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.

And I am posting at 3am because tonight is one of those frequent nights where my child's overnight monitoring is constantly alerting due to dipping heart rate so I am on high alert. And the bloody feed pump is playing up too, most of the nutrition is given overnight, maintaining weight is an issue so I am on alert for that too. Sometimes I wish I had a clone so we could tag team nights like this.

People like you saved my life. Thank you ❤️

I'm the only BA in my company, I worked incredibly hard to get where I am to be a senior BA and earn the salary I do. im CII qualified. I'm definitely not a useless idiot and have made a huge difference in a very small finance company to make it into a medium sized company in the last 2 years. We're not all useless.

Name changed as it’s a small and controversial field

I’m a project manager in an Electronic Warfare company. Absolutely love my job and working with some crazy smart scientists and engineers. I started off my career in a completely unrelated field, ended up in Project Management and saw this opportunity and made a career pivot into this field. Incredibly proud of what we do as a company, we protect our troops on the front line.

And @Monzo1ss Why come on a positive thread that I and many others enjoy, and ruin it? My role isn't meaningless at all. I've worked very hard to get to where I am. I'm a very good BA at that and my pay and progress reflects that. It was a goal of mine to reach while dealing with cancer and complications from that for well over 5 years and I managed to achieve it. Please don't say my job is meaningless or people have no idea what I spend my days doing. It's really offensive.

Thank you for being so open and sharing your experience. What a wonderful, selfless person you are. Devoting your life to those children and their needs isn't something everybody would be capable of. You must have seen and heard some awful situations and I'm completely in awe of what you do. You really deserve the world, not the offensive £25 per day wage that you're on for doing this. What a lovely person you are. ❤️

I'm a very ordinary public servant doing a very ordinary job that I am quite good at.
I'm proud that I joined at the lowest grade six years ago after years of self-employment and have had three promotions since then.
And I take enormous pride in working hard and achieving positive outcomes.
Most importantly, I love my organisation's aims and values.

Technically a diplomat, although it’s been many years since I went overseas!! So I’d more call myself a civil servant who only works on foreign policy. Nothing I do is groundbreaking, although it’s exciting.

My true passion is dog breeding and the real reason why I stopped taking jobs overseas!! I can’t say I change the world, but my dogs bring joy to peoples lives and are the very best (I think) or their breed - and in a world of backyard breeders and misery, knowing I’m breeding healthy happy puppies and they’re changing peoples lives makes me impossibly happy.

People seem to hate dogs and dog breeders (in particular) at the moment. I get a lot of hate on MN. But I’ve had people buying puppies from me for the last twenty years and before that my mum who bred Goldens as well.

Obligatory photos of my boy (who is pride and joy) attached.

Name change as it’s a niche job. It’s often misunderstood. Long post.
Im a Healthcare Play Specialist. I support sick children in hospital using therapeutic play techniques and strategies . I prepare them for treatment, scans or surgery, provide distraction during if needed. I can work through why they are scared of certain procedures often though play. Provide bereavement support or advice. Lots of family support and signposting too. Lots of training so i can work with SEN too. Alot of young people with mental health issues now in general hospitals regularly.

Of course the fun: providing fun and activities/toys to help make hospital less clinical or traumatic, Developmental play assessments/play plans. Improve the environment to make it more child/teen friendly. Work with charities to help me achieve resources as there is no funding for most of us bar our wages.

Our role can be misunderstood as play people or we just give toys out and ‘play’ etc. Someone even thought i was a volunteer once. But in the background we are working hard with these patients. Play is an amazing tool when working with children and young people and is the foundation to their developing lives. I’ve found our colleagues all over the country to be very passionate about what we do. It’s an amazing job. nit highly paid ( band 4 where i am) I love it. I’m many years in. It can be stressful when the team are relying on you to get a child through a procedure or scan, when a child is upset or distressed, Or when a child passes or becomes very sick and so on. You often develop great bonds with families.

As a former nursery nurse, what you do for those children is set their foundations for learning and life . Be proud. The jobs not easy. The kids make it worth the while i’m sure.

