Does your Job make the world a better place?

sonyvision

Pineapple1 wrote: »

That sounds lovely. How does one land a job like that?

A local chemist advertised a delivery job in the window 1 hr a day. My nan said she had a grandon who was 15 and I went in. I used to help stock some shelves and would go around with the boss in his jeep dropping the prescriptions to the door.

I was always told refer to the customers by last name only, Mrs O shea, Power etc. After a few months it was Mary, Joanne, Paddy. I knew there life story, there troubles and just how cruel life had been to some.

I remember one woman who was always my last stop ones a week where she would ask me to pick up some milk biscuits etc. It wasn't uncommon for me to spend one hour there!! While my friends where out drinking underage, my biggest worry was not having certain individuals prescriptions to deliever... it ment one of three things, family picked it up, there in hospital, or they have died...

I did this for over 2 years, it paid me 5 euro an hour so 30 a week... till i finished up I was getting 60 euro wasn't alot of money but got me through school, credit for my phone, few games of pool and maybe Cinema odd weekend.

BDI

I have a trade. I could work in two separate trades and nobody would notice I’m not qualified in one of them. I could monkey in on a third one and only qualified people would notice I’m guessing or needing advice.

If I jacked it in tomorrow somebody else would take over. My boss would probably lose a few quid retraining somebody. Whether they tale as much pride in their work as me is questionable.

Probably better off if we as humans didn’t need new offices or shopping centers etc but the system is set up that the kids don’t eat unless we drag all the resources out of the ground and use them up before future generations get them.

You probably think your job makes the world a better place but buy a pile of **** with the wages that wrecks the place or rapes the land.

Anyway yeah some office worker gets to work in a temperature controlled environment because of me.

holliehobbie

Not since I left the nursing profession over 20 years ago!

Skylinehead

Ubbquittious wrote: »

There are some jobs that only do a disservice to those around them. clampers, tele marketers, airport security, most of the insurance industry, those involved in persuading people to buy unnecessary disposable chinese tat


If you wiped out certain professions in the morning the world would only breathe a collective sigh of relief

Remove clampers and people will park where they want, causing other people misery.

Remove airport security and oh no your plane has exploded.

Pretty poor examples. They may not be nice, but you really want them gone?

Say my name

I work as a land, soil, water, plant and animal manager whose income is from a large multinational company that pay for my produce.

The produce price is no relation to how I manage the land, soil, water, plants and animals bar the quantities produced.

Still, I manage the land, soil and water as sympathetically as possible just to give me some satisfaction that I'm doing my part for the natural fauna.
I've had Dor dung beetles on the land these past few years which is giving me immense pride. I also have hedgehogs that trundle around.

I'm currently trimming back an overgrown ditch with a view to using the biomass to make biochar. Biochar is a stable carbon that can last for a thousand years without degrading back to the atmosphere. So though it's a small amount of carbon it'll be a bit less carbon taken out of the natural cycle and stored away for those thousand years.

greencap

Skylinehead wrote: »

Remove clampers and people will park where they want, causing other people misery.

Remove airport security and oh no your plane has exploded.

Pretty poor examples. They may not be nice, but you really want them gone?

well said

Conor Bourke

Palliative care nurse.

I try.

BDI

Cornelius Crow wrote: »

Palliative care nurse.

I try.

Can I ask how comfortable are you with the thoughts of your own death?

Conor Bourke

BDI wrote: »

Can I ask how comfortable are you with the thoughts of your own death?

Hard to say. In theory I like to think/Hope I’d be as gracious and accepting as possible but that’s all well and good in the abstract, I wonder if I’d feel differently if it was in the situation for real. I’m not scared anyway.

FTA69

FTA69 wrote: »

I work as a trade union organiser, organising low paid workers to take strike action against outsourcing companies for a living wage. If you ask the workers they'll think I am, if you ask the bosses they'd probably say no.

Do you also seek out the most expensive products you can buy ... you know to ensure those people have jobs as well? Instead of going for the cheapest option for you?

fmpisces

Akrasia wrote: »

What do you do for a living, and is it doing something that genuinely improves the world, or is it something that ultimately doesn’t matter, or may actually make things worse.

Everything is entirely subjective but if you have an opinion it’s best to back it up with reasonable arguments.

Me personally, I work in a small software company that operates in a B2B environment where there are loads of similar competitors. I do my best to make the best possible product but if we disappeared tomorrow nobody would be any worse off. As a positive, we help the local rural economy and try to give back to the community...

I'm a Special Needs Assistant......so I wouldn't say that what I do is improving the world as a whole but I'd certainly like to think that I, and every other person in this job, makes a difference in each of the childrens' lives that we work very closely with (and ultimately that of their families). I work with children who have a variety of special educational needs, physical and intellectual for the most part. So to me, being part of a team that helps a child who is non verbal become better able to communicate (whether that's by using Làmh signs, a picture, one word or taking my hand to show me something) is a HUGE step in improving their life.
If our school was no longer in operation in the morning it would be a massive loss to our community. Each year our school has grown in numbers, it'd be a very sad day to think that the children who need this wouldn't be able to avail of it.

