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

An interesting demographic snapshot of Mumsnet.

In the real world many people are working in retail, or for minimum wage or on a zero hours contract.

In Mumsnet's pleasant pastures most women are high flyers.

Not a criticism- I earn more than I need- just an obsservation.

Hospital nurse. Hate it, chronically understaffed , can’t look after people properly. Hope to go into community after maternity leave with this bavy

Support worker, 45 minutes drive from home. Could work closer but I like the client group and the set up where I work, it's very interesting and varied with huge freedom to implement new ideas, organise new things, and get involved in different things. I also sometimes earn my salary by doing the stuff other people pay to do in their free time

The variety is the best thing - I do things from teaching foreign language lessons to dressing wounds to accompanying clients to the ballet to cooking dinner for 14 to writing reports all in one weekend, and also like that I always work with the same clients so get to know them in depth.

I used to be a secondary school teacher but vastly prefer what I do now.

Special needs classroom assistant in a special school. I work with non verbal autistic teenagers it's hard work and I get hurt a lot but I absolutely love it.

Long haul flight attendant, done it for 17 years. I'm part time so fly twice a month for 3-5 days at a time so fits in well with the kids. Now I'm getting older the jet lag is harder to deal with and by the time I get home I feel like death, but I love my job I get a break from the kids and get to see the world

Event Coordinator by day, supermarket worker by night. I’m like the world’s worst superhero

God the balance on this thread 😂 to add a better view, I'm a housekeeper in a hotel!

Before my current job I was a zero hour carer an hour if that balances it out a bit. My current roll is still awful money but sounds a bit more impressive.

Not sure where that an hour came from was meant to say on minimum wage.

A&E consultant. Absolutely hate it, but can’t think of anything else I could move into on the same or similar money with the same flexibility (annualised rota). And I’d think it was a total waste of 1/4 century of training and experience. And I never have to wait in a 6 hour queue, which has got to be the biggest/only perk of the job.

Veterinary Nurse in a mixed small and large animal practice. Absolutely love it , especially now it's coming up to lambing season .

Head of Customer Experience for a social enterprise, I’m really lucky, pays well, 30 days holiday, decent pension and I’m home by 5 most days!

Project mgmt/operations for a small start up consultancy
Part time from home, reduced hours during school holidays
Perfectly fits with my life, varied interesting work, lovely clients, masses of autonomy & a really wonderful boss

High school teacher with a school with a large number of refugees (I teach in Melbourne). I used to be a research fellow at a sandstone university. I love my job - love teaching English and literacy to students who appreciate all that I do for them.

@grumpos I assume you're talking about the message you see when you start a chat with someone new - the the conversations are encrypted end to end thing?
That means it's encrypted in the middle. Like you write a letter to a friend I can read it, if you put it in an envelope, I can't. But once it's opened at the other end, I can.
Many phones are encrypted, but it's usually based on the password of the owner. Some are very forthcoming with the passcode, others not and that's when the magic happens!

Sometimes it's a pain and I can read everything on a phone as you do as a user, but the software cannot extract it to a computer.
Phones can generate 20000+ pages of data, it's astounding, so we ask the officers to be specific!

Adult Education Tutor. Decent pay and rewarding.

What a variety of jobs....inspiring

Used to work in travel. Now I import and sell it on for a profit from home.

IT manager for a global oil and gas company.

20 minute commute with flexibility to work from home. Annual bonus and usual benefits associated with the type of industry.

Greggers2017 can I ask how you got into substance misuse work? I trained with a charity years ago as a motivational interviewer and subsequently worked in therapeutic roles but I can't get back in the door!

I am a coordinator and assistant manager for an agency. 5 minute commute, some flexibility in hours, fairly decent pay. There are aspects I love, such as the logistics, analysis of hours, pushing figures around, auditing,......but I miss working directly with people.

speakout - I agree! Love how almost everybody posting is in a senior management/professional/semi professional role! Despite the UK average salary being 24k and one in five people earning less than the living wage.

I’m a Health and Safety Officer. I’ve done lots of jobs though. I used to be a healthcare professional.

HR manager for a university with a five minute commute. Love it most days but some people treat HR like shit.

FT - after sales for a luxury car brand (40hrs, 3 mile commute)
PT - home carer/support worker (5-15hrs)

SENCO in a big state secondary school. Enjoy the variety, it’s a good mix of teaching, meetings, management of the LSAs, dealing with the legal and financial aspects. Hate the politics, and the ridiculous workload - my average day in school is 7.30-5.30 and that’s without marking and lesson prep which I do at home.

Having said that, I’m retiring end of this school year and the pension is great. I’m very relieved my own dc haven’t gone into teaching - the profession is so far removed from what I trained to go into and frankly it’s a mugs game

A&E consultant. Absolutely hate it, but can’t think of anything else I could move into on the same or similar money with the same flexibility (annualised rota). And I’d think it was a total waste of 1/4 century of training and experience. And I never have to wait in a 6 hour queue, which has got to be the biggest/only perk of the job.

Just spent 3 weeks in various parts of a large teaching hospital with my Dad and it really brought it home to us how hard hospital consultants work in an impossible job. I was exhausted just by visiting. The doctors there were working 15 hour shifts for 8 days straight over Christmas in an awful environment under extreme pressure. Over Christmas and New Years, all responsibility and work landed on the worn out junior doctors. Completely in awe and can see why anyone would want to get out but feel completely trapped.

Sorry for the hijack!

Bid manager. My commute is 1hr15 each way which is on the lower end of normal if you work in London and live in the burbs or further out. The journey time is useful to me but £££ and just gets more and more £££.