Jobs - A little bit about what you do and perks

Job
im a water jet person

Day to day (3 nights)
take a customers technical drawing ,draw it up with alphacam network it to my machine add cutting instructions cut the job, titanium, carbon fiber 10inch thick stainless or whatever



Perks
3 nights a week , very interesting


Downsides
noisy and dirty sometimes

Education?
none for this but have a htc in motor vehicle engineering



Do you like your job?
yes
 
Job

I am a Distributed Systems Technician

Company

Surrey Uni

Day to day

Varies every day, at the moment though (over the next month or so) I'm setting up loads of laptops and sending them out to the users (staff here at the uni).

Overall Job

Loads of different roles to be honest, basically I'm an IT techie with a fancy name. :)

Perks

Large amount of admin control over the systems, unlimited internet usage, very relaxed environment, casual clothing..ie Jeans and a tshirt.

Downsides

Having to spend time with idiotic users that can't work a PC and get annoyed because they broke it and expect it to be fixed in seconds. Also where I live currently is a downside, I have to get up at 6 to get in just after 9 (mean to be in at 9).

Education?

I'm on placement from Bournemouth Uni, so still educating and also have a few courses I can do here. :)

Do you like your job?

Yup I love it.



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Job: Technical Manager

company: Rather not say...

Day to day
Monitoring the day to day maintenance/repairs of our fleet of rental plant units.

Overall Job
Maintenance/repairs of our fleet of rental plant units. Design and development of new products. Meeting & training clients who purchase our product.

Perks
Fully expensed company car - Nissan Navara
Fully expensed company phone
€10 lunch allowance per day tax free

Downsides
Mostly to do with how the company is run, and the fact that I'm expected to do quite a lot of hours extra, for no extra pay.

Education?
485 points in Irish leaving cert out of a maximum of 600. went on to get BEng in Mechanical engineering in UCD.

Do you like your job?
Not really, no. It pays well though.
 
Job

Business Systems Analyst/Developer

Company

Large asset management firm in the city, then in 5 weeks moving to an alternative investments firm (hedge funds) also in the city.

Day to day

Finishing up a mirrored funds project (6 months Scrum development), latest technology, Biztalk, .Net 3.5, SQL 2005, WCF, etc...

day to day depends on what phase of development we're in, "sprint" phase will be 7am-7pm coding, review would revert to 8am-4pm

Overall Job

Pretty good/interesting and varied work - moving on to expand my business knowledge and because I've been where I currently am for 8 years and I fancied a change.

Perks

Non-contrib pension, car, healthcare, gym, cheap loans/mortgages, life insurance, etc - the usual stuff I guess.

Downsides

None really, the sprints are long days, but are few and far between - and the 4pm finishes outside of the sprints make up for it.

Education?

BA(Hons) Systems Analysis
MCP/MCAD/MCSD.Net

Do you like your job?

Hell yes.

Salary

Depends on the bonus(es) - a good year will be into 6 figures, a bad year will be less than half that...
 
JOB
IT Manager / Layabout / Monkey

Company
Communications company

Day To Day
Building PCs / Systems for custs or maintaining in house infrastructure. Testing / sourcing new hardware. Work with m8 out of a small indust unit detached from main HQ and rest of staff.

Perks
Free upgrades for my home PCs, customers get my old (tested;) hardware :-) (not paid for any computer part for over 10yrs)

Downfalls
None really, sometimes the odd mundane job like making up cables for telephones or programming hotel handsets.

Education
I'm trained in electronics but only BTEC, but have opportunity to do cisco stuff at some point if I want

Do You Like Your Job
Been with company so long just do it on 'autopilot', never ANY stress at all..
 
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Job

RMP Community Policeman

Company

HM Forces Army

Day to day

Go to my Police station, check my emails, do my visits, go to any meetings, do a walk around my area, speed/vehicle checks,, check the school runs, chat with loads of people, drive my car all over, pretty much whatever I feel needs to be done.

Overall Job

To look after two large estates and make sure thoughs who live there are happy.

Perks

Can travel all over the world, been to Canada, Afghanistan, N Ireland, Poland, Bosnia, Kosovo, America. Get about £500 tax free every month for living over seas, get cash to help me get home once a year.

Downsides

Have to leave my family for 6 months at a time, cant choose where I want to live, housing isn't great, erm not much really.

Education?

A few GCSE's

Do you like your job?

I cant complain, I hate soldiers who do and never do anything about it.
 
Job

Own 2 Company's ( well there under the parent company but 2 sites ( soon to be 3 ) selling completely different products.

Company

Can not self advertise and my products overlap with OCUK

Day to day

At the moment all i do really is have a chat to my suppliers and see whats hot and not and get prices lists. Also at the moment i am answering customer emails as where currently implementing new help desk software and until then i answer them although i find it very stressful for some reason ?


