Poll: Do you (or did you) enjoy your job?

[Caer Newydd]

bravo, must hire you for the Reading forum!

Once stayed in Reading overnight,
As the result of a cancelled flight,
Heathrow was foggy, no inn with a room,
So up the M4, I had to zoom,
At a loose end, but no need to dismay,
A game on at the Madejski that very day,
Got to my seat and this is what I found,
All across my side of ground,
Lots of fans each kitted in green,
Reading's blue and white army nowhere to be seen.
Got the feeling, that something was wrong,
When they all started singing an Irish folk song,
Looked at the pitch and that wasn't right,
The goalposts were one heck of a height,
Fifteen players on each side,
The ball an odd shape, all cockeyed,
Billed football, certainly a contact sport,
But kicking the ball seemed the last resort,
Then by only one player, and from afar,
Always trying to put it over the bar,
When he did, the crowd loudly cheered,
I just thought the whole thing rather weird,
Then that Dr McCoy voice that I hear in my head,
"It's football but not as we know it", I'm sure he said.

[MultipleJesuses]

I'd be doing pretty much the same as DT was before he sacked it off, only to a much, much lower standard of course . Management accounting at a big non-accounting firm, so I'd be sitting CIMA exams.

No intention of ever going down the PWC/KPMG/EY/Deloitte route. Yet to speak to anyone who has and has actually enjoyed it

If your placement is still in Lurgan and they offer you a permanent position, for the love of God don't take it.

[daib0]

bravo, must hire you for the Reading forum!

Once stayed in Reading overnight,
As the result of a cancelled flight,
Heathrow was foggy, no inn with a room,
So up the M4, I had to zoom,
At a loose end, but no need to dismay,
A game on at the Madejski that very day,
Got to my seat and this is what I found,
All across my side of ground,
Lots of fans each kitted in green,
Reading's blue and white army nowhere to be seen.
Got the feeling, that something was wrong,
When they all started singing an Irish folk song,
Looked at the pitch and that wasn't right,
The goalposts were one heck of a height,
Fifteen players on each side,
The ball an odd shape, all cockeyed,
Billed football, certainly a contact sport,
But kicking the ball seemed the last resort,
Then by only one player, and from afar,
Always trying to put it over the bar,
When he did, the crowd loudly cheered,
I just thought the whole thing rather weird,
Then that Dr McCoy voice that I hear in my head,
"It's football but not as we know it", I'm sure he said.

Many thanks, good work there

And onto Royals Rendezvous: http://royalsrendezvous.co.uk/topic/30090336/1 crediting both the forum and the author

Should get a comment or two over the next couple of days!

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Yep. I enjoy the job I do, the people I work with and our customers. The pay could be a bit better but the company has a big people culture and is invested in its employees' personal/career development which I think is a fair trade-off. I'm starting a new job at the company next month in a role that I'm really looking forward to but is something I have no real previous experience in and wouldn't have otherwise been considered for elsewhere.

I feel lucky that I actually have a bit of career direction for the first time in my life.

[Acid Hippo]

The pay could be a bit better but the company has a big people culture and is invested in its employees' personal/career development which I think is a fair trade-off.

This is the big thing for me. Extra money is always nice but if you're not appreciated or looked after by the company it can make work unbearable regardless of how much you earn.

I mentioned in another thread I worked in sales in a call centre and while the money was great it was entirely dependant on how well you performed. Since a lot of senior managers treated staff like robots it could really affect your own performance, but of course they never realised that. Very little possibility of career progression, in fact in the time I was there I was one of the only ones I knew to be offered anything else, but since a lot of staff were quite young no one really cared about it anyway.

[Duke]

I'd be doing pretty much the same as DT was before he sacked it off, only to a much, much lower standard of course . Management accounting at a big non-accounting firm, so I'd be sitting CIMA exams.

No intention of ever going down the PWC/KPMG/EY/Deloitte route. Yet to speak to anyone who has and has actually enjoyed it

If your placement is still in Lurgan and they offer you a permanent position, for the love of God don't take it.

Yeah. Thankfully I'm never actually in Lurgan though

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The pay could be a bit better but the company has a big people culture and is invested in its employees' personal/career development which I think is a fair trade-off.

This is the big thing for me. Extra money is always nice but if you're not appreciated or looked after by the company it can make work unbearable regardless of how much you earn.

I mentioned in another thread I worked in sales in a call centre and while the money was great it was entirely dependant on how well you performed. Since a lot of senior managers treated staff like robots it could really affect your own performance, but of course they never realised that. Very little possibility of career progression, in fact in the time I was there I was one of the only ones I knew to be offered anything else, but since a lot of staff were quite young no one really cared about it anyway.

Yeah, I definitely wouldn't swap it for a marginally better wage.

It's hard to know what sort of a company you're joining, especially when you're at the bottom of the ladder at the beginning of your career. Better pay doesn't necessarily equate to greater job satisfaction.