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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
QOTD Friday
Happy Friday!
What is one really good thing about your job and one really bad thing?
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Good: Generally, I work for a very cool organization in a cool building and have access to cool things (events, programs, behind the scenes stuff).
Bad: I'm asked to do things that I really don't know how to do nor have an interest in but because of where I work people often assume I'm some kind of expert.
Good thing - federal govt, stability and pay is great
Bad thing - Very disfunctional office, not challenged as much as would like, not interested in the work I do.
Off to the beach
DS 7/18/2010
Handy 2.0 Due Early August
2011/2012 Races
12/17/2011 Christmas Caper 10K
2/11/2012 Have a Heart 5K
3/17/2012 DC RNR Half Marathon
4/22/2012 10M Parkway Classic
10/28/2012 Marine Corps Marathon
Good thing: I like the people I work with and I like my job. Part of my job is surfing the internet :-)
Bad thing: There is lots of change (and uncertainty) at the moment but I am trying to just go with it but it is stressful
Good: truly amazing benefits, like the work I do, been given lots of opportunities for growth here
Bad: my boss is awful, I am underpaid according to our own internal salary study and they are unwilling to address it
Good: I work from home - which means that I can roll out of bed, throw on sweats, grab my coffee, and head down to my office with a very short commute. I can throw in a load of laundry, empty the dishwasher, hop on the treadmill, paint a room, etc, once my work is done or in between conference calls, etc. AND I am much better at my job since I started working from home. My job is really numbers and strategy intensive, and I can literally shut everything off while I am working on a critical issue - I was never able to do that when I worked in the office - there were constant interruptions, discussion,etc.
Bad: I work from home - and very rarely leave the house! It has been somewhat difficult to meet people since we moved here since DH travels all the time and I am working home alone in my basement. Every once in a while I wish that I had a workplace to go to, but remind myself how much more stressful my life would be with a commute, coming home every night to an empty house, all that - it is nice now b/c when DH isn't traveling and is on weird shifts, I still get to see him b/c I am here rather than sitting in traffic or in an office somewhere.
Good: 'Cool' job with travel to beachy areas :-)
Bad: Face paced. When someone needs something, they need it yesterday.
Hmmm, which job? SAHM or freelance designer? I'll do both:
SAHM:
good - the dress code is pretty relaxed
bad - the hours are rough and vacations are few and far between
freelance designer:
good - I looooove what I do
bad - income is largely unpredictable
Good - Reasonable commute, work only 4 days a week, regular hours, great benefits, nice co-workers and I like what I do and I believe in the mission of the company.
Bad - There's not really anything bad about. I guess I'd love to be earning more money :-) Sometimes I wish we had a better IT infrastructure so that I could do my job faster but I just do the best with what I have.
Good: Fast-paced; get a great high level view of the agency
Bad: Unpredictable hours, especially a few times of year.
I am in a similar boat, though I have to leave the house at some point to get the girls at the end of the day and I have a little more interaction with people. Also, all the positives of working from home make me the primary house-caretaker, so I am working full time AND doing the vast majority of the chores around the house. DH is getting better about picking up the slack a bit and I am getting better about asking him to do that, but it still gets a little wacky...and makes me feel like I am never "off the clock" in either context (working or taking care of the kids/DH).
Good - flexibility/freedom to do whatever I want
Bad - micromanaging boss. In fact, he just called me and told me how to put a picture in a frame for someone.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
Good: Truly 9 to 5, family friendly, great office with really nice people.
Bad: Sort of boring.
the good: i work with a really good team. my boss is awesome and very protective of me and our designers. when i go perm, i will have great benefits. after having a really awful boss my last 2.5 years in nyc and then so-so temp gigs here, it is a good change of pace to work somewhere that is not completely toxic.
the bad: my boss's boss is really nice but sometimes does not explain things well/clearly so when we're working on projects for him, it's overly complicated and wastes time. i hate having my time wasted when a better explanation could have simplified the process.
Bad: I'm very underpaid compared to the private sector.
