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 write policies telling a bank how it should be governed and how it should be managing its risks. Then I check whether the bank is following those policies

I look at a screen or read long things and summarize. I placate adults who don't always act like adults and I sometimes decide the answer. I act very pleasant while being aghast at some things that people paid much more than me do to people they work with.

I spend my days looking for errors in other people's work. And trying to convince lots of "worried well" people that they don't need antibiotics/ GP visit/ A&E for whatever minor cough or cold is troubling them.
And trying to convince people who do have significant medical issues that they really should take the meds prescribed to them even though they're a different brand to the one they got last month and no I'm really not trying to poison them......
(Pharmacist)

Very similar to AmmoniteMum currently on Mat leave but otherwise making 3D models of what’s under the ground and using these to figure out where best to drill holes, then making sure the holes end up where we really want them. Day to day mainly reading and responding to e-mails, attending meetings and wondering whether if I read every corporate communication and attended every meeting if I’d actually do any of my own work at all...

I think I try and make people's' working lives better and resolve petty differences of opinion while introducing new & innovative ideas to improve morale & decrease attrition. Others think I wear a black cloak and carry a scythe....

(HR)

I sit on my arse for 6 hours a day hoping I don't see anything nasty!

Ensure planes have what they need to take off

@coughingbean Whoaaa.... Have you ever thought of doing a thread on AMA? I for one would love to ask a few questions!

Sit in a little room all day seeing a stream of pregnant women at various stages. Sometimes I stick needles in them. I make sure they are well and their babies are growing and offer moral or practical support as far as I can. I squeeze extra women in to ensure continuity. I often don’t get a drink or get to eat lunch.

Then I come on mumsnet and read how community midwives are useless and don’t do anything and I die a little bit inside

I stop people from going to jail, manage a team of 20 people who quite often want to kill one another, present internally and externally on new legislation and currently trying to prepare the business for the Conservatives major fuck up - Brexit. I actually do love my job

Lawyer working for a fortune 500

As I say to DD

‘Mummy takes pictures of babies inside their mummy’s tummies and checks to make sure that they are doing OK’

In the day I talk to people with very expensive cars and arrange servicing, MOTs and diagnostic fault work

At night I drive around and go into peoples homes and make food, drinks, bath them, hoist them, give medication, change them and anything else that needs doing

Jaguar Land Rover after sales
Home carer/support worker

I select the correct people for any given job (and that includes me)

I head up the research division of a company

I spend my days getting bitten, scratched and headbutted while singing songs and painting. Also lots of running is involved when we have an escape. All for minimum wage.

Forgot to say I'm a special need classroom assistant and love my job most of the time.

I decide if someone can build something in their own back garden or not.

Chicken or beef?

I read through large piles of information then summarise it to the clients who generally do not read a word (title checker for a Conveyancers).

I answer two phones and deal with the public and manage personalities. I bring cake, try to keep everything running smoothly, act as an ear to colleagues.

Some days are crazy (yesterday!). Other days I can do my grocery shopping. We would all prefer a happy medium but it doesn't work like that in our trade. Booking is not essential!

I write advice for the people that run the country, also write their speeches (the non political parts) answer questions put by other MPs and generally sort problems so that necessary bits of legislation are passed.

I get sent lots of information. I have to rewrite and package it up to make it more interesting and then try and get journalists to write about it.

I listen to people who decided to have children together fight over who gets to spend time with their children now they have separated. Sometimes I get to meet the children of the above parents who tell me how much they just want their parents to grow up and get along with each other and stop using them as piggy in the middle.

I sit around all day in the homes of the very rich and famous, occasionally handing out medications and soothing words, liaise with half a dozen doctors about nothing, read the newspapers, eat, drink tea, and try not to look too bored.

I love this thread - particularly the post from the retired anaesthetist!

I dress up in an 18th century wig and robes, and stand around arguing all day.

I dress up in an 18th century wig and robes, and stand around arguing all day. Georgian transvestite re-enactor?