Almost 40 years in the transport industry and still enjoying it. No two days are the same with lots of variety and problem solving. Numerous managerial positions over the years but lately logistical planning & SQL development work. Oh! and one of our customers is the Daily Mail 🙄
I work in a bike shop where I do every type of job. I love it. The pay is low but the satisfaction really is immense. Plus, I get to meet lots of likeminded people and chat about their biking tales. Awesome job!!!
And of course the bonuses and perks are great. Plus your mates will always love ya for your trail side mechanic skills.
Gave up a reasonable (but not very exciting!) marketing job to start a Cafe 2U franchise just over a year ago with my missus.
Overall we're loving it - loads of nice customers, work in the outdoors every day and get to sup top coffee whenever we fancy!!!!!
work with the Scottish environment agency essentially as an inspector of medium to large industrial plant.
its great as some days its like being in a "hows it made" programme can be more than a bit beurocratic though.
like to think some times i make a difference
FE Lecturer - enjoy wouldn't be the first word that springs to mind.
Controls system engineer... good variation, get paid to drive nice cars, and get to travel the world 🙂
I am a Quality Engineer for a Pnuematics Company - we seem to have a finger in every pie imaginable.
I currently oversee the Quality issues that affect our production or in turn effect our Customers productivity. Currently I am the QE for a Brewery Section...simple..and... a Medical Section...not so simple. I am Customer facing also and get to go to interesting companies on a regular basis. I also decide what I am going to do on any given day as we are self motivated - this adds a degree of freedom rarely seen in other departments within the company. Also I converse with people all over the globe. I love my job but think the company I work for could show better appreciation for its willing and very clever workforce.
Park Ranger, get free bikes,clothing, tools & all the stress in the world :-)live & work in Todmorden area only downside ride with a yeti owner. todays highlight had a robin feeding out of my hand 7 my car sailed thru it's MOT & the plumber fixed the boiler & the sun shone!!
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Bikeability instructor............................................... Extremely rewarding.
In every way except financially 😉
Funny the OP mentioned fire brigade, yep great job, every day is different and the best bit about it is that people who require our services tend to be pleased to see you. Cant say that for most jobs i did previously.
Worst job i ever had was in a bike shop, that were soul destroying. It could well have been that particular bike shop though.
i source cashmere for fashion labels - love it
and a few other biz development/marketing related things - love it
all i need to do is make a shit load more money and it will be a perfect situation
In my free time from my day job as a rep, I work with for a mate's [url= http://www.berudenottoo.co.uk/index.php ]company[/url], doing Sales and Marketing, (mostly evenings and weekends)
it is very very much fun
oh nsfw (maybe)
I'm a gardener, for myself.
I've been doing it for a year and it's great.
Hard work getting clients and all that but very different and rewarding.
Didn't someone say, If you do a job you love, you need never do a day's work again, or something like that
Motorcycle instructor, I get to ride my bike all day and i love the sense of achievement from getting people out on two wheels.
Work in a bike shop. It's great fun 😀
I run a team of geeks. It's just like the IT crowd but shit loads of stress and deadlines. Kid myself that I hate it, but really it's fun.
I work in the 'not for profit' sector - otherwise known as an Airline.
It's a fascinating and incredibly complex industry and they say that once you smell the kerosene you are hooked and there is a certain amount of truth in that - I have been with the same company for close on 16 years now.
I generally enjoy it - but I do often wonder what it would be like to work in a generally profitable industry sector where you are not rolling from one major world crisis into the next.
yeah, it's alright I suppose. beats doing something crappy
Love mine, I'm a workshy freeloader with a great pension 😀
I am a Physio.
I work for myself (so choose the hours my clinic is open) and have never had a day that I did not want to go to work. 🙂
I treat lots of competitive cyclists and love the fact that my hobby is part of my job!
Salesman, I mean 'technical sales executive' in the domestic renewable energy sector.
love the meeting people, coming up with solution based sales.
hate the miles on the road (36,000/11 months and counting) and the 'box shifting' sales.
Solicitor
Utterly rubbish hours, repetitive and largely unrewarding work.
But I do work with some nice people.
Me, prison officer. Quite enjoy working with prisoners as some of them are fascinating creatures (probly like working in a zoo) The prison system/managers/admin etc is TOTAL BOLLIX, & is the hardest part of the job.
Another salesman, or "European business develoment manager" for a software company that sells diagnostic systems to telecoms companies.
I spend most of my time in Switzerland,Austria and Italy (and I do take my bike along), meet lots of cool people and travel to interesting places. Pay is pretty good too.
However,the constant pressure, corporate politics and working with developers can be challenging.
