Is anyone in a job where they are not concerned about it’s future?

[Paintforkitchen]

Just curious really.
What jobs are going to experience relatively little interruption or at least be assured of a role to return to...
NHS staff (thank you thank you)
Teachers/other school staff (thank you also)
People working for supermarkets? (Thank you too!)
Manufacturers of toilet paper???

What industries are going to fare best through this?

DH is in the entertainment industry so we’re probably screwed.

NHS frontline staff. I will be busy for a while I think.
I'm worried what the NHS will look like after this though....

Veterinary and trade here. DH work has dried up and our clinic has had a significant decrease in clients so there are mutters about laying staff off soon. If that happens we lose everything.

NHS/Healthcare and, sadly, in some cases, those who help us say that last goodbye to our nearest and dearest. Pharmaceuticals/biotech/agrotech (though it'll take a little while for the powers to be to understand how essential that one is if you genuinely want to keep your populace fed). Private security. Private jets. People who sell bunkers to rich folk who've evidently never seen The Last Train....!

SOME delivery jobs. SOME food production companies (just waiting for HMS Govt's next move to be the "Dig for Victory" campaign resurrected along with other WWII ways of doing things). We're ALL about to find out just how much of our food is grown/produced here and how much really did come in through the ports.

SOME online education, especially more of the mend and make do and grow your own approach to life. Some meditation/wellness/mindfulness organisations. SOME online publishers. Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.

Once everyone's got over the initial shock of what's happened (the lockdown I mean, not the virus exactly), we'll adapt and survive as a species, though things are never going to be the same.

The Daily Mail's "Royal Good News" Factory. I'm expecting lots more "look on the bright side" articles about clothes and the children and how Kate and William are keeping the kids safe and leading the country from the front. Cynically, I'm afraid it wouldn't surprise me if we heard Kate was pregnant again in the not-too-distant future.

Oh, and politicians.

I'm a midwife....I am expecting to be busier than ever in approximately 9 months time....

Civil Service working in Defence.

@PurpleCrocus2020 I’m a social worker and very much still extremely extremely busy and not at all working at home... so no I am filled with massive anxiety for my families but I in no way have the sudden capacity to deliver meals. If you consider most other agencies are also not visiting, children not in nursery or school etc then it falls to social workers. My caseload has always and continues to be unmanageable, to then add that on top? My job is safe in that I am constantly busy working ridiculous hours and that is not reducing and only increasing, so asking us to then fill the gap of food banks or school meals is not possible. I know unless you work this job you can’t see how time consuming court reports etc takes and also the amount of children on your caseload, so its not that easy sadly to just add an extra task in

Social work seems safe for now. Very worried about friends and family though

Safe for now, I think. I work in pharmaceuticals. It’s gotten quieter as people work at home and take time off but it won’t be forever, I hope

Bank IT. They are being really good to us. We have all the technology we need to work from home and good sickness benefits if we need it.

Bizarrely my speciality is computer modelling. Not for diseases obviously, but for computer capacity. Modelling used to be laughed at and misunderstood. Not anymore. If I could say one thing though, it's not an exact science. Models need lots of historical data to be accurate and that's something we don't have with Coronavirus. The other thing about models is that the predictions change over time as the "actual" data changes because you "steer by your wake". So please take note of reported predictions and plan carefully. But don't take them as gospel and try not to stake awake worrying. Take every day as it comes.

DH is a gardener. Customers stay inside and pay electronically. He no longer gets coffee and a chat. Provided no-one in our family develops symptoms he can continue working for a bit.

Scientific sales director for a small company but we've had a really good year and have lots of cash in the bank so can ride out a few months. I've also spent a couple of years learning sustainable garden design and horticulture so if the shit hits the fan I'll move into that, and I have a pretty decent allotment. Have had lots of messages from friends over the last few days about growing your own, and have also been doling out bars of home made soap. It feels like I've been preparing for this for a few years already. Life feels so unpredictable these days it helps to prep. I need to learn to make cider next! Or elderflower champagne.

