What's your "day job"?

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I am nosy! I was just wondering what everyone's day jobs are - stay at home parents count too!

I'll start off.

I am a website administrator for a biotechnology comparison website, based just outside of Cambridge. I work full time.

Go go go.
 

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I've become a stay at home mum as my old job won't pay enough for childcare. I'm hoping my new business venture will become my day job!
 

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Risky game, but I shall play along.

I work in IT (no massive surprise)

I have worked for everything from ISPs to law firms, to media companies to the NHS and currently local government.

I have worked here for 5 years and although this is a VERY stressful time of year the job is good, the pay is excellent, and the people you work with are good.

Can't be long until we do the 'post pictures of what you look like' Thread ;)
 

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Flitterbug said:
I've become a stay at home mum as my old job won't pay enough for childcare. I'm hoping my new business venture will become my day job!

Been there, done that :)
 

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Personal injury barrister - feel free to whine about your high car insurance premiums ::)
 

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Stay at home slacker...ahem...I mean wife and mum. Feel free to whinge to me about erm...potatoes and belly button fluff!!
 

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TheRewardGuy said:
Personal injury barrister - feel free to whine about your high car insurance premiums ::)

how are thing in 'that' sector?

Question...

If I ring injurylawyers4uuuu or some such place, are they actually a company or a proxy that dish out work to other law firms and then want a fee?

always wondered
 

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Jon@TheMoneyShed said:
TheRewardGuy said:
Personal injury barrister - feel free to whine about your high car insurance premiums ::)

how are thing in 'that' sector?

Question...

If I ring injurylawyers4uuuu or some such place, are they actually a company or a proxy that dish out work to other law firms and then want a fee?

always wondered

Things are being squeezed in all areas of the Law.

Criminal barristers went on strike recently, but accepted a "1 year stay of execution" from the Government - many junior criminal barristers now have to claim tax credits. The Bar is very bad at dealing with the misleading Daily Mail press reports about Fat Cat Lawyers. Most junior criminal lawyers get paid far less than the public would expect despite the fact that they have to work very long hours prosecuting and defending serious cases. The best decision I ever made was getting out of crime about 6-7 years ago.

Family legal aid has been removed from the vast majority of cases and so the Courts are now full of people trying to present their own cases - I dread to think what injustices are being caused each day where there are no Lawyers present in Court to keep an eye on the Judges :-\

Personal injury case fees have also been slashed - much to the delight of the insurance companies. Some of the cuts are justified but, as always, the Government has gone overboard to please their chums in the city.

It's the usual story - Government uses the abuses by some in the industry as an excuse to penalise everyone rather than target their efforts at the abusers - that's much too difficult for them. Ironically, the reforms are killing off most high street law firms and the large factory outfits (that many considered to be the main offenders) will win again.

Having said that, one of the good things is the abolition of "referral fees" - previously when you phoned [insert silly lawyers4U type name], they simply took your basic details and sold your case on to a Solicitor (£500+) - this was very confusing for clients and meant that Solicitors started a case at -£500 and had to find ways to turn this into a profit. Even the insurance companies were secretly doing this too and then complaining about high costs ???

It does make me laugh when I hear insurance companies whining - I see many cases where the damages payouts are only ridiculously high because the insurance company has taken 2-3 months to find its cheque book and pay for the client's written off vehicle - while the client drives around in an expensive hire car.

Anyway, we're not the only people being bashed by the Government and there are people in much more difficult predicaments. I certainly wouldn't advise any of my kids to become lawyers. I think that medicine is now probably one of the very few professions left that hasn't been stamped on - maybe they will be next?

Rant over.

PS. I would definitely recommend that people pay the little extra for legal expenses insurance, since you will find it increasingly difficult to persuade any Solicitor to take on your case unless it is almost 100% guaranteed to be successful. They used to get paid 100% bonuses when they won cases to offset the cases that they lost - this meant that they could take 50/50 type cases and still make money. Now, they get a much reduced fee for winning and nothing for losing - it doesn't take a genius to work out what is going to happen. They will take on fewer borderline cases and you will be represented by non-qualified legal clerks etc instead of solicitors.
 

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I've worked for 2 law firms

both VERY demanding, one with offices in London that I kept having to go to.

the second one actually sacked me!

Thus ends my experience of working for law firms

never again
 

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Jon@TheMoneyShed said:
I've worked for 2 law firms

both VERY demanding, one with offices in London that I kept having to go to.

the second one actually sacked me!

Thus ends my experience of working for law firms

never again

I could never work for a law firm as an employee - you get worked into the ground for inadequate reward. It's only going to get worse.

I am technically self-employed, but still not fully in control of my business. I would happily leave the Bar, but I'm not sure that I would be able to earn enough with my online activities to pay the mortgage. Although, if the predicted 80% or so pay cuts take effect at the PI bar, this might change :eek:
 

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I am a SAHM and part-time student currently. Who knows what the future may hold?! :)
 

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I started out as an English teacher, retrained as a legal secretary, and am now staying home with my 17-month-old son.
 

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I used to go out with a legal secretary many years ago

She could do shorthand..
Used to confuse the life out of me
 

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Jon@TheMoneyShed said:
I used to go out with a legal secretary many years ago

She could do shorthand..
Used to confuse the life out of me

We probably have enough law firm experience here to set up "TMS Law LLP"? ???
 

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RedAlix said:
I'm mainly a sahm but I have a few small jobs, exam invigilator, vote counter for elections, builder/labourer.

I am literally dreading waking up tomorrow

Start at 6am, finish around 2/3am. Sleep in one of our offices.
Friday same until 6/7pm

Got to go in on saturday to do some work in the evening for it

Sunday 3pm-11pm for European Elections (11pm as we have to wait for Italy to tell us their votes or something, I forget)

On top of that I will more than likely be working on support for the Tour De France which kicks off from Leeds. Have to start that at 3am

fml sometimes, honestly
 

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Jon@TheMoneyShed said:
RedAlix said:
I'm mainly a sahm but I have a few small jobs, exam invigilator, vote counter for elections, builder/labourer.

I am literally dreading waking up tomorrow

Start at 6am, finish around 2/3am. Sleep in one of our offices.
Friday same until 6/7pm

Got to go in on saturday to do some work in the evening for it

Sunday 3pm-11pm for European Elections (11pm as we have to wait for Italy to tell us their votes or something, I forget)

On top of that I will more than likely be working on support for the Tour De France which kicks off from Leeds. Have to start that at 3am

fml sometimes, honestly

We are back in sunday too for the same reason. Starting 9:30 pm till at least midnight on Thursday and then back in 5:30pm till 'late' Sunday.

The first time I counted was a hard one, started 9pm and was in till around 5:30am as we had recount after recount!
 

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General election next year

uggh,

It was 6am until 4pm the next day last time we did one of those

These obviously don't include the fact I have been working for 2/3 weeks solidly before that date on ICT stuff around postal votes (around 20k a day usually)

I looked like utter crap by the end of it.
 

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