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Posted by littlewolf on 12-06-2010 at 10:16:
I love my work - seriouse happy ranting
A happy rantI
SOOO lover were I'm working now.
No more peak hour traffic and , no more trying to explain to "tradies" That I need more paperwork.
No more traveling for hours to get into the city in a giant sardine cans, no more Goverment work and paper suffling, no more start of an ulser, no headaches or afterwork phone call about what has to happen the next day, no more trying to find out why and were the yearly accounts don't balance cause the accountant wanted then yesterday,and no more ironing work tailered work cloths....ha ha No more!
Ah it feels good,to be encourage to chat with people, play, laugh,, it's okay to sing and dance while at work (even if I have two left feet and don't remember all the words) to meet people from all around the world.
and when I come home tired and the dogs greet me at the door I'm not miserable just tired and have sore feet, but that's okay cause it means that even though I was busy it's still a good day.
Shore there are rules and regulations I must abide to,, there very reasonable and if a supervisor pulls me up about my work, it's cause they want to improve things and not put knives in my back (a the corporate world)
AND I get to learn new things, visit different places, and play with plushies (okay enjoying a second childhoor, Dora, Sponge bob I didn't have things like this when I was young) Surf wear one week, candy shop the next and today WOW I was in "The Tower".
and my sister was right shopping can be fun especially with staff discount....
So much easier to get present for people in the one place, just today I discovered a Gargoyle that I was going to have to go hunting for , for my BF Birthday present and a heap of Emily Strange T-shirt that I may have to purchase to go with my T-shirt collection
I have to say at this moment in time Life is really good, and I'm happy, took me a while to get here , but now I'm here, I'm in no hurry to leave.
PS The universe has been 
, me in the form of graphic designers, photographers, singers, arts and craft people for a few months (yes I get the message) 
now that my life has settles down, it's time to let me right brain free to play - I unpacked my pencils, paints, wire and pliars yesterday, now to see what gets created,
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Posted by green on 12-06-2010 at 10:32:
Glad to hear you're having so much fun at your new job, littlewolf!
It's so important to like what you do everyday or it just sucks the life out of the rest of your life too...
I watched a friend of mine fall into a serious depression over the last year because of where he worked and what he did... Thankfully he started a new job at the beginning of this month and he's completely back to the way he was before, if not happier and bouncier.
I gave up a good fifteen thousand dollars a year to do what I do. And I don't regret it for a minute. Yeah, sometimes the finances are a little tight, but I make do because I walk into work every morning smiling and happy to be there.
Okay, so it might only last until the first person opens their mouth - but my entrance was brilliant!
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Posted by littlewolf on 12-06-2010 at 12:41:
Ah Green.... it's a small start,
when you finally realize happiness and health, and what you think of yourself is more important than how much you make in a year and what other people think - and you learn to adapt.
I spent to much of my life competing to try and get the approval of a parent figure, who did not care about how sad or ill I was becoming in the work I was doing. It was just about how much he could brag about what one of his daughters was doing.
I could have won the Nobel Peace prize and he would have commented about what one of my other sisters had done better!
Now I don't bother, I will never be what he wanted me to be (only to make himself look good), truth is I never wanted to be and his praise was always hollow.
Now it's about my happiness and I stopped feeling guilty about putting myself first.
LIfe is to short to stay were your miserable and when you put yourself first (with the best and honest of intentions) amazing doors seem to open.
One off those doors lead me to this site and I feel richer for being here!!
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Posted by green on 12-06-2010 at 13:00:
Honey - I hear ya!
Middle child of three daughters - all with university degrees.
My older sister is a lecturer with a masters in podiatry.
My younger sister is a phd in biomedical research, also working in a university.
I'm a full qualified teacher. Who works in a supermarket instead of a school.
Imagine the introductions my poor father has to do.
"Here's my eldest - university lecturer. My youngest - that's doctor to you. Oh and my middle child. She's, um, a checkout chick with a teaching degree and five years overseas experience..."
Which I'm not, but he can't see the difference between an office manager who is responsible for the payroll and finances of a supermarket and a checkout operator. Can't you just hear the muttered 'wasted, all that time and education, wasted...'?
And he didn't pay for any of it so personally I don't think he should have an opinion and I regularly tell him so.
But it took me a long time to get there.
The one thing that I have held onto for the last 18 years or so was that my older sister and I got the same marks in our final years of school. I could have got into the same course she did. It was about that time - probably something to do with the constant conversations of 'why can't you do what she did - there's more money in that' - the penny started to drop...
How I felt, what made me happy, didn't matter.
So I made it matter - to me. We still have the same conversations and the same arguments, but at the end of the day I'm happy and that is all that really matters.
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Posted by littlewolf on 12-06-2010 at 13:16:
I say down with trying to clone our children
let them be who they want to be.
Give them simple rules: (don't steal, hurt or degrade)
Let their potential grow at their pace.
Don't try and live your life through them
Don't tell them they are wrong , cause you don't agree with how they live their life
And if they fall, stumble or roll in the mud, be their with a helping and encouraging word and hand
Now matter what love them honestly,
And NEVER EVER use the "yes but..." phrase on them or compare them to someone else...cause they are not and never will be anything but themselves (if they are to grow up healthy and happy)
Some lessons are learnt the hard way , but when they are learnt they stick and after that is forgiveness and letting go
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 12-06-2010 at 13:29:
I agree with you guys that it's important to do something you enjoy. You can only last for so long at a job you loathe before you fall apart... either mentally or physically. I'm working at a job which pays well per hour, but the hours for which I am paid each week are low enough that overall it's an *okay* salary. But if gives me a lot of life flexibility, which is priceless, especially at this stage of my life, and when it comes to meeting the needs of my family.
