[Closed] Tell me about... Your job?

If I told you I'd have to kill you....

Not much

Mostly

Shit loads.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/999-whats-your-emergency

Most of the time

A decent wage.

It pays my way and it corrodes my soul.

invent stuff, enjoy it immensely, paid enough to make hmrc smile... gits

Today i have been talking to headteachers and business managers of Academies about children who want to move schools.

And eating chocolate cake.

I'm basically a degree salesman 🙄 Pays alright, and when it's good it's absolutely brilliant, when it's not it's just incredibly dull. Today was a good day though. It's good to spend your days with top human beings.

Used to work for a bank, and looking back I have absolutely no idea why.

Lots of different things
Not especially
Nowhere near as much as I ought to be

I get up about 5.30 already at my workplace and get screamed at and provoked and subjected to extreme noise from that moment..
I am in charge of two employees that are lower than me in the hierarchy, one does not understand my language, neither are interested in obeying my instructions, both take great pleasure in winding me up to the very limit of my tolerance at any opportunity, and will think nothing of following along behind me undoing any work that I have just done..
They can both be abusive, violent and think nothing of screaming at me to my face many many times each day..
This is considered normal and my two underlings are above reproach in the eyes of my boss..

While I am trying to keep these two wallys in order I have to complete any number of menial tasks all day every day, such as cleaning, cooking and shopping plus running any other errands the boss needs doing

My shift usually lasts about 14 hours, I have no breaks and am on-call 24/7, often with many other tasks taken on outside of my usual hours, frequently until late at night, and regularly I will also be woken in the night to deal with issues that have arisen..
My boss believes that I should consider myself grateful for this employment and other than providing meals and board I get paid the grand total of naff all...

Part time in an Outdoors shop.

Not really, but it's nice chatting to customers.

Minimum wage.

[url= http://www.shoerepairsonline.co.uk ]This is me[/url]
Along with 5 shops.
I love it, pays what I need.
Can't believe how well we do with the online side

Run my own business doing what i love, make enough to be comfortable, im very lucky 🙂

www.gardenchief.co.uk

Talk about colours. All day long.
When there aren't any customers.
More than i need.

I'm meant to be in HR. Since moving to a new company 3 months ago I do literally nothing. At all. All day nothing. As a consequence I hate it and will be moving on ASAP. I am better than average paid, but less well paid than my peers.

I rehabilitate high risk offenders in the community.

I love it, never a dull moment.

Pays Ok, but pay isn't everything.

let me guess yunki the boss reckons as you didn't produce the two employees ( 9months training) you have it easy!!

I fix trucks and armoured vehicles teach others to fix them and occasionaly guide and teach mtb riding. The pay is reasonably good cant complain. The trade off is i occasionaly get shot at and can be away from home for long periods. When all is said and done i rather enjoy it .

Auxiliary nurse, emergency surgical admissions.

When it's good, it's amazing. When it's bad, it's seriously grim.

Less than £10 per hour.

Prison Officer...

http://www.poauk.org.uk/index.php?the-role-of-a-prison-officer

Although it won't get another mention.

I'm an apprentice:

I'm currently learning how to fix double decker buses and coaches.

Most of the time I spend doing services (pouring out 20 litres of engine oil and another 15 litres of gearbox oil and refilling - on old J reg Scania's)

I get paid jack

I enjoy it, also people at work are sorted.

got it in one marcus7

Parkesie, vmb or a? I was a VE until some bright spineless tiffy wrote a paper saying we weren't needed. Went tech for the quals then left. On the plus side I now control a big chunk of airspace over England. Pays a LOT better, don't go away for 6 months, get to wear a hoodie and trainers to work and still get the same amount if annual leave

Downside? Still live within spitting distance of Bordon.

In answer to the OP's questions.

Yes.
Not really unless there is something different happening.
Enough to stop me going elsewhere.

I advise companies how much to pay their employees, plus the design of structures and processes that surround remuneration.

I enjoy the work, but not the workload.

I could do with earning more.

Raf aircraft techie
Love it
Pay aint great when the civvie world get paid double what we do

I'm an ecommerce user experience developer. I persuade drunk people to buy things they don't need.

Quite enjoy it, yeah.

I get paid enough though probably could earn more elsewhere.

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.

Scottish secondary 'techie' teacher.

Love it, though the resources/accommodation which we have at my school make it increasingly harder!

More than I've been paid before I entered teaching, been at top of the scale for a couple of years now.

I get paid peanuts.

Is that legal tender...if so are there minimum wage peanuts?

