Ah, how fortunate I am to have a job I love!
Posted on 04/27/2005 by scayf
I hear (and read) stories of how people hate their jobs...getting outsourced...bosses from hell, and such. Well, at the risk of rubbing everyone's nose in it...
I love my job.
I'm a security officer. Yes, a lowly rent-a-cop. But...
I work Monday through Friday, 3pm to 11pm. I get to sleep in every day, do my rat-killin' before work, and get home early enough to fart around (watch a little TV, download music, whatever). I have a decent 25-minute commute through some scenic Hill Country areas. I've got a good boss who never jacks with me. Enough stuff to do, so time doesn't drag on. Not too much stuff to do that I'm running non-stop for eight hours. I don't sit around in an office listening to the phone ringing off the hook or shufflin' a bunch of papers around. I have very little interaction with corporate types (who, for some reason, get dumber as their education level increases). I get paid well enough to keep myself occupied on my off days. My insurance is crap, but I can live with that (for the measley sum I pay each month). No worries about being outsourced (it'd be awful hard to shake doors from Bombay).
Sure, I get looks from the client's employees sometimes...sometimes they ignore me and keep walking when I say hello...but that's their problem, not mine. If they're miserable in what they do, tough. They can make a change. Been there, done that, and it worked for me. Twice, I've had my relief drag up with no notice, and I've had to stay over an extra four hours, but hey...mo' money for me. I get rained on sometimes...outside in the cold or the heat...big deal. I like the outdoors. Better'n being stuck in an office all day. I could be doing something else, something that pays a lot more (I do, after all, have a Bachelor's degree), but I like what I do. And, more importantly...
I'm happy.
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