I'm so happy that you've found something you truly love, LW!
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Posted by littlewolf on 12-06-2010 at 13:32:
Thank you
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Posted by Springie on 12-06-2010 at 14:19:
LW, I love to hear good news! That's terrific! I love my job, too...it's exhausting, but soooo rewarding! Especially at this time of year...one week left and I get summer vacation! WOOHOO! 
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Posted by lborgia88 on 12-06-2010 at 16:53:
Congrats, Littlewolf! Nothing beats having a job that's actually fun, so that you look forward to going there. That's worth more than money, I agree.
Posted by gatchamarie on 12-06-2010 at 20:12:
I'm so happy for you, Littlewolf!
And, I agree ... I'm one who thinks that it's important to be able to choose the job one is most attracted to! I'm already letting my young children make their own, tiny choices, even in insignificant cases, like, for example, choosing the colour they wish to wear. I want them to learn to think for themselves and not depend on our choices for them!
I'm the youngest of three, having two elder brothers who pursued a career in banking, and excelled in it. Nowadays, the eldest is one of the highest ranking heads of an international bank, and the other is managing his own, fruitful business as a marketing consultant with a doctorate. My parents pushed me to pursue the same career, unknowingly against my will ... I always loved languages and art and I so wished to have a job associated with such subjects. Only to have to leave everything behind when I had the fortune of having my kids! Funnily enough I ended up fulfilling my artistic love in the part-time job I now have the chance to do, even if it's rather challenging with everything going on in my life at the moment! Not that I have any regrets about my past job, and the certificates I've achieved in banking, but, when I look behind, I feel like I've somehow lost some precious time in doing what I didn't really wish to do, even if I always did my job well! I don't want the same to happen to my children ... life is short, and, when I thought that my father would not have been so much proud of me if I weren't to pursue what he had wished me to, I've surprisingly found that he's even prouder now!
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Posted by gogirl212 on 12-06-2010 at 20:25:
Littlewolf I'm so glad you have found something that pays you in happiness as much as in salary . . . all jobs should do that :-)
I have a job I really like in a field I love, but this last school year was incredibly hard - and i realized as others have said here that a job has to fit your entire life. I dont' want to work 12 hours a day for weeks on end even at something I like. Eventually, I start to hate it.
It is inspiring to hear others can find happiness, a paycheck and time for a life (or a gatch fic!) . . . so I know I can too :-) Thanks for your "happy rant". 
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Posted by Madilayn on 12-06-2010 at 21:05:
I'm thrilled for you littlewolf. It is the most iportant thing you can do to have a job that you love.
I must admit - I love my job, it's just not busy enough for me!
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Posted by gogirl212 on 12-06-2010 at 21:10:
You can come help me out at work any time you are bored Maddy
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Posted by Madilayn on 13-06-2010 at 01:12:
Wish I could!! That's the problem when you're process driven - I have everything down to a fine art in my job and so what did take hours when I first started, now I have mostly automated!
It's why I was hoping to get the promotion - it would mean that I have some serious work that I could get into.
Oh well - they tell me some additional projects are about to start up and I could start doing their admin for them as well.
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Posted by littlewolf on 13-06-2010 at 01:33:
Go for it.
There is nothing more rewarding than knowing you are helping and the work you are doing is truely amazing.
So many times when we were "in the field", we did not consider the "behind the scene" effort that got us there, the level or organisation, the SOP that were in place, and after.. the amount of paperwork we generated that had to be corrilated, we just saw what we did and the figures after...
And yes , you do get to a stage were you could do it in your sleep....(dreaming about tarping and tying knots in my sleep in storm season)
If they need references to why you should get a promotion or be given additional project, just send them here, we'll tell them how great you are!!
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Posted by Cep on 13-06-2010 at 16:45:
I really love where I work and the people but the pay is woefully inadequate.
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Posted by green on 13-06-2010 at 17:01:
So you live by my rule, Cep?
They pretend to pay me and I pretend to work for them! 
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Posted by Garnet on 13-06-2010 at 17:09:
I like that one, Green. I may pass that along to a few people I know.
I loved my job when I first started two years ago. Then I went through a period where I hated it. I was stressed and felt like there was some double-standard stuff going on. Now, though, it's getting better again. Having our manager have to split his time between two departments gives us a lot more atonomy. We have just three of us and we work well together. Heck, our production supervisor's been gone more than he's been there the last few months, between his wife having twins and him taking a nine-day vacation, so most of the work has fallen to the designer and me. And we've been kickin' butt and takin' names. If it hadn't been for that huge snafu last week, I'd have been super-proud of the way she and I handled things. I'm glad the production manager was back for that one.
Posted by Askura on 13-06-2010 at 18:54:
My job would be fantastic.
If, y'know, it wasn't for some of the others who 'work' there.
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Posted by amethyst on 13-06-2010 at 19:04:
I just wish I had a job, even one that I hated right now would be preferable to not having any options or knowing how much longer unemployment will last. If you guys all think the US economy is in the tank you need to come out to California, the state economy is in worse shape.
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