[Steve9]

Is anyone here working on a job/career/business that they really enjoy?

Did you always know you would love this job, or did it 'grow' on you after you started?

How many jobs did you try before you found the right one?

What are the main reason why you love this job?

[cardguy]

I dunno' if I'm weird.

But as a thought experiment.

I would rather do a job I hated where I only had to work 20 hours a week. Versus a job that I loved - where I worked 40 hours a week. Provided they both paid the same.

I am a total night-owl. So - I may try and get a night job one day...

[cardguy]

Also - the people you work with is usually a bigger factor to how fun a job is than anything else.

And that is totally random.

[Kabal]

I do quantitative work in special situations at a large Wall Street firm.

I like it a lot; it's pretty intellectually stimulating.

I would like to go back to school soon, though, for a Master's or PhD; I want to deepen my quantitative tool-kit, and also get back to a campus environment where I can chill, learn, and bang college sloots.

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Also - the people you work with is usually a bigger factor to how fun a job is than anything else.

This is one huge drawback for me. Our client relationship managers also sit on the same floor. Meaning I have to overhear banal female gossip and sorority girl up-talking like, all day long?

I also want to leave NYC because the the northeast United States is one of the hardest areas in the world for me to pull... and I'm originally from the northeast U.S.

I by no means do badly, but my post-undergraduate body of work domestically certainly pales in comparison to the damage I've done abroad, or even other parts of the U.S.

[gfly]

Seems to me business owners are the only happy animals on the farm. Maybe if you are daft or have a crushed soul you can be happy as an employee. Even cool shit(been a pro skydiver and helo pilot)done for work eventually sucks. Worse it ruins the cool shit for you, and there is only so much cool shit in this world don't fuck it up by doing it for money.

[WestCoast]

I currently love my job now. No job is perfect but I wouldnt trade my latest position for anything right now (cept maybe the same gig with more pay of course)

The thing is the first few years was god damned torture. I have no shame in saying i almost broke down in tears several times from working 3 days in a row not sleeping this means 72 hours straight on Add and Mod-alert snorting coke 24/7. Nothing is worse than having some cunt MD walk by your desk at 10pm hand you 7 hours of work say "good luck" and drop $60 for your gram bag for the night.

Wall Street is no fucking joke and anyone who thinks we are either lazy or stupid has absolutely no idea about how the industry works. It's downright laughable. You were taught to believe in feminism in the same fashion you were taught that "all wall street people steal for a living and have it easy". Give me a break. You learned that non-sense from the media and dumb hippie professors.

You join the only street that matters and you'll be turned into goop before you recover.

People talk about 100 hour weeks, seriously try 120 hours a week and don't even do real work, read books all day. Remember those 120 hours do not include 1 hour lunch breaks (nonexistant), showers (non-existant but showers are on premise) and gym time also non existant also does not include your commute to work.

[fortysix]

Westcoast - How did that affect your health? How can you do 120 hours a week for three years? Fuck man..

[WestCoast]

(05-14-2013 02:54 AM)se7en Wrote:  

Westcoast - How did that affect your health? How can you do 120 hours a week for three years? Fuck man..

Nah it's not 120 hours a week every week. It's more like 80-90 if you are good (means they need you and want to promote you). However when it is busy you definitely crank out 120+. The worst week I had I didn't go home for the whole week showering at the office and sleeping in the baby feeding room. (Bigger lol if you think that the maternity room will ever really be used appropriately, compliance is retarded, you get prego goodbye to your job, vacations are certainly not allowed at the low end).

My health went to shit obviously. I developed excema, vitamin D deficiency and had constant nose bleeds for months.

The thing is I look younger today than. I did in college. Resting heart rate under 50, perfect health.

You work insanely hard, then ride the wave off your previous hard work. That's the trick to life in general. Once you have forward momentum it gets easier. To give you an idea 90% of my hiring class got fired or quit by year 2. 8 times out of ten the dorks who say they just "didn't like it" just didn't hack it. No one turns down an Analyst to Associate promote without an MBA because that is turning down a 100% pay raise with less hours with no debt.

