What's your job and are you proud of it?

[BusinessAnalyst]

AIBU to ask what you do for a living? 'm bored in hospital and waiting for an appointment that's running very behind. Thought I'd try and start an upbeat thread.
Whats your job / job title, and how did you get there, are you proud of it?

I'll go first, im a senior business analyst. I'm really proud of it. Didn't go to uni, started working full time straight after college. Had a couple of jobs in my late teens just to see me through and sort of fell into an admin role in the financial services. Worked my way up the ladder slowly but surely, joined another IFA / finance broker and started as a junior business analyst. After 3 years of working really really had I'm a senior BA, and currently the only BA in the company. I'm really proud of it! Managed to achieve it all while having cancer and being very sick, as a single mum of one.

There's my story. Please share your achievements and what you do if you're comfortable. I love hearing what others do for work and how they got there! Maybe if anyone's looking for a change they can get some inspo from this thread.

I love this and congratulations, sounds like you’ve done a fabulous job and hope you are now well.

I commission services for adults with physical disabilities. Very proud of my job and the impact it has as well as working my way up from admin level support with no degree.

Wow, what a selfless person you are to do such a huge job for people with disabilities. What's your favourite part of the job, and your least favourite?

Retired civil servant who worked with vulnerable people. Loved my job but after my mum died it put things into perspective and took early retirement and now volunteer for an animal charity which is very rewarding.

I used to be a technical/legal specialist in a very niche area, working with some very vulnerable people and with some highly challenging issues. It was busy, stressful, emotionally difficult, and exhausting, and I loved it. I was very proud. Now I do a boring corporate job that I don't like, but I earn more. I'm not proud or not proud, it just is what it is.

Pastoral/Behaviour manager in a secondary.I was a dinner lady in a primary 18 months ago applied for t.a at current school got it then promoted a year later.I love it and im proud at what I've achieved.

I work in Comms and don’t give a shit 😂

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I’m proud to be a nurse - qualified 33 years now. It’s changed so much & i’m now counting the days till I can retire

I'm a nurse in a community hospital, providing care to mainly the elderly who need rehabilitation and palliative/end of life care. I used to work in a cardiac ward which I absolutely loved. When I left school I never had the ambition to go to uni and never saw myself as a very academic person, but going to uni to get my degree was one of my biggest achievements. I love my job!

This sounds really interesting. I wonder how you'd even get into something like that. Did you go to uni?

Ah amazing! I have long QT syndrome so see cardiac nurses a lot. Thank you for all you do!

I make beautiful things and sell them. I love it and am learning constantly which I think I’m proud of.

I’m a senior academic, teaching the profession I spent 15 years working in prior to entering academia and studying for a doctorate. I left school at 16 with 2 GCSEs, mainly due to undiagnosed neurodivergence, so I’m very proud of how far I’ve come

I'm a remedial hypnotist and love what I do. I wouldn't say I'm proud of my work but I am always in awe of the power of the mind and I'm really happy that my work makes such a difference in people's everyday lives.

I did yeah, but in a different subject, which I changed my mind about after graduating 😅 I sort of fell into the field, working in admin/secretarial roles first. They paid for me to do a conversion course to get the right qualifications and I worked my way up. I miss it a lot!

Until very recently I was a registered manager of a therapeutic children’s home for children aged 12-17. I am planning on returning soon, just took a few months out to do some specific safeguarding work. I left school at 16 and went into the civil service, then did an OU degree from aged 22-28 while working full time and doing other training and volunteering. I’m proud that I’ve had a (hopefully) positive impact on the lives of hundreds of vulnerable teens, and improved their outcomes. I also spend 10 years teaching pregnant teens and young parents, some of whom still keep in touch. So yes, I am proud of what I’ve done.

I work in an ancient manor house that's been turned into a museum.

I absolutely love it and if I'm still healthy in 10 years, I won't be retiring.

I used to work for the MOJ and honestly, I hated it. I would never have recommended it to anyone, and still wouldn't . It was full on 24/7 and so poorly paid.

I have worked for the CAB in employment law and then moved into nursing. I loved both. Now I do work in an area that I love and enjoy and it's well paid for the work that I do. I can't say what it is! :D

I work as an independent contractor within the AI domain, it's an interesting place to be in the current climate.

I find it interesting and varied but not proud of it as such, no - but I don't feel a need to be either. It's just a job that works for me (WFH, flexible, happy with the pay) and I'm good at it. I see it as a means to an end to fund the parts of my life I enjoy and am proud of.

In my twenties I had a totally different career that felt much more part of my identity, I would probably have said I was proud of it at the time but I had no work life balance and in hindsight was never a passion, I wasn't really benefitting anything meaningful. I feel much happier with my work set up approaching 40, where my emotional investment is pretty minimal.

I'm a cleaner and yes, very proud of my job. I spent 20 years out of the workplace with caring responsibilities and have overcome a lot to get back to work including poor mental and physical health and a complete loss of confidence so just being out there in the world again feels like a minor miracle.

I'm a piano teacher.
I got a degree in European marketing, has a 20 year career in European marketing, and left when I had a kid.
I didn't want to return to the high stress environment of the corporate world, and started my new career in 2015.

see this to me just seems so elegant and feminine. Do you still love teaching the piano?

As you should be! Being a cleaner as a profession requires such precise attention to detail and skill. 20 years out of a work place and still managing to do this job, which is hard work at that, is amazing, and I think you're amazing too.

AI domain seems like such a niche industry but so prevalent in the current times.

Do you have any interesting stories about the history of the place that you wouldn't mind sharing? I love a museum and don't get to them anywhere near enough. Although I'm tackling the natural history muz with DD this month!