If you love your job, what is it you do?

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Really not enjoying my job at the moment, and wasting quite a bit of time thinking about how im not enjoying it. If you really like your job on the whole what is it you do?

@PiPinkFootstool how would someone get in to that work ?

I'm a senior lecturer on a permanent scholarship and teaching contract in RG Uni. I mainly design courses and work from home.

Civil service arms length body producing advice to government and the public in the field I trained in. I do the job I hoped I would do when I was fifteen.

I work for myself and work as a life coach online and over the phone. I think it is utter bliss to have no commute no management to put up with no annoying colleagues no team meetings etc. I still count my lucky stars after ten years self employment!

I'm an emergency call assessor/health Advisor for the ambulance service. I'm also an emergency medical dispatcher

I love it. The hours are long and the pay is shit but I enjoy it

I’m a sports coach who works specifically with children.

I’m an HR manager for a university. I love it but it’s absolutely full on most days.

I help dh run our company. I mostly wfh, choose my hours, my role has expanded as my confidence has grown.

Im a Buyer for one of the big 4 supermarkets

Primary teacher 😁

What are you retraining into @BritInAus ?

I’m a matron in a boarding school. I’ve almost completed my first academic year and absolutely love it. I look after 50 teens aged 13-18.

I work in financial crime for a pension/insurance company.

Mostly work from home - expected to be in the office a few days a week but no one is particularly watching or bothered if you don’t really. Can start and finish whatever time you want to a degree, just as long as you do your hours per day and it is reasonable times - I often start at 7 and finish at 3 for example. Some people finish at 2.30 and only take a 30 min lunch. I don’t have kids myself but they’re very easy going with the people that do who need to do school runs etc. No micromanagement at all, we all are left to do what we need to do and how we want to do it as we’re trusted. The work is very interesting in comparison to any other job working in financial services if you like being nosy and investigating!

All bank holidays off and 28 days holiday per annum. Annual fancy-ish conferences and volunteer days. Good pension contributions and health insurance.

The only downside is the pay. We aren’t paid in line with what we should technically be paid for our role but it is not horrendous!

That sounds interesting @MyView2 , yes id be very grateful for any tips / advice!

C-Suite in a tech company

Lots of options.

I have a degree in criminology, was a police officer including a Detective for a decade, spent another 5yrs in an unrelated type of criminal prosecutorial and investigative role and ended up here (deliberately not saying where).

I work with people in the same role with no degree, others in their first job out of university, ex-military, ex-police or prison officers.... Huge variation in experience, age and paper qualifications. We work on increasing the intelligence, interpreting it, analysing it, identifying what is missing from the picture, applying for RIPA relating to phones and CCTV, applying for authorities to carry out surveillance, organising banking or other financial enquiries and directing the teams who do that. All sorts of other stuff.

I would say we carry out swathes of pure criminal investigation in the same way as a police officer, as we hand over full packs including statements, evidence etc which just require someone with a warrant to carry out arrests and searches.

Have a look at the Civil Service Jobs website for the keyword "intelligence" and see what you see. Lots of CS agencies have intelligence departments, although not all of it is criminal intelligence. Several colleagues started as a Collator then Analyst then Lead Analyst then departmental heads etc. NCA, MHRA, HMPPS, Forestry England....

There's also police intelligence work, but they don't pay as well!

I'd love to work in the Cabinet Office JIO, but it would require me to work in Central London every day and it doesn't pay enough for me to afford to live up there. I currently am able to do a huge amount of work remotely.

I'm a travel writer. I write about holidays, I go on holidays, I review hotels and experiences. Sometimes I even get to take DP 😁

@blueshoes Yep I spent many years in banks, office management and HR/recruitment - before working alongside my H in music industry- both live and recorded. (Non trendy stuff) It's always a pleasure knowing you are giving other people great pleasure. I've done a lot of things over the years - some great, some not so great but the good thing is I know a fair bit about a lot of industries.

Conveyancing solicitor doing a technical support role.

Crikey, glad you have found something in an industry you like. Dd is taking up computer animation. I hope she loves her job too (if she can find one when she graduates!)

Couldn't agree more. I've loved my entire career,over 30 years, but recently huge cuts to funding have made teaching so much more difficult.

Worked for the last 3 years as GP reception - was surprised how much I loved it - chatting to patients, helping them (after working all my life in very corporate environments). Now working at a private school - love getting to know the kids (13-18) and the rest of the staff. Beautiful countryside, 20 minutes drive to work, school holidays!

Quality Assurance in big pharma

NHS specialist nurse in a very niche area. Absolutely love my job. The politics not so much! But I never dread going into work.

Animal handler. I take animals into schools, care homes, groups, weddings and parties. Is my own business. No two jobs are the same and I get to work with incredible animals and meet new people. Currently early for a job and sat with a duck and parrot on me. 😂