I teach teachers and support teachers to get outside with their classes.
I lead a new project about play in secondary schools, and will be building all sorts (pump tracks, parcour, shelters etc) in three secondary schools in 2015 and another to bring 'Tinkering School' to Scotland.
I do a load of the simple IT and social media stuff.
.
Yes, I like it.
.
I get paid less than most of the teachers I work with. 🙁

RGN (Orthopaedics)
Its better than working behind a desk. It can be enjoyable and rewarding. It does however become quite stressful. It hurts my knees and back. It sometimes stinks.
It pays alright, although i would rather be in the Army as the pays better.

I work at a steel/titanium extrusion, Machine operator on a hot stretcher that was here when my Grandad worked here! Our press is about 60 years old ha.

I enjoy what I do but it's less enjoyable when working with certain people who should've been sacked a long time ago/never set on full time.

We've just been taken over by a company called RTI International Metals.

Hoping I get my wage rise I was promised last year, fingers crossed!

web designer for myself

a lot of the time yes

comfortable but no aston martin

I work in a plumbers merchant. It's my job to get moaned at by customers when stuff doesn't turn up/doesn't fit/is broken. I also spend a lot of time putting stuff right that should never go wrong as it's bloody childs play, because I have some idiots under me who walk around on autopilot waiting for the clock to tick round to 5pm so it's a common occurrence.

I enjoy it mostly, when it all goes well.

Pay is okay but it could be better (as always)

I take pictures of shiny things, set builds, famous people, posh bikes and anything else I get asked to. I don't do weddings/pets/kids or deal with the general public (thank god)
Love it, it's not really like work as it's just what I do and not some kind of burden that means your week starts at 9am Monday morning and your boss has to approve your holiday dates.
I'm in the tax bracket that makes me wince.

Vmb fortunately know my way around electrics which are regarded as witch craft by most vm's
Im trying to find reasons not to go tiffy so i can avoid bordon.
Howd you get into air traffic cobrakai?

Love how people make their mundane middle management jobs sound amazing.

I could never imagine myself working in an office, I'm fat enough as it is.

Work for a supermarket, line or dept manager work stupid shifts get grief, under paid overworked but great pension eventually!

I used to have one of those jobs that folks said "oooh that must be interesting"

Now i just go to this little white painted building

its very interesting waaaaay more than the ""oooh that must be interesting"other job

I dont actually get paid any money my missus supports me

I'm a lorry driver..
It's sh1t..Pays ok (but work a lot of hours), I miss my wife and family when working away. Not always good health food accessible either. See some awful and selfish driving, and most lorry drivers are filthy swines!

Wish I'd stuck in more at school it got a trade or joined the armed forces as per the regrets In life thread.

Other than that im a bundle of joy and riding along on the crest of a wave!

Technical manager for a company who make silicone coated release liners. Pay is great, job is good too, varied and challenging.

I lead a team of technicians that prototype and rework all sorts of mechanical and electronic things. I enjoy it, get paid reasonably and get good benefits. High job security too, which is nice.

Airline Captain.

Very lucky that I get paid to do something I love, but shifts are very un-family friendly and summer is very tiring, fatigue a serious issue.

Enough money now I've paid off my training loans.

The name's Bond.

Love how people make their mundane middle management jobs sound amazing.

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.

Airline Captain.

now thats baller

silicone coated release liners

That's the best euphemism for penis beaker I've ever heard.

I am a lead stress engineer (structural analyst) for a big aerospace company.

I enjoy it mostly, interesting, but find I spend more time fire fighting because the industry is always in too much of a rush to take stock and do things correctly.

Pay is OK I suppose, but not necessarily in the context of a professional position where 7 years is the minimum post-degree training required for the level of responsibility held.

Have I spoke to you tomkerton?

Senior Operating Department Practitioner within liver transplantation (and pancreas and kidney transplants). Also a member of the organ retrieval team.

Enjoy work? It's certainly different, not your everyday operating theatre job. We have to travel a lot, often by air to donor hospitals, on a private plane. Sometimes we even get a private jet (depending on aircraft availability) which is very nice (and comfy). Occasionally we have to flown by helicopter (Army/Navy) if there are no planes around.
Can be extremely sad, especially when attending paediatric donors. Thankfully I haven't attended that many.
I have learned to live life without worrying about tomorrow.

Pay? I work a lot of oncalls (1:3 at best, 1:2 at worst) on top of my basic hours. Can be at work for a very long time if called in. Money is ok but you certainly put the hours in.

Motor trade

Sell specialist Mercedes Benz vehicles.

Work from home covering a geographical area , so run my own day / week etc. Still enjoy it.

Can't complain .

tart about on a MAC all day
50/50
Brazilnuts

Lemonysam, nothing that exciting i'm afraid...

Airline Captain.

