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?

I'm a Chartered Accountant, and, contrary to popular belief, it can be a very interesting job, depending on your specialism and the field you decide to go into after you qualify. It's an excellent qualification to get if you leave University knowing that you'd like to work in finance, but you're not sure in exactly which field.

I'm a part-time freelance translator and writer; one of my clients is an author so I'm hoping my name appears in his future bestseller. I'm also a sahm, as I care for my sn dd and her sisters. Hooray for all you others who work with and love sn children. Actually looking after my dd and all that entails is why I have my current job, and not the office based work I did pre-dcs... and I have to say I love my job.

I can't tell you what I do exactly because I'll out myself! Mwaaaaaaa.

I'm in the Army, currently in a quite boring admin job but happily winding down to retirement. Have previously worked in some quite interesting areas: Intelligence, Discipline, accounts and training. Best years were those spent helping in a compassionate and welfare area, dealing with bereved families and familes with welfare issues. I also enjoyed UK Resilience ie floods, fires, foot and mouth etc.

I've had fun (and tears) living in fields for weeks at a time and been scared witless working on operations (in sandy and not so sandy places).

I've loved how diverse my job has been, never the same from one year to the next and never in one place for more than 2 years. Sometimes I wonder how I will cope with settling down.

I'm very impressed GetOrf - I've been a user at Diamond and Grenoble. Just working on a paper from some data from Diamond in fact so I'm very fond of it.

This is a fascinating thread. I'm in biological sciences.

I teach EFL and military ESP. I love it 99% of the time, especially the latter when people come into my class saying they hate English, they're crap at languages and they can't do it and then walk out confident in their (embryonic) language skills and keen to progress either by themselves or by coming to another class. Plus it has a real measurable impact on their work and I'm doing my own little bit fir international cooperation.

This thread just gets better.

careers advice for DDs ...I didn't mean like 'this is what you should do', rather, 'look at all these fascinating, fulfilling and useful jobs that you COULD do' AND I agree with ThisIsANiceCage, the mesage needs to go out that you can change careers completely, or even make up your own job these days.

A some point it would be nice to be able to change the perception that a good career move is to marry a footballer (Said in all seriousness by a very bright friend of DDs :(), or to sell your body in one way or another is a long term career move ( more friends of DDs who said they were going to skip uni to be pole dancers, to make lots of money:()

And, also on the curriculum ( getting a bit overexcited here), a seminar on how Financial rewards are only one of the ways that jobs can be rewarding.

fantastic thread - very inspirational!

Before DS I was a medical writer in pharmaceutical communications, after DS I was a clinical trials officer at local hospital, currently I am running my own online business, when DS goes to school I (tentatively) plan to go back to medical communications, but seeing lots of the more 'fulfilling' jobs on here, I would love to retrain....

would love to hear more about people's careers changes etc. I have no idea where to even start looking.

Just like ZumbaRumba I was a music journalist, now volunteering with young offenders, I hope to become an Education Welfare Officer, as I had problems at school and left aged 14.

i collect business to business debt for a multinational bank.
occasionally i get to uncover fraud, and i'd like to do more of that in future (if its there to be uncovered!)
it is ok, and there are always cakes on my table...

I'm a surgeon. I love my job - always varied. My weekend included taking a gallbladder and 4 appendixes out laparoscopically , and I also amputate dead legs.

I teach and train in sex and relationships education. So I train teachers and youth workers etc how to cover it. I also write teaching materials and wrote all the lesson ideas and teachers booklet for a national sre teaching resource- which went into every welsh secondary school. [proud emoticon] I really love my job although it's quieter now since having DD and cuts to LEAS.

I'm a professional Singer and Guitarist

My first degree was in Land Surveying. I loved making maps, but it's so much switched to computers and I found that interesting too and ended up following that path. Being a programmer or sys admin gives you such variety in what fields you can work in: engineering company, bilingual dictionaries and ecommerce provider to date. I'm surprised there aren't many women in the job as it had great potential for flexibility when it comes to having a family. I can work at home when the kids are off sick etc.

I'm a HR Manager (don't all boo and hiss at once) for a small software consultancy. The hours are long and the pressure is high but I work damned hard to try to make the workplace a better place to be (in the face of adversity, lack of consistency, stupidity etc).

I work in regulatory affairs for a pharmaceutical company. Very dull!

Although I did use to do academic research in cancer genetics and didn't like it at all. I enjoyed the knowledge aspect of it but couldn't stand the bench work.

Just to show that what looks really exciting to some may be very boring to others!

In a weird way I find my dull job exciting and rewarding....

I'm a marketing and Business Analyst which sounds dull but since I enjoy spreadsheets, statistics and building databases it suits me nicely.

I used to investigate and report on fraudulent activity in company insolvencies, which was fascinating but ultimately very, very depressing.

Now I work with injured athletes, providing treatment and rehabilitation programmes for them. I love it! and I get to see fit people in their pants

What an excellent thread this is and to the folks upthread who say we're just bigging ourselves up.

Networking would be fab ( draaawings, paaaaintings, get your artwork done heeeere)

Nuclear Safety Consultant - although have done a bit of work for particle accelerators too.

I'm a conservation biologist by profession, spent a lot of time overseas on wildlife projects. Now I help DH run the family farm. :)

Cremeeggsbenedict your MN nickname is SO AWESOME!

Tugamommy could you tell me how you got into regulatory affairs? Is it really dull? What are the hours like?

I'm interested in getting into it.

I work in e-learning. Part of my time is spent being a techie, supporting the e-learning platform. I do a lot of data management, handle support requests and develop online resources. The rest of my time is spent teaching academics how to use the system. Much of my job is about getting teachers to rethink how they have been teaching and drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century consider how they can use the available tools to enhance the learning experience for our students.

I've worked in both IT and been a teacher for many years, so it's a nice combination of both of my obsessions careers.