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What do you work as? Do you like it?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭Afroshack


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭Afroshack


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Good money, long holidays and pension though

    Obviously you didn't see Prime Time last night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 580 ✭✭✭mark_jmc


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,851 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,233 ✭✭✭wally1990


    What is boring about it-payroll ce scheme?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Truck


    Work in insurance... hate it so much! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭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 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 Caybar


    Luas driver


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,363 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Well, that's a conversation stopper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭Howjoe1


    slave labour..NO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bob50


    Howjoe1 wrote: »
    slave labour..NO

    No not slave labour But mental cruelty offie politics and antics


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭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......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,363 ✭✭✭✭Water John


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭Howjoe1


    bob50 wrote: »
    No not slave labour But mental cruelty offie politics and antics

    eh, Bob, that was my response to OP question, not your post. But, I feel your pain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭blindside88


    Work as a financial advisor and really enjoy it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭SeamusG97


    This got me thinking . Going to start a new thread - how did you arrive at your present job? I did all the wrong things - left school early, etc.... and got on ok in the end. I'm sure many more did the same.


  • Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Professional Photographer.

    It's interesting, and can be fun seeing the way different events are put together, who does what, etc. I do a bit of everything; family and staff portraits, to event coverage, property, photojournalism, etc.

    It's self employment so it's a tough one at times. Some weeks you might be sitting praying the phone will ring, others you don't have a minute to answer it. I'm doing well financially at the moment out of it, but I'm aware it can fall off a cliff at a moment's notice.

    I really do enjoy it for the most part. A bit more job security and I think I'd be able to relax a bit more. I'm still very anxious about the whole thing falling apart around me (but I imagine most new self employed people are like that?).


    I used to work in a furniture shop, worked in retail, worked making and fitting kitchens etc. and every day doing those roles made me a sad panda. I'd work part time at one of those positions if the photography falls apart, but I'd never work full time at them, no matter how broke I was. Life is far too short.

    I think the best thing about the photography is the work/life balance. How anyone can sit in a shop or office for 40 hours of their week, miserable, is beyond me. What's the point?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    I think the best thing about the photography is the work/life balance. How anyone can sit in a shop or office for 40 hours of their week, miserable, is beyond me. What's the point?!

    Well, I enjoy sitting at the helm of the Good Ship Tech Support, so I'm far from miserable. Also, I work from home, so I by definition have a corner office with a window, a fully equipped kitchen, an office cat or two, and a torrid office romance with the guy in the cubicle next to me. ;)


  • Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Speedwell wrote: »
    Well, I enjoy sitting at the helm of the Good Ship Tech Support, so I'm far from miserable. Also, I work from home, so I by definition have a corner office with a window, a fully equipped kitchen, an office cat or two, and a torrid office romance with the guy in the cubicle next to me. ;)

    Well then you obviosly don't qualify the 'miserable' aspect of the line you quoted :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    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

    Also teaching. Didn't train for six years. Don't know anybody who did. The PME takes two. The old HDip took one. I have neither. My training was a three year degree and experience. I work far less than 55 hours a week. As do all my colleagues. Even on full time hours, it's the best paid part-time job in the world*. 22 hour week and the guts of five months off a year? Teachers' conditions let me retrain for my other work as a psychotherapist. I enjoy the former, and am passionate about the latter.

    *apologies to my colleagues for breaking ranks, but ye know its true! :pac:


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Caybar wrote: »
    Luas driver

    Cool.
    Do you like it? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭livedadream


    endacl wrote: »
    Also teaching. Didn't train for six years. Don't know anybody who did. The PME takes two. The old HDip took one. I have neither. My training was a three year degree and experience. I work far less than 55 hours a week. As do all my colleagues. Even on full time hours, it's the best paid part-time job in the world*. 22 hour week and the guts of five months off a year? Teachers' conditions let me retrain for my other work as a psychotherapist. I enjoy the former, and am passionate about the latter.

    *apologies to my colleagues for breaking ranks, but ye know its true! :pac:

    4 year degree, one year masters then the mary I bit 1 year, isnt that 6 years?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,825 ✭✭✭IvoryTower


    IT Manager, don't really care for it, just happy i have a decent job 5 minutes from home.

    Not having to work ever would be ideal


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