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My job is not important and would not say I'm proud in the slightest. It's a joke of a job. Anyone with an IT degree can do what I do and ultimately, it makes me sad/mad that I can't think of what else to try.

My job isn't important, but I make good money and my work-life balance is excellent. I get to spend time with my wife, my kids, and my cats. So I'm good with it.

I've never been able to picture myself at an important job. I don't know what that would be.

I work somewhere that makes measuring/inspection/imaging sort of equipment that has a rather wide variety of uses, so I get somewhat mixed feelings when it comes to pride. Sometimes it'll get announced that NASA is buying our stuff to inspect their space probe for defects and I'll be proud of it, and other times it'll be like a coal mine ordering it and I'll feel disappointment. On the whole I think its generally a net positive, but it's not something truly crucial for society and more a thing that makes a whole lot of different stuff slightly easier or more efficient.

I do work that I love and find rewarding, I continue to create systems I am very proud of, and I work for a company I have high respect for that makes products I believe in.

I can't think of any work I'd do for free, those are called hobbies.

Important? No. I write open source software for a living, but have been partly railroaded into a corporate project that sucks the joy out of work.

Proud? Fuck no!

Researcher. Important? Kind-of, I work in a supposedly very important biomedical research area but my position itself is not that important due to a variety of reasons...

Am I proud? Hell no. I'm only staying because I get paid enough (especially since I lived on near-poverty income for 5 years and below-average for another...). I'd disappear the moment I have a better opportunity, or if my paycheck is gone. This is position-specific though, I don't mind working the same job as long as a few small things change

I do maintenance at a telescope and occasionally fill in as telescope operator. It doesn't pay great but the work has been fulfilling. A telescope operator recently quit and they implemented a temp salary (removing my overtime) without discussing the numbers first and ended up putting me at the bottom of a lower pay scale. I thought I was stuck but eventually complained and got reverted back to hourly, but they screwed me out of 200+ hours of overtime because "I didn't complain soon enough and therefore that is the same as me accepting that salary". I'm going to quit soon because I don't work for free.

Im a teacher so yes. Do I still eagerly await retirement? Yes.

Im not working but when I have I did believe it was important and Im not sure proud is the right word but I did manage to not work anywhere were its like eeewwww about what my company does.

Is it important? Important enough for me to be considered vital and not get to work from home during the pandemic.

Am I proud to do it? No. I'm tired. I'm tired of doing it in a nation that can't provide me with all the perks that citizens of other first world countries get for contributing their time and energy to their societies.

I work with data collection and reporting on students and teachers and the job is both important and I am proud to do it. The data are used for funding, makes continuing services when moving between schools and districts smoother, shows progress or a lack of progress on some educational goals, and my part in the process is ensuring it is collected and is reported in a way that matches the intended collection. I have worked in the same agency for almost two decades but have hoped around the various areas and amd the go to person if someone doesn't know who to ask.

I also get pulled into the more difficult projects, such as our rework of the agency website so we can meet accessibility requirements and the information is kept up to date and cleaned out when it is no longer relevant. Keeping projects from being derailed is something I am apparently really good at. My current position is a project manager, the good kind that keeps things moving so everyone else can do their job and spreads the credit around.

No, but yes.

In the greater scheme of things? No, my work probably isn't that important. Within the company, though, I'm helping make our manufacturing processes more efficient and/or safer. It's very gratifying to make other people's jobs easier so that they can go home at the end of the day without being so exhausted or in pain from manual labor.

Nope and I’m not.

Its not important at all. My job brings no value to the betterment of humanity. But in private i hope i can develope some free software to better ppls lives ^^

I haven't had a job that should exist since I was a tutor in college. Every position since then was either a fake busywork job, or tech support for people in fake busywork jobs. =/

My dad is a long retired school superintendent. He was able to convince a small community to greatly upgrade their education system.

After he retired he worked (for almost nothing) to help school boards from poorer counties do the same.

He helped lot of people.

I'm unemployed!

It's important that someone is unemployed. Who else will politicians have to point at as an example of a failure?

I'm proud to be unemployed and alive. It sure does suck when you get judged as being a useless piece of shit by virtually everyone, even though the number of bullshit jobs grows.

Yes, and yes.

