Do you like your job?

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I quite like my job. It's not a career type job, it's just a part-time job that I'm doing to make a little money and get experience with, but I like it fine.

I am a receiving person at a garden centre. I price products, water plants, compost old plants and sweep. I occasionally have other tasks as well such as putting out product and assisting with unloading deliveries. Rarely, I will direct customers to products. Also, there is the task of kicking people who come into the receiving area out as it is not very clear that it's staff only area so it happens a lot.

Hate it and thinking of moving - I was going to say actively looking but in fact I'm too worried about the process for that.

It involves working with incomplete information and having to hassle other people to get it, and needing to hassle the right people in the right order or get into trouble. Plus, lots of people expect to get work done over the phone where they could much more easily email or SMS or WhatsApp - I hate the interruptions!

I clean at a local care home.

I don't hate my job, but it's really not what I want to do and doesn't interest me much at all. I'm only there because I was on job-seekers benefits for over 4 years and I just couldn't get a job no matter how hard I tried, then one day a friend of my mum's told us that they were recruiting somewhere she worked, and she got me a job there, to relieve me from claiming money off the government (in other words, being unemployed).

I've been there almost 4 years now and I've never been that happy working there. I do like the people who work there and I feel I fit in well, which is good and is one of the things that keeps me going. But cleaning in care homes is not really what I want to do, because I don't like care homes or hospitals much. Also, we have to keep attending training courses, whether it's our day to work or not, and we have to do training things online too - in our own time. I find all that extra work too stressful, but failure to do these training things could cost us our job, no matter what excuse. It'd be OK if it was a higher-paid job that I was interested in and enjoyed, but it's not, and I'm getting so fed up with it all.

It bugs me more when people say ''oh you must like this job then, if you've been in it for this long''. Or when they say ''if you don't like working here then why are you here?'' Um, I'm here because I can't find another job. I've been applying, and I've even got a support worker to help me get into something I want to do, but it seems to be taking a very long time. And I can't just leave if I haven't got another job.

I don't know...life sucks living in the UK.

Working grocery's working better for me than what I had going before, which is nothing.

That sounds harsh though; I actually have it ok right now. I've gotten pretty good at it and seem to be trusted with more and more responsibility every week; I've done a pretty good job of making myself indispensable and kind of being the "go-to guy", I get along with my coworkers pretty well and the customers like me. Healthcare, dental, and management is pretty cool; they're very good about giving time off when asked and pretty responsive.

It's not what I want to be doing in ten years, but it keeps me going for now.

I am a legislative assistant for an elected government official. I like the fact that I work on a computer all day and there are specific, predictable tasks combined with some flexibility. I don't like that we have a lot of people from various organizations show up at our office unannounced and I don't like that there is a lot of social "small talk" and niceties that are expected. I have slowly studied people and learned over time how to improve my small talk, but I find that I just repeat the same few phrases over and over, just to different people. Thankfully, these conversations are usually 30 seconds or less and there are so many people in our building, the likelihood of me repeating the same conversation to the same person is drastically reduced compared to other companies I could/have work(ed) for. My job has excellent health benefits and I make ok money and I like my boss and my coworker and they like me. Recently, my mom committed suicide and they let me leave work for a week (paid) and gave me free counseling. I don't expect to work here forever, but I like it ok for now.

I work in sales for a soda company so it has it's ups and downs but I do like the money. Its very hard work though, 60 hours a week on average during the summer months.

I hat e it standing up for 9 hour a day shoving boxes up on shelves hurting my freaking feet. Having people telling you do this and that only for 2 seconds later someone else to come up to you telling you you're doing it wrong...

I sometimes hide in the bathroom during my last few min of work and clock out lol.

No, but then again I'm in a terrible situation and can't afford to look elsewhere.

It would be a great job if my manager wasn't a tyrant who called me names and cussed at me. Every minute of every day I have a voice in my head telling me I should kill myself because I'm a useless burden on the world and I can't even maintain a simple café job. I've never had a job for more than a few months due to my disability and I just hate life and living so much.

I just started as a cake decorator. It's stressful but I've adjusted mostly and it's ok. Just fast paced.

I just started doing volunteer work at a local hospital gift shop. It's ok so far and not too stressful. I deal with the same customers since most are hospital employees and I ring up items they buy. We got a new cash register with the touch screen and since my bosses see how quickly I picked up on it they offer me a job doing computer work. It's not quite official but I am hoping this goes through. Then I could really like my job since I'll be making money and it could help me get a better job in the future. As a bonus dealing with customers has helped me improve my social skills a little and I have been gaining confidence.