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

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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.

I really empathise with how you feel OP - my job is very much what you don’t want - I’m a lawyer in the civil service so don’t be that!

Would love to be able to call each day a day when it came to the end

School office, post workers, retail.

Depends on the kind of journalist. A lot of radio/TV news journalists work hour to hour. My day in radio news is done after my last bulletin and I start fresh the next day.

Also I’ve the other poster who said journalists would ‘feel guilty for days after’ Errr what?

*love not I’ve!

If projects aren't well defined/managed it can feel like you are working on the same thing for months, especially in research. But if the project is broken down into tasks, the end of each task is in sight.

Long haul Flight Attendant.

Paramedic

In office work it usually is IME.

In other sectors you can often make loads more by doing the same job but as a Ltd company rather than an. employee. For example, if I spent about £8k and six months learning/tests etc, I could get my operators license and be an owner/operator and cut out the middle man (my employer).

My boss charges our clients almost £700 a day for a truck and driver. I get almost £200, fuel is £200-250, and employer keeps the rest. If I had the operator's license I could lease my own truck and keep my employer's share too.

I'd have to put some aside for maintenance/truck lease but I could still make hundreds a day doing effectively the same job but with a bit more admin and maintenance management.

My sister's mate makes around £100k as an experienced plumber in the city. That's not an exaggeration.

What is the salary range you’re looking at?

I guess GP would fit the bill but obvs not exactly a walk-in job.

Maybe work in a court? Clerk or paralegal perhaps? Some cases are multi day of course but most still short.

I think the snag you’ll find is that higher paid roles will either carry more responsibility (so oversee longer projects) or are highly skilled (so need loads of training).

If you don’t mind the training and maybe a pay cut, then maybe look at healthcare or allied health professions such as audiologist, radiographer, optician.

Sub-editor on a national daily newspaper.
You sweated blood to get the paper out on time. Once my shift had ended and I was on my way home, any thoughts of the day's news stories were fading fast.

I absolutely sacrifice salary for quality of life tbh. As somebody who doesn't want kids, lives in a cheapish part of the country, and has a partner with a similar salary, I don't need more than mid/late £40k's.

Our combined income is about £90k and that's plenty for our lifestyle. Have more disposable income than a lot of our mates with kids.

Bricklayers are making £45k nowadays and many I meet onsite aren't exactly the brightest of sparks.

Airport jobs like customs, teh people at the immigration desks who check passports, security people on the scanners for hand luggage.

Lots of retail and hospitality, although low pay and rubbish hours.

Various beauty stuff. Like nail tec, lash tec etc.

Hairdresser is one that first comes to mind. Once customer is gone start again nothing goes into next day.

Receptionist. Good for gossip too.

As PP said, daily newspaper production - a sub-editor or designer.

In the olden days before email, my desk at the paper used to get covered in papers: page proofs, picture request forms, press releases. At the end of each day, I'd sweep my arm across and every single sheet would go in the recycling bin, leaving a completely clean desk. Best feeling you'll ever have at work!

As a nurse, I'm surprised that healthcare jobs like nursing...and being a GP?! have been suggested.

There are some healthcare jobs where when you leave for the day that's it, job done. Like maybe being a scrub or theatre recovery nurse, or working in A&E. But in the majority of healthcare roles you don't clock out for the day and start the next as a brand new one, without having to pick up loose ends from where you left off.

I'd be interested to know if the people who have suggested healthcare actually work in healthcare.

(Braces for NHS bashing).

Disclaimer: I have been a theatre recovery nurse before, and that is the only nursing job that I felt I could say "tomorrow is a new day", as we closed at 10pm (hopefully).

I'm not convinced OP will want to leave a senior professional job to be a nail technician.

PCSO
Response Police Officer where they don’t investigate crimes just turn up deal and hand it over to a team

Can you say more about what you do and what (if anything) you like about it? That would make it easier to suggest things you might realistically go for. Also what do you need/want to earn?

School Cover Supervisor but the pay is dire and you have to have the patience of a saint and be able to manage behaviour.
Each day, however, is a brand new day with usually different staff off so a different subject and different lesson plan.
Each pupil gets a fresh start the following morning.
Rinse and repeat.

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