Does anyone here actually work at their "dream" job?

[Jeanette_L]

Not this week you don’t. I am sitting here at home with 101 fever knowing that I have to go in either this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon to prepare for Palm Sunday Masses. I really can’t be sick this week. Final RCIA session is on Sunday, HUGE funeral on Monday plus preparation for Diocesan Day of Reconciliation (means confessions at all churches in the diocese from 3-9 PM. Finalizing all the details for the Triduum, rehearsing with the servers, helping our young priest prepare a Easter Homily for the children at the Family Mass (he really has no skills in talking with kids and basically retells the Gospel almost word for word).

Please God, you can give me the full blown flu on Easter Monday but just not this week.

Wow, I’m so sorry you’re not well. I will pray for you now, you need strength to get all this accomplished. If I were close, I’d come and help you.

 

[jmcrae]

Aside from religious, does anyone here have a job that actually pays enough to make a living AND is one they actually enjoy?? If so, what do you do? My experience is the 9-5’s are such “toil,” usually for some company’s profits and bottomline, and with only two weeks off an entire year and working literally all day with so little time for other things.

The job I have right now is perfect, for me.

I work as a Youth Ministry and Sacramental Preparation Coordinator for a small parish in my Diocese. I get to work with nice kids who want to be there, and nice people in the office who want to help me succeed. And the hours are flexible - other than being in meetings, if I want to take off and do some personal business, I can do that. I’m not tied to my desk at particular times of the day.

 

[FrCorey]

I do, I am a Catholic Priest!
the benefits are great, but the pay is so low I could make more money begging on a street corner.

 

[Brendan]

I do.

I’m an Engineer who works in process automation.

I absolutely love my job

It that engineer\geek in me that loves to see how things are made, and then do it better

I’ve also got past that phase in my job where I had to travel to every industrial corner of the globe and can now get home every night to my wife and kids

 

[Joannm]

Wow, I’m so sorry you’re not well. I will pray for you now, you need strength to get all this accomplished. If I were close, I’d come and help you.

Thanks, I went into work for an hour today, fever and all, to set up. Pastor (who is recovering from surgery) was helping me set up but told me to go home and if I don’t feel better tomorrow to stay home.

 

[baltobetsy]

I have two part-time jobs that I just love. The first is a paid chorister at an Episcopal parish, where I’ve been for about 20 years. I get paid very well to sing gorgeous music, then I get to go worship at my own Catholic parish without the distractions of being in the choir. I do volunteer as a cantor in my Catholic parish as well. And sing funerals and weddings.

My second job is as a salesperson in a flower shop. I LOVE LOVE LOVE flowers, and I love to sell, so this is ideal. This one pays very poorly, but I don’t care. The people are great, the floral designers knock my socks off every day, and I get to surround myself with flowers all day long. Couldn’t get any better unless they actually paid me well.

My poor DH has recently started what should be his dream job as a manager in an insurance agency - he’s finally on the executive team! But the agency is coming off a difficult year financially, and he actually had to take a pay cut to go there. Poor guy can’t catch a break. But he’s meeting with an old friend who might have a better lead for him this week, if you guys could spare a prayer!

Betsy

 

[azgirl]

I absolutely love my job and many days I can’t believe I get paid for what I do. Then of course there are days when I do believe I get paid for it . I am an Adaptive PE teacher. I work with kids with various special needs. I travel around the district I work for, going to about 2 or 3 schools a day. I work with my students once a week for 30 minutes and I my group sizes range from 1 to 7. Basically I play with my students, working on both their physical skills and their social skills. I have been doing this for 5 years and many of my students I have had that whole time. When you are with your students year after year you really get to see their growth, which is truly amazing. Also my students feel close to me so I am greeted with lots of beautiful smiles and hugs all day. Of course the not so great part about my job is keeping up with all the paperwork (IEP’s ) that come with having over 100 students. I am also blessed with lots of time off, this week I am on Spring Break. I go back to work for nine weeks (with one day off in April) and then I am off for two months for summer vacation!

Before I found my current job I was teaching in a classroom (Jr. High Math) and was always looking to see what else is out there. Now I am happy and content and what a beautiful way to be.

 

[Cara_Serrano]

I don’t rely on work to fulfill my dreams, so I don’t have a “dream
job” per se. The ideal job for me is not the one that gives me some sort of personal satisfaction (most of my jobs have not), but the one that is structured so that I can still get to daily Mass, pray the Divine Office, and attend Eucharistic Adoration a few hours a week. If I can do those things, I don’t really care what I’m doing the other eight hours a day. A fully engaged spiritual life will more than make up for whatever is wrong with my job.

 

[Benedictine]

I am still in my dream job, but it has changed to something very negative recently. I am a university administrator in the area of student affairs, and my job has been absolutely delightful. But things have now gone very bad. Our director was a wonderful, saintly, and absolutely professional administrator, so naturally the new people above us fired him. In his place they put a moody, incompetant and depiscably cruel woman who could give Satan a run for his money.

Our office has since turned very cold and forbidding, with her inexperienced allies running the place and pushing us experienced administrators around. There are whisper campaigns and back-stabbing going on like you would not believe.

My resume is already out, and I am getting some good leads. So far, they haven’t caught on that I am looking elsewhere, thank you, God. I love my work and I definitely love my students, but no one can function under such conditions. Please pray fo rme.

 

[estesbob]

I do. I LOVE what I do-even lateo n a Sunday night when i have been doing tax returns all day.