[Closed] What do you do for a living and do you enjoy it?

The redundancy announcements are pretty unbelievable, stuff like Technip paying off 10.000, Subsea 7 reducing workforce by 6000, Saipem introducing cost cutting measures of $916.000.000 over the next two years, it's not been this bad for a while!

Media Planning for BBC Worldwide.

Yes I mostly enjoy it.

Self employed general builder.....it's great being your own boss......I get to choose what I want to do...take days off when ever I like......down sides are when it's quiet ......like near Xmas ...so it's just a matter of getting the money in while the going is good ...and of course getting the tax rebate ........is great too !!..lol

gazc - Member
technical author - basically i research stuff and write it up for our clients enjoyment, almost like being back at uni. very laid back office and well paid. really enjoy it & learn new stuff constantly

Interesting, how did you get into that? It's something I've wondered about in the past (technical background but enjoy writing).

CDT teacher in Scottish Borders. Enjoy it almost all the time. Kids are great ...the "new initiatives" are not.
Too much bix ticking and pole climbers for my liking.

Previously a 'town planner' which bored me shitless. Now drive a black cab two nights a week which I really enjoy. No particular desire for a career ever again. I like my free time too much. Only chance I'll go to a 'proper' job again is if the wife wants me to. But she's quite happy me doing what I'm doing for the foreseeable.

Today I've been out on bike this morning and now loafing on couch playing portal 2. Might have a nap soon. Yes, the wife and kids are away for a couple of days..

No interest in being wealthy or successful. Just happy to get by. I love the fact that I can spend so much time with my kids and I don't have to go to work the way most people do, deadlines, restrictions, bosses, appraisals, back to work interviews etc etc.

Photographer for advertising/design/editorial clients. wouldn’t swap it for anything.
i get to play with bling, go to interesting places, meet interesting people and hardly ever get bored.
i dont really think of it as a job.
Plus points are i dont have to deal with the general public, no line manager/management bullcrap and it’s well paid.

tl:dr: more fun than I.T.

I work for a large charity in the fundraising area. Though these days I tell people I'm an estate agent, investment banker or drug dealer as that seems to incite fewer daily mail type responses.

3D CAD designer, love it.

Have worked in most areas of engineering.

I'm fortunate enough to say I look forward to going to work.

Subsea Engineer, it's ok sometimes

Move into oil and gas 18 months ago just as it all went tits up. Used to work in MoD research designing surveillance equipment for UKSF and CT operation and seriously thinking about returning to defense as a consultant.

I do student recruitment for a university- kind of a degree salesman 😆 Fairly low level position tbh, I career changed into it almost by mistake, wasn't a long term thing but I've ended up staying... When it's good, it's awesome tbh, you can do so much good for people sometimes and some of the kids are ridiculously inspiring... Great people I work with, it's not a sector that really attracts dickheads. And it's a good organisation to work for, plus even the little dude can make a difference . I studied here too so it's a big part of me and nice to be back. But it's often pretty boring too, and sometimes just depressing.

Wish it paid better! Wish I could spend more time on the good bits and less on the grunt work, but there'll always be grunt work to do. But by and large I like what I do and I like doing it.

Head of an international school, sounds glamorous, but its not really.

Do i like it? not sure to be honest, pays the bills though, and they give me a bonus so things must be ok.

I have read all the posts, [s]some[/s] [i]most[/i] of your jobs sound far to [s]important and stressful[/s] [i]incredibly dull[/i] to me.

Never a truer example of one man's meat etc...

I'm an Architect as well (thanks Mikey74). We don't have any technicians in the firm either, although I was going to advertise for one next week - maybe not now.
I mostly specialise in transport infrastructure design and work a lot with tunnelling, civils/ structural, mech/ electrical/ public health, comms, fire, etc engineers. It can be fun, but one thing is that I never expected to have to be an Excel driver when I was at school of architecture.

I'm a charge nurse (male equivalent of a ward sister).

My days consist of trying to run a ward and give good care whilst being constantly bugged at to meet targets and free up beds. Its all about targets and saving money in the NHS. The care aspect goes out the window. The whole thing is run on a shoe string with limited supplies and the below recommended staffing levels, morale is the lowest I've known and complaints come in thick and fast but its OK because we are saving money and meeting targets!

I [u]deeply[/u] regret my career decision. if I could afford to re train as something else I would but currently I've a young family, mortgage and debts to pay and I'm the main breadwinner so it looks like I'm staying.

I [u]hate[/u] it.

Investment management for private clients. Enjoy it - yes, it's varied and I get to speak to some interesting people. Can be massively frustrating when the world conspires against you though!

[i]Head of an international school, sounds glamorous[/i]

No it doesn't 🙂

Mechanical design engineer.

I enjoy the design & tinkering side of things. But, I am yet to work anywhere where things aren't always a mad panic rush so you just have to get things done, rather than do them 'properly'.
I enjoy my work when things are ticking along, but always seem to end up being fairly quiet for a while & then three jobs become mega-urgent must get them done & it becomes a bit panicky & stressy.
The older I get, the more I realise that I don't handle stressful work situations well (some people really seem to strive on the stress).