Still serious LOL's at anyone who thinks we steal for a living or are lazy. This is why we hire ex-marines and ex-athletes, because those are the ones willing to go through the pain.

The best is when you get chewed out by a VP after 48 hours of straight work because one of the comp tables has a formatting error, that's when you know the VP sucks and you should throw him/her under the bus and get ready for that promotion though

Today my hours are a complete joke now. No all nighters and no long days. Just annoying travel with red eyes here and there.

[reaper23]

i dont love my job but i love my life with this job. i go in about three days a week. work a total of 10-15 real hours a week. get paid 180k.

work from home the other days

which includes going to gym at 11am, going grocery shopping at 2pm, rvf, bodybuilding forums, and eating

i could make more in another industry if i wanted to work harder. but the truth is is that i dont want to work harder.

where i live 180k aint shit by the way

i live in a 2br/2ba split level apt in the best part of town, but i can't afford a proper house in a desirable location. can't afford luxury vacations multiple times a year. can't afford a lot of shit.

but i have my time!

[WestCoast]

(05-14-2013 08:20 AM)reaper23 Wrote:  

i dont love my job but i love my life with this job. i go in about three days a week. work a total of 10-15 real hours a week. get paid 180k.

work from home the other days

which includes going to gym at 11am, going grocery shopping at 2pm, rvf, bodybuilding forums, and eating

i could make more in another industry if i wanted to work harder. but the truth is is that i dont want to work harder.

where i live 180k aint shit by the way

i live in a 2br/2ba split level apt in the best part of town, but i can't afford a proper house in a desirable location. can't afford luxury vacations multiple times a year. can't afford a lot of shit.

but i have my time!

Sounds like you run some sort of RE fund. $180K not being enough means what NYC? Everywhere else $180K is just fine. Usually around the 3 handle is when life gets easy everywhere (a goal for everyone on the forum).

[reaper23]

(05-14-2013 09:00 AM)WestCoast Wrote:  

(05-14-2013 08:20 AM)reaper23 Wrote:  

i dont love my job but i love my life with this job. i go in about three days a week. work a total of 10-15 real hours a week. get paid 180k.

work from home the other days

which includes going to gym at 11am, going grocery shopping at 2pm, rvf, bodybuilding forums, and eating

i could make more in another industry if i wanted to work harder. but the truth is is that i dont want to work harder.

where i live 180k aint shit by the way

i live in a 2br/2ba split level apt in the best part of town, but i can't afford a proper house in a desirable location. can't afford luxury vacations multiple times a year. can't afford a lot of shit.

but i have my time!

Sounds like you run some sort of RE fund. $180K not being enough means what NYC? Everywhere else $180K is just fine. Usually around the 3 handle is when life gets easy everywhere (a goal for everyone on the forum).

I do manage a private commercial real estate portfolio, but that isn't included in the salary figure I mentioned. no, i'm the ED of a large-ish non profit in washington DC. about 60 people, $7MM budget.

i got three kids, a baby momma, and an ex wife...that eats up a lot dough. still my joint household income is over $250k and it still doesn't feel like much. no chance we move to a desirable location and have a house, two cars, and private schools.

[WestCoast]

Yeah $250K with 5 bodies to feed is not going to be much, agreed. If you are single though and making $180K no debt, no kids then i'd be calling BS unless you live in manhattan.

[reaper23]

(05-14-2013 09:18 AM)WestCoast Wrote:  

Yeah $250K with 5 bodies to feed is not going to be much, agreed. If you are single though and making $180K no debt, no kids then i'd be calling BS unless you live in manhattan.

what also makes it hard is that back before with one kid and one wife i made $300k/yr for a few years.

and to think, i thought that was not only going to last forever, but only go up from there!

