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Original poster

What jobs can you say 'tomorrow is a new day'

74 replies

Whattodonut · 16/02/2023 20:43

I'm having a mid-career crisis. And the hardest part is finding out what I don't know.
I'm a researcher now and while it's fine I realised that what I want is a job where you end the day and really do start a new day the next. Basically I'm sick of projects that go on and on and take months or years to end.
My random examples are air- traffic controller, or train driver. The jobs might be stressful but you're not carrying things over to the next day. Tomorrow really is a new day.
Can anyone suggest some more? As I'm not interested in doing either of those examples! Something where at the end of the day you finish and start again anew the next.

OP posts:
XenoBitch · 16/02/2023 20:44

Operating Department Practitioner.

Findyourneutralspace · 16/02/2023 20:45

Journalist, for the most part

antipodeancanary · 16/02/2023 20:46

Emergency paramedic.

ukholidayseeker · 16/02/2023 20:47

Teaching assistant

Education Coordinator for school trips at a museum or farm

Flight attendant

throwingandcatching · 16/02/2023 20:48

any A&E job

WeakAsIAm · 16/02/2023 20:48

Nurse, no 2 days are ever the same

kitsuneghost · 16/02/2023 20:50

Would that not be boring. Half the fun is the problem solving and nothing like the feeling when a difficult project is completed.

OrangeStrawberryPlum · 16/02/2023 20:50

Cleaner
Nurse
Shop worker
Firefighter
Farm hand
Maintenance worker

BiasedBinding · 16/02/2023 20:51

Waiting staff, cleaner, working in a shop

TheActualDuck · 16/02/2023 20:51

Underwriter in a call call centre, you just sign off your decision and that's that, Very pressurised environment but absolutely nothing hanging over to your next shift.

TobermorysMusicMachine · 16/02/2023 20:51

A&E used to be. Now the same patients are still
in the department the next day 😞

Original poster
Whattodonut · 16/02/2023 20:53

I don't know if I explained it well- as e.g. wouldn't a journalist work on the same story over multiple days?
I want something where what you do on Monday doesn't get carried over to Tuesday, or to the week after. It's probably not the case for all but most medical practitioners must have some follow ups to do sometimes?

OP posts:
xyz111 · 16/02/2023 20:53

Emergency services - either out in the field or in the control room

Original poster
Whattodonut · 16/02/2023 20:54

kitsuneghost · 16/02/2023 20:50

Would that not be boring. Half the fun is the problem solving and nothing like the feeling when a difficult project is completed.

That is true. I guess I'd like a puzzle that I can solve in a day. I do enjoy the puzzle solving part of my job.

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millionsofproducts · 16/02/2023 20:55

I think basically any job where you don't either potentially kill/harm someone (so brain surgery is out), don't care about the people you're working with (ie any kind of medical/caring/social work job), or feel guilty about for days afterwards (ie journalism).

XenoBitch · 16/02/2023 20:55

Whattodonut · 16/02/2023 20:53

I don't know if I explained it well- as e.g. wouldn't a journalist work on the same story over multiple days?
I want something where what you do on Monday doesn't get carried over to Tuesday, or to the week after. It's probably not the case for all but most medical practitioners must have some follow ups to do sometimes?

Paramedic drops patient off at A&E... job done.

Grumpybutfunny · 16/02/2023 20:57

Whattodonut · 16/02/2023 20:53

I don't know if I explained it well- as e.g. wouldn't a journalist work on the same story over multiple days?
I want something where what you do on Monday doesn't get carried over to Tuesday, or to the week after. It's probably not the case for all but most medical practitioners must have some follow ups to do sometimes?

Hospital laboratory scientist if you stay in a lower band.

PeanutButterSmoothie · 16/02/2023 21:03

I totally get this as I was a bid manager at a FTSE company. Bids going on for months with a rising crescendo of pressure towards the end. Phone pinging all evening with emails I'd been copied into.

I had a massive change and now work for the aggregates arm of a medium sized construction company. Mainly driving trucks to move building materials between sites, and also arranging maintenance (lots of heavy machinery, diggers, etc) and helping with procurement a bit. Never give my job a second thought when I leave work.

Truck drivers can easily make £50k nowadays. My mate made £60k last year just moving rental cranes around sites (he doesn't operate the cranes). He barely drives 50 miles a week. The money mainly comes from the cranes but without him it can't happen.

They charge thousands for crane rental and you can add a couple of zeros on the end for the massive cranes that lift hundreds of tons (biggest can lift 1200 tons). Sometimes you need two cranes to do a tandem lift.

TowerRaven7 · 16/02/2023 21:04

I work at a foundation that gives food/new clothes to needy students in our school district. Social workers contact us via a sales order, I fill the requested items then send them off for shipping. It’s low paid but I feel I’m a ‘good value’ and feel like I’m making a difference. Very rarely does one day spill into the next. Every day is definitely a new day for me.

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Whattodonut · 16/02/2023 21:04

I wonder if that's the real problem- that the higher up you go the more you have to work on longer projects and strategic plans. I've got pretty high up my ladder so I don't think I'd be happy staying lower down just to have that day to day.

OP posts:
Hawkins003 · 16/02/2023 21:05

Retail in sales?

Hawkins003 · 16/02/2023 21:06

Whattodonut · 16/02/2023 21:04

I wonder if that's the real problem- that the higher up you go the more you have to work on longer projects and strategic plans. I've got pretty high up my ladder so I don't think I'd be happy staying lower down just to have that day to day.

Civil service, planning operations missions ect

Original poster
Whattodonut · 16/02/2023 21:06

Thank you for all the answers. Obviously I have no idea what I really want but these are some amazingly varied suggestions! Definitely lots I hadn't thought of!

OP posts:
BiasedBinding · 16/02/2023 21:07

Right, I mean there are absolutely loads of minimum wage jobs that fulfil the criteria but it doesn’t sound like you’re interested in them

ODPintheNHS · 16/02/2023 21:07

XenoBitch · 16/02/2023 20:44

Operating Department Practitioner.

I came here to say that 🤣🤣

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