Proud of your job/Career

[kjgreen3]

Hey,

 

Just thought I would start a little discussion. Just wondering how many members here are happy with their job. If so maybe they could list it with a brief description of why they are (Or if this thread dies maybe why they aren't and what job they would prefer to do).

 

Im interested in particular with the Police and Public Sector workers due to the cuts to see if they will still find their working role satisfying under the added financial pressure.

 

Guess I'll start;

 

I'm an electrician and although it sounds cheesy I genuinely find satisfaction in helping others (for a small fee ) but seriously yes it is nice to go to a customer, diagnose a fault rectify it and something simple like restoring their electrical supply does mean a lot. Also some of my work may stand the test of time and for a complete rewire it may last 25-50 years or more. To me this is much more rewaRding than being an electrical engineer and not being involved hands on (that was my university degree btw, no offence to any electrical engineers).

 

So reader of this post, your turn

[Lee_e]

Also interested in the police and funny enough being a car mechanic..... but thats for another time...

 

Currently working as a Sous Chef ( 2nd in charge of the whole kitchen brigade) for those of you who didnt know that At The Cisswood House Hotel 4* 2 roset.

 

To be perfectly honest i wish i never got into cooking, Doesnt pay off, Shifts are sh!tty, and iv just lost all passion for food, and not to mention lost all my friends due to working almost every weekend....

 

Has its perks though... get to eat what i want , when i want ( always good) and i guess to see people eating something i have produced/cooked and for them to compliment it , always brings a smile to my face. Been a chef for 6 years now and at the age of only 22 years young, am wondering if a career change might be in order... if only i didnt have so many bills !!

 

Who's Next ??

[Purity14]

Id have loved to be in the police, tried a while ago, well - for about 3 years and then gave up.

Now I couldnt take the wage cut, so im glad I didnt hold out!

 

I work in IT, sort of - everything is IT these days.

 

We are a small business of two people, and it is "Time and Attendance" and "job costing" and dabble in some security tracking products.

 

Basically, companies that need to keep track of employees time, when they come and go, where they are and where they have been, and also what they have done.

 

Everything has to be tailored to each company as they are all different.

 

Eg, Joe Bloggs shift is 9-5 dont pay him before 9 and dock him 15 minutes if he is 2 minutes late. If he works on production line 1 he is earning 6.10 an hour and if he works on production line 2 he earns 5.80 per hour. He earns overtime after X amount of hours, blah blah you get the idea.

 

Job satisfaction is very high, i get to meet clients and also install the equipment. And make sure its calculating what they want it to do, and correctly!

Also, because its a small business, you learn every aspect of how a business works and self motivation and drive earns you money not just respect or a pat on the back.

 

We have some big names like Tesco Direct, Odeon, Champneys, Bibby Distribution, and loads of recruitment companies.

 

Attached is a picture of one of our biometric devices that stop companies being fined £10k for employing cloned illegal immigrants.

[Havard]

I love my job now because I work for a small company and I have a chance to buy shares and own a quarter of it in the next few weeks.

 

I have worked for larger companies in manufacture and distribution of "pumps". Basically anywhere that liquid needs to be moved from one place to another needs a pump of some sort. We work a lot on large heating systems, blocks of flats, appartments etc doing the mains water pumping.

 

Love getting around customers, chasing orders and the satisfaction of bringing work into the company is massive. On the downside if you aren't successful then it can be very stressful and worrying as you are the bread winner for the company and results are everything.

 

Today I am going to a millionaires house to look at a problem he has with a sewage pumping station...... I may get an order got £5 - 6K or I may just end up smelling of millionaire shit....

 

I worked my way through as an apprentice engineer repairing large valves, then got an office job assisting people with sales and pump problems over the phone. I was promoted to external sales at 25 and went out to see customers face to face, this is when it got good as I got a car and a credit card.....

 

Am now 35 and can't imagine doing anything else. I have quite a large customer base and with so many jokers for competition my honest, realistic approach has won me a lot of friends. That said, if you don't visit them regularly, someone else is always going to get into your spot...

 

H.

[bradleyh_15]

Well I'm in the fire brigade and have been for a fair while now and the job has changed a lot since I first started! It has also become more political and more restricted than ever before!

Whilst I enjoy the job and it is rewarding the whole idea of closing stations and not recruiting when people are leaving/ retiring just puts the public at greater risk and provides a more limited service which could effect not only a member of the publics life but another fire fighters life!

 

I also work in a leisure centre as a duty manager for a non-profit organisation. This is an enjoyable job having to run the centre while I'm there on shift and keep all the employees in line and making sure they are working and not just slacking off and trying to chat up customers! Again though it is very political and every customer want something for nothing and the blame culture we are now living in does not help! However through both jobs I meet alot of different people in a lot of different situations and I find them very rewarding!

[barneybrendan]

been a fisherman most of my life,which i never thhought i would ever give up.but due to legeslations and restrictions ,and the fact that nobody new was coming into the industry i found myself struggling to find a crew and earnings were down each year.the seasons are changing and the crab were not turning up.so i finally descided to sell up and get out,which was hard to adjust to at first as fishing is a bit like farming in that it becomes a way of life and not just a job.

