Anybody else love their job?
I qualified as a dentist from Bristol University in December 1985.
I started my working career in Bristol on 17th February 1986 & have been at the same practice ever since. I've never owned the practice & have seen it as strictly a 9-5 job plus the occasional emergency....Dentists aren't usually cut out to be businessmen.
Consequently I have loads of patients that I've known & looked after for more than 3 decades.
Here's a recent photo of me & the first patient that I saw at 9 o'clock on my first day as a wet behind the ears dentist. He is now aged 81, I bet you won't find many dentists who are still seeing their first ever patient nearly 38 years later
https://i.imgur.com/HUVx5bml.jpg
I have a great rapport & laugh with a lot of these patients & view them as my friends. I had one recently who broke my loupes because she hugged me too hard! My poor assistant must be fed up hearing the same stories & rants over & over again.
Not surprisingly this captive audience always agrees with my favourite rants....for example....The Tories.....Brexit....The NHS. They know which side their bread is buttered on.....my probe is very sharp!
Of late I've had a lot asking me "I hope you're not retiring yet because I couldn't see anybody else”....I must be looking old!
One day a week I teach the final year dental students at Bristol Dental School. That is greatly rewarding, not in monetary terms so much, but from the angle of passing on the practical knowledge I have learnt from nearly 40 years in the job. The feedback that I receive from them makes it all worthwhile. It's like 'passing the baton' in a relay race.
Not least it's a reason to get out of bed in the morning & maintain my mental health.
Who else loves their job?.........& what watch am I wearing?????????
Anybody else love their job?
Chemical (Process) Engineer here. Graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1991, and it has been a vocation since then.
Did Oil and Gas projects for many, many years, but for the last 3 years I have been a Lead Engineer on some of the largest Net Zero projects in the world. The skills where easily transferable.
That gives me immense satisfaction that I am at the forefront of tackling climate change. I guess not many people can say that. Poacher turned gamekeeper you may say.
As long as I keep away from office politics, yes, I am really loving my job.
Anybody else love their job?
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Originally Posted by
blackal
I thought a good start, swiftly transitioned into the predictable brag.
Op asked the question, and I (for example) answered with pride. I guess you don't like your job, and in the usual British way a certain downbeat attitude is celebrated.
I don’t post about my Ferrari/Aston/ Porsche/McLaren on the What Do You Drive thread, because I don’t have one. I have a leased Volvo EV and a 23 year old Vauxhall Agila.
But it is celebrated to fawn over vastly expensive cars that only the few can afford, and nobody bats an eye.
Anybody else love their job?
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Originally Posted by
wileeeeeey
Going to take 4-6 months off to change nappies in a few weeks. Once that’s done I’ll probably look for change with employer pension contributions as a focus. Then maybe I can join the TZ early retirement club, hopefully have something to humble brag about.
Stuck with my dentist as I have a tiny mouth and she normally looks after the kids!
You have a baby on the way and you want to join the retirement club? Where is your stamina, man. You will be bored of your t1ts ever if you had a sniff at it.
The early retirement thread is for us oldies who have done a proper stint, with kids who have grown up, the outlook on life has changed and we have done 30++ years of hard labour down the salt mines, not for late 30/early 40 somethings in the prime of their lives.
Best years of my life was when I had very young kids. Happy memories. It all went too quickly.