I've grown tired of my work. I still enjoy it, but I really want to do something else. Guess, that my interest has shifted over the years.

The issue is, I own half of the business and can't just pack up and leave. Basically I've got to find somebody to sell it to, as otherwise quite a few people would be out of a job and quite a few customers would be pissed off, too. Don't want that either.

So I guess I'll chuck along and sure it pays the bills, until the opportunity for a sale comes along. And move off to new ventures then and more travelling again.

/M

I like my job but feel like i'm confined in the office cubical too much and don't do enough of the site work which I really enjoy. Only 2 months to go until I take 12 months off to travel the Americas, my longest holiday for the past 14 years has been 2 weeks

nice! enjoy

Safe travels! What a dream to travel for one Year! Enjoy - and keep us updated with pictures

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Do i like my job? Unfortunatelly way too much. Therefore it isnt easy to find the time to travel. To quit a job when income and enjoyment is that high - is definitively not easy. Too when you have a girlfriend, who also love their job/career.

But we have found a start with our transafrica, and know we are planning on the next (short) break.

Surfy

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I love my job. I get to travel and generally have as much time off as I need. I can plan for most things as long as I'm not needing a block of time exceeding a month off. If I do, then I have to organize things around that.

This occasionally 'away from home' aspect pays ok and allows me to fund my hobbies etc. I don't have the most up to date machinery these days but I love what I've got.

My Dad told me when I was a kid that I should never dread going to work. I guess sometimes it can be a bind, but at 53 and still going strong I feel that his words were positive and I've tried to stick by them. I always tried to get something from it - even the crappy jobs I didn't much enjoy. I think this was the spirit of what he intended.

These days it's a blast. I've never been out of work and always was able (with a little hardship and focus) to have the things I needed and some (most) of the things I wanted.

So I guess I am happy working.

Moss.

My job is a mean's to an end, not the most exciting place in the world. But it pays for my fun at the weekend.

I'm a secondary school teacher and I love my job. Not only is it, in my humble opinion, one of the most important jobs in society but it gives me the holidays to travel. I don't get paid as much as I thinkI should ( I've been teaching for 20 years and earn £31,000) but I certainly can't complain about the holidays. I'm off to Scandinavia for 5 weeks this summer.
This thread has been really interesting and it's encouraging to see that 25% in this poll love their jobs. However it is truly depressing to see so many people seem to hate their jobs. I can't think of anything more depressing (apart from unemployment I guess)

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I love what I do - I manage a luxury spa in a 5 star Hotel and over the years have done several pre-opening projects. I thrive on the stress that work creates. I do end up working a lot, however have learnt over time that I don't mind putting the time in and establishing myself as an expert in what I do and in turn have no problems leaving a job after a few years to do a bit more travelling and then starting the whole work thing again.

Dom.,
You didn't get to do the east coast of Canada yet. I have an extra bike for your next summer vacation.

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I do my job as I am financially trapped and no other job would pay me what I earn for what I do.
I have just over 5 years left. The job pays for my biking trips my kids have all left home and when i finish I will be debt free have money in the bank a pension no ties and a wife that rides and wants to explore like me.
I will stick at the grind because of the benefits do I enjoy it no not any longer would I walk away yes if I could.
Thats why Im on this forum to gain experence insparation knowledge and know how so when I am free I will have the funds time and money to travel and explore.
Just got to do the 5 years first.

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I've been enjoying myself at HU meets for years, but this is my first post on the HUBB - I think. No. It says, it is my fourth (must have been years ago). So, who am I to disagree?

I must have been asleep when they explained about the work ethic. (Very likely!) I've tried to penetrate the mysteries of work for years but have failed. That doesn't mean I like hanging around doing nothing; far from it. I'm a fidget. It's just that I don't like Work.

I have a special aversion to my current work contract which says I have to sit behind a PC most days writing and editing pointless documents that no-one will read. Most of them won't even get published. Worse, I am surrounded by managers who think all this is 'meaningful' - or so they pretend. I dream that one day someone will tell me that my work had helped to save a life or has made an old person happy, but no-one ever does, and if they did, they would be lying.

A couple of times a week I'm given a reprieve and get to facilitate meetings or give presentations. This is better. It gets my performance needs met. As I'm an ace bullshitter, there is some fun to be had here, especially when things go wrong and I have to make stuff up.

Since my wife died (some years ago now) riding a bike is the only thing that convinces me that I inhabit a material, sensual world. Without a bike, I'm lost. I fret and bite my nails. I walk up and down. I spend precious hours logged onto facebook. I think they call this a dependency.

To answer the topic question: I do the job, endure the tedium, and feel useless for six out of eight hours every day to feed my dependency. I get the bikes, the books, the food and the bills. I get to go on short trips and travel up to the UK HU meet.

I had a revelation yesterday. It's time to move on!


P.S. Canazei1200. Yes. Exactly. I have four years left in the galleys. I'm chalking up the hull day by day.

Just summed up a lot of what I think about myself and work, thanks
Attending the HU last week was a great reminder that dreams can come true

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Striving to live the ordinary life in a non ordinary way

changed my life to new carrier , working and living in thailand now, doing what i like to most scuba instructor, yet im still to collect some moey buy some thumper with knobbies and the beggining of the rest of my life can start

Love my job, the benefis and compensation are great, but there's that one person in the group that makes most days a living hell!

Owned my own business and a paid for house in the US with the truck, suv, and bike...it was all right. Sold them all and moved to Kyrgyzstan. Love it! Starting a transportation/tourism company. Sure it's a lot of work...but hey, I live in Kyrgyzstan and my job just required me to help a nomadic family build their summer mountain yurt camp at 9000 ft (2750 meters) in the Tian Shan mountains...I'm not sure it really even qualifies as work

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9000 miles 'round the US riding two up on a ratted out 1985 Shadow 500 and now exploring Central Asia on a 1994 Honda Dominator...ride what you own where you are!

Well I quit last Monday. I've got three weeks of entertaining my shortly to be ex colleagues by brutal frankness with the customers and directors, going about the place whistling the music from The Great Escape and anything else I can think of that will be mildly fun without getting the reference changed from the one I wrote myself to a "Andy worked here from...to... (and we never quite managed to find a reason to sack him)".

Suggestions on fun things to do while working your notice will be gratefully accepted. I've already talked the lad who'll be my temporary replacement into turning up in a tie on the day he's taking a couple of hours off for the dentists (oddly, my stomach bug the week before I quit went off amazingly quickly )

I've then got a week of accrued holidays that my dear wife can't match less however long it takes me to get over the leaving do. I'm thinking two days mixed jobs and drinking tea/listening to the radio and three days getting miles on the Wee. Back roads of Scotland and Wales here I come

Then it's knuckle down to make the new boss happy and the lives of me and my new minions as easy and well rewarded as possible . Maybe there is a job that doesn't seem like work? Not going to change my vote yet, I'd still rather pick the right 6 numbers and stop having to worry about the whole mess, but hopefully progress.

Andy