What field do you work? And do you love your work and workplace?

I work at a company that manufactures and sells paint protection film to automotive detailing shops. It pays acceptably, but I loathe it. We're all selling a film targeted towards the luxury car market, so only the rich and frivolous really get to enjoy our products, cause they're god awful expensive.

The people in this industry are terrible. My coworkers and bosses are all right-wing conspiracists who drink up all of the bullshit "company culture/family" speeches our obscenely wealthy bosses drop on us. It gets pretty dull when the water cooler conversation is 1.work 2. cars or 3. horribly misunderstood politics. Our customers, the detailing shops, tend to be abrasive, rude, and also right-wingers. Either the good-ol down south American conservatives or the small business owner conservatives or both. Like, you're buying a roll of plastic, why do you feel the need to dunk on trans people or vaccines? And their customers, the people getting the film put on their vehicles, are rich, entitled assholes who love calling me when their ferarri has 2 micrograms of dust on the roof demanding a full refund.

Basically I just try to keep my head down, do my job, collect a paycheck, and scroll the internet. I'm surrounded by hateful people who repeat paranoia and toxicity at each other instead of holding conversations to serve a tiny and wealthy consumer base that I don't respect. I jumped on this job thinking it was a normal office gig, but while the work is easy and pays ok, the culture is terrible, and I feel like helping rich people get obscenely overpriced car accessories isn't a fulfilling use of my time.

Early childhood education. Specifically, I teach prek (4-5 year olds) and have done so for nearly 15 years. I'm planning a move to elementary education within the next two years as a step up for my career.

I enjoy way I do, I love seeing the children grow and learn and know that I had a strong impact on them. Especially the age I work with, their personalities and skills are growing exponentially. I take them from being barely able to count or write their names, to writing/reading simple sentences and performing basic arithmetic. Some gifted children leave my class reading chapter books and working on multiplication and division - I try and push each child to perform to their best capabilities!

One of my favorite activities with them is teaching the group to play chess each year. Without fail, I get at least one or two who are exceptionally good at it, and can pose a challenge even for me after some basic strategy instruction once we finish learning the rules. It's really a sight to see such young minds exceed what you think they're capable of.

As for my workplace - it's one of the better private daycare/schools in the area, but the pay is lousy. I really wish I earned more, and had more time of or other benefits. I don't mind the folks I work with, but since I've built a reputation as a good teacher, my administration also has a habit of sending me problematic staff in order to "fix" them - something I've loudly complained about to them to little use.

We recently changed our curriculum, and the new corporate mandated stuff is just absolute garbage. I'm refusing to use it, and continuing with my own tried-and-true curriculum I've developed over the years. I'm still tied to their assessment tools though, so we will see how that goes.

Edit: sorry for typos, I'm on mobile and don't care to edit.

I work IT in uniform for the army (Canadian, not American). The army is a decent job, but I suffered a nervous breakdown a couple of years ago from unresolved mental health issues and lost a lot of that knowledge in the aftermath. I still like the job sometimes but the workplace has gotten to be less enjoyable as more people get burnt out and leave, increasing the demand on those of us who are still left.

I'm on my way out medically anyways so I'm not too broken up about the state of the organization, but I did meet a lot of cool people, got to travel to different places I wouldn't have seen otherwise and did some pretty cool stuff so I don't regret it. It was an eye-opening experience for sure. No idea what I'm going to do afterwards, but I'm leaning towards getting into film/filmmaking.

Truck driver, local P&D, home every night.

The job is..ok..but extremely unfulfilling. I've been at it for ~7 years now and while I'm still young-ish I cannot picture myself doing this forever. The pay is great for me as someone that did not go to college, and I have recently bought my first house with it. I just want to do something more interesting with my life. I'm in the process or teaching myself to code and thoroughly enjoy it and have fun with it. Maybe someday I'll learn enough to swap careers into web dev. It just sucks, I feel like I'm slowly destroying my body with this job. I'm very good at my job..but, it just eats away slowly at my soul everyday.

I write software documentation. My company offers enterprise DevOps tools. I communicate with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to architect and write materials that explain our software. To maintain the docs, we use special content authoring tools to organize content and reduce duplication/manual updates.

