Comments on: What makes a job good?

By: Little Mummy

Little Mummy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:28:31 +0000

OMG you’d make a hilarious high school teacher…chunter…chunter

You are indeed lucky Linda, I’d be very pleased to find myself in your situation when I’m older

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:17:59 +0000

I think any job where you can make your own choices is the best type. I think Liz should have saved her sex aids for Russell Crowe. the absolutel best jobs are doing something that you love – whether that’s working in a shop, office or factory with people you love or overseeing a team or running a company. Like Liz, some jobs I have had that have looked great on paper haven’t been all that! I always wanted to be a journalist and sometimes wonder what other path I could have gone down. Would have loved to be a teacher and I do my best to combine the two with training work, when that goes well, for me, that’s a great job but I am lucky in that I do enjoy what I do. xx

By: Little Mummy

Little Mummy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:11:55 +0000

Thanks Diney. Nimble pah…it was only ‘light’ because it was barely bigger than the palm of your hand

By: Diney

Diney — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:54:24 +0000

My best job was also working 95% with men, who were always fun, courteous and never bitchy….
Worst job – promoting Nimble light bread when I was a couple of stone overweight in a fairly ..ahem!..rough vicinity where folk didn’t mince their words, no matter how personal! Great blog!

By: Little Mummy

Little Mummy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:02:34 +0000

Tracey – Dance a jig in clogs you say..I’d pay good money to see that

By: Tracey

Tracey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:54:02 +0000

My ‘favourite’ job – working in the Fire Brigade, I was a ‘Fire Prevention Clerk’! The guys went on a call out once and left their own chip pan going! – so they had to come back and put their own fire out!
Worse job? Dressed as a wench serving pitchers of wine in an ‘authentic’ Welsh restaurant – even had to dance a jig in clogs every shift, grrr!

By: Insomniac Mummy

Insomniac Mummy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:30 +0000

I’ve worked for the same company since I left uni for the last (gulp) 13 years. I’ve moved divisions so my role has changed.

I can’t say I’ve ever had a ‘best’ job. There have been times when I’ve enjoyed the challenge of a new role and I love getting my teeth into something but often the cliqeyness has spoiled the overall feel for me, especially when I went back part time after having Ethan.

I’m kinda hoping that the best is yet to come!

Great post.

By: Tara@Sticky Fingers

Tara@Sticky Fingers — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:30:19 +0000

“We ate sausage butties and cherry scones” – how brilliant!
I know my husband says the best job he ever had was a labourer on a building site one summer. He is now in a high powered, ego fest of a company and pines for those days when his greatest worry was whether to wear his jeans or his combats!

By: MrsW

MrsW — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:15:41 +0000

I totally know where you are coming from! After years working in IT, often the only woman in my department, it was a total shock when I took a temping job in an office full of women, a horrible environment.

I think the best was way back in the mid 80s, before company mergers and take-overs, when profit wasn’t the be-all and end-all and the bosses had been there since the 1940s. I am so glad I had the opportunity to work in the Head Office Overseas Division of an international insurance company, based here in Perth, that focused on staff and customers rather than £££££££. We ran little agency offices all over the world where we knew the staff by first name because we spoke to them – on the phone. We had one Telex machine and one IBM XT PC between 50 of us, we had to use out mouths to communicate. It was another world. I’m only 42!!

By: Little Mummy

Little Mummy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:23:04 +0000

MadHouse – Yeah, that’s what I found…and not once did I ever here “X said this, or X said that..”