Safeguarding/Security/H & S – Public Sector

Yes I enjoy it. I like working for da people.

Money is fairly good, generous holidays and a pretty secure position

Oil company.

Yes, mostly, though plenty of frustrations.

Much more than I deserve given some of the other far more noble jobs posted here.

It pays my way and it corrodes my soul.

pretty much this. I design solutions for HMRCs PAYE system.

What do you guys do for work?
I work with them computer things as an automation and managed file transfer specialist. So play with Unix, muck about with shell and perl scripting, various IBM systems management products and some other funky stuff.

Do you enjoy it?
Weirdly, yes. Very much so. I get given problems to solve and make them work, automatically. Its like one massive sudoku.

How much do you get paid? I get paid peanuts.
Pretty well.

Talk to me.
Hello. I’m wearing a bra and knickers and a pair of wellies.

Lower completion engineer

Get to travel to all the shitholes of the world

Good for seeing places i wouldnt go on holidays. Dont visit the same place too often

Office bores me to tears after a couple of months so good to get out

Own a gift shop.
I get to eat lots of chocolate and commute off road.
Don’t get paid a fortune but we manage to live a very nice life style.

I wear a few different professional hats, but the one that pays the bills is assistant principal in a college.

It pays well (though not as well as it would if I lived across the Severn), but it is draining and I work w-a-a-a-a-a-y beyond what I should in terms of hours spent in the office, and worrying when I am out of it.

In fact, I think I will start a new thread to discuss this. 🙁

Paramedic fast response driver. Currently seconded as clinical advisor to 111. I wouldn’t say I love it, but its better than anything else I’ve ever done and the pay is pretty good (though less than drac, he’s a mod!

Ex GF mum worked at Scottish at prestwick. I’d already signed off and passed selection for the polis. They were dragging their heals so she suggested I apply online for NATS. Brilliant job. After arborfield I was posted to 4bn which was still at bordon. Did the skiing season then signed off. I was an 8 year lance jack being treated like a tech spanker straight out the factory. Worst posting I’ve ever seen.

Well, er, Jacko and the Badger bought it at the first Ypres front, unfortunately. Quite a shock, that. I remember Bumfluff’s house-master wrote and told me that Sticky had been out for a duck, and the Gubber had snitched a parcel sausage-end and gone goose-over-stump frogside.

I get to meet lots of – mainly – older people and nose around their houses. Or lots of younger vulnerable people. Or people who live in caravans or on boats.

I love it, though changes in legislation mean it’s a finite career path.

I earn enough, but less than the minimum wage

I’m a medical writer, yes I enjoy it. It’s interesting and I get to use my brain.

Well, er, Jacko and the Badger bought it at the first Ypres front, unfortunately. Quite a shock, that. I remember Bumfluff’s house-master wrote and told me that Sticky had been out for a duck, and the Gubber had snitched a parcel sausage-end and gone goose-over-stump frogside.

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Work with computers and x-ray equipment in hospitals
It’s good, but NHS politics are a pain
Money’s reasonable
However, one day I’ll sneak a spider into one of the rooms, irradiate it, make it angry then when it bites me I’ll have super powers. unfortunately I live in a town with very few tall buildings, so the web slinging opportunities are pretty limited

Chocolatier three days a week, Bike shop the other three days, on my day off i work/visit at a mates farm.

Enjoy all my jobs, using the 3.5 x salary rule i could get a mortgage for £55k, so nae chance of ever affording a house but i’m not interested in money nor the need to own a house, as long as i wake up and not hate the thought of work it’s a good day.

I’m currently at university studying business and accounting hoping to one day run my own business and investments

Strangely enough I enjoy the maths most the time, some of the management talk can drag on though. Loads of time for riding in S Wales too!

I get paid £10k per year from the government which I pay to the uni and my landlord

Drill holes in walls, hang doors,fit security stuff,and ots more, act as an unpaid social worker sometimes(cried after meeting a customer last week and hearing her story),and the week before after finding out another customer had died.

Also as a sperm donor, because sometimes people call me a wker.

Durhambiker, you are the Ringtons Tea man & I claim my £5!

Nurse.
After 20 odd years I’m good enough to be comfortable at it, although every day can be a school day.

I notice the typical British reticence to say how much money people earn, but my wages are in the public domain; I’m a top band 6, and get £34,189 as a basic wage, plus an increased hourly rate for working nights and weekends. I work 3 out of every 4 weekends, and do approximately half my hours on nights.

I’m not an angel.
It’s not a vocation.
Intensive Care nurses swear more than any other occupational group.
Some days are grim, grimmer than you can imagine, and certainly grimmer than I would ever discuss on here. (I really have seen things you people wouldn’t believe)
Some days are tedious and never end.
Some days are fun, largely due to the people I work with, but sometimes due to the people I am privileged to look after.

It’s good, but tougher to do as I age.

LBS monkey, it’s okay but not challenging and only £15K – for deputy manager.

Also been lawyer, loudspeaker designer.

General dog’s body at a small Aerospace company, bad pay but good hours, i have plenty of time for bike riding & coffee drinking.

software developer for a global company that makes doors. I enjoy my work, it keeps my brain active.

work from home 4 days a week, which sure beats the 30 mile each way commute across Bradford & onto the M62 & M1

1 week in 4 I also get to play at being on-call out of hours helpdesk. Phone can ring at any time from 10pm Sunday to 10pm Friday.

pay? market rate I guess

restless – Member
Drac – Moderator
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/999-whats-your-emergency
Most of the time

A decent wage.
I work in the control room.
Really enjoy it, but don’t get paid very much.

