If your job isn’t sedentary/office-based and you’re on a £25k+ salary...

[Kernowgal]

...what do you do for a living?

I spend my day sat in front of a computer and I hate it. I’m so bored. I’ve put on loads of weight since starting this job. I swim and walk/hike regularly outside of work but I only have a half hour lunch break so there’s no chance of a lunchtime leg stretch. Commute is 30 mins each way and no option but to drive.

I don’t mind a few hours in the office each day, but I’ve had enough of being chained to my desk. Help.

Assistant restaurant manager. 27k+

Well done @FrankiesKnuckle you do an amazing job

Railway. Platform staff are remarkably well paid, especially once dispatch competent.

I have a office type job, but my dh is a blacksmith (and makes quite a lot over £25k, which is probably not the norm for blacksmiths, but he does quite specialist work and has a very high demand client base).

I started a thread on exactly this a few days ago! There are obviously more of us out there. Sitting at a computer all day saps every ounce of energy out of me.

I work in publishing, which is desk based but I work at home and set my own hours, so lots of scope for other activities.

I'm a deputy manager for a supermarket (started out as store assistant) and although the shifts are long and tiring I do enjoy it. I can clock up 30-40K steps a day when working and earn just under 30k

@HMArsey oops, didn't see your thread! Solidarity with the desk-based misery. Link please!

Dh is a CSI. It a varied and interesting albeit gory job at time s

I used to be a wayleave officer. Part office part outside. Interesting job tbh.

I used to be a tour guide for a European tour company. I bloody loved it. Hours walking round beautiful cities and landmarks, or running around hotels getting clients' problems sorted out. Very long hours but the pay was good, Quit to have DC. Now they are almost grown I am looking at returning. I was very thin when I was a tour guide.

You could be an adviser for Citizens Advice or a housing officer for a council or housing association. There is still desk/office work but you get face-to-face contact with people and get to use your brain.

Ooh I'd quite like to be a tour guide I think!

Sports development? Lots of jobs involve running clubs and competitions, often traveling around a bit. Advertised on sportscotland website, guessing there are equivalent s elsewhere.

lorry driver. Though Id love to be a train driver

Railway.

Platform staff, train managers & onboard caterers all on their feet most of the day. Ticket office staff is a mix of sort of office based (as in being behind the ticket desk) and being more mobile selling tickets whilst walking around. None of these jobs require any previous experience nor any retraining before applying as you get trained once you are employed. All generally over £25k too (some specific roles might be slightly less depending on which train company you work for and whereabouts in the country you are).

You do have to put up work with the general public on a daily basis though which can be a huge drawback

I love the idea of being a tour guide but a friend’s mum does it and rarely gets any time off in the evenings due to having to sort people’s issues out. On the other hand, I am good with languages and actually really enjoy telling people about stuff (last role worked at a visitor attraction) so it could be a goer.

Never heard of being a wayleave officer but that sounds right up my street except for me being crap with conflict.

Swimming Teacher.

Kernogal - yes the job is sort of 24/7 when you are on the road but you do get down time between tours.

Firefighter

But you'll need to be fit as fuck, and had to get in given its a declining number of positions

Inpatient mental health nurse. I've done desk jobs and they bore me rigid. It's interesting (sometimes too interesting!) but can be very difficult and stressful as well at times.

If you didn't want to retrain you could look into being a support worker for people with learning disabilities etc, but you're probably looking at a salary of more like 15k then 25k a year.

I hate working in an office too - it's so boring! It's interesting that most people-centred jobs (with the exception of medicine) pay fairly poorly. I've thought about retraining as a psychologist or a dentist but both involve many years of study and not sure I'm up for that, so I'll just continue to be bored for now.

I totally get your feeling OP.

But sticking to realism for a minute, is there any way to improve your lifestyle without changing your career?

Switching to a job with fewer hours, moving closer to work, somewhere with a longer lunch break?

I only suggest it because my life has drastically improved since I persuaded the rest of management to cut working hours (but not pay), moved closer to work so I can walk in, regularly briskly walk to the shops for lunch, and work from home one day a week.

All without changing job!

What do you do in publishing Althea ?

Medical sales 45k at least plus car. It's hard work though