The problem is since i got out i havnt found anythhing i can stick to.The only thing i am thinking of now is to set up mobile welding.

[The Raven]

been a fisherman most of my life,which i never thhought i would ever give up.but due to legeslations and restrictions ,and the fact that nobody new was coming into the industry i found myself struggling to find a crew and earnings were down each year.the seasons are changing and the crab were not turning up.so i finally descided to sell up and get out

 

Really? I always thought you where some super mech type!

 

I hate my job, ive hated all my jobs...........

[barneybrendan]

Really? I always thought you where some super mech type!

 

I hate my job, ive hated all my jobs...........

 

sort of came withh the job having to strip down engine /pump ect at sea if anything went wrong.No training ever just things you pick up like welding most fisherman i know are pretty good machanics and welders.

[Kirk]

I've been in the motor industry since school. I started off as a apprentice and as you would expect I was the bitch for a few years. Eventually I starting to work on cars properly firstly trying painting. I quite enjoyed it and it gave me great satisfaction when the job went well and then my skin to a rather odd reaction to the paint so I had to draw the line with that.

 

Next up I tried panel beating. I stuck at this one for about 2 years but it became so boring after a while so then I switched to being a crash mechanic and I realy enjoyed this role purely because it was my sort of things, so I stuck at this one, got my NVQ's and started to move onto bigger roles.

 

When I joined my current company my skills expanded greatly to the likes of suspension geometry and air conditioning. At that stage I'd earned my title role as an MET technician and I felt proud, good money, decent company and life skills but over the last 6 months things have gone down hill with all these new policy's, recognised standards within the industry, has resulted in huge amounts of papar work and crap which makes the job 10 times as difficult. As a result I slowly began to get real bored with it and have since totally lost interest in the job. I'm now 23 and heading back into education to find another path up the ladder to expand my skills furthermore and switch over to the engineering side of the industry.

 

To some up, I used to be proud of it but now I hate it so there you have it

[The Raven]

sort of came withh the job having to strip down engine /pump ect at sea if anything went wrong.No training ever just things you pick up like welding most fisherman i know are pretty good machanics and welders.

 

Thats awesome:d

[Gaz6002]

I love my job with a burning passion. I'm a motoring journalist, and to be frank it's all a bit of a dream to me. It took a lot of hard work to get here, but now it's really starting to pay off.

 

I quit my previous (fairly well paid) job three years ago and since then I've been right on the breadline for the most part. It doesn't help when magazines you work for screw you over for freelance work by folding without paying you, but hey; I'm not bitter.

 

Since wrestling my way into a big publishing house things are so much better. Everyday I'm learning something new and I'd like to think I'm becoming the consumate car geek... So much so that I try not to talk about cars with my friends as I know I can bore them to tears

[davej705]

I love my job.I have built up a small courier firm for the last 5years and now I only work on mondays doing paperwork etc

 

Was extrememly hard work to begin with working 18hour days 6days a week for a few years but happy days now,get to spend lots of time with my family.

[Mcgoo]

I consider myself very lucky. I have loved all my jobs.

Left school with the bare minimum, Managed to secure an Electro/mechanical Apprenticeship with Ford Mo Co at Dagenham. 4 years there, loved every minute of it.

 

Decided I wanted to work on Aircraft so joined the RAF- 9 years as an Airframe Technician.

 

Then realised if I actually wanted to earn decent money I needed to change again - took a chance and started working offshore.

 

I now work with ROVs (under water robots) on Drill rigs and apart from being away from home, I love it. 3 weeks on 3 off, decent money and the job is great.

Half of my time spent 'flying' the ROV which is essentially like playing a cool computer game and the other half getting my teeth into electrical and mechanical maintenance of the system.

 

The only thing I 'wish' I could have done in my life would be a job in motorsport ie driving.

[Josh]

I work in a call centre dealing with inbound calls on stocks and shares.

 

To say I hate it is an understatement. Not to sound big headed but I'm so much better than this, I just can't seem to get any other jobs.

 

I wish I was more into cars when I left school and did some kind of apprenticeship or a different course at college.

[davej705]

The only thing I 'wish' I could have done in my life would be a job in motorsport ie driving.

 

Don't we all

[The Raven]

As i said i hate my job.

 

However it can earn me a weeks wage in 3 hours or so. Its a means to an end for me i need to pay of my rental then by all accounts i dont have to work all the time its rented.

 

Work hard when your young take it easy when your old.

[Supra Gaz]

I have been a police officer in the Met for a couple of years, I worked in surrey police before for a few years then transferred over.

The force has always had problems with funding and worries about cuts etc. Unfortunatly times are even worse than usual, no money for new uniform, repair to job cars or overtime, it's getting a bit ridiculous in some areas.

But, despite all of this, I wake up on a work day and look forward to work, it is nice to help people. It is frustrating having to arrest people who you know are good people and just had a moment of madness but you just have to get on with it.

