To ask what you do for a job?

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Just interested in career ideas!

I have a 3 yo and a 4 yo, currently working full time (compressed hours) in a large corporate company, commuting 1.5hrs each way 3 days a week, working from home 1 day

Administrator for a charity. I used to be a manager in a different company but then I had a baby and decided part time and zero stress was worth the financial sacrifice.

I work at a University as a Student Experience Officer, so I look after the students on a certain course from a pastoral perspective and support them with any issues with their personal lives, general wellbeing and studies. I also organise events and sit on wider committees across the University. I absolutely LOVE my job and feel as though I am well-suited to it. I will never be rich working in Higher Education, but I feel secure and job satisfaction and feeling valued go an awful long way. I can't imagine doing anything else now...

I'm a headhunter in financial services - specifically wealth management. Have a background in publishing which I would love to get back into but have been doing recruitment for the past 5 years now.

I disappoint people.

@anyat212

Wow congrats, £27k must go a lot further in the north east! My mortgage and bills is £600 a month, after pension and student loan my monthly salary is £1527 😬😬😬 our total costs are £1200 but me and my husband split it in half. If you’re earning that in the north east I reckon the equivalent would probably be about £32k here?

I want a pay rise!!

Nurse as well. I work on an acute medical/ dementia ward. We are a locked ward so take the people with the more extreme end of dementia. I also do an agency shift every week as I want to be able to sell the house and buy on my own.

Work as the team administrator/service point of contact in a drugs and alcohol team in a women's prison

@LeslieYep you have the best job ever!

Director of Engineering for a global company.
I love what I do.

I’m a barrister. Self employed. Specialise in family law. Qualified now for 23 years. Training is expensive. But the rewards are good.

I’m a largely court based lawyer. My nearest court is 10 minutes from home. That’s where I practice more than half the time. On average one week a month I have a case at another court a hour and a half away.

At the beginning of each year I book most of the school holidays off. To be able to afford to do that I have to work full time the rest of the year. Court days usually finish around 4pm. I get the evenings with the children but do prep every week night pretty much between 9pm and 11pm or later.

I’m not answerable to anyone else when I take holiday. But I don’t get paid when I’m not working. Last year one of my children became desperately, life threateningly unwell (she is recovering now), and I took weeks off and had months of working part time. That had a significant impact on finances. But I’ve always been aware of these risks and had savings.

I love my job and love the autonomy.

I'm an emergency planner, Director Level, in a local authority. Full time, although can go over and occasionally on call if I cover. Can be stressful, particularly if we have a (major) incident, but every day is different.

I'm either writing, developing and training training other colleagues, attending training myself, attending multi-agency meetings, writing plans, debriefing, briefing, exercising (plans not physically ), responding to incidents, working with the public, risk assessing and many other things that I can't legally discuss.

Door to door 20 minutes on a bad day. Very flexible, brilliant pay, 33 days + BH annual leave, pension is second to none. Most importantly my team is the best I've ever worked with.

It's an up and coming industry though, so it's going to get harder to get in to. Bloody worth it though.

@pissedonatrain thanks! I usually get asked lots of questions when I tell people what I do! It is fun mostly and not hugely difficult to get into if you're technically minded. Just the fight to get in to the area can be hard, but I started back in 2006, when most phone data had to be manually typed out so I have an eye for detail too! Hence a side job of proofreading!

I have found this thread so so interesting and inspiring. What an incredible bunch of women you all are!

I own and run a small PR and social media agency

@Cafeaulait27

Our mortgage is only £400 per month (we did put a bigger deposit down than needed and was a fairly cheap house as it needed a lot of work) and with bills we put another £400 each into a joint account which covers the essentials plus the take-aways, treats etc. It is much cheaper in the North when I read threads on here I’m always shocked at how expensive down South is!

I think London prices would maybe around the £32k Mark, Advisors tend to range from £25k - £30k in our bench marking exercises for the company I work for. Although some around my area are on £22k but they are the smaller companies I guess.

Where are you based?

Self employed domestic cleaner and gardener.

Soyalatteforme I did maternity leave cover at Anglian Water. Being in-house was brilliant. No time recording and no dealing with the public.

I work on a service desk running a small team of engineers who repair commercial catering equipment in and around London. I’ve only been there just over six months but I am enjoying it. It’s far more Male dominated than anywhere I’ve worked before which I like and although there’s lots of repetition in the work I don’t mind because my colleagues are great far and away the best I’ve worked with and I’ve been around the block !
It’s been tough getting back into work- 9 years ago- post divorce and being a SAHM and I’ve done a few jobs along the way but I’m really happy where I’ve ended up 😀

I worked in the civil service and NHS for many years. I found it very dull. I'm now a librarian in our large city centre library four days a week but also volunteer twice a month as a curator for various local museums.

@anyat212 I’m in Sussex! It’s lovely but is pricey ☺️

I work for the police in murder enquiry rooms for major investigations

Im a SENCO and safeguarding teacher in a mainstream primary school. I love my job but so many cuts mean that SN referrals are taking years and the turnaround of social workers is huge. I'm no longer class based and am getting increasingly frustrated with the firefighting and dealing with understandably frustrated parents.
Looking at my options.

Another occupational therapist. Enjoy my work!

So interesting to hear from so many people! Thank you :)

Occupational therapy is a route I've considered - looks as if most OTs enjoy it?

Firefighter. I LOVE my job x

@LeslieYep are you a warranted officer or police staff? I'm a copper and a lot of the forensics side seems to have a much better deal at the moment!