If you work in a university outside of academia...

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What do you do? And do you enjoy it?

Just that really. I work in university admissions but keen to know what other roles are out there.

I work in learning technologies. I like to joke that me and my team of 5 were the pivot that the whole university turned on when lockdown happened.

It's a curiously diverse role with fingers in most of the university pies in one way or another. I only wish I had an actual budget and not have to rely on crumbs from various project funds.

Health and Safety. The past few years have been a struggle with everything going on. Luckily now calming down a little bit, but dreading what the winter may bring.

I work in research support, helping academics find and prepare funding bids. It's ok, mostly managing expectations and peer review. It's astonishing to me that universities put so much emphasis on getting in research funding yet don't really teach phd students the skills they need to write funding bids.
I mostly work from home though and I'm paid well for the work so the work/life balance makes up for the absolute headache I get from having to repeat myself constantly. Definitely agree with PP that a phd is more a test in research stamina than intelligence.

Project manager, working on projects which transfer academic learning to businesses, policymakers and schools, to help them learn about and operate better in the wider geographical region (I'm in a small country, not the UK). It's a governmental-funded initiative run by a network of universities.

I work in professional services, directly supporting students and have done for years. I have a completely love/hate relationship with working in HE much similar to what @Squeezedsquash highlights.

I love the vibrancy of working in HE around interesting colleagues and our students. But unlike another poster said here, one of the major issues is how overstretched we all are. This makes it very difficult to take any leave and very stressful all year around: my dept is hugely understaffed for the size of the uni and it's getting ever more challenging. I feel sorry for students who often have to wait a long time to see us in term time.

There are increasingly loads of administration and data management roles so it's worth keeping an eye out for those. Unfortunately we rarely recruit for student facing roles and there's loads of competition when we do.

Also work in research support hello @Tumilnaughts and governance. I really enjoy the role as it is quite varied. People find it interesting usually that i work in a university and have practically no contact with students... not even phd students. Our support is essentially for staff.