Does anyone have a job they actually enjoy. That offers enough to live on.

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Just that really. Most of my peers are teachers, nhs and public sector workers. All stressed, all skint.. bar a couple.

Is there actually any nice jobs out there, that are easy to access and offer work/ life balance?

If you were to have a realistic career change what would you do?

Civil service here too. I have worked on about 4 high profile projects over the last 10yrs or so and they can be very high pressure but I kinda enjoy that. The hours were crazy for one of those projects and the pressure intense. I have friends who worked private sector who worked with me and they were shocked at the pace. So not easy but I prefer that to being bored. I bore easily.

My background is in policy in a pretty technical area. The work can be fascinating and frustrating. Civil service can offer very varied careers and some departments are better paid than others.

I work for a wedding venue and enjoy the admin associated with it, talking to brides, booking them in and arranging viewings. We have a freelance wedding coordinator who works with us.

Hellloooo - fellow CoSec here!

Looks like you've always worked in-house - what are the hours and worklife balance like?

I'm at Chartered Secretary grade and spent my working life so far in the professional services end aka the technical side dealing with registers/Companies House/legal drafting.

I'm doing a lot of thinking about my job atm, and realising that, while I love what I do, I'm also close to burnout because of the pressures of a professional services setting + chronic lack of resources compared to demand + young kids. Plus, while the pay is reasonable we are somehow still 'just about managing' (taking into account childcare costs and unpaid leave to look after sick kids because I can't fill my timesheets for a while day).

Interested to know how your role compares.

Senior Marketing Manager for a charity, 45K. I started as a Press Officer.

I work from home most of the time, do flexible hours and I have a nice, friendly team.

You need some technical skills (graphic and website design for example) and also experience of managing staff, budgets and creative agencies and good copywriting skills.

But I must say my attitude to work is that I never do more than my contracted hours and I don't stress about things anymore...

I run my own freelance business on the side in another creative field which is really where my passion lies but my other job is perfectly pleasant and relatively easy to do.

Comms varies. It's usually part of a marketing function.

In my case, I'm responsible for all internal Comms to our team of 5,000 people over 30 countries.

This varies from creating videos to share information with our people, to launching internal campaigns to support our chosen charities, or other programs like employee wellness, professional development etc.

I also draft all exec comms - so any emails, blogs, or videos that come from our CEO or rest of the leadership team were initially drafted by me or my team.

My job is to understand the needs of the business, and turn that into Comms to meet the needs of our people.

Someone coming into the team as a Comms specialist or manager would earn £45-55k senior managers around £65-75k, Directors £80-100k as a VP it varies between £120-200k I'm on the lower end of VPs as I'm new to this specific role (though have worked in operations and communications for decades).