Those who genuinely love their job, what do you do?

[Strawberriesandkiwis]

If you can explain why you love it, even better.

To the pursue its very boring. Its Managment information and BI.

I love it because I head up the team that sits central to the company. We see so much information that I am constantly learning something new. I also get to meet (usually) lots of different people and am one of the first to meet people from a new company, when we purchase them. Being the first person they meet from 'the new owners' has a lot of pressure but it's a great job.

A big part of my job is relationship management. If I get on with them, the Information comes easier.

I have also got see some of the most beautiful parts of the UK on my travels.

Looking at all the financials has made me think about further education and possibly looking into accountancy. Which 20 years ago I would have never, ever considered. So it's opened up a new avenue for me.

I'm a childminder. Obviously every job has its bad bits. My good bits are

I love being at home for my own kids while earning a living.
I love looking after the other children, seeing them grow and feeling like I played a small part in them learning new things.
I love that I am at home and can stick a washing on if needed.
I know a lot of adults hate going tk softplats and things but I genuinely love it 🤣. The kids are off school this week and we have a week packed full of activities. I think I'm more excited than them.
I'm never clock watching. Infact my days and weeks absolutely fly by. I've worked in a nursery and I used to watch the minutes tick by.
I don't have to pay for childcare.
If one of my kids is ill they can have a day off school no bother.

Bad points
It can be quite intrusive when children and adults are coming into your house at 7 in the morning. Covid was pretty good as we were advised to not allow parents in the house, although I feel too guilty to keep that up. I know lots of other people do it though.
Furniture and carpets get ruined a lot faster than if it were just my family.
Sometimes it can be really tough going and you just don't get a second.
It's quite a large responsibility. I'm looking after the most precious thing in the world to people. I don't really think the pay matches the responsibility and the work involved. Though, I do understand how expensive childcare is for people.

Part time foreign translator, I love it.

I’m a physiotherapist trainee advanced clinical practitioner. I work in a Hospital at Home team managing acutely unwell (mostly) frail older people at home.
I love it.
The majority of patients we see would normally go to A&E, but in our team we can do advanced diagnostics and treatment options with the patient at home. I am NEVER bored and most days I feel we do a really good job looking after older people who are much happier staying at home and out of hospital.
It’s Allied Health Professionals day on Thursday and I can highly recommend a career in health care outside the traditional roles of medicine or nursing.

@Thatsplentyjack

I'm a childminder. Obviously every job has its bad bits. My good bits are

I love being at home for my own kids while earning a living.
I love looking after the other children, seeing them grow and feeling like I played a small part in them learning new things.
I love that I am at home and can stick a washing on if needed.
I know a lot of adults hate going tk softplats and things but I genuinely love it 🤣. The kids are off school this week and we have a week packed full of activities. I think I'm more excited than them.
I'm never clock watching. Infact my days and weeks absolutely fly by. I've worked in a nursery and I used to watch the minutes tick by.
I don't have to pay for childcare.
If one of my kids is ill they can have a day off school no bother.

Bad points
It can be quite intrusive when children and adults are coming into your house at 7 in the morning. Covid was pretty good as we were advised to not allow parents in the house, although I feel too guilty to keep that up. I know lots of other people do it though.
Furniture and carpets get ruined a lot faster than if it were just my family.
Sometimes it can be really tough going and you just don't get a second.
It's quite a large responsibility. I'm looking after the most precious thing in the world to people. I don't really think the pay matches the responsibility and the work involved. Though, I do understand how expensive childcare is for people.

How much do you make a month, if you don't mind me asking?

Analyst within a think tank.

I love exploring data, pulling out the key stories and turning that into a narrative that feeds into campaign work that ultimately can improve people's lives.

I love the politics (surprisingly as until I had this job, I wasn't terribly interested in the whole political process), the policy analysis, and the chance to put my skills to good work.

I'm a freelance educator in a local museum. I absolute love our interactive sessions where the children have so much fun while learning what life was like in the past. No responsibilities, work when I want and get an absolute buzz every day

School office. Love the children, mostly like the parents, great team in the office. Job is never the same 2 days running and you don't know what you're going to walk into every morning! Pay is rubbish though.

Also echo what @heinztomatosoup says above. I wasn't an educator but I managed them and the education dept in a museum is such a fabulous place to work in.

DH and I run our own business. No 2 days are ever the same, and we met some really lovely people. We've got a really good team of staff (apart from the odd bad apple now and then), and the best part of work is that our dogs can come with us and spend the day in the office. It's our second home and I never think "oh no, work today". And it's financially starting to recover from the pandemic thank god.

@Rockbird

School office. Love the children, mostly like the parents, great team in the office. Job is never the same 2 days running and you don't know what you're going to walk into every morning! Pay is rubbish though.

What qualifications are needed for that position? Do you get paid during school holidays?

I’m a film and TV producer. I own my own company.
I absolutely love it. I love developing ideas with writers and directors.
I love the pitching process.
And I love the cut and thrust of production when we occasionally get a green light.

@Connelly not at all. At the moment I make £315 a week, so £1260 a month roughly. I have 4 different kids None of them are full time. I get one half day a week off at the moment. I have not long gone back to work after having a baby myself. Before I had my own baby at home I was making around £500 a week. My hours at the moment at 8-5.30 2 days a week, 7-5.30 2 days a week and 3pm-5.30 one day a week. Before mat leave I was 7.30-5.30 every day.

I know that sounds like a lot of money, but I spend a lot on food for the kids, fuel to take them places and entry fees for whatever activity we are doing. I buy them lunches while we are put too. For example today we went to softplay and I've spent around £60.

I'm an accountant. I like things to be black and white, right and wrong. I like taking a big tangle of transactions and reporting a final number. I like seeing the whole business and seeing how x impacts on y which in turn screws up z.

It's not for everyone and I promise I'm more fun at parties than I sound

@Thatsplentyjack

I know that sounds like a lot of money, but I spend a lot on food for the kids, fuel to take them places and entry fees for whatever activity we are doing. I buy them lunches while we are put too. For example today we went to softplay and I've spent around £60.

That doesn't sound like a lot, I make almost double as a nanny with only one child.

@connelly, wow really? Are you in the UK? There doesn't seem to be much calling for nannying where we live ut it is something I've considered once my kids don't need me at home anymore.

Also, what hours do you work?

I’m an early years practitioner, I only qualified last year, I love working with the children, each day is fun, though i

Though the pay is crap!

Veterinary nurse - low pay, physically and emotionally taxing, undervalued but I LOVE my job. It would be a whole lot better if it hadn't all gone corporate but I focus on my patients and their owners.

1 have had 2 that I loved
One was because it was a great crowd of people and the staff were well treated.
Other was for a charity and we had an office dog.

I work in a nursery as an early years practitioner. Used to love it - it really was the best job in the world! Now it’s government funded and any building in Scotland is rammed to capacity with children with minimum staff, there is little to no quality of care and am looking to get out!!! Love working with young children though.

I'm an English teacher in a comprehensive school in a nice village in the East Midlands. I absolutely love my job and am currently going stir crazy in Covid isolation, wishing I were at work.

I work four days per week, which is perfect for me. I don't have any extra responsibilities. I don't think I would love teaching English in a school where the children displayed very challenging behaviour, but ours are, on the whole, really quite lovely. I also have great colleagues.

Academic research, varied and challenging but rarely stressful, good working environment with mostly like minded people, better paid than anything else I'm likely to enjoy doing! Oh and very flexible, mostly left to my own devices.