Love it now but won't be doing it after I'm 40 (34 now)
RAF Pilot. Keeps me smiling.
I work in the oil industry ,after 12 years i still do not mind getting out of bed.pay is good and I hope to be doing it for years to come. workmates are all sound (no arseholes) suppose if I was being picky there could be a bit more eyecandy .
I'm a senior Operating Department Practitioner (ODP). I'm very happy in my work, can be long days with on calls etc but its very rewarding when there are good outcomes and I get to meet some fantastic people.
wonders where falkirk mark works in the oil industry lol
'RAF Pilot. Keeps me smiling'
Jammy tw*t!
Nice one though.
My SO is a paediatric staff nurse on a kids orthopaedics & burns unit at Leeds GI, funnily enough, she can't wait to go to work every shift!
(might be something I said)
Some great sounding jobs on here... I used to enjoy mine but it's all going tit's up at the moment and at age 50, a radical change is daunting but I think it's going to have to happen. Geologist... now that's a job I KNOW I'd love. If I ever come back in the next life, I'm going to get a proper educashun and be a Geologist. Some sort of research scientist or naturalist would be good too... For some reason I also really fancied being a TV Camera operator when I was young...but was really hard to find out anything about it at the time.
Lackey in a Bike shoppe. Great fun and if it wasn't I'd just leave.
GP/AED/MRT/BASICS/Expedition doctor
good wage/variety/pension/travel
Meet and help general public.
Great transferable skills, work almost anywhere in world.
Same applies to varying degrees with allied careers i.e. nursing/paramedic etc etc
downsides -50hr week minimum (soon to change.....) NHS management/staff shortages/exponentially increasing workload and expectation/appraisal/shifts
for ME, can't imagine another job that ticks as many boxes
Love it, sorry if this offends anyone.
Oh and second the "jammy **** RAF pilot" comment
Haribo are you coming to visit (audit) me soon 😕
Self employed tree man. Long hours, but I choose them. Sole trader so no directors, no line managers and, best of all, no employees. Some days I can't believe I get paid for it, some days are awful, but I'd still never go back to a proper job.
One day I'll work out how to spell arboriculturalist.
rangeroy is in the lead methinks!
Yup. Business Analyst (geeky though without the programmer chic). Earn above average salary which pays for bikes, fast cars, loose women 😯 and cat food. Flexitime. Good holidays. Varied work and all the stuff I do is interesting like working on our counter fraud initiatives at the moment - get inside the mind of a criminal.....??? Very much in charge of my work load. 25 mins cycle to work. A company that rates it's staff more than a PLC - we're a mutual. Dress down days on Fridays. Oh and final salary pension (well at the moment). Good grief almost forgot the indoor swimming pool and sports pitches 😀
Normally my job is brilliant. I'm the senior IT security bloke at a company with a couple of very large clients. Cutting edge technology all the time, proper hands on grubbing about inside computers and firewalls and stuff. Fighting off hackers, tracking down attacks, keeping ahead of viruses. Investigations and lots of secrets.
There's nothing better for me than walking into a room filled with panicking managers, rolling up my sleeves, hammering away on a keyboard for twenty minutes and then watching everyone breathe a sigh of relief as all the red lights turn to green and a load of indians on conference calls start shouting that things are working again. Brilliant!
But, it's a terrible job for the same reasons.
Pays really well, I reckon my job security is probably one of the highest in the company (of about 8000 staff - for the reasons stated above), hours are complete insanity, pressure is through the roof. I couldn't be doing this in ten years time.
Managing Director of Charity. Very stressful, tough in the 'good times' very bad now in the 'lean'. Not just problems with funders, but issues over reallocation of staff, issues with trustees, although in fairness they usually are very supportive to be fair. Issues with other firms - lack of imagination by local authority who we support, amongst others. Not good. Oh and greeney, meaney environmental do-gooders! Nothing but a bunch of self satisfied gits, when you have to deal with them day and daily. Achieve nowt in their mission to 'save the planet' namely from themselves and their ineptitude! Wouldn't miss that frankly!
Best job was forest management - would like to make welcome return. Had it's moments to be sure, but never as stressed as this. Steady, reliable, opportunities to mountain bike - stress relief wasn't pacing the office floor but taking a walk in the woods.
I've learnt a lot in the charity field, but my first love will always be forest management - it just makes sense to me
Countryside officer now building mtb trails for work! (and inspecting them on a regular basis of course) 🙂
Ts, I thought you were a flautist in a marching band?
That's my part time job; now away and knit me a new balaclava.....
No worries. Would you like an AK with that?
Hopefully no veggies on here: Butcher
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run my own shoe repair business, 5 stores , hardest part is staff