I'd love to re-train and do something like physiotherapy but that seems to require a full time degree & there's no way I can stop working & go back to uni for 4 years.

I remember the days, when on nights out with the lads...

We where either dolphin trainers or biscuit designers... 😆

It used to work !!

Ok, maybe I was a little harsh. I just think I'm done with architecture, certainly domestic architecture.

Waste consultant specialising in infrastructure procurement. Its not always fun but I get paid to be pedantic and argumentative so it plays to my strengths.

And I get to spend vast quantities of other people's money buying big machines. 😀

mrhoppy - Member

Waste consultant

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Plastics manufacturing. Currently injection moulding pop bottles. But I've done lots of different processes, lots of different products and applications. R&D, process engineering, new products, plant installation and commissioning.

Do I like it? It's OK ATM.

It can be interesting developing new products and new builds, setting up systems, etc. I'm now in the "just continue to make lots" so it gets tedious quickly. I did a secondment last year as a trainer, which I really enjoyed, which opened my eyes to other directions. But, not trying to sound like a ****, I'm really good at what I do and I have a reputation within a certain group within the industry. I just wish I could do the interesting bit with the security of the dull bit.

Piano player in a brothel

Edit : well not really, but its good to have aspirations

Self employed web monkey/developer.

Love it still after five years and am pretty sure I'm also unemployable now even if I did want a change.

I move things around and automate things (via Workload Automation, scripting stuff, FTP(S), SFTP, Connect Direct, HTTPS etc etc etc).

Basically I'm an IT nerd but its got a good job title, pays extremely well and is secure. Do I enjoy it? Yes. Its kinda interesting (I never set out to make a career in IT, I fell into it), I work with some great people and work/life balance is fantastic.

Designer / R&D for an oil and gas valve manufacturer.

Yes its good but you always think the grass is greener etc, you don't get half as much as people think you do. On the plus side I work with some nice people and I like what I do. On the negative side no one things R&D is worthwhile and wont help you out at all.

Still its nice bailing people out of the shit every day 🙂

Freelance architect / stay at home dad. Work is at all scales from extensions through to masterplanning, but residential sector mostly.

Suits the time I have in-between school runs. Can be enjoyable as long as it's varied. Can be stressful balancing it all, but largely I enjoy the challenge of turning projects around quickly in short days.

SHEQ Director. I don't really like or dislike the job as such, it's ok as far as jobs go. What I do enjoy is the overpaid and underworked nature of my role 😆

I'm a charge nurse (male equivalent of a ward sister).

My days consist of trying to run a ward and give good care whilst being constantly bugged at to meet targets and free up beds. Its all about targets and saving money in the NHS. The care aspect goes out the window. The whole thing is run on a shoe string with limited supplies and the below recommended staffing levels, morale is the lowest I've known and complaints come in thick and fast but its OK because we are saving money and meeting targets!

I deeply regret my career decision. if I could afford to re train as something else I would but currently I've a young family, mortgage and debts to pay and I'm the main breadwinner so it looks like I'm staying.

I hate it.

I design biscuits Mon-Fri, but fancy something a bit more outdoors and away from the desk. Main hobby is Dolphin training, may try and make this my main job, but there's so much competition.

I really have no idea what direction I want to take when I leave the RAF.

I design biscuits for Dolphin Trainers.

Investment Manager. Started out in Artificial Intelligence moved into Finance as a quant in mid 80's. Finance paid much the best and needed quant / maths skills. It's been an extraordinary 30 years, some big highs and some serious lows (probably not when people might think). Best times where 10 years of running my own business and hiring talented people and helping them grow. Enjoy the work, had it not been for getting divorced would possibly have retired. If I was starting my career again I'd almost certainly have stayed in "tech" as some very interesting things being done with AI techniques and applications which now pays better than finance.

2nd week into being environmental Consultant for a financial services firm after being an IT Technician in the same industry for 13 years. So right now I love my job because I'm no longer an IT Technician. Hopefully it will lead away from financial services because it's not massively interesting or full of opportunity in house. I'm more optimistic than I've been in, well, 13 years (not hard) so it's good.

Drac, we should talk.

Drac, we should talk.

Do you speak Bottle Nose?

Primary school science teacher. Great job, shame about some of the adults!

Aviation Fuel Site Operator on a land based terminal was until May this year a MoD nationwide asset. I have a love hate relationship with it however I may not have a job soon as the new European owners of said assets are looking at trimming it down somewhat. 🙄

Build missile guidance systems, use to enjoy the job, now I struggle with the morality of it. 🙁

Frequency planner on a constellation of comms satellites. Used to be RAF electronics type bod previously.

40mpg - Preconstruction Director for a regional construction company.

No way - I'm a Bid Manager for a construction company.

About to become CEO of a media business - some great people there so should be fun

Regional Business Development for a large U.S. IT company. Get involved in a bit of everything, sales, marketing, operations, finance etc. Love it, and it puts me bang in the STW profile, I don't drive an Audi though 😉

Guess! 🙂
Enjoy my job but I have a good delivery around Staveley in the Lakes, mix of shops business units and houses been doing the round for 3 yrs meet loads of nice people even the guys in Wheelbase 🙂
that I have a brew and a natter every day with!