I enjoy my work well enough. It exposes me to many different ways of thinking - it covers so many topics and the use-cases are varied. Docs are often forgotten until some misleading statement breaks a customer's workflow: then it's all hands on deck. So a certain part of my job, even though I am an individual contributor, is political/social: remaining visible so that other teams give proactive feedback.

The job is fully remote and my colleagues are pleasant. It has healthcare/options and generous PTO. It pays relatively well - but engineering has a higher ceiling. I have considered switching to a more lucrative position. However I am rather good at this job and it is easy for me. I have a career path forward here as a more experienced IC or maybe the team lead. I'm unsure if I want the additional responsibility.

I've always wanted to do nonprofit work, but I struggle to extricate myself from the compensation and flexibility of the software industry. Or perhaps I really just want a 4-day work week and volunteer the extra day, but I wouldn't know how to negotiate that without a 20% salary cut, which is imprudent at my age... maybe.

I'm a locksmith. Love is a strong word, but the work is usually fulfilling and stimulating. The workplace is... complicated. I love my coworkers for the most part, a couple are two of my closest friends. I'm really close with the owner, as I am the longest-running full time employee and have been with him for a decade. But we bicker like an old married couple, and as the company has grown from two of us to seven now, some of his small-business sole-proprietor go-gettem "wisdom" is showing itself a bit thin. We have near daily sparring matches about policy and procedure, which wears on us both. But I certainly wouldn't trade it for a job where yelling at your boss is a short road to getting fired. I do love that I've been able to make a niche for myself that could only really be rivalled by starting my own business, and this is the only job I've ever had that held my attention, so I'm probably in it for the long haul.

I work for a state government agency - specifically the state of Maine's pension system - administering death benefits and assisting families and survivors of those who have passed away. My job is a mix of direct customer service, like talking on the phone or meeting with grieving families, and bureaucratic office work that extends from our agency to a wide variety of other offices around the state. I often need to help families and beneficiaries navigate that bureaucracy as best we can.

This work is often both fulfilling but stressful, frustrating but rewarding. People can be so thankful for our help in a difficult time, or they can be so angry with us, particularly when there's decent amounts of money involved. The work never lessens - I'm never not busy at work, but the workday ends when it ends, and I don't bring any work home with me, so my time outside of work is my time.

We are a unionized workplace so we have pretty good benefits, but the pay is definitely less than I might get in the private sector. That's okay because Maine isn't a very expensive place to live, and I am fortunate to have a nice small home and a pretty easy (and with pretty views) commute in to work each day.

So I am thankful overall - I know a lot of people don't like to talk about our deal with death, but it's my job to do so every day. And I often tell people that we hope they only have to go through the process of dealing with a loved one's passing a few times in their lives, but we do it all day, and are happy to help where we can.

I used to work in luxury tile until this past Monday (which tells you how the luxury tile industry is doing right now), and the work was tedious, predictable, and unregulated. I enjoyed it when the paper box holding the tile wasn't moldy or falling apart, sending 80+ kg of tile onto my feet. Got to drive a forklift, listen to music all day, and kill a little bit of time. Aside from the radical right-wing coworkers who couldn't keep their opinions to themselves (Biden could not possibly have played that big a role in the price increase of a little caesar's pizza), I could've been happy there.

Now, my options are appearing to be agricultural equipment sales, construction equipment rentals, or the local grocery. That, or I could just sit on welfare, but where's the fun in that? Fingers crossed that next time the forum comes back to this question, I'll have found a more stable and successful line of work to flourish in.

I'm a software developer for a company that contracts with the government. I like what I do, but I don't love it. I definitely want to do it til I decide to retire. But it's not a passion for me.

In terms of size, my company would be categorized as small. It's on the bigger end of that scale, but spread out. I love where I work. Everyone from the president down to my supervisor knows that they're doing and are good leaders. We have a good culture and the pay & benefits are pretty good. It's a private company focused on the tech services it provides. So we don't have issues of answering to public shareholders or divided interests.

My previous company was a tax prep franchise. The software I worked on was crucial to the tax preparers doing their job. But it's not how they made money, building and maintaining franchises was. So you can see where their priority lied. Plus they went public, putting more pressure on bigger profits. I'm much happier where I'm at.