BDI

fmpisces wrote: »

I'm a Special Needs Assistant......so I wouldn't say that what I do is improving the world as a whole but I'd certainly like to think that I, and every other person in this job, makes a difference in each of the childrens' lives that we work very closely with (and ultimately that of their families). I work with children who have a variety of special educational needs, physical and intellectual for the most part. So to me, being part of a team that helps a child who is non verbal become better able to communicate (whether that's by using Làmh signs, a picture, one word or taking my hand to show me something) is a HUGE step in improving their life.
If our school was no longer in operation in the morning it would be a massive loss to our community. Each year our school has grown in numbers, it'd be a very sad day to think that the children who need this wouldn't be able to avail of it.

Fair play to you.

fmpisces

BDI wrote: »

Fair play to you.

Thank you
But it's easy when you love the job

Notmything

Work in mainstream child residential services.

At first I thought I was helping improve the lives of kids who were abused/neglected/at risk living at home. Giving them a chance at feeling looked after and cared about.

Now it feels like we are just threading water withthem until they turn 18 and then the state turns it's back on them, often, literally making them homeless on their 18th birthday. System is fcuked

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Sitting on my hoop all day reading books and articles and watching films interspersed with some very light housework? Nah.

Corruptedmorals

Eh slightly. I work in an outpatients/consultant appointments. The treatment they get is brilliant if we only had more doctors to see more and cut the waiting lists. I make appointments, help to spot clinics that are under booked and do my best to fit in patients who urgently need to be seen. We are constantly fighting for more resources so we can hold more clinics and for more admin hours as I am the only admin so I can fill each cancellation with another patient but they don't have the budget for it so there's only so much we can do. With a huge amount of effort...all we can do is hold the non-urgent waiting list steady instead of increasing. So some good but ugh what we could do with more resources would be genuinely great.

BDI

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Eh slightly. I work in an outpatients/consultant appointments. The treatment they get is brilliant if we only had more doctors to see more and cut the waiting lists. I make appointments, help to spot clinics that are under booked and do my best to fit in patients who urgently need to be seen. We are constantly fighting for more resources so we can hold more clinics and for more admin hours as I am the only admin so I can fill each cancellation with another patient but they don't have the budget for it so there's only so much we can do. With a huge amount of effort...all we can do is hold the non-urgent waiting list steady instead of increasing. So some good but ugh what we could do with more resources would be genuinely great.

Probably payrises

Rubberchikken

while what i do is maybe easily done by someone else, because i do it to a very high standard, its not easy to get others to do it.

its also necessary and vital to the health industry.
i really like doing it. its not for everyone but thats their loss:)

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Ubbquittious wrote: »

There are some jobs that only do a disservice to those around them. clampers, tele marketers, airport security, most of the insurance industry, those involved in persuading people to buy unnecessary disposable chinese tat


If you wiped out certain professions in the morning the world would only breathe a collective sigh of relief

I’m grateful for airport security, personally. It’s a pain to deal with but necessary. I think it needs to be as stringent as it is.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Always Tired wrote: »

I worked for a company like that (US based with multiple sites here in Ireland, managers were all Irish) They always talked up how patient centered they were meant to be.

Load of shïte. They had been sued for billions, for a litany of shady things such as hiding fatal side effects of their products, patent infringements, etc. They jacked up the prices of a product to the point people who needed it had to bankrupt themselves to pay for it.

They also liked to bang on about how they wanted employees to enjoy a good work life balance. That didnt seem to be true either. I was on a 30 day contract for them, through a recruitment agency. They paid the agency double what my hourly rate was, incurring the extra cost simply because this way I could not have any proper rights.

Was hired under the auspices of a 3-11 monday to Friday shift. after 2 weeks was told I had to go on 12 hour nights 8pm to 8 am, five in one week including fri sat sun every other week. ruined my health doing that schedule.

they also renewed the 30 day contract 11 times, but wouldn't tell you until the last few days of the month if you had a job for another 30 days.

after doing 10 months of these 12 hour nights they finally took us off them and went back to 8 hours... for 3 weeks. then told me I had to go back on the 12 hours again. didn't ask, told me. i said no and explained my physical and mental health was suffering from lack of sleep and lack of daylight. and they just didn't renew my contract.

this scared a few of the other lads (who all SAID they would refuse it too) and they said yes to going back onto 12 hrs. company cut them all loose a few months later too.

Pharma companies are the most corrupt gangsters in the world. There are loads of natural treatments banned in this country and in America due to them lobbying against them, simply because they can't be patented and because they might work better with less side effects than the chemical crap they peddle.

You have my sympathies for the rest of the stuff but this... nah. I’ve also worked in pharma, by the way and know some of the shit that goes on. Natural treatments can have side effects too. Sometimes they simply can’t be avoided. As for working as well or better, probably not. I’m willing to bet you don’t know the names of any of these supposed wonder treatments or what their mechanism of action is. The products made by pharmaceutical companies have been through incredibly stringent testing. Can you say the same for natural remedies?

And finally, maybe there’s some magic bullet arsenal of natural treatments hidden from the public (doubtful) but any natural treatments I *have* read about do not cure the illnesses they claim they do. And the people who sell these products are money-grabbers too, often charging eye-watering prices. Let’s not pretend they give a crap about patients any more than pharmaceutical companies do.

Redneck Reject

Mine doesn't make the world better. But it makes the mushroom farmers nearby happy from all the free manure, heh.