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I'm an admin assistant in a psychology office that specializes in treating veterans, those still serving, RCMP, ambulance and police dispatch, and first responders. Two of the three psychologists I work for also still have independent practice clients that don't fall within those parameters. We're less than a year old, so we're still ironing out some kinks and getting some things going, but we've had a good response so far. I majored in psychology in university and then went to college for administration, so this job is really the best of both worlds for me.
 
Previously I worked for a hospital as a clinical secretary in an off-site hemodialysis unit for 5 years and did a 1 year stint in their Privacy and Access office. That was a stressful year of intense impostor syndrome, but I learned some interesting things that I've brought to my current job.

Im a CNC machinist, setter and programmer. I work horizontal borers and multi axis milling machines but im also an apprentice trained vertical borer and turner.
Like Lee I've only worked at the one firm and on August the 11th I'll have been there 32 years 😫 21 years of that was on nights.

I am a Civil Servant, specifically within the Insolvency Service.  It is hard to describe my job as it is basically to support all the other teams within the Department that I work.  Mostly it revolves around providing figures and statistical analysis to whomever wants or needs it, some low level upkeep of our payments system, helping people external to us upload files to us (it is very specific data with tight validation rules so it's often wrong).  However it extends wider than that to a sort of Jack of all trades and in my time I've paid people money, answered general queries, drafted letters in response to complaints, written to MP's, advised on legislative matters, created and presented training to other staff on things from Excel to writing SQL, TUPE to Employee Status.
 
The pay is terrible, like truely utterly terrible, but everyday is different and most days a challenge as I'm always being asked to do something or for something that I've not done before.

I work for a motion capture company as Capture Assistant Director and Stage Manager. We help make games, films, music videos, anything really. I love it, couldn’t imagine working anywhere else.

It can be very rewarding, but this field also has an extremely high turnover rate. The stress is nuts. There are days when I want to choke these kids. But there are also days when I feel really good knowing I'm helping someone get their life on track. I've learned to put my efforts into the kids who are trying. The ones that don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck. You can lead a horse to water... But thanks man. I appreciate the kindness.

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Tommy, quite possibly you have one of the most rewarding and worthy jobs I've ever read. That's seriously awesome.

I work in Projects. Pretty vague I know but essentially I lead in changes that happen at a Building Society. You'd be surprised how many things need changing or we want changing like systems, policies and strategies. I'm very lucky to do many varied things and help make decisions that impact the direction of where we go. I've only ever worked for this company too. Nearly 14 years.

(Hopefully) done with all that work cr@p! Took early retirement 2 years ago almost to the day. Used to be a plumbing estimating and design engineer but now I’m part of the green keeping team at my bowls club. No grand kids yet and Mrs P still works part time so works well for a bit of daytime gaming as well! 👍
 
Anyone who says retirement is boring is talking out of their jacksie ....I mean, every day is a bank holiday, what’snot to love? 😂😂
 
Right, let’s get the ol’ PS4 fired up.......

I'm the Independent Living Specialist at a group home for young men who are about to be out on their own. I teach them IL skills like; creating a resume, interviewing tips, how to open a bank account, grocery shopping, budgeting, etc. Masters in Pyschology and Bachelors in Criminal Justice. Been in this field for 11 years.  
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Curious as to what people do on here for career, university, college etc
 

Emulation *shudders* [emoji23]

Everyone that knows me here would say I'm just a sucker for original and physical stuff rather than emulators. There isn't really anything wrong with them, I just find there's far more nostalgia and feel good that comes out of a night of retro gaming when I'm blowing the cartridge free of dust and putting it into my consoles.

If there was a way of getting us altogether to play my old consoles I'd do it in a heartbeat. Next best option is our trip to Manchester's Arcade Club in November [emoji16]

I work as a Personal Assistant and Support Worker for a Social Worker.  It's a unique experience.  Without being a social work student you're getting a first hand look at everything, whilst contributing in a small part.  My primary role however is to provide support for a Social Worker who is dual impaired in eyesight and hearing.  Unfortunately, my job is up in a couple of years and I can choose to either forge a new working relationship with another client, which will prove difficult or my ideal plan of turning Twitch streaming into an income of some form.
 
I just wanted to say this explains why you're all such a well rounded bunch of people.  You all do really interesting, worthwhile and essential jobs here.