I'm a software architect and tech lead for a Fortune 100 tech company. Overall, I like my job. Wouldn't do it for free, but it's satisfying and pays incredibly well. That being said, it's not for the faint of heart. I lead a global development team of 40 developers, and do all of the architecture and design work for a large application. I work 60+ hours a week, from 9am - 1am some night with a few hour break in the middle. I won't be able to do it like this forever, but it works for now.

The company itself is pretty laid back. Our developers are happy, and we have very high retention. Good work life balance for the majority of the team - it's just my role and managers that have stupid hours due to the nature of our roles.

I work in healthcare, specifically designing and implementing solutions for folks with mobility challenges. I partner with therapists in facilities like care homes, come up with a plan for getting the client around (wheelchair to bed, into/out of the bathtub…etc). Essentially it’s a job where healthcare meets electronics repair and construction. I work with facilities to design a system, I lead the charge in modifying the structure and installing the system, and I service them as well. I work with ceiling lifts, ramps, vertical platform lifts, stair lifts, change tables… pretty much any equipment that the client needs.

It’s a really rewarding job. I get to work with patients all the way from small children to the elderly. Facilities from schools, to care homes and private residences. I get to meet loads of interesting people that are happy to share their stories with me. I am also fortunate to have a team to lead that trusts and respects me.

My job history has lots of variety to it, and I have worked for lots of companies. Upper management at my current company didn’t see it as job hopping but rather as something that made me very well rounded with lots of experience. A recruiter representing them actually reached out to me on LinkedIn, and the rest is history. I’d never considered a job in healthcare, but I can’t see myself ever leaving.

I work in the chemical industry. Specifically, sanitation chemicals and sanitizers. My job used to be to visit production facilities, observe their processes, audit their methods, give advice, and write reports. It was a lot of problem-solving and relationship-building. I loved every second of it. Any time I wasn't in the field, I was researching white papers on new methods and products, looking for new verticals we could tap into to expand our offerings, watching and talking to the competition to get an understanding of how we could compete. It was awesome.

However, through some poor corporate decisions and general mismanagement, my priorities, and thusly, my job description have changed. I am now a salesperson. I have been instructed to spend 95% of my time knocking on doors, peddling soap. My time with my current customers has plummeted, to the point they're making comments about not seeing my 'smiling face' as much. I have to report every sales call I do in an Excel sheet, an online portal, and on weekly video calls, all to the same people. Despite being here five years and discussing my utter disinterest in sales during my interview, I have still been relegated into this position.

I work with some great people and I believe in the product, but I absolutely loathe what I am doing. I am miserable. Even when I attempt to explain that I am not trained, experienced, or motivated to be a salesperson, I am met with disregard simply because 'this is a sales position'. I have started to look elsewhere, but unless I want to continue in sales, it looks like I will have to leave the industry.

I am working as a multimedia developer for technical education (mostly designing graphics, diagrams, and animations, but I also do some video editing, website design, and copy editing). I sometimes like it a lot and sometimes find it boring; it just depends on whatever project I'm working on. My favorite things to do are animations and diagrams that explain computer science topics, particularly on the hardware side of things, and I also enjoy any opportunity to delve into the history of computing.

I really like my workplace a lot — the other employees are lovely, we get some nice perks, I get regular raises, I get a lot of opportunities to learn new skills, etc. — but it is a bummer that I live so far away that I miss out on the social events. I also really dislike that it's office work all day long; it's first job I've ever had where I had to sit down all day, and even though I've been doing it for a couple years now, I still really struggle with that. (The nice thing about working remotely, at least, is that I can take lots of small breaks to run a load of laundry, unload the dishwasher, etc. It's no replacement for real exercise, though.)

My previous job was in the agriculture sector, and that was by far the most fun and engaging workplace I've ever had. I did so many different things: planting, pruning, harvesting, seed cleaning, repairing greenhouses, installing irrigation, hand-pollinating vegetables, managing lab chemicals, DNA testing, insect identification, training contract farmers, and a lot of strange and interesting activities that are under NDA (related to R&D). The work was different every day; it involved a nice mixture of sitting, walking, and doing physical work; it involved a lot of travel and spending time outside; there were plenty of raises, promotions, and skill development opportunities; and it was seasonal in nature, meaning I got a big block of time off work each year to go overseas. Unfortunately, it underwent a management change and I — and almost everyone else who worked there — ended up leaving over the next couple of years. It's the job I miss most and would go back to in a heartbeat if it ever returned to the way it was.

