Ask Lemmy

Best thing is I’m retiring in 18 days, at age 58.

Worst thing is the next 18 days.

The best thing is that I work for myself.

The worst thing is that my boss is an idiot.

Apartment superintendent.

Best: Free rent and utilities on top of a full time wage.

Worst: Finding people dead.

Best: I’m busy, we’re always making stuff, shipping stuff, it’s productive and interesting. Rarely is any single day the same. No scope for boredom.

Worst: Bloody hell, I’m busy. I need to prioritise better, and delegate more. There’s never enough time in the day to get through everything, and my low priority items are perpetually shifted forward into the next week.

Best: setting my own hours

Worst: having to actually follow the hours I set two weeks ago

Worse is going to work, best is leaving work

Best: Get to solve logic problems, create, and learn. Somehow get paid for this.

Worst: Interviewing between jobs requires a different set of skills than the everyday work.

Source: Unemployed software engineer.

Best: helping the animals, improving their living conditions and treatment, giving them toys and treats

Worst: killing the animals and witnessing some horrible diseases/injuries

Best: Working with patients. People are hilarious, touching, aggravating, endlessly interesting.

Worst: Dealing with the for-profit American healthcare system. Chronically understaffed, the complete lack of social support system outside the hospital makes our efforts virtually meaningless in so many cases.

Am critical care nurse.

Pro: huge impact, great pay, awesome coworkers, always something to learn with being at the forefront of datacenter server architectures.

Con: it's a technical job but we have an admin manager somehow. Admin/non-technical managers don't have any purpose so they worry about metrics, creating meetings no one is interested in, and volunteering other people to do favors to make themselves look good.

Best: I get to be outside.

Worst: I get to be outside.

Software engineer. My company has been hiring low budget contractors instead of full time engineers. Training and onboarding people always has a cost, so the revolving door nature of this hiring method is already a problem, but the people we’re hiring are also very low skilled and take more of the rest of the team’s time hand-holding them through easy tasks

Best thing about my job is the flexible hours. I get to spend a lot of time with my kids, even do my hobbies sometimes, ride my bike, play video games, cook, visit friends, etc. I mean, I don't really have a ton of time for that stuff after the chores, but at least work doesn't ask much else of me and it's fairly low stress.

Worst thing about my job is it doesn't come with a paycheck. I'm unemployed.

Surgical Tech

Best: Helping people to not hurt/die is super gratifying, and didn't need to spend a million dollars and years of my life in secondary education to get here.

Worst: I've seen things that will haunt me all the way to the grave. Also the pay is kinda shit.

WFH

RTO

Best: Trusted working hours and WFH(no time keeping but you lose overtime)

Worst: Deadlines and many many projects

Branch Manager

Best: Freedom. My day can be over at 11a or it could go to 5p. I could work in the office, in the field, or from home. Developing people is awesome when you see the light bulb go off and they start excelling.

Worst: Expensing receipts/invoices. God I hate Expensify.

Customers and customers.

Best: Casual work environment, Monday-Friday work schedule, Day shift

Worst: Small businesses shenanigans and problems like lack of health insurance and occasional late paychecks to name a few. The workplace is dysfunctional. There are very little safety standards. There is a complete and utter inventory mismanagement problem. There are no standardized procedures, especially for training. There is difficulty in hiring new and retaining new employees. The long time employees are leaving due to retirement, health issues, or just utter frustration and dissatisfaction, and they're taking all of their knowledge and experience with them.

Some long-timers recently quit, including the business owner's son who's also the person who hired me. They quit because they were doing the jobs of multiple people and having more responsibilities and job duties tacked on to them. Even the IT guy is trying to fix the inventory situation at the off-site warehouse even though the business owner said he was looking to hire an inventory specialist.

best: I get to learn.

worst: the body is ready, but the mind is not. coffee flips me over and makes me sleep more.

I am a student.

IT Sysadmin

Best: get your play with multi million dollar computer systems.

Worst: paperwork. Change management is a necessary horror and is only getting worse.

Best: when not on a call I have minimal supervision and can do virtually whatever I want. I do good work and have legitimately saved 3 or so lives in the past month in my new position.

Worst: sleep is poor and my schedule is annoying if I have to nap in my off time.

My place of work provides affordable housing. Best: helping people be housed Worst: It's a toss up between knowing there are still so many people waiting for help and seeing people sucked back into the cycle of poverty

the travel and the travel

Best: flexible start/end times, not much drama.

Worst: material counts. I hate material counts.

Best: I get to see a lot of aerospace stuff being manufactured.

Worst: The owner's wife is a dumb bitch.

Best: 1. My coworkers 2. Getting to see wild and crazy cases.

For exampke with the latter: I had an extensive gallbladder resection specimen for a very rare type of gallbladder cancer the other day. I had never seen a tumor so large completely encasing a portion of the gallbladder and extending into the liver. Was crazy to be able to see and feel something so bizarre.

Worst: 1. Monotony 2. Can be streasful

Best: I’m good at it and I self taught in 18 months what was supposed to take 5 years. Having something(s) to take pride in is strange and nice.

Worst: I’m bored now but very busy.

This was a very hard question to answer in a short format. Well done.

Best: the real work part of it and my coworkers

Worse: the few terrible clients I have

Best: unlimited free coffee, lots of free cake and sandwiches etc

Worst: 5am wake-ups several days a week. Customers suck. The public are idiotic assholes.

Best: still have some autonomy to do my individual job on my team and decent budget to get meaningful work done

Worst: the broader company's other products, policies and leadership.

Best thing: working with very talented and famous, bands, authors and comedians.

Worst thing: the hours being so brutal I'm not awake enough to enjoy any of it.

Best: Defending peoples' honor

Worst: Stage fright