If you enjoy your job, what do you do?

I agree. I love working with young people. I’m in a great school, with nice colleagues, which helps!

Suspicious in what way?
I know a lot of teachers find it very difficult these days but in the right setting with the right leadership it can be the best career in the world.
sadly those “right” settings are like gold dust these days.

Retired now, I worked for a building society manager, took a few years off when children were pre school. DH worked in sales for a tissue paper manufacterer. In our early 30s, we sold our house, moved and opened a high street picture framer and gallery which we ran together for 30 years. It had its moments, especially during times of rent increases, but we never had a day where we dreaded going in to work, and we often worked 7 days a week. Go self employed is my advice.

I'm a nurse therapist, working in a pilot to establish better trauma services for children in the care system. I love my job, though it has it's stressful moments.

I'm a librarian!

Love this-I'm more or less the same except I own a small business in the beauty sector and now I'm near retirement I make sure that it operates round my hobby of dog training, first and foremost by employing a couple of part time staff. I do 12 hrs fixed work a week - rest is mine to juggle. In another life I'd have been an animal behaviourist.

I worked in investment banks for years and at 58 started a job as medical admin in a private secondary school. I love it - the kids are such fun and engaging and the staff are generally lovely. It's in the countryside and is a beautiful location very happy here. Money is shit though!

I'm a Librarian. I work in a gorgeous library in a very good (state) Secondary school and I absolutely love it. Of course there are days that are tough and parts of the job that i don't enjoy but the young people I work with give me such energy and a great deal of satisfaction.

Academic qualifications are quite low (currently five GSCEs at Level 4 and over, two of which must be in Maths and English, although many controllers have degrees). Aptitude is what matters, e.g., high levels of concentration, problem solving skills, ability to cope with pressure.

Once accepted for training (which is not a walk in the park) it takes three years to qualify.

I've had quite a few jobs, but the one just before ghosting was journalism. It used to be the case that a lot of journalists ghosted at the same time as being on full contracts at newspapers. That happens less now with the decline in print media but it has flooded the market to some extent as many of them have moved over to ghostwriting as their main job.

I always have to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for anyone famous - or who thinks they are! To be honest, the real pleasure comes from 'ordinary' stories. I've worked with some amazing people and they're the projects I love most.

It’s definitely a world away from ours. Good on you all!

You haven't mentioned if your trapped by salary requirements, OP.
Could you afford to change jobs to these other options?
Stressful responsible need-soft-skill jobs often come with high salaries that people become dependent on.

Foreign/Defence Policy in the CS. Did a v. brief stint as a diplomat (one posting) before I jacked it in and decided that home-work suited me and my passion was elsewhere (aka I wanted to own lots of dogs).

DH is still a diplomat. He loves it.

I find it suspicious how so many replies are teachers saying they love their job 🤔

I work for a local charity that works at stopping loneliness and isolation in the elderly through friendship. We organise regular social activities and match up volunteers with those who are housebound.
it’s a job of joy as the benefit and change is immense, I love it.

Talent agent running my own agency

NHS podiatrist, - mainly the high risk foot specialist but also do nail surgery

Very rewarding job overall, it can be hard and there are not enough of us. I work in a great team of people. I am sure it is one of the best jobs in the NHS. (And a very underrated career, if I had a pound for every time someone asked why did I choose feet as a career I would be millionaire)

How did you get into this?

Veterinary Nurse - work in referral rather than general practice and I love it 🙂

I'm station staff on London Underground (TfL). Customers sometimes do stupid things and the railway politics 😒 but 99% of the time I enjoy it. Very well paid, very good team, lots of perks.

Regulatory policy manager in essential infrastructure. It is really interesting - I spend a lot of time trying to untangle and solve knotty policy issues and there is a lot of job satisfaction in solving problems that are impacting people and also ensuring essential serives get built and maintained.

Primary school TA, absolutely love working with children.

I build aeroplane. I trained as an aircraft mechanic but I've moved my focus to the carpentry side of things (we're building seaplanes out of wood and composite) and I enjoy it, although I feeling a bit stressed now because I'm suddenly responsible for the carpentry work (as our carpenter left) and for training our new workers when I've only been here 6 months.

Our surgery definitely operates like this (the one I attend), and even better, there isn't the crazy panic trying to get through at 8.30. Can message them for an appt anytime from 7am onwards, and from 8 they start going through them and call you with an appointment. I have messaged as late as 3pm and still got an appointment same day. Calling is still also an option for those who cant message