Currently a software engineer at a biotech company. It’s got great pay and flexibility but I just can’t stand working for the profit of rich white guys.

Have thought about becoming a physician (used to be a physiologist), but that would be the same deal unless I did private practice. Plus it’s a bad financial decision.

Might end up a stay-at-home foster parent or write novels. My spouse is a more decorated software engineer and heckin’ loves it plus they’re fine with me not working. But like external scorn of the jobless, y’know?

I make things out of metal and wood and sometimes other things. Mostly, I make bespoke wedding rings and other jewellery, including memorial jewellery and also everyday wear stuff.

I make other stuff when people ask. Knives, sometimes. Occasionally other tools. Once I made a trophy. Rarely I make furniture but it does happen. Every so often I just do the design bit not the making bit. Occasionally I do some writing and photography too. Sometimes I consult on tech stuff, due to my previous work as a web developer, designer and devops person. If someone wants to give me money to do a thing, I will probably do the thing.

I like it well enough. It doesn't leave me in too much pain at the end of the day, which using a keyboard for 8+ hours did. I only work part time hours at the most, especially now my kid is at school and finishes at 3pm rather than the half five nursery finished at. My workplace is nice. It's in my garden, in a building I built myself (twice! once from wood and again later from brick - without taking the stuff out inbetween). So it's exactly how I want it, pretty much. When I keep on top of the tidying it's a calm, pleasant place in which I can be creative and make high quality things. When I don't it's a bit stressful, but that just means I have to set aside some time to make it nice again.

I do miss working with other people. But I do also like working for myself.

I'm an IT manager (of a department of one) for a non-profit that works in the university accreditation arena. While we're US-based and most of our schools are in the US, we have schools either accredited by us or simply members of our organization in like 40+ countries on every continent except Antarctica.

It's often said that those who work in non-profits wear "many hats." So even though my principal duties lie in maintaining, researching, purchasing, and assisting with technology, I also have responsibilities with website management and events AV and logistics. along with other random tasks that come my way. I'm a problem solver, so all sorts things come my way.

I love my job enough that I've been with this company for 16+ yrs now, over two separate stints (they invited me back 2.5yrs ago). I've been able to learn about and be involved in all sorts of different things, not even related to technology. And because we're a small company, there's not a lot red tape. If there's a problem, you find a solution, and implement it. We get a lot of leeway in how approach things. We can be a lot more flexible and agile than a bigger and/or tightly controlled company might be. And we all get a voice and can influence the direction of the organization. It's nice to know what you're doing often has a visible effect on things (and vice versa; if you screw up, sometimes it can have big effects).

Plus being a non-profit means that profit isn't our main driver. "Revenue over expenses" is certainly important, as it is for any company. But we don't have to consider the ROI of every little decision. Not everything is about the bottom line.

But I'm not so in love with this place to stay here forever. I already have a tentative job offer on the table elsewhere. Just waiting on some things to get finalized.

I do a mix of a bunch of different stuff. Lots of intermittent or feast/famine cycle work.

Among other things I'm an independent contractor - I mainly do telecom and low voltage stuff. Currently I get intermittent work from telecom field survey which I really love - it involves walking out in rural areas outdoors to get pictures and data from telephone poles and underground infrastructure. I get exercise and nature from that while being paid well. On the low voltage side I (currently) mainly do access control and security - installing and servicing solar powered security trailers and doing the same (service/install) for residential and commercial access control systems.

Recently I also started an eBay business buying, testing, refurb/repairing and then selling industrial and commercial electronics and specialty tools. That is really starting to take off and I can see it becoming my full time work if I want it to be, resulting in reasonable middle-class income. I'm also using it both as an excuse to further build out my electronics workbench (which started as a hobby build) in terms of what equipment and capabilities I have as well as diversifying my knowledge-base in electronics by servicing a bunch of stuff I had never laid hands on before.

I'm a retail manager. I would dress it up by saying something like sales manager but pretty impossible to get out of retail and still make good money.

I do currently work for a great company that pays me really well and provides great benefits. I sell connected fitness devices so I also get to talk to a lot of people who tell me about how what I sell has saved their lives, etc which is always great and uplifting to hear.

I am happy with my job and role, but due to the nature of it being an American company and myself being located in Canada combined with our current CEO effectively blocking all chance of remote work, there is little room for advancement.

