You’re job in a nutshell....

[MaidenMotherCrone]

Forget the job titles what is it you actually do?

I sit on my bottom for 10hrs looking very closely at things whilst listening to talking books and drinking tea 😁

I sit on my arse for 12 hours answering the phone to people who range from concerned and/or terrified about them selfs or loved ones and desperately need help, through to obnoxious entitled twats who like to shout abuse and me for asking simple questions.

Hatch, match and dispatch

Talk to people. Type things. Shred things. Sometimes I cry because there is too much talking, typing and shredding to do.

I work out how to get things where they need to go to in the most efficient & cost effective way possible.

Today I had to write notes while someone was told off for not being at work enough. They wanted to come in late and leave early. And genuinely couldn't understand why we won't accommodate this.

Tomorrow I will offer someone a job. They will hopefully accept and save me the bother of interviewing anyone else for it.

Read emails
Respond to emails
Send emails
Book travel
Book hotel
Compile a itinerary
Book meetings
Organise fundraising events
Complete invoices
Send invoices
Take calls
Drink lots of black coffee

You want to widen your motorway? Not without my soils report mate.

Reports, emails, calculations, meetings etc etc.

I make sure everyone is properly compensated for all those things the rest of you do :)

I’m on my feet from 8 until 4. I hit ten thousand steps each day by around 2pm (and I don’t walk to work!)
I smile a lot, I do a headcount of 8 A LOT, I change nappies and wet clothes and wipe up spills. I cuddle and soothe. I bounce on trampolines and gym balls. I give deep pressure. I make snacks, encourage eating and trying new foods. I fill in form after form, enter data after data. I do a lot of laminating and velcroing. I repeat myself, constantly. I make referrals, I email other professionals. I read stories, I make sensory trays. I play a lot of chase. I despair of how dirty I am by 9:30. I am everybody’s cheerleader and I lead a team of 4. I sit through many meetings. I call parents.

Somewhere in there I teach too 😁

I talk to lots of people, try to get them to talk to each other and make new friends and get stuff done (community development)

I facilitate Christmas to the middle class masses.
Without me the Stollen would not be available...

Babysitting slebs

@Worker29 are you middle class Santa???

I talk a lot and try to get smallish people to learn things. I also drink tea, sometimes I sing and tell stories, and once or twice a week I wander around a concrete square making sure the small people don’t hurt each other.

@cricketmum84 Some may very well think so!
I work for the dark green supermarket.
If there is no stollen... Christmas is ruined!

Make fine art mosaics, teach people mosaic making. Have days off when I fancy it. Walk the dog, shop cook clean load and unload the washing machine .

Ensure no one is so pissed they can’t work in addition to stopping thieves.

I run after boys. Sometimes they’re on the pitch in this cold weather playing sports, and my heels sink into the ground, or are at the arse end of the building. I am up and down from my seat answering the door to postmen, delivery drivers, visitors and parents.
I answer the phone, edit the website, send out letters, put together and edit a weekly 15 page newsletter, read reports, edit reports, print them and put together x 300. I also have to do the registers and add appointments/absences to the system.

To my dds, my job description is ‘chasing boys’ as this is what I moan about most

I sit at a desk, read/write many emails, huff & puff a lot about random stuff. Write words, correct words, make pictures to make sense of numbers. Forget passwords. Huff & puff again (bureaucracy). Laugh with my colleagues. Watch plays & be there to be seen.

Love it.

I perform role plays, stop small people hurting themselves, fill in forms, make toast, play games, attend meetings, liase with other professionals, , build confidence, teach , tidy up, laminate, tie shoe laces, apply ice packs, listen to worries, analyse data, read policies and much much more.

I do far too much admin and live in a constant state of anxiety that my job is becoming an ineffective waste of time.

Sometimes I get to crawl around on the floor playing trains with children who need me to do that!

But most of the time I sit in my office muttering "for fucksake".

Create, upload, download and generally play with spreadsheets. Read long documents, then summarise....into spreadsheets!

Very varied.

Last week I bought lots of Christmas decorations and decorated the place.
Today I answered lots of emails.
Tomorrow I'm going to start off by proofreading a magazine. Mostly removing apostrophes from the wrong places. . Then printing 200 copies.

Walk, sit, cuddle and walk some more. Try to make four legged beasts tired before the humans get back from their ‘real jobs’. Always covered in hair and slobber and always out in any weather. Yes nosey stranger in the park this my actual job and yes I do love it.