Do you like your job?

[just brew it!]

Wow. I think I would **** my pants. Literally. And depending on what's going on in the middle east, the same would be true for a trip to Israel.

Yeah, I was comfortable around O-5s and O-6s (dad retired as a LtCol), but a 4-star would be a bit much.

The kicker was that I went into this thing assuming that our Director of Business Development would be there with me to answer any high-level non-technical questions. At the last minute, they decided that only one person from each vendor could be present in the demo area (security concern, I guess). Our Director didn't know how to run the demo rig, so...

We eventually got the contract, so I guess I didn't screw up too bad...

[webkido13]

I absolutely love my job as an IT Admin with a small team at a large, publicly funded university (in Europe). I'm my own boss, I get to delegate the stuff I don't like to to, get paid very well, have five weeks of vacation, no overtime, have a great (USD 1'000'000) budget I get to manage and have a lot of highly intelligent people around me that appreciate my services. On top of that I can take whatever work-relevant courses I like (during work hours, all paid). I consider myself very lucky. Pretty much a dream job for me.

[Darkmage]

Yeah, I was comfortable around O-5s and O-6s (dad retired as a LtCol), but a 4-star would be a bit much.

Oh come now... they're people too. They have O-2s to put their pants on one leg at a time, just like normal people.

[Chrispy_]

Im an IT manager, emphasis on the IT, rather than the managing.

I have moments of incredibly enjoyable problem-solving interspersed with mundane routine and dealing with burocrats.
For every day I am bored and pissed-off with my job, there is a day that I love what I do.

I have found that the state of the economy greatly affects my enthusiasm: When we were doing well I was contstantly testing new things, implementing improved solutions and learning new stuff. In a recession, everything I want to do is held back by budget restrictions and the needle on my Job-Satisfaction-O-Meter swings left towards the boredom zone.

[thegleek]

Yeah, I was comfortable around O-5s and O-6s (dad retired as a LtCol), but a 4-star would be a bit much.

I had to look up the officer rankings... I don't memorize the level #'s by heart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... k_insignia

There is such a demand in nursing right now. I know several people, some family, some high school friends, who went back to school 4-5 years after graduating college and who had no problems finding jobs here in the central IL area. And they all said the same thing: plenty of room to advance, too.

Yes. Indeed there is UBER DEMAND for nurses. So much so that getting ACCEPTED into a nursing program is so damned competitive, it makes it impossible to get in unless you ace all your classes and score in the upper echelon on any tests given. I guess this isn't a bad thing per se, since we do want smart people working on us in hospitals, eh?

[kamikaziechameleon]

NOPE! Hopefully not my job a day longer than I need it to be!

[PrecambrianRabbit]

I like my job quite a lot, actually. I finished my Ph.D. in computer science about 2 years ago, and now I work as a software engineer/research scientist at a major tech company. I get to work with very smart, interesting, and nice people, and I get to work on solving hard problems and building some of the most advanced systems software you can find. (Of course, I'm posting on TR instead of working now because I'm burned out on the problem I should be solving... so hopefully I'll get to declare victory/defeat and move on to something new soon).

The pay is pretty good, too, which doesn't hurt, although Bay Area housing prices take some of the joy out of that part . Given the prices here, I've been wondering what jobs the 1% have, and how I could get one...