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ccs wrote:
Officially retired Toy Salesman/big retail management.

Congrats on retirement.

I am interested in hearing some more about this.

About retirement?

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
About retirement?

Well, as a hard-working American of a certain vintage, I never expect to have one. Let me live vicariously through others!

Not sure I'll get one either judging how it's going right now, so take my word of frenchman for it, you're not alone

*checks his private pension*

Pretty sure I will be able to retire. Not early. Maybe even late. But should be able to do so comfortably.

Way things are going the only way I’ll be retired is if a bladerunner catches up with me.

(I kid, probably. Things aren’t quite that bleak)

I knew I became an adult when I started thinking about worrying about pensions reforms

I'm thrilled and amused at the same time to see how many different jobs people have got out there, even from this very tiny pool of answers.

We seem to be mostly in support or production.
Does that match general demographics?
Or does it say more about who answers questions on an internet forum?

I'll let you make the call!

 Skinnereal wrote:
We seem to be mostly in support or production.
Does that match general demographics?
Or does it say more about who answers questions on an internet forum?

And a couple of regretting life choices doctors

 Skinnereal wrote:
We seem to be mostly in support or production.
Does that match general demographics?
Or does it say more about who answers questions on an internet forum?

Or those jobs pay well enough we can afford hobbies and come to Dakka for similar people?

I’m in an odd position which is genuinely hard to define, but I comfort myself with this symbol.

Even though is massively over egging my professional pudding.

And no knob actually obeys my Inquisitorial Mandate.



Despite them not actually having a legal choice. But hey, that’s what happens when you let the incompetent negotiate.

Marxist artist wrote:

 Skinnereal wrote:
We seem to be mostly in support or production.
Does that match general demographics?
Or does it say more about who answers questions on an internet forum?

And a couple of regretting life choices doctors

My father's an anesthesiologist. He kept telling me to not become a doctor either.

Higher salaries are probably a thing though. But if I actually get my degree as a welder at the end of my apprenticeship, I should be able to afford it as well because welder pays quite good in France.

Time also. Artisans (that's how we call freelancers jobs the likes of carpenter, painter, locksmiths... you get it) usually make good money but they earn every bit of it through longer work days and often stop working only on Sundays...

 Olthannon wrote:
For many years I used to work as an archaeologist, but now I work for a museum dedicated to locomotives.

That sounds pretty dope!


Edit: Might as well chime in. I am in the CAF reserves as an infantryman, specifically, I got qualified as an assault pioneer, but I don't get to use what I learned there nearly as much as I'd like

I feel you, one of the main reason why I left. Oh, actually I didn't made this detail clear in my original post, but I'm a tank commander. For 1 week still.

 Rolsheen wrote:

 laam999 wrote:
Quality control in a pharmaceutical lab.

I actually enjoy my work for the most part.

You must get a really dry mouth taste testing all those pills

?? I thought that was what all the rats/dogs/monkeys etc were for?

I am a secondary school teacher, a senior examiner for the country's biggest exam board, and I am doing a bit of private tutoring. I'll never be a wealthy man, but it is nice knowing that the only people who benefit from my hard work are the children, rather than making anonymous shareholders who wouldn't care if I died on the job even richer.

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
I feel you, one of the main reason why I left. Oh, actually I didn't made this detail clear in my original post, but I'm a tank commander. For 1 week still.

I do plenty of infantry related work. Not quite so much i the assault pioneer part, tbh.

 JamesY wrote:
I am a secondary school teacher, a senior examiner for the country's biggest exam board, and I am doing a bit of private tutoring. I'll never be a wealthy man, but it is nice knowing that the only people who benefit from my hard work are the children, rather than making anonymous shareholders who wouldn't care if I died on the job even richer.

Happy you get fulfilment out of your job

 JamesY wrote:
I am a secondary school teacher, a senior examiner for the country's biggest exam board, and I am doing a bit of private tutoring. I'll never be a wealthy man, but it is nice knowing that the only people who benefit from my hard work are the children, rather than making anonymous shareholders who wouldn't care if I died on the job even richer.

that is how i feel, the benifet of my labor is the kids and families i work with.
That said, i wish these ypes of jobs came with consistent hours and work life balance

There’s nobody higher up hogging profits from my efforts, which is nice.

