Do you love your work?

No doubt about it I love the field of Information Technology, I honestly enjoy working with technology, constantly learning and solving technology centric problems -- especially LAN/networking issues.

I wish I could say I have the same enthusiasm for the company in which I work, but that would be a very dishonest answer then.

I enjoy learning new things and exploring areas of the technology that I haven't played with before, but most of the time I have to help users with very basic issues all day long. When I get to "play" and learn, that is when I enjoy it the most.

Yes, at the macro level I'm glad that I chose this career path. It was a lot of fun at the beginning when we were breaking new ground, automating human activities that had never been automated before, satisfying the Explorer and the Inventor in my spirit. Then I spent a few years as a serious propeller-head, writing operating system code, satisfying the Magician. Many years as a manager, and since it was in civil service I was part Leader and part Parent. Off and on throughout my life I have been the Teacher, hands-down the most satisfying of those figures.

Now I am in process improvement, and I'm not quite sure which Jungian archetype or Greek god or Shakespearean character this is. Is there one named the Man Who Beats His Head Against a Stone Wall? This is the most challenging and frustrating of all these phases of my life, because it's the one that my own tribe -- Americans -- have the least respect for.

I guess what I feel like is the Stranger. In many cultures I would fit right in, but here innovation and risk taking are valued over boring standardized, repeatable processes and creativity-stifling by-the-book QA. And the industry we created is emigrating to countries that value quality over glamor.

At least I do like the company I work for, one of the few in the USA that would like to keep its IT jobs here and develops software without using SP/2 as a blueprint for quality.

What I don't like is that this company -- the only one that had job openings in my own arcane corner of the process improvment specialty -- is three thousand miles from home. Paradoxically because I'm one of the few people who wants to show America how to hang onto the IT industry, it's difficult for me to get a job. I will probably only get to see my wife during vacations between now and retirement.

I'd be more secure and wealthy now if I'd spent my college money touring the world and getting a real education, then coming home and becoming a Plumber. Which is probably an archetype unto itself.

I have been involved in computers one way or the other since childhood. Every time I work on an IT related assignment it becomes an enriching experience because I get a since of usefulness. Also, because computers continue to evolve so quickly, I feel as if I evolve with them.

I feel the need to learn new things and exploring areas of the technology that I haven't played with before. I like to help others learn to use the new things. I like to learn and teach or show others how to do the things I have learned how to do. I like computers because it is a simple interface, I do one thing it does it's thing. Simple, fast and I can get on to the next project. I have been on the internet for years and it just keeps getting harder to do the things I like, just poking around and learning new things.

Short Answer: Yes
Longer Answer: Yes and No

Now read the fine print :-)
I like computers and don't remember why I got into it. I seem to have the aptitude and usually get the job done to the satisfaction of everybody.
I enjoying working on the state-of-art technologies, pertinent to my area. And days when I learn something new or improve my program, or employ new methoglogies or technologies I get a kick out of it. It kinda invigorates the mind.

IT has made me travel to lands that I could have never travelled before, meet new people, see new culture.

But, I like things to be simple too. Though I get a kick out of automation or computerisation, I don't like computers creeping into everything. Strange but true. Though I realize the benefits..computers and technology have made us humans behave at different planes. I think we humans have started imbibing the cold qualities of computers and machines to my distaste.

Now, if we could just stop working with the people... ~LoL~

j\k

I am really sorry, as you saw, i have a very bad english...

I was trying to say that people is not that bad...

If the legs are good, just pass the mouth freshner. That should do it.

How about playing chess with a computer?

I love the field, but hate my job...

;p