Jobs are a love-hate relationship

People like to complain about Work

As many of you know, I switched the URL site for this blog from here last August.  I imported all the posts and everything, but I never took down the old site.  I still average about 10 -15 hits a day to that site, driven primarily by search traffic, or the occassional misuse of the old URL hat I can’t seem to correct like here.   I decided it would be fun to take a look at what people were finding there.  The most searched terms are “I hate my job“, glassdoor, and jobvent.  Go figure!

This was also earlier this year when I posted on job complaint sites over on the old site in the post below:

Jobs: You can’t live with them

One of the most popular searches by readers of Human Race Horses is job rating sites like JobVent or GlassDoor. There are other such as Telonu, RateMyEmployer (specializing in Canadian companies), LookBeforeYou Leap, and even Vault (click on Companies). So if you hate your job, check out these sites.

How I got my Job

On the other hand, if you love your job, or just want to hear success stories from people who landed jobs they love, you might want to listen to the podcast called How I Got My Job. This podcast presents job-hunting success stories in an interview format. The program runs about 20 minutes and comes out weekly. It is created by Daniel Johnston Jr.

Dan describes the podcast as being “like Inside the Actor’s Studio, but for job searching instead of acting.”

Love your job or hate it, they tend to comprise a large portion of our lives and our self-identity. We like to talk about them, bitch about them, and generally obsess about them.

Here are the employers that people are currently loving and hating on JobVent.  (May 27, 2009)
I Love My Job

1. Teavana
2. PayChex
3. Presidio Networked Solutions
4. Armani Exchange
5. L & L Products
6. inkstop
7. Boeing
8. MetLife
9. Asurion
10. ACR Homes

I Hate My Job

1. Digital Juice
2. Journal Register Company (JRC)
3. Boston Scientific
4. Staffing Plus
5. Olan Mills
6. IQPC
7. Zep Manufacturing
8. Quest Diagnostics, Inc.
9. Toys “R” Us
10. Meijer

Glassdoor Top 50 Best Places to Work for 2010

And bringing us back  around to year end 2009,  here is the Glassdoor Top 50 employers list of 2010

1. Southwest Airlines

2.  General Mills

3. Slalom Consulting

4. Bain & Company

5. McKinsey & Company

6. MITRE

7. Boston Consulting

8. Continental Airlines

9. Procter & Gamble

10.  Juniper Networks

11. Northwestern Mutual

12. Kraft Foods

13. National Instruments

14. Google

15. NetApp

16. Goldman Sachs

17. FactSet

18. Medtronic

19. Publix

20. Chevron

21. FedEx

22. Apple

23.  Edelman

24. Edward Jones

25. QUALCOMM

26. CareerBuilder

27. Novell

28. Schlumberger

29. Adobe

30. Booz Allen Hamilton

31. Scottrade

32. Sherwin-Williams

33. EMC

34. GlaxoSmithKline

35. Caterpillar

36. Turner Broadcasting

37. Paychex

38. Kaiser Permanente

39. Travelers Companies

40. Rackspace

41. Intel Corporation

42. Cintas

43. SAP America

44. Intuit

45. Best Buy

46. Harris

47. Prudential

48. Whole Foods

49. PricewaterhouseCoopers

50. Marriott

Note: All ratings are as of December 1, 2009

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