was a different work culture there. The guy in question was out for something like 2 and a half weeks which is unbelievably long, unless he had major surgery, which he didn't. If you want me to apologize for my thread about asking questions about the Dutch work culture, ok fine, I apologize.

 

[Steph]

This is a tad OT but what did you study/do to get the job?

I'm a engineer from the French Civil Aviation University, specialized in Computer Sciences and Air Traffic.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Technically speaking no job at the moment, but since I'm still due one last paycheck, I'll use the Apprentice Joiner work I was just in.

It can be interesting, though sometimes a bit monotonous. Gutting out houses and putting them back together is always amusing - sort of like building a giant model kit. It can also be rather alarming to see just how easily some structures can fall apart - had window supports and beams simply collapse after being exposed a little.

Glad it's over though. Too much dust, noise and, well, I'm really not a morning person. Especially over winter.

 

[CCA]

No,
The only interesting thing that will make my work day interesting is if the girl I have a crush on works on the same day and I get to say Hi! or Bye! or even have 1 minute if conversation.

But then again fast food work was never meant to be interesting.

 

[marioh]

Kind of interesting, I guess.

I'm a computer technician, so all new desktop and laptops have to come by me first (for image creation, performance testing), so I guess I get to check out the newer hardware.

Luckily, I don't deal with the everyday BS problems that the HelpDesk has to take care of. The problems I come across and have to resolve tend to be escalations, and are typically unique to our environment/setup.

 

[raen]

Interesting. Im a IT consultant, but in start years, so Im Programming alot. First I was in the biggest portuguese hospital doing intranet and internet, and I loved it, I just love to help a cause. Then a site for cancer help and now more boring in a bank, but a nice fun and working team.

 

[Guangxi]

student. not a job, and thankfully i don't have an after school job yet. although i was threatened with having to cut grass in the summer...

 

[Sidhe]

Not interesting at all, but the people make it, when we're allowed to communicate by the gestapo,or as I call her my boss, she frowns on idle chat, apparently it's against the law.

Still I'm fired soon, so no doubt my life will be more interesting without a job. Can't say I'm that bothered. Living under Hitler was well living under Hitler, just to give you an example, one guy used to come in and play Hitler's speeches on his mobile phone when she wasn't there, just to remind us of the totalitarian state.

Sometimes a job is worse than the dole. And five years of that, has reminded me why.

 

[ummmm........]

I wait tables. I put 'kinda interesting' because I'm certainly never bored at work. OTOH, it's not intellectually stimulating at all. The only really 'interesting' thing, I guess, would be meeting all those people every day. And some of them are interesting. But I don't generally enjoy meeting new people, so I don't think that bumps it up to the 'interesting' category.

 

[Irish Caesar]

although i was threatened with having to cut grass in the summer...

I like cutting grass.

 

[Perfection]

I'm taking too many EE credits for it to be fun.

 

[pboily]

I am a commercial pilot mathematician at the uni here and I will gladly stick forks in my eyes repeatedly rather than continue with it.

 

[Ayatollah So]

I voted interesting, but there are moments of very interesting. I'm a researcher/engineer for a metals recycling company, developing a new process to separate aluminum from other metals, cast aluminum from wrought aluminum, and whatnot. What's really cool about my job is that I have lots of freedom to design everything the way I want. My bosses are eminently reasonable, for some strange reason. Paperwork is at sane levels.

 

[Ansar]

Well, IMHO, being a student is very interesting.

I like learning new things every day (though the homework can get annoying).

 

[Maniacal]

High School is okay, you learn a lot, get to socialize and goof off. Good holiday times. However, the paycheck still hasn't shown up.