do u enjoy your job? wat wud ur ideal job be?

[Moglets]

I am a team leader for an engineering project, I actually work for the quality control department, and am responsible for keeping a bunch of contract engineers in line! My current manager recognises the importance of work/life balance so I get to fit my life around work most of the time which is brilliant. Ideal job would be working with animals esp cats, although I would probably end up taking them all home! Retirement is not for a long while but at least it is now this century. Growing veg was supposed to reduce my weekly food bill, but I seem to have spent a fortune setting it up, so I do hope it pays for itself.
I would like to build my own place - I've designed a great house all environmentally sound which would also be cheap to run, but the cost of land round here makes it prohibitive. But like you say we can all dream.
It's really interesting seeing what everyone else gets up to.

[Snadger]

I would like to work with teenagers, or be a travel writer, or a profesional kitesurfer, or a crofter, or a subsistence farmer, mmmmm

Sounds like a beauty contestants speech!

[MrsC]

happy birthday tony!
happy anniversary beefy!

congrats 2 u both!

[mad_djg]

I work in IT & have done for the last.... well a few years anyway. I'm now responsible for designing & building SAP user authorisations & security for a large corporation. Got outsourced last year so now work for one of the big consultancies. Most annoying thing about IT is persuading people that IT is not just about PCs (I've abslutely no idea how they work and have absoultely no desire to find out!).

Ideal job, assuming a lottery win.... having my own book shop where I'd sell only "good" books.... er actually sell is not quite right... I wouldn't let anyone buy anything... they could look at the titles though...

"Realistic" best job - to be honest at the moment as long as it pays the mortgage and lets me get home every night (spent 4 years working away from home) I don't think I'm actually too bothered - my 2nd daughter was born on May 6th and I go back to work tomorrow after 4 weeks off. Damn hard work but probably about the most satisfying 4 weeks I've had!

Cheers

Derek

[TEB]

SAP a dirty word in this house the OH is a SAP SCM Consultant
and she hasnt worked anywhere near home for the last 5 years, 2 off the years has been abroad. Her first day induction was done on the plane flying to Switzerland and it was the first time she had ever flown . Me I am a IT consultant working from home and the OH has tasked me with setting up a web cam so she can view "her" garden where ever she is

[TonyF]

Thank you all so much for the birthday greetings, nice sentiments etc., they are all very much appreciated.

Just wish the weather would improve so I could get some gardening done before I go back to UK next week.

[Sue]

Tony
Belated birthday greetings from me too and may you live to see out your century.
I work at home for a Book trade magazine, my job is to read and review forthcoming titles, it's a job that would take over every hour of my time but somehow manage to squeeze it all in. Very understanding employers, who let me work three days a week so I can spend the rest of my time on my allotment and seeing to my hens. Doesn't mean any less hours, so hard graft for those three days but it always means I am on my allotment or thinking, tomorrow, I'm on my allotment....
And muckdiva, you're in publishing! which one?? what do you publish???
After 25 years in bookselling, which was hard physical labour (bad back!) have now found my ideal job.
Sue

[clareg]

I work as a computer programmer (medical software) but day dream on sunny days like today of being on my allotment. But I have 33 years before I retire...

[skegblade]

After bus driving for 32 years (I'm 53) I'm now counting down the months until feb 2019 when work will be bad memory. I would love a hoticultural job; any will do, apart from picking cabbages in a muddy field.

Phil

[Flummery]

The job from which I recently took early retirement was as a primary school administrator, so I'm afraid to say I would have corrected and 'de-texted' the spelling on the heading for this post pretty damned fast!
I enjoyed the job until the last few years when most of my work seemed to involved producing statistics and predictions for politicians to use to prove things. Not what I thought I was there for! The opportunity arose and I grabbed it! Love it.

[Two_Sheds]

I'm a Manager of a Halfords Superstore in Congleton, Cheshire, been with Halfords for 19 years, 16 as a Cycle Specialist (I got paid for playing with bikes, one of my hobbies!)

Hi Mrs D...could you tell the muppets in the Lowestoft branch that you don't line up the brake blocks to the tyre, that they should actually stop on the rim instead...

[Snadger]

Hi Mrs D...could you tell the muppets in the Lowestoft branch that you don't line up the brake blocks to the tyre, that they should actually stop on the rim instead...

When I had my bike I had no brakes!Just used to jam my foot on the tyre of the front wheel to stop!

Only posh dudes had brakes!

I was only ten at the time though!

[Mrs Dobby]

Lol Two Sheds! Sorry to hear there are muppets down in Lowestoft! Only trained cycle staff should be working on the bike dept, so it would be an idea to have a word with the Branch Manager to find out what happened and why!

If it had been my branch, then not only would they have been lined up with the rim properly, but also 'toed in' correctly aswell, as this improves your braking efficiency and stops the juddering and squealing! Then again I did spend 16 years as a Cycle Specialist, and am passionate about making sure anything bike related in my branch is spot on!

[carlseawolf]

plan A - win lottery and retire

plan B - bang in nail and paint things like usual monday morning ( oddjobman residental home)

[Sunbeam]

I was made redundant at the end of March - I applied for a gardening job, but was rejected as I have no experience, but the same chap owns a busy caff and took me on as a cook -(I have 23 yrs experience in the catering & catering recruitment trade) Love the job - but would've loved the opportunity to work as a junior gardener - which was what was on offer - oh well!