Working a "job you love"

[wazztie16]

Service Bus Driver, passed in October.

Wanted to be one all my life, finally achieved it and love going to work every day.

I think I'd be more than happy to retire on the buses.

[Evanivitch]

Sycamore said:

I got an apprenticeship when I left school, and studied in my spare time. Got my HNC in Mechanical Engineering by the time I'd finished it, and now I'm studying a degree in my spare time while working full time still. It's time consuming but I'm sure it'll be worth it some day. I enjoy my job, but like most jobs it has its down days.

Although I did mix work & play at my last employer as I ended up dating the admin girl still together now, mind.

I have several colleagues of similar ages to myself that have done apprenticeships and part time degrees and masters. One is even onto his MBA!

Find a business with a good design and development programme and every day should be a new one!

[zeDuffMan]

I fundamentally really like my job and enjoy working. But politics and under-resourcing (NHS) limits my ability to do the best job I can.

[anonymous-user]

The one job I have had that I loved was working the door security for Virgin mega store. The reason for this is that I got to be in charge of selecting the 12 disc CD changer for the Sunday shift (which was the only one I worked). So I basically got to stand there and be paid to listen to all the new music I was considering buying whilst chatting to the odd friend or friend of a friend who stumbled past the shop hungover.

So there you go. Lowest level of responsibility going, getting paid next to nothing and I should have been sitting on the couch with my own hangover watching crap TV enjoying a fry up.

Opportunity cost and all that.

[sparks_E39]

wazztie16 said:

Service Bus Driver, passed in October.

Wanted to be one all my life, finally achieved it and love going to work every day.

I think I'd be more than happy to retire on the buses.

My father was one and a mate of mine has been for several years now. Both love it, get paid alright too at circa £10 an hour.

[SilverSixer]

sparks_E39 said:

wazztie16 said:

Service Bus Driver, passed in October.

Wanted to be one all my life, finally achieved it and love going to work every day.

I think I'd be more than happy to retire on the buses.

My father was one and a mate of mine has been for several years now. Both love it, get paid alright too at circa £10 an hour.

Which makes me wonder. What is the best paid driving job? I'd love to drive for a living, but IT project management pays better and the wife insists the children go to private school. Sigh........

[johnwilliams77]

SilverSixer said:

Which makes me wonder. What is the best paid driving job? I'd love to drive for a living, but IT project management pays better and the wife insists the children go to private school. Sigh........

Not being a 'powerfully built' PH 'director' type but in an expensive city / area I would find it very difficult to live on 10quid/hr. Impossible with my current financial commitments. 1000-1200 a month afteyr tax?!

[SilverSixer]

johnwilliams77 said:

SilverSixer said:

Which makes me wonder. What is the best paid driving job? I'd love to drive for a living, but IT project management pays better and the wife insists the children go to private school. Sigh........

Not being a 'powerfully built' PH 'director' type but in an expensive city / area I would find it very difficult to live on 10quid/hr. Impossible with my current financial commitments. 1000-1200 a month afteyr tax?!

Exactly. The only thing I'm driving (apart from my 12 year old car) is the hamster wheel.

[brrapp]

SilverSixer said:

. What is the best paid driving job?

Probably this one :-





Bit of a stiff recruitment process though.

Edited by brrapp on Thursday 9th February 10:37

[Sycamore]

brrapp said:

SilverSixer said:

. What is the best paid driving job?

Probably this one :-





Bit of a stiff recruitment process though.

Edited by brrapp on Thursday 9th February 10:37

Eh, our politicians get paid a fair whack and they're intent on driving the country into the ground

[sparks_E39]

johnwilliams77 said:

Not being a 'powerfully built' PH 'director' type but in an expensive city / area I would find it very difficult to live on 10quid/hr. Impossible with my current financial commitments. 1000-1200 a month afteyr tax?!

£1400 I think, at 42 hours a week. I earn around the same and get by fine but don't have to many commitments.

[johnwilliams77]

sparks_E39 said:

£1400 I think, at 42 hours a week. I earn around the same and get by fine but don't have to many commitments.

Largely depends on cost of living / mortgage / rent etc
In many cities, 800 quid plus bills (200-300) before food doesnt leave you with much to run a car / lease a car / put petrol in a car / go on holiday....

