How easy is your job?

[WhiteAndBlue]

I don't have a job yet...still going to college, but I did have a part-time job teaching Karate to small kids and it was painful as hell!

[fredjacksonsan]

Easy isn't a word that comes to mind. The requirements of having to devote your full attention to what you're doing most of the time isn't really "easy". Demanding customers, tight scheduling deadlines, issues with weather and the trouble it causes, and initial low pay all make my job not so easy.

But once you've gotten past all of the above, flying an airplane for a living is the best job in the world.

[jon@af]

I work about 65 hours a week (sometimes more) as the editor of weekly newspaper - managing stories, assignments, meetings with community leaders, some advertising, the design of the paper each week and much of the photography responsibilities, among a plethora of other things. Oh, and I somehow work in my home life with my wife of a year and a half as well. Until my recent vacation, I hadn't slept more than 2 hours on a Monday night in 9 months.

I don't find jobs that are just super easy to be all that fulfilling. I take pride in knowing that many people can't do what I do . Enjoy college. It may get less taxing following graduation, but if you ever want to go anywhere in life, you're going to have to work harder than you ever have for a few years to get there (I graduated May 2008).

Originally Posted by WhiteAndBlue

I don't have a job yet...still going to college, but I did have a part-time job teaching Karate to small kids and it was painful as hell!

I was thinking of putting my boy in one of those classes to help him build self esteme(sp?) ect. He does not wanna do any sports offered through the school. He acts out to get attention. I was hoping one of those classes would help him.
Any who, the woman I was taking care of passed away not to long ago, so I am unemployed at the moment. I took care of her since 2002 or 2003. Hard to remember. I would work in a nurcing home, but I can't stand the way they treat people in them places. Too many patients and not enough workers. Just like the schools, too many kids and not enough teachers.

[Knifeblade]

My new job is pretty easy. I transplanted from MI to IN cuz things weren't happening in rust-town anymore, came down to hang with a best friend. Found work in INDY 12 days after landing. F/T at an upscale import wine/cheese shop in a nice mall. I cut cheese to order, recommend wine and other stuff, generally act like I know what I'm doing { which I mostly do, anyway}.

The nice part is it's low labor-intensive, I never need to really hustle or break a sweat, and in the warmer weather, the short-shorts abound, hehe. A cush gig, sure beats washing dishes in a sweat-shop atmosphere. I have A/C, music, get as many free samples of food as I want, some wine samples {obviously we are limited there, the owner doesn't want us too loopy, LMAO}. I get to be autonomous, no one is looking over my shoulder, I get to chat up { in many cases, look up and down the females, HEY, they dress for being looked at here,} the girls and women, get to look around the mall-way and watch the people go by. I make my own breaks and lunch-time, all on-the-clock, work mostly eve.'s, out by 9 p.m. guaranteed. {It's a mall, so stores shut down at 9}.

Yeah, life is good !!!!

[david-b]

As a Creative Director for a beer company, there's a lot of times I do sit around and do nothing. HOWEVER, if it's not busy at one point, it will be at another point. I mean honestly there's days when I sit online just doing whatever I want. But other days where I have to bring some work home with me. Anytime I work a minute over 40 hours, I put in overtime.

On the major up side, I make my own hours, come and go as I please, I take a lunches whenever I want and are usually over the allotted hour, taken naps and get away with murder. I run the department so no one is really watching me, and it's nice.

[speediva]

My job is to teach a bunch of hormonal teenagers a year's worth of math content in just under 10 months. Oh, and I am the assistant cross country coach. My job is NOT easy, but it's my passion and I don't think I could ever do anything else.

[Toksin]

I get to talk to people all day selling tv's, home theatre, whiteware, appliances, car audio etc etc. Basically 1) I get to play with cool toys all day, 2) I get paid and 3) I get to talk shit. What's not to like?

Sometimes its easy, sometimes its hard. I work for a company where you tend to get rewarded more the harder you work.

[discnik]

The job I have is both extremely frustrating and at the same time highly rewarding.
There are new things to learn everyday and the amount of research involved for some problems is mind blowing. Then there is the interaction with the people who have placed their trust and confidence in my ability to remedie their problem quickly and correctly. The training for this job is continous as the systems and and designs for the things I work on is continously changing. It can also be entertaining to see the creative way in which some people think they can solve their own problem, get in over their head or ruin the job, then ask us to fix it. However bathing in coolant, oil, grease, & sometimes brake fluid can be a little annoying.

I'm an automotive technician and the good far out ways the bad of this profession.

[sganc4life_4]

Bus/Dish 5 days a week at a Sushi/Steak house restaurant = free food. Going to school for chemical engineering which isnt that hard at all. Chem E jobs get even easier + starting around 60k/year here.

[2.2 Straight six]

Not that hard, frustrating sometimes though. I'm a tech at a VW-Audi specialist. I rebuild wrecked cars mostly, but also do a fair number of customers cars, lease cars and rentals for the adjoined companies.

It's not that hard, this is what i deal with most of the time:



It's harder when you need to replace the silicone sump gasket and need to drop the subframe to remove the sump. (Not really hard, time consuming.):



It's not really that hard even when the power goes down and you have to pull a gearbox, swap a clutch out and put the gearbox back in with only a flashlight for the area you're working in and light from another car's headlights to keep the office illuminated:



The harder the task is the more i enjoy it. I like a challenge.

[simpleautoglass]

I got really lucky with my job. I'm an IT guy for an insurance company. But usually everything is always working fine, so I just kind of sit there and surf the internet all day. I absolutely love my job, but hate my car. Go figure.

[freedhardwoods]

I am a driver/loader for a building products company. Some days are easy, some not so easy, but rarely is hard. I drive anything from a pickup to an 18 wheeler. Today I worked 6 hours unloading and reloading semi trailers. Monday I leave for North Carolina from Indiana with part of a building package. I will be following another driver that has the oversized part of the building on his trailer. It is a jobsite delivery and I have the forklift we will unload our trucks with on the back of my trailer. I volunteer for Saturday work for the overtime. Putting in about 65 hours a week now. Things will probably slow down a little in a month or two.

[79Bandit]

I'm Shipping/Receiving supervisor (AKA) Babysitter for a small wood moulding company i also do there cad drawings personally hate it but it pays for college! Working about 45-48 hours a week, but like most jobs in my industry work will slow down untill after christmas soon.

[Muscletang]

I'm an MCO (Master Control Operator) at a TV station where I...ah fuck it. I put tapes in, push play, and get on facebook.