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Bloody love my job.
Used to be an office manager. Got fed up with politics. Went into stonemasonry, restoring old buildings. Loved it, but too much travelling. Had my own businesses for many years. Enjoyable, but stressful. And very little time off.
Now I work direct for a public school, as a carpenter.
Varied work. Get asked for all manner of things. Recently designed and built a bloody great revolving stage for the theatre.
I get six weeks holiday a year. No politics. No stress. Good pay. Job is secure. And only two miles from home, along a nice country lane.
And I NEVER get that "Monday morning feeling".
olgitgooner wrote:Bloody love my job.
Used to be an office manager. Got fed up with politics. Went into stonemasonry, restoring old buildings. Loved it, but too much travelling. Had my own businesses for many years. Enjoyable, but stressful. And very little time off.
Now I work direct for a public school, as a carpenter.
Varied work. Get asked for all manner of things. Recently designed and built a bloody great revolving stage for the theatre.
I get six weeks holiday a year. No politics. No stress. Good pay. Job is secure. And only two miles from home, along a nice country lane.
And I NEVER get that "Monday morning feeling".
I love my job apart from working some night and weekends. But yesterday we all got told they are going to shut it down and we are all being made redundent.
donaldo wrote:I used to be a postman up at 5am 6 days a week.I hated it walking around especially in the winter.
But for the last 10 years i have been working 9-5 mon to fri i love it.Now i can go on the beer after work and not worry about getting up early next morning.I work for HM Goverment
Im a postman, have been for 9 years, hated it for 8 years but the last year I've loved it as I'm a PHG now so once Ive done my work in the first couple of hours I get to sit around on my mobile phone/internet waiting for people to come up for packets.
Never thought I'd love work but do love my job now.
southampton gooner wrote:I love my job apart from working some night and weekends. But yesterday we all got told they are going to shut it down and we are all being made redundent.
sorry to hear that, its getting tough all over with jobs
southampton gooner wrote:I love my job apart from working some night and weekends. But yesterday we all got told they are going to shut it down and we are all being made redundent.
Sorry to hear that Southampton. Hope something turns up mate.
It's pretty widespread. People here are losing their jobs like crazy. I am very lucky being a CS, as they can't get rid of us. Scary thing was we had 20 people "re-allocated" (read forcibly transfered) to Social Welfare last week to help them cope with the huge influx of people on the dole...
Our Central Statistics Office states the seasonally adjusted figure of unemployed people stands at 293,500. A year ago it stood at 172,400 - a staggering 70% increase over those 12 months alone. This is the first time in over 10 years we've hit the 250,000 mark. At the moment we are losing between 1000 and 1500 jobs a week... in October 2008 we lost an average of 3000 a week...
