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 tread the path between life and death. I give permission to the dying to let go and sit with the bereaved as they grieve. I negotiate with the family as they work out how to honour their loved one and hold it all together as families who barely speak try and make sense of strong emotions in 30 mins at the crem.

I commend the souls of babies, grannies, mums, and the forgotten with love.

I also do a lot of paperwork and try not to get cross with those who says that vicars only work one day a week.

I will be very busy over Christmas.

missmouse101 we work for the same organisation. I'm office based though.

I’m a chartered surveyor

I help people who have just come out of hospital or have had a long term illness regain independence and get back on their feet.

I answer questions all day long. I spend a lot of time making plans which often go out the window within minutes. I cross reference everything I do with a syllabus or curriculum and my performance management targets influence my daily work. I spend a lot of time standing at the photocopier and using way too much paper. I also spend a lot of time reading articles and other people's resources (which I then "steal" for my lesson plans) a large portion of my time is spent reading student work. This takes longer than i ever plan because I can't really read all of it! Then I spend a proportion of time following up on poorly done and missed work which is a total pita when I could be marking or planning instead!

I also spend more time than you'd think just chatting to kids, catching up with parents, emailing concerns, answering queries.

Busy but mostly good!!

I'm an accounts administrator. I spend my days checking timesheets, logging annual leave, doing payroll, running reports, filling in spreadsheets that shouldn't need to be filled in because that's what the reports are for and then half the week paying subcontractor invoices.
I spend a lot of time answering the phones and door. They're really long days. Really, really long.

I listen to stories about the weekend, I admire pictures drawn for me. I offer tissues for snotty noses and I correct grammar and English when slang is used. I encourage independence and a love of reading. I support numeracy development and referee arguments. I take collective worship and explain algorithms. I dance to baby shark and laugh at myself and my many mistakes. I receive many hugs and I offer kind words of encouragement. I give pastoral officers my children’s old coats so they can be passed to the families who have nothing. I have bananas in my drawer for those who haven’t had any breakfast. And I smile and and I am constant and my boundaries are clear.

I work for a national charity which has lots of local branches.

My job is to hold each branch to account using a set of standards covering their governance and financial management etc. If they don't meet the standard I tell them exactly what they need to do and refer them for support. I provide informal support.

I also keep an eye on our standards to make sure they're the best they can be whilst staying realistic. I write guidance to help the charities meet the standards without taking too much resource from service delivery.

I do lots of performance reporting and capacity planning, as everyone is trying to do more with less.

I manage a team of other people who do the same job as me.

I'm a masters student
I'm a private tutor
I write content for websites.
It. Does. Not. End...

I conduct non religious funerals.

I help people to get out of bed, give them a wash (shower, bath or sponge wash), make their breakfast, give them their meds. Come back a few hours later to make lunch, give them meds. Come back a few hours later to make their tea, give them meds. Come back a few hours later to help them undress and get into bed, give them meds.

I'm a carer in a supported living complex.

I receive referrals then meet people in their own homes and ask them lots of questions about their finances and family/health circumstances. I advise them on their options to help them get out of debt, increase their income or learn to budget. I advise about benefit changes. I make A LOT of phone calls on behalf of clients. I help people decipher letters, debt and court paperwork. I make outward referrals to other agencies. I manage and support people through debt management schemes and bankruptcies making sure we submit the correct paperwork and that option is right for them and their circumstances. I ensure they do any follow up work required and encourage people to pay their ongoing liabilities (bills). I write up a lot of casework, always cover my back and use an online diary to manage my appointments. I sometimes attend conferences or training where I meet people working in the free sector and also those who charge for debt advice.

I work nights as a Senior Carer in a Dementia home. Love my job no bosses around.

Proofreader for an engineering firm.

Year 3 primary school teacher

Part-time Senior Library Officer 16 hours pw. Also self-employed devising and delivering creative workshops for schools, colleges etc

Sit at my desk and count the hours until my slow and painful demise.

