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What job do you do? Being nosy!

149 replies

OnTheJourneyOnwards · 10/12/2024 14:52

Basically what it says on the title!

What job do you do?

I'm trying to work out a new path for myself - I've been a teacher (too people-y and long hours), and spent the last 8 years in marketing, getting quite senior but I'm now looking for something new.

So tell me what you do, and if you like it, and why!

Bonus points for jobs that let you drop off and pick up kids from school or be flexible around school holidays 😁

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Nanny31 · 10/12/2024 14:58

Nanny. Love my job. Fun days, hard days, but grateful🙂

NineToFiveish · 10/12/2024 15:22

I work for a SaaS organisation in their sales enablement team. Fully remote, flexible around timezones, a dream altogether. I enjoy creating training and the fast paced world of sales - without having to actually sell anything myself!

typicaltuesdaynight · 10/12/2024 15:28

Nurse I work night shifts so always there for my kids obviously not at night but dh is home

ItTook9Years · 10/12/2024 15:30

Senior HR. Even more people-y and I’m away from home 50% of the time.

KurtCobainLover · 10/12/2024 15:33

Funding coordinator for a small charity. It’s busy because I have to raise a significant amount each year but I love it.

LittleRedRidingHoody · 10/12/2024 15:34

CPO for a tech startup. Finally in a job I enjoy and feel valued in, will stay forever if they let me!

Jowak1 · 10/12/2024 15:49

Technical Officer for local council. Love it it's so varied I'm assisting on capital projects one day ( project management) monitoring budgets and on other days drawing maps and plans ( I love Geography and did a Geography degree so am a map geek).

Changingplace · 10/12/2024 15:56

Events and external affairs manager for a big media organisation, hybrid, in the office a couple of times a week but all kinds of unsociable hours & quite a lot of travel, I get the time back in lieu but it wouldn’t work for everyone.

OnTheJourneyOnwards · 10/12/2024 18:40

KurtCobainLover · 10/12/2024 15:33

Funding coordinator for a small charity. It’s busy because I have to raise a significant amount each year but I love it.

This sounds interesting! What sort of t hi inhaler do you have to do to raise funds?

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Notellinganyone · 10/12/2024 18:42

Teacher! Very people-y but lovely. Not much good to you though!

OnTheJourneyOnwards · 10/12/2024 18:42

Jowak1 · 10/12/2024 15:49

Technical Officer for local council. Love it it's so varied I'm assisting on capital projects one day ( project management) monitoring budgets and on other days drawing maps and plans ( I love Geography and did a Geography degree so am a map geek).

I've been considering this sort of thing perhaps. 🤔 Well, trying for a job at my local council. Do you find it rewarding? And flexible for pick up/drop off at school?

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MmeSzyszkoBohusz · 10/12/2024 18:43

Exams Officer - love it (but I am lucky to be in a lovely school). Most school holidays off and flexible working times outside of exam season. Also have just completed a TEFL course in case I want to do something different alongside.

OnTheJourneyOnwards · 10/12/2024 18:44

Notellinganyone · 10/12/2024 18:42

Teacher! Very people-y but lovely. Not much good to you though!

Teaching wasn't awful, just not for me. I'd probably consider being a teaching assistant if the pay was better! I don't think I could go back to being a full time class teacher.

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LaPalmaLlama · 10/12/2024 18:45

I’m the gamekeeper to @KurtCobainLover ’s poacher - I assess and recommend grant applications for a philanthropic foundation- a lot of people switch between the two actually if their fundraising role focuses on foundations/ corporate giving.

Frinkly · 10/12/2024 18:45

Video editor, I really enjoy it, get to do a lot of creative things and no two days are the same

biscuitsandbooks · 10/12/2024 18:49

I run my own dog-walking business.

It's flexible in the sense that I can pick my hours and whether I work evenings or weekends, but the flip-side is that if I commit to something, I have to do it. People plan their own jobs around me being there, so if I took too many sick days or cancelled too often, they'd go elsewhere.

I absolutely love what I do but when you're shattered and unwell and walking for hours in the pissing rain, it can be really, really hard work.

MintyFreshest · 10/12/2024 18:50

Project manager. It's unbelievably stressful and I hate it!

NeverAloneNeverAgain · 10/12/2024 18:51

Social worker - absolutely love it but very peopley and very long hours so possibly not a good switch

waterbuoy · 10/12/2024 18:52

Sign language interpreter. Love it and don't want to do anything else. Fun and very flexible. Can work in all sorts of interesting domains.

Natsku · 10/12/2024 18:56

I'm an aircraft mechanic working for a small company building seaplanes. I retrained in this new career over the last year and a half and just started my new job. Love it.

SabrinaThwaite · 10/12/2024 18:56

I’m an operations assistant for a small charity - very varied, I get to do lots of interesting research, but it’s limited and irregular hours (which suits me) and wouldn’t keep my cat in cat food in reality.

OnTheJourneyOnwards · 10/12/2024 19:05

waterbuoy · 10/12/2024 18:52

Sign language interpreter. Love it and don't want to do anything else. Fun and very flexible. Can work in all sorts of interesting domains.

Sign language? That sounds really cool! I'd love to do something that helps people. How did you get into it?

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Hoppinggreen · 10/12/2024 19:07

Global Mobility
I help execs and HNWI move here when they are relaocted by their employer.
I love it and sometimes can't believe I get (well) paid for it. Only downside is that I am SE so the work isn't always steady but I earn enough and DH earns well. I probably work 3 days a week at most

Starlight40 · 10/12/2024 19:10

I'm a teaching assistant at my daughter's school and I love it.

Ribenaberry12 · 10/12/2024 19:15

Pastoral support leader in a secondary school. Rewarding but the level of need gets bigger every year and the gap between the problems and the resources you have to deal with them is getting wider and wider. There are some dark days. I think I’ve probably only got a couple of years left in me before I look for something gentler.