To ask, if you love your job, what do you do??

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As the title really, those of you that would say you love your job, what do you do?

Appreciate that people can love a job for many reasons (fulfilment, flexibility, money!) but I'm hankering after a career change and looking for inspiration!

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Auctioneer. The pay is very low, but my employer is flexible, my colleagues are great and it's very varied so I never get bored. I love it. People are always interested when you say what you do too!

I'm a chartered surveyor and associate in my firm. I specialise in rural estate management and portfolio red book valuation. I'm also an arbitrator although I tend not to take on so many cases any more as it's so time consuming and involved. I absolutely love my job, London one day, socking great stately home the next. And my dog gets to come with me.

Employment Officer for those with Learning disabilities. I provide support to employees, mainly with autism, and employers to help sustain employment. I absolutely love it.

I'm an A+E sister, been in this post for many years and love my job, I am supported by an amazing team of HCA's, nurses, Dr's, porters, cleaners and administration staff.

We do an amazing job with not enough staff/too many patients and for not enough money

24HourTrainer You don't sound like the power crazed nutjob implied
I know what you mean about power though, I worked as an unqualified member of staff for years and the difference in the ability to initiate, and implement, change just through becoming qualified is huge.
We're still working on the money in my profession although we have just had a pay rise.

I'm a director in a small biotech company that discovers new cancer drugs. I love the combination of senior management and science detail, I have a great team who are smart and efficient, biotech is fast paced, interesting and always a challenge. The pay is quite good (a lot better than academic science).

I work in Visitor Services for a London attraction. It's long hours and low pay but I love it because my office is in one of the most beautiful places you can imagine, our visitors love to come here and the people I work with are interesting and great fun. It's also an industry I love so I get a little thrill just being allowed into the place!

GP. I still love certain aspects of the job and used to absolutely love every day. There are still good points (autonomy, structuring my own day, very rewarding) but the negatives are mounting, and I have recently realized I no longer look forward to work each day. I will leave as soon as I can afford to. Sadly the vast majority of the doctors I know who have been in practice 20+ years, like me, feel the same way..

I'm a civil servant in one of the big Departments. Went in as an AO 17 years ago and now a G6.

Love love love my job. Always have done. Have done 11 posts in 17 years and really enjoyed them all. Great colleagues and a flexible employer.

I am a bus driver.
I hate it.

You'd be absolutely gobsmacked and amazed at how many passengers are just so rude. Not just being rude but ignoring you too, literally not acknowledging my existence, scan their pass and walk on past, it's so rude! It shocked me when I started!

Bus drivers get such bad rep but we have to tolerate such a lot of crap all day every day! It grinds you down, there's been many a day when I've gone home at the end of the day in tears.

Driving around London can be a bit of a nightmare at times too.

I stay in the job because the company is good, the hours and pay are decent and it works around our childcare so it's difficult for me to leave.

I am studying in my own time to do my dream job but it's going to take at least a year to get anywhere with it.

Vroomster Do you have kids of your own?

Yes. Why?

I'm a policy officer (specialising in health) for a small but influential charity in central London. I analyse health policy, carry out impact assessments, run focus groups with the public and seminars for policymakers and health professionals, etc.

I love immersing myself in issues I care about, taking to people with expertise and coming up with ways to improve things.

Forgot to add that my employer is also extremely flexible with my days and hours in the office as long as I deliver my outputs to the appropriate standard.

I'm a police officer and I love it. The money isn't great, you are poorly understood and often treated awfully for just doing your job, but the pride and respect myself and my friends and family have for me make it worth while. I love kitting up and going to work, wondering what the shift will hold. The morale is through the floor at the moment and there are a lot of amazing officers regretting they ever joined at the moment, which is such a shame, and i don't think people really realise how important the police are, especially at times like this. We can't strike, and you won't have people putting bumper stickers in their cars to 'Pay our police officers more', but I have to believe that most people appreciate and are thankful for us or I'll go crazy

It's hard to see the benefit sometimes, when you're getting called to the same horrible jobs with people who hate you, but then once a week or so, I'll have a job that makes it all worth it, and where I've really made a difference to a scared, vulnerable person, who might never have had the police anywhere near them before, at that lowest ebb, and it reminds me why we do it.

I work for an animal charity , low pay and a strong stomach sometimes required but I love my job

I work in women's refuge - the good days are amazing and the bad days are awful but tbh at the end of every day, I like going to bed at night knowing there are woman and children sleeping safely because of my team

malmseywhine I really want to know where you work!! I have compiled a shortlist, can you say if any of these are right?? might be too invested in this

• Tower of London
• Buckingham palace
• London Dungeons
• Houses of parliament
• Westminster cathedral
• Tower Bridge

Aagghh please tell me! for bribing purposes

ohholyfuck on behalf of the police, thank you to you and your team for all your work

Biologist and bloody love it.

I had an art BTEC so not a likely career but I'm bloody good at it.

I get to travel around the world, manage my own work, be creative with experiments and it's really rewarding.

Money is good (45K), and progression is great if you work at it. I started as a trainee 12 years ago on £9000 whilst studying a degree and a college course whilst working. It nearly killed me but totally worth it. Unfortunately they don't do the trainee scheme anymore, which is noticeable as the calibre of science graduates in the U.K. Is shocking. They may as well not go for all they learn. I'm talking not knowing the four bases of DNA......in a job where your expected to design molecular biology experiments off the bat, which all US and most Continental graduates can do straight away.

I'm a social worker in child protection. I love it. It is nothing like the media portray. Most families welcome help and I generally have a good relationship with the parents and children. It is well paid, varied; no two days are the same and it never gets boring.
It helps that the council I work for are one of the top performing in terms of children's services. I can imagine it is a nightmare without the right support.

I am a Midwife and there is no better job (IMO). I absolutely love it - it knackers me - but, miracles is a great line of work to be in 😊. I am dual trained, so also a Nurse. I do the minimum amount of hours required to maintain my Nurse registration, not brave enough to give it up yet! But, Midwifery is my passion!

Sorry washingmatilda it's none of those. I have to be vague because we are a very small team but it's a more arts based venue.

Senior science technician, in an academy. Massively varied, no 2 days the same. Start at 8, finish at 4.25. kids are great fun, headteacher and HODs are great, department of 14 is like one big family.

Ok, pay isn't brilliant, but it's term time only, and they've bent over backwards to accommodate this single parent of 2..I do some school runs, and the start time is flexible to cope, as they know I'll make it up.

Time with the kids in the school hols is invaluable.. No other job would fit in so well.

I spent 15 years doing IT support in the school before becoming science tech, so 18 years in all this September.

I am a professional kitty/puppy cuddler.

Yep!

I work at a kennels and the official title is kennel assistant, but I'm in charge of play time usually!
We walk, feed, bathe, groom and clean the dogs and cats and we are encouraged to give as much love as possible! It's a lovely place to work.
I quit a higher paying job to do this and I have no regrets.