Tell me what you do for a living? Do you like it?

[Sp3849]

So I am 34 this year and have a degree in public health spent my whole working life in health care and I am just exhausted and fed up. I hate working in this field now have done for a good 2 years. I want a different career. So many choices I just don't know what to pick?!

[Xinyi]

@lucy6058

I’m a sample machinist (seamstress) I work freelance for various different companies and also as a sewing technician at a college. I really like it, the pay is ok and being able to work from home the majority of the time fits in well with school drops and pick ups

Hey, Lucy. I am a fashion consultant. Maybe we can keep contact. Maybe we will work together one day. Thanks.

[HopingForOurRainbowBaby]

I'm a Carer. Most days I love it

[SleepingWillow]

I'm responsible for the internal facing depts for a global data company. More or less the same job since uni, albeit at various levels. I absolutely love my job.

[Chickoletta]

I’m a teacher with management role. 20 years experience. Mostly I would say I love my job but right now I’m so exhausted and beaten down by this year. Still managing to uphold a cheery persona in the classroom, just. Brilliant colleagues and the children make the stress and exhaustion worth it. Couldn’t imagine doing anything else to be honest, so that says a lot.

[DelineCion]

I've just left my job as a safeguarding lead in a secondary school. SO stressful and underpaid (25k). Wouldn't recommend!

[Amdone123]

I started my career teaching languages in a secondary school. I hated it. Stuck it for about 4 years. It nearly killed me !
Transferred to a primary school where I taught Spanish. Loved it.
Left aged 50, am now working as a cleaner ( only 2 days a week), and I love it.
When we can travel freely though, I'll give it up and resume my travels.
I have friends who hate their work and I can't understand this. I know everyone has different constraints on them but it's so important to love what you do. Or at least, like it.

[espressoontap]

Health visitor. Love my job. Do miss nursing on the wards, though, especially ITU.

[StarryStarrySocks]

I am rubbish at maths @purplehydrant, so no!

[joystir59]

Make fine art mosaic sometimes on commission, carry out mosaic projects in schools and the community, and teach mosaic making. I only work part time unless I've got a project to do. I love it!
//www.joysturgessmosaics.com

[purplehydrant]

@ISeeTheLight

Online advertising at an agency. I love it. Very international, lovely clients and 100% remote. Good pay. You never stop learning.

I would love to do something similar. How did you get into it?

[purplehydrant]

@StarryStarrySocks

I'm an user experience designer. Basically, I look at how users interact with websites and apps and try to make it as simple and straightforward as possible. I love it, it's challenging but fascinating - you think you've designed something really clear, and then you test it with users and they're like so you have to change it and test it again until you get it right.
I'm not techy at all, I don't do any coding. I came into this from communications and writing work.

Do you need to be good at math to do that job?

[purplehydrant]

@NowhereNearTheHighSt

I am a chandler ( candle maker) . Love it , fell into it by accident, was an interior designer before.

Are you doing that full time? Sounds very interesting.

[PiccalilliChilli]

Tube station Supervisor in London (TfL). Once you start on the Tube, it's rare to move on because the money is good and the benefits are fantastic. You start as an assistant grade 2 with the opportunity to get training to grade one after a six month probationary period. Then you are put on a list and you move to your new station. After a year, if there are vacancies, you can apply for my job, a grade two supervisor than manages more suburban stations then after another year you can apply to grade one where you manage a zone 1 big station like Bond Street. Then up to management. The waiting lists for promotions take years though.

Day to day, it's helping passengers find their way, handling money from the ticket machines, platform train interface duties (making announcements, dispatching trains), assisting sick customers and unfortunately, helping with persons under trains. I've had one suicide on my watch in 20 years, so it's rare. You also help your team members around the station, and assist train operators and line controllers. You also go down to the track to fix points and other bits and bobs.

Most days are the same, but sometimes customers surprise you, sometimes something happens that isn't in the rule book, and you have to think on your feet. All the controllers care about is their trains are running so you have to act quickly or they are harassing you to get the service going again.

Apart from some internal politics and some misogyny I like my job. Some of my colleagues are good friends. We have all types of people join, from retail, theatre, journalism, local government, we even employed a former thrash metal singer once. One of my friends used to work in cyber-security. So as long as you are judged to be customer focused and are sensible you are in with a shot.

[bongbigboobingbongbing]

Corporate comms for a financial services business. I bloody love it. My team are great, the money is good and I'm good at it. So pleased I failed my accountancy exams all those years ago!!

[movingadviceneeded]

I manage training for a big UK retailer. Can be stressful, but great hours and some good perks. Can't say I love it but it's decent money. Worked my way up from shops to corporate.

[ByGrabtharsHammerWhatASavings]

I'm a front end Web developer. I really like it. The pay is good, I work freelance so the hours are flexible, and it's much more creative than I had imagined. I like problem solving so it suits the way my brain likes to work. Hoping to expand into backend languages as well in the future. I'm entirely self taught from free resources I found online. Before that I was a TA working with children with SEN.

[ForeverFloating]

@StarryStarrySocks

I'm an user experience designer. Basically, I look at how users interact with websites and apps and try to make it as simple and straightforward as possible. I love it, it's challenging but fascinating - you think you've designed something really clear, and then you test it with users and they're like so you have to change it and test it again until you get it right.
I'm not techy at all, I don't do any coding. I came into this from communications and writing work.

This is my dream job! Tried to teach myself coding too, after learning html and css I drew a complete blank at everything else and gave up.

Currently I update websites, manage an office, customer service support, social media creation and a million other things for a measly 20k, hate my job!

[Onlyherefortheconspiracies]

I run my own business and am a career coach/mentor for women. I absolutely love it.

[CBARN]

I help run a small business with dh - always learning something new to learn, I've become a Jack of all trades, which can be stressful at times but rewarding to help create a great place to work for all the team.

[AutumnColours9]

I'm an OT with all adults with a disability. I love it and there are lots of opportunities in the NHS. We start on band 5 which is about 25K. Senior staff start about 31K and a few go higher. I find it very rewarding and it fits in well with a family.

[namcybotwinbloom]

I fucking hate my new job.

It's still got the same title but it's not what I agreed to at all.

I take back everything I said.

[Rachelheels]

I’m cabin crew for a fairly major airline. I’m young (26) but became a cabin manager following 2 incidents on flights where the manager (2 different ones) froze and I took over and led things, that got recognised and I got rewarded with a promotion (subject to interview and being suitable etc)

I love it, the last 15 months has been weird but I’ve been lucky to work throughout even on many, many, many empty flights haha (crew still required on most of them)

I do a little bit of modelling too which pays well and I genuinely enjoy it

[Sumshinebound]

I'm an employment lawyer. I love it. Honestly. It can be stressful at times, but love helping my clients and have met some amazing people along the way

[namexhamefornoneposr]

Business development manager.
£50k plod bonus and car.

Love it.
I go on, solve issues with accounts snd then gain further business. Love it.

Love the quick wins because I'm very experienced.
Hate the time taken to have to solve problems because usually they are straightforward and getting people to change the way they work is sometimes difficult even if it's for the better of them and the customer.

Never went to uni.
No formal training just on the job hard work.

A bit stressful a lot of the time but generally the stress of or levels off when things start working again.