What’s your current job, how was the experience and how did you get into that job?
What’s your current job, how was the experience and how did you get into that job?
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What’s your current job, how was the experience and how did you get into that job?
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Housewife – Husband & I decided that we could afford to be a 1 income household. Before that I was a political consultant, & no comment on the job before that 🙂
Social worker in a home facility for mentally ill clients with severe issues and sometimes even aggressions.
I did my bachelor’s study’s, did several trainings, several further courses and just applied after having worked in a different field as a social worker.Â
The experience is pretty great. It’s the best paying job I ever had, quite challenging, not boring, opportunities to go up the ladder and so on. I work all different shifts, night or evening shift is a favourite of mine tbh.Â
I facilitate medical waste management in Western Australia. Everything from Sharps to Clinical waste to cytotoxic waste, anatomical and more.
I have degrees in criminal justice and sociology, and an MSCJ with emphasis in law/cyber security. Almost finished Law before falling in love and moving across the entire world to be with them.
No one wanted to interview someone who had their entire background in another country (including references), so I went through a temp agency for the hell of it and landed a job that was advertised as “pure chaos”.
Been here 2+ years and loving it. Corporate is pretty easy to play, and I now WFH 90% of the time.
Call centre, sales. I hate it. I have only 3 months and a half experience. Needed a job, that’s all. If I had to choose it wouldn’t be this one.
I have three part time jobs:
Doing the paperwork for medical negligence claims. It’s interesting and meaningful. Got the job by my manager at my old workplace saying “I’m leaving to start my own business, wanna quit too and come work for me?”
Bookkeeper. Interesting, can be well paid, but I’m self employed and clients are a PITA so I’m phasing out the work. I worked in accountancy years ago, so leveraged that experience.
3.Call centre: I work from home and only book shifts when I want to. Work is fun, but the micro management is awful. Only criteria to get call centre work is a pulse.
Pediatric dietitian. I’ve only been working pediatric for a year and was previously working with geriatric patients. I got into it by going to college for it. I was one of the last classes that only needed a bachelor’s for the job. Now, they prefer people to have their Masters
I supervise a customer service team for insurance. I have a social work degree and used to do case management in the inner city/homeless population and ended up here after needing a break from that— started with managing claims and then got into the leadership side. There are some people who started as low as the mail room with a highschool diploma and have made it into the role too.
I make a lot of money and the benefits are insanely good because the job is mostly pure misery. People threatening to set your lawn on fire, etc because they’re not getting compensated for what they’ve decided they deserve. I field a lot of suicide calls and deal with the staffing issues that result from staff being on stress leave all the time.
I’ve been in it 4 years as it’s stable work in an unstable economy. My husband makes a lot more than he used to and so I’m trying to decide whether I stick this out or do something else with my life!
I am an information analyst for a global fintech company, wfh.
I got into by just applying. I don’t have a degree in anything. I worked in child development from 18-32, everything from being a lead teacher in an infant room and being the afternoon manager to being the program manager for a residential treatment facility and a site coordinator at a high school. Then I spent a year doing operations management for a minor professional sports team.
My bosses felt my experience in high stress situations, trend analysis, CRMs, documentation/process improvement, and client/vendor relations made me a good fit for the role.
It’s a little boring but that’s ok with me after all the other jobs I’ve had that have been high stress and hands on. I get to do lots of research and make pretty graphs.
Management and makeup artist at Mac Cosmetics.
10 years working in the beauty industry. Went into this company a year ago and it’s the best ever! Feels like a career with long term potential. I do makeup on the side as well as model freelance but have taken a break in modeling hence I didn’t like the attention it came with
Airport customer service. I started out working on the ramp and bag room, but then got into an accident and was out for a month and a half. The manager at the time said we needed more people in customer service so she put me there.
It’s a very cool job since I’m working with airplanes, and it’s usually not so bad. But sometimes it’s pretty hard.
I am a neuroscientist. I did 3 years of post-bacc research followed by a 5 year PhD. All brutally underpaid. Now I’m still underpaid, but at least I make a living wage.
Civil engineer as an intern, sales engineer, ux/ui designer and now IT Consultant and Sales and about to do real estate agent.
