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.

@strawberrymilkshake123 so that is what a practice nurse does. Im a nurse practitioner so deal with minor illness mainly, some minor injury.

Two quite different jobs with a confusingly similar name.

[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]
There's a thriving female section of the rugby club where I live. It is a fabulous club where women/girls who play at county level support new players of all ages.

DD (16) joined about 18 months ago after wanting a new sport. I suggested rugby as many of these grass roots clubs are very inclusive and extremely good at encouraging new members.

I thought it was something she could take forward to uni and beyond. Great for making friends.

@niceupthedanceagain

Social prescriber working in GP surgeries. The model is supposed to be signposting to healthy and social activities, in reality it's a cross between a suicide helpline and a buffer between the GP and broken housing/benefits/mh system.

Still I used to be a social worker and it's less hard than that

@niceupthedanceagain

that sounds interesting - is a social work qualification essential for social prescribing?

I'm an administrator in share dealing, settling trades, making payments, liasing with customers that sort of thing

However due to an office relocation (up north) I am on the at risk of redundancy list

I do enjoy the role, it's always busy and I will miss it when I do leave

Vascular surgery

Love my job but working in the NHS can be so frustrating at times. I’m in it for the people though. I wanted to be an anthropologist at one point- people and their stories fascinate me. Hours are long and the pay isn’t great despite what people think. I have worked in worse departments though. Being a junior doctor is tough though, so much responsibility for what we earn.

Why are nurses so hated on here?

If people saw how hard they work and how little pay they get for their training and responsibilities then they would change their tune.

SimonJT Thanks for your work with the youngsters. Rugby changed my DSs lives.
They used to get bullied at school (esp from the homophobes, as DS2 is gay) but being accepted by such a great bunch of lads(and lasses) really improved their confidence.
Not to mention the fact that they are now huge, superfit fellas, used to throwing their weight around.

Oral cavity maintenance and repair engineer.

Early years educator or general dogsbody.
The children are ace, the paperwork is relentless, parents are a mixed blessing.
Pay is abysmal but I work in a term time only setting so the job works round my kids (mostly)

Part of a team that looks after current and savings accounts growth at a well known high street bank (middle management)

^ should have said enjoy it. Amazing culture in my department

However so much red tape and unnecessary barriers to success. I have frustrations with the caliber of products we have too but no real power to change them

Community staff nurse working out of hours. Rewarding work but the usual NHS pressures.

Occupational Therapist, currently on rotation in an acute hospital. Love the role, not the pressure in NHS (especially since covid). Looking into going into mental health or paediatrics next 😊

Ghostwriter here - very rewarding but stressful at deadline time!

Get to meet all sorts of people and very privileged to help them tell their stories. Earnings completely dependent on how much work you do, so entirely flexible. Work from home unless client wants to do interviews in person. Mixture of private commissions and working with major, traditional publishers. Love it ❤️

Head of marketing for a large corporation.

My day-to-day is basically being ignored by our company executives but also having to pretend to be them: deciding on everything from the company strapline, to how we write press releases, to what our website says, to writing for each executive’s personal social media channel/blog, to concepting the ads we run…

It’s pretty well paid (90) but I’m done. Looking for something that does some good in the world, and isn’t judged purely on subjectivity. Also looking for something that doesn’t require 12 hour days of 100% brain power. Would happily be on half the salary. This job has shown me money doesn’t matter nearly as much as I thought it would. I’m 30 btw if that’s relevant.

Chief finance officer in a multi academy Trust.

Interesting board level work, with a bit of playground duty thrown in.

Factory worker. No it’s not a high flying career and I’d have loved to do other things but life’s not been brilliant to me and this suits me.

The pays shit but I don’t work weekends and I’m home by half five with a very early finish on a fri.

Would I recommend it to my children? A jobs a job at the end of the day, what can I say.

Ecologist. I love it. It’s my life.

Senior adviser for Children and Young People ( Local Authority - education).

I was a primary headteacher.

Expectations within my role are horrendous, not enough time to do what we need to do to advise and support schools. Lack of retention and no one joining. Conservative policy and removal of funding has resulted in severe job losses, with more to come.

