LarryDavid wrote:I'm a care worker working in care homes and day centre's for people with learning disabilities. Technically I'm an assistant manager at a day centre, although in actuality that merely involves telling staff which one is driving the bus that day and answering the phone. Also, being dumped with the responsibility of telling staff why they won't be getting a pay rise in the next bazillion years ("council ain't got no money, innit" basically). I've also worked on acute mental health wards in hospitals, although I didn't like it much. I'm not sure what help that'll be in this networking thread although if any posters do have any mental health issues or learning disabilities then I can offer my limited advice to you. Currently studying psychology as well so hopefully I can a proper job and get paid more handsomely than I do now, mainly via conducting survey's and making obvious comparisons like 'people whose mother's didn't kill themselves tend to be significantly happier than those whose mother's did'. There's more to it than that obviously. My job basically involves being nice to people all the time, which can be a strain. Also, being nice all the time generally tends to lead to other people shitting on you, often literally in my job. On the plus side last month we got a job lot of electric wheelchairs delivered and got to race them around the carpark in what turned into an elaborate betting game.
Dan_Dare wrote:I work in The University of Sheffield Faculty of Engineering as an internal comms person. Basically boils down to writing newsletters and managing image storage atm, but it pays well, it's more interesting than journalism and I get to read a lot about absolutely shit-your-pants- awesome scientific research and interview a lot of fascinating people. oh, and there's a lot of cookies involved.
LesterUnlimited wrote:Has anyone here had experience of their own start-up retail? I'd genuinely be very interested to hear about your experiences and what you've learned.
Petey wrote:I thought your job description was "Whine to Peter on Facebook about not playing Dark Souls".Dan_Dare wrote:I work in The University of Sheffield Faculty of Engineering as an internal comms person. Basically boils down to writing newsletters and managing image storage atm, but it pays well, it's more interesting than journalism and I get to read a lot about absolutely shit-your-pants- awesome scientific research and interview a lot of fascinating people. oh, and there's a lot of cookies involved.
Ian wrote:I guess you all know what I do.
Kow wrote:Fuck all.
Ian wrote:I guess you all know what I do.
revelthedog wrote:and you have always been here, in the background.
LarryDavid wrote:I'm a care worker working... My job basically involves being nice to people all the time, which can be a strain.
BobbyDanger wrote:Nope not Imagine, more in the Bath area.
google wrote:I've had about four jobs in two different countries in the last couple of years but I'm happy I've found something suited to me now. I'm a business consultant working at a software company that specialises in building software for recruitment firms all around the world. I work with the firm from the very first curious stages of finding out who they are and what they do through to building workflows and mapping requirements. It's nice. I like it.
I like working in a uni, though not for the same reason. I dismiss jargon as a rule and insist that the speaker use proper language; if they fail to do this immediately I sit on their chest until security arrive to escort me back to my office.Dan_Dare wrote:Bolded the terrifying private sector talk that makes me happy to work in a university. Not that HE / public sectors are without their own jargon, I just find a lot of private sector stuff really vague and weird to read.google wrote:I've had about four jobs in two different countries in the last couple of years but I'm happy I've found something suited to me now. I'm a business consultant working at a software company that specialises in building software for recruitment firms all around the world. I work with the firm from the very first curious stages of finding out who they are and what they do through to building workflows and mapping requirements. It's nice. I like it.
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!