I graduated in Civil engineer with some IT and business background. I got my first job as sales engineer, I did pretty well, hence I would love to do it again and to find out whether I like it. I want to have more than one cash flow, therefore I am working my ass off right now. I am still young and single recently. This motivated me to find my true self again.
Tbh, I still am figuring myself out, I don’t really know what I really like or passionate about. I only know one thing that I want to be well off and not struggle with money in the future.
But any case, please don’t lose hope, we will get there to our end goals sooner than you think.
I’m an accounting assistant for a tiny company, and before that I did the same thing for an art handling company. I have an associate’s degree, but had zero accounting experience prior to the former position. Both times, I was hired due to my ability to learn quickly and conduct myself professionally.
I’m an accountant. I got my specific job right now just by applying to one of their job postings.
Into the field in general I got when I was freaking out during my Bachelors in business because I hadn’t had any work experience yet. So I applied to a bunch of internships, fucked up every single interview except one which was at a Big 4 accounting firm for an auditing internship (Big 4 are like these super big international firms that do accounting and consulting and stuff). I didn’t want to do that at all because I thought accounting was boring, but like I said I was freaking out so I thought whatever, at least I’ll have something to put in my CV. But then it actually turned out to be something I quite liked doing!
So I did the internship and continued working there part-time for the rest of my Bachelors degree. Then I started working at another company (didn’t like all the driving I had to do in audit) and simultaneously started doing my Masters degree in finance and accounting. That wouldn’t have been necessary, I just wanted to have one because I was flirting with the idea of doing a PhD at the time (decided against it ultimately). I worked there for a year and then applied at my current company and I’ve been there for two years now. Almost done with the degree, I just have a few credits left I’ve been procrastinating on.
I am a FSQA technician for a meat packing plant, before this job, I worked on the line at another meat packing plant. I got into it for the pay, but I do love my job.
Bookkeeping/financial/payroll.
I’m in admin and really fine. Forward and public facing looks like it’s awful.
I honestly thought it was fake and not worth it and half-assed a resume on Indeed.Â
Here I sit sorting out stuff to close May for month end.
I’m a geologist working as an environmental consultant at a private sector engineering firm in the environmental department.
The vast majority of my work involves managing groundwater and surface water monitoring programs at municipal solid waste facilities in order to assist our clients in meeting state regulatory requirements.
I’ve been in consulting since 2013 but landed in groundwater work when I started a new position in 2017. I left that position in 2021 to do the same work at a higher level at a firm closer to home.
My experience has mostly been positive but I’m struggling with a few aspects of my current position.
Manager at a graphic design firm. I got the job on recommendation from my roommate at the time, who brought home a posting she thought I might be qualified for. I interviewed and got it!
Then I got promoted to replace my Manager after he got fired for being stupid.
I install flooring. I love it. It’s hard and sometimes dirty work.
My husband needed an apprentice and I was burnt out on working factory maintenance lol
I’m a Senior Content Editor for a large non-profit, writing and editing training course materials. The minute I saw the job listing I really hoped I would get it, but didn’t hear back for a month and a half. Apparently, my resume wasn’t passed onto the director (the person hiring) because the recruiter didn’t know the difference between a content editor, a proofreader, and a copyeditor. Legit, most laypeople don’t understand the difference. When my boss asked if there were any more resumes that better matched, they sent mine.
I went back to school in 2005 as an adult student and majored in Publishing after working in a bookstore for several years. I knew I wanted to work in publishing in some capacity. The 2008 recession happened right when I graduated, which set me back even more, but eventually I landed a job in publishing. I moved from academic publishing, to hybrid publishing, to content editing. I like content editing as it gives me more opportunities to be creative and even do some design work.
I’m a Development Officer for a large arts organization in a major Canadian city.
I love my work! I manage individual giving to the tune of over a half million dollars a year, plan events, receptions, dinners and hang out with National Geographic Explorers.
In uni I worked as a student fundraiser calling alumni for donations and did very well, so I continued working there after graduation. After that I did some arts administration and hustled by doing consulting for some music festivals, including grant work and fundraising. All that experience made me pretty perfect for this job and I’ve been here for 6 years with no plans to leave!