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Funny halfbakery idea and a poll: job soul suckiness More

Funny halfbakery idea and a poll: job soul suckiness

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  • ... and my long hair was such a nice shade of blonde...

    I hate this place somedays. This week has been a string of them.
  • I don't really have average days around here. This week has been a 5, except for Tuesday, which was a 1.
  • My job, in and of itslef, has no soul-suckery. I enjoy about half of it, and the other half is things that I am glad to practice, since I think I need that practice. The .5 comes from the fact that I know full well that I could be doing a much more enjoyable, interesting, important, and well-paid job. Unfortunately, without a college degree, nor the time/money to get myself one, I'm actually lucky to have made it where I am.
  • 1 being "my soul will forever be intact"

    I mean, seriously, I get paid well, good benefits, don't make as much as when I was a consultant but I don't feel I have to worry about the ethics of what I do.

    I used to work in biochem research into malaria and other diseases that kill and impact millions of poor people around the world and we ended up discovering a drug target which may save millions of lives. And if it doesn't the hard fact is nothing else was being done for most of these people, so any research i
    • I work in research (the research is even really, really cool), and my job is like the devil's vacuum.
      • Is the devil's vacuum related in any way to Luigi's vacuum? Because that sucked more than suckiness of the world's suckiest suck fest.

        Except I wish I was playing Luigi's Mansion right now, it's quite the conundrum.
  • ...I participate in meetings where the careers of people I personally know are discussed and, occasionally terminated, I feel I am getting closer and closer to what I previously percieved as being on the dark side.

    At present, I am just a silent junior member on the departmental council so I guess I'd rate the suckiness as 3. Some day it'll be me who casts the deciding vote to terminate someone's career and that will be serious level 5 soul suckiness.

    Or maybe it's just growing pains.

  • Working for local government is regenerating my soul after many years of selling out for mere money. And, gasp, I'm finally in a place that I feel loyalty given is loyalty repaid....

  • But after deploying a pay to vote (25 cents a vote in 5 dollar increments) pet calendar thing this week, and helping the occasional web clueless soul vote for their precious mutts, where my side of the conversation includes a phrase like "So, that's fifty dollars on Precious Fluffy. Got it." I've got to say I'm up to a strong three and can make out individual buildings and roads from my view of Fourland.

  • It didn't start out as a half-bad job, but slowly, inexorably, perhaps due to the 4 hours of commuting per day or the constant disorganization and the lack of coherent vision, it has drained my soul to the dregs.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *
      4 hour commute??? If you got a full time job close to your house, and another half time job close to your house, you would spend the same amount of time working as you do now working and driving. Bleh.

      • Not to mention making more money, which is sorely needed right now, with bankruptcy looming... I would even save a bunch of money not having to buy a train pass, pay for parking at the train station, etc.

      • 4 hour commute???

        Dude, I walk to work - takes me about 15 minutes each way.

        Admittedly, some days I have to head over to campus for a Medical Genetics journal club or seminar, but that's 15 minutes on my skateboard. Sometimes in the summer I walk (30 minutes) to campus, but I fill up a cup with blackberries while I'm doing that.

        Yeah, you're in the 5 zone.
  • The senior management are incarnations of greed and all that is wrong with corporate america, but my immediate coworkers and supervisor are the best Ive ever worked with.
  • though several months ago my soul was definitely being sucked upon. bad c++ code is hell to work with.

  • 3.5 (Score:1)

    by Com2Kid ( 142006 )
    Doing upper level software architectural work SUCKS.

    I enjoy it if I get to code it afterwards and see cool fruits of my labor and all, but it sucks when all programming is done off site by some other company. :(
  • Every once in a while, I delude myself into thinking I'm making a difference - then I sink back into a 4...
  • 1. As an AV tech I can honestly say I've found the perfect job.
  • I think I'd feel this way about work regardless of what it was or where I was doing it.

    I never like doing things I *have* to do. That in itself is a soul sucker.
  • I could deduct one point off that with one change.

    On the other hand, I do get to play with some nice toys. SAN [xiotech.com] anyone?

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