To ask what you do for work?

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I’m early 20’s, and to be honest am a bit stuck on career choices. My dream is to become a forensic psychologist, however the current job market in this subject is terrible, and I’m paranoid about wasting time and money, over several years for a degree/s which I will end up not using!

AIBU to ask what your career is?

I work as a HR consultant in a huge bank. Pays well, great flexibility but boring as shit (imo) 😬

Military nurse!

Used to be a Police Officer, now a domiciliary care and support worker, I work hard and care about my clients but I dread each day and it's destroying my soul. The pay is crap and the hours are annoying. Luckily I'm retraining to be a counsellor which I love.

Funding Coordinator for a small charity. I raise all the money the charity needs to operate. It’s a tough job as funding shrinks and gets more competitive but I love the challenge it gives me.

As per most jobs in the charity sector the pay is dismal.

Used to do domiciliary care, then I was a bank HCA in hospital - mainly worked in the ED. Then I was a SAHM.

Now I'm studying law at uni. I'd really like to go into medical law, I'm especially interested in court of protection and mental capacity/best interests cases.

Dental nurse if 37 years. Don’t do that either!

I’ve always worked in Finance of some sort. If you like numbers then its not a bad choice and it can be well paid - see@TaxDirector’s post. Though personally I would say you need to be both very able and ambitious to earn 6 figures. Or, possibly if one of those is missing then just happy to play the games involved in getting promoted in big firms/banks/corporates.

I think if I had my time again I would work in the civil service of some sort.

Welfare Rights Caseworker, I love my job,I get to make a difference to people's lives on a daily basis

Specialist midwife. Love my job. It can be stressful but never overwhelmingly so. It's an area I love learning more about and I am able to make differences to the service we provide to make it better for women and their families that access our service.

I write novels. Which, despite the beliefs of 90% of the public, is NOT a quick route to fame and fortune.

I’m a qualified librarian.
I now work in project management.
I want to get into change management.

University registry officer dealing with academic misconduct and disciplinaries. Interesting work if you like admin.

Another former teacher here - secondary science for 16 years.

Since then, temping through agencies, which led me to a Voda Call Centre, working in the Technical office of a poultry factory, and now working for my local county council. I’m doing an apprenticeship just to enable me to apply for more advanced/senior roles.

Perhaps contact your local council’s training department and express an interest in doing a similar course. Mine is Business Administration. I advise you get a job first though, otherwise you might be recruited into an apprentice salary.

For the record, I’ll be 50 in October but some of my colleagues in their 30’s have done them too.

Information Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance. WFH and very flexible but am expected to be available in a crisis situation whatever time of day that is and whatever I’m doing. I enjoy it lots of variety, fairly high pressure because regulations change often, I’m responsible for a lot of audits, the ‘Business’ like the idea of certifications and being able to say how great our security is but don’t like spending money on it 😂 so there’s often a lot of push back.

Stay at Home Mum and Homemaker. Hugely rewarding 🥰

NHS specialist Dietitian- don’t do it.

In fact, don’t work in the NHS - crap pay, political, lots of people would through you under the bus to look after themselves, no lunch breaks, expected to work over time unpaid, difficult to get any annual leave you want.

Patients are wonderful to work with and I adore that but hate everything else about working in the NHS.

NHS Speech and Language Therapist ( working in adult neuro). I love my job, working for the NHS is as others have said pretty impossible.
I'm moving fully into private next year, otherwise I'd end up leaving the profession for good.

Chartered accountant - qualified with (what’s now) the big four. I’ve worked in practice and industry, and in different countries. I enjoy it.

I am an information & Advice worker for a charity advising on benefits, social care, housing etc.

Shared Lives?

Respect to you for that job!

must have its moments.

I manage project delivery for an art consultancy.

Meant *throw under bus

Used to work in the nhs and now a school business and finance manager. Obviously had to retrain and worked as an office manager in between.
holidays great, salary for term time only not so great. Could get a job with the same level of responsibility outside of schools for a lot more pay but then I wouldn’t get all those holidays, so swings and roundabouts.

I'm a museum assistant at a small NT property.

I'm responsible for visitor experience, children's events, building maintenance and various other things.

Best job I've ever had. After 10 years I still wake up thinking I'm going for a day out at a museum!