If you enjoy your job, what do you do?

Good luck to her, we are desperately short of paeds physios in the UK as its not really covered much in the undergraduate degree, so we have to be proactive in seeking out learning opportunities post graduating.

@Youstolemygoddamnhouse
It is basically someone who doesn’t have a teaching qualification but is expected to do the job of a teacher for around half of what a qualified teacher is paid! This will become more and more common seeing that teachers are currently leaving the profession in droves and people aren’t exactly queuing up to train.

This is my dream job.

@Labiabella My thoughts exactly! I taught for 20 years, I did not enjoy it towards the end. The work life balance was non existent. I don’t think I know any teacher who isn’t desperately looking to get out. There’s a group on FB with teachers, a significant proportion of whom have had suicidal thoughts desperately looking to escape teaching. The stories on there are awful! There are just under 175k members! I definitely don’t know any secondary school teacher who loves their job! Once again I’m finding MN appears to be an alternate universe!

What did you enjoy doing as a kid? Do a grown up version of that.

And do it not-full-time, seems to be key!

Social worker with 16-18 year olds leaving care, been doing it ten years in the same fantastic team.

Teens are great, although they have been through so many terrible experiences they have so much energy, humour and determination. (Plus makes looking after my own teen a walk in the park).

Marketing and community engagement in the renewables sector. I absolutely love it, work with great people, I’m constantly learning and no two projects are the same. It’s a great industry to be in. I’m agency side, not corporate, so work with a range of clients and my relationship with my business partner is brilliant. I’m super proud of what we’ve achieved.

Currently on maternity leave but was a case manager for workers compensation

Paediatric nurse, for 21 years. Still love it!

We can pre-book routine appointments 4 weeks in advance for patients at my surgery as I stated.

There are also 'urgent' on the day appointments we can offer patients when they ring at 8.30am if they cannot wait for a routine appointment - most days these are f2f where we give a time slot for patients to come down, the odd day it will be a telephone appointment with the GP and they organise a time to see the patient themselves.

As I said, our GPs are trying to go back to the way they operated pre-covid where most appts are f2f with minimal phone calls. There are very few surgeries that operate like this now, so yes I'd agree with you that ours sounds better than most.

I am a Social Work Lead, working in Adult Social Care for local authority. Absolutely love it. I supervise a small team of Social Workers and Adult Social Care Practitioners. I take the lead on Mental Capacity practice for the wider team and attend leadership meetings each week to discuss ways to support practitioners. I had 23 years of frontline practice before this role so I feel like I can share my knowledge and experience with others. Morale in the team is great and it is a happy place to work. My job has certainly not always been this rewarding so I feel very lucky to have found something I love to do.

I am a professional organizer.
I absolutely love it, everyday is different and so rewarding!

When you say unqualified what do you mean?

Solving complex problems using technology. Everyday is challenging and a learning experience and I work with brainy people who humble me.

Any famous stories? They should feel privileged to work with you as you’re the one doing all the writing.

i am unsure where you work in NI but GP appointments can’t be pre booked as far as I know. We got to ring at 8.30 to be told an hour later that all appointments are gone. Maybe you are in a better surgery. I think ours are doing their best but impossible to get an appointment.

Take a personality test (the proper ones) to see what kind of person you are in terms of your viewpoints and what you enjoy and don't enjoy - that can be quite illuminating. Also what sort of projects/tasks you have enjoyed - and also not enjoyed - in the past and why. Also consider the type of work environment you like (outdoors? Office? Different locations etc?). Do you like working with others? If so what kind of people? Do you prefer to work by yourself? If it's a split decision then why? Do you like to travel?

There are so many variables here - and the fact is that learning what other people like doesn't really help you to figure out what YOU like. Presumably you have hobbies and things you enjoy and look forward to when you are not working? Also ask yourself what you'd do for work if money were no object and you could just pick...obviously leave the "I'd like to be an Avenger" out of it - it has to be a job that people can actually do) Then consider what you'd need to be able to do to try to do that.

For my own part: I decided that if money were no object (and at the time I had none) I'd want to be a lawyer in the US who worked on important cases that made a difference - and I'd also like to have a proper student experience in the US. Again: I had no money to do this, but I figured out how...and I did it. Did it take a while? Sure. Is it a route that I'd suggest others doing? Who knows - I was lucky to meet kind poeple, I was lucky to be someone people wanted to spend time with, and I was lucky to have the moxie to just go for what I wanted to do and not be overly upset or give up when things took a bit longer or were seemingly impossible. But yup, ended up as an international trial lawyer and I LOVE my profession and I've had the best career...better than any law movies. But that was the product of a lot of thinking, a lot of considering what I wanted in life, a lot of studying and sacrifice (I worked multiple jobs - including gross ones - to be able to afford to pay my way - it was totally worth it.

So...get a better understanding of yourself and the things you like and why you lilke them. Go from there.

Do you get bonuses?

I bet you see A LOT!

Ahh sounds interesting. Can I ask how you got the job? Like any qualifications you needed? Never met anyone that is one before.

As a fellow physio this is so lovely to read! DD is following in my footsteps and starting a physiotherapy degree in September, she’s hoping to go into paeds as well so will show her your comment for a bit of pre A-level encouragement (much needed this week🙈)

Adult social services, it’s different every day. Love it

CEO of a charity, first employee over a decade ago and have grown, shaped and delivered to meet local needs

Air traffic controller. I love the job, but occasionally it can impact on my social life because it involves shift work.

School Secretary in a Primary School.
I love the variety and randomness of the job. My children are in the school too so they might pop in to say hi during the day. I love being able to help fellow Mum's when they are in a bit of a panic or if they are worried a out their child settling etc. I love the school environment, and have lots if little visitors come throughout the day to borrow bits and bobs and have a chat.
There is nothing I would rather do at the minute and would probably still do it if I won the lotto.