Again, can't complain too much and in this job market I'm happy to stick it out while I still love my job. When things start to turn around I'll probably look for a new job with more room for advancement.

I work in a strange confluence of government, executive education, and technology. My career path has been bizarre, but it's given me exposure to a lot of intersecting business domains.

Do I enjoy what I do? Absolutely. The subject matter is just the right kind of challenge for this stage of my career.

Do I like my workplace? I'd say 90%. I wish we were better funded and had less red tape, but my colleagues and management chain are the best I've ever worked with.

Information technology. I work as a "consultant," but it's really just overpayed managed services. I was part of a datacenter team (VMware, Microsoft) where I never touched a server, and am now doing Azure administration. Because I'm 1500 miles away from my team, cloud makes more sense, to be honest.

What I like is the struggle to learn new things. AVD died? I don't know how but I'll fix it. Your ERP system is dead? Let's see what's up! I also like that I'm helping people do their jobs, which at least online, seems to be weird for IT guys. I'm at the bottom of the totem pole right now but also want to skill up and aid with system architecture ASAP, because the only thing I love more than learning how the sausage is made is making it myself.

I am a software reverse engineer.

I love my work and my workplace. I wind up missing my work if I am away for too long. I started my career in cybersecurity and did a hard pivot into writing embedded software. I later moved into reverse engineering, as I was writing software based on insights from the reversing team. I now spend ~50% digging around the guts of different systems and ~50% writing software based on these insights (often utilities to expand my access to a system.)

I’m a native mobile app developer (iOS and Android) at a small B2B company.

For the most part, it’s great. Really not much more I could ask for. If I were working at a FAANG, compensation would probably be a bit higher, but not necessarily proportionate to the added stress. I work remotely, work-life balance is good, and I have a lot of agency and little micromanagement.

My only gripe is honestly having to wrestle with Android. It’s difficult to express how frustrating of a platform it can be to develop for sometimes, and though iOS development also has its points of friction they’re generally much more mild and avoidable. I sometimes wish there were a way to opt of out Android SDK entirely and use the iOS dev stack for the Android app too.

That’s relatively minor compared to what a lot of people have to deal with at their workplaces though, so I don’t have a lot of room to complain. I’d be lying if I said achieving a level of financial independence high enough to be able to start my own business without too much risk weren’t a goal, though.

Teacher at a wealthy private school. I really do love what I do. I love to teach.

I work as a "customer support engineer" which ends up translating to Quality Manager for the facility. My company makes safety critical automotive parts. I enjoy what I do, but never do it for free. Love solving problems, love crunching numbers and finding actionable info from it.

I crunch numbers, organize sorts, and deal with the ISO/IATF red tape and requirements. It's a lot, but the hours are good, and the job is local to my house which helps a ton.

I'm a senior software dev/architect in the aerospace industry (working on NASA contracts specifically). I can honestly say I love it. As far as compensation and benefits I could do much better, but I live comfortably enough, get to work fully remote, and I'm a bit of a space nerd so I couldn't imagine enjoying working on anything else as much as the stuff I get to do here. It also tends to attract other people who are passionate about the work too, so it's a pretty great culture and group of people to work with.

(Public Interest) Attorney.

Indifferent and indifferent.

There’s little difference between punching this clock and punching a slightly different one.

I work maintenance at an auto manufacturer (not UAW), it has its ups and downs but I generally like my job, the biggest annoyance in my line of work is that most of my coworkers are right/far right on the political scale (and not at all quiet about it) and I'm definitely not, most days I just stay quiet (I do not talk about politics at work but they assume) and keep to myself just so I don't have a room full of people berating me about my choices in politics.

It pays really well in my opinion and I get decent vacation time including the ability to earn more vacation days by working holidays (you can choose between earned vacation and double time plus holiday pay).

I lead people analytics (a label I both loathe and find meaningful; you get silo'd in HR but then end up working across finance, operations, IT, and HR) for an international manufacturing ("protein" is the euphemism, industrialized butcher and food prep is the most adapt description) corp.

I've said the below elsewhere on Tildes but the question as posed has a slightly different approach.

