And if so, what makes it enjoyable?
When I think back on my career, what made my job enjoyable was people. Getting to know people, getting to understand their points of view, meet and build friendships with all kinds of folk. People I wouldn't have met living where I do from all different countries. Initially Eastern European, but factories with 40+ nationalities are now not uncommon. Which brings challenge too of course but also the opportunity to share cultures which is lovely.
It has always been stressful in the food manufacturing sector but I've always found something, every day which made me smile.
Things were starting to change in the late 2010s but Covid kind of brought that all back. We took out all of the BS meetings and ended up pitching in, making things work and helping.
Then post covid, the cost of living crisis...
And it all went 100 miles in the other direction.
I now see a lot of Technical and other managers in food.
And I don't see a single one who likes their job. Or at least it doesn't look like it. The pressure seems to be increasing and increasing. Yet where people would have jumped ship and changed roles to organisations with better cultures in the past I now hear things like "it's just as crap everywhere."
Is this just a UK thing?
So my question is, do you like your job? How has it changed over your career? Do you see it improving? Or getting worse?
Edited by GMO, Today, 07:26 AM.
