Is everybody just phoning it in for a boss that just needs you to do busy work?

  • einkorn@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    No, I don’t feel like my job is full filling. Would I switch though? No. Why?

    • The people I work with are awesome
    • The companies culture is overall great
    • I feel valued and supported

    So why is the job not full filling? Because I dislike and borderline hate the industry we are in: Marketing/Ads. Probably only next to fossil fuels the reason why the world we live in today sucks.

    Could I go elsewhere with my skillset? Certainly. But having had terrible employers with whos’ products I could somewhat identify with before, I came to the conclusion that it’s not necessarily most important what you do but with who.

    • OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.netOP
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      6 months ago

      I really appreciate this take. Sounds like you’ve found a good situation. I’m sure there’s not really a perfect job so you’ll always have to compromise on something.

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    6 months ago
    • I like what I do
    • I get to travel and see the world
    • I’m paid handsomely
    • It’s a niche skill set that is hard to find
    • plenty of job security
    • I like my coworkers

    …so yeah, I’d say it’s fulfilling

    EDIT: To give a vague privacy friendly answer as to what I do, it’s a particular kind of IT, and it involves highly specialized purpose-built server clusters that spend most of their time on the backdeck of ships.

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    I like what I do now. 80% work from home in a smallish company without enterprise bullshit. :) We have no standups and no agile shit which is amazing.

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      6 months ago

      yeah I’m currently surrounded by that enterprise bs you talk about…the job itself would be perfect otherwise, its just infuriating

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        6 months ago

        Yeah I just can’t take it anymore. And I can’t believe some people take it seriously. People nodding along like npc zombies.

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    Thankfully, yes. I grew to hate my previous job because of shitty leadership. I was cut when there were two rounds of downsizing because I was the best-paid on my team. They did me a favor. I was only half-heartedly looking for a new job because doing so is challenging when your morale is blasted from working a shit job.

    The new job is far higher stakes, but also far easier 95% of the time. I’m reading books during my downtime between putting out fires. I’m uniquely qualified for the role. I can also walk to work in ten minutes. And I absolutely love my boss. It’ll be six months tomorrow. Wooooha!

    They killed my job and gave me a huge win.

    Edit: OP, how about you?

    • OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.netOP
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      Sort of? I’m on Peace Corps service for now and in some ways it’s really awesome, but at the end of the day the actual work is with the government and it feels like actually doing anything out here is like trying to run with a ball and chain.

        • OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.netOP
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          Eh, I’m trying to travel. Don’t get me wrong I give my best effort to PC’s missions but we’re not really set up to do that which the general public might imagine we do.

          Meanwhile I have about 7 months before I return to the US and the idea of finding a real job is so terrifying I thought to turn to askLemmy for inspiration lol

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    My work is important and is sometimes in the news. And if I really screw up, it will definitely be in the news!

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    Yes! Self-employed, four-day work weeks, 4-6 hours a day. Enough money to be comfortable and to put some away for later. I have to clean the place by myself on that weekday off, but that’s fine. Cathartic even.

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        I’m an ESL instructor in South Korea. My situation did not happen overnight. I’d worked in quite a few different private and public schools before this opportunity presented itself.

        • Victor@lemmy.world
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          Ah, cool. Thank you for sharing. I hope your situation continues for as long as you like/need it to. 🙂👍

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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    It has its moments. The opportunity to figure out a tough problem or create an innovative solution can be very rewarding.

    What busy work there is I can work at my own pace, so long as I meet deadlines.

    I work from home, have a fair amount of autonomy and responsibility and have no one looking over my shoulder.

    I recognize I’m very fortunate.

  • rudyharrelson@kbin.social
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    I’m between jobs for the first time in my adult life at the moment. My last gig lasted nearly 10 years and it was a wild ride. I found it fulfilling for a time, but I eventually got promoted to a position I wasn’t wholly satisfied with.

    I started off at the very bottom rung, doing tech support for customers on the phone/chat/email. I was great at it and got promoted quickly to higher ranks of support, and eventually wound up managing the floor of tech support agents. Those were some of the best days of my life. Halcyon days.

    Every day was like a really low-stakes episode of House, where in the course of helping agents solve technical issues for customers, eventually we’d encounter one really inexplicable, difficult, borderline impossible problem that nobody had ever seen before, so me and my team’s brightest would walk and talk while hypothesizing and figuring out our next move.

    After a year or two of managing the floor, I got promoted to a position where I was ultimately a code monkey. Then Covid happened, and my job became fully remote for 4 years straight. Which was great! It allowed me to do my work and also spend way, way more time with my infant son during his early formative years. I got incredibly lucky in spite of the pandemic. But over time, the burnout grew to the point where I knew I needed to find something else to do with my career.

    I’m lucky enough to have enough in savings that I can take a bit of time to reflect and think about what I might want to do going forward with my admittedly limited credentials.

  • Drusas@kbin.run
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    I haven’t been able to work for a few years due to disability, but my last job was surprisingly fulfilling. It was very challenging. Without that, I get bored.