What do you work as? Do you like it?

wally1990

Thought I'd start a tread .

I work in sales as a team leader in call centre and hate it . I worked in debt collection and customer service for a long time but my time is near end because I've been offered a job as expenses manager in an accountants (studied accounting technician course) so delighted with the change

Why do you do

Aye Bosun

I work with boats, I used to work at sea in my younger years but swallowed the anchor a few years back and now have a shore side role but still with boats..I love my job.
I made a decision in my early 20's that I wanted to do something I loved rather than fight the rat race. Money and career progression do not motivate me..my happiness and well being are more important.

livedadream

I've two jobs,

Im a HR consultant who specialises in employment law and training and by day i work for a charity who upskills people in IT.

I love my job.

Dr Strange

Work in Third-Level Education. Hate every minute of it.

ElleEm

I work with care leavers in preparation for them to live independently. I love the work but my aim is to work with younger children in care, so I volunteer in this area too!

Loafing Oaf

Media analyst. Yes.

Mrs OBumble

Analyst in corporate IT. Yes: it's clean, office based work where I get to use my brain. Mainly get to deal with people who are smart. Even when smart people are infuriating, it's still a million miles better than when I worked in social housing and had to deal with their typical clients.

_Brian

Supervisor, manage 20 people, it's ok work mostly but it's what I have to do rather than what I want to work as due to health restrictions.

Laura_A

I work in Recruitment in an IT Company (not an agency) and have to say I love it! Agency recruitment - didn't love that so much

dahat

Factory job, just gone 20yrs there, Dad works there also. Pays ok but is a punishment for a failed education really.

The only benefits i can think of are its really close to home and shift work allows me to do a school collection every second week.

angeldelight

Community pharmacist. Hate it with a passion but it allows me a great work life balance

Utah

Analytics for a multinational.
Tis handy!

TerrorFirmer

Journalist. Not as much as I used to.

purpleisafruit

Software engineer for an MNC, love the job. Went back to college to do Comp Science in my 30s.
Previously worked in communications for another MNC and also loved that but roles are thin on the ground in Ireland.

Hollister11

Labourer part time while I'm college. I absolutely love it. Outdoors, physical yes, but would I go back to retail, it a chance.

I'm currently in college studying computing, my next job will be a Web development hopefully.

Speedwell

I'm a classically trained musician who backed into a career as an international trainer and IT business analyst for a massive oilfield engineering company (not Halliburton). Along the way I worked as a secretary, discovered I was extremely good at it, became an office manager, and got bullied out of it despite being good at that too. I talked a temporary agency into booking me as a "troubleshooter for hire" and enjoyed that, then had another agency call me: "I heard you like engineers. Please consider this." Turned out I was the sixth person they sent to the job. While acting as the assistant to one of the senior engineers, he roped me into a new product database implementation that he was consulting on for the IT department. I wrote all the documentation that the engineers actually used (as opposed to the corporate-style user manuals they didn't use). When my engineer boss left, I got picked up by the head of the database support team, and worked for him for another decade. He used to joke, "I have three engineers on my team, two Oracle programmers, two IT people, and a classical musician". Ha, ha.

I actually did love that job, before the company laid off a tenth of its entire global workforce. So my husband moved me to Ireland to be near his family, and I now work for a small IT firm as a "do everything we throw at you". Underpaid, undertrained, kind of desperate, but I manage. I get to work from home, which is good and bad. I have Asperger's and I have to really push myself hard to be social at work, but I'm considered a really effective trainer and support person... I think that is because training and support are situations that are limited in scope and where I'm in complete control. But I'm a nice person too; many female Aspies work harder at being pleasant and presentable, because girls just basically have to.

Doyler92

I work as a poker dealer and floorperson. It's an amazing job and I absolutely love it. I'm glad I seen this thread just now as I'm on my way to the airport to work in Monte Carlo for the next 10 days.

People always seem so fascinated by it when I tell them as the consider it to be such a unique job.

There are so many perks to the job. I get free holidays to places such as Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Prague, Malta and many many others.

The money is also pretty good and you can pick and choose when you want to work.

The only real downside (for some people) is the long working hours. In the next 10 days I expect to work 150 hours. I personally love it because then I will take maybe three weeks off to chill out.

I'd advise anybody to try it out for maybe a year and see how they like it.

rhabarbarum

Two jobs. More like three or four, but whatever, only one is my heart's calling, and that one is of an illustrator. I love every minute I spend doing illustrations, be it for a kid's book or some ridiculous website. If only that alone was enough to keep me up, I'd live a blessed life and die a happy death.

skimpydoo

Freelance Tech Journalist and Blogger and I love it.

Tell me how

Engineering Dept Manager. Used to love it. Been here 8 years. Not loving it at moment.

