Ask Lemmy

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

Worst thing is the next 18 days.

Apartment superintendent.

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

Worst: Finding people dead.

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: setting my own hours

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

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.

Worse is going to work, best is leaving work

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.

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.

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.

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

WFH

RTO

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.

Customers and customers.

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

Worst: Deadlines and many many projects

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

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

Worst: material counts. I hate material counts.

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.

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.

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: 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.

the travel and the travel

Best: I get to be outside.

Worst: I get to be outside.

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: Defending peoples' honor

Worst: Stage fright

I manage my business units data and support the team to use it and the applications associated with the data.. best thing is the day is variety..no two days are usually the same. The worst thing is the people..I don't know how they function sometimes. And the team's managers are so hands off when training and coaching their team.

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: 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.