Protestant work ethicists

[friend_of_tofu]

Do you love your job*? Do you hate it? Do you have any feelings about it and if so, what and why? 
Is this the first job you've loved/hated/not given a toss about? Or do you generally feel similarly about other work you've done?

*'Job' in this context, need not be full-time and need not be paid. What you define as a job, I'll leave up to you. If

Comments

[hazyjayne]

Mixed. I enjoy what I do, but I wish I didn't have to deal with certain team members sometimes (although working in an open plan office has helped).

[friend_of_tofu]

That's interesting, the general assumption about open-plan offices is that they're a negative thing.

[hazyjayne]

Oh, I hate being in an open plan office, but it has seem to have had an effect of putting in an extra filter to peoples comments.

[wildeabandon]

I like my job, at least most of the time, and I like it more when I'm working hard (which I don't always do). I think I could move from liking it to loving it if I were doing similar things, but for a cause more laudable than making very rich people even richer.

Fortunately I think I'll be able to move to doing so within a few years, whilst maintaining the ability to keep myself in the style to which I've become accustomed.

[huskyteer]

For me, work is like school: it's nice to see all my mates in the playground, and most of the time I quite enjoy what I'm doing, but I'd rather stay at home really.

[reddragdiva]

+1

[shermarama]

I like this job in concept; doing science research is, I think, fundamentally cool, and the work I'm doing is notionally contributing to getting the world out of oil dependence, which is also cool. I often like the actual practice of it; doing experiments is frustrating at times but great when it's working, and I like to work with my hands, be making things, rather all desk work. Working with academics can also be odd - some of them are amazing, helpful, inspiring, and some of them are pig-headed, uncooperative, unreliable, impractical or just plain fools. The pay will never be good but I have always had very moderate tastes, and I'd consider 20k a year (I have never earned that much) to be an elegant sufficiency. On the whole I'm pretty happy with my job. (Must do some more of it...)

[blue_mai]

my (work) partner said something like (and i may get this a bit wrong): "i find it hard to work hard as i have neither Catholic guilt nor a Protestant work ethic to motivate me". i don't think he's yet noticed it's a bit tumbleweed when he makes certain assumptions about what i'm familiar with. (sorry, not really connected to the question! and not a criticism either.)