Nerd_attack

Scientist - I used to love my job it was challenging and I was always developing skills and techniques. Four years on and I don't love it anymore, it's less about the science and more about metrics and office politics

2011

Electrician for too long, got bored / burnt out.
Returned to college late in life, graduated at 40.
Now: Engineering technical manager, love it.

Pinch Flat

I work as a project manager in a project management and quantity surveying consultancy firm. it's okay job wise - each project is different but then again each client is different - one in particular at the moment is a complete w*nker and has made life very difficult for me.

My real calling was a commercial airline pilot - I really regret not following my heart and cobbling the money together to pursue my dream. Marriage and a mortgage got in the way. So I spend my time looking up at each and every airplane that passes, wishing I was at the controls. Ah well.

Senna

I studied hospitality mgt at college and worked as a hotel manager from 2003 till last October when the hours and stress just got to me, I'd started a PT computer science degree in 2014 so between college and working 60+ hours a week, something had to give, thankfully I gave work the boot and continued college.
I'm only finishing my second year of the course but last week I got a job as a platform engineer(I'm not an engineer, technician would be a better title). Start in two weeks, Im absolutely delighted, never thought I could get a technical role without even finishing college, but I lucked out.
I'll be able to keep at college as next year is mostly work placement and my new job will count as work placement.
I'll be going from a very unstructured and chaotic environment to a large IT MNC, 9-5 Monday to Friday, desk job. Have to say I have no idea what it's going to be like, I have no frame of reference.

Danny Boy

2011 wrote: »

Electrician for too long, got bored / burnt out.
Returned to college late in life, graduated at 40.
Now: Engineering technical manager, love it.

Well done.

line console zero

I'm a network engineer for major UK media company. I love it.

pogsick

Work as a call centre manager, love taking escalations, insult me all you want, the buck stops with me and I'm right in the vast majority of cases and will get great pleasure in telling you

Samsgirl

Payroll for a CE scheme. Bored out of my mind. Need a real job!

Dante

Programmer for an investment bank - Pretty boring and have to deal with a quite a few dícks, but pays well so meh.

irish_dave_83

Project Manager in a Justice sector Civil Service Department. It keeps my interest because projects are different etc. It's OK, I don't hate it, but Am currently looking to move upwards.

Letree

Admin in the public service, repetitive and monotonous job. The thought of still being in this line of work in 30 years would feel like a wasted life. Pay is OK but it is very unfulfilling. I'm not motivated by money or climbing the ladder. If i could find something that i enjoy doing id be happy.

Afroshack

Teacher. I had to train for six years, work 55+ hours a week and have no job security. Love every minute of teaching

Afroshack

Teacher. I had to train for six years, work 55+ hours a week and have no job security. Love every minute of teaching

Hollister11

Afroshack wrote: »

Teacher. I had to train for six years, work 55+ hours a week and have no job security. Love every minute of teaching

Good money, long holidays and pension though

2011

Hollister11 wrote: »

Good money, long holidays and pension though

Obviously you didn't see Prime Time last night.

mark_jmc

HR Manager in a multinational - yeah I really do like going into work every day

Corruptedmorals

HSE clerical officer, I love it. I enjoy interacting with patients and several different departments, never dull, always busy.

Deagol

Field Service Engineer for a large multinational, spend lots of time on oil-rigs and travelling around Europe. Miss home at times but varied work makes it interesting and challenging.

wally1990

What is boring about it-payroll ce scheme?

Tom Dunne

Work in third level education, abroad, and love it.

Returning home during the summer, so who knows what I'll end up doing.

OldMrBrennan83

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Aglomerado

EO in the civil service, working in a technical area with decent people and lots of scope for developing new skills. Never unhappy going in, but hope to advance soon.

Truck

Work in insurance... hate it so much!

MissElle

Studied Business Computing in college (never really enjoyed it) when I suddenly became very unwell and needed to take a year out. The illness made me re-evulate what I wanted to do and so I decided to bite the bullet and go back to college to study midwifery. Qualified as a midwife nearly 3 years now, pay is not great but job satisfaction makes up for it

Caybar

Luas driver

Water John

Well, that's a conversation stopper.

bob50

I get anxiety as i drive to work in the mornings i work in a busy sales office answering phones all day hate it

Doing this the last 15 yrs now 55 what a waste

Howjoe1

slave labour..NO

bob50

Howjoe1 wrote: »

slave labour..NO

No not slave labour But mental cruelty offie politics and antics

SeamusG97

Dr Strange wrote: »

Work in Third-Level Education. Hate every minute of it.

Work in Third-Level Education and love it. Apart from the politics that is......

Water John

I suspect Bob, How Joe was referring to some one else.