My boss expects me to be a jack of all trades. That's usually fun, but he holds me responsible for the success of projects I'm clearly unqualified for. Conversely, he forces me to do a lot of mindless work when I'd rather be writing interesting code.<p>The hours suck. Most of my awake time is spent at work, and I don't get paid overtime.<p>I don't get benefits. I've got to pay out of pocket for health and dental, which isn't cheap.<p>The work is gratifying (and there's no shortage of it) but it's a hard slog. I'd say the only big perk is that I can pretty much take as much vacation as I'd like. (Though it is non-paid.)<p>Is it worth it? At the moment, no... but I do get equity in the business and I hope the investment will pay off in the future.<p>I'm my own boss.
I am working as a external contractor for few clients, fixing 15 years old shitty code bases. Do I like it? No.<p>But the pay is great and they don't take a huge amount of my time, so I can spent about half of my day working on my own stuff.<p>Sometimes equation of "if you don't like your job then quit" doesn't work.
I started two months ago at Awe.sm, my first full time startup position. I've never worked harder, learned more, or been happier in a job. It's the best team that I've ever been on. Also, we're hiring: <a href="http://awe.sm/56okP" rel="nofollow">http://awe.sm/56okP</a>
I, with the rest of my team, was laid off in May, and took a few months off to learn iPhone/iPad development. Needless to say I love my current job. I will be sad to have to get a traditional one working for The Man.
Yes. Definitely.
If I wasn't liking it, I would have quit the job.<p>There's no point doing that you don't like, cursing your job every morning and wait for Friday to come.
Not really- pay is too good to quit. Boring, not enough projects, delays from everywhere under the sun. Requirements don't match expectations of finished projects, etc etc. At least there'll be other jobs, only here for 10 more months