Is your position more of a career or a job? How many hours a week do you work?

Joanne's FAVORITE answer:

Got the poly-blend shirt with the pocket protector.
I don't care, I'll dial zero. fuck inspecta collector.
Everyday at my desk from nine to five.
Another hour goes by, another cool six fifty-five.
Yeah that's right, I clock the mad green.
You jealous? Damn straight. Now buff my car clean.

Joanne's answer:

RIGHT now, I'm working a job. Two of them. With a grand total of 8 students. Completely futile. At least I'm only working less than 20 hours week....which means I can go to Catalina on a random Wednesday (like today!). But, my next position - which starts August 6th - is definitely a career. Hopefully I don't work too much, I'm shooting for under 40 hours/week.....

And the other answers:

Career. Maybe 5 hours a week. I'm there for 40 though.

That depends on which area of responsibility we're talking about. When I teach, it feels like a career, but when I TA, it feels like a job. When I write a paper, it really feels like a career, but when I make a poster, it feels like a job. When I do my own research, it feels like acareer, but when I'm carrying out someone else's research, it feels like a job.

I would like to think that I have a career; I can't just do a job. If I can't put my heart and soul into it than it's not worth doing.

Since I'm retired, I would have to say the "job" is a career with ZERO working hours. Just love the job and highly recommend it.

Right now I have a job, but I am working on my career. I work about 32 hours a week and attend two classes during the week.

I go to work to do my job. My career was/is being a mother, a parent (they really are two different things), a wife, and a homemaker. I dreamed of nothing else growing up and I wouldn't trade it for any thing in the world. My children are why I'm still alive. If not for them, I would have ended my life back in my 30's. They saved me and it's possible they don't even know it. The love we share, although tough at times, is the most precious thing in the world to me. I work 40 hours a week at my job and every minute of every day of every week of every year at my career.

My job is a job and I'm now going to school for my "career." I work about 25 hours a week and then go to school another 25 a week.

c'mon... I'm a teacher... of course its a career... in the fall, I have 6 classes so I will be in class teaching for 20 hours per week, but that says nothing of everything else involved (including prepping for a class I've never taught before) which I'm estimating to be between 20 to 40 additional hours of "working".

Definitely a career at this point. Theres no way i would put up with this if it was just a job!

My position is neither a job nor a career. I work 0 hours per week. On the up side, I have an interview for a copywriting position with Macy's Home Stores tomorrow.

oh goodness. Well, since they have me working 65 hours this week, I better dang well consider this my career!

Career…I work morning noon and night… Well over 75 hrs per week. I work weekends and holidays… I don’t even get sick time, personal time or vacation. This stupid laptop is stuck to my side like a bad habit.

Hmmm...in my first year as a grad student, I'd probably say it was a career, even though it is short-term. But, now, I think I would consider more of a job. Long hours, little motivation, crappy wages...yup, definitely a job.

I suppose its a career, if only because I can't answer the second part of the question. I'm not really sure where "job" stops and "hobby" begins.

Right now I have a job. I think you have to want to continue to do it for a while if you call it a career. I know what I want my career to be, I just can't find it in Portland. I work about 45+ hours per week. Sometimes a lot more, sometimes a little less.