Thought it would be really interesting to see what working backgrounds people are from.

At the moment i work in Finance at Social Services, the main role is paying/invoicing nursing homes, clients and families. I also asses people financially if they are considering homecare or long term care or drug/alcohol respite. We also take over financial appointeeship of clients in long term care that have no other family. Its an admin job mainly but deal with alot of elderly people and their families over the phone and in person.

Before that i was a referral co-ordinator for Marie Curie Cancer Care. I would take new referrals from District Nurse of terminal patients and allocate them available nurses to stay overnight to give the family a break.

Before that i worked at Barclays in Accounts.

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when i left school i did a year at college to get my NVQ level 2 in childcare, manage to finish that, then got pregnant, worked till i was 7 months, when paris was 1 and a half, i started working in a nursery again, decided after 6 months i wanted to do something a bit different, so started working in a care home as an assisant.. they trained me up there i quiet enjoyed both jobs


playing to go back to college next year, just need to decide on what i want to do x

I have done part time jobs when i was a student in shops, hairdressers, reception work etc but all my full time jobs have been in HR. I am a HR manager at the mo which means i am responsible for the teams who do recruitment, payroll, procurement, legal services etc. There are lots of interesting bits to the job but also some less pleasant bits like disciplinary and redundancy cases. It is never boring anyway.... I work full time but do all my hours in 4 days so i get thursdays off to be with Lily which is nice

I'm a medical secretary for a doc surgery

I don't work atm and have never really had a career. When i left college I worked in a nursery for about 6months, but the money was awful for the hours i was working (10 a day for £4 an hour) so i left and took a cleaning job and at a school, and then was offered a job helping out with the children at lunch and in the afternoons too. It was just supposed to be a job until i worked out what i really wanted to do, and possibly go back to college, but then i found out i was pregnant so just stayed and left after mat leave. Now I still don't know what to do. I think i'll try an open university course once this next baby arrives.x

ShellandImmi wrote:

I don't work atm and have never really had a career. When i left college I worked in a nursery for about 6months, but the money was awful for the hours i was working (10 a day for £4 an hour) so i left and took a cleaning job and at a school, and then was offered a job helping out with the children at lunch and in the afternoons too. It was just supposed to be a job until i worked out what i really wanted to do, and possibly go back to college, but then i found out i was pregnant so just stayed and left after mat leave. Now I still don't know what to do. I think i'll try an open university course once this next baby arrives.x

Once this next baby arrives?
Michelle are you pregnant?? xxx

Have always been a nursery nurse until i had Jaiden Left as soon as I hit the 11 weeks before due date and havent been back since and wouldnt go back either I currently work in a lesuire centre creche just covering holidays and stuff but the council are doin away with all the creches in our leisure centres so come the new year ill b out of a job but by that time i should b preg again hopefull so it wont matter

awww Shell, I still dont really know what i would LIKE to do. I have always been interested in the police force though or maybe paramedic. Maybe when Cerys is older I will consider it. Are you PG??? Congratulations !!!! x

Tara its a shame isnt it. Its the same around here, there just arent any playgroups/nursery. You will have your hands full soon anyway lol x

EmzandFlick wrote:

Once this next baby arrives?
Michelle are you pregnant?? xxx

maybe
keeping it a secret (mostly) atm cause i'm only a few wks, so if people could please not mention it on fb that would be great thanks

I work for local government in the Legal Department as a Legal Assistant doing debt recovery!!!! Don't hate me but someone has to do it!!!

I'm a Director in a Financial Services Company. I set up Trusts or Companies for people and "administer" them, tax planning (not advice) investments, pensions and wills.

ShellandImmi wrote:

EmzandFlick wrote:

Once this next baby arrives?
Michelle are you pregnant?? xxx

maybe
keeping it a secret (mostly) atm cause i'm only a few wks, so if people could please not mention it on fb that would be great thanks

I'm so jealous
I wouldn't say anything on FB but I may tell OH when I speak to him later if thats ok??
I will need to tell someone so OH is safe coz he doesn't know who you are
Congrats to you and Marr
Are you guys ok now?? xxx

Hehe yeah thats fine.
thank you. yeah things have got a lot better with Matt This baby wasn't exactly planned, so timing is probs not the best and Matt's just got a new job working away mon-fri so things are all about to change but we'll cope. i'm so excited and happy to be pregnant, even if it was a surprise xx

Thats mean to be Matt BTW!

ARGGHHH!!! Michelle!!!! Im soooo jealous!!! But so happy for you too. Ok enough of the exclamation marks lol. You are making me so broody.... Big congrats to you & Matt.

Hmm back to the original, now boring post because michelle has gatecrashed it (joke) Im working in a childrens home atm. Have a social work degree and looking for work as a social worker. All through college/uni I worked in retail though.

I may be going back to work in a shitty call centre, should hear later if I get the job but a job is a job and it is only a stop gap really xx
Am still doing my ICT3 course x I would love to learn SAGE aswell so going to save up and learn from home xx

i have always worked with autism and compex needs mostly children and teens but at the moment im with adults x

Oh wow congratulations michelle xxx

Im not working now x i have had variety of jobs nothing exciting

Sorry for gatecrashing the thread everyone! and thank you Snoopy &Carla
also how did you find the social work degree? it's something i'm interested in but a bit scared by.

Wot that fab Michelle!!!

I have done various things since college, payroll, and then became the manager, accounts

The latest was a service desk engineer dealing with converged networks customers, places like hospitals/universities, who had our Cisco systems, and we were the support team. I was first line support, although I was teamleader before I went on Maternity Leave which meant lots of stats and reports

Now I am a full time student, and to fund this sinful life I have just got 2 cleaning jobs although have only started one last night.

My OH works for himself, he does architectural drawings, he's done that since getting his quals.

My work is boring lol.

I'm a Payroll Manager, i have a team of 4 who i manage. I'm also an accounts assistant as i'm so good damn good at my job i kept leaving myself with 2 days a week with nothing to do.

Loved it Michelle. Dont know whether the modules/placements would be slightly different in England....

1st year was uni sept-may. Did things like psychology, sociology, social policy. service user groups etc. Maybe only in uni 12-15 hrs a week.

2nd year did 17 week placement sept-dec. That was 37hrs a wk, mine was womens aid. Had loadza assingnments to do at same time ( 2x 4000 wrds + a portfolio - was crazy busy.) Then back in uni jan-may for 15 hrs a wk.

3rd year pretty similar to 2nd year. I have single mum friends who managed to keep up. I think you are more focused when you are a mum & I wasnt that good at time management so found it so hard going being on placement and doing essays (I liked the pub too lol).

Its really interesting. Id recommend it. In NI you needed 3 B' or A &2B's at A level or AVCE to get in plus GCSE eng & maths. A few of my friends though did a one year access courses as they didnt have Alevels and they coped fine with the work. In fact they did better in their exams than me who had the AVCE. Also in England I dont think you need as much to get into social work.

You should look into it xxx

Thanks for the info. I guess i better wait till this baby arrives before i make any decisions. I don't have a levels either so i'd either have to do an access course or go through open uni (which i'm considering more)xx

congrats michelle!!

i work in payroll too, seems a popular choice! i hate it though so when i go back next year i'm going to look for something else