Tell me about your job

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  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I work in IT. There is a noticeable amount of churn, but that is part of the industry. Going on 5 years, my current job is the longest I have worked at one company in quite a while, though my job function has changed 3 times. The majority of the people in my department have been there since I started. There seems to be something of a split - one segment which is relatively stable, and another segment where they just don't like or can't handle the job, or are chasing more dollars.

    Yeah, I was at a job for 12 years and it was the same type of "split".
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I work for 911, and have a very high turnover rate due to the high stress, and demands of the job. In the 7 years I've been here, I have seen so many people come and go. Now I'm the training coordinator, and am hoping to help prepare the new hires before they get on the phones or start dispatching, so they are aware of the stress, and give them ways to help handle it.

    Hubby is a firefighter/paramedic in a violent city.
    I understand your stress...
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I'm a Data Analyst in the NHS, low turnover rates for non-healthcare professionals. Saying that I'm looking at changing career and becoming a healthcare professional as I'm fed up reporting stats and want to start doing something to change them!!

    What are you interested in doing specifically?
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I'm a auto designer. I designed auto show cars for years, everything from the 1st Aztec. Yuck to the latest Camero and G6
    Fun job. Lots of glamour once a year.
    I do wedding and portrait photography on the side, It's my retirement extra cash

    You were responsible for that abomination of a car (Aztec)?

    Get him!

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    :bigsmile:

    G6 was pretty cool
  • bluefrog_2001
    bluefrog_2001 Posts: 138 Member
    Phlebotomist aka vampire!

    Me too! LOVE IT!
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I work in I.T. as well for a hospital. While the I.T department is pretty stable I do notice a high turn over with the nurse's especially in the Med-Surg department coming in and getting out after about a year. I found out that they are leaving for other departments where the ratio is 1:1, etc. In our Med-Surg one told me that they go 1:6 when it should be 1:5. Pretty crazy. What department do you work in?

    I work in long term care- aka nursing home.
    I can have up to 25 patients a shift.
    We do "team" nursing as opposed to "primary" nursing like they do in the hospital, so I have the help of nursing assistants.
    I only work part time so I think that makes it bearable.
    But, you need to have decent management.
    A bully manager makes an already difficult job miserable.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I sell drugs for a big bad pharmaceuticals company. hate the game, not the player.

    Any freebies?:bigsmile:

    I mean like pens and stuff...:wink:
  • HardyMichelle
    HardyMichelle Posts: 32 Member
    I'm a scheduler for a very fast Urology clinic. Turnover here isn't so bad in the back office but the MAs that work in the back (I am a Registered Medical Assistant but I work in scheduling) turns over every couple of months. My job is high-stress and there's only two of us, so our jobs are pretty secure. We see about 80-100 patients a day.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I'm a scheduler for a very fast Urology clinic. Turnover here isn't so bad in the back office but the MAs that work in the back (I am a Registered Medical Assistant but I work in scheduling) turns over every couple of months. My job is high-stress and there's only two of us, so our jobs are pretty secure. We see about 80-100 patients a day.

    Wow, that's just insane:noway:
    Docs must be making good $$$$?
  • mjoslin1990
    mjoslin1990 Posts: 142 Member
    I work for 911, and have a very high turnover rate due to the high stress, and demands of the job. In the 7 years I've been here, I have seen so many people come and go. Now I'm the training coordinator, and am hoping to help prepare the new hires before they get on the phones or start dispatching, so they are aware of the stress, and give them ways to help handle it.

    ditto on that I'm in 911 and I've been here 2 yrs. Pay is decent I have no intentions of leaving (granted I'm only 22). There is a good portion of people who have been here for 4+yrs but there is also a LOT of "new" hires. I think the new hires are due to us being short handed.

    A lot of people would like to transfer out though if given the chance (we have a transfer freeze). As for the agency (employer) as a whole, low turnover rate.
  • Kayla_292to165
    Kayla_292to165 Posts: 249 Member
    I work for the postal service. I started in a plant and there were a lot of people who came and went from there but it was only the newly hired employees. I now work in a small local office and haven't seen anyone leave unless it was for retirement.
  • sbbhbm
    sbbhbm Posts: 1,312 Member
    I am a graphic designer for a large format digital printing company (I design billboards, store displays, event signing, etc.). I love my company. I started out as a project manager, but they cut my accounts for restructuring and had to let me go. But as soon as the designer position opened up a few months later, they called and asked me to come back. I've been here for 4 years now. Our company has an extremely low turn-over, and usually if someone leaves, they come back within a year. Most of the people I work with have been here for at least 10 years. I've been working as a contract designer for a medical communication boards company for the past three years as well. That work is probably the most rewarding.
  • Micahroni84
    Micahroni84 Posts: 452 Member
    prior to being a stay at home mom I was a domestic adoption coordinator. Now I'm a SAHM and I run an online vintage store.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I work for the postal service. I started in a plant and there were a lot of people who came and went from there but it was only the newly hired employees. I now work in a small local office and haven't seen anyone leave unless it was for retirement.

