To ask what you do for a job?

[marsbarheaven]

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

Midwife. Love being with the woman and her family, love it when I get continuity of care. Love my shift pattern. Hate the politics, hate the chronic understaffing, hate the pressures and a feeling that I could lose my pin at anytime.

@onlymyselftoanswerto1

Thank you! My MA dissertation was on DA and between that and work I was so glad to submit it! I’m just awaiting official confirmation of PhD now but that will be on social attitudes towards lone mothers. It’s very interesting being on the front line and learning about human behaviour, managing the risks and keeping families safe. However, it’s like an itch when you want to delve deeper and do something about it! I’ve checked emails 100000 times so far and no news yet...

Good luck on your assignments too; hopefully work will be ok. Strong coffee when you get in!

Community midwife.

Can finally say I love my job (was too stressed in hospital environment)

Management role in the health and well-being sector, specialising in physical activity and community engagement.
Fascinating and varied work with some travelling involved. 20 minute commute and I can WFH whenever I want.
Best job I've had in a while.

I work with children with ASN and studying to be a primary teacher

I love my current job tho will be very sad to leave. Hope to specialise in ASN

~whispers~

Journalist. But before you all nails I'm not the type that lifts things from MN!!! I mainly write about food and travel.

And I work from home though have to eat out a lot and stay in hotels which is a pita with childcare but just first world problems

Another Occupational Therapist.

Specialist nurse, working more than full time, but I love it.
No weekend or night duty, public holidays off.
Took nearly 30 years but it is great.

Principal Policy Officer in central Government. Background is in environment but am now working on children's policy. Work 30 hours flexibly around core hours and work commitments and live a four minute walk away from work 😀

I’m loving this thread. So interesting

Midwife sonographer. I’m very lucky, i love my job and never ever have a day when I wake up thinking I don’t want to go to work

HR Manager in Manufacturing.

Accountant in one of the big four firms (financial auditor). Very senior so tons of flexibility. Flipping love it most weeks but some weeks the hours / deadlines can be excessive. Took me many years to get up the food chain.

Midwife here. Been in NHS 30 +years now. Love my job but by God it's changed over the years. I work 12.5 hr night shifts 3 shifts a week. We get an hours break if we are lucky. Hate the bureaucracy, managers who can't manage and understaffing that we always seem to have. Love the privilege of assisting women and their partners through labour and being the first person to hand them their new born. Earn under £40k and tbh for the responsibility I have it's not enough.

Probation Officer based in a women's prison

Legal aid criminal solicitor. Relentless and a bit shit!
Good stories for down the pub though 😁

@DerelictWreck

I do. Do you work for a London based 3 letter acronym?

TEFL teacher - teaching English abroad.

I have lived in 3 countries over 20 years, meeting dh the way, we now have a tri-lingual child!

I have met some very, very interesting people: mafiosos, judges, police chiefs, fire fighters... Corrected all their vowels

Pay is rubbish, but we live in a cheapish place on the Med, so I can't complain.

My job isn't nearly as exciting or skilled as many of these on here but I work hard and am proud of what I have achieved because it hasn't been easy over the years. I was a supervisor at poundworld, having worked my way up from shop assistant and was devastated when they went under.i loved it there. Was out of work for about 3 weeks and managed to get another retail job. Sales assistant again but a jobs a job and was so relieved to be back in work.

Financial Analyst - Good money - but they own my life. In the office from roughly 7.00 till 21.30-23.00 Monday to Friday and most Saturday afternoons - spend Sunday evenings prepping the week to come.

My commute is very okay (20-minute cycle on urban cycle paths) but I live in a one-bed apartment with a ridiculous mortgage to make sure I can be back in the office quick enough when a director calls.

I can't see things getting better - I'm not sure the pay is worth it when I realize I haven't seen my apartment in daylight for months -

I don't know if it's my fault for not delegating enough or if it's just how the job works.

Sometimes I love the thrill, but sometimes I dream of a quieter life.
That said- I'm not in the UK and I benefit from some of the strongest employee protection laws in the world. So it's very much a first world problem.

International business development manager at a University- well paid, nice overseas travel opportunities but can be very stressful at times and need to be connected outside regular hours

Can I ask where you are re strong protection laws? They aren’t doing you much good with those hours :(

I'm a Specialist Nurse in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, I work with young offenders. I like it, it is very interesting, although sometimes upsetting.