I'm not.

Ugh.

No, but it pays the bills.

I finally got my resume together and have been interviewing in different fields cause i don't wanna be a salesman anymore....
everything out there would require me to take a salary decrease, but sometimes you may have to take a step back to take two steps forward. I wrestle with my options daily.

Yeah, I am...for the first time in my life. I've worked for a great company for almost 6 years now, & haven't dreaded going into work once.

I'm not gettin' rich by any means, but I don't have any dependents ( nor will I ) so I can still live quite comfortably.

Shit, I missed the "Yes, but I don't make shit" option.

I'm a biologist, working as a laboratory technician at the University of Texas, Austin right now, hoping to start my PhD work here next fall. I am collecting letters behind my name (BA, BS, and MS thusfar), and a huge amount of student loan debt, but I feel like this is the place for me. If I can use my understanding and love of biology to help make people understand humanity's part in the global ecology, and if I can help others make biology their life's work, then I will be a happy guy. Especially if I can also be a rock star.

No, but it pays the bills.

My thing is that I'm just lazy. I took my current job to get sales experience because when your resume is only political fundraising it doesn't open many doors outside of that field or related to that field.

It also pretty cush. I can take days off if need be, I have the internet, and I don't get hassled much.

That being said I have instructed my friends to punch me in the face if I'm still here in 2006. Just not really anything I care about and it doesn't pay shit.

i am in law school for a new career...

I'm going to have to go back to school to do anything that I really want to do. Unfortunately, my parents are poor and I haven't saved shit in the last year.

l,jh

poverty hasn't stopped me yet, although it should have. good luck.

I chose No, but it pays the bills, but, I want to qualify that.

I like WHAT I do. I don't like the people I work with/for.

Steve

No, but it pays the bills. I'm fortunate that for my age, I'm in the field I want to be in without a degree and making a decent amount.... at least my rent and bills are being paid, as well as supporting my shopping/music habits.

Funny this should be posted, because I've been re-evaluating my job & the direction I'm going with it. They killed one of the magazines I work on just the other day- and no official announcement yet, so now I have even less work to do... so I'm really quite bored. 3 years and haven't gone anywhere- and the opportunity I did have, the company screwed me over. 3 years I had to fight to get a 4.5% raise. I don't agree with the direction that my company is going, nor do I agree with their work ethics.

I'm not going to change careers- advertising is what I want to do, I just rather be elsewhere. I used to love my job, but not anymore. And it's double-standard for me, I have some experience, but no degree... which I'm working on so it's hard for me to move up. The man is taking me down!

not happy, but more like.... content.

ive come to the conclusion that i will not even remotely like any job i plan to work the rest of my life. and im only 21, so ive got a lot of crap headed my way.

Where is 'fuck no'? No, I'm just bitter because I'm between jobs right now. Where is 'meh'?

I'm working within the industry I want to be in, but my job is kind of shite. Primarily because it's entry-level and I work in Nashville which means working in Country music.

My career path is somewhat on-course.

I voted for No, but it pays the bills.

Oh and not to mention that for the past 1 1/2 hrs. I've been at work, I have done absolutely NOTHING except for post on obner, check myspace, and chat on AIM.

I have nothing to do. It's really lame.

I did that for the entire month of November.

I'm with dusty chalk, Derris and Disco.

There are many days (like when I get to go to Fundraisers at Peter Yarrow's Apt. or see Steve Earle play in someon'es living room) that my job kicks ass.
I am damn good at what I do, but can't seem to break through a glass ceiling. I have sort of limited myself recently by telling my bosses I only want to work in Alabama or Georgia, because after a year in NH, I was damn near suicidal.

I have a HUGE amount of autonomy day to day, and you would be hard pressed to find other 27 year olds who get their own office, staff and can ostensibly tell a candidate for higher office what to do on a daily basis.

But, Democrats keep getting their fucking asses kicked, and I don't know whether to quit or stand and fight (at least as a career move) but also am lazy and don't have many options.

in all, I choose "meh"

[self pity]

I had a good job in an industry I was interested in (home video) out in L.A., but when they phased out part of my job, I decided to move back to NJ without another job lined up and try for some kind of "dream job."

Two years later I'm still out of work. Even after interviews for two different jobs I can't get a bite at the company I really want to work for (they won't even consider me for jobs I'm overqualified for). I'm interviewing at places I care nothing about, like companies that make pens with your corporate logo on them or product testing labs that test sunblock and antiperspirants. If I do get a job, I'm probably looking at a $10,000 dollar a year pay cut if not more. I'm $9000 in debt to my parents. 95% of my CD collection is in storage. I just rear-ended somebody two days ago, so there's a couple thousand to fix my car, not to mention my insurance rates inevitably going up. And I'm too much of a self-centered prick to get off my ass and get a temp job somewhere.

Oh, and 95% of the above problems are entirely my fault.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

[/self pity]

Yes! I'm no longer a street teamer with this post!

I said "yes" since I do actually like my job. I don't, however, see myself in this career path forever so a "sort of" response probably would be more appropriate.

'no but it pays the bills'

i was just thinking about this today, and i really want to whine about it, but i wont. maybe just a little. kinda like hideouslump, i'd have to take a pay cut if i went somewhere else. last year i really tried to get out of here and do professional video editing, but the pay cut was insane and i'd basically be an intern. if i was right out of college i'd totally do it, but being 27 makes it seem nuts. i'm getting sucked into the cushy boring corporate world and don't know if i'll ever get out.

If my job were in a different (warmer) city, I'd be 100% euphoric.

I like what I do, the bosses are giving me more responsibility and a chance to spread my wings and do some really creative things, I make great money, my co-workers couldn't be much better and the paper treats its employees wonderfully (amazing considering we're non-union).

And the people around here are great, too.

I looked at a job in Houston a couple months ago that would've been choice (pop culture writer for the Houston Chronicle) but in talking to a friend from Houston I became sour on the area and realized if I move to Texas there's really only one place I want to be, and that's Chuck D/B855ISTS 'hood. I let the deadline pass and two days after The Editor here told me they want to expand the feature page I'm in charge of to its own section and that I get to guide/oversee the whole thing.

You follow life's little guideposts and you'll be alright.

Yes.

I teach therefore I am.

So, of course I chose "Yes, but make diddly."

No, but it pays the bills. And my bills are having a second job, which is being in a band and booking a club, neither of which really pay except for overhead and recording costs, etc.

I'm back up to 50 hrs/week at my proper job. GO STRESS!

KPH

I love my current job and I'm going to school to actually have a career. So yes, I'm happy with the direction my life is taking.