Best thing is I’m retiring in 18 days, at age 58.
Worst thing is the next 18 days.
I’ve watched enough buddy cop movies to know this is the most dangerous time in your career.
Just when I think I’m out… they PULL ME BACK IN!
(not gonna fukn happen)
Congratulations from someone who has no hope of retiring in the next ten years of my life lol. My parents both retired at your age though. Enjoy it!
Apartment superintendent.
Best: Free rent and utilities on top of a full time wage.
Worst: Finding people dead.
Wait…. What? Does this happen often enough that it’s an issue? Or is that you’re saying that ONE is more than too many?
In 18 years I’ve personally discovered 20 bodies.
Good god man!
You better work in a nursing home
I did spend a few years managing a retirement community, and a few more managing subsidized housing where opioid overdoses were the leading cause. So my stats are probably higher than the average.
How did you react the first time it happened? Was it your first time seeing a dead person ?
Walked in on a guy who was just sitting there. I immediately knew but completely denied it for about 10 minutes. “He’s just pining for the fjords.”
Nice neighbourhood
The best thing is that I work for myself.
The worst thing is that my boss is an idiot.
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: 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: 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: 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.
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.
Solve this series of textbook algorithm problems using OOP in 5 minutes or less so we can see if you’re good enough to spend the next 5 years maintaining a site designed in the early 2000s that is basically just a bunch of JavaScript and one giant main as a backend
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
OK, so what’s the worst thing then?
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.
My manager is great in that he knows his primary purpose is to filter the bullshit admin stuff away from us so we can get work done. He’s pretty good at it.
Best: Trusted working hours and WFH(no time keeping but you lose overtime)
Worst: Deadlines and many many projects
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.
Customers and customers.