No I don’t work for the government.

No I don’t work for a charity.

No I don’t work for a quango.

Whilst we’re encouraged not to say where we work (for reasons nowhere near as sexy and fun as you may be thinking), we’re kind of unique. Our power comes from Government, but they don’t have a say or particular oversight.

I too will never get rich, but I still consider myself decently rewarded, except when I’ve got a particularly Bloody Awful case or three on my hands.

It is however made up for with a truly excellent pension plan, where if it all goes well and as it current predicts, with state pension I’ll somehow be getting more than I am right now. And of course being able to tell institutions the man in the street feels powerless against that they’re, on this occasion, being Big Smelly Buttholes, and they can either do as I recommend, or I’ll pass it on to Bigger Boys who’ll effing well tell you to do something.

I am a reverse Robin Hood. I steal from the poor and give to the rich!

I take solace in the fact that I have managed to save the companies I worked for a lot of money, but I have not cost anyone their jobs. In fact, I have saved many of them. That matters a lot to me, especially when these folks are often my (literal) neighbors.

Sure, when someone leaves maybe the company doesn't feel the need to back fill an open position, but no one has lost a current job thanks to what I have worked on.

Retired, disabled due to work environment incident.

That's hard... how long have you been injured now?

Presently, I'm mostly occupied with helping care for an elderly family member and their home, with the occasional side gig with other family members

Previously though, I spent slightly over a decade working in the mental health field, more specifically residential work at therapeutic facilitates for kids
It was a rough line of work for myriad reasons that i kind of fell into by pure chance, and one I don't think i could ever return to, despite beating the odds and not burning out within a year or two like most of my former coworkers

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Somewhere between Sam Beckett and a Cenobite for the financial sector.

Sometimes able to put right what once went wrong. Angel to some, Demon to others.

It’s a pretty interesting career path, of often times frustrating. Oh, and it comes with an Inquisitorial Mandate. Which is often the source of said frustration, as some just don’t seem to grasp “no” is not an answer when I’m requesting evidence. Sadly it’s not a 40K Inquisitorial Mandate in terms of “well I guess I’ll just have to take correctional procedures”

Sounds like an auditor for one of the Big 4 or just internal audit if you've left them. An inquisitorial mandate sounds a lot like "professional skepticism". I believe you but I need evidence to believe you and then I need enough evidence to believe you but I don't want too much evidence - too much evidence and I may find an error. You're always asking yourself, "what could go wrong?" If you're trying to prevent a problem, you're Internal Audit. If you're fixing a problem and telling management, you're an external auditor. Oh and either way you're a glutton for pain and you enjoy working long hours because that is the world of accounting.

Oh and "sailing the seas of accountant-sea" is your war song. It's fun to charter an accountant, and sail the wild accountan-sea. To find, explore, the funds off shore, and skirt the shoals of bankrup-sea! Scribble away, but balance the books!

I had forgotten about that song. Such a good song

boyd wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Somewhere between Sam Beckett and a Cenobite for the financial sector.

Sometimes able to put right what once went wrong. Angel to some, Demon to others.

It’s a pretty interesting career path, of often times frustrating. Oh, and it comes with an Inquisitorial Mandate. Which is often the source of said frustration, as some just don’t seem to grasp “no” is not an answer when I’m requesting evidence. Sadly it’s not a 40K Inquisitorial Mandate in terms of “well I guess I’ll just have to take correctional procedures”

Sounds like an auditor for one of the Big 4 or just internal audit if you've left them. An inquisitorial mandate sounds a lot like "professional skepticism". I believe you but I need evidence to believe you and then I need enough evidence to believe you but I don't want too much evidence - too much evidence and I may find an error. You're always asking yourself, "what could go wrong?" If you're trying to prevent a problem, you're Internal Audit. If you're fixing a problem and telling management, you're an external auditor. Oh and either way you're a glutton for pain and you enjoy working long hours because that is the world of accounting.

Oh and "sailing the seas of accountant-sea" is your war song. It's fun to charter an accountant, and sail the wild accountan-sea. To find, explore, the funds off shore, and skirt the shoals of bankrup-sea! Scribble away, but balance the books!

Nope! In fact I don’t think the USA has an equivalent to my employer.

Procurator Fiscal?

Nope