[kevingreen]

I am not ! I am looking for my carrier job as I am telecom engineer and condition of market is very poor, no jobs for fresh engineers

[AntiTrace]

Absolutely love my career. 70k a year to work 30ish hours a week. Gym time is included in that 30 hours. Most of that is also spent hanging around bullshitting with people. And then when I am actually called on to do the job I am trained for it is only once maybe twice a week, and I love doing that too. Theres some days I just show up to let them know I'm still alive, and then I go on my merry little way to do whatever the hell I want.

Its not all roses though, some days/weeks can be absolute suck fests. But those are normally few and far between, with time off after.

Im new to the career, upward mobility is probably caps around 120k. Can be pushed a bit further with the right contacts.

Just mentioning my career is a great DHV in just about any enviroment. I love when people ask what I do, especially when its wealthy guys that are just being douches trying to one up based on income. You make 200k a year? Cool story bro, I make panties wet with my work stories and actually have the free time to capitalize on that.

Ive had chicks on the street open me solely because of it and I have had chicks message me on POF and OKC solely because of it. Ive shown chicks personal footage that I have filmed from work, and had them pounce on me right after. Ive found the best way to capitalize on the DHV is to be modest about it, and then show them the video over drinks at my place.

But my most favorite part about my career, is that I have enough free time to work on side biz projects.

Sorry the stank of personal douchebaggery, but I love my job and glad I worked to get selected for it.

[WestCoast]

Nice. What is it that you do some sort of fighting/training?

Laughable that people try to one up based on income, if you make good money just let
people think you're a drug dealer. You'll be better off than saying you're any sort of white collar worker.

Using white collar jobs as one-ups-man-ship is like bragging about banging a negative 7. Very similar to prestige whoring.

How much someone else makes is irrelevant to my life, always interested in hearing of new niches though.

(05-14-2013 10:24 AM)AntiTrace Wrote:  

Absolutely love my career. 70k a year to work 30ish hours a week. Gym time is included in that 30 hours. Most of that is also spent hanging around bullshitting with people. And then when I am actually called on to do the job I am trained for it is only once maybe twice a week, and I love doing that too. Theres some days I just show up to let them know I'm still alive, and then I go on my merry little way to do whatever the hell I want.

Its not all roses though, some days/weeks can be absolute suck fests. But those are normally few and far between, with time off after.

Im new to the career, upward mobility is probably caps around 120k. Can be pushed a bit further with the right contacts.

Just mentioning my career is a great DHV in just about any enviroment. I love when people ask what I do, especially when its wealthy guys that are just being douches trying to one up based on income. You make 200k a year? Cool story bro, I make panties wet with my work stories and actually have the free time to capitalize on that.

Ive had chicks on the street open me solely because of it and I have had chicks message me on POF and OKC solely because of it. Ive shown chicks personal footage that I have filmed from work, and had them pounce on me right after. Ive found the best way to capitalize on the DHV is to be modest about it, and then show them the video over drinks at my place.

But my most favorite part about my career, is that I have enough free time to work on side biz projects.

Sorry the stank of personal douchebaggery, but I love my job and glad I worked to get selected for it.

[AntiTrace]

Its a government job and I would get in a lot of trouble if the videos in my possession ever made it on youtube and got tracked back to me, thats as far as Ill discuss it openly here.

Id discuss it in a PM to a forum member that has a history of contributing, but I can warn you that its just simply not a feasible option to explore for most people. Its kind of similar to your job WC in terms of working your ass at first then being able to relax after a couple years. That is again why the selection process is so picky.


Most of the one-upsmanship is in the form of talking about their possessions. The type that try to backdoor brag about their 90k ride. Its not a common thing, but it is amusing when it happens. Im sure we have all experienced some herb trying to pull that.

[WestCoast]

Ha. I know what you do now. Good gig.

I never understood the infatuation with dropping tons of cash to get broads, we already know no more than a few bucks is needed until we are old and grey. But that is for another thread.

