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Jobs you can only hold in London

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Enko · 03/09/2025 20:16

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?

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Needmorelego · 21/10/2025 05:59

TenGreatFatSquirrels · 20/10/2025 22:29

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

DC Thomson - the publisher for Beano and lots of famous magazines including Jackie in the past is actually based in Dundee, Scotland but their postal address (as in where you'd send a letter if you were writing to the agony aunts etc) is Fleet Street in London.
They kept (still have I think) an office there. This was done because apparently having a London address sounded more impressive.
Famous writer Jacqueline Wilson got her first job writing for DC Thomson when she was still a teenager. She had to leave her Kingston (South West London) home and move to Dundee.

FuckRealityBringMeABook · 21/10/2025 10:04

Lecturing in a rare topic taught only at specialist London institutions. You can only study (and therefore teach) Swahili at SOAS for instance.

Needmorelego · 21/10/2025 10:13

FuckRealityBringMeABook · 21/10/2025 10:04

Lecturing in a rare topic taught only at specialist London institutions. You can only study (and therefore teach) Swahili at SOAS for instance.

But presumably you can teach it in Tanzania 🤔

Pissenlit · 21/10/2025 10:15

Needmorelego · 21/10/2025 10:13

But presumably you can teach it in Tanzania 🤔

Or Kenya or some of Uganda and Congo!

Needmorelego · 21/10/2025 10:17

Pissenlit · 21/10/2025 10:15

Or Kenya or some of Uganda and Congo!

Of course.

FuckRealityBringMeABook · 21/10/2025 10:48

Needmorelego · 21/10/2025 10:13

But presumably you can teach it in Tanzania 🤔

Not in the same way as a second language though.

LewishamLass · 21/10/2025 17:34

FuckRealityBringMeABook · 21/10/2025 10:04

Lecturing in a rare topic taught only at specialist London institutions. You can only study (and therefore teach) Swahili at SOAS for instance.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine certainly has a unique name. Not sure how unique the course contents are 😀

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