Overall Job

I Don't really do anything really , im off for the holidays and then start uni in October. As above i just spend a hour or so a day chatting with suppliers and i pay them twice a week. My staff do everything else.

My staff consists of 2 Full time Managers these run the business make sure everything is smooth , answer emails and make sure the part time staff are going everything correctly. I have 4 Part time packers as well who work 2-3 hours a day.

Perks

Lots of money for doing very little , lots of free time.

All my staff are either Family or Close Friends , and it makes me feel better inside that i can make a difference in there lives. an example = my mum she works 38 hour a week as a registered mental nurse and makes £1600 / month , but working around between 7-14 hours hours a week for me she makes £2010 a month minimum after tax and this can increase by a large amount depending on the number or orders. So it makes me feel proud to be able to pay my mum back and my other family members for everything.

Downsides

Its Very boring, i just spend all day on msn and on the forums with nothing to do but this should be ok once uni starts. Also i may be making a lot of money but theirs no one i can enjoy it with an example of this is i offered to pay for my mates to come on holiday all they needed where spending money for a week but none of them could afford it because there all students.

Education?

A levels in :

History , Business , Economics , Media

going to uni to do business management and economics

Do you like your job?

Yep its great and hopefully it continues to grow
 
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JOB: Admin Assistant

COMPANY: DVLA

DAY TO DAY: Mainly inputting driving licence applications for people with medical conditions, but there are various other just as boring things I do

PERKS: N/A (EDIT: Actually flexi time is ok and the amount of days off is also good)

DOWNSIDES: Totally boring with not much prospect of promotion these days

EDUCATION: Dont think theres any needed for the job tbh, maybe an english GCSE? But I have various GCSE's and a BTEC in applied science

DO YOU LIKE YOUR JOB: Hell no
 
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Company

I work for a company called Woodgroup Engineering (North Sea)

Day to day

Working 7 12 hour days, followed by 7 12 hour nights. I look after the oil separation process on a North Sea oil platform.This includes taking samples,readings and making plant adjustments to keep the process running steady and efficiently.

Overall Job

I work a 2 week on 3 week off shift rota. All meals, laundry and entertainment provided free for the 2 week period. We have sky tv, dvd players and PS2's in our rooms:)

Perks

See above, also I get company private medical, travel allowance and a good salary.

Downsides

2 weeks away from my woman.

Education?

I did a 5 year Process Plant apprenticeship, and I have 24 years experience working in the chemical process industry.

Do you like your job?

Paid very well for only working 5 months a year, Oh yes tis very niiiice :cool::)
 
Job - Property Officer for a Police force.

Pros - Varied work in a pleasant environment, one day you maybe out in the van collecting evidence from scenes of crime, the next you could be pricing items up for auction. Every day brings a new challenge and im never sat at a desk for 8 hours a day. Also have unofficial access to all the seized property before it gets dumped. Basically this means free booze, cigs or anything else that maybe on the pile for that day. Working in a Police station is quite an exciting environment also. Always something going on and you are always meeting new people and have quite a strong link to most Police departments and all ranks of officer. I also have flexitime and can pick what hours I want to work to suit me and management just leave us alone to do our own thing so there is no pressure environment. Public sector also provides me with job security also and the range of jobs within the Police I can be promoted to is very large and varied. The pension scheme is also one of the best you can be on.

Cons - Exposed to quite a lot of disturbing stuff as in illegal pornography, blood soaked weapons and clothing, items retrieved from suicides etc. The smell of cannabis also seems to be everywhere, in fact you smell a lot of things that literally make you feel ill. The work can be quite physically demanding also. The pay isnt brilliant, its by no means minimum wage but for the work I do im not sure the pay mirrors that.

Overall im very happy in my job.
 
I start this job next april, but have already been working in a more internship type environment for the same role for the last 2 years.

JOB: Pharmacy II Team leader.

COMPANY: A major pharmaceutical company.

DAY TO DAY: Providing pharmacy services to ICUs and managing a small team of CC pharmacists.

PERKS: Healthcare, Pension, Parking spot, quarterly bonus, discount at numerous places.

DOWNSIDES: Often frustrating dealing with patients who are unresponsive to drugs, headaches from trying to figure stuff out.

EDUCATION: PharmD at the very minimum

DO YOU LIKE YOUR JOB: yes

Salary: $155,000 + bonus + shift allowance + overtime
 
Job

I am a Pre-Sales IT Consultant, focused on Storage, Virtualisation, Archive, DR, BC, etc.

Company

I work for a large Storage Vendor.

Day to day

Every day is different which is why I love it, you don't get bored. In a week i'd have a few customer meetings, lots of internal meetings, paperwork, etc.


Overall Job

I'm paired up with two salesmen only and have around 20 accounts. I've been the main Pre-Sales consultant for a lot of pretty big companies - particularly in the finance area. I've picked up some great contacts.

As i'm Pre-Sales I don't have to book or sell my time.