Good: If we work our butts off and make "presidents club" we get an all paid caribean vacation. I've been there for 5 years and DH and I have gone the last 4. We don't have to pay for anything - airfare, food, hotel, excursions etc are all paid for. 1 week in paradise! We also telecommute 4 days a week (both a positive and a negative).
Bad: Managers in my office show favoratism and the resource managers (myself for example) are always at fault but the account managers can do no wrong. It makes for a hard enviornment. Of course the account managers don't see the favoratism but it's there.
Good: my office does some pretty cool projects (environmentally related), I work with some people I consider friends, benefits and hours are good. My commute is short.
Bad: This is not really the field I thought I'd be in. Rather, it's the right field, but my background is policy and I'm doing communications. It's fine, and I'm good at it, but I sometimes wish I was doing more policy stuff (or that I knew more communications stuff, everyone I work with has a comms background).
TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
baby blog/cooking blog
Good: I love the autonomy of my job and the importance of the work we do.
Bad: Not much, really. I wish I made more money!
Good: Really interesting work, generally good colleagues, opporunities for travel and training, very stable, good benefits.
Bad: Not much of a work-life balance, long-ish hours, very reactive/unpredictable.
Baby248 - ETA 1/10/13
Good: It is exactly what I went to school for which is very rare for my degree. I enjoy it most days and I feel as though I'm really good at it so there is that kind of job satisfaction. I also get to go to conferences and be on committees which creates more recognition in my field.
Bad: My client is a manic depressive idiot. I have to spoon feed him his job on nearly a daily basis and convince him to do the things he needs to do but may not like to do. He's like an insolent teenager! Example: He and I both have a TON of work to do and he asks if I want to take off to happy hour yesterday at 4. I told him I couldn't as I had too much work to do. He then realized that he did as well and then sulked around until 6pm as I forced him to not go to happy hour! Ugh!
Good: I won't lie - the best thing about my job is that the pay and benefits are awesome and that I work a strict 40-hr. week 99% of the time.
Bad: Right now there is a lot of uncertainty in my department and we suspect RIFs at some point as the company restructures our job function. Aside from people wondering if they'll still be employed at year end, there's a lot of cattiness (our group vs. their group stuff).
Good: I work on projects that I really care about (environmental topics), very flexible, work with great people
Bad: It can be a lot of hurry up and wait on clients, which can be so frustrating. Also, my office location changed and my new commute stinks.
GOOD: I actually love the people I work with. They truly are the definitely of 2nd family. (for example a coworker of ours died right before Christmas putting a steeple on a church he belonged to and we were able to raise 7k to put towards his childrens trust fund).
BAD: Not that my boss is exactly Satan, but some of his duties fall on me because he has no idea how to do them and no one is making him step up to the plate. I just get ticked when I'm completely overwhelmed w/ my duties plus his and I'm not offered OT or any sort of compensation.
Good: pay, commute, benefits, stable, laid-back boss, and nice coworkers- pretty drama-free.
Bad: no room for advancement, often not challenging
Planning Bio
Good: great schedule flexibility, laid-back, challenging but not usually very stressful, and my boss is awesome
Bad: the pay is below where it should be for the type and amount of work we do
corporate:
good - i have control over my schedule and how much i work (for the most part)
bad - everyone here is insane. i think they spend way too much time thinking about how to be devious
personal:
good - people leave my office feeling really good about themselves and their lives and i love that
bad - every now and then, i have a nutty client. (lol, see post from a few days ago)
Good - Love what I do and will do it for the rest of my life. Fulfilling to see client results. Work from home.
Bad - Unpredictable income. Also, I'm like Dave in the Staples commercial running my own business (having to wear different hats), and since I'm just starting I don't have the $ to pay other people to do the technical stuff I suck at.
Good: Always different, lots of variety, love the people.
Bad: I work really long hours.
Good-- I love my coworkers, believe passionately in our mission, get to do interesting things, have established myself enough that I get recognition for successes, have a lot of autonomy (very important to me), terrific benefits (6 weeks vacation!!), flexible schedule.
Bad-- hours can be long, I don't always have the resources I need to accomplish what I'd like to, I am a little underpaid.
Bad: I work two half-days on weekends, so DH and I rarely get a full day home together.