If you have a job without Aggravation, you don't have a job

If there is no work or anyone to bother us, we will get very lonely and quit the work. I think jobs such as night security guards or cemetery keeper or other jobs that require not much human contact are not for most of us. We will feel very lonely though it is peaceful and quiet.

I'm honestly not sure how to answer this, Pete... My job is to cater to the wants and needs of my cell phone customers. I sell cell phones, both contract and pre-pay for a living... I LOVE my job! I love helping my customers save money by finding them the exact phone and plan that best suits their needs. I love explaining how to use new features that new generations of cell phones exhibit. Most of the time, I even love helping my customers trouble-shoot problems they encounter while using their phone... Hint: Quite a bit of the time, the problems lie with the owner of the phone, not the phone... One thing I can tell you for sure, no matter how well you know your phone, there is always something you don't know how to do on it!.

I think I agree. The more responsibility the less bliss. However how we handle the challenges will determine how well we do the work?

I don't think I agree with that - I loved my job and had very little aggravation.

My jobs have aggravation. I would like to just teach when I am at school, not collect lunch money etc. etc. Mystery shopping has its share of aggravation too - repetitive tedious reports spring to mind. But I am sure there are aggravation free jobs out there too.

Very.. I am in sales and numbers do the talking, so I always need to find new clients.

I work in a hotel and it varies. Some guest feel they are entitled and are rude to the staff but on the whole there are many more nice people. I find it's also a good resource for humorous writing material.

Yes, I completely agree ..... it's so aggravating that I can't get back to sleep once I've awakened to answer the call of nature. On the plus side, I'm retired so I deal with my furbabies and myself, no boss tells me what to do and if I get a phone call it's exciting, I just love to talk it up with those telemarketers, poor things aren't allowed to hang up on me so I just jabber on.

I think that being aggrivated is the part what employers are paying for. Lol.

This is an intelligent remark. I think it's true, we feel more important and needed if we have more challenges.

When I was working my job has times when it was aggravating but one the whole it was fine. There were co-workers I found more aggravating than the job itself

I have had a YOB for the last 38 years, but retired last year. I didn't misspell the word. YOB means Your Own Business. In the Direct Sales industry that's what we called our JOB. No boss but yourself, but it was NOT without aggravation, of course. There were always customer complaints and upper level management to deal with. While we were not employees, we still had to follow the rules and upper level management was always changing the rules, and the profit structure and the sales levels, etc. I am so happy to be retired, even though I enjoyed my YOB and reaped a lot of benefits from it, such as FREE all-expense paid trips to Europe, Mexico and other places in the USA. Now, I don't have to put up with any aggravation. and that means a lot to me.

The stress was pretty bad, so yes, it was aggravating. I was glad and sad at the same time when they fired me. The stress just rolled off my shoulders. So now my job is right here. I'm retired. The most aggravation I have is keeping up with the notifications.

In my last job I did a lot of training. Some were easy to train but others.... Let's just say I considered checking myself into the nuthouse!

I was the source of aggravation I suppose. lol.

Not very.. my new job as a social media strategist can be stressful yes.. I have short deadlines and clients don't always know what they want. But aggravating no. It was worse previously, when I worked with a bunch of empire building corporate old boys, who basically BSed their way to the top & would do anything to stay there. So I can hands on heart say, the job doesn't have to be aggravating, it's what you're willing to put up with.

At times it is very frustraiting, but I also remember that there is more to it then frustration.

you have a point, we all like to feel needed. I work from home and yea even with that there is still some aggravation.

That is the thing with us today we aren't ever happy. We want a job then we have one and we hate it when things don't go smoothly. When that happens with anything I am doing I stop for a moment. I step back and think I remember before I started this how much I wanted it. When I got it I remember how Happy and Grateful I was to have it because it was a step in the direction I wanted to go. Now think how many others would give a limb to be in my/your miserable source of employment that helps you keep a roof over your head,clothes on your back and food in your stomach.After that you are less likely to be as upset. Regroup refocus and get to it. Finish the task and when its done and out of the way you can move forward.