The job is always difficult (I do enjoy the challenge) - not just in COVID times where we are also dealing with the disruption to children's education, to workforce Heath and Well-being and to recruitment and retention. Staff morale both in my service and in schools has never been lower.
I spent last week supporting staff in tears because a young colleague has taken her own life due to work pressures; supporting school leaders to find help for an excluded child ( she had trashed rooms, tried to leave the school site and slapped a teacher); working to investigate a repeated malicious complaint from a parent against a headteacher (who is now absent with the stress of it) and supporting a headteacher who said 'I'm going in to school to pick up my bags and walk...I can't do this to children and staff anymore'.

Education is a mess due to Tory policy, lack of understanding of how children learn and any respect for education professionals. There is also a severe lack of funding in the system.
Two out of three schools in my local authority have a deficit budget.
Support services for families and schools are either non existent or in crisis.

OFSTED are adding undue pressure on schools and their staff by continuing their inspections, racking up expectations, with an inadequate outcome only supporting Tory policy of schools becoming an academy. The expected detailed white paper is likely to increase this, with no evidence at all that the academy system improves outcomes for children.

Curriculum expectations ( especially expectations, on leaders in small schools, which are are unmanageable).

The academy system is causing a disintegration of public oversight of schools. Yet the general public, including parents don't seem to care.
CEO's are taking huge six figure wages whilst begging parents to donate books.

We are all failing our children. ☹️

Bravo @HavenHeart , well said! 👏👏👏

Thank you for your post havenheart
I’m a teacher and I absolutely hate it at the moment.
Expectations are totally unrealistic and all the mental health problems in students has broken me. I’m struggling with my own mental health whilst trying to support students at the same time as preparing for exam board inspections and ofsted and a million other jobs.
COVID has made an impossible job even harder.

@HavenHeart

Senior adviser for Children and Young People ( Local Authority - education).

I was a primary headteacher.

Expectations within my role are horrendous, not enough time to do what we need to do to advise and support schools. Lack of retention and no one joining. Conservative policy and removal of funding has resulted in severe job losses, with more to come.

The job is always difficult (I do enjoy the challenge) - not just in COVID times where we are also dealing with the disruption to children's education, to workforce Heath and Well-being and to recruitment and retention. Staff morale both in my service and in schools has never been lower.
I spent last week supporting staff in tears because a young colleague has taken her own life due to work pressures; supporting school leaders to find help for an excluded child ( she had trashed rooms, tried to leave the school site and slapped a teacher); working to investigate a repeated malicious complaint from a parent against a headteacher (who is now absent with the stress of it) and supporting a headteacher who said 'I'm going in to school to pick up my bags and walk...I can't do this to children and staff anymore'.

Education is a mess due to Tory policy, lack of understanding of how children learn and any respect for education professionals. There is also a severe lack of funding in the system.
Two out of three schools in my local authority have a deficit budget.
Support services for families and schools are either non existent or in crisis.

OFSTED are adding undue pressure on schools and their staff by continuing their inspections, racking up expectations, with an inadequate outcome only supporting Tory policy of schools becoming an academy. The expected detailed white paper is likely to increase this, with no evidence at all that the academy system improves outcomes for children.

Curriculum expectations ( especially expectations, on leaders in small schools, which are are unmanageable).

The academy system is causing a disintegration of public oversight of schools. Yet the general public, including parents don't seem to care.
CEO's are taking huge six figure wages whilst begging parents to donate books.

We are all failing our children. ☹️

Agree. We need to bring back grammar schools and technical colleges.

Everyone should be able to go to a decent school, not just the people who can afford to buy a house in the catchment area. Very unfair.

@Angrymum22

Is that a dentist

I head up the finance department for a firm in the engineering supplies chain. It's thrilling.

In my spare time I advise small businesses where they are going wrong with their finances, why they are making a loss, and what to do about it. They rarely take the suggestions on board, but as long as they pay my invoice, what they do afterwards is up to them. If they go bust it's their own fault. Not my circus, not my monkeys, as they say!

Probably not a particularly easy field to get into though, OP.

Grants manager for a private philanthropic foundation - basically I go out and find charities/ projects to fund based on the foundation's stated priorities and then monitor the project to see if it achieved its aims. I'm on a bit of a break at the moment to do a masters but planning to go back to it. Yes, I do really enjoy it. It's interesting, varied and I love getting to grips with new ideas, doing all the research and developing the proposals. I also meet some unbelievably inspiring people who renew my faith in humanity. On the downside I have constant angst about the inadequacy of philanthropy as a solution to the world's problems.

@Somanybloodynamechanges
I quite enjoy my job. I just wonder if I had ever been exposed to other careers if I would have enjoyed them more. Everyone I'm related to is teaching or retail.