What do you do for a living and do you enjoy it?

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 feel your pain,charge nurse on a resiratory care ward until I had a small stroke 6 years ago,GP said ” you would be mad to put yourself back into that,you are 55 why not retire?” best thing I’ve done in a long time.

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!

Works Manager of a Sub contract heat treatment/brazing company. The title seems to suggest I am somehow responsible for production – which is not the case, I am more of a site manager/Technical advisor I reckon.
I do not like dealing with those staff that just push the boundaries of doing enough but cannot seem to motivate themselves to do any more – albeit this is now a minority of people.
Secondly, I miss my days on the shop floor, brazing and playing with furnaces and fire – unfortunately this is not a financially viable option.
Thinking about it, I came through the ranks from floor sweeper to Manager and my happiest days were once I had reached a management level which allowed me to play with fire but carry little or no responsibility for people.
I like my job, my best mate works there too and he likes bikes.

Train Driver, (started as a carriage cleaner then conductor)

14 years later and I still enjoy it, plus it pays well enough (for me anyway!) shame about the trains being as old as me and the silly shifts, but thats mitigated by a decent rest pattern.

Wouldn’t know where to start if I decided to change career.

Operational Technician for a midlands water company, in other words i operate a sewage treatment plant but only till Friday and after that I`m unemployed !! … that’s how much i liked it 🙂

I’m starting to really not enjoy my job. I think it’s because I don’t like football and I don’t drink that much that I’m seen as an weirdo now.

I’m thinking of something in the health and safety side of things next.

GIS Analyst – consultant so move around a bit, current placement is interesting but I’m glad it’s not forever

I sell teabags, coffee, biscuits and other such related goodies from my van. Love it mostly, though it can be slightly less than fun when the weather is rubbish.

3 days ago I started as a postie. Enjoying it so far (even the location, Dudley, isn’t as bad as I feared) gives me plenty of free time to work towards what I’d really like to do in the long term; a ranger for the NT

I run a genetics diagnostics company in the USA and UK focussing on IVF. In the UK we are the first company to offer the new higher accuracy Down’s syndrome testing (Non invasive prenatal testing). At the moment I’m employing new people every month. 99% super interesting and with a great outcome for success of lots of healthy babies.

Recruitment. Primarily management and internal training but I still keep my hand in with some sales and candidate work from time to time. It’s a small ish company, 4 people when I joined, 33 now so I’ve kind of grown up with the place. I have days when I hate it and days when I love it but I’ve been here 10 years so overall it’s good. The stress is high but the pay can be good to make up for it.

Frankly, even if I wanted to leave I wouldn’t know what to do.

houns… dont be fooled! they’ll chew you up ans spit you out and not give 2 short about the consequences… unless you have a decent dom and som… unlike where i used to be

Web application developer.

I do love what I do – very rewarding and it’s a constant learning curve!

Pays the Audi fuel bills…

Teacher, and I love it, I can’t imagine doing anything else to be honest!

I did want to be a headteacher, and got myself into senior leadership, only to realise that I hated sitting in budget meetings and sorting out HR issues. I only taught one day a week in my job, and I didn’t count that day as work. So I have taken a paycut and gone back to being in a small 11-16 secondary school where I will be head of Science. I can’t wait to be doing teaching most of the time, with a small bit of management!

Students can be mad as hatters, and constant government ‘support’ is a complete pain, but I get to teach Science, and be a true geek 😀

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!

Hawkshead Brewery drayman?

How much beer do I win?

I’m a proctologist. It’s good for looking up old friends.

Ah, my coat! I’ll show myself out.

Quote and configuration specialist is my job title, for an IT distributor.

It’s penance for all the baby seal clubbing I did in a past life.

Energy management and M&E consultancy (operational, non design)
Smallish company (not mine) on the rise, I enjoy it very much.

nice. What sort of stuff do you manufacture?

This is us (been working on a fancy new website for some months, so it’s a little old school right now):

http://www.barefacedbass.com

Bass cabs and active PA cabs, with a guitar cab and PA subwoofer in the short-term development schedule, a bass amp, guitar amp and more cabs and PA wedges in the medium-term and a complicated patentable massive R&D project in the long-term. Exciting times, just got to not run out of money in the present!

I’m a medical writer. It’s really interesting but stressful.

After 20 years driving a desk doing H&S and facilities management in the south east I jacked it in last year and moved to Scotland.

Now I work for halfords as a cycle technician. Despite the occasional abusive customer I’m much happier and get lots of time to ride and walk in proper mountains.

I want Matt_outandabouts job though!

I make and repair nice jewellery (self employed)for a living, really love the work but dealing with people is the difficult bit , I do wonder what percentage of customers are total numptis ,for the most part I am up and down like monkey on elastic. But very nice feeling when I make something that is absolutely right for customer

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

We where either dolphin trainers or biscuit designers…

It used to work !!
Ha. We were steeplejacks and church bell tuners. Those worked too 😆

Up until about 3’o’clock this afternoon I was a production technician/control room operator on an offshore oil & gas platform in the North Sea. Price of oil and a financial backer terrified of a UK “BP Macondo” style incident meant that the plug was pulled about 3 months ago and the place is now being decommissioned. Got my notice a couple of weeks ago, but then today got told of a new project. I’m now a production technician/control room operator in a gas terminal.

I enjoyed the offshore lifestyle cos the time off was immense and the money pretty good too. I suppose I’ll get used to the onshore life soon enough.

Also training to be a BSI auditor for medical device manufacturers, which is what I think I’ll end up doing full-time within 12 months.