What job do you do :)

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Pure nosiness really.

What job do you do, do you enjoy it, would you recommend it ?

I'm a welfare rights advisor, and yes I enjoy it, ( although it often leaves me with a higher than average hatred of the Tories ), and yes I'd recommend it.

Currently a social care worker and work with adults with additional needs. In 2 months will be qualifying as a social worker so a career change is imminent.

I'm a teacher of literacy and numeracy in a special school and I love it.

I work 3 days in school and one at home - lots of time to plan and deliver content to 1-4 kids at a time.

It's the perfect job for work/life balance

Practice nurse. Chronic disease management, smears, child and travel vaccinations, injections, etc. Quite target driven, lots of box ticking.
Ok hours compared to hospital but very hard going at the minute. Definitely quantity over quality and dealing with no shows, non compliance and people's unrealistic expectations.
Lots jumping ship early in primary care atm. I'm out at 55.

TA.

Love LOVE the children.

Staff are awesome and it's a lovely place to work.

Pay is appalling .

@HerRoyalHappiness

I used to be a nursery nurse working in a baby room before I became too disabled to work. I absolutely adored my job and all of the babies. It was great. All the fun of babies and can hand then back at the end of the day!

Unmumsnetty hugs from me 💕💕💕

@ThesecondLEM

Veterinary nurse - I qualified at 50 after a previous career in research. I love my job but its underpaid and under valued. The veterinary industry has gone corporate and some companies are only after money. Working for such a company nearly broke me but now I work for a company that prioritises the patients and I'm happy. Piss poor, but happy 🤣

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My title is Customer Service Supervisor. But that explains nothing. I supervise the running of Zone 2 tube stations in London. My area has 4 stations. On one of them there is a lot of staff on (it's bigger) but the other three are just staffed by one person with part-timers through the rush hour. It's mainly customer service and risk management. The only time I really do anything worthy is during an incident like signal or points failure/person ill on train/person under train/customer injuries etc.

It's very well paid for what we do.

@Howeverdoyouneedme

Primary Teacher. Pretty sure I only pursued it as I wasn't really aware of any other jobs.

This is me too. I felt quite down about it recently as I wish I’d chosen something else.

Can I be so nosey ( without sounding ignorant) what it is that you don't like?

Is it pay, the workload , lack of support, colleagues?

It's just that I work as a TA and the teacher I'm with absolutely loves her job.

Horses for courses and all that I guess.

IT project manager. Don't love it. But do feel like a square peg in a square hole which I think counts for a lot

I work in suicide prevention. Very rewarding.

QC micro in pharmaceuticals

I have my own business, worked like a horse for 4 years for peanuts, got new premises 6 months ago and already reaping the rewards! I often work 7 days a week, 12 hour days but can also take-home off whenever I want as have a great team behind me.

We are busy every day, the feedback from our customers is incredible and I can't imagine doing anything else. Today is a rare Sunday off but I've already decided I'm going in later as I've had a great idea for something I want to make! Working for yourself isn't for everyone but it's definitely for me

Primary school Teacher/English Leader.

@Spud1130

I work in suicide prevention. Very rewarding.

Bloody hell @Spud1130, without sounding rude, how do you look after your own mental health?

Nurse in a Hospice.I 'enjoy' aspects of it but have the usual issues that come with working in nhs...

Scientist in the NHS. I do love my job but the shifts are a killer and the pay doesn't match what friends in the private sector are earning.

We've only got 3 years left juggling childcare before DS is in secondary and I imagine I will love it a lot more when I don't have to worry so much about what shifts me and DH are working.

Preschool manager in the PVI sector. I do everything from.sorting out the register for the week, buying the snack, showing prospective parents around, doing induction meetings, making sure the planning has been done, answering the phone, answering emails, sorting out resources plus I am in ratio all the time so need some time to be with my key children. I also need to liaise with the LA to try and get help for the children who need it but they are even more underfunded than we are the help just isn't there.

Plus we are committee run so have a regular change of committee every year who need teaching how things are done.

I love my job but feel my hourly rate should be double what it is with having to do all I do but early years is notoriously underpaid. The biggest downside is I now no longer need the holidays off as my children are beyond school so we can't take a holiday inside of term time. This is becoming a bit of an issue as we want to travel and not be constrained by when we can do it. We are also a packaway setting so have to put away every Friday and get it all back out on a Monday. I don't want to be doing this for the rest of my life but I don't know what else I would do 😀

@Simonjt that’s interesting about women’s rugby. I can’t imagine there’s much of a demand for it. I’m very open to both sexes doing any sport but it really wouldn’t even occur to me to look for a rugby class for my daughter when she’s older. Football would seem more of a unisex sport. But rugby just seems so male. I say that having known a female rugby player. Clearly I’m not as open minded as I thought.

Headteacher of a primary school and I love it

Bloody hell@Spud1130, without sounding rude, how do you look after your own mental health?

We're very well looked after by the organisation I work for. Fortnightly paid for (both the session and our time) counselling sessions as well as fantastic manager and colleague support. I do the very acute end of the job, literally the negotiations but I find I have an incredible resilience and am able to detatch very easily. Once I've done my bit and handed them over to the next person (whether that's emergency services, mental health services etc.), I do my paperwork, make a cup of tea, draw a line and start again. I have also created almost another persona for work, and I leave that person at work and then "I" go home to my family with a whole new evel of gratitude for what I have.

Debt Advisor.

It suits me as it's WFH, it's decent pay compared to other jobs in my area.

Would I recommend it? No. Most people leave very quickly after joining and it's because of the micro management we receive and the emotional and mental toll the job takes.

Prior to lockdown I was a PPA cover teacher at a primary school which I loved. I'd already worked there for 2 years with a TA role so being able to support the same staff and pupils was great. No day was ever the same and I could go from teaching year 6 in the morning to being with year 2 in the afternoon.
Since finishing maternity leave I've been working as a live chat advisor for a very well known company and I hate it. Pay is shite anyway, non stop complaints the entire shift because of issues on the company's end a lot of the time and little support. I'm leaving in a couple of months but all I know is I'm never using this company again!

[quote LittleSnakes]@Simonjt that’s interesting about women’s rugby. I can’t imagine there’s much of a demand for it. I’m very open to both sexes doing any sport but it really wouldn’t even occur to me to look for a rugby class for my daughter when she’s older. Football would seem more of a unisex sport. But rugby just seems so male. I say that having known a female rugby player. Clearly I’m not as open minded as I thought.[/quote]
We are getting more girls in sport, but it can be interesting watching parents. I coach rugby tots, we do have girls, but our only girls have brothers who also attend. Its rugby tots, so it isn’t anything like actual rugby. But the way the parents treat the girls is so frustrating, constant reminders to be careful, making a fuss if a ball goes near her etc. Lots of parents are putting their daughters off sport from such a young age. As girls get older you even get homophobes putting them off because football etc “is for lesbians”, schools struggle to maintain girls teams, as a result there isn’t the same opportunity for fixtures etc.

Headteacher of a large secondary school - rewarding but relentless!!

Work life balance is shot to pieces!

Waitress in TGI Fridays