A Job That Gets You Out and About

eleanorsim

Hi

Does anyone else find the thought of working being stuck in the same place soul destroyingly boring?

I'm searching for a new job at the moment (and while I'll take anything that comes my way), one of the most important things for me is trying to get a job that will get me out and about. Of course I don't mind being based somewhere, as long as I wouldn't be stuck at that base all day.

My best friend is a maths teacher, and for the past 8 years shes taught maths in the same classroom, week in week out. Fair play to her, but that would really get me down; I'd feel trapped and like my life has gone nowhere (even though it has, its just that still being stuck in that same room 8 years later would make me feel like that!)

I just couldn't do a job that involved going through the same door with the same four walls, day in day out.

Does anybody else feel like me? And if so, what do you do?

TrickyWicky

Do what I did.. go be a traffic warden lol. No two days are the same.. you'll issue tickets, get shouted at, issue tickets and get shouted at some more (usually by the boss not the public I might add). You'll see lots of different people, lots of different cars, lots of P&D tickets and lots of visits to the doctor with Flu and other coldness related illnesses.

Being inside a building maybe boring but its better than being outside in the middle of winter in a industry full of negativity.

browneyedbazzi

I feel the same...sitting in the same office day after day drove me around the bend so a few years ago I made a career change and now work in law enforcement. I'm out and about visiting sites and going to meetings a lot of the time and we do 'agile working' for office based activities which means I can work from a variety of locations around the patch I cover and even work from home sometimes (although I do have a base office as well, I don't spend that much time there).

Glyptodon

How about doing short term contracts? I tend to get bored after about three months in any job and find that it does me good to move on, meet new people and work in a different office.

Alternatively, how about working out side gardening, dry stone walling or in farming?

AP007

postman , delviery driver, warden etc

bagpussbear

RSPCA officer?

barnaby-bear

eleanorsim wrote: »

Hi

Does anyone else find the thought of working being stuck in the same place soul destroyingly boring?

I'm searching for a new job at the moment (and while I'll take anything that comes my way), one of the most important things for me is trying to get a job that will get me out and about. Of course I don't mind being based somewhere, as long as I wouldn't be stuck at that base all day.

My best friend is a maths teacher, and for the past 8 years shes taught maths in the same classroom, week in week out. Fair play to her, but that would really get me down; I'd feel trapped and like my life has gone nowhere (even though it has, its just that still being stuck in that same room 8 years later would make me feel like that!)

I just couldn't do a job that involved going through the same door with the same four walls, day in day out.

Does anybody else feel like me? And if so, what do you do?

My friend works for environmental health checking food hygiene - she has fun - collecting samples from food vendors; lots of big music festivals, fun fairs, restaurants, work canteens, food factories, tourist attractions and then some trips to court to give evidence, the labs, lots of training courses to keep up to date....

eleanorsim

barnaby-bear wrote: »

My friend works for environmental health checking food hygiene - she has fun - collecting samples from food vendors; lots of big music festivals, fun fairs, restaurants, work canteens, food factories, tourist attractions and then some trips to court to give evidence, the labs, lots of training courses to keep up to date....

Thanks for that! Thats something I'd love to do, but more in the animal field

TrickyWicky

barnaby-bear wrote: »

My friend works for environmental health checking food hygiene - she has fun - collecting samples from food vendors; lots of big music festivals, fun fairs, restaurants, work canteens, food factories, tourist attractions and then some trips to court to give evidence, the labs, lots of training courses to keep up to date....

eleanorsim wrote: »

Thanks for that! Thats something I'd love to do, but more in the animal field

Good luck, I suspect a few abbatoirs will be going out of business since the horse meat incident. If thats the way you wanted to go you should forget it.

As for the friend who works for enviromental health, fab job they've been doing so far eh? I wonder how many people have eaten contaminated horse meat thats got carcinogenic drugs in? Please do pass on my thanks, I had a wonderful BBQ a couple of years back with Tesco burgers. I'll be sure to remember that in a few years if I'm in hospital like thousands of others.

theseeker1

I do. I actually don't stick to the same job for so long. I easily get bored too. Even in my own place or room. I constantly rearrange it and throw things I don't need anymore.

It feels good and I notice I became more productive because I put things in order my way. And hey, you're not alone. ))

Sambucus_Nigra

I've never done a purely office job; even when I was managing an office I was out and about seeing customers, partners and sorting out issues. 1 or 2 days in an office and I'm crawling the walls.