The Triangle of Happiness - how happy are you with your job?

[Nick]

http://www.triangleofhappiness.com/

Claims satisfaction with your work is a function of three things: the work itself, the $$, and the people you work with.

 

[ScottySkis]

That is oxymoron.

 

[Nick]

What is, happy and job?

 

[ScottySkis]

Shipping and receiving merchandise for online store. I like that just don't like all the fashion design people and no raised in few years and long commute 2 hours plus each day one way, but jobs at home in warehouse take advantage of people and pay 8 an hour to start could always be worse.

 

[Geoff]

Meh. Work is all about the miracle of direct deposit. After high tech melted down in metro-Boston 5 or 6 years ago, I'm no longer in a position to bitch particularly about the work, the pay, or the people. I telecommute so my exposure to "the people" is somewhat limited (a good thing most of the time). I telecommute so the fact that my pay, inflation adjusted, is a pretty big step backwards from a decade ago is more than offset by lower living costs and savings on automobile. I'm dramatically underemployed compared to my traditional job function but underemployed with far less influence on the business or responsibility for the success of the business beats the hell out of being unemployed. Being 55 also changes your perspective on things. I'm more concerned about maintaining the high tech employee income stream for another decade so I can retire comfortably. I hold my nose and do work that I never would have considered a decade ago.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Fortunately we both are comfortably fully retired and enjoying life . Today the work environment is dull of turmoil and angst in many organization as the culture has shifted so dramatically

i was very fortunate ,in addition to a 30 yr career in higher education for me and 15 yrs secondary education for the Queen ,i also had a parallel business in Executive Development consulting that lasted 25 yrs . This fact enabled me to retire from fulltime University work in my early 50's by plan with full pension and bennies and run my contract training programs for approximately 75 days a yr till i was 57 yrs old .
Then i sold it and totally retired



We were indeed fortunate enough to have careers that were enjoyable and secure. i have seen so many corporate dumbsizings and other short term debacles during the period . It made for good consulting fodder but damn i often wondered about what these decision makers were thinking as sometime the wrong people left ,ie folks with great options became a major brain drain . The triangle worked for our time period but today as LOYALTY is a variable and no longer a two way committment i think it has become a "moving target that is hard to hit "

Ergo : timing is everything huh ..

 

[bvibert]

http://www.triangleofhappiness.com/

Claims satisfaction with your work is a function of three things: the work itself, the $$, and the people you work with.

While posting on a public forum, from my place of employment, I plead the 5th...

 

[deadheadskier]

As someone who decided to change his career at 36 which involved going back to school, I can state the "work itself" is extremely important to me. In my old career I made a decent income; not great, but enough to live comfortably and enjoy my hobbies while putting enough away that I'd be able to retire at 65. I also mostly enjoyed the people I worked with. That said, the content of the work (restaurant/hospitality operations and then sales) became utterly boring to me. After 17 years I had had enough.

It will take about five years (including the three years of schooling I am in) to get back to the income I was making. It will take another 5 years to rebuild retirement savings opportunities lost in switching careers. I may now have to work until 70 instead of 65. I'm fine with tacking five years onto my working life over staying where I was and absolutely hating what I was doing for 29 more years.

 

[Puck it]

I would rather be a groomer or snow maker then ski the rest of the time.

 

[dlague]

I recently changed jobs and started working for a company that has awesome benefits. I manage a really layed back team and the people there have been cool so far. How often do you find a company that offers a pension and does 401 K matching? Plus Insurance paid for. Oh and 12 days sick time, days personal time and 2.5 weeks vacation (for now)!

We provide services for 6 ski areas - a plus!

Ya I am happy!

 

[snoseek]

I like my current job very much, the people are good to me, pay above industry standard (for me anyhow), plenty of creativity and the ability to split every winter and go ski for five or so months out west. With that said it is stupid hard work in the summer, I cannot do it year round without risking burnout. I'm going to try maybe working a little(very) this winter if something decent comes up. also this job was a step back for me so eventually I need to challenge myself as I have in the past.