Police officer in a specialist team working on major crime. Soon to be heading back to the horrors of uniform policing after promotion. I do like my job however. Just hate all the utter sh*te we have to put up with from the government/certain client groups/press/know it alls ad infinitum.
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Anyone in a job they actually enjoy?
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lyons - Im being a little facetious.
I mean more of a builder/developer in business with a builder pal than a single trade jobber.As for the grunt and dirt - I enjoy it, because its not my main job probably. Physically my body is slowly getting used to it, I admit Im not in good enough shape to do a full 8 hours of demolition. Even if I do more and take it to the next stage of business, I doubt it will be my sole source of income.
As for mental stimulation, I find learning stimulating. Learning about regs, building designs, plumbing systems, alternative heating and insulation systems, materials selection, micro-generation, SAP calculations, planning applications, space design, glazing systems. Learning about laying foundations, concrete slab floors, joist spans, certain tools, mixing different kinds of mortars, use of limes, underpinning, oak frames, protected species legislation and licensing. Project book-keeping, credit accounts, development finance (which is actually my current trade, but to do it for yourself on small scales - £200k rather than £200m - is more interesting) the list goes on....
The last time I "learnt" anything in my day to day career was about 18 months ago I should think.
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woffle, I may well interested.
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this thread makes me want a new job!
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Managing conservation contracts, more Hardhats, Hi-viz and Helicopters than beard, quiche and sandals. Lots of time on the hill and some weekends in the office working on tenders - like today. There again I can see Mam Tor from my desk.
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I'm a teacher, I enjoy it, actually its great most of the time. Its just the workload that drags it down. Wish I could have been a farmer but if you are not inline to inherit a farm it seemed a bit too risky. Farm work was my favourite work of all the jobs I've done.
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Vimto you need a new job!
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I'm a police officer and enjoy it. When it works its incredibly satisfying.
There are so many different areas to work within. You can find something you like and just stay there or move around and experience lots of different departments.
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woffle, I may well interested.
Cool. Drop me an email - it should be in my profile...
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Cycle Courier in london, has its moments for sure but overall v good fun, very interesting situations on occasion and keeps me well and truly in shape.
Makes me very aware of quite how mad a place london really is!
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As an electrician, i find it ironic that alot of people want to do my job, yet by far the majority of electricians ive met hate their job.
I enjoy being an electrician, don't do dull domestic stuff however.
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Millionaire playboy here. It' alright, I suppose.
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lyons - Im being a little facetious.
I mean more of a builder/developer in business with a builder pal than a single trade jobber.So I was right first time ............. you have dreams of "Taylor Wimpey Stoner"
"As for mental stimulation, I find learning stimulating. Learning about regs, building designs, plumbing systems, alternative heating and insulation systems, materials selection, micro-generation, SAP calculations, planning applications, space design, glazing systems. Learning about laying foundations, concrete slab floors, joist spans, certain tools, mixing different kinds of mortars, use of limes, underpinning, oak frames, protected species legislation and licensing. Project book-keeping, credit accounts, development finance (which is actually my current trade, but to do it for yourself on small scales - £200k rather than £200m - is more interesting) the list goes on...."
You can't being to imagine how utterly soul destroying I would find all that.
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The last time I "learnt" anything in my day to day career was about 18 months ago I should think.
Now that I can identify with. There isn't a single week I can spend on a building site without learning at least one new thing. Whether it's learning a faster or easier way of doing something which I have done thousands of times before, or whether it's doing something which I haven't precisely done before. The learning process simply never stops, and I have often considered how unbelievably knowledgeable I would be, if I could work for a 100 years. I have also thought how tragic it is that all that knowledge dies with you - if only it could uploaded onto someone else's brain just think how fantastic that experienced based accumulative knowledge would be !
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ron jeremy, how about sorting out a discount for STW members?
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im a bridge inspector, and a proffesional abseiler IRATA L3, combine the two and i get to work on some iconic Scottish bridges in the railway, i dont get to abseil all the time, but every day is different from the one before, on top of that im home based, which has its pitfalls with a young family
Downsides are the on call and weather, i get to abseil in some dismal weather, that makes things interestingthe first bridge i inspected was the Penang bridge in Malaysia many moons ago, but now its just Scotland and i get to see some amazing sights so wouldnt change it for the world
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I run a bed&breakfast and I love it! It's great to see people so happy and enjoying the country side. Took a couple of guests out on a two hours skills session since they wanted to hire mtb and they absolutely loved it! Two days a week I still go in to Manchester and do my fairly dull scientist job just to realize how lucky I am the rest of the week!
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Police Officer for eighteen years, I suppose I love it if thats the right decriptive term. Yes it must be, but only because I don't have to deal with the public at all in my role long may that last!
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Eat_more_cheese...I'm in NZWN, was at EGPF before I moved here
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Care Worker for the disabled.
Enjoy the work, but trying to live on minimum wage is a bit of a bind.Had a pretty well paid job working for a large insurance company - left a couple of years ago after I realised there were more important things in life than money.
Such as my sanity.