Secondary Science Teacher

When it's good it's great, unfortunately I'll be working for free tomorrow (strike) because too often it's not and things are getting worse. The number of vacancies in science is scary with huge numbers of newly qualified teachers dropping out of the profession within weeks of starting their new posts. And this after spending £9k training. My school is struggling to appoint for a vacancy and we're 7 weeks into the school term.

A lot less than I used to before I started teaching.

Matt_outandabout - do you have a website? I'm looking to get more outdoor learning at my school (specifically in science) and would be interested to learn about your work. I'm based in the south of England but would love to hear more about what you do north of the border?

Mr Smith - Turkish fake Brietling, £50

Cobraki - I'm BHX based and go South or East so Im guessing we don't chat if you're TC at Scottish

At the moment I look at individual grains of sediment ranging from 250µm-63µm, then with a very fine paintbrush pick out ostracods and foraminifera.

Sounds dull but this microscopic world rocks mine.

component engineer at automotive oem, agency.

i do enjoy it, as much as one can with a company that employs many thousands of people. (very) occasionally get to engineer something, some travel but not enough to piss me off.

can't complain about the money at all.

weekend and evenings i go to the cave and do 'proper' engineering (make stuff), which sometimes i make a tiny amount of money on, other times not, but it is food for the soul.

this sums it up quite well for me

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/0143117467

the 'proper' job helps pay for the 'hobby' job.

Unemployed planning officer. Full time dad.

No money, no pension, no prospects, very happy, great family life. Work part time a couple of days a week. Am always there for my kids. ould get back to work if I were to move back down South but no desire to. Am not remotely ambitious or hardworking anyway. Wife is the bread winner and suits us fine.

Don't want to be rich, just a great dad, I'll die poor, but I'll have been with my kids far more than most dads ever got to be, and that's what's important to me.

Lardlover wins best job I reckon, apart from possibly yunki 😉

Agreed - Lardlover wins hands down

NHS Mental Health Services

14 hour days, used to work for me, now I'm knackered and don't get to see the kids on work days, however couldn't imagine going in 5 days a week

pay? its alright aint it? depends how you spend what you have,

monkeyp, Most of our work is for Aerospace.

I really enjoy it but it's quite dead-end.

Quality Tech/Auditor for an engineering company supplying F1,Moto Gp, WRc etc with engine parts. Love the job, pays ok.

Intensive Care Medicine, and the gassing* when I'm not doing that.

Mostly enjoy it; can't imagine doing anything else though.

Senior Operating Department Practitioner within liver transplantation (and pancreas and kidney transplants). Also a member of the organ retrieval team.

Does the name Gilbert Scott mean anything to you?

*Incidentally, if anyone else is interested, 16 Oct is World Anaesthesia Day

I sell teabags, coffee, biscuits and other such things door to door from a van. Enjoy it mostly, especially when the weather isn't foul. Get to meet loads of nice folk (and tolerate some not-so-nice folk), out and about all the time, working for a company that's well known and respected in the area.

Basic pay is a bit rubbish, achievable commission boosts it up to a decent amount, and no travel costs due to taking the van home saves a bit

ever get "invited in" durhambiker?

Charidee
Yes, love it
Peanuts, but Donuts on Donut Fridays.

bearnecessities - Member
The name's Bond.

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I had you down as Johnny English tbh

There is the occasional unwanted display of affection. It's never from the ones you'd want it from mind...

I'm engaged in Banking.
I absolutely love it.
I get paid loads.

😆

Woodburning stove installer most of the year, 'artist' for about 2 months each summer 🙂

I really enjoy it, working for myself so I can come and go as I please more or less.

The deluge of enquires/pricing stuff at this time of year gets a bit hectic and I always book in just a little more than I should so end up working loads of hours. Real satisfaction getting through loads of work in a week though and the winter passes quickly.

Make plenty of dough now compared to some of the crappy work I've done in the past.

Tomkerton, don't deal with BB ins and outs, but I occasionally have to miss you. I'm London TC. Better be careful because work has its spies all over the place.

Head of Maths in a secondary school

Love it, it's high pressure, days fly by and I work long hours. Then get a chunk of time off. It's like working extreme shifts.. work 12-14 hour days and a lot at weekends for 6-8 weeks at a time, then I get 1 or 2 weeks off. Nice long summer break too.

£45k (ish)

Now a 8wheel tipper driver.
Get home to see my kids at a decent hour most days.
Occaisionally have to work Saturdays.
29-32k a year depending on how much I can be arsed.
Close to home so can ride to work( compared to a 30 mile each way commute and working nights for similar money).
Busy work environment so work hours fly by.

I'm happy

please delete (repeated post).

Dairy herdsman.
Money reasonable, but I have to do a lot of hours to earn it.
Having to work weekends is crap, but it is the norm in this line of work.
Love working outdoors, could never work in an office all day.