(05-14-2013 11:07 AM)AntiTrace Wrote:  

Its a government job and I would get in a lot of trouble if the videos in my possession ever made it on youtube and got tracked back to me, thats as far as Ill discuss it openly here.

Id discuss it in a PM to a forum member that has a history of contributing, but I can warn you that its just simply not a feasible option to explore for most people. Its kind of similar to your job WC in terms of working your ass at first then being able to relax after a couple years. That is again why the selection process is so picky.


Most of the one-upsmanship is in the form of talking about their possessions. The type that try to backdoor brag about their 90k ride. Its not a common thing, but it is amusing when it happens. Im sure we have all experienced some herb trying to pull that.

[titan22]

I absolutely hate my job, which is why I'm quitting soon. Dream is to make it on Wall Street, went to a small school, mediocre GPA. Figured my best bet would be an MBA so that's what I'm leaving my job to do for 1 year. Wish I would have found WestCoast's blog prior to committing to the program and an apartment, might have helped me realize that going to a small, unknown school for an MBA to try and break into Wall Street would be worthless. Now I'll just have to grind it out and try to network my way into a backoffice position or get into a bank at a smaller office and work my ass off to make it to NYC. I'll get to the position I want someday, just not taking the easy path to it.

[travolta]

the actual work I do is decent, but I'm loving my current lifestyle. I run an online business so I work from home. It's stressful, and sometimes I have to deal with a lot of bullshit (this past Saturday night at 3am I was out at a club, and I had to log into an advertising account from my phone to adjust something. This took 20 minutes. Not doing this would have meant making no money the next day, but since I did this I made $800 profit). I usually go to sleep around 5am and wake up at 12pm (these are shitty hours, and I should probably fix them up soon. haha). I'm a single, debt free, 25 years old, and living in the middle of one of the prime areas in NYC. In 2 weeks I'm taking a trip to Iceland just because I can. So do I love what I do? not really...but I certainly love the lifestyle it allows me to have

[Veloce]

One word answer-yes.

I feel like I've talked more than my share out of my ass over the past two years about my job. Any specific questions fire away.

[BCZalgyris]

(05-14-2013 04:52 PM)thedude3737 Wrote:  

One word answer-yes.

I feel like I've talked more than my share out of my ass over the past two years about my job. Any specific questions fire away.

Do I love my job? Sometimes no, usually yes. I work for a large NGO (non governmental organization) handling IT support (everything from tier 3 helpdesk calls on e-mail/desktop/network security/blackberry issues) to doing various training's as well as handling the video-conferencing environment. Reading some of the other poster's stories I am jealous as my work week is almost always more than 40 hours per week, includes dealing with rude clients almost on a daily basis and frequently leaves me too tired to hit the gym or go out but having stability and a decent 76k salary in DC is priceless, especially when one is single and has 4 weeks of vacation per year to use for pua/gaming missions (this is the part of the job I like).

Btw, the funny thing in the US government (where I worked before) and many NGO's is that the educational criteria rarely reflect's the true requirements of the job. A master's degree in MIS or computer science is almost a requirement in my department however just about any smart HS graduate with relevant IT certifications could hack it.

[RichieP]

Like my job WHEN I get good, meaty, well-paying, purposeful projects (Im freelance). It's been too long since the last one.

The problem with being freelance is you really create your own quality of experience... but there's a time lag. So if you're scrambling and you take some low paying or dull jobs, then you've just commited the next two weeks of your life to having mind-numbing days AND not having money after that. And then you feel the pressure to scramble and take anything again. It could go on indefinitely.

It's kind of a leap of faith to set your standards, turn work down, and purposefully target only the great clients and projects - it means you pass up the lesser-paid and dull work that falls into your lap - but Im thinking that actually that's the only way to make this sustainable long term. Otherwise it's just a series of shit jobs that are barely enough to pay the bills.

So I guess freelance success and happiness = leaps of faith, and not settling for less than your target projects and income. When it's been like that though, it's been great. And the freedom (time and location) is really so nice.