I have moments where I hate aspects of my job, but by and large it's a pretty good job. Generally the bits I hate are related to all the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with the various components of my job.

There's paperwork associated with the teaching bit. Then, when semester is over, there's paperwork associated with the research bit. Then there's paperwork associated with the grant application bit. Then there's the paperwork associated with the submission of research papers. Then there's paperwork associated with justifying your existance (they call it the academic review of performance).

I can handle all those bits generally. What really pisses me off is that they constantly "improve" it, so that as soon as you get a handle on what you need to do and are at the point where you can just copy and paste last year's paperwork (and update it), they change the paperwork.

It's almost as if these people have nothing to do and are afraid someone is going to find out, so they change things every few years to keep themselves (and the rest of us) busy.

Rant over!

James.