Work place:

• My bosses (direct and his one up) are great. My team is excellent.
• The nature of my position means I have a lot of "customers." In reality they are leadership in subsidiary businesses where a balance of deference and authority as the parent company is hard to strike. I get along with many of them well enough, some are tougher than others. A lot of dominant personalities with their own political battles within their companies.
• As an agricultural business and a large corp the overarching political bent is conservative. Fortunately politics is not a common topic people try to talk to me about.
• While I have some office friends there is no one I hang out with outside of work. My team is tight knit, sharing similar political views, interests, etc. With ~1300 people in our office it's pretty cliquey.
• An ever present "butts in seats" culture. As a director I have some latitude but floor presence is brought up a lot. Employees are often told "you're salaried, there's no bell, head home if your work is done." But us in management still have to watch when execs are leaving and make sure that our areas aren't "too sparse."

Work:

• Eh, it's fine. I have a PHD in mathematics and have published some pretty neat results. This morning my time was spent creating a spreadsheet template for global leadership to complete, teaching a HoHR how to use the snipping tool, defending a dashboard from an HoHR because they didn't like how were counting "completion", and showing our top legal counsel and head of contractor services how to add someone to a sharepoint.
• I'd call it boring, the more interesting stuff is directing my team. Teaching them best practices with development cycles and statistical analysis.
• When my grad school friends ask if I'm doing anything interesting I pretty much call what I do "high pressure division."

I’m senior leadership at a tech org. Big data. It isn’t a FAANG, but it’s sizeable.

I love it. The role, and the org itself. It pays really well, is remote, and I get Fridays off. I don’t code or design much anymore… but I get to mentor a bunch of talented people who do.

That said, I think what’s made me successful in my career thus far is running toward new challenges, so even though I’m enjoying myself now, it’s just a matter of time before I find myself elsewhere.

I'm a civil engineer in land development. Most of what I do is designing subdivisions.
I hate it, it's boring and I feel like I'm actively contributing to a design of society that I hate. Mostly because I am.
My current plan is to work for a few more months to build up some savings and go find a new job doing something that I actually want to do. I want to attempt to make a difference somewhere, and I figure no matter what I end up with, it can't be worse than helping create more subdivisions.

I work for a credit union as a data analyst/engineer. I solve problems, make improvements to processes, and help our members get products that rival big banks without actually being a part of one of those bloodsucking institutions. I have been in a few different industries for data and this has been the most fulfilling and best paying position I've had. I really enjoy it and there is so much opportunity to grow both for myself and the company.

Please please choose a credit union over a big bank, you won't regret it. That means you too Gen Z and Gen Alpha!

I work in the construction industry, behind a desk on the financial/design side of things. I've done this job for 3 months but honestly I don't know how long I'm going to stay here.

I feel like I can't do anything right. My background is in geology, and while its kind of relevant to my position, I do mostly sales/business. I don't know why they hired me (with no sales, business, or construction experience) to do this job. And then they act like I'm stupid when I inevitably make a mistake. And my boss whose supposed to be training me is gone most of the time.

And the work culture is toxic as hell. I'm a gay man, though I can mostly "pass" as straight. I hear homophobia, sexism, racism, and general bigotry pretty much daily. Just today our regional VP was in and complained that my whiteboard had only "goddamn fruity colors". The company is incredibly catholic conservative, which was not apparent at the time of my interview. I'm afraid that if they ever find out I'm not straight or conservative, I'll never get a chance to move up there.

But leaving would be difficult. The pay is decent. Much better than I used to make, but I'm by no means rich. And I moved across the state for this job, my friends and family are 2 hours away. My apartment doesn't let people out of their lease early, so I'm stuck here until at least next July. Fml.

I work for the state, it's a miserable shit job with unfathomable layers of beurocracy and I hate every second of it. However, I will work here until retirement because of the benefits/pension.

I might not get a lot of love for this, but I'm a quality management system engineer for a US military defense contractor. I get to visit a bunch of different teams that do all kinds of fascinating work for the military industrial complex and make sure they're doing things in accordance with AS9100D, as well as company, government and contract requirements. I also spend a good deal of my time learning the details of their processes to make sure those processes are documented correctly and followed precisely.

I love my job.

