How do you feel about your job?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How do you feel about your job?

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:06:01 PM EDT

I am a consultant for a computer company. I have been with this company for a little over 3 1/2 years. Currently, I am an onsite resident with one of our customers. I go to the customer's site every day, and work basically as a part of their staff. I have been doing this for the past 2 years.

I love the company that I work for, but I hate this customer. I am almost to the point of looking for another job. My company takes excellent care of me, they pay well, they show me that they appreciate the work that I am doing, they have a great quarterly bonus plan, and they just generally show that I am a valued member of the team.

But my customer is the exact opposite. It is the most poorly run inefficient organization I have ever seen in my life. They hire the most unskilled and incompetent industry rejects and then appoint them to positions of leadership, and then pat them on the back when their projects go down in flames like the Hindenberg. And that is only one of a laundry list of gripes! I have worked with organizations of every size, all over the nation, and I have never in my life seen a more horribleplace to work in my entire career. I literally hate getting up in the morning and coming to work.

poll coming.

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:09:13 PM EDT

[#1]

If it was fun, they wouldn't call it work and you wouldn't get paid.

Are you interested in a job with a Firearms company, they build military type weapons, they need somebody to come in full time and try out all of the Full Auto stuff before they ship it, then turn the gun over to the cleaners? I want that job to, but can't find it.

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:09:39 PM EDT

[#2]

I'd say tough it out, or at worst ask for another client.

Be glad you won't be directly impacted by the inevitable results of their stupid management practices.

I did the consulting engineer thing for a few years, it had its moments. I liked the challenges, but it was hard to really build up a good depth of knowledge when you couldn't work with something day in and out.

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:10:24 PM EDT

[#3]

I like it ok. The boss and me get along good. Money is good. But I only work because the bank makes me.

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:13:24 PM EDT

[#4]

Well, other than the fact I have to work because I'm not John Kerry, I love my new (been here two days) job.

Let's see how long that lasts.....

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:14:24 PM EDT

[#5]

Not enough choices. I'm somewhere between "I love my job!" and "It's OK, I guess."

I generally enjoy it. It occasionally sucks.

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:15:44 PM EDT

[#6]

I like my job because it gives me the opportunity to serve the war on terror. But I would rather be working in Mississippi, preferably somewhere close to my home in Brandon. It would definitely lower my cost of living.

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:18:24 PM EDT

[#7]

My job is what it is. How I FEEL about it is irrelevant. If it continues to provide me with the necessities for living then it will suffice. If not, I will then need to find one that will.

Posted: 10/5/2004 1:22:15 PM EDT

[#8]

If I won the lottery I'd be out the front and would not look back, a job is a job.

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