What is your work ethics?

[highlandsflyer]

I was pretty unhappy with full time committed work in London so I took to agency work, and have never really looked back. Only worked for 'someone else' a few years in the last twenty. Everything else is either self-employed basis or I am my own man.

At 45 I couldn't see me going back to 'normal' work and conditions. I would rather spend sixteen hours a day working than eight for someone else for the same coin.

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

You have no idea of hard work until you work for yourself, and you find you turn into the biggest C**k you will ever work for.

 

[David B]

Your health and happiness and that of those you care for is far more important. Take it from one who knows.
You're only here once. Life is not a rehearsal. Start looking. Stay working though? Times are tough.

Good advice - stick with what you've got for now whilst looking around for better things. Beats the hell out of the dole office. Not particularly enamoured with my own job right now - I seem to be getting lumbered with more and more each year, with little reward or gratitude to show for it beyond the annual "cost of living" pay rise (actually below the rate of inflation!!), whilst some of my supposedly "equivalent status" colleagues get a cushier ride - but it'll do as a stop-gap.

David

 

[Raging_Bulls]

I'm far more happy with my part-time job and the £800 salary than I was with double that money for a full-time. I work to live, not the other way around.
As long as I can keep my expenses to a reasonable level (no car, rent or mortgage to worry about), I have less need for income.

 

[Grannygrinder]

Get in
Do the minimum required
Do not it injure myself
Get out
Kiss the wife and kids

I should stress, this is after having been shat on from a great height, twice :evil: . I should leave but its just too convenient :roll:

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

A decent work ethic is a weird thing (and rare in the youngsters that work with us now!)

I have always been 'work to live' rather than 'live to work'. I've no real qualifications (through choice), and got a decent, physically demanding, low level, manual job in 2000, with no real responsibility.

I've always worked hard, and done my job the best I can.

A guy left, and I was given his role.

Another guy left a few years later. I was given his role too.

Repeat this every few years.

Without asking, applying, or even wanting it, I now run a multi-million pound facility, managing a team, finances and with REAL responsibility (go to jail, do not pass go...). Long hours, real stress, and more money than I ever wanted.

Weird. Not complaining, just saying. Weird.

Still live for the weekend. Except I'm working most of them now.

*sigh*

 

[phill77]

It's a tricky balance that is different for everyone.
Sometimes it's best to put a little extra in for the short term to get a lot extra out long term.
Until recently I worked harder than required, I enjoy my job although it can be quite pressurized and as a result have had a few pay rises. I was regularly doing 10 hour days with a couple of hours of commuting including weekends, but it was normally paid overtime.
I will admit I put work first before my wife too often. Now we have a little girl who I am desperate to always put first and at my last pay rise I lost the automatic right to paid OT, so my work ethic has changed. I still give 100% whilst at work, but don't give them any more of my time than I need to.

Barring a disaster I can't see me leaving for a long time, so I will continue to reap the rewards of my previous hard work, even now I am not quite so committed!

 

[tintin40]

What's work? I haven't worked. I go to work. I pretend to work. 18 years till i retire and can really enjoy life to the full.

 

[The History Man]

How do you report? Can't see the button?

 

[The History Man]

Found it