I run my very own small charity. I have a lot of support as well due to my sn but I love to learn and grow and I get bored very easily, so I have to find some creative ways to keep going.

I am in Vietnam at the moment and just organized a dental education and treatment program. The program was to teach children with special needs how to take care of their oral health, what to eat and what not to eat, how to brush their teeth, etc. The dentists then screamed them all and carried out the work on about 80% of them. I am visually impaired, Ha ha ha, so I can't fix teeth, but I like to learn about what I'm doing, so one of the dentists work with me and so to meet all of the material they use when they do a feeling, clean teeth, showed me all of the diseases and treatments in Vietnamese so I know what they are, she also showed me what products are being used for babies and for other people with special needs in Vietnam. In Europe, for example, in some clinics where patients have autism and can't Stand the sensation of a toothbrush, they might use the silicone thing you put on your finger. Here, they use gauze. I learned by doing things, so the dentist made me practice cleaning my own teeth with the gauze. During the treatment, I was the entertainer for the kids a lot of the time so they wouldn't distract the dentist. I had to prepare something to say during the oral health program, and I also helped to pass out the dental kits.

I am quite good at research, and because I wish to do more programs like this, I have also been looking for other charities that do this type of work in Southeast Asia. I am also searching for grants and continuing to grow my knowledge. I am also trying to find some students who want to sign medical products who may be able to help to create some additional products for people with special needs specifically for dental care. In August, I attended a conference for disability and oral health, and one of the dentists there is making material for blind. So I am also testing things for her, telling how can she improve and what patients might want except truck. Since I speak nine languages, I am going to use my skill to translate some of the guys she has made and also to help with some country specific recommendations. Peoples diets very, depending on the country, so sometimes you can recommend, people shouldn't eat a certain type of food, etc. in the countryside in Vietnam, although people can't get access to dental care, they don't have access to a lot of junk food, so they don't have as many dental problems as somebody living in the city for example. I hope that makes sense.

I teach Maths to people who never thought they were any good at it. Mostly they find they can actually do, and even enjoy, it.

I download electronic mail to our system, and also scan physical letters into it. Then I check the details of the patient named on each letter, check where it's come from and what it's about. Enter a special code for each item on the letter (eg an ECG, broken bone, cancer diagnosis, mental health wellbeing score). Decide how important the letter is in terms of immediate action required. Either save the letter on to the patients electronic records, or forward it to the patients GP for attention.
While I'm in the patients records I also make sure all the right things are flagged, eg recalls for diabetes, cancer screenings, and that diagnoses/treatments have been correctly coded, as that is the basis on which we are paid by the govt.

I'm a clinical coder for a GP surgery 

I'm a problem solver.
I'm a corporate parent to twenty teenagers and advocate for them regarding accommodation, health, education, legal stuff and all manner of personal things and hopefully help them towards a successful adulthood.

I look after poorly little people, mostly babies but some older children. Giving them medication, monitoring them, feeding and changing them, setting up infusions of drugs or fluids, alerting others to their needs, reassuring their families, attending meetings, working out how to safely get them home and teaching their parents how to care for them, teaching students and junior colleagues, trying not to cry, sometimes saving lives and sometimes helping them to have the best death possible, doing all of this while having an in-depth conversation about paw patrol characters. Doing all of this for more than 13hrs and sometimes realising at the end of it that I haven't had time to sit down, eat, drink or go to the toilet. Most days leading a team, dealing with many incompatible requests for patients to go home, be admitted, move rooms, go to other departments for tests when I have no staff available to take them, listen to everyone complain, answer a million phone calls, wonder how to safely staff the next shift and the one after that, answer questions like how do I microwave this naan bread!, clean all the things and make sure it is documented that they have been cleaned, keep smiling and try and make sure my team are smiling more than they are crying. It is exhausting but I love it (well, some days I hate it but most of the time I love it)

By day I'm a TA. By night I'm a copywriter for DH's digital marketing company.

I translate books, teach other people to translate books and write books about how to translate books.