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[novapsyche]

What kind of job do you have? (No names of businesses unless you really want to.)

Do you like your job?

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[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

I do web design, graphic design, article insertion, videography, video editing, and other multimedia work for a weekly trade newspaper. Technically, my title is Multimedia Editor.

The parts of my job that actually involve multimedia, I like them rather much. Sometimes it involves adventuring to new cities, which I am all about. However, our web department is very small, and on many days they need me to help them with the load of inserting articles into the system. That part sucks hugely, IMHO.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Multimedia Editor. That is a fantastic title, I must say. How is it, working for a newpaper?

Sometimes it involves adventuring to new cities, which I am all about.

Neat! Which cities/regions have been your favorites, so far? And how often do you travel?

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

Well, a weekly newspaper is a whole different bird from a daily. The push to grind out articles isn't as harsh, from what I've seen, so the stress is less on that end.

On the other hand, since our web department is small, we have to do a lot of work that really should have more people involved. My boss's boss is very much a Jonah Jameson kind of guy, which is pretty amusing, but the 'news room' is really quiet most of the time.

I started doing videography for them in Detroit at the last auto show in january, and since then I've been to Vegas, Chicago, New York, and I'll be in Los Angeles next week. They're still considering whether they can afford to send me to some of the international shows.

The trips are from 3 to 5 days, depending on the length of the auto show and number of interviews I'm doing.

Without the international shows, it's going to be pretty quiet from here until fall.

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I am the legal assistant for a medium sized firm (4 attorneys, about 30 support staff) that does Plaintiff's work for very specific product liability "failure to warn" cases. (One product. 200 cases a year.)

I like my job. The office politics, not so much.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

There must be people out there who do enjoy office politics. I generally don't. (Maybe this is says something about me: I'm an observer of politics, but I don't want to be a politician.)

So would you be what they call a paraprofessional?

[brendand.livejournal.com]

I work for H&R Block. I like it very well. I just wish it wasn't a seasonal thing.

Yes, I'll help with your taxes. Just be sure to call me at work. :)

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

What is it about working with taxes that you like?

[brendand.livejournal.com]

Good question. It's complicated, but understandable. I get to work with both numbers and people. And I'm respected.

[chimalis.livejournal.com]

None.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Duly noted.

[ryoganox.livejournal.com]

I'm basically a glorified Sec'a'tery. Though technically I'm tier 1 support for a small (3 people including me) software retail company. Since I don't code, most of my job is routing calls and task mastering to the boss so he makes call backs as requested.

Its a very slow job, so I enjoy it immensly, as it gives me free time to do stuff that does interest me: writting, Studying Japanese, WoW. The boss is often not in the office and he's looking to possible let us work from home, which would absolutely rock! :)

So, yeah, so far (its a new job) I like the job.

Ryan

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

you're an admin asst/tier 1, i'd say. you don't get him coffee, do you?

i like your new job, too. you seem happier. :)

[ryoganox.livejournal.com]

I like Sec'a'tery.

Though he gets his own coffee. :) hehe

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Administrative assistants are the shiz. Don't knock your title if that happens to be it. :)

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

I review and audit telephone bills for corporate clients. Implement savings, get refunds on unrequested charges, etc.

I like it a lot. Very much.

I'd like it even more if the web interface we subcontracted to use actually worked properly on a daily basis. :)

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

*smile* You like auditing. Is it because you get to dig through stuff and discover?

I'd like it even more if the web interface we subcontracted to use actually worked properly on a daily basis.

I can see how that might be something you might want. Yes.

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

it makes sense to my twisted personal pathology. i was always the mediator when my parents fought and i'm a losy housekeeper, so to get paid to make order of chaos makes me happy. likewise, i worry a lot about money, so savings money for others and getting praise and thanks is rewarding.

in addition to the service aspect, i have always loved problem-solving, which this basically is.

Unfortunately, with respect to the interface, i have just enough programming/database/web design knowledge to have some clue where the programmers F'd up. maybe more of a curse than a cure.

[chai-tease.livejournal.com]

I work ticketing customer service and sales as well as season subscriptions. regional theatre, 3 houses, i am middle management-ish so i have 5 bosses over me and 6 people under me.really, i just get yelled at by rich people all day long.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

really, i just get yelled at by rich people all day long.

See, I've had this happen to me (when I worked as a receptionist at a construction loan company, and also when I occasionally picked up the phone at the title insurance place). I couldn't deal with that over the long run.

It's my opinion that in a professional setting, no raised voices need ever occur. (Of course, that can go right out the window at any moment when you're dealing with The Public.)

[chai-tease.livejournal.com]

yeah, The Public at large doesnt seem to understand the difference between raising ones voice to get a point across and yelling at someone like a spoiled child because you cant get the exact same seats. effing deal with it, it is theatre, not life or death! if it IS life or death you need to get a better life.

[meaning-making.livejournal.com]

I coordinate a helpline for queers! I like it okay.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Coordinate a helpline. That could mean a number of things.

What about your job do you like?

[brendand.livejournal.com]

God bless you for it.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I've had lots of jobs, not yet on a career path. (I thought I was on one, for a while, in real estate, but that was a bit ago.)

Right now I'm working for a bookseller, and can I say how much I enjoy it? First, I get to work for a company that helps get books in the hands of those who want them. Second, as a bookseller, the company gets extra copies, and they give them to their employees for free.

Anyway, I hope to stay on this trajectory. It was my hope, once upon a time, to work for a publishing house. I'm sure there are contacts upon contacts in my current environment toward that end. It's just a matter of hard work, patience, diligence, and luck . . . .

[quiet-flame.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's great to see that so many people like their jobs!

I work part-time from home as the assistant editor of a poetry magazine, as you may know. Getting paid to read poetry, setting my own schedule, having my boyfriend as my boss...well, it doesn't suck. I'm especially for the flexibility, because I have a chronic illness and a typical 9 to 5 thing would be very hard to manage it.

So my job is pretty much ideal for me. The pay sucks, but I don't care much about that.

[stampytherhino.livejournal.com]

until recently...
I coordinate clinical research for a small LGBT health clinic. Most of the trials I run are HIV-related, and most of my patients are gay men. That's ok.

I have my own patient load (about 10 regulars, and a lot of visiting stars) for whom I'm their first point of contact in case of emergency. I give them drugs, I perform blood draws, I take their histories and console them and answer their questions about their health and med regimens. It's a lot of responsibility, but I love my patients and the responsibility.

as of June 25th...
Because my job got downgraded to "research assistant", I found a new job -- doing actual clinical research at an enormous medical school's cancer center. I have friends there waiting for me. That rocks quite hard.

I'll be working on head, neck, and lung cancers -- and I think this will be a little more emotionally difficult (because the patients will be in poor health, will die on me) but it'll also be a much more supportive environment. And my patients will be a little less one-note.

Oh! I also prep folks for standardized tests. Oh, and I'm also a pre-med student. Oh, and this summer, I'm taking an MCAT course. Christ, I need a vacation/drink.

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

Computer programmer, mostly backend. I'm told I should expect to do at least some front-end web programming in my new job (nine work days so far), but I expect I'll always be a data geek.

Yes, I like it the new job, at least so far. Apart from the coffee situation, anyway. I'm seriously thinking about using a battery-powered coffee grinder in my car right before I come in in the morning and making my own coffee directly into my cup.

[simianpower.livejournal.com]

I come up with stupid ideas and try them out on NASA's dime. And I do mean dime. They're cheap.

It'd be a great job if I actually got paid well. But I don't. They do that on purpose so that you either leave or start working ten times harder for four times the pay (i.e. become a professor).