BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Spot
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 01:45 PM

Hello everybody...
                   I hate the fact that I still have to work at all...I've had enough!! Never had a job I liked- always been a means to an end!! I flogged me knackers off in S/E construction for 35yrs and now, thanks to Tony BastardBliarBrown and co, look like working for another 3o!! Mind you..I've had some (read - a LOT!!) of good times, mostly musically, motorbikally, boozically, huntingly, shootingly and womenly!!! A wonder I had time for the "W" word!!

               Regards to all....Spot    :-)

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:51 PM

0% , i'm working as part-time curry driver, wwehn the bastards decide to give me any work, i thinking of killing my boss, he;s a rubbish person, i will chop him up and piss on the dead bits.

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: annamill
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 06:43 PM

Firecat, I did that for about a month. THE JOB FROM HELL! is what I called it. Even little children hollered at me. Actually I may have said something about this job in another thread.

Now, I'm about a month into a job as a trolley operator (driver) for the city of San Diego. Really cool and even now, here at home, on my day off, I'm smiling. The hours suck, eventually the money will be good. Not what I made in New York as a Programming Consultant, but good enough for me.

After I gain seniority I'll be able to choose the days and hours I want, but thats a long time from now. I'll probably be dead by then. ;-)

It's kind of scary because I'm 60 yrs old and I don't think I'll be retiring anytime soon. I'll probably have to work til I die. Hey, there may be a song there.

I'd rate my job at about 75 percent. Only because I'm still in training for another 3 weeks, then a final exam and driving test. After that, I feel it will be much higher.

PS: I absolutely LOVE San Diego. It's so beautiful here.

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Peace
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 06:46 PM

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Scoville
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 10:22 PM

15%, but I'm only there for another four days. The up side is that I work with animals all day. The down side is that my bosses treat me like a child and I have absolutely no control over anything. The new job will probably start out kind of rough if for no other reason that because it's so completely different than the current one (I'm going from vet tech to file clerk in a historical archive) but at least they'll be paying my health insurance and I won't have to clean up after any more parvovirus cases.

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Helen
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 05:15 PM

GUEST 28 Mar 05 - 08:25 AM,

You would probably learn a LOT about your situation if you go to this website.

Bully OnLine: Tim Field shares his unique insight into workplace bullying, a cau

There is even a special page for teachers in your situation. This site saved my sanity and my health, even my life.

Firecat,

I am currently working in an inbound call centre for a government department. Even though it is tax related and people hate taxes the majority of the people who phone in are very nice. Your outbound call centre experience means that you would probably be able to find another call centre job e.g. for the government, or insurance companies, banks, etc which is less stressful and which has better conditions. It'd be better to get out now and into a more positive environment and not wait until your stress levels increase and your health suffers because it will be a lot harder to feel confident in convincing a new employer that you are the best person for the job.

I got my job after a series of jobs through labour hire agencies, which pay peanuts but which gives you a foot in the door with a possibility of more permanent work with real pay & conditions. I have a contract for "up to 2 years" which is a great relief after casual jobs for the last 10 years which were low paid, no conditions, no sick/annual leave, and no job security and a drain on my physical, emotional and mental health.

So my job satisfaction at the moment (still in the honeymoon period of 3 months) is relatively high because of conditions, pay and a really nice bunch of people to work with. I think there are prospects in it for increasing my capabilites and responsibilities too so my actual job satisfaction will increase then too. I have done so many different jobs in my working life it makes me dizzy thinking about it and most of them were satisfying to a large degree but it was either good money/conditions & security or job satisfaction, but rarely both together. This job looks dry and dull on the surface but I have a positive feeling about it that it will turn out to be more than it appears on the surface.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Helen
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 05:24 PM

An Australian academic developed a scale for self-assessing job satisfaction on the following factors.



Fred Emery's job satisfaction rating is based on the following factors:

*** The first 3 can be rated from -10 to + 10

- 10 means "Not enough / I wish I had more... "               

0 means "Just right"               

+10 means "Too much / I wish I had less"

Elbow room: the sense that employees are their own bosses and that except in exceptional circumstances they don't have a boss breathing down their necks, but not too much elbow room so that they don't know what to do next.

Learning on the job and continuous learning, with setting of reasonable goals which are challenging, and with feedback on achievement to help to correct behaviour.

Task variety: optimum level (+ or -). They can vary the work to avoid boredom and fatigue and to gain the best advantages of settling into a satisfying rhythm of work.

***The second 3 are rated 0 to 10, i.e. low to high.

Getting help and respect from colleagues. Avoid negative or non-constructive situations e.g win-lose, or lose-lose etc.

Meaningful contribution: the worth and the quality of the output/outcome, and having a perception of the whole product.

A desirable future: not a dead end job, hopefully one which will allow personal growth.

I've used this in work based consultations in local government and also in my teaching (job seeking skills, and women & employment courses)

It's a very powerful scale which helps to identify what contributes to your satisfaction in your job.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 04:28 PM

I used to work for a bank who specialised in giving people nervous breakdowns-0% satisfaction. Now I work for a local authority with lovely people doing a job which frankly I could do if I was declared braindead leaving my brain available for other things -100% satisfaction it was worth the 60% paycut.

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Firecat
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 04:33 PM

Update on my job!

I am now jobless, having handed in my notice on medical grounds. Am I sad about this? NO!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Helen
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 05:25 PM

Congratulations Firecat!!!

Your health & wellbeing is way too important to risk it in a stressful job. You now have some proof of marketable skills in the job-hunting market that you can use to convince other employers of your value as a customer service person or a face-to-face sales person or whatever you are looking for.

Good luck in finding a good job from here on. It helped me a lot to decide what would make me satisfied in a job and then start looking proactively for a job which would give me that. Kind of like affirmations combined with proactive seeking.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 12:44 PM

0

one has to have a job to be happy with it.

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Linda Mattson
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 02:08 AM

Mr Red: re - one has to have a job to be happy with it...

Unless your _job_ is job-hunting. I've sometimes described it as my job (which doesn't pay very well).

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Cats at Work
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 06:38 AM

About as low as you can get!   I used to love my job, teaching students with Special Needs, but as the system has changed and I no longer work with specific students and the county and government have changed the funding so that there is very little for them anymore, all I seem to be doing is telling parents, 'Sorry, I can't do that anymore, no, I can't provide that anymore, no, he/she doesn't fit the criteria any more'. All I seem to be doing is relaying more and more bad news. When I do work directly with a student and see the difference I rate my job as 200% but pushing paper and getting slapped down over everything I try to do... well, I go to work, do my job and go home to my beautiful house. And.., as the govt stopped my pension access at 55 three years ago and are about to stop our pension access at 60, I will have to work until I'm 65... schools will have to have zimmer frame parks instead of car parks if they aren't careful!!!

Subject: RE: BS: scale of 1-100, how happy with your job
From: Crystal
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 07:03 AM

about 65 I'll be 100% happy when they pay me!