What's your job?

tres said:
I start a paeds GPST1 rotation in Feb Minstadave - any essential reading you recommend?
Also happy I miss lots of bronchiolitis season!!
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Bronchiolitis season is the best! I'm always tubing kids and packing them off to PICU.

Lissaeur is probably all you'll ever need to be honest. I think that was the only text book I used in my training and I had it since medschool. Most of the learning is on the job practical stuff.
 
I work in a factory.

Pros: Weekly pay, weekends off, 2 weeks off at Xmas.
Cons: Everything else.

Was planning on looking for something else/better this year but Corona put paid to that.
 
tres said:
Good person to know. I'll be in touch if I need you to brush a few things under the carpet.
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In the 10 years I've been doing it I've only known two Clinicians struck off and both made the National News.
You have to be continually negligent like the Clinician doing the breast operations.
 
Senior technician for local council.

I look after two teams, one of which looks after all our parking meters, the other team runs our CCTV control room, I also look after our EV chargers.

Pros
No two days are the same.
Variety of work, believe it or not.
Can escape the office and do some hands on work, not very often unfortunately
Cons
Seem to have acquired the workload of 3 posts but didn't get a time machine
Staffing issues
Dealing with the public
 
Laboratory buildings,

Heating/cooling and controls etc, quite varied really. Originally started off at a chemical plant so a slight change

I was a supervisor for the last 5 years but have recently moved back on the tools. Sat at a desk getting fat.

Im just about now remembering how not to hurt myself. Have had a few epic cuts and bruises though!!
 
Screenbeat said:
Laboratory buildings,

Heating/cooling and controls etc, quite varied really. Originally started off at a chemical plant so a slight change

I was a supervisor for the last 5 years but have recently moved back on the tools. Sat at a desk getting fat.

Im just about now remembering how not to hurt myself
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So you maintain the HVAC kit, or the actual lab equipment?
 
Work for Amd but corona has probably cost me the job as it involved travelling around and visiting stores , demonstrations and touching everything. we shall see.

Pros - information, free stuff, great employer
Cons - Long travelling every day (around 5 hours of driving) , corona
 
Principal Security Consultant (Penetration Tester)

I spend my time breaking into things, dealing with pre-sales and writing mammoth reports.

Pros

Breaking into networks/systems/applications/buildings can be a real hoot
Great community
Okayish pay

Cons

Report writing
Can be lots of travel
A lot of exams/research to stay current.
 
I'm a Paramedic.

Pros:
Pretty much my own boss, out and about on the road.
Development of students new to the profession.
Helping others in their hour of need.
Reversal of life threatening conditions. I find a patient who was as good as dead when you got to them, to them becoming sat up talking to you, very, very satisfying and humbling. This doesn't happen as often as the anecdotes/media portray, in my experience anyway.
Flirting with nurses ;)
Continuous learning.
Reasonable pay. Always room for improvement though.

Cons:
Professional registration fees.
Late finishes.
See more of my crewmates than I do my family sometimes.
Students who aren't really interested in learning/in it for the 'glory'.
Unsolicited advice from Members of The Royal College of Bystanders.
Having to tell relatives that despite you and your colleagues' best efforts, their loved one has passed away.
Most call outs don't actually require an emergency response.
People feigning, (severity of) illness/injury. This is a fairly common occurrence.
Over-saturation of over-dramatised ambulance programs on TV over the last few years.

Long list of cons, there probably are one or two more, but despite this, I still totally love my job. I'd recommend it to anyone. But the job isn't for everyone.
 
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Offshore Oil Crew, supervision so mainly desk bound but head out maybe 25% of the shift.

Pros:
  • The pay is good
  • 6 months off a year
  • Commute in a helicopter
  • Work colleagues, I've met some really interesting people
  • The job is challenging and generally interesting
  • Observing humpback whales etc. as you go about your daily duties
Cons
  • Being away from family for 6 months a year
  • Missing social milestones (Xmas etc)
  • 21 x 14hr shifts without a break
  • Fog
 
Principal Software Engineer

Do all sorts, architecture, databases, coding, management, tech escalations, devops, answering dumb emails.

Pros:
- Salary
- Satisfaction from breadth and depth of experience, being very good at something is nice.

Cons:
- Startup I did most of the dev work for got sold and I didn't own any of it, so feel robbed of a few million.
- Stress/health, at one point I was doing the work of 12 people.
- Bored of it now, but anything else is a big salary step down.
 
I'm a software (staff) engineer for a Hedge Fund, and have been developing software for asset management companies for over 20 years now (8 years for a traditional long-only mutual fund, 12 years for a hedge fund).

Pros:
- Interesting and varied work, just spent 2 years doing Linux/Python stuff after a career history of MS/.Net/C#
- Great people to work with
- Perks / pay / bonus are exceptionally good
- Working from home (will continue WFH after COVID madness has gone away)

Cons:
- Can be stressful at times
- Workload needs to be carefully managed
- Out of hours call-outs when on the support rota.
 
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