If you are still going out to work what do you do?

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I'm just nosey and wonder which industries are classed as key workers other than the NHS Police Fire Brigade and Shop Staff.

I know of 3 in my family.

Armed Forces
Social Worker
Dog Unit Support

Rest of the family are working from home but aren't key workers so can't actually go out to work.

What are bankers and lawyers going to work for?
Some of them are in magistrate's courts dealing with people who've spent the night in a cell.

I work in admin for a charity supporting vulnerable people. Most staff are wfh, but we are still keeping the back office functions running.

Banking (Building Society Counter Staff so not important)

It blows my mind every day how many people expect us to be operating as normal and the shit we get so I cannot fathom how NHS staff and the like are coping

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Food industry. In a town of 120000, about 35000 are in key worker positions. It doesn't look that much like lockdown here apart from the pubs...

@radioband

I read your post and thought "Why is she homeless if she is a housing officer"

I think I have contracted Moronavirus......

Personal I'm in retail banking. Frontline staff who deal with customers have to be in because the technology isn't in place for them to answer the phone and access secure systems from home. It's also a huge fraud risk.

TA - going in on a rota.

Don't work for NHS perse but work for a company that manages facilities at a hospital building, so at a hospital 5 days a week.

@Doggybiccys very VERY important. I don’t think people realise that you are in fact a KEY worker. And an important one.

I work in a care home

What are bankers and lawyers going to work for?

Money still needs to be processed (direct debits, any transaction in a card or contactless, loans, mortgages)

Lawyers will be providing advice on acquisitions and mergers; employment law; criminal law; conveyancing (house move) etc. It all hasn’t stopped. Might not be a priority but it’s still needed.

DH is in the insurance industry as an IT manager - classed as a key industry, so he is in the office getting everyone else set up to WfH once that is done he'll be 50/50 WfH / office based as they need someone in the deal with the physical hardware.

Housing officer, apparently we are key workers, who knew! WFH since lockdown but going back into office next week as it will be so much easier to actually to do my job there than at home

Nhs midwife

Dental nurse

Daily nanny , eg childcare.

Vet - impossible to do my job from home as provide emergency care.

Finance office, engineering supplies industry. For complicated IT reasons which I won't go into, I can't work from home.

Police officer (despite the recent threads on here most of us aren’t cunts). Am in CID, and am working my normal shifts.

Wife is a nurse, normally sexual health but has been redeployed to a covid ward. Gone from normal days to 12.5 hour shifts on the ward.

Neighbour works for Rentokil and says they're dead busy.

His wife is a decorator - still working in empty houses (no one lives there, not just that people have gone out!) and on property exteriors

Builder.

My family :

Me.. TA in special school.. we have a handful of children in.
DH.. driver
DD1 Doctor.. frontline on Covid wards
DD2 Nurse
DS2 Supermarket checkout.
DD2's finance (lives with us) Community carer

Only DS1 is not currently a key worker... he was a TA but left for Australia just before lockdown.. about to start a similar job there!

I am a nursery nurse. We have lost a lot of children and our team of 15 is now 8

Husband is a farrier, and can still work, as horses come under animal welfare.
I do admin, from home.

DH works in food production so is an essential worker.

I'm a SAHM who had just started a business literally as this kicked off, no clients yet so for us not much has changed day to day except I'm now wrangling a toddler at home all day.