Love your job? | Achieving job satisfaction is a two-way street - staff at all levels need to play their part

There's a scene in Friends where Monica mocks Rachel, saying 'I love Ross... I hate Ross...'. It's one that stuck in my mind when I thought about our love/hate relationship with work, too. We are often either smitten or ready to resign - a constant see-saw, often involving moaning about our manager or company.

Whatever level we work at, and whatever we do, there won't be a week that goes by (or even a day or hour) when we don't say something about not liking where we work, or moaning about a task we've been set, or a particular colleague.

Conversely, some of us might be so wedded to work that we are all-consumed by our role, and bore friends at the weekend as we 'go on and on' about work, our boss we get on with, or how we are so glad we work there.

It's a bit like relationships, to return to that Friends scene - we are either in love or in hate.