What was/is your job?

Welcome MaggieP never a dull moment on here, cheers

Well, sue61, I think that proves once and for all what a stupid test the 11+ was!

Hello MaggieP, nice to meet you! I think quite a few of us on here are wine tasters too.

Welcome MaggieP you will enjoy yourself here i promise you,but you should have kept it quiet about the wine tasting,you'll be sorry !!! slurp-slurp

I failed my 11+ and left school at 15 to be a hairdresser. Worked in top London salons in the 60s and loved it. Then decided to go back to school and did evening classes and eventually a degree in History and a PGCE to teach. Taught for 16 years and then set up my own business - an educational consultancy providing Professional Development for teachers. Mrs. Thatcher put paid to that with the introduction of a very restricted curriculum and 6years later moved into higher education and have been a teacher trainer for the past 20 years training primary school teachers and running professional development for teachers. Did my doctorate - driven by 11+ failure - wanted to prove them wrong. Semi-retired this year and set up educational consultancy business (again). I am just passionate about education and can't see myself ever retiring properly. Sending this fro holiday in Nice where I'm reading more books on teaching!

Hello MaggieP nice to meet you.

Hope you can walk straight after all that wine-tasting, MaggieP! Welcome!

Welcome to you MaggieP hope you'll enjoy your time on GN. It seems as though you're making the most of retirement. Walking and wine tasting - that sounds a lovely mix!

Hello, just joined and like the Gransnet site and pleased to be part of it.
I was a nurse and then midwife for many years having 3 children during that time.
Now retired 7 yrs ago and seem to be always busy, enjoying two grandchildren who after 3 yrs in Dubai have returned to UK and now moved nearer to us which is great!
Husband and I enjoy walking the dogs, walking with a group of good friends with whom we also wine taste and holiday occasionally.etc etc. Not to mention seeing plenty of family, travelling and helping out with a Charity.

Iv'e cleaned bogs all my life jangly, that mundane enough ?

..but you don't get paid for it.....if only ....

crimson says I'm the Voice of Reason. I'm boasting about that. I love my new job title.

Is trophy wife an acceptable job? Certainly not top management. Just asking....?

My best job was making candyfloss at a chip shop in Tintagel. Used to make them HUGE. Apologies to all the children whose teeth I ruined.....sorry .

Yes harrigran I agree about jangly I once decided once not to write on any thread where she/ he? had a lot to say, as I got fed up with it. But actually it is impossible. You would have to give up GRANSNET altogether. I might even do it but boredom with retirement drives me back to the computer.

What about yourself, jangly? As you want to know what we did/do, what did you do?

Is teaching social work?

There's a thread title!

I'm not really interested in who did which paper round and when.

Yes granny-a! I read the thread title!

I just wondered why there wasn't anyone on here with a slightly more mundane job AS THEIR MAIN JOB?

ok?

Or are we you all social workers and top management.

jangly
heres an ordinary job for you. I was a cook, first in schools then a factory various cafes and finally at the local hospice where i worked for 10 years.

jangly the thread title is, 'What is/was your job?' thereby encouraging people to write only about their main, or most significant, job/career. I'm currently working part-time as a PA to a restaurant owner, which might seem a bit glamorous. Today at work I opened up the restaurant, mopped the floor (not my jib, but it needed doing and the other staff were busy preparing for customers), learned how to use the (industrial) coffee machine and made several lattes, took bookings for tables, did some filing, washed glasses, supervised two other staff, made several phone calls and cleaned the sinks behind the bar. I also rewrote and re-designed the lunchtime menu. Only the phone calls and filing are actually part of my job description.

Thanks ElseG, but it does't feel like amazing, more like going with the flow, which can be a little turbulent at times. But.....we shrug our shoulders.....Keep Calm and Carry On, and look forward to a good old piss up! Sense of humour vital! Esp when marriage of 38yrs in Dire Straits. Good management and manners in current situation essential.

When we started up our company at home and then moved into premises I was the only employee at the time and did EVERYTHING including the cleaning. Also when the children were small I set up a mobile second hand children's clothes 'shop' with a friend which did quite well. Having done all sorts to the despair of my father who though I should really choose one career and stick to it, I've discovered that no experience is ever wasted and hopefully I've passed that mantra on to my children and to the young people with whom I've come in contact

Annobel oh dear,

No, not a customer. One of the bosses...