Do you enjoy your job?

I am a programmer/analyst.  I hate my current job but now mostly because it's a one hour drive each way.  An hour and 20 on the way home, more traffic.  I get up at 5 am to leave by 6:30 and I don't even feed teh dogs, BF does.  I get to work at 7:30 and leave at 4 to get home at 5:15 or so.  Then to bed at 9 pm so I can get up and drive an hour in the morning.    My job is ok, it's not great and I'm not passionate about it but it pays the bills.  I"m looking for work closer to home and hope to get the agility club I started going into a business in the next few months.  So things are looking up.  The commute sucks and since the other 2 programmers quit, I'm MUCH busier but I don't know how to answer half the questions that come my way.  Plus I have to come in every month, on one Sunday to do back ups.  bleh.

Right now at this time I hate my job with a passion. I'm a groomer/petshop worker. I love working with the animals and talking to our customer it's great. What I hate about it is I don't get to clip any dogs and bascially I'm reduced back to being bath and brusher. I already talked to my boss about trying to do more clip. The new girl is getting paid the same amount as me and it took me six months to get paid that amount. Only three more weeks until I have worked there a full year and already I'm looking for another job.
 
I also get stupid people in the pet shop too. Examples below
 
If I buy an animal do you guys put them in a box for me or would I have to bring one or buy a box?
 
I don't know what pet shop doesn't put animals in a box.
 
Conversation on the phone at 5:15
Guy: What time do you close?
Me: We close at 6:30, sir
Guy: Oh so you are closed now?
Me: No sir we are still open for another hour and 15 minutes.
Guy: Ok thanks.
 
Guy comes across the street while I'm standing out side below the open sign which is turned on. He looks at the hours on the door and I'm about to go in the store behind him when he ask me if we are still open. It was six o'clock at the time and we close at 6:30
 
 
 
I would so like to keep my job, but after finding out all my hard work to getting paid more and then the new girl gets paid that amount all ready has ticked me off. It's just going to take a while since I don't want to work at ABX/DHL since most of my family all works there.
 
 

ORIGINAL: twelvepaws

Wow, how interesting. I have a million questions for some of you, when/if I get time! Namely, Griffine and MRV The behaviorist....

You can go ahead and ask me anything you'd like, and i'll do my best to try to answer it. And I  think I might have some questions for MRV as well.

no problem folks, ask away

No, I don't enjoy my job [:@] And my boss is the reason. If I had a good, reliable boss, then I could possibly enjoy it.
 
I run a property management company in California.

ORIGINAL: mrv

no problem folks, ask away

OK, since you invited it...
 
What do you mean radical behaviorist? Hmmm.. what else, what else? I'm assuming you work with the entire school population, or at least any child that qualifies, am I correct? I have absolutely no involvement with the school psychologist, so I really don't know much about it.

Radical behaviorist is a term describing those folks who believe in the possibility of self reenforcement and the ability to use language to alter behavior (referred to as rule governed behavior).  A "traditional" behaviorist, those following B.F. to the letter do not allow for self reenforcement.
 
By law, I am responsible for evaluation services to any child birth to the end of public school services who is disabled or is suspected of being disabled.  I am also to provide support and consultation to teachers, parents, and administration.  I do crisis intervention as well.  I am the "learning" specialist in that I need to be able to  help folks identify alternate methods for instruction when the current strategies are ineffective.  I guess you could say I am a jack of all trades with respect to education.  I need to deal with curriculum, transportation, discipline, and staff, all as it applies to kids on my case load.  I personally feel that I need to be a child advocate.  I have  sign posted on my door (and many other doors in the district) which reads  "Our only purpose here...is to improve the quality of education for every child who enters our door."  Cute pic of kid openning a door.

Aha, I see. I think aside from the evaluation part, the behavior analyst does a lot of what you do, or maybe the teachers do it. I don't know really, because I never really see the teachers ( I saw them when I first started and did some observing in the classroom, after that, I saw two of the three teachers in the program when we had to go to crisis prevention training, and I saw the third last week at an end of year party at another child's house). Each child I work with has a different behavior analyst, and I see them once a month. So, who makes the decision that something needs to be changed, I don't know all the time, I just see that we're doing something different. 

Radical behaviorist is a term describing those folks who believe in the possibility of self reenforcement and the ability to use language to alter behavior (referred to as rule governed behavior). A "traditional" behaviorist, those following B.F. to the letter do not allow for self reenforcement.

I didn't know anyone was a strict Skinnerian anymore! I'm not sure I'm getting the radical behaviorist stuff. It sounds like self-talk positive reinforcement.

Really, I had a behaviorist who tried to help me with my child. It was a nightmare. The theory that this works for EVERYBODY was her gospel and she just couldn't change herself enough to see that modifications were necessary for my son. Mainly, hands on is NOT going to work with a kid as sensory sensitive as mine.