I like my job a lot. I get paid pretty well and one of the nice things about working in a small career field is that I always run into a lot of the same people that I have worked with over the last 25 years or so. I imagine that if I was a dirtbag or burned some bridges I'd probably be unemployed.
Now there are days where I'm not having the best of times, but it's constant motion which is something that I need. I will never be able to sit still and do the same thing day in and day out. My boss repeatedly puts me into difficult situations knowing full well that I'm not an expert on something which is great because I get to expand my horizons considerably. I was teaching before I started this job so learning is something that I have always been very passionate about.
But what makes my job great is that my bosses trust the hell out of me. That means I'm doing something right and I'm being recognized for it which is always appreciated. It's funny because I just started here about 2 years ago and was worried about possibly biting off more than I could chew or screwing up. Starting out was rough and the learning curve was pretty steep, but the people who I work for are just outstanding managers and know when to push and when to back off a bit and I know that they have my back. My peers are all coming from similar backgrounds which is cool, but we all have different areas of strength and while we are extremely competitive and push each other, nobody is in it for themselves and we work as a team. If someone is struggling or has a question or even has to step out for a few days because something came up the rest of us pick up the slack and cover for them.
The only complaint I could have is that they have reorganized the offices and put some "outsiders" within earshot of us. You go through any part of this building and it's like a morgue, but once you get into our area it's loud, it's frantic, it's funny as hell and the language can get pretty rough....you'd think that it was a turret syndrome convention at times. Nobody has said anything to us yet, but I have that feeling that we're going to have to tone it down a bit because someone is probably sitting there thinking that they're in an insane asylum or something. Not everyone excels in that kind of environment. Hell, I had to ask for a set of noise cancelling headphones because sometimes I need to drown them out to concentrate.
It's frustrating as hell and it's one of those jobs where as soon as you think that you've got a handle on the workload someone just drops one of those 4PM Friday afternoon grenades where everything that you thought was really important doesn't matter anymore because this new thing is life and death. It's never that important, but we act like it is. It's insanity.
I'm tired at the end of the day and I love it.
