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

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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?!

Live events production. It is beyond stressful but I love it!

After working as a social worker for many years, I quit as I was on the verge of burn out and just exhausted from the job.
I’m now working in a library, helping customers and absolutely love it. No stress, being able to chat to people, being helpful and coming home with energy left is a great feeling and I’m happy to have made the change.
However, salary has almost halved - fortunately I could afford it, but it depends of course on your circumstances.

I'm an administrator for a government funded non-departmental body, we offer grant funding for innovation projects. The salary isn't amazing but the benefits are good and I love being part of an organisation that makes a direct difference to UK companies. Some of the public sector stereotypes are true but my team are awesome - small but mighty!

We are part of the government body which was closely involved with the development of the AZ vaccine and that was a privilege to be close to.

@delilabell

TA in an additional needs school. I absolutely adore it. Pay isn't hideous

This is great to hear.

I've just been offered a job as a TA .😍

Midwife, specifically intrapartum and complex care. Love it. Pay supports my family so is ok. Love the team I work with, the variety day to day, the constant learning , and delivering babies is amazing. I really dislike the defensive practice aspect because of litigation fears, it takes so much time away from patient care. The hours are hard but work for my family life. It's high stress because of emergencies but i enjoy that side of it too. I will move into a different role at some point because physically I dont think I could cope to retirement age full time.

@winched brilliant. I take it you're selling on Amazon etc? Is the income good? I started with 20 books to 50k then never saw it through. Maybe should start again.

Placemarking! I love threads like this

I retrained as a beauty therapist at 51 and now spend my days massaging and doing facials. I absolutely love it I get to meet and help so many interesting people , wish I had done it years ago.

Love this thread, wish it came with salary info/years experience for context!

Added for you to my post below.

Ex primary HT - £52,000
LA education £54,000

I have continuous service of 33 years from being a newly qualified teacher with this LA to now.

Im a support worker for people with learning disabilities. Job is very varied but can be very fun. Today I’ve spent the day at bowling. We do anything from swimming, cinema, eating out, park trips, town trips, supermarket trips, hospital trips, opticians, dentists or just relaxing in the garden on hot days. Literally every day is different. I have no idea what I’ll be doing each day until I’ve gone in and checked my timetable.

Pay is minimum wage but the amount of fun and laughter makes up for it. I used to have a more prestigious job with my name on my fancy office door. I do miss it at times, but not enough to go back.

My quality of life has gone through the roof.

Housing officer for the council, specialising in homelessness. Hard work but absolutely love it. Great pension, full time but flexible, remote working if wanted, decent salary, great team.

Love this thread, wish it came with salary info/years experience for context!

£27k, increasing by 1k a year, 18 months experience - prior to this did 2 years in new build house sales, and before that worked in a pub while at uni.

Secondary teacher, I'm 28. 6 years in and nearly 37k. I dont hate my job but I find it very repetitive and boring. Obvious bonus is the holidays but this then makes going away expensive! Also its a nice area so mostly lovely kids and parents. Personally my workload is very low. I do think this depends what you teach. At my place those who teach core subjects have much more planning, marking and general pressure. I teach an option subject and now I have all the resources and I only have small classes it's very manageable. I also think opportunities for progression is very low.

I am looking to change career just not sure which route to go down. Would like something a bit more challenging as currently my days/years are very repetitive.. only thing that changes is the kids!

Health and Safety. Love it

I work in construction claims and disputes. I work out why construction projects get delayed and over run costs, who is to blame and who owes who what in terms of money / damages.
Very interesting work, I work with major clients, lawyers, experts and can end up in a full blown court case of the dispute goes that far.

I have 20+ years of construction site experience, working for a contractor and engineering and legal professional qualifications.

I earn around 90k, some weeks work stupid hours but mostly can keep it within normal office hours for the majority.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

@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!

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.