O/T What do u all do???

[Loulabele]

Just wondering what you all work as, and which of you are lucky enough to be ladies of leisure and luxury

Well my OH owns an engineering company and i am the office manager and work full time, (if you call being on this forum work )

. . . . think the maternity pay and leave will work to my advantage

 

[pacha]

I work full time in Customer Services. Its email based though, not telephone.

I think I would make a grrreat lady of leisure

 

[Laurababs]

I work in the office of a refrigeration company, mainly answering telephone, filing..etc

Im in work right now actually so its not too bad

 

[rusks]

i'm a paediatric nurse working with adolescents mainly.

would love to be a SAHM most of the time but its nice to go to work for a rest too sometimes and adult company!

 

[splashmonkey]

I run my own business and so work from home. Which is great in a way but a right bummer in others, so hard to be motivated at the moment, plus I can't exactly relax and enjoy maternity leave and can't afford to pay myself a decent maternity package either! Ah well.

 

[AlisonB]

I am a pre-school assistant. I am not sure how I am going to run around after all the kids with a bump. I hate my job

 

[Chopsie]

My and my hubby also run our own business. It's a shop though, so we're not working from home - which is a shame sometimes!

And yes, the lack of maternity benefits is also a shame!

 

[jennywigan]

im a nursery nurse i hate my job 2 cant run around wiv them as much because my inflamed hip causing me problems already xx

 

[tawandashamiso]

I am a law lecturer in an inner city London college. Thankfully I am signed off for another eight weeks due to SPD otherwise I dont know what my hormones would have led to with some of those mouthy students. My maternity package is ok, two months fully pay and two months half pay plus SMP. Still also have to take nearly two months holiday so anticipate my maternity leave to be nearly six months on just about full pay and then unfortunately it will be back to work for me. I love my job but sometimes the students really get me down

 

[SoonToBeMrs]

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[Manda&Thomas]

Im at SAHM but if i wasnt pregnant i would be working as Arron cant get a job and i hate living off benifits
xx

 

[KittiKim]

I used to be a Youth Worker but me and OH are in the process of setting up our own business, so at the moment I do nothing while he does all the hard work! I also have a disability which limits the work I do

 

[ejjie]

I'm a Finance Manager

Pays the bills though and get quite a good maternity package and have got to go back at least 4 days a week because we are very stretched at the mo

 

[KikoDinoGirl]

i'm a paediatric nurse working with adolescents mainly.

Cool - are the kids physically unwell or?

I am a headteacher of an adolescent mental health unit for pupils with mental health needs (things like schizophrenia, psychosis, OCD, anorexia etc) I very much enjoy it, but it makes me tired I won't be able to be a stay at home mum, which is a shame in a way, but I think I would miss work! Only time will tell.

 

[Jellybaby]

I am an office manager in the civil service, and yes it is just as boring as it sounds!

 

[curlygurl]

I'm a midwife!!! I work in a caseloading team in a inner city London borough. It's brilliant - I absolutely love it. I work in a small team of midwives and I look after my women all the way from booking to handover to the Health Visitors. We do lots of homebirths and waterbirths as well as the complicated medical stuff if needed. The team are gonna look after me during my pregnancy which is great. Was at a lovely birth today actually. It is always so lovely when a baby comes and it was lovely to be thinking that (hopefully) I'll be having my own new baby in a few months time.

Will go back part time after about 9 months I think. I won't be able to go back to the team though as I don't have good enough childcare to cope with the 'on calls' but there are loads of different departments that I can go to.

 

[Snuggle]

I was in Air Traffic Control in RAF until August when I decided to leave to stay at home with Maddison. I am hoping to study to be a midwife in a couple of years after this baby

 

[MammyHip]

I am a medical receptionist/ pharmacy dispenser within a GP Surgery, i currently only work part time as i have my 5 year old who i love spending as much time with as possible. So my maternity pay is going to work out pretty good, within the 10 months i will be off for, i will only be £400 worse off but i would have spent more than that in petrol to get to work and back if i wasn't on maternity leave!

I too like Snuggle am aiming to start Midwifery training after this baby is born, luckily my parents are in the middle of retiring so they have offered to help with all my childcare when i go to uni

 

[Honey83]

I am a teacher so am just starting half term (YAY!!! Although why i've been up for the last 3hours, is anyone's guess!!). I love my job, but would really like to go back part time (which i doubt, financially i will e able to afford). I am also hoping to work up to 38 weeks, anyone else planning on doing the same? My school aren't too happy, i don't think (although they haven't actully said) as this will mean i will be going back to schhol for a couple of weeks after the eser hols. I get the feeling they would like a nice neat finish date, which would be the last day of the spring term. I don't know whether to reconsider?

xx

 

[emeraldsroses]

I teach English to Dutch kids at secondary school. I'm on sick leave due to stress, though. I should have never gone back to teaching secondary school though. I wish I could have found a job at higher education, but there was nothing out there