No

I work in the auto industry but my product is a luxury device that not many people care or know about

I used to work on human interface devices likeinstrument panels and radios and displays and it was more satisfying to see me products in the wild

Yup. Psychiatric nurse. I think the field needs a lot of advancements and a lot of the tools I have are barbaric but I'm doing the best I can with what I have and trying to contribute to my field by teaching and pushing for advancements.

My job as a graphic designer was mostly selling other people's overpriced crap. No, it wasn't important, but I did enjoy doing it, and I was occasionally proud of what I produced. But, the end purpose for my product was nothing to be proud of.

I had talent and I made a living with it. There are much worse ways to make a living. Fortunately, I retired before AI slop took over. I can only imagine what the job is like now.

I think my job is unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but sort important to the company and at least at the end of the day I got something done.

I do enjoy my job the hard days go by fast and usually feel like we accomplished something. The easy days I can fuck around or work on projects I find interesting. Most days I learn something new at the very least so that's good.

I'm sure I could make more somewhere else but I make enough as it is and somewhere else I'd probably have to work a lot harder on less interesting stuff.

Not important but I help make the world a slightly better place and I'm proud of how good I am at it. Moreover, I enjoy it, it pays well, and it's on the schedule I prefer.

I know my job is very important and I'm proud of my work. That said, I'm also burnt out.

Yes and yes, for probably quite small and insignificant values of yes.

I am a locksmith and I would say my job is somewhat important and I'm somewhat proud to do it. The world would continue to run without me specifically at my job but having people who can manage large key systems and mechanical security is important. It also gives me enough satisfaction to feel good about what I do. When I am able to repair things and prevent things from ending up being thrown out is when I feel most proud of what I do. When I feel least proud is when we do work for companies that are involved in making weapons for the US military but that's rare and I am not in a position at my company to decide who we do and don't do business with.

I set orthopedic patients up with a piece of equipment that prevents scar tissue buildup. While this is helpful to their recovery, what I find most important is the way I can help some patients with their anxiety about their surgery through soft skills I didn't know I had prior to this job.

What they don't realize is how much helping them helps me. It gives me a sense of purpose and meaningfulness. I get to help people get their mobility back. Mobility is freedom. After watching my dad slowly lose his mobility later in life, this allows me to help other people in a way that I could never help my dad. I know what that means for them even if my patients don't fully.

If I won the lottery, I'd still want to do this job or something like it that allows me to feel this way.

I'm happy with the work I do—I find it rewarding personally and the inkling of a possibility that it might be useful one day for any number of biological applications is exciting.

Unfortunately, I am entirely replaceable, compensation is meh for the level of education, and society as a whole does not place much value in basic sciences so career prospects are bleak (and this was BEFORE the current administration).

I'm in tech sales as a SE. So it's definitely not important. I've been in this job for almost a decade and as an engineer I hate the sales process. I have been skating by for a vast majority of my time in the job simply doing what I need to to "answer the mail." My customers like me and know I'll do what they need when they need it, but I'm not banging on doors to make the sale. The account has been successful the entire time I've been working it and my company pays me buckets of money. I think I'm proud of my work-to-income ratio but not of anything I actually do as part of the job.

I answer some emails, sit on calls while playing video games, and point people at other people to get answers. It's mindless and boring and I'll do it as long as they'll let me.

No, I don't. The company I work for, likes to make it seem like it is important. But, we're a generation away to a point where all and every stores will be so autonomously ran, that we're all just disposable at that expense.

I'm a crane operator, if we still got the wages people would get 15 years ago and all the required paperwork it would feel important.

But now it's just a: "hey guy, go try it out...see how it goes" and if it goes well you get to stay...for the same wage and no official paperwork to prove you're capable and as such no opportunity to do the same at a new employer and maybe build up your wage.

It's a bit if a run on ramble, but yeah... that's how I feel, after 30 years of trying to save money, increase my skills and wage, not owning a car to save on costs and doing everything on a bicycle up to 40km a day and still not being able to buy a house...I'm ready to throw in the towel

n o o o o o o o . . . and it makes me want to die. society is crumbling and i'm getting chewed out about TPS reports.

No and a little.

I get paid well, I work from home, and we take every other Friday off because we can. But the work itself isn't groundbreaking, though I don't hate it or anything.

Yes, many local businesses depend on me on a daily basis