Do you enjoy your job?

if you are what do you do? I was just on career builder earlier, and was wondering if you guys here enjoyed your jobs

This thing down here show if you're "gruntled" or not, says i'm pretty happy

http://www.careerbuilder.com/ngi/Def...256735831-JP-5

 

Shouldn't that be "UK" not "GB"? :major Bazza

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I have a job? LOL

 

while i still worked i enjoyed my job immensely whe never did the same thing day after day there was lots


of variation for instance i could be working with a 130 foot high crane and the next i am a climber up on an open steel skeleton and the day after that i could be driving a long loaded truck (upto 46 meters long) and it was a pleasure to work


god how i wish i could do it now


http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4791/31164486mw1.jpg

 

Yes i like it.....

It pay the rent and some stuff for my computer when it explode or die on me....

 

I like my job, even worse, I love it. That is why I put up with the frustratingly low wages (made even worse when considering the academic degree and the work experience I have) and the long hours.

Advantages apart from loving it:

Half of June, all of July and half of August. Summer hollies!

 

Guess I will be the first to say I do NOT like my job.
But, with the economy the way it is I am glad to have a full time job with health insurance. People are getting laid off a lot around here, so I am glad to have a job.

 

Actually, I love my job. I am a biochemist working in the drug discovery division of a not-for-profit research institution. There aren't many true research institutions left, and I feel fortunate to be part of one that has been around for >70 years. Our primary focus is cancer therapeutics, though we spend a large portion of our resources on what we consider "orphan diseases" -- those that large pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in because there is little or no profit in them. These include tuberculosis, SARS, west nile, malaria etc.

 

I've kind of had enough of my job. I've been a mechanic at a Ford dealer for thirty years. I should be done in a couple of years. For the most part, I've really liked it. And I love the changes I've seen in automotive technology. That's what I'll miss when I retire. I can still read about it, but it won't be the same.

 

It depends on the day, but for the most part it's more the issues surrounding my job than the job itself (e.g. having to travel 60+ miles in a blizzard to get there). I've been doing it for over 12 years, and I have to say I love it probably 85% of the time, which is about all one can really hope for.

You're not finding it on career builder, though. I'm a stagehand, working for my local union.

 

I work on a boat in the summer and i love it, pity about the winter

 

As one who has had Malaria 3 times, I reckon there is a fortune awaiting any business that discovers a cure for Malaria. The Bill (and his missus) Gates foundation has donated a lot of money to find a cure, I believe. Bazza

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Actually, there probably isn't much money to be made in Malaria, which is one of the reasons that large pharmaceutical companies don't focus on it as a business model. That isn't to say that pharmaceutical companies don't care and aren't conducting research on disease targets that aren't profitable, because they are, just not nearly as much as on cancer, high blood pressure, cholesterol, etc.

The main reason diseases like Malaria aren't profitable is that they are largely diseases of the developing world. It can cost upwards of $1Billion to get a drug to market in the US, but much of the developing world would not be able to afford the cost per dose necessary to recoup the cost of that research and development and eventually realize a profit. If we want pharmaceutical companies to continue to develop therapeutics for profitable diseases like heart disease and cancer it can't be expected that they take multi-billion dollar hits on the development of drugs that don't realize any profit.

That is where the research institutions and the federal government comes in. The National Institutes of Health fund institutions like the one I work for to conduct the research and development for those drugs that aren't good targets for companies that have investors and board members to answer to. Our investors are you, the taxpayers (if you are in the US anyway) so in a way I guess your kinda my boss .

 

Thanks for setting me straight, Publius. It is a shame (but a reality) that greed (profit) governs the development of medicines. :cry Bazza

 

In that case I have every right to say.....

Get back to work and quit wasting my hard-earned money!!!:mad

 

@ Bazza
I am somewhat of the same mindset. In a perfect, utilitarian world, companies would conduct research on any disease target that could benefit humanity. But the reality of a capitalist system is that the large pharmaceutical companies are businesses first -- they are driven by profit margins and shareholders, not always the consideration of the greater good. A lot of these companies do endow research institutions, but the vast majority of research funds for the "non-profitable" diseases has to come from the government in the form of grants. The NIH and NSF (National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation) budgets have plummetted in recent years and many believe this is to the detrement of society as a whole. I could go on, but I don't want to start a political debate, plus if I don't get back to the lab Lev is going to fire me.