What job do you do ?

[silvercosmopolitian]

Looking for some career change inspiration. So just wondered , what job do you do, and do you enjoy it ?

I am nurse, I work in children's mental health and undertake assessments for children who may have ASD or ADHD. I'm part time, WFH most days due to pandemic. Love my job.

I'm a small cog in university admin. I returned to the workplace after years as a SAHM/little bits of freelance work because I missed being with people (over the age of 5) on a regular basis...except I started in April 2020...

The job isn't what I expected (or what the description outlined) and I'm doing a lot more PA type work, which I'm starting to loathe, rather than the comms I was hired for. But its permanent, the hours fit well for my family and I've got decent line managers so can't complain too much!

I am doing a PhD in Psychology and I teach Psychology at university. I really love it, although it is tough especially swapping between the role of student and university lecturer.

I'm a project assistant for a medical company that deals with clinical trials. I worked in a lab before which I miss some of the time but at least I can work from home where I am now.

I'm a funeral arranger. Money's not the greatest but extremely rewarding job. No two days the same and I meet some wonderful families.

Youth worker- love it.

Lightsideofthemoon, are the people you work with fairly high functioning? I worked with adults with a learning disability and never again. I was spat at, kicked, punched, hair pulled out in fairly large quantities, hot drinks thrown in my face and obviously scalded and more. Just when the client mix was good some moved away and the ones in their place were much different in ability and extreme behaviour was the result.

I'm an Agile Project Manager which is fun. Work with lovely people and a great company currently working on a IoT project which is fascinating. I wfh permanently.

I did a workshop with a career change company recently which was really good. Their website has lots of stories you can read for inspiration here: www.careershifters.org/success-stories/ Really quite interesting to see people talking about being desperate to leave jobs or industries you'd think would be amazing to work in.

I'm an operating department practitioner in the NHS.
Love my job, love the variety, love watching surgery, like the surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and fellow ODPs.
Hate the short staff, and current pressures trying to reduce waiting lists since covid all while running on too few staff. Pay isn't great for what responsibilities we have, and I hate that I don't really fit in there but that's a personality thing, not a job thing.

Oh and the theatre HCAs, obviously! I like them too!

MP Caseworker. I like it, it’s different every day dependent on which cases come through. I accompany the MP on constituency visits and advice surgeries and it helps that the MP I work for is really easy going and we have a good team who all get on and have a laugh daily.

Too outing and I cba to name change :)
Loving reading about other people's jobs though.

I'm a freelance translator and do language teaching on EU projects in the local schools when they do them. I love the translation work as it's interesting getting to read documents of all kinds (scientific, legal, historical...) and it's flexible so I can mostly stay home with my daughter. The projects I like because I love working with the kids and because they are really well paid lol

I'm a data manager. Mainly homebased. I love working with data, it's flexible and I'm not a people person so I get left to do my thing it suits me well..

I'd love it but my Manager is a dictating twat who wants to keep you down and won't invest in their staff. One of the IT assistants I supervise doesn't even have excel training even though we use it every day and it won't be approved for them.

So I'm scouting a new job and will be leaving soon so pursue my worth

Fitness Industry

Sometimes

I'm a quality analyst for a financial consultancy company - so making sure that any models we build produce the right numbers. I know a lot of people would hate it but I'm an introvert with a maths degree and am very happy sitting looking at a spreadsheet full of calculations for most of my day! :)

I set up clinical trials. I'm still fairly new to the role (was in preclinical work up till a couple of months ago) but I'm really liking it and think I will enjoy it long term.

ICU nurse the last 23 years. Love the job, the fact that you can give proper nursing care, quite a bit of autonomy once you are experienced, very mentally and emotionally challenging, always learning something new and mastering a different skill, get to know rels much better and can really support them, develop some great out of work friendships, but not always the team spirit you would hope some lazy buggers around, stressful, literally their life in your hands if you forget to do something, highly competitive, some very big characters and can be cliquey .

I'm a primary teacher. I mostly love it but there's the odd day when I could run for the hills.

Most of the kids make it all worthwhile.

Body Piercer. Self employed & I love it.
Get to meet lovely people all day who are getting piercings for a variety of reasons including reclaiming ownership of their body or just because they think it's pretty 😍

I work with high end jewellery so getting to put together orders or various precious metals, stones and then style them is a tonne of fun. It's also much harder than most people think (to be a good, hygienic and thoughtful piercer anyway!).

I work in a think tank. Still not entirely sure what I do!

Party/wedding planner. Love it (most of the time) but can be very stressful.