Compare your job to mine

[thetwinkletoescollective]

So I don't know if everyone works like this or if I have a completely warped sense of what people achieve in a day.

It is a middle management responsible job that requires post grad qualifications and so the remuneration is good.

• I have so many aspects to my job that the expectation to be on it and across it all is impossible in reality

-The culture is one that overtime is not called overtime - its just expected. -I hardly ever get a lunch break/break -Whatever I intend to do always gets bumped as unexpected things that you could never plan for happen that require immediate attention.

Do other people get to the end of their working day and just feel simultaneously exhausted from not stopping all day and frustrated - as the workload only seems to increase?

Do you get actual breaks in your day or do you get paid to focus on more or less the same sort of work each day?

Do you have such a diverse remit and impossible targets to reach?

This is not a 'I'm busier than you post' but a genuine question of is this usual or unusual?

Im in a similar position, apart from the good money! It's horrible. I love the job but the relentless, conflicting expectations are draining.

Apart from the need for qualifications and the good wages, sounds like Policing.

Many aspects to my job and it’s also impossuble to be on top of it all.

Overtime is paid as we clock in/out.

We are sent on breaks in rotation dependant on shift.

My job is definitely reactive.

Yes - exhausted after 4am starts and a 10 hour shift.

Breaks as above - your boss is breaking the law if you do not get your breaks - they are a legal entitlement.

Diverse remit and targets to reach.

Your days sound much like mine.

Exhausted and frustrated
No real breaks as there's something that has to be done.
Impossible deadlines.

So much work that it spills into the evenings and weekends.

OP do you work for a LA?

This is really interesting - thank you all for replying.

Amazing isn't it. These kind of feelings make you think you are isolated but actually we are often all struggling with similar stuff.

I don’t imagine many management jobs get paid overtime, it is just what is expected when you are salaried.

I love my job so I get huge job satisfaction, which is priceless, the salary is not very good, I work p/t and the FTE would be around £17.5k. I am at the fortunate stage in life when money is not my main motivator, (except for saving for old age ). What’s important to me is having lots of autonomy and the feeling that I am making a contribution to society.

It is public sector.

I used to but I left. I now have a job where I work incredibly hard and sometimes very long hours but it is noted and appreciated and if I go back to my boss and say I'm struggling she'll help me work out what I can drop. In my previous role they said they cared but I never had any control ad the work got on top of me. I'm very happy now.

I spend a good 75% of my time at work firefighting - just reacting to stuff that crops up. There's no time to be especially proactive - it's all reactive. And I eat a sandwich or a salad at my desk. I told my boss the other day that I was going to go crazy and have a half-hour lunch break and he said sadly "I remember lunch breaks".

@fin I agree! That’s what I was thinking too

My day can be mentally and physically exhausting.

It can be the most heart warming and devastatingly heart breaking job ive ever known.

Sometimes we just about manage to throw down our throats. 10 hoir days. Overtime unpaid and time off in lieu impossible to take.

I have post-graduate qualifications but not required for this job. Im retraining and its intense.

I make just above minimum.wage

I love my job and couldn't do anything else.