I hate timesheets! i’m an engineer and we have to bill every second. Ha! my boss does the same thing with memos.

As a classical musician, I’ve never worked in an office! The part of my job I love? Performing, and watching my students perform after so much hard work.

I really dislike phone calls in general — conference calls and client chats — that was much more of a problem at my old job than my new one, thankfully!

I love data work and number crunching, but I need to balance it with human interaction and some mindless work or I go nuts!

I’m an engineer too, and we had to account for every minute to bill to the clients. I didn’t mind that part though. The office had free starbucks coffee and teas though. I miss that!

i HATE billing and timesheets HATE HATE HATE! Luckily I have many aspects of my job that allow me to be creative and those are my favorites 😉

p.s. also avoid the phone at all costs – HATE IT!

I hate taking notes–some weeks, it’s all I seem to do! And memos are pretty loathsome too, I know exactly what you mean–at my current job it takes three people a week to OK a memo, by which time the issue has been resolved!

Report prep! My job is ALL about the reports. It’s not just the hour long meeting during which the reports are presented – it’s the prep-work and the action-items from that meeting that’s the work!

I hate presentations… they are the worst!! I actually don’t mind meetings and conference calls because I feel like they break up the day. however 5 in one day is a lot to handle! you’ll do great i’m sure!

I’ve never worked in an office…but I think giving presentations would make me a nervous wreck!

Good luck with all your conference calls!

Cold calling. Blech. It’s tantamount to telemarketing in that calling people that don’t know you is intrusive and usually met with indignation.

Yay for the return of french toast!!

I don’t mind any of the above, but I always get a little bit nervous before conference calls, especially since I take them on behalf of the president of the company (my dad) and sometimes have to deal with big issues or orders.

I really like conference calls, since it let’s me connect with my peers, I have one at least every Monday. I despise counting tills – really I’m always thinking isn’t there something WAY more important to do.

I’m SO glad I don’t have to cold call. I don’t think I’d survive!

I love interacting with the attorneys in my firm. While some are a little frustrating, most are very nice, intelligent and personable colleagues.

I hate being on the phone, just not a phone person!

Cold calling is the worst! I don’t mind calling our existing clients to set appointments or things like that but I despise cold calling.

I just wanted to say that your idea of adding ground flax to french toast is a great one! I’m definitely trying that! Good luck with your conference calls 🙂

ugh, I absolutely loathed cold calling clients! If I was lucky I’d get to leave a voicemail, but I always dreaded calling people for fear that I’d have to give my spiel to someone who had no interest whatsoever in what I HAD to say!

glad those days are over 🙂

Cold-calling clients! I have a phoebia about using the phone in my cube and having other people hear me talk..is not good!

Have a great day at work!!

I work at a law firm as a paralegal so I have to account for EVERY minute of my day. I HATE that. I also don’t like talking to clients that don’t want to pay their bills. My favorite thing is when a lawyer or client calls and I can answer his/her question right away and they seem happy at the response.

I’m a TV editor – I play around with videos and edit them together, all day… So I have never done anything from your list! 🙂
What I like to do the most in my job is importing or digitizing footage – digitizing to get familiar with the material I have and see all the bloopers and watch the actors do their thing, and importing because that’s when the computer does the work by itself and I can have a small break 🙂
The part I don’t like – tight deadlines that are often unreasonable… Never having a break, except for the 5 minute trip to and from the microwave to heat up my lunch, and the importing time 🙂 Also the fact that I have to look for a new job at the end of each project… Which is pretty much once a year…

From your list, if I worked in an office, I think the phone would be what I liked the least – I hate not seeing the person I am talking to – it’s awkward 🙂

If I had to do it, I would hate cold calling the most, but fortunately my job doesn’t involve that. My least favorite part of my job is conference calls. I swear some of the people I conference call sound like bumble bees eating sandwiches when I hear them through the phone!

I’ve never had an office job but I would hate the presentations the most as I HATE public speaking.

But I love my job. I work at an afterschool program and I have kindergaten and 1st graders and I love them to death (most of them haha). Who wouldn’t love getting to play dodgeball with kids and getting paid for it?!

Sorry about your 5 conference calls 🙁 that’s a LOT!!

I hate cold calling, although in my last job it was actually cold walking-into-a-business, lol.

I’m a stay at home mom, so my least favorite job task is probably sweeping the floor and picking up scattered Legos! However, if I had a “real” job, I’d HATE cold calling. I’m not a phone person and I’m pretty timid; I don’t like calling to bother/ask people for things.

I am an RN. I work night shift, so my least favorite part of my job is when I have to call doctors at night – they can be sooo cranky! My favorite parts are getting to know my patients and doing certain skills, like IVs and blood draws – I am getting pretty good. 😉

I am a lawyer and hate almost every single aspect of my job, but the most obnoxious:
If you ask for some advise on how to do an assignment, you’re belittled: “You’re asking for help? You want me to spoonfeed it to you? You can’t figure it out?!”

And if, instead, you take initiative and go ahead and try something yourself?
“This is so wrong. So wrong. Why would you do this? This is NOT how you do it.”

Story of my life. You cannot win.