A Job That Gets You Out and About

marcarm

Nvq assessor, very varied and no two days are the same

legrim

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?

One of my friends left school and went straight into an apprenticeship with United Utilities. He spend a year put up in Chester training and then gets out and about all over the place. Not on bad money either!
Plus now they are paying for him to do a degree, landed on his feet really.
I asked him the other day how work was going and he basically said he sits in a field in his van while everyone else does work, to make sure nothing goes wrong (its alright for some!)

bugslet

van or truck driver. Land with the right people and it can be a good job. I've been all over the UK and quite a bit of W Europe. Met some nice people, not so nice people, but you are always moving on - I enjoyed it.

scooby088

I wouldn't do debt collecting a real soul destroyer.

bunnybunnyrabbit

Housing officer? Or many other jobs in housing will get you out and about

brutus1983

TrickyWicky wrote: »

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.

the mandatory labotomy may put people off becoming a traffic warden