I’m a lecturer - classes are cancelled and being delivered online. I do worry that recruitment for the new academic year after summer will be a disaster, and jobs will go then. I have a decent length of service.

My DP was made redundant just at Christmas. He had some contract work, which has now finished, and I am scared it will take forever for him to get something now since I imagine recruitment is completely off the table now.

We are doctors, DH in Intensive Care. I am very very worried for him, but not about his job security.

PurpleCrocus2020

it would be helpful to redeploy education workers (be it teachers, receptionist etc) to deliver school meals in a safe way, therefore ensuring children are at the very least, being fed.

And what about the ‘work from home’ staff? Perhaps they could use their lunch breaks to to deliver school meals and ensure children are fed? 🙄. Why don’t the Social Workers who are working from home organise some sort of community initiatives - then you wouldn’t need to work from home?=

Because social workers are dealing with cases that are incredibly critical right now- even more so than usual. I would even describe the workforce as "limited capacity", it's much worse than that. I'm working from home because I'm pregnant not because I'm tossing it off. This morning my son came down with symptoms so I will now be caring for a baby whilst working where I can which quite frankly seems impossible. People who are "work from home" are there because of symptoms they're presenting with. I can assure you that I would find my job much easier if I was in the office, surrounded by my very limited team.

It was merely a suggestion to help society and ensure children are having their very basic need met. I'm frightened that we're going to lose vulnerable children because the risk has increased significantly and will do even more when schools close. If I was able to work from the office and have face to face contact with families I would, without a doubt, help services to do whatever was needed. As I said before- my suggestion was based on the fact that some education staff will potentially be off work and symptom free but unable to work because schools are closed- hence the suggestions of a redeployment.

And LOL at the thought the social workers having a lunch break!!!

Medic - safe - lucky me but thankful as I’m the breadwinner and child at uni so no childcare headaches or worry if/as hours shoot up and even less predictable .

Finance. We were already going through a big restructure, I'm relatively cheap to keep but also cheap to lose as I've only been there two years so who knows.

Partner is in the music industry. We're very worried.

I think people offering any sort of online class will be very safe. The richer middle-classes isolating/WFH/made redundant will need something to do at home rather than refresh the news.

I am probably going to lose my job but husband's is stable and luckily we can live on savings/his salary. Well, atm I am WFH but no work to do given that our entire product base has been cancelled, just online training courses. If I can tear myself away from reading about CV, I want to sign up for every sewing, watercolour and craft class going so I don't get crippled with anxiety.....

Sorry if my message comes across a bit harsh but I really wasn't suggesting that other people do something that I would have the capacity to do.

I'm in the Civil Service so I'm not worried about my job. My husband is a waiter though and just been told they are making redunancies luckily I think the company will be secure so it should hopefully be temporary lay offs and not permanent.

I work in football. None Premier League - Feel relatively secure but depends entirely on when public matches can kick back in. Many clubs will be unable to sustain staff or themselves at all with zero income & nothing to sell. Work becomes a bit redundant aswell without content to process and push out ! (Media & Comms)

Office based, but for a manufacturing business - we're already on reduced hours. Probable 'temporary' complete close down within the month ☹️

Prison service.

My DH is a baker, there may be temporary lay offs but he will have a job when he gets back. It's not very well paid though.

I'm a manufacturer rep in the grocery sector, so whilst it'll be tedious and hard, I'm fairly sure I'll be okay.

DH is in construction, quite senior his company will survive but the ones they contract may not.

It's a precarious ledge we're on.

Civil service, in an area likely to be in high demand for next 12 months. DP's job in comms was under threat but he seems to have been given new coronavirus duties so his now looks more secure.

Housing association but my role involves non essential home visits which have been suspended. Waiting to hear more today as to what they will do with us.. Hello other housing people!