Despite what people say, most officers really do care and don't go around looking for innocent people to stick on for rubbish, were too busy and it isn't worth our jobs.

 

Anyway, essay over, if you want to do the job, be prepared for long days, being spoken to like an idiot and not the best wage in the world, but at least you leave work smiling most days!

[Neil-NA]

I have worked in the same bike shop since the day i left school (14 years ago) its all i know, i'm fully qualified mechanic and the manager after starting right at the bottom.

 

I couldnt imagine changing jobs, in the next year or so i will be opening my own place (with a bit of luck)

 

Just one thing, pay is rubbish, i'm on 15.5k a year.

[Matt H]

I enjoy my job when it's good, but since the recession hit, my field of work has taken a huge hit. It's well paid, but I've not had a rise in 2 years now, not even cost of living, so it's like taking a pay cut.

 

More than half the company has been made redundant and I reckon things won't stop there. Hard times ahead I reckon, but it is what it is! I usually land on my feet though.

[Swampy442]

I love my job, spent the last 18 years in the RAF as an aircraft technician, where else in the world can you do jet engine ground runs in full reheat Working on aircraft is something I really love doing and the satisfaction, for me anyway, is huge.

Currently employed on front line helicopters, and while I hate them with a passion Im more proud of my achievements in recent years after tours in Iraq and Afghan.

I cant see myself doing anything other than what I do now when I leave.

[Max Headroom]

I work in Residential childcare dealing with teenagers with emotional and behavioural problems, the work is hard on an emotional level and the stress of the job is immense, these guys are broken goods and we have to try and put them back together, it rarely works as the teenagers think they know best and fight against everything you are trying to do for them, only to find out when they leave the system, everything we were telling them was true and they fall flat on their faces, the sad fact is they often end up on the street or in prison, or fall prey to the more unscrupulous folk out there. Its hard when you get the phone call when they are asking to come back and you have to tell them that there is no coming back. There have been success stories, but they have been few and any success you have is small.

 

You have to deal with physical and verbal abuse to yourselves, I have lost count the number of times I have been hit, bitten, spat on or kicked. And apparently I am a short fat f**king four eyed t**t.

 

The rota is genourous, I work 11 days a month, before you say thats good, my day starts at 0800hrs and finishes at 2300hrs and I may be needed to do a sleep in till 0800hrs the next morning, or if the teenagers are creating havoc I could be up and awake all night.

 

I am looking to retire soon, my Forces pension kicks in in 3 years time and I will just unwind and do something more relaxing like.. wrestle sharks

[pistonbroke]

I've been a copper for about 10 years now, the job has changed massively in that time and it isn't the same career I joined all those years ago. When I joined up, I heard the 'old sweats' talking about how the job has gone to rat shit blah blah blah, but obviously then I didn't know anything different. In the time that I've been in, I've seen the red tape develop and grow, despite streamlining efforts, the job is now more conveluted than ever. As supra Gaz states, there has always been an element of budget cuts and money saving ideas since I started, things are worse now than they ever have been. They're tough on overtime, and run less operational policing (specialist units targetting organised crime) but the basic wage for a copper once enrolled, cannot be changed. As far as I've heard, they intend is to cut the admin staff in offices who are not police officers, those roles will then be filled with police officers who are currently on restricted duties through injuries (of which there are a good few). Not good news for civilian staff.

 

It still has its good points, I love helping people in need, and I love dragging the slag off the street and locking them up. I also still love the thrill of the chase, that adrenaline rush never gets old. Be it on foot, or in a car, there's nothing like living a hollywood style chase the bad guy scene involving dogs, helicopters and fast cars

[Stan]

I'm very proud of my career. I came out of uni with a degree but didn't actually want to work in that sector or get a proper job, so bummed around doing admin for a few years in the bereavement office at my local hospital.

 

However, 3 years ago I managed to get a job training as an Anatomical Pathology Technician in the mortuary there, and have recently passed my certificate in it as well.

 

I get lots of satisfaction when I meet families who have come to see their loved ones. Everyone is different in the way they grieve or react to you, but it always seems you are helping them with their grief in some way.

 

The post mortem side of things is also extremely interesting and again if it wasn't for us doing the job, families wouldn't be able to know why their loved one passed away. We also get involved in the high profile cases as well which makes you feel important (although it's not like Silent Witness!!) but again you are helping not only familes out but the police/CSI in solving their cases.

 

I have plenty of opportunity for progressing with my career as I'm now studying towards my diploma which enables me to manage mortuarys, and despite the NHS having budget cuts at the moment, I'm never going to be out of a job!!

[Matt H]

Be it on foot, or in a car, there's nothing like living a hollywood style chase the bad guy scene involving dogs, helicopters and fast cars

 

Did someone call 91holy-sh!t?

[monsween]

I'm another one that loves my job.

 

Graduated 3 years ago as a robotics engineer and wound up working for an oil service company. I'm a completions engineer working onshore and offshore and get a fair amount of travel. I'm prodominently based in the north sea, but get trips elsewhere too. Recently been out working in Israel on a gas rig out there.

 

Really enjoy the job and the people I work with