# Job appreciation. **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 25, 2013, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/job-appreciation/266873 "2013-04-25T11:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/job-appreciation/266873/42 "2013-04-26T12:53:26Z")
> [@July 31, 2008. Beer. Tap Room. 9.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/july-31-2008-beer-tap-room-9/52460/205): > > You guys are lucky as hell. > > I am an accountant- started my career at a tax firm working 65-70+ hours a week during tax time to get my “base knowledge” and am now working as a controller for a local construction firm that hired me to do clean up work and get their financial status back on track. I use my brain compartment 9+ hours a day at work for a mediocre salary. I absolutely love what I do and couldn’t imagine myself doing anything else in life, but I know I will continue to work day in and day out… > > For 3 months after tax time last year I worked for a non-profit making really good money to do NO WORK… literally worked 4-5 hours a week… At the time I loved it, but 4-5 years of working at that job I wouldn’t have anything to add to my resume and would be so rusty. **I am challenged at my job everyday** and will be able to say I helped turn around a $35-30 million company on my resume. > > I do get very jealous of all of you “staties” and those of you who say you don’t have to do much work at “work”… soak it up while you can!!! > > / kkk post! This is where it’s at and why I love my job! --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/job-appreciation/266873)._