Work Poll

[bertine]

It isn't really a secret that I like my job most days. I don't always like the specifics of what I work on but I love making websites and I don't think I would change my career to something else.

Anyways, I want to know about you. Do you like what you do? If you are a stay-at-home parent I consider that a career or job or whatever.

[Poll #1279236]

Comments

[sithlet.livejournal.com]

I'm going to add to this. I answered every question, despite them being yes or no. But it's complicated.

• Do I EVER wake up at that hour excited to go out and do what I woke up that early to do? NO. I would not wake up at 6:30 in the morning for anything if I didn't have to. That being said, the fact that I'm waking up to go to work doesn't make it any better, but I'm overall ambivalent beyond the early part.

• Would I change if I could? Yes, but it's complicated. I used to love love love this place for many reasons.
1 - coworkers
2 - lax work environment
3 - no dress code
4 - I learned cool new things every day
Most of those are no longer true, unfortunately. (Also, everyone assumes this - I haven't stopped learning new things because I've learned everything there is to know, it's because my job has literally been dumbed down over the years.) With growth comes change. That being said, I still like a good chunk of my coworkers and still have a loyalty to the company. Doesn't mean I haven't applied to things as they cropped up (things that I unfortunately never got interviewed for). Doesn't mean I don't long for a junior admin position that pays at least 10k more than I'm making now. If something like that were to crop up that I actually got an offer on, I would hope for a lax environment and the ability to look weird, but you can't have everything, right?

• Do I want further education in my field? Yes. The certs I am interested in would not only give me benefits at my current job, but would also be good resume fodder in the future.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Well... I would agree with you on the 6:30 thing. I don't like doing that.

Can you talk to them about getting more education? You just got a promotion, right? So you should know more also, right?

[sithlet.livejournal.com]

You'd certainly think so. They're willing to compensate financially for some classes/certs, but not others.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Weird. You would think that they would want to train up their employees to keep them around.

[sithlet.livejournal.com]

I'm a worker bee! BZZZZZZZZZZ!