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Work for the sister, via an agency £7.50 ph. I’m minted. 🙄

Good post & good on you crikey

Self-employed management consultant working mainly with small, local charities and social enterprises, and occassionally public sector organisations. Can be interesting if working with people / organisations who are making a difference. Money has been poor over last couple of years as a result of government / local government budget cuts as most organisations I work with are funded by them. Feel as though I could be using my skills and experience more fully at the moment.

I’m a trustee of two charities (chair of one) which are voluntary roles, and also do voluntary work with the Prince’s Trust training young people wanting to set up their own business in marketing.

Recruitment manager looking after 17 recruitment consultants for a tech recruiter.
The hours are long and the work is very stressful, but when it’s good it’s brilliant, when it’s bad I wonder why I do it.
Pay is ok. I think I’m worth more but then so does everyone I suppose.

Pik n Mix – I used to do similar before teaching. I studied meiofauna (freshwater) 63-1000 microns which included some ostracods at the lower range. After my PhD I decided enough was enough and moved to the macrofauna!

Engineering Manager for a tyre manufacturer….
Job is pretty interesting though travel & working hours requirements would better suit someone without a family. 🙁

Pay is ok but would accept more 🙂

Principal Mining Engineer for an international consultancy.

So I get to travel to some interesting places around the world……and get paid for it 8)

Pay is good.

Wow. No IT managers. Hopefully this will stop that ridiculous and incorrect stereotype.

Me? I’m an IT manager. 😉

Do I like it? Yeah, it’s very interesting although I struggle to get my hands dirty nowadays. I used to be the guy who could fix problems everyone else was scratching their heads over. Now I just order people about. I create and manage huge national and global computer infrastructures. Many of you are my customer. Don’t worry, you’re safe. 😉

I get paid quite well for the responsibilities. Can’t complain really. I work very hard to do the right thing while many of my contemporaries only want to progress. This approach rarely makes me popular or gets me moving up the chain but I don’t mind.

And I waffle a bit.

I teach in a further education college (business, IT, employability and communication skills) for three days a week. This is the difficult bit (much of my work at present is with students undertaking foundation learning or on alternative curricula from schools, some attending pupil referral units part-time) but helping youngsters achieve is a great feeling. The pay and conditions are OK but not getting better.

Two days a week, and during some holidays from the FE teaching, I teach environmental education and outdoor activities (D of E award, climbing, cycling, hillwalking and navigation) for a number of private and third sector organisations and sometimes freelance. This is less onerous but also, usually, very rewarding. I get to work with different types of kids – primary school, brighter, less “challenging” – which gives good variety to my work. The pay varies from OK to rubbish.

Sometimes, especially in winter, I don’t work outdoors so much but with 2 kids under 3 this suits me as I get to spend time with them.

Generally this balance works out OK but the FE teaching workload and politics can get silly. There’s always something you could be doing “out of school” to do a better job and usually something you have to do to avoid doing a bad job.

I work for a big bike manufacturer as a brand manager.

For the most part I enjoy it. People think because i’m mad about bikes i’m lucky to have a job that I do, but there are plenty of times the age old phrase of mixing business & pleasure comes into light.

I travel a lot, so i’m away from home too much which I don’t like. I do get paid well (very well considering it’s the bike industry) and the perks can be great when the trips away involve riding along with lots of nice shiny new stuff which I don’t have to pay for.

Sometimes I still wish my hobby wasn’t my job though.

Intensive Care nurses swear more than any other occupational group

My lot are directly next to ITU – I’ll suggest a comparative audit.

We usually swear at them, tbh… mostly because they steal our patslides. 😀

Principal Mining Engineer for an international consultancy

where & when did you start out? I rather stupidly turned down a sponsored position at nottingham uni to study mining eng, always wondered what I’d be up to now if I’d stuck it out.

currently designing commerical & industrial flues & exhausts for boilers, chp engines & generators

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I went to work in a different hospitals ITU last week, because as well as being sweary, we are also in short supply. I spent all day on my best behaviour, never swearing once and was chatting at the end of the day with the sister in charge; she said that everyone was trying not to swear because they wanted to give a good impression…

Of course I told her to **** off, the ****ing stupid ********.

I would like to emphasise again the idea that I’m not special, I’m not any kind of wonderful person because of what I do; it’s a job, I do it as well as I can, but I get tired, I get fed up, I get annoyed, I get despondent just like everyone else who works anywhere.

Estimator

I enjoy it sometimes (been involved in some great projects), but generally it’s a bit dull. It really depends on the team I’m working with at the time.

Pays fairly well……..no one in the construction industry wants to do the job.

I went to work in a different hospitals ITU last week, because as well as being sweary, we are also in short supply.

I will start to get paranoid if you tell me there was a discussion about the Towneley and cyclocross bikes while you were there.

Estimator

I can’t escape the feeling that you stand and look at things and say ‘It’ll be about that much’…. 🙂

A nice version of Malcolm Tucker
It’s better than working for a living
Not enough

I am a middle manager in IT for a big “blue chip” and drive an Audi. I think the answers to the follow up questions are blindingly obvious.

I will start to get paranoid if you tell me there was a discussion about the Towneley and cyclocross bikes while you were there.

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