Are you happy with your job?

[DJD]

Overall I'd say yes I'm happy with my job. Its never boring and i get to travel from my office quite often. At times I have stress behind anything I ever encountered which is typical in the construction industry. Especially, when your in upper management. We are a systems integrator and contract with electrical contractors, hospitals and our design build clients.

We sell service and install products like CCTV, Card Access, Security, Nurse Call, Pro Sound/audio visual, intercom, Cable Distribution, Fiber Optics, Voice Data, Fire Alarm and many many other systems.

I been in this business for 25 years and man has it changed!!! Technology has made our products smaller, faster and more complicated. We send techs to school to be Certified with all these systems and they have to get re-certified as the software gets updated.

During the recession we actually hired a few people. The new residential construction business had slowed to a standstill but thankfully we are not in that market. We deal with commercial construction and it slowed but didn't stop here in Lexington and eastern Ky. Building Codes and Life Safety Codes help keep our service department busy.

I'm a technology junkie and hardly travel without my iPhone, laptop and or iPad. Living in simpler times sounds interesting but I'm not so sure I'm cut out for it, I like info at my finger tips!

[GeoFisher]

Overall.....Yes. LOVE it.

There are times when the stress is crazy, but there are other times, when it is not so bad.

Today for example, I've been fighting a critical production issue since about 9:00pm last night. The problem is not causing any serious outages, but none the less is a problem and needs to be fixed, and fixed soon.

I found the issue, around midnight, and have been working ever since to resolve it. Had this been causing an outage, and took this amount of time, the stress factor would have increased by 100 fold.

The problem I'm working on will take another 5-6 hour of work to resolve. Which means I've been working on this pretty much non stop for 24 hours. I did go to bed last night around midnight and then started working it again around 5:00am.......I've been at it since 5:00am.

Add to that.....I worked a full shift yesterday, so if this was a regular 40 hr job, by the time I finish tonight, I would have worked nearly 30 hours straight, and a regular 8 hour shift on Monday.

When it is all said and done, I will prob work 1/2 tomorrow and maybe not at all Friday.......Me thinks a fishing day is coming.

All in all, I LOVE it though. With what I do, everyday brings a different challenge. Last week was a whole other set of issues. The week before...even other issues. Rarely do I work on the same ole same ole, which makes the days move really quick.

Later,

Geo

[BigWhopper]

Overall.....Yes. LOVE it.

There are times when the stress is crazy, but there are other times, when it is not so bad.

Today for example, I've been fighting a critical production issue since about 9:00pm last night. The problem is not causing any serious outages, but none the less is a problem and needs to be fixed, and fixed soon.

I found the issue, around midnight, and have been working ever since to resolve it. Had this been causing an outage, and took this amount of time, the stress factor would have increased by 100 fold.

The problem I'm working on will take another 5-6 hour of work to resolve. Which means I've been working on this pretty much non stop for 24 hours. I did go to bed last night around midnight and then started working it again around 5:00am.......I've been at it since 5:00am.

Add to that.....I worked a full shift yesterday, so if this was a regular 40 hr job, by the time I finish tonight, I would have worked nearly 30 hours straight, and a regular 8 hour shift on Monday.

When it is all said and done, I will prob work 1/2 tomorrow and maybe not at all Friday.......Me thinks a fishing day is coming.

All in all, I LOVE it though. With what I do, everyday brings a different challenge. Last week was a whole other set of issues. The week before...even other issues. Rarely do I work on the same ole same ole, which makes the days move really quick.

Later,

Geo

Geez. Sounds like a lot of pressure but it looks like you got it under control. Hope you're getting paid overtime!

[GeoFisher]

Overall I'd say yes I'm happy with my job. Its never boring and i get to travel from my office quite often. At times I have stress behind anything I ever encountered which is typical in the construction industry. Especially, when your in upper management. We are a systems integrator and contract with electrical contractors, hospitals and our design build clients.

We sell service and install products like CCTV, Card Access, Security, Nurse Call, Pro Sound/audio visual, intercom, Cable Distribution, Fiber Optics, Voice Data, Fire Alarm and many many other systems.

I been in this business for 25 years and man has it changed!!! Technology has made our products smaller, faster and more complicated. We send techs to school to be Certified with all these systems and they have to get re-certified as the software gets updated.

During the recession we actually hired a few people. The new residential construction business had slowed to a standstill but thankfully we are not in that market. We deal with commercial construction and it slowed but didn't stop here in Lexington and eastern Ky. Building Codes and Life Safety Codes help keep our service department busy.

