What do you like best about your job?

The thing I like best about my current job is that I DON'T work in a Call-Center atmosphere. That is a no-win situation!!!

 

I am the web designer, webmaster, and one of the sales managers for my family's ecotour business. I was fortunate enough to see our family ecotour business grow from the ground up. I have been helping since day 1 and even before that in the initial research stages. Our company vehicle (12 passenger Dodge Sprinter Bus) is eco-friendly since it gets between 22-30 MPG (depending on if we run the AC unit on the top of the bus) on Diesel and meets the emission standards in all 50 states and even the stricter emission standards in Europe. You can even put your head down by the tailpipe and there is no smell or fumes.

Also, I have been the webmaster and technical advisor since the planning stages and have constantly updated the website and am in the process of upgrading the entire website to Flash complete with email forms. There will be a intro flash movie and small flash movies within the website. I also help with our ecotour adventures as well as our corporate, private, and group tours and events. We have our Florida Seller of Travel License (Sellers of Travel, Licensing Permits Registrations - FDACS). We are also a DMC (Destination Management Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and can help prepare, plan, and coordinate small to large group events.

Just recently, I helped coordinate the entire weeklong events for a family reunion of 60 people that rented out two floors of the most exclusive hotel in the city. We planned the transportation and all of the events and adventures for the family. We gave them a five diamond personal treatment (just like we do to all of our guests) and were on call for them past our normal business hours. On this past Wednesday, my family's business helped plan the event for the 20th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting for University of Florida/IFAS. Earlier this year, we were approved to be one of the official vendors for University of Florida. There were 80 people from around the world. I met people from several countries including Nigeria and Australia. It was a fun day. We have two more events set up this year (one in August and the other a few weeks before Christmas) as well as events next year including a 150 person dinner and ____tail reception 10 days after Christmas.

As for what I like best about our business is the ability to get outside and teach guests about our environment and also the constant learning that I experience both in front and behind the scenes that enables us in becoming the premier ecotour and group event company in the area. Also, we are the only ecotour company in the entire area that has a certified Florida Master Naturalist (Florida Master Naturalist Program Homepage) that conducts the ecotour adventures and all tours and group events with a detailed historical and highly informational spin during the commentary. Also we are the only ecotour company in the area that has extended business hours (it pays to have two cell phones [soon to be 2 PDA's] for your business phones ).

 

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I like the high level of autonomy in my job. I feel like I am so much more productive when I manage myself.

 

More along the lines of the Micromanagement you have to endure being on the front lines.

 

I used to work with a company that provided outsourced customer support for Sprint and Comcast. It was hectic, but it was really relaxed. I first started with Sprint and was with them for around a year. It was hell. Customer's calling in complaining that its my fault I screwed with there bill and that they should get credit for a dropped call or no service for an hour. Let me till you, there were some really screwed up bills and it was Sprint's fault and some even threatened to sue me. I hated the people who were in charge of me, they tried to make you feel worth less than what they were. I told off one of my supervisors because he was being rude to me saying I didn't help anybody when my call results and data about my calls showed and I even helped people more than most agents would. I changed over to Comcast and had even worse luck with them. During training, some of my coleagues and I had some questions about our schedules. They just gave us the run around and the some people higher up than the trainers and supervisors didn't have a clue and told us to go check with the supervisor. No luck there, they didn't know either. After training, they were screwing me over with the hours. They told me I would really go in at 9 am and get out at 5, but they told me no, I would go in at around 5 pm and get out at around 1 am. I didn't like it, so I didn't give them two weeks notice or anything, I went in some time last week, I forget which day, and told them I quit. I didn't need that. If anybody remotely thinks about working at a call center don't unless its directly with that company.

 

whole-heartedly concurred!!!:biggrin:

 

I like getting 4 weeks of vacation and 13 days of sick leave, plus excellent salary. I like the work I do, but I wish I could do it someplace else. I'm tired of living in a small town.

 

i worked for 40 some odd years as a millwright, but the job i have now is the best. if you want to call it a job. drawing my penson checks and ss is the best job ever. the pay is not quite enough tho.

 

As a network consultant I've traveled to at least a dozen different countries in as many years and worked in just about every part of the network from radio to backhaul to billing. It's great, I never get bored and am always learning new things

As of now I'm working with an operators OSS....which means if I click a wrong button I can restart their RNC's and knock a good chunk of their network down for 20 minutes or so ....so on the flip-side I have to becareful and not F anything up :browani:

Maybe you should join the Air Force? :browani:

 

I work every other week, but the thing that sucks is that on the week I work, I put in about 80 hours...

-Jay

 

My dad was Army -- his own advice was to stay civilian, so that's what I'm doing. If I didn't have a degree, military would have been a good path. I enjoy NOT going to Iraq/Afghanistan though.

 

I used to be a civilian employee of the USMC. Great hours, great benefits, pay sucked though.

-Jay

 

hmmm...Macon/Warner Robbins....Iraq/Afghanistan....they both suck, tough call...:headscrat...well, on the plus side, you can at least kill people legally in Iraq/Afghanistan ...but then on the down-side there's no Applebee's

yea, I'd say stay civilian, you're probably better off right now...unless you're into the war thing...in that case, move to Detroit...

 

Oh, I still help kill people!

 

....so let me see...you get 4 weeks vacation per year, you kill people...but you're not military? ...that would make you either a civilian contractor, or a postal employee :browani:

 

LMAO, I would say that later. My dad just retired from the Army and is now a civilian contractor with the military. The pay is excellent, the benefits are excellent, just the job location sucks. He's in the green zone in Iraq. The only really bad thing he says that happens there is the nightly fireworks as he calls them, which is really the insurgents mortaring them.

 

Yuck, contractor? No, I'm an actual Federal employee. My pay isn't as good as some of the contractors, but my benefits and job security more than make up for it.

 

For me, it's my co-workers that are cool (most of them). But the job itself blows chunks.

 

For me, what I like about my job is all especially since I am the boss, own it and set my work hours as I like and get to travel all over.

 

The one thing I like best about my job is it's not working for a wireless carrier! It's better to be the customer!

 

I'm in the R&D/management/webmaster for Essential Photo Gear, it's a company that my father and I recently created. We develop our own outdoor photography gear and sell it, and we also sell other outdoor photo gear. The thing that I like most about my job, is that when we get ready to release one of our new products. It gets really exciting to see the product you have worked on for the past 9 months, sell like crazy (or I hope so). My father always told me, do what you like. And for me this is fun

 

Wow this is a tough one, there are so many things about my job I like it's hard to say just 1 thing, I will try though & say it's helping people & knowing I am doing what I can to keep them safe.

 

Tom it is hard when there are soooo many things! But I think you summed it up well. I agree...for me too...its getting to help the people and doing my part in keeping them (and their property) safe.

 

Well, I don't help people in the common sense, but in a way I do- I help people by creating a sales environment that ensures our customers get what they need, not what some jerk sales rep wants them to get for his/her own commission benefit.

I've been in wireless sales for a long time now. I love it. It can be stressful at times, but in the end, very rewarding; and I have made quite a few real, long term friends from it too.

I also enjoy the working company of the people I work with and our account reps.

But the thing I like the most is when a customer comes back a few weeks later, thanking me for helping them finally find a device/plan that truly suits their needs, or buying me lunch for saving them a few hundred dollars on their bill. (Or on occasion, trying to hook me up with their hot daughters.)

 

i have the flexibility to work the hrs i want, make the pay i want, and to make others happy while doing so.

its the ultimate win/win