Jobs - what do you actually do?!

[Ollivander84]

You know when you ask someone what they do and they go "ooh I'm X/Y/Z" and you go oh yes lovely and then think but what do you actually do day to day?
Or is that just me? So here's a thread about what you do day to day in your job!

I interview households to gather data for official statistics about society and economy in the UK.

I use content marketing to increase the brand awareness of small and large companies in a variety of publications across the UK.

I manage a team of customer service agents who are both telephony and admin based. My days are mostly spent in meetings. My role is to measure team performance and ensure the team are meeting the business objectives.

I provide any aspect of care needed to my client and sometimes their immediate family they're usually suffering with some sort of dementia and I can do anything from personal care (washing, dressing etc) to cooking/shopping/feeding/entertaining/transporting or simply just being there to talk or provide a friendly face, no two days are ever the same and no two clients are the same. I love it!

I work with IT managers who look after restaurant chains, mostly talking and making changes to their IT systems. Sometimes I get free meals!

I contract manage substance misuse treatment services. I monitor performance and work with childrens services, maternity, mental health services, police, probation, hostels, pharmacies and GPs to make sure different interventions are in place and effective for people.

One of my favourite jokes in Friends is that none of them know what Chandler actually does and are all in too deep to ask him

I save lives

Biscuit - I get 'performance managed' from time to time.

It never ends well

I answer customer questions about a piece of software, investigate and log bugs, make configuration and other changes clients don't have access to do. It sounds just as dull as it is.

miljah Well since i quit last week it doesnt feel that good this side of the books either :)

I create bespoke cakes and cookies.

I'm a maker, so I create art and decor from beach findings.
I go to the beach most days, and spend ridiculous amounts of time scouring second hand shops for vintage frames.
I spend most weekends at craft sales, and always have rocks/seaglass/driftwood around me

I manage a portfolio of IT projects and the employees who deliver them. I also spend a lot of time on calculating new deals and trying to sell them.

That's what my job description says (and what I spend about a third of my time actually doing.) My official title is "Technology Advisory Executive".

My actual worth consists of the fact that I spend the other two thirds of my time on trying to unfuck the fuck-ups of men (and, so far, a single woman in a career spanning over a decade... 🤔) whose egos, seniority and years of experience by far exceed their skill level. My unofficial job title is Divisional Fire Chief.

Yesterday I spent the morning discussing the design of the temporary pumping set up, to replace a permanent pumping station when it goes offline for 15 months for refurbishment. The original pumps are 75 years old! It protects 2000 houses from flooding on a very frequent basis.

In the afternoon I went to site and saw the plastic pipes for the temporary pumping set up being welded together.

This morning I had a meeting with another public slot funded partner about shared work opportunities.,

This afternoon I did some online training about construction health and safety law.

I teach children to play musical instruments.

I see pregnant women for their routine antenatal check ups in a GP surgery. I also see them at home at 36 weeks and then afterwards in the postnatal period.
I book them for their maternity care, take bloods, go to home births, am on call up to 2 times a week, weigh babies, give breastfeeding advice, coordinate a team of midwives, teach antenatal classes and give hospital tours.

I project manage a series of campaigns that encourage girls to go into engineering, and advise government bodies on their talent and skills policy, specifically through universities.

I am an EFL teacher.

I decide what bit of language would be useful for people in my classes to learn next (from them telling me, me following a textbook, noticing their mistakes, or just on a whim e.g. Seasonal) and then I decide how best to teach it. I either find or make my own materials to do so and assemble them into some kind of order. Then I go to classes, either held at the language school I work at or in their companies or occasionally in their homes and I try to go through my plan, but sometimes it gets detailed as we end up chatting about a topic for too long or getting into a discussion about grammar. I have to answer questions about British culture and sometimes American, also grammar questions, it's fun. If I'm teaching children I also have to make sure they stay on task and aren't fighting with each other or trying to eat the glue or write on the table or cut electrical cables with scissors.

Lots of the classes are at odd times so the pay works out way less than the actual contracted hours due to all of the planning time, travelling time and weird dead waiting around time.

I spend millions of pound building new buildings for my clients. They ring me up, tell me their budget and I help them work out what they need. I then hire all the people we need to design the building and a contractor to build it. 2 or 3 years later I leave then happily operating their business (whatever that may be) in their new facility.

In reality I spend a lot of time in meetings, either talking about engineering details or managing client expectations about budget and time scales. This week’s hot topics were unexplored ordnance (I.e. the risk of finding a WW2 bomb on our site) and the ins and outs of construction contract law...

I do finance for a department of a university. Basically involves using finance software to raise requisitions, and purchase orders, raise invoices as well as goods receipting orders and ensuring invoices are processed for payment by central finance. Lots of budget monitoring. None of this was in my original job description and I loathe it. Aside this I work with students to get them volunteering experience, assist with community projects which involves some project management.

I should add mine
I do aftersales/customer service so basically I answer the phone and book people's cars in for various things like service/MOT or problems

I look after prisoners that have just arrived in prison that are addicted to opiates, benzodiazepines or alcohol. I detox them in a safe manner to ensure they do not die from withdrawals or suicidal ideation relating to withdrawals. I also take care of their complex physical and mental health issues. But actually the most important thing I do is hold hope that every single one of them can choose a drug free exit should they want it and do everything in my power to facilitate that when they are ready.

I have to organise getting witnesses to court.

It sounds so straightforward when I say it like that!!

I am a Lemon Cost Reduction Consultant.

I save people money by buying lemons for them at the cheapest cost possible.