What is your current job?

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What is your current job?

Are you happy with your position?

Settlements Administrator in share dealing. Got made redundant in may (expectedly long time coming) then rehired as a temp straight away. I enjoy the work but am looking to do something for myself in the future like house/pet sitting

I'm a Senior Healthcare Science Assistant for the NHS (I work as a laboratory assistant in the Protein section) It's interesting, I get some job satisfaction from running blood tests for patients but pay is so poor. Don't love it, don't know what else I'd like to do !

Horticulturalist/gardener - love what I do, growing and nurturing living things, being outside all day long in close proximity to, and contact with, the natural world.
Disllke my current role though, for a host of reasons, and desperately job hunting for a new position.

Not an occupation for those with high, or even median, salary aspirations though!

Paramedic I feel you!
I’m a midwife but I’m leaving this week. Love the women, and the role. Can’t work in the system anymore because I want to actually care for people, to support them through their journey, and support other staff and shave the time to support students. I also need a better shift pattern. I’m heartbroken to be leaving as it really is my vocation but I have to put my health and family first.

Marketing and communications manager, I'm lucky that I've landed in a role where I get to work from home when I want, and the work isn't stressful as I have 0 accountability for the performance of the company, I could do the same amount of work in two days, but I like getting full pay so I won't go part time. I've had other marketing roles which have been incredibly stressful though and I've been close to burn out. I'm so glad I've found this one which is very relaxed!

I'm a Chartered Architect and own my own practice
It's hard going, sometimes I love it and sometimes it's overwhelming.
There have been massive changes to legislation and liability this year which is making the business side of things very difficult & stressful. Construction is tough at the moment too however It's great to look at a finished project and say "that's mine" and I get to do that everyday as I designed and built my own studio!

Net zero innovation project manager, within business development in a large engineering company.

I absolutely love it. Opportunity to be really creative with developing projects and building new business relationships, as I own my theme roadmaps and project portfolio. But constrained by the whole team working towards netzero 2050, so what we do actually matters. It's a team mostly in their 30s:old enough to have experience, young enough to be motivated and engaged. I am a magpie, so the fact that each of the projects I am on is with a completely new set of stakeholders, and across different industries really keeps my brain alive and stops boredom kicking in.

Registered nursing associate in a nursing home. Struggling at the moment with short staff, more complex patients, tricky families. Pay is rubbish, I'm doing the same role as a registered nurse in our placement, involving lone working, but getting paid £7 per hour less...

Online delivery driver. It's a very good, stable and solid job.

But I'm currently doing a science, technology and maths course as I plan to go on to become an audiologist. Might develop further after that to become a clinical scientist in audiology. It's an option.

Engagement Manager for a software company, love it!

@DownNative good for you! would you mind sharing the course details?

Loathe my job. I was taken on to do project support but my line manager has decided that I’m her PA. No offence to any PAs on here but I literally never would have applied for a PA job as it’s so boring. I wanted to do project work and use my brain. All I do is rearrange her diary, send out emails on her behalf and general dogsbody stuff 🥱 Still, I get paid £31.5k (same as project support which is harder work) so I guess it could be worse.

Nanny, has advantages and disadvantages, don't like it that much, but that's because of parents, not kids and definitely underappreciated.

I wfh for a local charity, doing the finances, servicing meetings, sorting governance issues etc. its ok, don't love it or hate it but it can be lonely and thankless! Would love to train in data science but fear I'm too old now (plus I have health issues following Covid).

So what happens when it is home time and you're still sitting in an ambulance outside ED? Does someone else come and sit in the ambulance or are you just there until your patient is taken in? I can't imagine trying to organise childcare etc around your job.

What are you going to work as next? Such a shame you can't stay at such a worthwhile job

Cleaner in a care home and I'm very happy with it. I've been in management before, I've had enough of it, I love this because I come in, do my bit and go home. I love talking to the residents too.

Self employed cleaner. I'm very rural and most of my clients live on dairy or sheep farms which i find really good for my soul,I love driving over cattle grids and watching the animals on ky way to work.
It keeps me fit at 50 but I expect I will go back to nannying at some point as I'm getting a bit achey some days.
I've been a nursery teacher and t.a and this job is preferable as no paper work or stress,I just have to wash my clothes and dusters and go.

@SunflowerGardens

Sometimes we are relieved by another crew that has offloaded but still on shift, other times by crews at the start of their shift (if they are supposed to be taking our vehicle)

Often though, demand is so high that we are just left to wait it out.

To be fair to management, they will rarely let us go over a couple of hours of our shift end, but it can still be up to 3 hours added on to the usual 12 hour shift!
We can either claim overtime or TOIL or come in late the next day and not claim.

Doesn't really compensate for those missed opportunities of a kiss goodnight or morning from my child. Or a dodgy drive home due to extreme fatigue.

It really is just several kinds of fucked right now.

Office Admin. Company great, benefits great, people are great, plus I'm vastly over paid. I loathe it.

I'm in an immediate team of 4, and two of those people don't contribute, don't show up, don't communicate and have followed this pattern for years, and never been managed or challenged. I'm trying to address the situation, but ultimately I will need to find another job as that's the effect unmanaged piss taking staff have on the good hard working staff.

I work in supporter engagement with a lovely UK charity - love it!

I completely agree. I work as an HR officer (so you think we'd be better at handling this stuff.) Love the company, work with nice people, super flexible but we've got a couple of really poor performers in our team that I then have to pick up a lot of work for because I'm actually competent. It's frustrating and demoralising and my manager keeps saying they need to sort it but nothing ever happens.

For the time being I'm waiting it out as my company is so flexible and I have a 10 minute commute when I need to go into the office so it fits well around family life.

I tutor GCSE students who have been excluded from school. I love it! Especially when I get a child who hasn't engaged with any education for years, ready to do higher level GCSE exams and really be excited about their future. However it's time for my next challenge.
In September I'm going to teach art and design in secondary school - I've been working towards this for years!

I work for children’s services for the LA. I deal with the police, schools and SS. It’s very rewarding when I get to do it - it’s just my LA is small and as a result, there’s not actually that many in crisis so there’s a lot of waiting to jump into action.

it’s completely different to anything I’ve done before, but it’s a wage and the good days are amazing, the hard cases carry a heavy mental weight.

I'm a supply teacher. I do long term cover so the class is my own and I usually stay in the same school for a couple of years but it means that don't have to stay if I don't like the class or the school. I've only once left a long term position but it's nice to know I have the option 🤷🏻‍♀️