I spent years toiling away at a job I hated. Let me be clear, I didn't dislike this job, I didn't find it annoying, I hated it! No, I loathed it. The job itself was fine, my fellow coworkers were great (trauma brings unity) but my boss was horrible. He made Scrooge look like Mickey Mouse. Bob Cratchit at least got Christmas off with pay. If I took Christmas off I had to make it up by working the weekend (both days). This was by far my lest favorite job of all time.
Then there were the jobs with cool bosses and lousy work environments, like HVAC install where I spent my day in crawl spaces. The day I decided I was done was the day I had to lay in a what was once a cat and was now nothing more than a pile of maggots. I had maggots in my nose, ears, clothes and just about anywhere you can imagine. That just sucked! There were of course the jobs that started super early too, those weren't a ton of fun either.
All in all however, I've had a mostly good jobs and good bosses. The only other job I can think of where I just didn't like my boss was one where I worked for a racist, sexist, pompous jerk. I didn't have a lot of interaction with him most days though so it was no big deal. Other than those couple of bad experiences it's been pretty good.
Even in fast food jobs when I was younger I had bosses who trained me, invested in me and promoted me. Working at Arby's was a great experience and I still apply much of what I leaned there. Tully's Coffee was while perpetually running out of money was a good place to work. I had great bosses both when I worked in the stores and when I worked in store development. TERRA Staffing was a company full of amazing people who love to develop leaders. Working there for Barbara Van Meter was great. She was a tough (in a good way) but fair boss who taught me a lot. That whole company from the founder on down was great. Like I said, my life has been pretty good when it comes to jobs.
I'm now in the best "job" of my life. I work fir a small company with a boss that treats me great or what ever synonymy you think is better than great. My company is like a family, we may bicker at times but we all have each other's backs and come together to do some cool things. I came into my role with limited direct experience but I've learned on the job. My boss has always been patient and kind and much more of a coach than a boss.
My job involves looking at and talking about exotic Italian cars all day and planning the world's largest Italian car show. I love everything about what I do. I look forward to coming to work every morning and when I had two weeks off with pay over Christmas, I missed it so much I came in to my office a few times anyway.
While my work has me wearing many hats it's largely a communications job which is new to me but it's exactly where I want to be. Most days work is challenging, I run into obstacles, I have to problem solve, some piece of technology makes me angry or I deal with a difficult person. It's not that my job is easy, it isn't. Easy would drive me nuts, I need a challenge and this "job" provides that. I also need a team and I have that here.
So basically I just used a lot of words to say that I'm super thankful for the job God has given me and I wouldn't leave it for anything. Most of us work to pay our bills and don't get to enjoy it. I get to look forward to coming to my office every day.
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