I travel abroad a lot, in the last 4 years work has sent me to Denmark, Germany, Greece x2, Ireland x 10, Latvia and the US around 5 times.

Perks

All the usual health, pension, etc.
Boss is very hands off - I speak to him once a month tops - so I do what I want.
Work from home whenever
Train as much as I like
Company Credit card and liberal expense account
Pre-Sales so go on all the wining, dining, racing days, etc.
Strong links in a number of well known companies


Downsides

Some silly 80+ hour weeks sometimes.

Education?

Comp Sci at Brighton. 2.1

Do you like your job?

Yup I love it, just don't like the country so i'm looking at hopping over to NZ to do the same role.
 
JOB
Stock Controller

Company
Tesco

Day To Day
Dealing with stock discrepancies and goods in - inventory etc etc in ambient, chilled and frozen goods

Perks
Money is good for what i do, pension, sharesave scheme, staff discount :)

Downfalls
Started back on shift work 0600-1400 & 1400-2200 - and I'm on my feet all the time now :(


Education
I've got O' Grade's (remember them?) and A Levels but I got this job pretty much on my previous experience and the manner in which the initial interview where my presentation was held :p


Do You Like Your Job
Only been doing this a couple of weeks now - enjoying it, but my feet hurt like hell after an 8 hour shift. I've been used to office work and being an IT monkey for the past two years ;)
 
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similar to the above poster:

JOB
Night shop floor (summer student work)

Company
Tesco

Day To Day
Filling shelves with delivery stock

Perks
Money is VERY good for a student, nothing comes anywhere near close!
Free staff shares
10% Discount card
If you go to a diff store you get 32p a mile and it counts as work time. I have also stayed in 3star hotels on tesco as well:)

Downfalls
A only do a few nights a week, but it makes me unsocialable for half the week.

Education
10 GCSE's A-C
Alevels in maths, physics, IT
Currently doing engineering at loughborough uni

Do You Like Your Job
Its a little boring, and as mentioned nights arent ideal, however I am only on nights until I go back uni and transfer store again, and the money more than makes up for it.
 
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Job

I am a Trainee Air Traffic Controller

Company

I work for a company called NATS (http://www.nats.co.uk/) which is the company that provides the majority of Air Traffic services in the UK.

Day to day

At the moment I am at the NATS college of air traffic control in Bournemouth. I am about a month away from finishing the ADI course (Airports) with a hope to going on to do an approach radar course. Day to day I am generally in lectures or doing sim runs. Every so often we get exams and summatives (Sim Assesments), this week I have 5 summatives on Low Vis Procedures.

Overall Job

Extremely steep learning curve at the moment. Just seem to be getting the hang of one thing when they bring something else into the mix. But overall I'm enjoying it very much.

Perks

Very good pay once I'm out of the college. Lots of time off. Getting to watch planes all day long.

Downsides

Shift work. The fact that I could get posted anywhere in the UK when I'm finished at the college.

Education?

Some form of further education is required to apply. I have 6 highers and 2 HNDs.

Do you like your job?

Yup I love it.
 
JOB
Damage Claims

Company
BSKYB

Day To Day
Answering calls from stressed customers, who have had there house destroyed by the engineers. Or been beating up by the engineer etc.

Perks
Free sky, free broadband. Very casual. Not much stress. Free healthcare. Sky perks. Etc

Downfalls
Money is rubbish. Unsociable shifts.

Education
Standard grades.
HND Computing Technical Support

Do You Like Your Job
Like it better than previous jobs, but no not really.
 
Begbie said:
JOB
Damage Claims

Company
BSKYB

Day To Day
Answering calls from stressed customers, who have had there house destroyed by the engineers. Or been beating up by the engineer etc.

Perks
Free sky, free broadband. Very casual. Not much stress. Free healthcare. Sky perks. Etc

Downfalls
Money is rubbish. Unsociable shifts.

Education
Standard grades.
HND Computing Technical Support

Do You Like Your Job
Like it better than previous jobs, but no not really.
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Dude - get yourself into CST. There's a position available now ;)
 
Sonea Fifer said:
JOB
Stock Controller

Company
Tesco

Day To Day
Dealing with stock discrepancies and goods in - inventory etc etc in ambient, chilled and frozen goods

Perks
Money is good for what i do, pension, sharesave scheme, staff discount :)

Downfalls
Started back on shift work 0600-1400 & 1400-2200 - and I'm on my feet all the time now :(


Education
I've got O' Grade's (remember them?) and A Levels but I got this job pretty much on my previous experience and the manner in which the initial interview where my presentation was held :p


Do You Like Your Job
Only been doing this a couple of weeks now - enjoying it, but my feet hurt like hell after an 8 hour shift. I've been used to office work and being an IT monkey for the past two years ;)
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Had that job and really couldnt stand it :(

good luck to you ......you might need it :D :o
 
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