I'm a technology junkie and hardly travel without my iPhone, laptop and or iPad. Living in simpler times sounds interesting but I'm not so sure I'm cut out for it, I like info at my finger tips!

We need to sit down and have a beer sometime.......sounds like an interesting line of work.

[DJD]

We need to sit down and have a beer sometime.......sounds like an interesting line of work.

No doubt George. we will have to do that sometime.

[mhall]

Plant manager of a Truss plant. I have been at the same job 31 years the 28th of this month. I use to love it and at times I still do. However construction has taken such a hit that it is so hard to compete now. Also the stress of deadlines is a killer for me as I've gotten older. I like my guys in the shop and they will run through fire for me, so no complaints there. The owners treat me like family and always have.

I am looking forward to retirement though, I worl alot of hours and wear alot of hats. Some hats I wish I didn't wear, lol....

[Chubminnow]

Well...let's put it this way. If I didn't have to work for a living I could probably have gone further in life that what I have. Working for a living has held me back and has always gotten in the way of anything I would have rather been doing, held me back from meeting personal goals, etc...

I used to be into "climbing the corporate ladder", now days I'm under the train of thought that there has to be more to life than meeting deadlines and working over time.

Heck with all this technology...send me back to the farm and I'm sure I'd do just fine, one way or another...I would do just fine.

Just think of how far along YOU could have been in life by now if you didn't have to work for a living, lol...wanted to be a saxophone player? Wanted to master the blues harp? Wish you could lay down some awesome licks on a Les Paul? The possibilities are endless...only if we didn't have to work for a living.

Gotta go for now...got some bills that need paid, guess I better get this project cranked out and meet the deadline, make the bosses happy.

[Bobby Headrick]

Well yes and no. I am thankful to have a job, but after 15 yrs with the state, it is getting old quick, we have had no pay raises in about 7 yrs, we have seen decresses in our retirement, and insurance, we have had to take furloughs, and let me tell you that hurts, 200 from one ck can really mees you up. I do like helping the one's that truly need help, ie; cancer paitents, the elderly, some single mothers, those who are divorced or widowed, not the baby factory for benifits mom's,. But overall I am very disappointed in the way we have been treated by our leaders, they screwed it all up and we must pay. I am looking to retire very soon, so I can get my retirement out before it is gone.My job is not stable anymore no future, no replacements will be hired anytime soon, so yes its dismale, lol. But chub, I can lay down some mean licks on a bass guitar, been playing for over 25 yrs, I make some extra when the gigs come up,thats my passion, music and fishing.lol

[Tim_T]

Absolutely happy. I worked in the sports department at the C-J for years but three years ago I left there to pursue a career as a full-time freelance outdoor writer. Each year I have picked up more assignments and am to the point that I am now published each issue in four magazines and possibly might be adding two more soon. Took me a while to build up to this, but it is starting to pay off. I just signed a contract to do a piece about the history of Dale Hollow Lake for Cabela's Oufitter Journal that will run in January and they are paying me a pretty good chunk of change.

The down side is money. If you worked 40 hours per week at minimum wage you would be making what I make. Most people wouldn't take the pay cut to do what I do. I am able to do it because my kids are basically grown and my wife is an RN.

The good side is all the fishing trips I get to go on. Went to Guntersville in March to fish with a guide for two days with all expenses paid. I am one of the 12 media members getting to spend four days with all the Strike king Pro Team guys on Kentucky Lake this October, fishing/shooting photos/working on stories. Stuff like that makes it worth the smaller pay.

[roadrunner]

I had a man who was my assistant softball coach and he was always complaining about his job. One day he called me and wanted to come to my house and talk. He and his wife showed up and we sat at the kitchen table, he told me he had terrible news that he was fired today. I said good; you hated that job now go out and find something you like to do and a boss you can tolerate.

He went on to be a sales manager of a fairly large company and every time he see's me he tells me that he could not believe what I told him the day he got fired but boy where you right. He said that getting fired was the best thing that has ever happened to him in a job.

If you dread going to work find another job.

Life is short enjoy it.

[zx150]

I like the job, but all the stress and from with in the department is real bad. The new laws make it harder and harder to do your job. Its seems like most of society and media does not like us. Other than that at the end of the day I still like being a cop.

[Grumpy]

Thank you very much for being a cop.

Grumpy