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

I'm a "Technical Analyst" in the finance industry - it's a cross between systems & business analyst.

When I get free reign to design something new, it's enjoyable. When I spend 8 hours diagnosing a production issue (like yesterday) not so much...

This seems pretty relevant...
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electronics design for real-time process control

we tend to get projects that no-one else in the world can (or wants) to do so it can be quite interesting but by the same token there's not much to go on 🙂

Senior consultant....
For a 3 person company - I wanted the senior adding when we did business cards.
Job really is technical director, salesman, programmer, developer, consultant, analyst and a few more things.
In the last 10 days I've been looking at 2 major hospital moves (patients and equipment for some of the biggest developments in the world in that sector) a breakfast cereal plant, and something for some people in uniforms. Varied all the way, best bit is the flexibility, worst bit is the flexibility as I've been doing wired hours and weekends since Christmas.
I can generally still piss off riding and got a weekend on the bike as part of this week's work away. Downside was the 6hr drive for a rearranged meeting and crap flights home. Cover a geographical area bigger than Europe.
Enjoy most of the time...

Bank Manager. Meh..... even Alan Shearer had/has bad days

I work in a box factory designing boxes, big boxes, little boxes the work is varied..... but I feel a bit boxed in.

criminal lawyer , I do enjoy it. I talk to interesting people from all walks of life. I often get to make a very real difference to peoples lives (in a good way.) The job has many challenges to try and rise to. Also crushingly bad bits and nowhere near the £ people imagine and/or are told by the government propaganda.

- I wanted the senior adding when we did business cards.

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Market strategy for a large [s]distributor of stationery products [/s] company. Travel too much, work hard. Work from home when not on travels, so work/life balance is good.

Police - a specialist role but having a sabbatical two years out this year, moving to Switzerland to be with the g/f to see if I can make ends meet over there. Had enough of the uk and its problems sadly.

Started my own business 7 years ago tomorrow. Now employ 16 people and love every stressful, irritating, joyous moment of it....

molgrips - Member

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.

Sorry,

I'm not ignoring I promise, I tend to drop in an out of here for thinking space when work is twisting my melon.

Happy to go for a spin in a few weeks, I'm on the bench at the moment - doctors’ orders. W/e the 18th / 19th next for me.

PM me (does that work now?)

@cfh about right but what's the point in not being the senior of one... I occasionally shave my beard off to make it look like we have more staff

Dolphin trainer, Pit crew for an F1 team or, I seem to remember. once a biscuit designer.

Dolphin trainer had the best results.

Used to be an economist/ manager - hated it
spent many years at University and re-trained to be a Geologist
worked in academia for quite some time - was a great job but the politics and admin was soul destroying
work in the oil industry now - easy job and good pay - very good for the family

Train Driving

Only actually "driving" for about 50% of the time per shift on average
£46K
35 hour week which usually ends up being more like like 30-33 hour
Variety in the job is not too bad. 13 different routes and 5 different classes of train.
Only a 3 mile commute

It has its bad points. Most of the trains themselves are a bit run down and some of the station buildings are old. Plus, you can't usually book a day off at short notice. Its frustrating when it's sunny and I want to go mountain biking but work gets in the way

Acoustic consultant.

Can be great, can be mind numbing beyond belief.

yet you named yourself after it 😉

me, I design and build emails for a higher education institution. It's fine. Can be quite fun at times. You wouldn't believe the politics and red tape, but the working conditions otherwise help compensate for that.

Graphic Designer for a US-based firm. Formerly a mechanic, bike guide, bike trade insider, marketing thing, seed packer, brick scrubber, part-time soldier and lifeguard. Also had an interview in the porn industry.

Many, many plus points, but today I'd happily trade it in for something that involves being outside with people, preferably in mountains.

Train Driving
It has its bad points

"[i]So, what do you do? Do you enjoy it and why did you pick it?[/i]"

Cost Modeller. Trying to cost things for an organisation that really has [b]NO[/b] idea how much things cost. Sometimes enjoyable. Often frustrating when trying to magic up some sensible results from data that is utter gash.

It picked me. Being a spreadsheet geek helped.

Import and distrubute "adult" toys. Pretty dull except for demo days.

scaredypants that's selective quoting

I'm the man that's called when things go wrong....

With structural steel work anyway, I sort out extras, remedials and good ol fashioned ***k ups.
Takes me all over the south, was in Wimbledon last week, sat typing this in St Austell.

Within its own field its varied work, and by its very nature unpredictable, leading to random days off in the week. I'm self employed and charge per day regardless of time it takes. I used to run a fabrication shop but over heads, changing standards and the arse dropping out of the economy meant a change. I really miss having my own work shop, but my stress levels are right down (I'm always solving someone else's problems these days, not my own) now, and weekend work is a thing of the past.

photographer of expensive bling and shiny things
love it though its more of way of life than a job and cant imagine having to do a proper job in an office or with line manager/boss/corporate crap/spreadsheets/targets etc.

plusses: never boring, travel, nice lunches, the odd cheeky day off seeing interesting things and interesting people, the money.

downsides: spells sat at computer retouching, the actual shoot time is only a small percentage, quoting on jobs and not getting the nice ones and mission creep where i get “can you just take a quick shot of this while you are at it?"

Also had an interview in the porn industry

Fluffer?

Dream job really, I have a cafe in a forest. Usually leave the bike in the van.
Before that I was a network designer for a big telco supplier that eventually went bust through some shocking decision making.

Project Manager for a small department which is part of a huge multinational Engineering company.

