What job do you do? Being nosy!

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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 😁

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.