I work as a Personal Assistant and Support Worker for a Social Worker.  It's a unique experience.  Without being a social work student you're getting a first hand look at everything, whilst contributing in a small part.  My primary role however is to provide support for a Social Worker who is dual impaired in eyesight and hearing.  Unfortunately, my job is up in a couple of years and I can choose to either forge a new working relationship with another client, which will prove difficult or my ideal plan of turning Twitch streaming into an income of some form.
 
I just wanted to say this explains why you're all such a well rounded bunch of people.  You all do really interesting, worthwhile and essential jobs here.

How are you finding CodeAcademy mate? I've been doing my course on Udemy but seen a few people online (Instagram and also someone on my estate) who've used Treehouse and gone from zero to Front End Developer in 6-9 months and into a job.
 
It is £20 p/m though and then £199 p/m if you want a 'TechDegree'

Its a small family owned business at his house (portakabin in the garden as an office) so could understand if it was a little informal and relaxed but just put the dogs in another room ffs they were little scatty things running about
 
Anyway, gave feedback to apprenticeship provider and they're investigating further with their manager about whether they're going to work with that company in the further, he also had to Google the wages for apprentices with regards to my age etc which was unprofessional as well. He had my CV prior to the interview

Sounds like that was a place you don’t want to work anyway. 
Who sets up a job interview ina dining room with dogs running around?! 

Didn't get the Web designer now either, guy was a bit of a deluded idiot tbh. Had the 'interview' in his dining room with dogs running around barking, jumping up etc. Said he was expecting a portfolio of websites I had designed (if I could do that, I'd have my own business or be going for a full time role, not an apprenticeship to LEARN).
 
Anyway, still waiting to hear back from the other 2 roles who've been sent my CV by the apprenticeship provider so fingers crossed. Bit disheartening though

I work at a company that produce equipment used by the utilities sector. I'm responsible for the development of the desktop software that's used to monitor and archive records of the work done by the equipment, so a lot of it is looking at what features in the software I can implement to make the end-users life easier. Just recently added on a module that uses a database to store the information (rather than file based as the rest of the program). Significantly quicker and easier to fetch the info, and will allow for the user to have custom filters (queuries).
 
Main languages used are C# (WPF) and SQL (SQLite databases). Also work with Python for some other bits and bobs (small internal scripts and programs).
 
Considering I only started using the above languages just over a year and a half ago, I'm surprised just how well and fast I took to them. Previous experience was with C/C++, but with the UI stuff in C# WPF, and the industry standard of 'seperating' the background logic from the foreground UI, it was quite a bit different. Vastly more exciting as a day-to-day job than my previous which was literally copy and pasting code for 5 years....

Cheers mate.

I didn't get the tester one I went for thursday, had someone more suited apparently. Wasn't exactly what I wanted tbh and maybe that showed in the interview but still good experience.

Have another interview Monday for a Web designer / developer job and applied for another 2 similar roles which I'm waiting to hear back from regarding interviews


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Good luck buddy! Sorry it's late seeing so hope it went well this week and fingers crossed for you nailing Monday's one! I know you will though bud #Believe [emoji16][emoji109][emoji173]Tell me about it. I absolutely would love a job in this sector. I need to find more time to learn web development again. I would love to apply a lot of funky shit here for everyone to have more fun here.

I work as a Personal Assistant and Support Worker for a Social Worker.  It's a unique experience.  Without being a social work student you're getting a first hand look at everything, whilst contributing in a small part.  My primary role however is to provide support for a Social Worker who is dual impaired in eyesight and hearing.  Unfortunately, my job is up in a couple of years and I can choose to either forge a new working relationship with another client, which will prove difficult or my ideal plan of turning Twitch streaming into an income of some form.
 
I just wanted to say this explains why you're all such a well rounded bunch of people.  You all do really interesting, worthwhile and essential jobs here.

Cheers Phil
 
I also have another interview Monday which is more of a Web Design / Developer based role

I am literally that guy in Office Space who says "I take the specs from the customers and give them to the software engineers". "I'M A PEOPLE PERSON". I am literally paid to monitor multiple microsoft sharepoints and then apply some SQL to improve certain metrics. 

Someone needs to tell that to the bald wanker in the stands

On older stuff it's a perfect reproduction. Probably too good. Needs a crt to blur the edges.

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