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Poll Question: Which of the following best descibes your attitude to your job...
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    Posted: June 20 2008 at 12:24
I guess I'm borderline 'I do my best' and 'If a jobs worth doing it's worth doing well..'

Although I'm convinced there's a layabout in me, just itching to burst out..and lie on the couch eating Doritos in front of the Simpsons all day..

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Voted for "I love my job", but I would do my best in any case.  And as much I do enjoy my work, it's still called work...Wink
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Voted for "I do my best", though I'm also a borderline case like Andy. At the moment, I don't really care about my job - it is not what I wanted to do in life, and I know that I won't be doing it very long in any case because I am leaving Italy soon. However, I have a very strong work ethic that prevents me from not doing my best. That's the kind of person I am, even if those around me sometimes don't understand.


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I hate work. and now  I do as little as possible, thats why i dont have a job i love not being a wage Slave ,
But i worked damn hard to get here , but got here i did and i love it, and will never have a real job ever again.
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I pobably wouldn't go as far a saying I love my job, but I know that if lost it, I would be very upset. I've been there for 17 years, and I certainly never dread going to it every day. I like the people I work with, and the work can be interesting, and considering I dont have a degree, I'd be hard pushed to find something that paid as well, after all these years.
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"I dont take work that seriously. It just keeps me in CD's" ... I've been doing my current job for the past 25 years. In that time I've had highs and lows, I've given everything and taken little, I've built up a team of first-class engineers and been forced to lay them off en-mass, I've become "respected" in my profession (however small that pond may be) and made a few enemies along the way, I've had pay-cuts and wage-freezes but I've also had pay rises that would make your eyes water and your nose bleed. I love my job, but I'm past taking it seriously. Wink
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If you love what you do, if you managed to work in that which you love, then it's not a job.. it's a paid hobby... And that should bring you happiness, at least in that area of your life.
 
Right now, I'm just with a job. I give my 90%, I don't give my 100%, to be honest. Now, eventually, when I have a degree, if I can position myself, I may be in the situation described above.
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Originally posted by darqDean darqDean wrote:

"I dont take work that seriously. It just keeps me in CD's" ... I've been doing my current job for the past 25 years. In that time I've had highs and lows, I've given everything and taken little, I've built up a team of first-class engineers and been forced to lay them off en-mass, I've become "respected" in my profession (however small that pond may be) and made a few enemies along the way, I've had pay-cuts and wage-freezes but I've also had pay rises that would make your eyes water and your nose bleed. I love my job, but I'm past taking it seriously. Wink


Nicely put, Dean. It's important to differentiate between loving your job and taking it 'seriously'

I think your position is similar to mine, having been with one employer for so long.
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I work as a dishwasher. I give it about 80% effort, doing all that needs to be done, but not exquisitely. 
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clicked on hate work

something to do with my being unable to avoid bursting into tears when people are watching me coupled with the fact I find it laughable that anything I, an ineffectual and essentially talentless hermit, could do anything for someone with the sway to hire me worth anything other than contempt
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i chose "I turn up, do whats expected of me then go home" , but that's because I am on an annoying part-time job while I'm studying.

If I get the job I'm looking for after graduating next year, I'll choose either 2,3,4.
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To quote Morrissey: "I never had a job because I never wanted one."
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

To quote Morrissey: "I never had a job because I never wanted one."


Or: I was looking for a job, and then i found a job
      And heaven knows i'm miserable now

I'm an artist, with a scholarship. I love my "job" so much it hurts.

I hate the very idea of working for some company or a boss, five days a week though. Did work for two out of the supposed 16 moths throug something called the civil service (as a punishment for refusing the one year obligatory military service) eight years ago. Had something like a breakdown, and got out of it. As well as myself, I imagine my colleagues were also thanking the gods for that.
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Do my best no matter what.
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How about, if I had the money to quit my job and live independently wealthy I would but that's never going to happen still I take pride in my doing my job as well as I can?

Speaking of jobs...Evil%20Smile, no not going to go there, resist temptation, resist temptation, resist temptation. LOL

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My work ethic is nonexistent.  

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Work, work work... not for me, really. I'd much rather be a happy homeless man than work somewhere I hate all the time.
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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

My work ethic is nonexistent.  
 
Bingo.
 
If I find something I like I'll do it. Simple as that.
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I show up.  I do my job.  I go home.  Work for me is a necessary evil.  It pays my rent, buys my beer and allows me to maintain my prog addiction.  That's it.  I don't love my job.  I don't hate my job either, but I'd rather be sleeping, drinking, listening to music, having wild sex, traveling the world, watching tv, staring at the ceiling, reading, picking my nose, picking someone else's nose, etc., etc., etc.
 
Whoever invented work should have finished the job.  Angry
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I do my best
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