Interesting question and certainly more infield material? then rumble strip?
My job makes me part of the core of the company, using specific knowledge, organizing my work myself, paid well and with good evaluations for the moment. 👍👍
On the other hand I like starting up things and I'm in this job for 6 year, it is becoming routine, the outside constraints are huge and the inside doesn't care as long as I keep their noses clear (new boss is a bit more involved), I'm sitting in a corner doing my stuff, on top of that I find this job not up to my education level Msc + MBA and it seems difficult to move out of my current expertise of "control" in the small organisation I'm in. 👎
I did look for other jobs, but to improve I have to move up to directors level and even there some people did not like the cost that was linked to hiring me, they find my current job content weird and at that level there is a lot of politics and few opportunities.
Just some advise for others:
1) Since my first job I noticed that constraints make jobs generally not ideal, so it is your choice to choose the constraints job/family life that have priority for you.
2) Read books like "Put your strenghts to work" and see how to make your job interesting for you and deliver more to your employer at the same time.
3) You can be happy and not stressed in jobs that seem boring and uninteresting, it does depend on yourself to find motivations and ways to cope with the situation.
P.S.: One way to cope with work for me is GT5p racing!
Great reply, I agree with your advice too, I think sometimes people have to look at the reasons they require work and use those to help keep them motivated to achieve results or improve themselves. Also its important to think that you cant not have a job (most times). What i mean by this is, Its easy to complain about a job and wish that and wish this, wish i didnt have to do this, wish i didnt have to do that etc etc, but be realistic about it. If its not the current job, then what job is out their that fits your desires and how do you go about getting it? Id love to be paid to race cars every few weekends and then party the rest of the week, but sadly that just doesnt exist, and the few positions that do its highly unlikely that i can get it. I guess its a fine line between grass is always greener and generally wanting to improve and find a better job. Most things come at a price, and normally the more money you earn the higher the stress/time/hours/responsibility you have to put it. If your reasons for working are to have a great family life, then there comes a point were money earnt and time with family can swing the wrong way. Whats the point of spending all your time working and none of it with your family, if the whole point of you going to work is to be able to do things with your family. Ive had opportunities in my previous jobs to become manager of people, and move out of the sales role, however the extra responsibilities and actual pay cut went against the whole reason i enjoyed and went to work.
My job is fun, it's flexible, I work from home, it pays well and the rewards are high, a few down sides, but you get over 'em. Helped massively in my interview for a new job I start later this year, despite being in a completely different sector (Hospitality, slightly different from Game Development), which has almost endless possibilities across the globe, which suits me great, as I want to move to Australia/New Zealand at some point, though I'll probably be working a lot of weekends and long weeks.
Let us know if you come to Australia!!
I like my job, I work as a RAP Attendant (self-serve checkout supervisor) at Big W. I have great co-workers, who are all easy to get along with and very friendly. Generally the customers are fine, I get the odd jerk customers but I can handle them. I love my hours, I start at 12:30pm, so I still get to be a night owl and I still get to enjoy my sleep-ins.
👍 nice job mate. Is there much opportunity to go higher in the food chain at big W? is that something you want to do? or quite happy rolling with your current setup for a while?
BTW just for reference i will say what ive done in terms of jobs.
Aug 06 - Oct 06 - Pizza delivery guy
Oct 06 - Sept 09 - Harvey Norman salesman Mackay(Hardware manager from April 08+) Laptop/Desktop salesman, in control of all hardware stock and ordering
Oct 09 - Jan 10 - Harvey Norman salesman in Brisbane, it was at this stage that i was wanting to move into the corporate sales environment and Mackay didnt have any opportunities for that, so i decided to make use of a "transfer" and move to Brisbane (1000km south) in order to have a far greater range of jobs and hence a great possibility to land the job (Mackay has about 80,000 people and is generally a Minning town, Brisbane is the capital of the state and has 2 million? people). So moved out of home, bought myself and house and took a jump out of the nest.
Feb 10 - March 10 - Selling New and Used Cars, Harvey Norman went to crap and my new boss and I didnt get along, started to really make me miserable and i had my sights set on corporate job and thought it would be best to get out of retail and into some Cars to look better on my resume when the corporate opportunity came along.
March 10 - Now - Selling new and used Hardware/Software to companies all over Australia / NZ, dealing with IBM,HP,SUN,CISCO etc An opportunity came up through a friend and i landed an interview doing exactly what i decided i wanted to do back in July 2009 when i was still in Mackay!. So now im a corporate salesman and no longer work weekends and i deal with educated people and companies, rather than idiotic everyday people who on the most case were annoying haha.
Anyway i guess it shows if you have a plan and you make moves strategically to acheive your plan and stay focused then i dont see why you cant eventually make it. Doesnt happen overnight but then Rome wasnt built in a day.
). Why I am happy with it is that I can wear whatever I want (within reason 
), most of the time, I have a fixed schedule, and I get paid okay. Thing is... it could be worse. I could be out of job. --- Randy