    Is there high turn over for mail carriers in the last few years?
    We had the same mail man for years and now it seems like it's someone new every week.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I am a graphic designer for a large format digital printing company (I design billboards, store displays, event signing, etc.). I love my company. I started out as a project manager, but they cut my accounts for restructuring and had to let me go. But as soon as the designer position opened up a few months later, they called and asked me to come back. I've been here for 4 years now. Our company has an extremely low turn-over, and usually if someone leaves, they come back within a year. Most of the people I work with have been here for at least 10 years. I've been working as a contract designer for a medical communication boards company for the past three years as well. That work is probably the most rewarding.
    That sounds like a really cool job:smile:
  • blably
    blably Posts: 490 Member
    work in a bank, the management / new things departmend. its ok, but its gettin boring. hmmm, since we are really growin the past few years we just get new employees and the ones that are are shifting positions.
  • skmolove
    skmolove Posts: 191 Member
    I am currently a domestic engineer & loving my job as i answer to my hubby & 3 lovely children BUT before kids i worked as a medical assistant in a 2 doctor family practice. turn over was rare as we were treated fair. for the most part we all got along. benifits and hours were good. when i quit my mom took my place. when I go back today, 15 yrs later, to visit the same ladies are still working there.
  • HardyMichelle
    HardyMichelle Posts: 32 Member
    yeah....like $800 a piece per new patient. It's crazy.
  • shooter560
    shooter560 Posts: 15
    I'm a Chocolatier, own my own company and spend most days up to my elbows in melted Belgian Chocolate making everything by hand from bars to truffles to shoes to novelties to seasonal etc. etc. etc.

    Its a hard life but someone has to do it, my wife also works with me, so does my daughters and mother, its a real family business :)
  • rladd6421
    rladd6421 Posts: 455
    aircraft mechanic been with my company almost 6yrs. pretty low turnover rate for employees as we're a union shop but the foremen/managers have a very high turnover rate.
  • TheSwoleMinister_deleted
    TheSwoleMinister_deleted Posts: 540 Member
    Haha I've got 3 (sort of). I have a 40-hour gig with Chase Mortgage in the bankruptcy division; I’m a wedding minister with sole prop status; and I’m a pre-dental student working on getting into dental school. As you have probably read in the news my bank job is a little bit volatile at the moment :tongue:
  • clur85
    clur85 Posts: 187 Member
    I work in marketing for a healthcare software company, and the turnover is not too high, and it's quite nice to know that there are lots of people who have worked there for over 30 years. It's definitely got a 'family feel' to it and somewhere I see myself now for the long term which is comforting for me from a job security perspective. It's nice to have at least one part of my life sorted for now!!
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    yeah....like $800 a piece per new patient. It's crazy.

    Hmph!:grumble:
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I'm a Chocolatier, own my own company and spend most days up to my elbows in melted Belgian Chocolate making everything by hand from bars to truffles to shoes to novelties to seasonal etc. etc. etc.

    Its a hard life but someone has to do it, my wife also works with me, so does my daughters and mother, its a real family business :)

    :love: :love:
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    Haha I've got 3 (sort of). I have a 40-hour gig with Chase Mortgage in the bankruptcy division; I’m a wedding minister with sole prop status; and I’m a pre-dental student working on getting into dental school. As you have probably read in the news my bank job is a little bit volatile at the moment :tongue:

    Wow!
  • BrotherBill913
    BrotherBill913 Posts: 662 Member
    Top Knot double Knot Super Spy :):):)
  • crawford4398
    crawford4398 Posts: 441 Member
    Salon Owner / Hair Dresser here, i work alone now, but in the past yrs YES, i worked for other companies about 12 yrs, Hair Dressers seem to be pretty inconsistent, when it comes to the Job Place, Blows my mind how they jump from Place to Place, Leaving their Clientele . No Way, I am Walking away from 85 grand a year.
  • devilwhiterose
    devilwhiterose Posts: 1,157 Member
    Fire Sprinkler System Designer and Project Manager.

    You either cut it in the industry or you don't. It's not for everyone.

    Lots of deadlines, codes, deadlines, late nights, deadlines. Did I say deadlines?

    Wouldn't trade it though.
  • alpine1994
    alpine1994 Posts: 1,915 Member
    I'm a Chocolatier, own my own company and spend most days up to my elbows in melted Belgian Chocolate making everything by hand from bars to truffles to shoes to novelties to seasonal etc. etc. etc.

    Its a hard life but someone has to do it, my wife also works with me, so does my daughters and mother, its a real family business :)

    Can you please adopt me?
  • Micahroni84
    Micahroni84 Posts: 452 Member
    I'm a Chocolatier, own my own company and spend most days up to my elbows in melted Belgian Chocolate making everything by hand from bars to truffles to shoes to novelties to seasonal etc. etc. etc.

    Its a hard life but someone has to do it, my wife also works with me, so does my daughters and mother, its a real family business :)

    Why isn't there a smiley that drools?

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