To be know if anyone has any interesting careers/jobs

[MrsKravitz]

Ok silly because I know its not quite a aibu

But thinking today about jobs that I am fascinated with , like personal shopper, and wondered what people on here do and if there is a big range of interesting careers. Ive read previously there are actors and writers on here,what other things? and is anyone a personal shopper?Do people actually use them?

ooh sixtyfoot I bet you are very intimidating at work.

getorf
IKWYM as I can't get my head round how such stuff was accomplished without complex tools and equipment, and i love to imagine the lives of the craftsmen touching those stones

I'm an environmental health officer in a very central and busy London borough.
In my current role I deal with licensing of pubs, clubs, hotels, theatres etc; health and safety and food safety within licensed premises; licensing and health and safety for massage/beauty parlours etc and assess planning applications from an EH perspective.
But the best bit is dealing with the hundreds of events and concerts in the royal parks, famous squares and streets every year.
I'm on ML at the moment, but return just in time for the Olympics and Jubilee next year - it's going to be so busy!

No. Changed my mind, LeChatRouge has my dream job

I'm a teacher but really a mathematician by training. the things I could tell you about supersonic jet noise equations!

lol at the free food.

No, have not been there, I work for ISIS and Diamond Light at Didcot, and the accelerator science projects Daresbury, am hoping and praying that I get a project allied with CERN which is coming up soon.

I love the word synchotron. I used to be delighted to work with aeroplanes, but this is another world.

Sorry to bore the world I often see my family's eyes glaze over

Being sixty foot helps!

Oh I forgot that I have to inspect sex shops occasionally too!

maris I remember watching a programme on envioronmental health officers in London, it looked fascinating and YUK in equal measure.

Some of you are intimidatingly clever!

I'm a writer - I write texts for English exams and am also a ghost writer. Although I am sworn to secrecy. One day, one day, Waterstones will shelve my paperback....

I also paint (landscpaes not walls).

landscapes

I'm going to be bed inspector in a minute, night night all, lovely thread.

InWith....don't be fooled. Some people can be very good at selling themselves.

GetOrf I'm quite lucky in my current role as most days are spent dealing with rather high-end restaurants, clubs and hotels who want a premises licence. But I still get down and dirty at special events and on routine inspections; I don't see as much horrid stuff as in other previous roles but it can still be an eye opener!

Just doing most of these jobs requires certain levels of brilliance, though, doesn't it?

Snap LeChat (kindof). Im a fashion buyer, love it but its bloody hard work but with great perks sometimes :O

I am not clever at all, I just had an amazing amount of good fortune and was in the right place at the right time (with jobs). I did work hard and had a dull life and no social life when studying mind you, but no great intellect here (read the shit I post 99% of the time on mumsnet!)

Yeah, it does although I am also an ex-Doctor and I can be quite fick. Plus, brilliance can be confidence plus mediocre intelligence. Anyhow, I am more intimidated with the job satisfaction oozing out of this thread. I woder if ti is making people re-think their career?

wonder...it

Night night

I hope I can use the past tense and still join in. Currently a SAHM.

In short I'm an aid worker. I secured and managed aid projects in East Africa for a UK NGO, both emergency aid and long term development projects. I lobbied donors and governments, and advocated for change on behalf of the communities we worked with. Fascinating work that I loved, it was the job that I had dreamed of. I'm looking forward to getting involved again once my kids are older.

I work for NHS (have done 23 years) as a podiatrist/chiropodist.
That always kills a conversation stone flippin dead!

Oh I love the idea of MN careers conference for DDs! (DSs allowed in too.)

Hmm, how to organise?

Specific webchats, advertised in advance, as MN does for slebs? Maybe a special section? For future reference.

Would MN need to somehow verify people really are what they say?

And I love that people here have done a variety of roles at different stages of their lives. Seeing the threads by SAHPs anxious about going back to work (or into serious work for the first time), I think it's not just the DCs who would benefit from the inspiration.

Can we do this?

Book editor here, by the way.

I'm a user experience consultant, sometimes known as a usability consultant. Don't do it full time at the moment, just a few freelance contracts here and there while dc are small, but hope to do more again as they get older.

I love it - working out how to make things easier, more effective and satisfying for people to use, be it websites (mostly what I do these days), software, photocopiers, wrist leads, mini submarines or anything that gets designed really.

In an ideal world I wouldn't be needed and things would be designed properly to be used by people but luckily this doesn't happen very often and thus there is still a need for my job.