What job do you do ? :)

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Inspire me, am considering a potential career change after maternity leave.

What job do you do and do you enjoy it ?

Ambulance care assistant, absolutely love my job, patients are generally lovely and grateful for what we do.
downside is the pay, and being spoken to like rubbish by some ward staff because I dare to do my job properly and not cut corners.

Taught myself to draw, so I draw pet portraits. Love it 😍

Crikey @stuffthisstuff.
I haven't heard of NaNoWriMo since my OpenDiary days. I used to do NoJoMo religiously.

GP - not in the UK but in New Zealand.
Semi rural practice.
Days can be long - 10 yrs not unusual and sometimes minimal lunch hours.
Mostly love it -intellectually challenging and I really get a kick out building relationships over many years. I love looking after people as they age - such a privilege! I have conversations about what people want as they near the end life.. because I know them well - some over 15 years then that conversation is easier.
I get a kick out of watching young people grow up too.
Some people are abussive and manipulating-that can be a challenge but as I have gotten older I cope better and often their behaviour in explained by their life story.

I'm a pretty part-time violin teacher and absolutely love it - mainly 1-1 work, littlies to teens. We have a lot of fun and usually I feel really energised after lessons. I'm not great at the admin though. Mostly working after school, though I've three before school this term, and Saturdays. Friends who are more full-time usually work in schools part of the week.

In my ideal world (win the lottery etc) I'd have someone else organising my timetable and payments, I'd just teach my students when they arrived. Actually, with a big lottery win I'd love to start a music centre optimised for private lessons plus concerts and master classes and group sessions etc. I'd definitely be employing administrators though lol!

At the moment I'm looking to restart a previous profession part-time that has the potential to allow me to keep teaching as well. I thrive on variety!

Civil engineer specialising in flood defence

I'm a support worker in a residential care home, we support adults with mental health problems primarily but we can also support those with dementia. Yes I do love it but some days are very hard... been in the care industry for over 4 years now.

Declutter Consultant, I've heard it called. I would love to do that as I have the drive for organising people and possessions for a pisitive outcome. Although I realise you likely need to show a lot of understanding and patience.

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads I bet that’s really interesting (I live on the edge of the Fens).

60 hours+ a week I was doing as a minimum.

Academic librarian. I used to love it, now been at the same place for too long. Very flexible though which is what keeps me there. Job is very varied and as someone else said, not at all what people think it is. You need to do a 1 year postgrad. I'm paid quite well as relatively senior but generally pay is not great.

@Chocoholic1972 ...you are extremely talented 🙂

Social care. I manage mental health services. It's impossible and heart breaking. We are Severely underfunded, under staffed, disrespected and ignored by those that are meant to support us, even when service users are in life threatening situations. I've been doing this 20 years and I've never known it so bad.

Avoid anything social care related. It's sadly nowhere near worth your mental and sometimes physical health.

Primary or secondary? I'm currently a nurse however thinking of retraining as a primary teacher

I’ve just left primary and 100% do not recommend it to anyone.

I trained for primary in England and moved away

Way too hard

Town planner

I'm a medical secretary and have been for 16 years. I love it but am starting in a new job on Monday as one of those notoriously hated NHS managers. I'll miss my med sec job.

@BeingATwatItsABingThing do you mind me asking what you’re moving in to? I’m reaching the end of my teaching career but no idea what to do next! Friends say I’m mad to lose the holidays…but those holidays aren’t worth the stress of term time anymore :(

@PopcornAndWine Generally people on here think the charities/foundations should be volunteer run and no one should get paid for working for them...or if we do get paid then it should be minimum wage because you should do it for the love of the job or belief in the mission.

I'm not in a "big money" position, but still bring in at least 30x what I'm paid every year!

As someone who worked for charities for years, massive 🙄 for that viewpoint.... demonstrates total ignorance of what these organisations do and they type of skills/experience needed to run them.

I'm a part time Healthcare Assistant in an NHS hospital.
I actually really like my job.

@MinnieMountain it is! I love it. It's a good mix of inside/outside, and the feeling that I am doing something useful. I love working with all the different disciplines involved in delivering big schemes - civil, mechanical and electrical engineers, environmental scientists, estates managers, solicitors, quantity surveyors...

I work in the probation service doing a role called a programme facilitator. I’m enjoying it so far. ☺️

Registry administrator at a university mainly responsible for academic misconduct. Love the job but chronic understaffing is placing the whole Registry team under pressure.