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Data Analyst - Has its boring moments but mostly i enjot it. Very little stress and pays OK, the x wife thinks so any way as she gets 25% of it.
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Teacher - not enjoying it very much at the moment. It's not the kids (they're mostly great) it's the meetings, paperwork, jumping through hoops that gets in the way of the teaching. Everything (at least in our school) is ofsted driven - nothing to do with real education.
Rant over.
If I could afford to re-train I would.
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My job is Ok, I suppose.
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Yes
Excellent pay
A role that I really enjoy and I'm good at
Get to cycle to work whenever I'm in the office
Fantastic colleagues
Great potential for promotion & development
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Former boss of mine used to say that all he wanted from a job was to wear a nice suit and drive a good car. Someone once told him in that case he should have been a chauffeur!
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not sure if i do. i certainly used to.
i describe myself still as being a carpenter, only now i'm teaching english.
used to really enjoy working as a carpenter. own boss. worked with a good mate. laughed all day long. start and go home when i wanted to; if the wind was blowing nicely i'd pack up and jog off to go fly. it's nice to see the work you've done. generally good pay. lots of cash work and i got to put everything i bought through the books.
moved to germany and took up a job as a carpenter here. hated it after the first week. start at 7. finish when the job was done or it was too dark to work safely. that'd mean we were sometimes working 13-14 hour days. if you were five minutes late you'd get a talking to despite the fact you were outside till 8pm the night before. money was shit and the taxes are stupidly high once coupled with health insurance payments.
no joking, larking or laughing at work. you're there to work, not to have fun (zuerst kommt der arbeit, danach die verfugung - first work, then enjoyment). i'd find that i had no time or energy at the end of the day to go riding despite living on the edge of the alps.in the UK i was earning almost as much in one week as two weeks in germany. i also realised how important it is to have fun at work, a very un-german theory. i quit after 5 months.
since then i've trained as an english teacher. i enjoy it alot. not going to be doing it forever but it's a decent enough stop-gap. i like helping people and seeing them progress. hardly any morning classes.
would like a little more work than i've got currently. not many firms want to pay out for their staff to learn english when business isn't there.
i could tell you what i'd like to be doing but that'd mean me telling you my business plan. it does involve riding though. and skiing. and perhaps snowkiting. and some land. and some investment/saving.
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C&I in the Power Industry, and still on 9-5 hours
Present job is ace and enjoy the challange, great for cycling with full kitchen/showers/clothes drier and some ace off road commutes.Best bit is knowing the place inside out and being put on a good flexi-time scheme to keep me sweet, 24 hours/3 days a week minimum and go out and ride when the sun shines...wahoo.
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Don't think anyone has said dentist so I will.
I enjoy it more now than I used to if I'm honest but mainly because I don't do it 5 days a week and I've really developed a specialist interest which is intellectually stimulating, professionally challenging, technically demanding and very rewarding. One of the few areas where we get healing (rather than just filling in where the cack used to be) which gives me a buzz!
It's a great job for flexible working hours, reasonably well paid (not as much as most folk imagine probably) and providing you can cope with everyone hating you it can be as good as many ways of earning a living.
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Used to have a job I loved. Got made redundant, no openings any more for the rather narrow skill-set I had, managed to get a job that means there's plenty of work and I'm busy for the forseeable future. I just really don't enjoy what I do anymore, but I just can't find anything out there to replace it with. I'd love something working with bikes, but there's nowt where I live. Just gotta live with it, I guess.
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woffle. YHM.
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Signaller on the railway, love it, like playing with a big trainset, keeps you busy when things are going wrong but when you have a gap between trains you can get the kettle on and get the paper/book out and enjoy the view, the worst thing is some of the bull that filters down from the management in the strive to be "World Class" lot of pish. Working just now watching a lovely sunrise behind Nevis Range, and get to see pine martins and otters etc out on the track, long may it last.
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Banavie signal box peajay?
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Yup, Banavie, FortWilliam Junction and Annat, mostly Banavie but in Annat today.
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Estimator / qs / buyer / contracts manager (depending what hat I am wearing) for a small construction company.
It was great till about 18 months ago when the whole industry went tits up. Everyday saw a new challenge and a new set of problems to solve. It is now just soul destroying. Life is one big argument, with employees, sub contractors and clients who will do anything not to pay you for a fair job.
I have seen hundreds of colleagues kicked out of jobs, and thousands of tradesman out on the scrap heap. Our company, which I have helped build up since we started in 92 is now teetering on the edge of going under, simply because 2 big clients will go to any means imaginable to avoid paying us for work we carried out.
Mortgage to pay and kids to feed so cant afford to be out of work to retrain. Reasonable salary and said commitments always prevented me from doing what I always wanted to do and be a paramedic.
Life is proper shit at the moment.
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Aero technician.
I get to play with giant airfixes all day!! graet fun. And i retrained from a fire alarm engineer at 45......I know how lucky i am.Posted 2 years ago # -
Architect/QS/dogs body, same as Lowey really, spent years training and working for the big developers and used to love this job but after 3 redundancies in 18 months it really is soul destroying. Pretty F**king bleak.
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