Are you prime minister?

😅

I work for HMCTS as a Court Clerk to a Judge in Family Court.

it’s often harrowing but a lot of the time beautiful (adoption cases) - you learn to block out the bad stuff!

I'm very proud of my career

I started off as a civil servant, fell into it for convenience really. I had no qualifications above GCSE but was able to climb the ladder anyway to middle management. However I was bored stiff. I'm not saying that to be offensive- it just wasn't for me.

Had wanted to retrain as a midwife since having my first baby - so eventually took the plunge. From first encountering midwives, I had my eye on a specific role - and that's the role I am now in.

I love it 😀 😍

Senior lecturer in English Literature and American Studies. Primarily American studies tbh, I specialise in 20th century American literature/history.

Yes I’m proud of it. I grew up on a council estate in a deprived city and dropped out of school at 16, got pregnant shortly after so had my first DC at 17. Nobody expected me to amount to anything. I went to college to do an access course, then to uni to do bachelors, masters and PhD at LSE. I did a post doc at Oxford after as well.

I realise I’m an anomaly and most people in my situation wouldn’t rise above and reach the top level of education. I try to use my story to inspire first generation students (of which I was one) and mature students too. I don’t like anyone feeling like they don’t belong at uni or shouldn’t go because it “isn’t for people like them”, it’s something I feel passionate about.

Dog trainer. Self employed. Got my own premises and everyfink. Very proud 😊

As a lawyer you’re not in an operational role. Try being so and finding there are no project or programme managers and you’ll quickly realise the value they bring. I’m not a PM by the way, but currently in an org without them and delivery work is chaos.

Why can’t there just be nice thread on MN without some spiteful posters really bringing down the tone and intention? I can’t imagine what you’re like as people to act so unpleasantly.

I inspect care homes, nursing homes and domiciliary care. I absolutely love it. I've a long history of working in social care and am passionate about improving outcomes for vulnerable people.

I completely agree. Some people are just utter miseries and it shows.

Thank you ❤️ it definitely isn’t easy but the kids absolutely do make it worthwhile, it’s very rewarding and I love that I am a significant part of their life for a little while ☺️

Detective in major crime. I started in the police in my early 40s.
Somehow, I passed all my exams and training (even with menopausal ADHD brain and alongside young, clever colleagues who pick things up much more quickly than me- that’s the proud bit).
I have recently received an award for my work and I really make a difference, even when it’s too late.
I love it, I work my arse off, despite being old and knackered and it is a really good job that focuses someone like me with a rubbish attention span and low boredom threshold.

Teacher - head of department. Yes I’m proud. I enjoy the work, it is the right amount of challenging, I enjoy the seasonal aspect of the job - intense periods and rest periods. I love spending the holidays with my children. I am paid well and have a clear career path to progress through. I find the job very fulfilling. I’ve been at it now for 15 years and I’d say I have another 10ish years left. At that point my mortgage will be paid off, DC will be adults and I’ll be getting too tired for classroom life, so that’s when I’ll look at doing something else. Maybe something where I can work from home, get another dog…

Wow what an amazing job!!

Love this thread - so many awesome careers

I’m a Senior Director in a major bank. I climbed up the career ladder very quickly - combination of drive, capability but also luck! Being in the right place at the right time with the right sponsors. I love my job tremendously and it has afforded me a very comfortable lifestyle. My husband is also equally senior in his field. I’m still in my mid 30s and the big thing for me is not to associate my role with my identity - I find that I’m finding purpose outside of my career recently. I’m starting two different companies with two long-term friends/business partners. That surely is exciting. I hope to retire in the next 10 years God willing. I don’t see myself doing this job in my 50s

I work for a small charity that supports families with young children and mums-to-be in my local area, and I’m really proud of what I do. I’m also training to be a counsellor. I made a decision very early in life that I want to focus my working life on roles where I feel I can contribute positively to people’s lives, even if they’re not the most financially rewarding, because that feels meaningful to me.