FireEyes clearly has the best job of everyone here....
I'm a research assistant at a university (grad student in a few months -- hurrah!). I think it is a pretty good job.
Love:
- getting to do research on something that interests me
- access to lots of journals and books
- setting my own hours, as many or as few as I like
- never dealing with people, if I want
- rarely have deadlines
- when a deadline exists, that feeling of triumph in doing something clever (or just working really hard) to beat it
Hate:
- when new results are slow in coming
- setting my own hours, because that often means working very few hours, which means that I am poor
- the disk failure that cost me roughly a year's worth of work