What matters for you the most in job?
 

What's the most important aspect in job if you could pick up just one factor? Other things are important as well but sometimes you simply can't have them all :lookaround:

EDIT: Could some staff member add a poll with following options as the forum gave me an error but still posted the thread (again...), thanks:

Wage
Work safety
Work mates
Career chances
Interest on job itself
Stability & Predictability
Benefits (work health care etc.)
Some other, what?

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

An interest in the job itself, most definitely. If I'm doing a job I love, then Ill stick with it, not matter what.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

I'll work almost any legit job so long as it pays the bills. When it comes to the longterm as in a career, I'd like to do something that I will at least enjoy on occaision, or something I may find some humour in. I'll just use whatever money I make to do things I enjoy (like see sports game, travelling, etc) on my spare time. I see a job or career as a means to an end.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

Honestly? The wage. First off, I'm almost 14, so I'll get a job a couple weeks after my birthday. I want to save up to fix my car. Then learn how to drive on our property. I'd only get like $7 a hour since there is only one shop that would hire me because of my age in the entire town. I'm pretty isolated out here in the outback.

Wage is the best factor unless you somehow get a job you like.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

Its stability and my getting my duties done right the first time.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

Important factors for me are:

- Salary
- Stability
- Compatability (as in a job that I will enjoy doing for the next 10 years)

Never base your criteria on "having nice colleagues". People come, people go. May be nice, may be complete tossers, but you still have to work with them.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

Wiener, your words inspire me :)

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

For me the interest on job is the most important factor. If you're interested on the job, you make it well and that way may get better salary and raise in the ladder. Wage is of course important but so are work mates: I would hate to make a job where my work mates would be a total asshats.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

Colleagues come and go, however.

One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post is the chance for growth within a job. If I do a good job over a period of time, I would like the opportunity to take on more challenging jobs which are paid better. I would not like a dead end job, because eventually, I would start to dislike it.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

To be the best, and as such, be forever carved into history. It's, currently, our only way of immortalizing ourselves.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

For my current job, I chose it because the hours were right, the location was close, and the pay was enough.

I would choose different things for my career though.

There's a distinction between "job" and "career", and both have distinct expectations and requirements.

Re: What matters for you the most in job?
 

The only thing that keeps me coming back to work every day is the people that I work with. I can do without the customers, (I work retail), the long hours and the relatively low wage, but I love the people that I work with and it feels like I'm actually going somewhere in the company.