[Closed] What do you do and do you enjoy it?

trade counter. hate it.

Technical customer support - enjoy it after years of being a data analyst.

I moved dept late 2015 and it is like working for a different organisation - much nicer people on the support side. I find that whatever you are doing, the people you are doing it with make the difference.

😉

Print trade.

It's alright, but not what it used to be.

Programme Manager (no, not T bloody V)

Love it to bits, thrilling, excitement, angst, political horsecrap, loading, rolling off.

Awesome.

I'm not really sure what I do to be honest (I have a job title but bears little resemblance to what I actually do), not a lot by the looks of it but it pays me well considering I only seem to spend a few hours a week actually doing any work. Just being seen to be around the rest of the time seems to keep everyone happy. Enjoy it enough and it kind of picked me.

I tell people how they should be doing stuff, I teach them to do it, I do it myself, and I also fix it when it's gone wrong.

Stuff to do with computers, the kind of computers that you don't see.

And it's pretty good generally 🙂

Civil Engineer. Like the job. Hate the industry.

Professional Engineer. I design brakes for cars for a large vehicle manufacturer.

Up and downs but generally I'd say; I love it 😆

11 years Merchant Navy - got my Masters license and quit - mixed feelings it had it's moments came ashore
Operations - had it's moments
Head of Ops - was ok but working for the Chinese was a PITA
Risk Mgmt now - pays the bills, leave work at 5.30 home by 7.00pm a means to an end really. Likely to be here till retirement!

Tchnical Consultant, when I finally work out what that is, I'll let you know.
I do enjoy it though.

IT Manager (yes really). The potential is there for a really satisfying job however at the moment it sucks hence my looking for a move.

programmer turned plc programmer. Job is ok when there is good work crap when not. Too much traveling for me. I think if I was part time I would like it a lot more and get the same done most weeks

Care worker

Love it, but I'm mentally, physically and financially knackered.

Currently being treated like a fool by my employers.
Having to fight every single day to retain just a little dignity and my legal employment rights has left me a bit broken tbh.

The job is so rewarding, but it's causing me quite a bit of distress at the mo.

Well overdue a change.

Ex RAF pilot, now Airline.
Not big on the nights out of bed, but off to St Lucia for 5 days tomorrow, and get to take my bike away all round the world.

Oh, and I'm Part Time too.

Quantity Surveyor.

Kill me now.

Working in HE sector.

I'm lucky as I get variety in my job. Teaching MSc students who 'generally' want to learn. Supported to do my own further research. Plus I coach within our referral clinic so get to work with athletes too.

I'd go stir crazy if it was the same stuff all the time.

Used to work in the city for an investment firm. hated it.
now sell kayaks and paddleboards for a living...better but not there yet.

These days doing R&D in power electronics and other "projects" in conjunction with several universities, bit different to working for the big industrial players but working on completely new concepts is very rewarding AND we get a decent IP share at last!.

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Quantity Surveyor.

Kill me now.

Noted for future reference.

Too late. Your chance has passed. 🙂

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I don't think I've got the nerve to refer to it as a job. More a continuation of what I spent my time doing as a kid. I bloody loves it, I do! 😀

Too late. Your chance has passed.

What the hell is a quantity surveyor?

Occupational Health Nurse - managing a service providing to GP's and Dentists and their staff. Can't abide it but its relatively easy ( more so than my 12 years ITU work) but trying to decide what else I can/ want to do instead is an ongoing challenge 🙁
Not helped by constant service reviews and threats of closing. It's making me ill so need move on - ironic being made ill running the service meant to help ill people stay at work!

NHS and HE, half and half

It's OK. Varied, and I like the people I work with but I'm mostly just tapping it out until retirement now

I hurt people too but that's mostly as a hobby

I didn't get where I am today by actually listening to QSs!

Nobody does.
That's why we have to stay on the field of battle long after the "operational" troops have departed, cleaning up the carnage and bayonetting the wounded.......or Final Accounting as I prefer to call it.

A mix of actual graphic design(inhouse stuff mostly, but do some work for external customers. Posters/leaflets/brochures type of thing) and production work, also template creation, indd & html/css for our online system(though that'll change soon, so will need to learn the new way of doing it/remember the old way/ later version of a system we used to use), general problem solver, among other things.

It's all right, varied enough to keep me interested at times. But can bore ye to tears when the production side of it is busy.

For 6 months of the year, I basically get paid to annoy you good folks though! 😆

I too work with computers you don't see. Data manipulation, managed file transfer and workload automation.

Do I enjoy it? Weirdly, yes. When I'm allowed to just crack on with work.
Do the current politics around this place make every day a real chore? Yes
Do I want a change? I nearly did a few weeks back but decided against it. I don't want/need to change for money reasons and my work/life balance is pretty damned good.

