What do you do for a living?

Tondella

mjdh1957 wrote:

I'm self-employed as a book indexer. Most people never know what that means Basically, if you look in the back of textbooks, you find an index. I compile those.

I work from home, have been doing it since 1988 and it's not a bad life. It pays pretty well (though it takes a long time to get established). I work mostly in law and social sciences, though I have done lots of other things too.

There's a Society of Indexers - https://www.indexers.org.uk if you want to know more about it.

That is so interesting, I had never thought about the work needed to index a book before - hmm, alternative career path opening up ...

gettingthereslowly!_2

I'm an Electronic Engineer.. also do a bit of work in IT..

AKA Computer Nerd!!! :cool:

SHEARERBOBS

I Work As A Payroll Officer In The Nhs - Paying The Doctors And Wishing I Had Their Money...sigh....

saintly_2

Im a personal assistant for a facilities manager for a very well known tv shopping channel!!

mjdh1957

Tondella wrote:

That is so interesting, I had never thought about the work needed to index a book before - hmm, alternative career path opening up ...

It's not for everyone....

Most of the books I work on are really, really dull. You get tight deadlines. There's the worry that the phone will never ring again with more work. No paid holidays. And working alone can be isolating.

But on the other hand, I'm my own boss, I can set my own hours. And on cold winter mornings I only have a commute of 6 feet!

ZTD

Imelda wrote:

I work for an pension funds company in the city, knowing what I do, I think we should have trained monkey's with darts choosing shares for the portfolios.....

Tell me again why they have to be trained?

I work in IT. Doing a vast range of stuff from the deathly mundane to the outrageously complicated. Also do a lot with pornography. :eek:

emzig123

I'm a third year student, doing a Secondary Maths PGCE next year to train to be a Maths teacher!

itswhat

I'm a dressmaker/seamstress and just getting involved in events management as a volunteer.

krayzechick

I work for The Valuation Office at the moment :shhh: :whistle: (in the IT department though)

and as of monday I will be a ICT Analyst at a local authority housing office... :dance:

Tondella

mjdh1957 wrote:

It's not for everyone....

Most of the books I work on are really, really dull. You get tight deadlines. There's the worry that the phone will never ring again with more work. No paid holidays. And working alone can be isolating.

But on the other hand, I'm my own boss, I can set my own hours. And on cold winter mornings I only have a commute of 6 feet!

great if you are not the main breadwinner though, and want to stay at home for the kids. I can see how you would have to work hard to make it work to begin with, especially getting your contacts set up. That commute sounds great though!