Jobs you can only hold in London

[Enko]

At dinner tonight we got to discuss if there are any jobs you can ONLY hold in London

So say manager of the Shard doesnt count as you can be a building manager elsewhere

You can be mayor of another city so again doesn't count

We are looking specifically for a job that cannot exist in a slightly different form in another place.

So far we have

Yeomen Warders (beefeaters)

Speaker of the house

Are there others?

But they have theatres and film studios all over the UK?

They have them in Llandudno

I just googled some pictures.
They look terrifying 😂
They're open to the elements.

Not enough to sustain a career, it's a very difficult path even in London where the majority of theatres and studios are.

I suppose that makes sense with the amount of theatres in London.

I am getting obsessed with this thread which is turning into what my poor dear late father would have called, "A parlour game from hell" but I know very well that there was a VHS extra included in Eddie Izzard's 1994's, "Live From The Ambassadors" recording that featured an elderly lady called June.

We sharn't talk about Eddie or Suzie right now, it is neither the time nor the place but June seemed to have a unique London theatreland occupation.

Kind of a backstairs bouncer and cloakroom assistant combined. The clip must be online somewhere.

That would be an only in London job.

Where's June?

Serjeant at Arms in the house of commons. There are quite a few hoc specific jobs that don't exist elsewhere.

Loving all of these but ds has declaired he was right. 😁

But the OP said 'We are looking specifically for a job that cannot exist in a slightly different form in another place'.

So a City of London police officer working for another police force wouldn't count.

If the OPs DS wants to get a job elsewhere, which I believe is the point of the OP, it is highly likely that he can do so and, assuming that he's a 20 or 30 something adult, also highly likely that he'll have a higher disposable income and better chance of buying a home than in London, even if he's paid less and doesn't have quite the career progression that is apparently only available in London.

Lord Mayor? As in the city of London Dick Whittington etc rather than Sadiq Khan.

I think the house of commons / MPs have arguably similar equivalents in other countries.

But what about the house of lords? I can't think of another country with a house of Lords.

Back to the house of commons. There is a very specific role called the Principal Door Keeper. I wonder if he is registered like bouncers need to be!

They are so scary I think i died a little biy when I went on them!

Has anyone said The City’s square mile financial services sector lot, that sector pretty much runs this economy when we don’t make anything..

@Mistyglade except you can work on Wall Street, Singapore and other financial centres.

Ah course!

There are also the Scottish Crown Jewels in Edinburgh Castle.

I don't know There's a pie and mash stop in Basildon and it's been there years. Loads of ex Londoners live there though

Pretty much all Parliamentary roles exist in the other national parliaments within the UK let alone worldwide.

The Bank of England has an office in Leeds.

True! I’ve actually been at a storm surge barrier conference this week.

Edited to add: so we could add, Environment Agency field operations staff, as the design and operation of many of our asset structures are unique to the local geography.

@Bjorkdidit yes ds is a 20 something young adult. He feels this thread has proven his point to NEVER live in London. 2 year older sister adores London and would return in a heartbeat.. she has just moved.to Brighton;Hove and I suspect she will end up feeling similar about living there.

Ds and girlfriend are planning on a small house in the countryside near Bristol

I will say we have throughly enjoyed this thread abd the answers.

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads I knew about the Scotish crown jewels at Edinburgh. I just never knew the English ones were moved to Windsor castle during the 2nd world war.

Sorry OP, and not a job unique to London but I think I've found a job that is unique to a certain place:

The Duckmaster at the Peabody Hôtel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Not all UK cities require their cab drivers to lass The Knowledge though.

I'd say keeper of something very esoteric at the British Museum or British Library where nowhere else has a large enough special collection. Keeper of early Chinese banknotes or Safavid astronomical instruments or something.

If you're interested in that sort of thing, I'd say that, "Keeper of the French Crown Jewels, Louvre, Paris" is probably up for grabs right now and it wouldn't even be a very hard job. All you'd have to curate would be two engraved snuff boxes and a Christening bangle these days.

Most journalism jobs are only in London because that’s where all the national newspapers and mags are based.