I realize 800 is not necessary but it is 'comfortable' in most cities outside london I would say

And try saving for a mortgage on 1400? Pretty tough...

[sparks_E39]

johnwilliams77 said:

Largely depends on cost of living / mortgage / rent etc
In many cities, 800 quid plus bills (200-300) before food doesnt leave you with much to run a car / lease a car / put petrol in a car / go on holiday....

I realize 800 is not necessary but it is 'comfortable' in most cities outside london I would say

And try saving for a mortgage on 1400? Pretty tough...

Oh yeah not easy but we're not in poverty either, we don't really want a mortgage and rent is around £600. I have £200 disposable per month too.

[johnwilliams77]

sparks_E39 said:

Oh yeah not easy but we're not in poverty either, we don't really want a mortgage and rent is around £600. I have £200 disposable per month too.

Why would you not want to reduce your outgoings in future? (thats what a mortgage is!)

[sparks_E39]

johnwilliams77 said:

sparks_E39 said:

Oh yeah not easy but we're not in poverty either, we don't really want a mortgage and rent is around £600. I have £200 disposable per month too.

Why would you not want to reduce your outgoings in future? (thats what a mortgage is!)

With the amount we'd be able to put down, plus being responsible for maintenance it wouldn't really be cheaper, although I can see the benifits years down the line. I'm not saying never, but right now it's not for us. Also it ties us to a place, it's easier to up and leave renting if needs be, as typically it's a months notice. My fiancée earns a similar amount to me, honestly we don't worry about money or the future. We don't live in a city either, which helps.

[jonnyb]

sparks_E39 said:

johnwilliams77 said:

sparks_E39 said:

Oh yeah not easy but we're not in poverty either, we don't really want a mortgage and rent is around £600. I have £200 disposable per month too.

Why would you not want to reduce your outgoings in future? (thats what a mortgage is!)

With the amount we'd be able to put down, plus being responsible for maintenance it wouldn't really be cheaper, although I can see the benifits years down the line. I'm not saying never, but right now it's not for us. Also it ties us to a place, it's easier to up and leave renting if needs be, as typically it's a months notice. My fiancée earns a similar amount to me, honestly we don't worry about money or the future. We don't live in a city either, which helps.

Start worrying and get yourself a pension

[sparks_E39]

jonnyb said:

Start worrying and get yourself a pension

I pay into a pension, not sure why I have to worry?

[Sycamore]

sparks_E39 said:

jonnyb said:

Start worrying and get yourself a pension

I pay into a pension, not sure why I have to worry?

This is PH mate. If I had £1 every time someone (mostly a baby boomer gen) told me I NEED a mortgage & pension, I'd be able to buy a house in the economy they ruined

All jokes aside, I seem to earn similarly to yourself and also manage fine. I get the impression a large % of users here live in substantially more expensive areas, so £10 an hour is unthinkable. It's one of the few things the West Midlands has going for it, if you ignore the famine/disease/crime..

Thanks for the replies so far all - It's good to have an insight from others.

[Hoofy]

Sycamore said:

I'm 22

My advice is this: while you're young and full of energy being able to get wasted at the weekend and be up and bright on Monday at 8am, work your arse off earning as much as you possibly can. At some point, you will want to jack it all in as you have no more energy to put up with the BS and can instead do something you love that doesn't pay (as) much. Having accumulated your potential and not blown it on ste, you can enjoy the latter half of your life "working".

[100SRV]

Hoofy said:

My advice is this: while you're young and full of energy being able to get wasted at the weekend and be up and bright on Monday at 8am, work your arse off earning as much as you possibly can. At some point, you will want to jack it all in as you have no more energy to put up with the BS and can instead do something you love that doesn't pay (as) much. Having accumulated your potential and not blown it on ste, you can enjoy the latter half of your life "working".

Spot on.

I was made redundant last year(along with many others),we were deep into a challenging project which was also rewarding to work on because each day a problem was solved and we made progress. I'm now earning more working with another great team but have next to zero job satisfaction because (just realised this) there are more challenges from mismanagement than technical aspects.

Not sure what to do for the best now.