Ever wondered why you do the job you do?

I dont think many people are born to work the 9-5 tread mill - they fall into it, you get dependent om the money and some people stay for 30yrs +, especially civil servants / police civilan staff with the big pension dangling and getting ever nearer....

Personally speaking, bike courier was the worst job ive ever done , and i longed for a warm office where you can do some socialising and net browsing and your not frozen to death and hate bikes at the end of the day...

DK about day to day policing, but Scotland Yard sounds like a really poisonous place to work .....thats the trubble with offices - the politics

waow i have just had a read through this entire thread, and i'm currently 21 and at university, hopefully graduating at 24, but reading all of this has made me inspired to not be stuck in an office job.. im definitley not the office worker type, im too energetic and happy for all that larking about, but in all honesty don't have a clue what kind of career i want to go into... Personally I can see myself possibly changing jobs quite a lot in the future, just trying to get a feel for what I like and what I don't like...

Kinda scary to think about :S

[Paul the 6th]

well ya can't live your entire life in a single day so there's no point trying to think about a lifetimes-worth of worry, ever. And if at first you don't succeed, destroy any evidence which suggests you ever tried

As an electrician you'd think no politics and simple work but working for Welsh Water adds some much politics and crap into it it's crazy.

Pro's

Works Van
Easy work
No pressures
Working out and about

Cons

Politics
Poorly Paid
Poorly Equipped

I enjoy the job it's just the politics which mess it up.

Originally Posted by grh1904

Reading these posts has made me do a bit of a mental review of what I've done this year (at work). I went back into uniform and back onto a 24hr response team just before Christmas. I've had more stress trying to "firefight" than anything else. By that I mean picking up a job where there is a named/identifiable suspect - usually for shoplifting, thefts, hit n run accidents etc, & then I spend more time arguing with my Sgt's & Insp over why 3 or 4 weeks later I still haven't pulled them in.

I can pull up the incident log & show them that the "ex-boyfriends new girl-friend has called me names on facebook & bad mouthed me" incident that I was detailed to attend took about 4 hours to resolve. By the time I spoke to her, went to speak to the other party who made counter allegations, went back to put these to the original complainant, returned to the office to prepare a harrassment warning notice for the other party, went back to their house to serve said notice only to find that my original complainant had been back on FB "slagging off" the other party about how the Police were now involved & "you're gonna get what's coming to you"; "yo effing Fugly fat slag etc" WHILE I WAS TYPING UP THE WARNING NOTICE - went back to the office to do another warning notice for the original complainant & went to serve it on her!!!!!!

Obviously while this is going on I struggle to find the time to do any "real" Police work. My victims then have little or no faith in the Police because I then have to put off my arrest for another day. Half the shift has now gone & because I can't guarantee getting the arrest, interview & take the case to the CPS completed in the remaining 4 or 5 hours, I'm told in no uncertain terms NO OVERTIME, unless I want it as time off in lieu. Seeing as how I'm still owed 36hrs TOIL as well as 12 rest days in lieu & get knocked back when I ask for these due to "insufficient resources" & have been owed this time off & RDIL for over 12 months - this is a non starter for me cos I know I'll never get it back.



Just re-read what I wrote & it does come across a lil bit soap box-ish, not meant that way, sorry.

I totally understand that and have been in the same boat on many occasions.

We have pretty much been running on skeleton staff for the past few months and I think, well, pretty much know, it is only going to get worse. I regularly have the same "discussion" with my Sgt about why I haven't been and obtained statements from extra witnesses or detained the offender etc etc etc and I don't know what planet it is he lives on but he thinks that you can sort it all in 10 minutes and that'll be it over with!

Due to the staffing, I have recently work many ridiculously long shifts, such as 0800 - 0130 and then back in for 0800.

But although it gets me wound up, it stresses me at times, I would be lying if I said I would want to change it.

[Sir Trev]

Attention those of you who work in an office. Where do you work? I also fly a desk but I'm in by 7:30 and lucky to get away ten hours later! Catching up at the weekend is also common. Will those of you who work 9-5 please stop rubbing it in!!

After 20 years of desk work the best few years I did was internal audit - I got to travel around Europe but you know, you get really fed up of departure lounges and identikit corporate hotels after a very short while. Since moving jobs in March I've not been on any trips at all and that's also getting boring.

Work is rarely fulfilling whether you're outside, in front of a PC all day, or stuck in never ending meetings/conference calls trying to make sure project managers actually manage their projects to their deadlines (as I do).

hate to say it Trev , but i work 11am - 5pm .....

and dont work Mondays .....

Work in an office 37.5 hrs a week if theres no overtime, on a computer doing CAD design for instrument/electrial systems/hook ups for a oil services company.
Can get a bit repetitive, but hey, its good banter with the guys and I get paid a bloody good wage for my age.

Theres a large drinking culture with oil companies, so never short of a night out, so its not all bad

[Shellywoozle]

Well I feel my job is just getting worse .... can't really go into it on an open forum but I can officially say i HATE it and it is not so much the job I have decided.

If it carries on like this I will defo be looking for another job, dont't know how much more I can take. I have that sick feeling hours before I have to go to work and I am on my 2nd 11 hour shift today. I get home from work and count the hours inbetween shifts and then feel sick again.

Think Woozl has had enough of being a response officer and it's either a change of force or career as I am not the happy Woozle I once was.

I know there is not alot out there at the mo and things are not secure, I will try and use my law training and put that to some use but I don't know what in.

Arggghhhh I need the AR for a wipeout .... even today I thought that for the AR i have to take annual leave which means days off work, which means more pressure for the workload in my tray when I get back .... should I go will it be worth it???

Any other forces annual leave been cancelled yet for 2012????

I know how you feel,
I worked as a paramedic in ireland for 5 years untill the politics and general bitching started to affect my home life.
With the support of my wife i left with no job lined up and moved back to the uk.
I am now working as a farmer after a couple of years driving lorries and allthough at times i still miss the interaction with people and the adrenaline rush when the 999 calls came in i do not regret the action i took.
Just remember it is a job and it does not define who you are.
WORK TO LIVE DON'T LIVE TO WORK