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Methuselah said:
My best job was when my firm made me computer manager in the 1960's. I had never seen a computer, didn't know what colour they were or anything. 5 Years after we installed the first computer, it was opertating 24 hours per day 6 days a week. The senior people in the company didn't want to get involved, as long as it worked that was fine. So I was left alone. On the odd occasion anything did go wrong, it was easy to make excuses, usually by just spouting some technical jargon. It was the closest to being self employed that I ever had! lol
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Similar to our place.

Our resident computer " expert " was a lad called Wally, who rode into work on his bike everyday, as he hadn`t passed his test, complete with bicycle clips and bike mac, who`d taught himself everything he knew in the spare bedroom lol
 

Work is important to me because it allows me to provide for my family but also gives me a structure and a focus. But do I actually enjoy it? Sometimes. But not sure it’s often enough for me to answer ‘yes’ on a survey. Unless answering ‘no’ meant loads more work......
 
Can’t say I enjoy it, the actual job is fine but dealing with customers, office staff, managers, busy bodies who think they are important but don’t know their arse from their elbow... well, it’s tiresome. I’m still only in my
Mid thirties but I’ve been in engineering my whole adult life and think I’m too far gone to try something else.
 
Totally unmotivated these days. My work is client based but seem to be spending more and more time doing soul destroying admin that is of no benefit to anyone. Hopefully be able to jack it in in a couple of months and move on.
 

I think pre-lockdown I didn't mind it so much. Decent job in creative industry which is quite rewarding and has benefits to working with some of the biggest brands in the world. Since lockdown though it's shown a different side to it all, realising it's a 9-5 office job for the most part and without the social interaction/scenarios that it usually brings.. it's a bit meh. Spending probably 3-4 hours a day on calls/video calls is absolutely soul destroying.

I'd love to quit my job and start over with something I really want to do. I'm 26 so still young enough to do so, big leap of faith though which I'm not sure I'm prepared to do given the current economic/job environment.
 
wainy said:
Can’t say I enjoy it, the actual job is fine but dealing with customers, office staff, managers, busy bodies who think they are important but don’t know their arse from their elbow... well, it’s tiresome. I’m still only in my
Mid thirties but I’ve been in engineering my whole adult life and think I’m too far gone to try something else.
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Never too late mate. I'm 41 worked in London for 12 years. So many idiots in the office, didn't mind the work and some people were cool but the whole set up, managing, meeting after meeting where nobody said anything which took me away from my desk. Then moaning people weren't meeting their targets because they were in pointless meetings all day. I went off sick never went back. Promised myself I would never work in that industry/environment ever again. That was 4 years ago and I haven't done so, probably couldn't if I wanted to now.
 

I worked for Lloyds bank for 9 years up till last month. The last roles I did was anti money laundering and stocks and securities fraud. I’ve been working with my brother in law for a few weeks in Cammel Laird, he’s a spark in there. One thing I’ve noticed between the 2 is my experience is office jobs are far more bitchy. Everyone trying to get one over on everyone else so they look good to get a promotion. Banking isn’t usually something people want to get into and I think it manifests as a general negativity to everything and everyone around them.
 
roydo said:
Maybe its my general optimistic upbeat nature, but I used to enjoy going to work.

That said, my longest job, in sales and stuff, was hardly a grind, and my last one, delivering stuff, was just enjoyable, most of the time.

Pretty much enjoy my early/maybe temporary retirement now. If I could, and wanted to do shifts in Sainsburys in a year or so, would quite enjoy that I reckon.
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Not quite sure throwing stuff over the wall qualifies in that regard :dance::dance::dance::dance:
 
Eggs said:
....work was intense but I always scored it highly in our internal reviews. I didn’t score it as highly as I’d score retirement, though.
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Retirement is only as good as the amount of money available to enjoy it
A good pension should be the first thing on a persons agenda the day they start work
Unfortunately its normally brass lemo and slow horses
 

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