We design/build/test/maintain refrigeration plants and HVAC systems for Naval ships and submarines.
We've got our stuff on the majority of the UK naval fleet and are heavily involved in the next two major UK Naval builds that are about to kick-off.

It can be annoying/frustrating, but on the whole I really like it.
I rarely have to take work home, and generally walk through my front door at 5.30 each night.
I do have to travel a bit (off to France tomorrow) which is a bit of a bind sometimes, but the flipside is I've been to a few interesting places and eaten in a few good restaurants.

Promotional prospects aren't great - most people stay for decades - so I need the level above me to retire before I move up.

On the whole I'm pretty happy.

Software developer. Or in old terms, computer programmer.
Self employed (contracting) for the last two years means no need to pay any attention to all the corporate BS that I had to suck up in my previous job(s).

Less secure than permie but loads less pressure.

I enjoy it more now than I did in previous jobs due to the above

I thought my job was pretty depressing......scouring this post has cheered me up a little bit. 😆

Was an design engineer until my wife became ill now a stay at home dad and teach CAD at the college one night a week. Really happy with how my life work balance is going right now. We don't have as much money but neither me or my wife mind

I wheel and deal stuff (no not drugs). Mainly Antique and furniture but I'll literally buy and sell anything if I can make money. Upside is I work about 30 hrs week.. Downside is it doesn't earn me a fortune. Some days it's shit boring and general public can be ****s.. Other days it's a good laugh and actually make some money. This time next year Rodney....

database admin for a massive manufacturer.

It's good. Easy enough - a lot is experience. Knowing when to panic and when to not.

It's easier (less stressful) than being a DBA at a big law firm in London. Twenty minutes drive, or a decent hilly cycle. Flexible, bit of travel. Pays the bills.

I could be earning a lot more back in london, but why bother? I earn enough to do what I and the family want. Why kill yourself for mammon?

It's not what I did at uni. Not what I wanted to do. But needs must 😀

Production Engineer in the Biscuit industry.
Not so much enjoy it, but have enjoyed seeing widespread impact of some of my innovations, in a stealthy kind of way

I'm not 100% sure what my title is. I basically help our wholesale director with the day to day and act as account liaison for our US and larger UK customers. I spend a lot of time creating graphs and updating product listings too.

It doesn't challenge me in any way, shape or form and I don't particularly like it, but the people I work with are nice. I'm currently the sole source of income so have to suck it up.

Geotechnical Consultant. Work for myself from home. I'm pretty sure I won't find anything better for me.

I run the UK's transplant support services - i.e. the transplant list, organ donor register, 24/7 matching & offering organs, mobilising organ retrieval teams etc.

I've been doing it for 2 years. It's the best job I've had in terms of purpose, but it's also bloody hard work.

My wife is currently without a job and her support is vital to make this work for us and our kids. I was in London 3 days last week and then interviewing for the remaining 2. It's difficult to find time to do work, hence me waking at 4am today and not being able to sleep again.

We'd see more money in the family kitty if we took a job each with the same combined salary (that's the tax / Child Benefit system for you).

On the bright side, about 85 people will get a new organ this week - and I cycle to work every day. 🙂

I run the UK's transplant support services - i.e. the transplant list, organ donor register, 24/7 matching & offering organs, mobilising organ retrieval teams etc.

This is truly heart-warming. 😉

I'm in HE. Not enjoying it much at the moment. I'm aware though that in the grand scheme of things I've got it pretty good really.

I wear a number of different hats - mostly in academia/education - but one role in particular ties them all together.

It is exhausting, and sometimes I wish I could simplify my life, but then I realise that what I do makes what my family does possible, and I am relatively content. Certainly I wouldn't change my [i]role[/i], even if I could change the specifics of what I [i]do[/i].

London Underground here and can't wait to get away from it!

Pays well and hours are good but the BS and politics are unbearable, our customers deserve so much more than we're giving. The job can be interesting but only when everything goes pear shaped, then whatever you do isn't enough. Combine that with everyone sticking their oar in and you've got very low levels of job satisfaction.
Just counting the days until I can get out, hopefully before I go mad.

Fluffer?

😆

Was that you interviewing? That's quite a distinctive mole you have.

That's quite a distinctive mole you have

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You weren't supposed to tell. It's all Secret Squirrel type stuff. 😉

Also had an interview in the porn industry

Fluffer?

I was a radio maintenance technician for an engineering firm working for the railway. I supported an old system but was VERY good at it. Perhaps in the top 5 in the country. I had my patch and I cared about it.

We were then TUPE'ed into NR and it's been downhill from there, "cross skilled" into general telecoms and have become the master of press reset, if that don't fix it, change the card and if that don't fix it book it to technical support who do SFA about it but so long as the faults not in the new boss's fault queue he don't care about it.

I have no patch, no continuity, nothing seems to get fixed properly, no one cares.

Safety first unless it's delaying trains!

Deskilled
Demotivated
Disinterested

Property, self employed. After 15 years desk bound in oil and gas anything would be an improvement. No real work hours i get calls whenever the tenant wants. I whinge all the time but my friends all say i ve got yhe easiest life.

Sad thing is if i were on desert island disks i d ask for wifi and rightmove access. And maybe a share trading platform.

perchypanther - Member

Quantity Surveyor.

Kill me now

I was, but escaped.

I like to see myself as an Artist now.

You weren't supposed to tell. It's all Secret Squirrel type stuff.

😆

I've been trying to get into that for a while but nothing seems to come up

It's getting harder as well.