I'm in marketing. I don't like that everything is 100% marketing all the time, but I do love the creativity I'm afforded in my line of work. Currently, I don't do anything external, I'm what my team calls "internal marketing" and handle events and activities, education, and team coordination for my company. I do tons of graphic design and creative work for my company that no one will ever see outside my company, and I'm ok with that. I love where I work and what I'm doing, which is new to me. I've never been at a company that I actually felt valued at. My company is really well-known in its industry and is one of the leaders of the industry, but we're still a relatively small company at around 100 employees. I know and work with everyone in the company on different levels due to the nature of my job.

The only thing that bothers me on occasion, and this is my company specifically, is that so much of it is need to know and siloed, when a lot of my job is working with everyone, I need to know everything, and I really don't know a lot of what's going on sometimes, which makes coordination difficult.

It's a true 180 from where I was when I started at my company, due to the nature of our clients, we have to be very specific in how we interact internally and externally, and it was touch and go during the initial training process, but once I was free to do what I needed to do for my job, it changed drastically, and I appreciate my boss and working with my team so much, I often go above and beyond to make sure the team is getting what they need. My boss is really adamant that we have a work-life balance and to never look at the computer after hours (and while we're all salaried, he wants everyone to work 8-5 with a 1-hour lunch, period). I usually do, but I was so invested in making something work for our event next week that I spent extra time yesterday faffing with my program to make it work.

I currently work in the B2B software industry as a software engineer on the backend (basically behind the scenes coding work). It's not the most exciting field nor is the work that fulfilling in my opinion but I get paid well and I like the company. While I'm not a fan of the direction the company is going in, the culture is chill and the benefits are good for now. There's minimal stress and the unlimited PTO seems to actually be unlimited if you find someone to backfill for you if you take extended breaks. My team is also relatively chill and I'll often see people take the day off just to relax and recharge if they need it. We don't have any strict deadlines for release and things kind of just happen at their own pace. Overall, I can see myself staying here for a few years though I will not hesitate to jump to another company with good wlb/benefits in the near future.

I'm a frontend engineer. I have a background in design, and it translates really nicely to frontend work. I love what I do. It's been a matter of finding the best environment, as the code itself is super fun to me. The different factors are mainly the people I'm surrounded by as well as the work life balance. I'm actually about to start a new role at an AI tech startup and I have high hopes for this place's culture.

I'm a clinical neuropsychologist who works in a US academic medical center that catches the most complex cases in my state (one with huge healthcare access problems). I see patients (and train clinical postdocs) about 30% of the time and do research about 70% of the time. Overall, I love it. I get to study various biomarkers for stroke, various dementias, and movement disorders. I work a lot with adults who have Down syndrome, which is just a joy. I also have a few projects involving deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and VR for rehabilitation after stroke.

Managing the egos among the faculty is by far the worst part. I'm extremely interpersonally sensitive, which is a superpower clinically and in some career maneuvering, but it's a massive liability when people are insulting, demeaning, publicly shaming. I'm growing thicker skin, but things still sporadically throw me for a day or two. I'm a highly specialized clinical and research PhD in a department of mostly specialized MDs, so I'm paid much less than most but have the bona fides to gain respect overall. It amounts to a lot of needing to set firm boundaries from the outset, because there is a lot of testing of boundaries when I form new work relationships. I live with it.

Mostly I'm just a dad and partner and homebody, so work isn't my main happy place.

I am a Cognitive Data Scientist. I just started a little less than a month ago, but so far I'm loving it.

I shied away from academia after seeing how many hours my PhD advisor spent doing meaningless support crap - he basically didn't get to do almost any of his own research any more. And that's the part I really enjoy - it's like solving puzzles, to me.

So now I finally got a position in industry, and they're paying me a fuck load to spend the strong majority if my time doing just that - analyzing, modeling, etc. Solving puzzles. It has been a major trial by fire for me, as my first industry position, and they hired me to replace someone similar skills with multiple projects underway.

I am a revenue analyst for a winery. I quite like my workplace, but I am looking for a new job. I enjoy working with numbers and spreadsheets, and using large datasets to do something useful. I also like playing with new technology. This job has limited need of new technology, but on the other points it is amazing. However the wine industry is headed downwards. Wine in particular is an industry very susceptible to a boom and bust cycle, and we are definitely headed towards bust. I have already been laid off from my current position (long story, they tried to move me to a different part of the company. When that fell through, they hired me back). I know my job is going to be the first to go once we have to tighten the purse strings.