Is it bonus pay day? Yes it is 😀

What the hell is a quantity surveyor?

26 years i've been asking the same thing. Still waiting on an answer....

That's why we have to stay on the field of battle long after the "operational" troops have departed, cleaning up the carnage and bayonetting the wounded.......or Final Accounting as I prefer to call it.

EDIT:

26 years i've been asking the same thing. Still waiting on an answer....

I thought Quantity Surveyors had become extinct, seems they are all Commercial Managers now.

Merchant Navy, really enjoy it. Only work 6 months of the year so plenty of time for hobbies. A lot of hard work studying but recently bagged the Masters so that's me done for exams! Money's not bad either but not having to take your work home with you is the best part.

Programme Manager (no, not T bloody V)

couldn't be more meh, iritating, excitement, angst, political horsecrap, dealing with peoples crap day after day to the point I sometimes think it's a nursing home (it's not).

Shite.

Interesting, I'll be popping over to a site that has been signed off and running for 12 months to clean up the carnage left by certain people due to the kit that was chosen being a bag of crap and not working. I think the job came in under budget though. A job well done in that respect, happy suppliers, happy contractor and a happy client. Oh! Hang on!

Estimators fault innit!......Arseholes. 😉

I'm training and development officer for a small charity.
I teach teachers to get outdoors.
Today I'm in Dumfries, working with student teachers.
I also manage all our training nationally, our web and social media, as well as new course development.

It's a fabulous, challenging and ever interesting job.

It just doesn't pay much, and as a small organisation I don't have anywhere for progression.

Self-employed designer of all sorts of things.

Consumer electronics
User interfaces
Websites
Advertising & Marketing
Print
Packaging
etc

Find it very difficult to imagine a better job, apart from the fact it's 99% desk-bound.

Estimators fault innit!......Arseholes.

*strokes chin*

Maybe if you'd stroked the estimators areshole he'd have included a decent allowance for the kit you wanted? 😉

I'm not really sure what I do to be honest (I have a job title but bears little resemblance to what I actually do),

This,

My Business Card says 'Solutions Manager' but I', sometimes called Sales Director if the person I'm speaking too needs to think they're talking to someone 'serious' - I'm rarely serious about anything.

Truth is, we're a small outfit, there's 5 of us, there’s massive over-lap of roles, and few people get to just do one job.

I'm part IT Consultant, if a Client wants to do something with IT stuff (which sometimes extends to anything with a plug on it) it's up to me to work out how, and then ask for money for it, which usually goes like this:

"I want to do this"
"Okay, let me work is out for you"

Several hours, days, weeks of research later...

"Okay, here's how we do it, it'll cost £x"
"you're taking the piss, I could buy *this* for half as much"
"Sorry, but *that* is nothing like what you want, and won't do what you need it to do, and isn't very good".
"YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE MONEY FROM ME!!!?!?!"
"We do offer discounts for charities, are you a charity?"
"No"
"Neither are we, yes I'm trying to make money"

Okay I don't often say the last bit, but I really should. These aren't consumers, Business Owners and Directors of sizable businesses do seem shocked that we, a commercial enterprise, wants to make money in exchange for doing stuff.

I’m also the “talk to client because they need something that costs money, even if it’s £1” Guy, because the Helpdesk Guys are terrified of money.

Part-Time Delivery Driver.

Microsoft Licensing Expert, which is more like being a punchbag, one of my esteemed colleagues will call me, claim it works in the exact way which offers them the path of least resistance, argue with me when it doesn’t and then make it my problem because it needs paying for.

Credit Controller.

Recruiter of new clients.

Retainer of existing clients.

Buyer of stock.

Guardian of stock, another thankless task when I dare ask what they plan to do with the many hundreds of pounds’ worth of hi-tech do-dar they’re swinging about their head, so we might, Idon’tknow – get paid for it.

Project Manager, or the “who said we can do that” ****er.

The best bit, whenever anyone asks - my colleagues just call me "the Sales Guy" which is awesome, they might as well say "the tellers of lies and spreader of rumours - don't tell a thing and don't believe a word he says".

So I enjoy it? Yes, most of the time, it used to be all the time, but it’s got more and more complex and more stressful in recent months.

Offshore oil & gas.

Safety first, folks. Unless it affects the bottom line, obviously.

oceanographer.

it's not too bad.

fireman. dont enjoy it so much these days, a lot of time away from family. but, coming from a background in engineering (factories), i can keep it in perspective and its a good job really. not complaining.

Acoustic consultant.

Can be great, can be mind numbing beyond belief.

Find it very difficult to imagine a better job

Yeah that does sound pretty cool.

P-Jay's job and company also sounds interesting from a professional point of view. I keep trying to get him out on a ride since he's local to me, but he ignores me.